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CONTENTS

Vol. 16, No. 6

June 1997

Super Truckin' ..................................................... 12

By Mike Bryson
A lesser-known di vision within NASCAR racing is the SuperTruck
seri es. Started in 1994, their popularity is catching on. Take your scanner to
a short track near you for one of these super races!

DXing Canada's Maritime Stations .......................... 14

By Jon Van Allen

Cover Story

Ughtning: The Global

Radio Network
By Finbarr O'Driscoll
Awesome, mysterious, and unpredictable, lightning is the bane of
radio operators everywhere, especially during the summertime. We
know the "transmissions" of lightning simply as static- but there' s
nothing simple about it.
This scholarly, yet fascinating
look at what we know today about
lightning, will also show you how to
tune in to natural radio sounds from
all around the globe, and touches on
the indispensable service lightning
provides.
Story starts on page 8.

Up in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Te rritories are a few maritime stations that
are only open during the shipping season-a
brief period betwee n the end of June and the
first o f October. Though these shortwave stations operate on low powe r, they' re not impossible to catch, and may offer just the new
monitoring challe nge you were looking fo r!

The Low-Down on the Best Earth Ground................. 18

By Philip Gebhardt
There are several applications in the radio hobby in which the electrical
conductivity of the ground becomes an important factor. This article focusses
on one of the less obvio us. Low and medium wave signals travel along the
ground, and the make-up o f the soil over which it passes makes a difference
to your reception. You can test it out yourself.
Oh, and by the way: the same factors make the soil a good conductor for
grounding your equipment against a lightning strike, too!

HOB: Sounds from the Equator .............................. 24

By Valter Aguiar
From its humble beginnings in a sheep shed
in 193 1, HCJB has grown to be the big voice
from Ecuador. Although its primary mission is
spreading the Christian message, much of
HCJB 's programming has appeal to a broader
audie nce. Our Brazilian author takes us to Ecuador for a closer look at the statio n.

Reviews:

DEPARTMENTS

One of t he first two-way

ra<lim rclc<hcd by Radio
Shack unckr the nc\\ Famil y
Radio Scni1.:c "a' the FRS105. It wa ~ abo one of the
first radio' to operat e on the
.. splimcr frcq t11.: 11 1.: i ~~ using a
se paration of 12.5 k H1. spac in g
in s tea d of 25 kl-1 1. S teve
Donnell WAIYKL finds the
radi os to he a very reasonable
opti o n for fa111ilics who wa nt shon-clistanc.:1.: c.:om111unic.: atinns withnut ha ving lo
obtain an FCC li<.:cn~c . Sec page 88.
If you never got the chanc.:e to get your
pil ot ~ lic.:cnsc. or you rt! ~ url! anybody could
land a plane better than tht.: pi lot on your
last flight. it~ ti me to try it y ou r~c lf - from
your armchair! John Ca talano t ak e ~ a look
at some of the new ~ imula ti on software.
Internet ~ it c~ that t:ater to aero buffs. and
e\'en a web ~ite that will track the flight plan
or c.: ommercial !lights if you know some
minimal information. See page 84.

Letters ................................................ 4
Communications ................................. 6
PCS Front Line .................................... 28

Plane Talk ........................................ 76

Company Frequencies
Federal File ........................................ 78

The Politics of Encryption

WUNnerful Intercepts

Scanning Report ................................ 30

Scanning on the Rood

Satellite TV ........................................ 80

Digital Music Express

Utility World ..................................... 34

Experimenters Workshop ................... 82

DXing the Radio Basement

Forgotten Memory

Global Forum .................................... 38

Monitor Radio, WRMI, Selling SW

QSL Report ........................................ 42
English Lang SW Guide ...................... 43
Propagation Conditions ......... ............. 63
The A and K Indices
Beginner's Corner ............. ................. 64

Random Summer Thoughts

Below 500 kHz ................................. 66

LDXA Returns
American Bandscan .......................... 68

Expanded Bond Special

Outer Limits ....................................... 70

100 mW Station QSL

On the Ham Bands ............................. 72

Computers &Radio .. .... ... .. .... ... ..... ... . 84

Armchair Flights of Foney

K.l.S. Radio ...................................... 86

Beloved Boot Anchors

MT Review ........................................ 88

Radio Shock FRS-105

What's New ..................................... 89
Magne Tests ..................... ................ 92

International MT198 Portable

Scanning Equipment .......................... 94

Innovative Scanner Potents

Antenna Topics ................................. 96

Antenna Resonance
Special Events/Club Circuit ................ 98
Ask Bob .......................................... 100

Busting Loose

Simple Stand for Portable Radios

DeMaw's Workbench ........................ 74

LF/ VLF Converter

Stock Exchange ............................... 102

Closing Comments ........................... 104

The Auctioning of the Capitol

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A Call to Unity: A Call to Action

" Losing two more scanning publications
is insidiously dangerous to the hobby, inasmuc h as the monitoring commun ity is also an
alert community ... Yes, keepi ng up with
technology is important ..., but re member, the
French resistance, fo r example. did not requi re trun k tracking scanners to stay ahead.
they required cohesion. We shou Id not let the
passing of USSN and the RCMA 's Scanner
Journal become a passive event ... Let' s fi ll
the vacuum le ft behind by these two great
publications with an increase in activism
within the monitori ng community and maybe
an increase in our securing those put-off ham
tickets.
"Mr. Grove. you continue to lead: I" II
continue to read."
- Paul Foret

.. For the last several years there has been a

concerted effort .. . to abolish private ownership of firearms by law abiding c itizens. This
group can c laim they only want reasonable
control, but then they admit they want abolishment.
"Now comes a group which incl udes many
of the same people who now want to abolish
rad io receivers rhey do not approve of. Again
they ... say they want reasonable control. but
again admit their overall agenda is abolishment.
"So those of you who want to keep your
scanners and radio receivers will need to
organize.contribute money, become involved
politically and fight for your ri ghts! ... When
and if you choose to do this you will be
slande red, made fun of. and accused of being
thugs, criminals, unAmerican, rednec ks, etc.
" We are li ving in very dangerous ti mes in
thi s country .. . They don' t want scanners
because they may be held accountable for
illegal actions. Now they want to se ll the
ai rwaves ...
"We must stop all this. As a wise patriot
said, ' We must all hang togetheror we will all
hang separately' ... you 'd better protect your
ox by protecti ng all the oxen."
- Terry Jones, Plankin1011, SD

1t seems to me Congress is hellbent on

destroying the scanner hobby, and in the nex t
five to ten years I ex pect that the only thi ngs
we wi ll be able to legally listen to on our
scanners wi ll be taxi di spatchers and mall
security'
''If thi s e ntire situation was brought about
by the recent incide nt of two political spies
intercepting and taping a Newt Gingrich phone
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MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

conversation. it is indeed ironic that a politicall y inspired eavesdropping resulted in a

politically inspired ambush ofBob Grove. By
the way. why we ren' t the people who did this
prosecuted?"
- By ro11 Ori11g. Mr. Vernon. N Y
They've ar leasr bee11 cha rged : seep. 6. And
/'111 nor so sure ahour /is1e11ing rn mall securiry- rhose are "privare" securiry agencies.
after all! Does ir m all er rhey 're 011 rhe a ir in
rhe clear?
- RB

..Anyone who has been around the radio

hobby for over 12 mont hs. knows about scanners and the fact that many can (and are)
modified and used to liste n in on conversati ons that are protected under the Electronic
Commu nications Privacy Act (ECPA) of
1986. Now. you can argue that the ECPA is a
poorly engineered and totally unenforceable
bit of legislati on.. .and you'd be ri ght. You
can also argue that the EC PA was concocted
by elements o f the CT IA usin g massive
disinformation and outright lies to sway unenlightened. non-technica l legislators and
public offi cials into passing a bad law ...and
youd be right.
"B UT.... it is the law. Like it ornot. you are
not supposed to listen in on ccll ular orcordless
telephone conversations. either by directly
monitoring the frequency or listening to harmon ics or images of these frequencies. Doing
so opens you up to prosecut ion under federal
cri minal codes. Bragg ing about monitoring
cellular or cord less co mmun icat ions is
galacticall y stupid.
fOn the other handJ , " We owe it 10 ourselves to monitor police. ti re. FB I, DEA.
BATF, and any number of other govern ment
agencies. I' m not just tal king about radio
transmissions, I' m al so referring to monitoring the way they spend our money and pass
and/or enforce legislation that affects our
lives and hobbies ....
''Why should we care about moni toring
federal, state and local govern ment agencies?
If we don' t who will? Any government left to
operate in secrecy wi ll ultimate ly evolve into
a tyrannical govern ment. ...
"The ideas fos tered by the head of the
Cellu lar Telephone Industry that all scanner
listeners are 'electronic stalkers' and that all
scanne rs and scanner acti vity should be made
illegal. are very dangerous. They pave the
way fo r further restricti ve federal, state. and
local legislation to prohi bi t the interception

of what has always been free access' to

anything that is transmitted over the air.
''Essentiall y. the CTIA is hoping the govern ment will do their job for the m, saving them
the expe nse of buying mill ions of dollars in
encryption tec hnology just to insure privacy
for the roughly 20% of the cellu lar use rs who
count pri vacy as a primary concern ...
"Now. if you ham rad io operators. CBers.
and SW listeners out there who are reading
this don' t thi nk that this can impact your area
of the radio hobby, you'd better wake up! As
with gun control. and other hi ghly infl ammatory issues. the spin-off from more restricti ve
scanner legislation can have a profound affect on the rest of our hobby. Once the Bureaucrat ic Behemoth of Legislators is awakened to a c au ~e. it is diffic ult. if not impossible. to stop the process ...
"Make no mistake about it, the CTIA and
a handful o f over zealous. 'do-gooder' legislators (who in all probabi lity received some
hea vy cash contri butions to the ir ca mpai gn
coffers from the cell ular industry) arc the
enemy. Once they get a footho ld (and they
already have once in the ECPA of 1986) they
will push and push. using a ll sort s of
di si nfo rmati on to accomplish their goals.
write your legislators. Tell them how
you feel. and you aren t going to stand for
more govern me nt oppression in our hobby.
Make your voice heard. For a while. at least.
this is still Ame rica. wi th a 'c' not a 'k'.
- Rich Ar/a11d. " K. l.S. Radio "

''I am a licensed amateur radio operator. I

have also used the airwaves for over fi fteen
years as a police officer. Many of my hobbies
invo lve elec tronics and prov ide me with
knowledge and experience on both sides of
the law.
1. The enfo rcement of prohi biting someone from heari ng cellular telephone calls ca n
never be enforced unl ess we become a commu ni st state and prohibit any type of electronic device capable of radio reception.
"2. To preve nt recepti on by restricting a
particular type of radio from being modified
is form of discrimination.
"3. Cellular telephone companies should
be honest with thei r customers and tell the m
that cell ular telephone are radios. then explain to them how a radio works.
-1. There is always a way to make a radi o
transmission diflicult or near impossible tu
understand on the receiving end.
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Threat to Civilization

Gingrich Eavesdroppers Charged

Monitor Radio to be Sold

The Christian Scie nce Church announced
in Apri l it plans to sell its award winning
public radio news operation. Monitor Radio.
and it will lease or sell the two powerful
shortwave station s it curre ntl y owns -WSHB in Cypress Creek, South Carolina.
and KHBI on the island of Saipan.
The Christian Science Monitor began producing public radio programs in January 1984.
and has grown to be the second largest provider of news broadcasts to the public radio
system afte r Nationa l Public Radio (NPR).
Monitor R<idio broadcasts are distribu ted in
the United St<ites by Publi c Radio Internatio nal (one of its potenti al buyers).
"Any fu tu re radio efforts will be on a more
modest scale and will have to give promise of
being self supporting," Monitor Editor David
Cook said. "Our church must balance its
desire to serve <1 radio audience with the need
to support its worldwide healing ministry and
to strengthen our newspaper:
The Monitor hopes to complete the sale by
July I. Whe n the broadcast news operations
are sold, religious programs will be broadcast
throughout the week on the Church' s sho11wave stations unti l they arc leased or sold.
Currently. the shortwave stations ai r Monitor
Rad io programs on weekdays and religious
programs on the weekends.
"Since the fa ll of the Berli n Wall, international broadcasting has been evolving rapidly
with shortwave playing less of a role as commercial broadcasting expanded." Publ ishing
Society Manager Hi ll said.
"We have seen a decline in o ur shortwave
listenership as have other shortwave broadcasters. Distribution channe ls are different
now from when we went into shortwave I0
years ago. We need to foc us more on producing programs than on operating the channels
of distribution." Hill said. The Church's fi rst
shortwave station went on the air March 30.
1987.
To ensure broad international distribution
of its re li gious programs. the Church said it

MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

Whe n a partial tran script of a cel lul ar

te lephone cal I bet ween House Speaker Newt
Gingrich and other Repu blican leaders was
published in seve ral newspapers last December. the e nsuing furo r in Congress has had
significant imp<1ct on the scanner indu ~ try .
Hobbyists have been wondering whether the
couple who in ~ t igated the whole mess by
relea~ ing the tape they had made of the conversatio n would be called to account fo r what
seem~ a blatant violation of scvernl laws
protecting personal lommunications.
On April 23. John and Alice Martin ofFort
White. Fla. were charged and agreed co plead
guilty to identical one-cou nt charges and
prom ised to cooperate wi th the Ju stice
Departme nt" s continuing in vestigati on.
Accord ing to an /\ssnc iated Press story by
Michael Sniffcn. thc Justice Department classified the interception and ta pi ng as an infraction. because it was a first offense and because the interception was of the radio portion of a ccllular call : and beca use there was
no evidence that it was done for commercial
or private fina ncial gain or for an illeg<il
purpose such as aiding in blackma il.
The Man in' ad mi tted in the agreeme nt ~
that they had intent io nally intercepted the
telephone conversation. Charles R. Wi lson.
U.S. allorney. wa' q uoted a~ ~ a yi n g . The
Martins were charged wi th the most serious
violation pms ible ba,ed on the applicable
federal law and the circumsta nces surrou nding the interception of the telephone call."
The maximum sentence is $5.000 fine
each. with no prison term. Other possible
targets of in vestigation arc the publications
which published the transl"ript. and the congressman in whose possession the tape ~up
posedl y was when it was lea ked 10 the press.

Waiting on 220
It took ten years. but the FCC has finall y
fini shed work o n reallocating the 220-222
MHz amateur rad io hand. Take n fro m hams
in 1988 and ded icated to the develop ment of
spectrall y cflicicnt narrowband technology.
the 2 MHl of freq uencies wa~ channel ized
into two hundred 5 kl-I L channe l pairs.
Narrowband neve r reall y took off and th..:
band was ti ed up in legal ese and laws uit s. The

"/ tell you, the lntemet is a worldwide

conspiracy of the Am erican de vils. I
have posted indisputable proof uf thi.~
011 my 11ew web site at:
www.mothcrofallm ouths.com"

The internet. say~ Iraqi st rongman Saddam

Hussein. wi ll be .. the end of civilizations,
cultures. interests. and ethi cs: According 10
an Iraqi newspape r report. the computer network .. is o ne of the America n means to enter
eve ry house in the world." Americans "want
to become the onl y source for controll ing
human beings in the new elec tronic vi llage."

High Tech - It's Heddy Stuff

At the age of 19. ~he had al ready come to
the attention of Europe for her nude romp
through the woods in the Czec h film Ecstasy.
Later. she would go on to star in dozens of
fi lms during Hollywood's heyday. such as
Sa111so11 and Oelilah.
A sultry. sop hi ~ti c a t ed brunette. Hcddy
Lamarr was the racy stuff of dreams for US
servicemen marching off to war during the
1940s. Immed iatcly prior tu World War II.
L<imarr was married to Austrian armament
manu factu rer Fritz Mandi. During the four
years the re lationship l a~ t ed . she was forced
to auend the bu s iness m a n ~ meetings. 1 was
a kind of slave. I rnuldn "t even go swimrning
without hi s being there ...
M<indl beca me more and more invol ved
with the azis. and Lamarr. trapped in the
role of grac i ou ~ host. learned more and more
about the manufac ture of German munitions.
Eventua l! ). ~ he drugged the maid a'sig nccl to
guard her and c~capcd l o London. Fi lled with
an abiding hatred or the I a/.i\ - and quite
possibl y of Mandi - ~ h e took thc information she learned at all o rtho ~c business meetings and used them fo r the Allied war effort.
Prime among her inventions was the fre-

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quency-hopping or spread-spectrum tec hnology that now forms the underpinnings of the
U.S. government's Milstar satellite defense
communications system, wireless internet
transmission, as well as many of the newer
cellular phones. It was originally designed
over half a century ago as a way to circumvent
the radio jamming that the Germans used
against U.S. radio-controlled missiles. The
invention was patented as "Secret Communications System" on August 11 , 1942. So
advanced was the invention that the military
felt it was brilliant - "so brilliant that it was
years ahead of its time."
"I always am," said Lamarr in a recent
Associated Press interview.
Fifty-five years after her pate nt (donated
to her adopted country), Lamarr was honored
with an award for "blazing new trails on the
electronic frontier" at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference in San Francisco. Lamarr, never one to suffer fools glad! y,
was characteristically blunt when informed
of the award. "It's about time."

Scanner Hero Saves Girl

For as Jong as he could remember, Gary
Laird wanted to be a cop. Even at the gas
station where he worked, Laird dreamed on,
listening to his scanner as officers were dispatched to incidents he could only imagine.
One day, Laird heard a report of a kidnapping
- a car had been stolen and in the front seat
was the owner' s 4-year old girl - on the
scanner. He copied down the vehicle's li cense plate number as he always did and
maintained his post at the gas station.
Laird quite possibly might never have
known that the kidnapper' s vehicle was in his
parking lot had it not been forthe scanner. But
when a black 1981 Ford Bronco with a little
girl in the front seat pulled up to pump number
nine, Laird was able to match the license plate
number with the one he heard on the scanner
and dial 911. The police arrived two minutes
later and arrested Earl Hellyer. The child was
reunited with her mother.
Laird, whose friends always tease him
about carrying a scanner, says that the radio
proved its worth and poss ibly saved the life of
a little girl. " I'll definitely continue to listen to
it."

Awards, Radio Style

"And the award for the most

embarrassing segment of "dead
air" goes to ...

exa mpl e, the Illin o is Broadcaste r's

Assoc iation 's annual " Best Personality of the
Year" award. For 1996, the award went to
WBBM-FM s Ed Vo lkman and Joe
Bohannon.
"What made the ir achie vement more than
a bit dubious," says Feder, "was the fact that
Volkman and Bohannon didn ' t even start
hosting the ir show until 1997." So how could
two DJs who weren't even on the a ir in 1996
be named " Best Personality of the Year" for
1996?

Todd Cavanah, program director of

WBBM, says his personalities won fa ir and
square. The two winning DJs, he says, had
run tapes promoting thei r upcoming return to
WBBM during the year 1996. Volkman and
Bohannon had been fired from the station in
1994 in the wake of a defamation settlement.
Further, says WBBM station manager Don
Marion, the controversy would n't effect
WBBM. Even if Volkman and Bohannon
were disqualified, the station's sex-talk show,
Privare Lives was the runner up.
"So you see," says Marion, "we win either
way."
"Communications" is edited by Larry Miller wi th
help from Rachel Baughn, Larry Van H om. an d the art
department at Grove Enterpri ses. Among our l ocal
staff are the following r eporters who l ook for, clip out,
and mail in, i tems of interest: A nonymous, A l bany,
NY; Ed Becht, Los Angeles. CA; Malcolm D aly, MI:
Leslie Edwards. D oyl estown, PA; Maryanne Kehoe,
Atlanta, GA; Forest Petrus, Ames. IA; Edw ard
Schw artz, Chicago, IL; Calvert Skuul, B altimore,
M D ; L arry Van H om, Brasstown, NC: and R .C.
"Kentucky C olonel" Watts, L oui sville, KY. We al so
consul ted the foll owing p ubl ications: Natio11al Sca11-

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columnist Robert Feder, may be the most
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are so many awards passed around, he says,
that the really don' t mean much. Take, for
June 1997

MONITORING TIMES

prefer to call them sferics..- that natu ral miscellany of snaps. crackles. pops. pings. and brief whist les that emanates
from radio receivers and makes people reach for some switch to shut it all out. The term static is common parlance.
too. but it is generall y understood to include as well all those unwanted bursts of noise that come from man sown
electrical acti vities. You know the stuff- household switches. thermostats. spark-plugs. and so on. But sferics is a neat,
modern. Americanized spelli ng of spherics." which in turn is .. atmospherics abbreviated. In plain English. it refers
simply to those natural electromagnetic emissions that have their ori gins in the atmosphere.
When it comes to generating sferics. the daddy of them all among atmospheric phenomena is the lightn ing bolt. A single
nash (let alone a complex hybrid ). is rich in radio frequencies. wi th emissions that simu ltaneously range from a few
hundred cycles per second up into the millions of cyc les.

Everyone is familiar with the quick c rackle propagated by groundwavc and easi ly heard on
lo ng. medium , a nd shortwave ba nds - caused by
a nearby electrical storm. Just as familiar arc the
multitudinous mu fil ed crashes heard from all those
s torms that arc afar off. Those muffled crashes
would have been heard as cl icks and c rackles in the
near-field. but multi -path propagation a nd attenuation over distance modifies them.
Lightning bolts fire off at points around the
world right around the c lock. Thousands of storms
happen every day, mostl y in the tropics and subtropics a nd to a lesser extent in the upper midlatitudes. There arc several thousand flashes per
minute al l the time. not al l of them stri king the
phy sical earth. It is estimated that the maj o rity of
8

MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

flashes are e ither in tra -c.:loud or clo ud-to-c loud. but

the processes arc the same. whatever the final manilestation. C lo ud-to-earth bolts are considered to be
the g reatest radiatm~ of ck:ctro111ag11e ti c energy.
Bolts last only a fraction a second . but thei r
narrow ionized chan nel ~. j ust an inc h or two wide.
reach scaring temperature~ comparable to the photos phere of the s un . Thi s intense he ating to man y
thou s and ~ of degrees Celsiu s in the ionized channels
(which can branch and fork frac ta ll y for miles).
causes the s hock waves that arc audible as thunder.
By the way. photographs of lightning often s how
bolt s to ha ve consi de rable channe l width. Do n' t be
fooled. That' s just bu rnout on the pho tographic tilm
due to its inabilit y to cope with the intense lig h t
emi tted.

What happens inside a thunderclo ud to

cause a lig htning d ischarge is sti ll not full y
understood b y physic ists. even though over
rwo-ancl-a-half ce nturies have e lapsed s ince
Benjamin Franklin showed that the great meteorological phenomenon was not fire but
electricity. However. suffic ie nt fa cts to construct a reliable theoretical model o f the generality of events in volved are known. This
cent ury has seen the fac ts nowing thick a nd
fast fo llowing the invention of so many ways
of probing the innards of electric storm cells.
Radiosondes. rai sed aloft by he lium balloons to measu re chan ges in such fa ctors as
h umidity. temperature. precipit ation. and
wind-speed. have contributed a wealth of information. The in vention of radar has allowed
even more acc urate data about the tim ing and
rype of precipitation ins ide a storm to be
gathered . Electri c-field meters tell an astonishing tale of the magnitudes and rise-ti mes of
voltages within and w ithout the madl y turbulent air-masses that spawn lig htning.
T he perfection of techniques by meteorologists in the triggering of ligh tning o n
demand by launc hing small rockets wi th trailing earth-wires has led to the acquisition of
s uperb photographic evidence of flas h-paths
and their downwind coronas. as well as highly
accurate e lectrical data. Be njamin Franklin
w ith his kite, wet string. and suspended key
would defi nite ly be impressed.

I A Recipe for Lightning .....

Water vapor is the fu el that powers the
generator in a th underclo ud . Mass ive turbu lence of the air, with a ch imney-like updraft is
also part of the p icture. Freezing temperatures
at altitude is the third ingredient, s ince an
enormous nu mber of co llis io ns of soli d precipitati on - hail , graupel (snow-pellets). icecrystals - must occur.
These factors are necessary to create a
large enough charge separat io n w ith the consequently high potential gradien ts. A c umulonimbus cloud w ith its typical anv il -head
poking o ut o f the troposphere into the stratos phere al about twelve miles high is ready to
emit lightning if it has a potential difference
-positive top lo negati ve base - ofthe o rder
of tens o f thousands of volts. Voltage differences between the base o f the cloud and the
ground have been measured at much higher
orders than that.
A critical voltage difference between oppos itely charged zones at a g iven instant (that
criticality depending on the insulative properties of the air at the instant) wi ll allow a
discharge of tens of thousa nds of amperes to
take p lace in a few millio nths of a second. The

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ki lowau s. but because o f the extreme brevity
o f the di scharge, this does not end up as a
totally catastrophi c eve nt.
The way a flash goes fro m a cloud base to
the ground can be u nders tood from the fo llowing mo del. Beneath a thundercloud w ith a
negatively c harged underside. the normal fa irweather pote nti a l gradient by w hic h e lectrons
leak from earth to air. is replaced b y an oppos ite and very muc h greater g radient. The negative cloud base repels elect ro ns in the earth
beneath. w ith the consequence that the e arth
develops a positi ve charge. Inherent instabi lity, g reat tu rb ul ence. and updrafts continue
apace at sub -zero temperatu res inside the
highe r reaches o f the thunderhead.
Massivechargeseparation continues to build
in the c loud. increasing the negativechargingof
its base. in tum causing ever more posit ive
ch<u-g ing in the ground. Upward mov ing icecrystals colliding with swi rling and falling hail
and graupel are generally agreed to be the
source ofcharge separation . The col Iisio ns cause
stab le atmospheric particles to smash apart
forming ions and electrons. Ionized air is a good
conductor of e lectricity. When e lectrons move
fast enough they reac h a critical speed (estimated at about ninety miles per second) after
which a cascade of ion ization takes place. A
new critical stage is now reached.

A n intensely io nized channel (known as a

"ste pped lead er.. ) darts e rratical ly towards the
ground . fork ing a lo ng lines of least resistance
in the air at speeds o f several hundred miles
per second. This is not yet a lightning bolt.
When it is near to the ground, the allractio n of
it s electri c fi e ld causes the ground to emit
multiple luminous positive filaments ("streamers .. ). W he n a stepped leader connects w ith
o ne streamer the e lectrical p arh to the grou nd
is complete. and a ll remaini ng streamers become redundant.
An inte nse current is then released ( the
..return stroke"). The speed of particles rushing to re-combine a long the return stroke is in
excess of sixty thousand miles per second.
Thi s re-combinatio n of particles in an ionized
channel is the source for the emission of
photons. visible to the naked eye as the instantaneous b linding flash .
The lowest part of the ionized channel is
d ischarged first. then successively h igher parts.
and thus the thunderhead itself becomes d ischarged, though not necessarily totally. S ucceed ing sub-strokes . in a multiple stroke discharge, a re preceded by s urges of negati ve
c harge along the ionized c hannel s. These
s urges are "dart lead ers." Flashes can recur at
inter vals of less than a minute if a stom1 is in
full spate. It may take considerable time for
the meteorological processes to reach a s tate
of relative equilib rium. perhaps an hour, and
hefty thunders torms are in famous for s pawning o ffspring by generating furth er turbulence
o utside the mselves with the ir down-and outward pouring of very cold air.

I Lightning Fast Radio .....

Based o n researc h d one in the late fifties
and early sixties, it is said that in general the
s tepped leader radiates radio e nergy at freq ue ncies above thirty kilohertz, the so-called
low frequency (LF) part of the spectru m. The
return stroke radiates mostly in the very low
frequency (VLF) range, defined as three to
thirty kil o hertz. The e nsuing disch arges in the
upper branches of the lightn ing bo lt are thought
to be responsible for signals in the extremely
low frequencies (ELF). three hundred hertz to
three ki lo hertz. Freq uencies in the megahertz
range are linked w ith streamers and coronas.
which produce radiation before, during. and
after lig htning.
Whatever the frequency. rhis much is certain: the lig htning-tree is its own enormous
a ntenna. pumping o ut fundamen ta ls. harmonics. and int erm o dulation produc ts v ia
groundwave and s kywave .
In the mid-century. W.O. Schumann published a theoretical p aper outlin ing the existJune 1997

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ence of a resonant frequency (ahout nine hert7)

in the earth-ionosphere eapa<.:itor. Experimental work done at the time by Konig verifi ed
such a freq uency in the eight-lo-nine hertz
range. It was believed that world lightning
was involved in exciting the earth -ionosphe re
circuit to osc il late al thi s ultra low level. Other
slow si nusoidal variations in this hasemcntband have been dctccted at fourtccn and twcnty
hertz. to name just two. They arc now known
as Schumann Resonances. Elcctric-ficl d
strength here is in the order of millivolt~ per
meter. whereas sfcric' al a few kilohertl have
estimated field-s trengths up to one volt per
meter.
Some years ago American satelli tes recorded strange brief radio-frequency emissions above thunderstorms. Shuttle m i ss i o n ~
reported shon bursts of high e nergy particles.
later popularly termed upward lightn ing:
Apparent ly neither of these phenomena was
visible. But for years pil ots of aircraft night flying in the vicinity of active thunderstorm s
had occasio nally reported visiblc llas h e~ or
light above the cloud formations. Mostly th e~c
reports were ignored. However. about a de-

cade ago. pictures taken hy American airborne laboratories aboard high-fl ying DC-8
aircraft showcd that the !lashes or light lasted
for ahout one th irtiet h of a second. They
appeared red and frequently occurred in clusters oft wo or more.
A common location fo r these red sprites.
a~ they arc now cal led. wa~ the top rear aspect
of thunderheads. Studies n.:vealcd that the
sprites sometimes widened out a~ much as ten
mile~ as they leaped ~pec tacularl y fifty or
sixty mi lcs ~ t ra i g h t up. This ast oni~ h ing manifestation of energy reached all the way to the
lower la ye r~ of the ionosphere. to the D-laycr
or E- laycr. depending on <.:onditions. Radi o
noise that coincided with the ~ prites sounded
likc a di stinct pop:
I Lightning Listening .....

The hcavil) damped o~c illati o n ~ of a light ning di scharge propagate through space like
an y othcr radio em issions. Omnidirectional
groundwav..: occur~. The linc -o f-~ i g h t property of th i ~ mode may be considerable. bearing in mind the power and antenna-height

Earth's Air Glow

/
Vertical Pulse
Length=49 km
Latitude=29.4 S.
Long1tude=52.3 W.
Range from Shuttle= 1300 km

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possessed by the flash itself. Propagation via

the ionosphere al so happens. subject to both
normal absorpti on and path-forwarding. depending on conditions.
Where propagation does occur in the ionosphere. frequency separation takes place over
time and distance, which is normal . The e ffect
of this at a receiving station situated at a great
distance from the fla ~ h is that the complex
disc harge of the !lash. wit h its vi rtual ly simultaneous emission of a plethora of frequencies.
is heard in a modified form. The higher frequencies will trave l fa~ te r through the ionosphe ric medium than the lower ones.
The chaotic first crackle received locally
may be heard thousands of mi les away on a
broadband receiver as a very orderly desce nding tone. These tones can be heard reasonably
well (public e nemy number one is power-grid
hum ) on special but very simple receivers
capable of being tuned below ten kilohertz. or
on a standard shortwave receiver hooked up
to a suitable freq uency converter.
Admittedly. the orderly tones arc brief just a few hundred micro-seconds - but they
are audible. The most common o nes sound
like very short metal lic pinging noises. but
they vary. Occasionally call ed "pingers."
nowadays they are wide ly referred to as
''t weeks ... Don t dcspai rof never hearing these
delightfu l zinging, pinging. and spatteri ng
noises from farawa y lightni ng, j ust because
you don' t have the proper listening gear. In
theory any audio amplifier is capable of registering them. because of their audio-range
radio-frequencies.
But you do need an cle<.: tricall y qu iet local ion - one that is removed from man-made
trash- static and the afore me ntioned hum and
its harmonics. That can be a tall order. Even
those specially bui It VLF recei vcrs arc plagued
by power-grid hum when they arc used in the
wrong locations. A very satisfactory compromi se. for a fo retaste. is to shell out some buc ks
on commercially avai lab le recordings. (Ed
note: See this 111011th 's IV/wt s New c11(1111111
for one excellent source.)
T wccks are often mentioned in the same
breath as "whistlers ... Whistlers arc rcgardcd
as the real beautie~ among all the audible
things that can be disti lled fro m the world s
lightn ing network. They arc a rarer phenomenon than tweeks. requi ring a more subtle set
of circumstances in orde r fo r them to occur.
The radio freq uencie-. that end up as whistlcrs
need to escape from the ionosphere and voyage in a great loop th rough the magnetosphere. traversing ten' . even hundreds. of
thousands of miles. This escape of a packct of
freque ncies is known a ~ "ducting."

LONGWIRE BALUN
In recent t i m e~
there is ta lk that the
giant leap of a red
sprite from the top
of a thunde rh ead
may be involved in
thi-. d uct in g. (But
ho ld that thought.)
II ha ~ also been
theori zed tha t th e
duct may be at ~o m e
poi nt awa) from the
originati ng thumh.:rstorm and that frequencie' propagating in the io nosphere erH.:ounter it
an d th us e'capc
along li n e~ of force
in th e magne to ~ ph e r c . Th e in volve me nt of the earth, rnag neto,phen: is
certain and was pro ved decade' ago hy oh'L'rvation and experiment. The long lo1)pi ngjou rney of the frequency packet through 1he magnetosphere provide' the d i-,1arllT and time
requ ired for the frequency di-,per-, ion that
result s in the substantia l descendi ng tone 1hat
is the whi stler. In its be-,1 forrn it i' a clear
whi stle lasting several secomb and ra nging
fro m a top pitch o f many kil ohert1. dow n to a
te rminal one or a few hundred herl /.
The role of the 111ag nc lllsphen: is ve ry
d early recog ni 1.c d from the fac t tha t. given
the ri ght condit ions. a lighrn ing fla,h in one
po lar hemisphere o f 1he world wi 11 be heard a'
a short (..one- hop.. ) whi-,tk r al a conj ugate
magneti c point in the opp1h itc po lar hem isphere. If a re fleclil)n occurs. then a longer
(.. two-hop ) whi stle r wi ll be heard hack in the
vici nit y of the cau-.al flas h. i111111edia11.:I ) after
the initi al cl ick of -,tatic. The' icinity or foot pri m can hnve di mcn,ion-. of hundred-, of
miles . Further rc lkc1 io n or the energy packc1
will re,u ll in nn ""ec ho- tra in: wi th leng1hening of the \\'histlcr anu na1ural a11enua1ion
happening ' imullancou,ly.
At least one 01he rca1cgor") of ,fcric' 'ccn1'
to owe it, cxis1ence 10 th..: lig ht ning bolt.
Rc~earchcr~ refer to this cat..: gm~ a' ""Ji,crcte
emi,,ions: incl uding in it phcnom.:na ' uch a'
.. risers: ""hook,_- and certain l~ pc' of ..chom s: R ise r~ arc' Cr) !>hon up\\ ard ton..:-,. !>ometimes pure. 'ometi mcs hi"Y I loob arc al-,o
sho rt lom:s but fi rs t they fall in pi1ch. then
sucluenl y ri'c and fade uul. Chorn' i' a cham
of tones that alway.. -,eems lo re mind liqc:ncr'
of animal o r bird li fe. "ith ih imitation' of
barks. croak,. chiq>~. (It muq not he confu,ed
with ""auro ral chonr-;"" whi ch i-, 1101 li nked lo

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Epilogue.....
lkl;iu!>e it is tlir<.:<.: hundred thmf'and volls
ncgati\'c with r..:spcct lo th<.: ionosphere. the
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Su Per True kin~

More SuPer Race Freqs
"Supe1freq supe1freq Its superfreqy yaaoow!"

took some liberties w ith an o ld song by

Rick James. because tha t ~ just how I feel
about a les~c r - known di v ision of
NASCAR - the Craftsman Supert ruck series.
Founu on many of the same short tracks
(and some new ones) as its Win ston Cup and
Busch Grand National se ries. the Craftsman
Supcrtruck seri es i s ano ther di vi sion of
NASCAR racing that w ill light your scanner
lire. ThcSupertruck ser ies was started in 1994
and has increased in popularity eve r since.
Like their Winston Cup cou sins. these
trucks arc far from the everyday trucks that arc
fou nd on the street. These super trucks arc
reall y ful l- blown race cars in truck "s clothing.
T he body dimensi o ns arc reg ulat ed by
NASCAR lo be nearl y identical to the four
model s of the fu l l-sized trucks raced in this
ser ies. Fan s can easily identify wi th Ford" s
F l 50. Chcvys C- 1500. and GM Cs C- 1500.
Even Chrys ler fans ha ve something to hoot
about with the D odge 1500 racing alongside
(and sometimes in front of) tht: usual Ford.
General Motors duo of NASCAR (Chrysler
dropped o ut of Winston Cup and Bu~c h di v isi ons many moons ago).

By Mike Bryson

There is one big difference in the SuperTruck liJ..e underwear and frequcncie~ onl) slightl y
body. however: the truck 'bed'" i s nonfunc- less often.
Fortunatel y. I knew from prev i o u ~ experitional as far as trucks go. There i s a covered
access panel in its place simil ar to the rear deck ence that a great site for finding racing freq uenl id o f a race car. The onl y 'hauling .. youll do c ies i s from the good folk s at Northtex
Motorsports. Their web sitc can be found at
wi th this truck is - wel l. you know.
Underneath the truck suit is a race car very ..http:\\www.northtcx.com ... Check to see if
simil ar to the Winston C up cars. The engine there s a SuperTruck race coming near you.
produces about 500 horsepower from its 358 cause for great entertainment you ..ca11 '11011c h
cubic inch V-8. A s Mike Bli ss. a regular I fl is" I
SuperT ruck driver. states. "'I t has been tough
Craftsman Truck Series 1997 Schedule
trying to remember to call it a race 1ruck'
rat her than a race car.
~
Venue
June
6
Texas Motor Speedway
21
Bristol Motor Speedway
Superfreqs
29
Nazareth Speedway
July
5
Milwaukee Mile
It see ms that almost every racing site on the
12
Louisville Motor Speedway
19
Colorado National Speedway
Internet has links to the Winston Cup and
27
Heartland Park Topeka
Busch Grand National freq uencies. but I found
31
Indianapolis Raceway Park
August
9
Flemington Speedway
locati ng SuperT ruck frequencies a bi t tricker.
16
Nashville Speedway USA
U sing a scarch engine like Excite. I asked for
24
Watkins Glen Intl Raceway
an y information co ntaining NASCA R .
Spetember 4
Richmond Intl Raceway
27
Martinsville Speedway
SuperTruck. and frequencies. <The more deOctober
5
Sears Point Raceway
tailed you make your search . the better.) As
12
Mesa Marin Raceway
always. some of your resu lts w ill turn up olu
18
California Speedway
November
1
Phoenix Intl Raceway
l inks - pick the ones that indicate they were
9
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
updated in 1997! Team~ can change dri\ers
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1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Frequencies

Driver

wmm

1 M. Colabucci
2 Mike Bliss
3 Mike Skinner
4 Tony Stewart
4 Morgan-McClure
5 Darrell Waltrip
5 Terry Labonte
6 Rick Carelli
7 Dave Rezendes
8 John Nemechek
10 Curtis Markham
11 Joe Gaita
11 Mike Hurlburt
12 Dave Smith
14 Butch Gilliland
15 B. Gill
16 Ron Hornaday
17 Bill Sedgwick
18 Green/Benson
19 J. Chapman
20 Walker Evans
21 Doug George
22 Rusty Wallace
23 T.J. Clark
24 Jack Sprague

465.6375
468.3125
462.1250
464.9625
451.9625
469.3125
468.2125
465.8125
457.3750
464.7625
465.6375
461 .1 125
469.4 125
465.8625
464.5625
467.7000
466.5250
469.3125
464.0625
466.6500
461.6500
469.5625
461 .3375
466.8625
456.3375

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2m!

an!

469.400
466.9250

457.9750

463.9750

457.1750

469.2875

461.0500

464.5500
452.8250
469.0125
467.1625

465.7625
461.5875
457.2125
468.2120

469.4875

June 1997

Driver

Primary

25 Roger Mears
26 MB Racing
28 Ernie Irvan
29 Bob Keselowski
30 Jimmy Hensley
31 Bob Brevak
32 Ken ny Hendrick
33 Harry Gant
35 Bill Venturini
37 Bob Strait
38 Ernie Cope
40 Carlos Serrano
41 A.J. Foy!
42 Robbie Reiser
43 Gordon/Sauter
44 Bryan Rettner
48 Bobby Hamilton
51 TJ Clark
52 Ken Schrader
54 Steve McEarchern
61 Randy Tolsma
64 Michael Dokken
65 Kenny Allen
68 Bobby Dotter
71 Ron Newman

461.1750
469.51 25
466.4500
464.6250
467.0000
451.9625
462.7125
461.1500
468.9250
467.8750
469.4750
463.8750
461.8375
464.9625
852.1875
462. 1625
461 .6625
468.8125
467.6875
464.1500
461 .1125
461.4000
460.8875
462.5625
461.1125

2nd

3rd

Driver
72 Kevin Harvick
73 Bob Schact
75 Nathan Buttke

466.5750

469.4125

466.6875

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2m!

3rd

469.1875
460.1375
457.8125
460.9125
469.6750
77 Scott Lagasse
463.3750
469.5500
78 Mike Chase
466.2500
80 Joe Ruttman
460.9500
81 Jerry Glanville
466.5750
467.7750
468.8250
83 Steve Portenga
464.t875
87 Joe Nemechek
460 2375
463.7125
464.7625
88 Terry Cooke
468.6875
90 Lance Norick
466.4125
92 C. Cragan
462 3625
94 Ron Barfield
469 8750
468.6750
98 Kenny Irwin
463.7125
463.7375
99 Gary Herrin
469.2500
01 Billy Ogle
463.8875
03 Tommy Archer
463 5125
466.5125
07 Geoff Bodine
463 1750
NASCAR 1
463.8500
NASCAR 2
468.8500
Truck Racing Network 454.0000
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n one's quest for a new and different monitoring c hallenge.

someti mes the obvious is overlooked. I don't know about you, but
whe n I think of exotic utility DX, I generally don' t thi nk of
maritime stations. That is, until I started looking through my ITU
(International Telecommunication s Union) books for something out of
the ordinary.
I discove red something I had nearly forgotten about from earlier
exploits-the seasonal maritime stations in Canada's Northwest Territories (NWT). Operated by the Canadian Coast Guard, these stations are
spread across the extreme far north of the NWT to assist vessels that
venture into the extreme far north.
DXing these outposts on the northern frontier brings back the
excite ment of exploring Northe rn Canada as a youngster. The idea o f
being able to communicate with the most remote outposts stirred my
passion to learn more about the world, and the re's where my interest in
radio began.
Navigation in the far north can be treacherous even in the relati vely
hospitable sum mer months because of rapid c hanges in weather, shifting and melting ice. etc. Ships require the fac ilities of dedicated stations
to keep the m in touch with c ivili zation. Above 70 deg. north latitude,
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Potential disaster for ships looms as close as the 11earest

iceberg i11 the inlets of the North west Territory.

geostationary orbit above the equator.

This is where the nitty gritty of using
communications for survival can be very important on short notice. Equipment and skills
need to be more than just picking up the " bat
phone" (as we call the satellite phone aboard
ships) and placing a call.
Among the types of traffic handled by the
VFANFFNFR stations are AMVER (Automated Mutual-assistance Vessel Rescue system), OBS METEO (weather observations),
ICE info (iceberg warnings and visual position) a nd routing, voice warnings and forecasts, medical advice and information via
phone patch.
These stations are indeed seasonal; they
are in service when the routes are not iced in,
generally from late June through mid-October. Due to their locations, operation onl y a
few months per year, and proximity to Aurora
Borealis, monitoring conditions prese nt a real
challenge.
Table 1 lists the variety of modes and
frequencies in use, there should be something
of interest to DXers and beacon hunters a li ke.
Notice the modes include CW (Morse code),
voice, and weather fax. Conspicuously absent
is SITOR radio telex. Most coastal stations
offer SITOR to automatically handle traffic .
Perhaps the seasonal nature of the stations vs.
the cost of the equipme nt makes this mode
prohibitive.
Let's sta rt with VFR, Resolute Coast Guard
Radio. At74-45 N, 94-58 W, VFR is Canada's
northernmost maritime station, even farther
north than the magnetic north pole ! It serves
vessels transiting the Melville Sound a nd
M'Clure Strait.
Further south are the four locations of VFA
Coast Guard Radio . At 68-10 N, 133-35 Wi s
VFA Inuvik. Nearby is VFA Parsons Lake at
68-53 N, 133-56 W . Both stations are on the
mainland of the NWT. Southeast at 67-49 N,
115-06 Wi s YFA Coppermine. Finally there
is VFA Cambridge Bay on the south s hore o f
Victoria Island at 69-07 N, 105-00 W .
Last stop is VFF, Iqaluit Coast Guard Radio, located 63-43N, 68-33 W ., VFF Killinek
at 60-25 N, 64-50 W, and VFFCoral Harbour
at 64-09 N, 83-22 W , which is remotely controlled by Iqaluit. The number of stations
covering over 1 million square miles in proportion to a population less than 50,000 people
is amazing. Not many people choose to li ve
this far north.
VFF and VFR provide weather fax to mariners on 3253 and 7710 kHz. (Carrier is 1.9
kHz lower, 3251.1 , 7708. l kHz.) See Table 2
for times, areas, and content of charts, etc.
Note that 500 kHz CW is still in use. The

dea th of Morse code as a viable mode assumes

the final imple mentati on of GMDSS. as required by internationa l law. But the system is
a long way from being up and running
smoothly. Don'tcount those500 kH z station s
out for awhile.
It 's interesting to note that many longwave
beacons across the NWT are monitored by
DXers stateside. The coastal beacons are used
by aeronautical and maritime vesse ls fornav i-

gation . For instance, YEK (329 kHz) at Eskimo Point on Hudson Bay has been he ard
across North America even though it's listed
as having a " norma l range" of 150 miles in the
ITU publication Radio-determination and
Special Service Stations. We all know DX
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Maritime radio in the

Northwest Territories
involves everything
from Coast Guard air
and sea operations to
commercial shipping.

I have monitored VFA on 12 MH1. with a

fair signal at my Utah location. List1.:ning to
500 and 2 182 kHz in the s ummer months isn t
my idea of ideal DXing. but who said it would
be easy? Herc s an excel lent chance to st.:c just
how good that fancy loop you bought reall y
works ' Luck il y. the HFCW and 5513 freq uencies wi ll be easie r to hear and identify.
It' s wo rth mention ing th at VFF Coral
Harbour maintains a watch on the distress
frequencies from 0000 to 1200 UTC for medical and emergency traffic during closed 'hipping season.
To make our OXing more enticing. let"'
toss in some longwave coastal beacons in the
NWT. These are:
B
YCS
ZS
RT
YEK

Button Island
Chester1ield Inlet
Coral Harbour
Rankin Inlet
Eskimo Point

312 kHz
341 kHz
362 kHz
284 kHz
329 kHz

64-37 W
9042 W
83-22 W
9206 W

60-41 N
63-20 N
64-08 N
62-48 N

Good luck in moni toring and QSLing these

most interesti ng stations'

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,I

i
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I

These be acon ~ are used for na vigation b)

aircraft and ships ali ke. There arc other inland
beacons. but they may be of more intcrc't to
the aero ute crowd. Hopeful ly. the address I
have used in the past will still bring a QSL in
these days of butlget cuts. Reception report'
should go to the fo llowing addrc" in the gin: n
fo rmat:
lnu vik Coast Guard Radio VFA
(or VFF. VFR )
Department of Transport
Ottawa. Ontario KI A ON7

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t .

TABLE 1
(Frequencies kHz unless otherwise noted)
~

Freguen~~

VFA
INUVIK

4292.0
6351.5
8456.0
12671.0
2182.0
2558.0
4363.0
5803.0
6218.6
6501.0
8794.0
13116.0
156.8 MHz
161.9 MHz

VFF
IQALUIT

VFR
RESOLUTE

416.0
430.0
484.0
500.0
4236.5
6335.5
8443.0
12671.0
2182.0
2514.0
2582.0
4375.0
6507.0
6513.0
8752.0
13077.0
1256.8 MHz
161.9 MHz
474.0
500.0
4334.0
6438.0
2182.0
2582.0
4375.0
8791.0
156.8 MHz
161.9 MHz

Mill.:

cw
cw
cw
cw

AM
USB
USB
USB
USB
USB
USB
USB
FM
FM

cw
cw
cw
Modulated CW
cw
cw
cw
cw
AM
USB
USB
USB
USB
USB
USB
USB
FM
FM

cw
cw
cw

Modulated CW

AM
USB
USB
USB
FM
FM

Power kW
1.0
0.2
1.0
0.2
0.28
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
0.06
0.06

CW working freq
CW working freq
CW working freq
CW working freq
Calling & distress
MF SSB working
ITU channel 403
Simplex
Simplex
ITU channel 601
ITU channel 826
ITU channel 1214
VHF channel 16
VHF channel 26

1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
5.0
5.0
5.0
5.0
1.2
1.0
1.0
1.0
5.0
1.0
5.0
5.0
0.1
0.1

CW working freq
CW working freq
CW working freq
Calling & distress
CW working freq
CW working freq
CW working freq
CW working freq
Calling & distress
MF SSB working
MF SSB working
ITU channel 407
ITU channel 603
ITU channel 605
ITU channel 812
ITU channel 1201
VHF channel 16
VHF channel 26

1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.2
5.0
5.0
5.0
0.1
0.1

CW working freq
Calling & distress
CW working freq
CW working freq
Calling & distress
MF SSB working
ITU channel 407
ITU channel 825
VHF channel 16
VHF channel 26

Weather alerts
and beacons for
navigation in this
region can often
be heard
throughout North
America, even
though most are
intended for local
or regional use.

TABLE 2: Weather Fax Stations VFF and VFR

Station
VFR
VFR

Fr e g yenci e~

3253.0 kHz
7710.0 kHz

Trj!ns Time ~
0001/---Aircraft Obs.
Ice Chart
---/1430
Ice analysis
1035/2232 Sur1ace anal.
1049/2246 18 hr surface
prognosis
----/2304
Ice analysis

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1 July - 15 October
1 July - 15 October

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120/576
120/576
120/576

Latest
Latest
06/18

B
A

120/576
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06/18
Latest

B
B

Map Area:
A - Portions of Hudson Bay. Hudson Strait. East Coast of Battin Island,
Lancaster Sound. Queen Elizabeth Islands
B - Battin Bay, Queen Elizabeth Island Channel. Parry Channel. Beaufort Sea/
Alaskan Coast, Waterway to Spence Bay
Statign
VFF
VFF

Freguen~ie~

3253.0 kHz
7710.0 kHz

Emission
F3C
F3C

Trans Time Contents

Bf.ML!.!l.C
Aircraft OBS
0100/
ice chart
120/576
-12000
Ice analysis 120/576
0952/2155 Surface analysis
1006/2209 18 hr surface analysis

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A
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Bay

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17

The lowdown
On the Best
Earth-Ground
To Be found

By Philip Gebhardt, VA3ACK

hhh . life would be so simple in

Radi o Land. if the Earth provided
an elect rically perfect ground. In
that case. thi s story would e nd here. But it's
not perfect. That's why. for example. quanerwave ve rtical ante nn as need radi als rather
than a simple all igator clip connection to the
neare st lump of soil.
This imperfec tion can be an obstacle to
easy DXing. But. it ca n also prod uce spectac ul ar opportu nities for DXers who understand how the Earth interact' with radio signals.
Take med ium wa,e DXing. for instance.
The ground wave rad iates from the transmi tting antenna and propagates a long the surface
of the Earth. Some signal penetrates the ground
and induces earth currents. Since the Earth is
not a perfect conductor, sig nal powe r is di ssipated as the currents move through the Earth.
The process continues with more signal power
penetrating the Earth. more c urrent being induced and more power being di sipated . The
fart her the signal trave ls. the more signal loss
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MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

there is and the weaker the signal becomes.

Eventual ly. the signal becomes too weak to be
heard.
Not o nly is the Earth not a pe rfect conductor. but it is a bette r conductor in some places
than in other;;.
Table I shows how conducti vity changes
from one region to another.
Many readers may be more fa miliar with
resi.11a11ce than co11d11c1w1ce. Resistance (R}
is a measure of how much a c ircuit impedes or
res ists c urrent flow. Its basic unit is the ohm.
(It may also be ex pressed in kilohms and
megohms.) 1-1 igh values uf resistance result in
hi gh power dissipati on: low values result in
low power dissi pation.
Conductance (G) is the oppos ite. It is a
measure of how easily current can flow in a
c ircuit. Its basic unit is the mho. (Smaller units
are the millimho and the mic ro mho.) Hi gh
v;ilucs of conductance result in low power
di ssipation: low values result in hi gh power
dissipation. In other words. res istance and
conduc tance arc two means fu r e xpress ing the

TABLE I
General Values of Earth Conductivity. The higher the
value. the farther a signal will travel. Values are often
expressed as a range rather than a single value.
Signals travel farthest over salt water as mentioned
later in the text.
Tvoe of Terrain
poor soil
moderate soil
fair soil
average soil
good soil
very good soil
fresh water
sea water

Cooducliyjtv
(in millimhos per meter)
1
3
10
5 to 20
10 to 30
100
1to10
3000 to 5000

same thing-the ability of a circuit to pass

current.
For example. a resistance of I00 ohms is
equivalent to a conductance of 0.0 I mhos.
(G = l/ R). You can even re-write Ohm's
Law. so I = E/R becomes I = E x G. Ass ume
a supply vol tage (E) of 200 vo lts. The current
(I) !lowing through the I 00-oh m resistance is
I00/200 or 2 amperes. T he current ll ow in g

T he -,o lut ion to the othcrt wo probi' to l'o lluw ;1 ' la11dard c ircuit.
T he ci rcuit of Figure 2 was developed hy M.C. Wa lt ~ . W2FNQ. and
\\a' J c,cribl'll by Jc rry Sc1ick.
\V2 Fi\11. in hi' article .. Short GrounclRatlial S) ~ t cm~ for Short Verticab. ..
CQ.\T. March 1981. page 38)
Rl,iqor R, pre,cnt' a -,J ight incon1enience. Sci id, -,uggeas u ~ in g a
para Ile I co111 bi nation of threc 68-oh 111.
1-ll'alt rc'>i'>lor' and t1vo 82-ohm. l 11 att re,istur'> to produce the.: required
1..i.6-ohm. 5-watl rl''i"ance . I opted
forc<1111enicnce and bought a 15-ohm.

TABLE II

lc1 n~

Using a hypothetical station located over a perfect conductor.

you can compare its coverage area over various terrain to the
coverage area of real stations with the same transmitter pov1er
and antenna In this table. the hypothe11cal station has a range
of 1000 miles. For DXing stations via groundwave propagalion.
living by the ocean is a major advantage
Iype of Terrain

Ra@e
(in miles)

very dry soil

dry SOii
damp soil
wet soil
fresh water or very wet soil
sea water

55
150
270
560
700
920

through the equi,ale nt 0.0 I -mlHhonductancl'

is 200 x 0.0 I or 2 ampere,. (The.: po" er i'ormula P = FIR can be rc.:-11 rittc.: n "'I'= 1: ' Ci.
Using ei ther formula. you la11 'cc that thl
power di"ipated in th i, circ ui t i' -HlO 11 ath.)
All thi' i' a 11ay uhayi ng that ll'C cuuld tall-,
about ground resi, ti 1 i t ~. but the 1<:ch1e - t ~ pl''
talk about ground C<'ndU<.:ti 1it). ,(, 11e11 u'l'
that term here. (You ma) ha1 c not iced 1h;1t
sometimes I refe r to re'i'tann: and conductance while other tin1c' I u'c the tcrrn' rc'i'ti vit y anu conduct ii ity. Sec R c\ i ~ t;llK l' I'
Resisti vity nex t to thi' art icle J'o r a11 l:-.pla11a1io n of thcsc ternh.)
Mcuiumwave DX..:r' would lil..e an Lanh
wi th hig h co11ductivity (that i,. lm1 rc'i' ti 1
ity ). \{)powe r lo"e' wou ld bl.! 1011 anu g rou11d
wave, could travel farth..: r.
Tablc 11 shows how the J:arth s conduc:til'it y affects cnvcragc area.
You c an dete rmine the ground co11ducti 1ity in your ya rd very easi Iy. Your first incl ina tion mi ght be to attach two prohes to the
ground (son of like attaching two alliga tor
clips to a resistor) and thl.!n to apply a uc
voltage. By measuring the current rlo11 you
could use Ohm 's Law (G = l/E ) IO calcula1c
conductiv it y.
Not so fast. It' s easy. but 11ot quite.: that
easy. There are several problems with thi '
simple approach. The 1110, t oln iou ~ quc,ti\lll
is: How far apart s houl d you place the.: probc,1
ot so obv io us perhap' i' that th..: conduct ii
ity of the Earth can change.: a~ you go dc..:per.
So. ~ h oul d you measure conducli l' il) at the
surface? Below the ,urface'! If ,o. ho\\' far
below) The most sc riou ~ problem. ho11 c1 l'r.
may be apparent only to che rni 'h and geo l(lgists. When you pa s~ tlircct c urrent through
the ground. the.: ground become' polari1ed at
the p robe~ and you obtain faJ,c rcadi11g,.
The ~o l ution to the Ja,l problem i' to 11,e
al ternating current. A' the.: current change'
d irection eac h hal f cycle. the polari1ation
e ffect canleb.

I0-watt resistor.
Constructing the circuit is easy. To accom1110<.latc the I00-watt lamp (L 1). I mounted a
kcylcs,. pl ast ic. ceiling larnpholcler on the
in~ide ll'a ll of a small. plastic pail. Two binding po' t ~ on the bottom (whi ch became the top
of the in1crted pail ) allowed me to mount the
15-ohm rc~i, tor (R 1) inside the pail and provided a con,enie nt means outside the pail for
mea,uring the voltage across the res istor. The
four prob e~ arc made of I/2-inch copper pipe.
They arc ~ paced 18 inches apart in a straight
line and driven 12 inches into the ground. I
placld tube cnd caps 011 the top of each probe
to pr..:1 ..:11t rain ente ring the pipe anti soaking

A simple de circuit
such as this one
will yield
inaccurate
readings.

FIGURE 1

120 VM'

LI

RI

FIGURE 2

Pl

P2

P3

P4

T/1i.v haxie cirrnit (see Fi1:u re 2) Ol'ercom es t!te problems associated with the simple
de cirrnit r~f' Fi~ure I. In this circuit, the de source is replaced by 120 VAC house
current. It alrn uses a ./-probe system rather than th e 2-probe system of Figure 1.
U 1 is di.1cu.1.1"1'd in the text. Use a polari-:.ed plug to en sure that probe P, is connected
to the grou nded side of the ac power lin e. Th e gro1111d symbol i11 th e diagram simply
indicates which is th e grounded wire f rom the house supply. Therefore, there is 110
11eed.fiir you to ground this point. This circuit pro rides results accurate enough for
Ii o /J fly ists.
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19

Shown in this photo is th e small,

plastic pail which house., th e basic
circuit for the ground conductivity
tests. Th e 120 VA C power lin e can
be seen e11teri11g the wall of the pail
011 th e left. The binding posts 011
the tup are co1111ected to resistor R 1
lo facilitate measuri11g the voltage
drop across it. The wires
co1111ecti11g probes P 1 a11d 1'4 to the
circuit attach to the binding po.1ts
seen mounted 011 the wall of th e
pail (right side).

Both resistor RI and the

JOO- watt lamp (L 1) are
housed inside the pail.
The lamp screws into a
plastic, ceiling
lamp/wider mounted 011
the wall of th e pail. The
15 -oh m, 1()-ll'atl resistor
can be seen just above
and slightly to the left<~{
the lamp. The binding
posts seen 011 th e right
connect to wires leadi111:
to probe.1 P 1 and P.r

The complete unit consists <~{th e pail

which houses resistor R 1 and lamp L 1, a
m eter which measures volta1:e V 1
across resistor R 1 as well as voltage V!
between probes P! and 1'1, four 1/2-inch
copp er-pipe p robes (see arro ws) driven
12 inches into the ground about 18
inch es apart, a co1111ectio11 to 120 VAC
and a pair of wires co1111ecti11g the
circuit in the pail to the outer two
probes (P 1 and P,). To moid a shock,
keep your h ands off the compon ents in
the pail and th e probes ll'h e11 power is
applied. For the same rea.rn11, do not
leave th e circuit 111wtte11ded ll'he11 th e
power is applied especia lly if children
or a nimals are n earby.

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MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

into the grou nd.

A ll that remained wa> lO run the 120 V AC
ro\\"cr cord into the pail. run the two \\'ires for
the probe-, out of the pail and connect the lamp
to the rc' i'tor. I attached the \\"ire\ to the outer
probe' (P 1 and P) u>ing ring termi nals and
'cl f- tappi ng >ere\\ '
Rcrm:mbcr: You arL' u'ing a 120-\ olt source
and one >ide or the \OUl'Ce i, grounded. Since
you arc >landing on the groun d. you are also
grounded . Therefore. when powe r is applied.
keep )our linger> 0111 of the pail and cdf the
probe>.
Todctcrrnine the condlll:ti \"ity in your yard,
you' II need to rnca\ ure the volt age (V 1) across
R, and the voltage ( V _) between probes P~ and
I\. Substitute the'e values in the equati on
wh ic h follows and you11 be able to calcul ate
th e co nduc ti vit y in mi lli rnhns per meter. You
can lhl:n compare your result to the va lues in
Table I .
g = 21 x V 'fV ?
I moni tored the ground cond ucti\ity in my
back) ard for fo ur m o nth ~. The results appear
in Figure Ill. Uncx pcctcdl}. the values led me
to ' ornc usefu l obse rvations.
T he conducti \ity changcd wi1h the presence or rain. However. 1he ra in takes ti me to
pcne1ra1e the ,oi l in Ill} backyard. <;O conduc1i1 it) doc' nut in e rea~e immediately. It may
not inc rea'e at all\\ ith 'mall amoun ts of rain.
Rainfall had been ' tead} during Ju ly (the
month pre\ 11nr> to ~ta rtin g the mea~u re rnent s)
'u the ground conclucti vi ty \\':t ~ re lati\ely high.

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However, little rainfall was experie nced during August and September and the conductivity generally declined.
An occasional increase can be seen due to
sporadic rain. In early October, a tropical
storm passed through southe rn Ontario resulting in heavy rain fa ll fo r several days . Consequently, the conducti vity rose rapidly to a
high value. Heavy rains in October and November kept the conductivity high.
What does all this mean? As Table I and
Table II show, it would be nice to select your
DX listening location. Not all of us can , whic h
is why DXpeditions are organi zed. I observed
just how important ground conducti vity is
while I was li ving in Nassau, Bahamas. At
noon o ne day, I was te s ting a si mple
mediumwave loop ante nna that I planned to
use for a demonstration. To my s urprise, I
heard WBMQ, a 5 kW station on 630 kHz in
Savannah, Georgia! Subseque nt checks revealed that daytime reception of WBMQ was
consistent. However, other more powerful,
inland stations could not be heard. The reason? The 540-mile path between Savannah
and Nassau is entirely over salt water. Mov ing
inland in Georgia increases the amount of

land over which the signal must travel and

conseque ntly increases the signal attenuation
of the more powerful stations.
I've noticed a similar. but far less pronounced effect in Toronto, Ontario. Signals
from MW stations to the south across Lake
Ontario are stronger than more powerful stations from the north where s ignals must travel
across land. Signals from stations along the
shoreline also improve. I hear CFFX (960 kH z
wi th I 0 kW) in Kingston, O ntario, much better than c loser, inland stati ons.
Coastal areas, espec ially low-lying areas,
have a further advantage because ground conductiv ity increases as the dissolved salt content inc reases. Salt-laden winds off the ocean,
whi le the bane of garde ners, are a boon for
DXers. The salt tends to accumulate in sandy
so il s. Eve n better, if the ground contains
spongy. organic material, it will also retain
mo isture and the salt will be readily dissolved.
Since wet land propagates signals more
effectively than dry ground, spring rains and
me lting snow can extend the ground wave
s ignal range. If the path between you and the
station c hanges from dry to wet during the
spring, listen for daytime stations you might

not normall y hear. (Ground conductivity also

increases as ground temperature increases.)
Al so watch for extended periods of heavy
rainfall-especially over large areas- at any
time of year. For example, hurricanes or tropical storms moving up the east coast can extend
your reception area.
The higher the frequency of a signal, the
greater the signal attenuation over a given
path . Standard graph s used by Peter N.
Saveskie, W4LGF, in his Radio Propagation
Handbook show that the received groundwave
s ignal from a JO MHz, I kW station is about
10 dB weaker than a 550 kHz, I kW signal
over a 60-mi le salt water path. When the
signals travel the same distance over good
soil, the 10 MHz signal is about 65 dB weaker
than the 550 kHz signal.
Signals from longwave stations will travel
even farther than mediumwave s ignals and
wi ll be stronger.
Knowing a little bit about groundwave
propagation can go a Jong way toward logging
those stations that are normally out of reach.
And fo r your next vacation-head fo r the
coast for so me s pectac ul a r groundwave
DXing.

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Sep 01

Sep 10

Sep 20

Sep 30

Oct 10

Oct 20

Oct 30

Nov 09

Nov 19

Nov

29

Partial results of ground conductivity measurements in my backyard. Notice the abrupt change in early October after the
heavy rainfall associated with the tropical storm. Periodic heavy rainfall throughout th e following month was responsible for
maintaining the ground conductivity at a high level.
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Resistance vs. Resistivity

Imagine that you have two wires-one copper, the other
silver. Which wire has the lower resistance? The tendency is
to say "silver" because we know that silver is a better
conductor than copper.
In fac t, we don't know which wire has the lower resistance.
For example, a 2-yard length of No. 18 silver w ire would
indeed have a lower resistance than a similar length of copper
wire. But, that same piece of silver wire would have a higher
resistance than a I-yard length of No. 18 copper wire.
Wire diameter also affects resistance. Even though silver
is a better conductor than copper, that same 2-yard length of
No. 18 silver wire would have higher resistance than the same
length of No. 12 copper wire.
To make a comparison and establish which metal is the
better conductor, we need a standard. The standard for establishing the resistance of metals is a cube with I-centimeter

sides. In this case, the resistance of silver is lower than copper.

Similarly, by this standard, the resistance of tin, lead, and
nickel is higher than the resistance of copper.
The resistance of this standard cube is known as the
resistivity of the metal and it enables you to compare how
different metals resist current flow.
Similarly, when we want to compare the ground conductance in different areas, we need some standard to make sure
that we are making a valid comparison. Comparing the conductance of a 2-yard stretch of fair soil is not a fair comparison
to the conductance of a I 0-yard section of good soil.
The established standard for conductance is known as
conductivity. By using standard practices, standard circuits
and standard formulas as illustrated in the accompanying
article, it is possible to establish the effect the Earth has on
radio signals and compare various locations.

Soil Conductivity and Grounding

Adapted from the Antenna Factbook by Bob Grove

s the foregoing article indicates,

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higher frequencies, radio waves are intercepted by the antenna metal, but not by the soil
beneath it which absorbs and dissipates the
signal as heat.
Still, the same qualities which make the
soil a good conductor of low-frequency radio
waves also make it a good conductor for
grounding your radi o equipment. Attaching
the chassis of your radio to a buried conductor
in moist soil will protect you from electrical
shock, drain off static charge buildup, help
dissipate nearby lightning-induced spikes, and
even reduce electrical noise pickup.
A good electrical ground consists minimally of two eight-food metal rods, at least ten
feet apart, connected to the radio eq uipment
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from nearby hits.
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arrestors were satisfactory for high-voltagetolerant, tube-type equipment, but not for
modem, low-voltage, solid-state equipment.
Gas-discharge tubes which fire at under I 00
volts offer better protection, whi le allowing
full amateur transmitter power to pass unaffec ted.
During storms or extended periods of nonuse, disconnect your antenna line from your
radio. You may wish to ground it or, alternatively, hang the connector away from the
radio equipment, even hanging it inside a
glass tumbler for additional insulation.
Improved lightning protection may be realized by suspending the antenna below the
top of a well-grounded metal mast (which
then becomes a lightning rod), by coiling the
coax for about a dozen turns before it enters
the building, and by passing the coax through
a ten-foot metal pipe which is well-grounded.
Although electrical power li ne protection
is beyond the scope of this sidebar, highlyeffective metal-ox ide varistors (MOYs) are
available in strip-line extension cords, and
even for distribution panels to protect the
whole house.

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Sounds
from the
Equator

Quito, Ecuador

etlecting its hi storical. cultural. and geographical s ignificance. Quito

is sometimes called the light oft he Americas and the cultural heritage
of mankind. Nearly 1.5 million people li ve in what is one of the most
beautifu l capital cities in South Ameri ca. where historical sites are mingled with
modern shopping centers-and all just a few kilometers away from the Equator
that marks the midd le of the world. Ecuador's capital since 1830, Quito has
managed to maintain the old historical buildings while developing to meet the
needs or its inhabitants.
The city was. of course. very differe nt in 193 1. It was more of a rural vil lage,
and the large avenues did not even ex ist at that time. There was no cable television
as there is today (in fact. there was no telev ision at all ), and radio was just
beginning. In fact. in 193 1 only 13 people had radio receivers in Quito-very
fortunate people indeed. as they were able to hear the first broadcast of HCJB. the
Voice of the Andes. destined to become one of the most popular short wave stations
in the world.
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Top photo: HCJ B announcers use the

studio 's facilities to take their message
to the whole world. Transmitter control
is completely computerized.
Above: Part of HCJB 's antenna system
in Pifo. These antennas are linked to
Quito via microwave.
EQUATOR

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Equador /

I From Humble Beginnings

Two Amaicans. Clarence J o ne ~ and
Reuben Larsen. undenook the task of working out an ag ree ment with the Ecuadorian
government , on behal f of the corporation
World Radio Mi ~s ionary Fdlowship. to put a
~ t a li o n on the air. The lir~l broadcast was
made on Christmas Day 193 1 with a one-ho ur
program in Spanish and English. The 250wau transmiller wa ~ installed inside a sh..:ep
shed and two eucalyptus poles sl!rvcd as antenna towers- ve ry different from the current
huge transmitter site in Pifo. some 18 mill!s
east of Quito. with its 32 antennas and twe lve
transmitters ranging from 50 to 500 kW.
HCJB"s antenna site al so inc lud..:s a rotating
antenna. which can be targeted to any direction.
Although it is lower in altitud..: than Quito.
Pifo was chose n as the transmiller site because of its hi gher humidity. Thi.: transm itters
come from the United States. whe re HCJB
maintains a ce nter to deve lop and manufacture transmilling equipmcnt.
The energy rel1uirements to fccd the transmiller site are very high and HCJ 13 was forced
to bui ld its own hyclroelct:tric plant on the
Papal lac ta Ri v..:r. on the east side of th..: Andes.
It was put into operation in 1965. with th..:
power to generate 1.8 million watts. The second unit (inaugurated in 1982) im:reased the
power to 6 megawatts. Such power is more
than enough to cover the needs of HCJl3. In
fact. duri ng some ti mcs of the y..:ar the station
is even able to se ll energy.

Right: Transmitter control is

completely computerized.
Below: Under the shadow of
the Andes, these are HCJB 's
headquarters in Quito.

~ lat ions in Panama and Mexico. and produces

TV programs for distribution to broadcasters
in Latin America and other continents.
The Voi ce of the Andes has 25 offi ces in
various countries. which also produce radio
programs for HCJ B itself and for rebroadcast
by local radio stations. This means that a
portion of HCJB programs arc. in fact. recorded ou tside Ecuador. Most program s in
Portuguese, fo r instance. are prod uced by the
HCJ 13 offices in the Brazil ian city of Curitiba.
They arc the n sent to Quito on cassette tape to

be rebroadcast bac k to Brazil on shortwave.

\/o::.andes is also the name
of the hospital maintained
by HCJB and located next
to the station s headquarters
in Quito. A second hospital
is located in the fa: uadorian
town of Shell Mera. in the
Amazon Region. Med ical services offered
incl ude eye treatment and treks to more di stant places in the country where no medical
treatment is otherwi se availabl e. Another service offered by HCJB is the Christian Centre
of Communications in Qui to. wh ic h tra ins
broadcasters fro m a Christian perspecti ve.
The Voice of the Andes agreed in 1985 to
join effort s with other miss ionary broadcasters, in o rde r to inc rease the ir prese nce
worldwide.Thi s project is called '"World by
2000: In I 994 HCJB signed an agreement

I A Missionary Station with a Twist

The Voice of the Andes can be heard
worldwide. and today receives around 70.000
le tters each year. I am proud to ~ay that Brazil
i~ by far the leu..:r-writing champion! Fu nds
for H CJ B~ activ ities come from donatio ns
fro m all ow r the world. Th..: majority come
from the USA. wh..:re the corporate headquarters of the World Radio Mi s~io nary Fellowshi p are located. The callsign HCJB has bcco me kno\\ n as .. Hoy Cristo Jcsus Benediee ..
in Spani sh. or a~ thc English phrase ... Heralding Christ k sus 1:31essings."
Despite being primarily a mi s~ ionary broadca~tcr. the type or programmi ng and ~e r v iccs
rendered make HCJ B a som..:what different
broadcaster frnm mo ~t suc h ~ l a ti o n s . The Voice
of the Andes mainta ins local radi o stati ons in
Quito and Guaya4uil. which ope rat<.: like commercial stati ons. Their programs include music. news. and spo rts. offering a competitive
choice for the Ecuadorian audie nce of any
religion. HCJ B also maintains local radi o

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With the world in its hands,

this is HJB 's transmitter site
in Pifo. Modern transmitters
allow HCJB to be heard
worldwide.

wi th T rans World Rad io. cal led the Alas

Project. A las is ;1 sate II ite network inte nded tu
make Christia n rad io programs availabl e to
local Latin A meri ca n stati o ns. 24 ho urs a day.
C urrently. Trans World Rad io uses the A las
syste m twenty ho u rs a day . w hile the rest
comes fro m HC J B.

I Diversified Programming
Al thoug h it is making use nfn cw tec hno logy, sho rtwa ve radi o still plays a ve ry important part in HC JB 's acti vi ties. T he Vo ice o f
the Andes b road casts in a number o f lan g uages and loca l di alects. Its comp uterized
transm itt in2 room at Pifo. linked to Q uito v ia
microwave: a llows the statio n to stay o n the
air 24 hou rs a day . broadcasting in several
frequencies simultaneously.
HCJ B" s Engl ish lang uage progra ms arc
primari ly targeted to the Ame ricas. Europe. and South Pac ific. although they
can be heard worldwide. Thei r main
focus is. of cou rse. o n relig ious pro2rarns. bu t the output a lso follows
H CJB s imentio n to reacheve1y kind
o f audie nce.
Li ste ners in North America can
hear the news dai ly at 0100 and
0500 UTC. and fro m Monday to
Friday at 1200 UTC. M11sica de/
Ec11ador ( Mu sic from Ecuador)
can be heard on Fridays al 0 130
and 0530 UTC. while the science program El Mundo F11t11ro (The Future World) is
broadcast every T uesday. at
the same times as above. A lthough names o f some pro-

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g rams arc in Span ish,

the ir co n ten t is in
En!!li sh.
I nterested in Ec uadorian food'J What's
Cuuki11g i11 the Andes will info rm you o n food
rec ipes every Thursday at 0 130 and 0 530
UTC. Listeners lc ttas arc ans we red in Sal udos
A111igos ( He llo Frie nds) o n Sundays at 0 105
and 0 50 5 UT C. just a ft e r the news.
Ir you re a DX er o r ham o perator, you ' re in
luck. /-10 111 Radio Tm/av ai rs o n Wednesdays
at 01 30 a nd 0 530 UTC. a nd the fam ous DX
Part vline is availablt: every Saturday at 0 I05
and 0 505 UT C. DX editor Ric hard McV icar
(w ho is a lso the statio n s frequency manager)
keeps a n active HCJB DX cl ub, called A ndes
DX Intern ati onal. or A ndex . Over the years
DX Partl'line has become one o f the most
respected DX prog rams worldwide, thanks to
Richard .
HCJ B is al so know n worldw ide
fo r its beau t ifu l
QS L cards showin g Ecuado rian
scene r y . peo pl e.
typica l food . etc. For
1996. the Voice of
the Andes made a 12card series-one card
per m onth- which .
whe n p ut together.
formed a complete panorama of the beautiful
city of Q uito.
Pt:ople w ho are responsible and dedicated
to their positio ns a:id assign me nts-this is what
you w ill fin d at HCJB's

facil ities . The Voice of the Andes is a strong

vo ice fro m Ecuador and South A merica, as is
evident by the ir daily programs. HCJB is a
real proof that shortwave is ali ve and wel l, a nd
that the in troduction o r satell ite technology
s hould be an ad dition (and no t a su bsti tutio n)
to s ho rtwave radio . I inv ite you to tune in to
the Voice o f the Andes, a nd we lcome you to
South America'

How to contact HCJB:

HCJB - the Voice o f the A ndes
Engli sh Lang uage Se rvice
Casilla 17- 17-691
Qu ito. Ecuad or
Phone: +593 2 466-808, ext. 44 1
Fax: +593 2 447 -263
E-ma il: e ng lish @hcj b.org.ec

HCJB's English Broadcast Schedule

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1000-1 100
1100- 1200
1200- 1600
1900-2200

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15 115am
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The a11thor wo11/d like to thank Mr. Jo11as, lria

Bra1111, Maria Aparecida, and the SU!lf uf
/-ICJB 's Port11!111ese section for their help in
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The Politics of Encryption

t has been well known. although no! \\'idcly reported u111il !he
beginning or 1hi ~ year. that analog cellular !ck phone' an.:' ulnerabl e to eavesdropping. In the pa't there" ere brief pub! ic epi,nde'
of intercepted phone calls. such a' fo rmer Virg in ia governor Duugla'
Wilder making derogatory state ments aboul political ri vab or tran scripts or ce ll phone calls made by me111bcr-; of the Roya l family
making the rounds in variou' tabloids. bu! ii \\asnt until thi ' pa' t
Decembe r thal politicians \\'llk C up to realit y \\'hen seYcral or !heir
own were inten.:epted and recorded by Democratic activi,ts John and
Alice Martin in Florida (sec the Apri l issue or Monitoring Times for
detai ls).
The Cellular Telephone lndu,try Association (CTIA J. a \Va,h ington. D.C.-bascd trade group and sel f-proclaimed n.:pre,cnta1ivc of
the wireless commu nication' indu,try. had long dow nplayed the
security wcaknc,sc' or analog ce ll ular te lephones and had lobbied
successfully at the f-ederal le ve l in make such interception' unlawful.
Their leg islati ve succes' was incllccti vc. however. since there was
little desire on the part of l<m c nforcement to locate and apprehend
violators.
Soon a new story eme rged fro111 the indu,t ry. Digital 'Y'tcm'
would save the day and make pri vacy possi ble for cellular telephone
users. 'E1cc1ronic stalkers.. and other scapegoats would no longer he
ablc to ca,es<lrop on call s made u' ing the'e nc\\ radio 'Y'tcm'. >lot
only would the digital naturc of the new 'Y'tc1m prolecl pri' ac). but
conversations would al so be c1H:rypted . Forgott en. apparc ntl y. was
the fact that the wire less industry had the capabilit y to irn..:orporate
encrypt ion into their analog systcms. but c ho~e nol Ill.
Nonetheless. new encod ing tec hniqu e~ had been pcrfcctcd 0\ er
the past couple of decade; . and military-stren gth encryption \\'a' not
only possible. bu! was being ll~Cd by thOll"llld' of pcoplc O il the
Internet th rough such software programs as Prell)' Good Pri vacy
(PGP). Herc was a chance for cel lular telephone u ser~ to ha ve real
securi ty from hoth the casual cavcsdroppe r and rogue go1crn111c111
snoops.
I Cryptography as Munitions

What is not we ll known in thi s country is that cryp!Ograph ic

algorithms - the procedures that describe how to ~cramblc me,\ages
- arc con,idcred weapons of \\'ar and ~ubjccl to export re~t r ic1 i o11'
under the same: arms trafficking laws that control bomb~ and guided
mi ss iles. Responsibil ity fo r those laws, termcd lnternati 1>nal Trallic
in Arms Rcgula1i ons (!TAR). was recentl y transferred frn111 the
Depart111ent of State to the Depa rtment of Cnmmercc. hut any
cryptographic method that i, , urticie ntl y strong toeo111pletd~ prote<.:1
information is still denied an export permit. S y~t..: m; that can ea~i l y
be broken. however. are fr..:e from such rcs lri ct i on~ . The so fl warc
program Pretty Good Pri vacy is strong enough that thc author. Phil
Zimmermann. was under Fcderal Grand Jury inve~ ti gar i on for Yiolat ing IT AR by making PGP a\ailable on the l111ernet.

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Dc~pile the wide~pread avai labi li ty of equall y -;trnng. somctimcs

identical cryptograph ic \)'ste1m in othe r countrie'. clements of 1he
Unitcd Slate' goYc rnmc nt a~ \\cl! a' the Clin ton Adniini~t ration
continue lo in,is1 I hat cllccti ve. 'ecurc ,ystem~ not bc exported. Thei r
staled reason is protect ion of nationa l security . but !he po licy has had
a chi ll ing ctlect on computer soflwa re and hard\\'arc manufactu r\:r,.
\\'ho cannot afford to de\ clop two prod ucb - one for export and onc
for do111 e~ 1i c use - and ha,e been forced 10 produce on ly the weaker.
cxportablc version. Scvcral bilb in ( \uigress Lhi ' se,~io n arc designed
to loo,e n !TAR. but similar effort~ in past years have been <lcfcatcd
by a coalition of domestic la\\' enforcement and national security

agcnc 1c'\.

\Vh,n the Tc lcco mmunicatil >n' lndu,try A''oc iation 1TIA). an

imlepcnden1 'tanclard~ -,et ting bnd) . 'Cl up a ,ubcom111i11ee to dc,clop and propo~e an indu,try- wide ' Landard for using encrypt ion in
digi ta l ccllu lar systems. they were warned by the National Security
Agency (NSA) !hat if they came up with SOlllct hing that was ton
effect i' e in protec1ing ee llular n1ice tra tlic they \\'ould he barred from
exporting it. Since equipment manufacturer' arc no more willing 10
dcvclop two product' - one for domestic use and one for export 1ha11 arc computer u1 111panics. thc T l;\ subcomni ittee ~cttlccl on a 'cl
of weak algorithms that would pa" NSA rc\' icw. There is sti ll debate
"' to whether the NSA actual!~ prop1bcd the 'Y'tcm or mere!~
appnncd it. but the end result i' Lhal thc orticial. ind u, try-wide
encryption standard \\'a' 'erim1'1y 1\cakenecl. n~ te n~i h l y because of
arms regulations.
I Cellular Authentication And Voice Encryption

Whal the subco111111ittee finally re lca,ed. with no public rn ie \\'

and '' ri ngcnt ITi\R and copyri ght warnings. i' a ~c t nr algori1h111s they
1er111cd Cellular Authcmication and Voice Encryption (CA VE). /\~
relca,ed. CA VE per forlll~ three main fun ction,. Thc first. authentica1io11. a~'u re' the ccl lu lar 'Y'tcm that a phone rcquc,ting service is. in
fac1. a lega l >ub,cribcr. A~ dc>cribcd in a pre,inu' colum n (see PCS
rront Line. Januar) 1997 ). o lder analog ~) ~tc1m arc 'trl nerablc 111
fra ud from 'cloned .. phones using 'h>lc n ES1 'and MI Ns. The new
srlc lll i"ues cha Ilenge lllllll ber' tu phones req Ul'~I ing '>l'l"Vice. wh ic h
arc 1ra11'for111cd t1' ing !he CA VE al gorithm and ,crified by the mobilc
"1 itchin~ center<~ ISCJ. Due to 'lrong indw.tr~ intcrc't in rcJ ucing
high frau d los' ralc' and a lad. of intere't front the NSA. this portion
of !he ' landard i' rclal i\ely Sl'Clll'l".
The second usc of CA VE is to generate a se t ofcnde numbers uscd
to protect control channel in forma ti on. including dia led keypad
digit'. :\n~ m1111hcr' cntered <>n the phone, kc) pad arc encrypted
u~in g the Ce llul ar~ k'~age Enn) pt1on Algorithm ( C\11 EA) with code
nur nhen, from C /\VE. T hi ' cnco111pas,es all telephone number,.
Pcr,onal ldcntificalion \Jum hcr (P IN) code,. credi t card. and othe r
number' the t"er may enter.
Thc third application generatc' l\\ o ,Cb of numbcr~ that arc u ~ed
to .. ma,i.. the digiti1cd forward and re,erse \'Oicc cha nnels. As early

as 1992 this mcthotl Wa!> known to be cryptographical ly weak anti could be compromised with commerciall y avai lable computing equipment and cu~ t om
code-breaking software. As one cryptographer ha~ put
it. /\ny cou nt y sheriff with the right PC-based black
box will be able to monitor you r cellular conversati on~.

Digital Audio
Radio
via satellite

CAVE is Broken

The inev itable fin all y happcned. On March 20th of

this year. Counterpane Sy~ tcms - a consulting company run by cryptographer and author of the popu lar
hook Applied Cryptugmphy Bruce Schncicr. anti
Univer~ity of California at Berkeley graduate student
David Wagner - announced they had cracked the
CDAudio~A
Cellu lar Message Encryption Algori thm (CMEAJ. In
their draft report Cnpta11alysis of the Cellular Mes- -~14h-1'Wfm
Subscriber
sage F.11cryp1io11 Alw1ri1h111. they revealed scvcrnl
Weather Audio
weak nesses and proposed an attack that can be carried
out o n currcntl y-a vailab lc computers in a matter of
minutes. or at most. hours. Using their methods an
eavesdropper could easi ly rccord all the keypad entric~ from a targeted cell phone user and crack the
n11.::,,sages at some later time.
rad io is familiar with the problem of finding a decent radio station in
Rather than calling for ~lro nge r encryption or a change in the
each town they pass. A service that may he lp allev iate that problem
export regulations. the CTIA downplayed the break and called for yet
passed another hurd le on April 2 when the FCC completed the auction
more laws to make it .. illegal to manufacture or modify a device which
for two digital audio radio service by sate llite (satell ite OARS)
i~ designed to perpetrate the illegal interception of PCS calls: What
licenses. raising more than $ 173 million after 25 rounds. En visioned
they don t see m to under~tand is that more l aw~ wi 11 not stop
as a nati onwide. CD-quality audio service. satellite OARS promises
eavesdroppers. but strong cryptography will.
to pro\ide a variety of mu~ic and news programming for long distance
motorists and residents of re mote areas.
PCS Financial Difficulties
The FCC had originally planned to auction 50 MHz of space
Things are not going so well for the FCC. e ither. After issuing
between 23 10 and 2360 MHz (S -Ba nd ) for OARS. but legislation
pre~~ rclcasc after press release about how much money their auctions
from Congress required the FCC to auction much of that space under
were generating. at the end of March they tempornrily suspended the
what has been termed Wi reless Communication Services (WCS).
collection of installment payments on broadband PCS licenses aucTwent y-five MHz of space remained. and was split in to two licenses.
ti oned off last year.
EBNOO I at 2320 to 23 32.5 anti EBN002 at 2332.5 to 2345. Each 12.5
Under the auction rules. the highest bidder for each license \Vas
MHz-wide license is expec ted to carry an ywhere from 19 to more than
required to make an initial downpayment of I 0 perce nt and pay the
40 digital channels. each of wh ich could carry CD-quality sound.
rc~t in installments over time. Several PCS winners arc experiencing
new:-.. emergency information. or even voiccmail and alphanumeric
financial diffi cul ties and are unable to make payments. and at least one
paging messages.
winner. Pocket Communication:-.. Inc., of Washington. D.C.. has filed
Satellite CD Radi o. Inc .. bid more than $83 million for one license
fo r Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Pocket owes the FCC about$ I billion for
and Ameri can Mob il e Radio Corporation has promised to pay almost
thei r PCS licenses. and has additional liabilities of more than half a
$90 million for the other. The FCC report and order dclining the
bi lli on do ll ar~. but ha~ as~et~ of only S I billion.
service gives each licensee a year to build thei r satelli te~. four years
As more PCS auction winn1.:r~ face the cost~ of building out thei r
to launc h. and six years to put their systems into operation. Each
networks and paying for thei r lic1.: nscs. the FCC may find it difficult
li ccn~c is good for eight years. and starts from the time the system
to collect all they expect.
begins providing serv ice.
As has become standard policy. the FCC has dec li ned to specify
Digital Audio Radio Service
a particular modulation sc heme or c hannel structure. preferring
instead to let pri vate industry develop standards independently.
Anyone who has dri ven long distances and likes to listen to the
Market forces are expected to dri ve the two licensees to reach a
common format. allowin g c4uipment manufacturers to build conOARS SATELLITE WINNERS
sumer equipment that works with either service provider.
That" s all for th is month. and as usual more information is
FREQUENCY RANGE
a\'ailahlc on the World Wide Web at http://www.grovc.neU-dan.
EBNOOl
Satellite CD Rodia, Inc.
2320 MHz ta 2332.5 MHz
and r m reachable via e-mail at dan @decode.com. Until next month.
EBN002 American Mobile Rodia Carp. 2332.5 MHz ta 2345 MHz
happy monitoring'

June 1997

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The World Above 30 MHz

Richard Barnett
[email protected]

Scanning on the Road

ith the summer season upon us, it' s time to revi ew some
basics about mobile scanning equipment options. While
many of us have scanners pe rmane ntl y mounted in our cars
or trucks and mobile scan all year long, others only take their scanner
out of their home in the summe r months in advance of a long drive.
For years, the mobile scanner of choice for the "professional
hobbyist" has been the Bearcat 760. The '760. which is still available,
is a low-profi le unit at approximately 1.5 inch high by 6 inches wide,
making it perfec t for mobile installations. (The only thing better
would be a model with a remote .. head" li ke you find on some
professional two-way and amateur radio gear. The '760 is approximately 7 inches deep.) Another important benefit of the radio is in it s
simple user-interface, so important in a mobile e nvironment. There is
something much more special about thi s radio, though.
The BC-760 was the first scanner to provide continuous tone
coded squelch system (CTCSS) tone-decoding capability. This was a
monumental breakthrough. Even though the '760 was a doubleconversion rece iver, this ability meant a user could greatly reduce a
variety of interference by programming a frequency along with a
CTCSS tone. We don't want to get into a full -blown di scussion of how
CTCSS works, but the feature also allows diffe rent nearby agencies
to share a radio frequency without heari ng one another, by operating
with unique tones. Thus. hobbyists, besides being able to limit
interference with the tone board, could also make a distinction of
which agency they monitored on a particular frequency.
From a historical pe rspective, we have the folks at Scanner World
in Albany, New York, to thank for the design of the optional CTCSS
tone boards. The original boards were made for the Bearcat BC600XLT-a Scanner World "OEM" (original equipment manufac-

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turer) product from Uniden-in 1985 or '86. Uniden actually did not
have the ir own CTCSS capable radio for several years after that. The
boards were then offered through Scanner World in the 950XLT and
laterthe 590XLT (both '760 look-alikes). Finally, the Bearcat 760XLTs
were produced wi th the tone-board sockets and sold through all
Uniden distributors.
The '760 unquestionably remains a desirable radio, although it
has become a bit dated. Trunktracking, computer-download capability, alpha-numeric di splays, the digital version ofCTCSS (DCS), and
other valuable features must now become part of the mobi le scanning
lexicon. RELM displayed a mock-up of a mobile scanner at the
January ' 97 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas which contained some of the afore mentioned features. (At the time of this
writing, the radio was not yet on the market). Radio Shack has offered
variants of the '760, but they have yet to offer a mobile world-beater,
either.
While the Uniden BearTracker BCT-7 has been one of the most
popular mobi le scanners ever. it does cater more to the general
motoring public and trucking professionals than to the most serious
hobbyists who desire a straightforward keypad for frequency entry.
(The BCT-7 requires the user to select a " band" and then scroll up or
down to home in on a frequency.) For those traveling from one state
into another who would rather not continuously reprogram a radio,
the pre-programmed BCT-7 is a worthwhile choice.
Another mobile scanner of note was the Uniden MR-8 100 which
was originall y des igned for use by the California Highway Patrol.
This scanner represented a significant advancement with the advent
of perhaps the first alpha-numeric display and one of the first
computer-interfaces. The radio, now o ut of production for many
years, is highly prized for its unique ness. The scanner s uffered
terribly fro m intermod. Had it offered CTCSS capability, it might still
be on the market.
Regency had some interesting base/mobile scanners some I 0-15
years ago, all of which had excellent sensitivity. Those units, of
course, are long gone.
Getting back to what this author has called the " professional
hobbyi st'' - the scanner aficionado who truly unde rstands and

The U11ide11 Bearcat BC-760,for years a choice mobile scanner.

point.
We ' re not here to provide you with a winter weather report,
though, particulary when you' re probably reading this in 85-degree
heat. What is important to remember is that winter scanning is a
pote nti al any time from October through April in the northern half of
the nation. Here are some scanning lessons this author took away from
the most recent storm:

The Bearcat BCT-7, pre-programmed and popular.

appreciates the equipment - there is one other aven ue down which
many of us have traveled: two-way radio. This trend is also becoming
more prevalent among the news media.
Photographe rs and videographers, who are out all day and night
in search of stories, have relied on scanners since their inception. It is
through scanner monitoring that many important stories are originally discovered and told. With the immense proliferation in radio
communications of all forms - two-way, paging, cellular, and the
like - interference, especially in a downtown area, has become an
insidious beast. Therefore, professional two-way radio equipme nt or
ham radio gear with wide-band receivers is becoming an attractive
option for news-gathering operations, even when operated in the
receive-only mode.
This equipment offers CTCSS and DCS capability, alphanumeric
displays, and more, although the commercial equipment generally
can only be programmed by a computer and there is no direct keypad
frequency control. This communications gear generally is VHF
(high-band) or UHF only, but that has been changing over the last few
years, most noticeably on the amateur s ide. Finally, these radios,
while still expensive, have been coming down in price.
If you do consider purchasing such equipment, remember that you
cannot transmit unless you hold a valid license. To keep you from ever
being tempted, or from accidental transmi ss ion, you may want to
have transmit disabled, or at least remove the microphone from the
radio.
Still, don't give up on scanners just yet. Manufacturers a re now
designing some intriguing new models that should swing the pendulum boldly back in their favor. In response to one of our recent
columns, we've received many terrific ideas for features our readers
would like to see in future scanners. Please send in your thoughts on
what the ultimate mobile scanner would look like and we'll see if
these manufacturers ultimately satisfy our on-the-road monitoring
desires.
Now, fora complete 180, let 's switch back from summerto winter
for a moment.. ..

A) Ice and snow build-up on antennas, particularly beams, is deadly

for monitoring. Just at the time I wanted most to listen to Boston's
Logan Airport on their 800 MHz system, the characteristics of my
800 MHz yagi's performance were knocked completely out-ofwhack by the ice. Thi s same effect is felt by hams whose SWR is
thrown for a loop at 20 meters - or actually on any band. Does
anyone have any thoughts on how to rectify this situation, short of
waiting for a thaw? Perhaps a tower-mounted heating system? !
B) Be prepared! At all times have a list of your favorite/most
interesti ng frequencies on-hand for storm monitoring. So often we
kick ourselves a day after a storm for not remembering to monitor
the local ham repeater or, perhaps, the state emergency management agency. A computer-based list of channels for storm scanning is a great way to go, particularly if you can annotate your list
with comments for future storms.
For those lucky e nough to have a computer-controllable
scanner, these computer-based lists should be ready to instantly
download as soon as the first flakes of snow are about to fly (or
outer-bands of showers hit from an oncoming tropical storm).
Also, do not forget to have your standard scanner channel plan
ready to re-enter once conditions are back to normal.
C) In a storm of any magnitude, particularly a blizzard, conditions may
actually not be back to normal for quite some time. Snow removal
can goon for days. As this article is being written, themidwest is still
suffering from the effects of a nasty winter followed by spring thaw
which have resulted in dangerous fl oodi ng. National Guard channels
are especially interesting at these times.

D) Whatever you do, don't forget to monitor the local highway

departments during a storm . Not only are these folks informative
(they usually have better information on street conditions than the
police), they are usually a riot to listen to.
The other group that provides fascinating monitoring is the
local electric power company. Details on power line repairs and
arcing wires really offer great - even educational - listening.
How many of you know where your "underslung" is?

~~~~A~merica's#l Scanning Magazine is

National
Scanning
Report

Winter Scanning Wraf>Up

We thought we already covered end-of-winter monitoring and the
check-up that is essential for post-snow and ice build-up on your
outside antennas, but alas, winter provided us with a late-season nasty
surprise here in the northeast. In an arc from western New Jersey
through southern New England, an April Fool's day blizzard was
certainly no joke. Between two and three feet of snow fell in the
Boston area, which had had a relatively snow-free winter up until that

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almo~t

I Frequency Updates
weve been a bit lax lately on publishing frequency lists. We
actually haven't received al l that man y. but hcrc s an interesting li st
from Kenneth Payne or Georgia that will hopefull y spark further
reader submissions:
'"Of all the eleven monthly 111aga1.i ncs 1 rec:cive. yours is my very
favorite. The onl y thing that 1wish you d add i~ more frequencies in both the Scanning Report and Federal Files. Georgia is also
overlooked quite a bit. so I have gone to the trouble of getting you

every Northeast Georgia Public Safety frequency and would

reall y apprec iate it if you could get them published. Even the new
changes to police frequencies have been incl uded.
.. I visit Blairsville qui te often, since I have just qualified to seek the
Georgia State Senate s 50th District seat, which covers Stephens,
Habersham, Rabun, Towns, Uni on, Dawson, Lumpkin and White
cou nties. and the next time I'm in the area, 1am coming on up to visit
Bra~stow n. Keep up the good job."
Those of you who have meant to send in acti ve freque ncies from
your area. but haven't - you know who you are! Let's hear from you
next time.

Northeast Georgia Monitoring

~
Stephens Co. Sheriff's repeoter
Stephens Co. Sheriff tolkaround
Stephens Co. Sheriff MRD
State corto-cor
State cor-tobose
Toccoa Police Def.I. repeoter
Toccoa Police tol around
Stephens County Ambulance
Stephens Co. Emerg. Mgmnl. Agency
Mutuol Aid
Georgia State Patrol - Toccoa
Georgia State Patrol - Metro
GA Dept. of Not. Res./Gome Worden
Georgia Forestry Toccoo
Georgia Forestry - air-to-ground
Geor~o Bureou of Investigation
GBt cc 1
GBI -Toe 2
FBI GA - Toe 1
FBI - GA Toe 2
FBI GA Toe 3
Habersham Co. Sheriff
Habersham Co. Sheriff 2
Habersham MRD
Banks Co. Sheriff
Franklin Co. Sheriff
Hort Co. Sheriff
Borrow Co. Sheriff
Dawson Co. Sheriff
Hall Co. Sheriff
Madison Co. Sheriff
Elbert Co. Sheriff
Jackson Co. Sheriff
Jackson Co. Sheriff
Rabun Co. Sheriff
Banks Co. Sheriff - repeater
Banks Co. E.M.S.
Franklin Co. Sheriff - repeater
Franklin Co. - aid MRD
Franklin Co. Fire
Lavonia Police Fire
Roxston Police Dept.
Old police department
Royston Fire
Hort Co. Sheriff - repeoter
Hartwell Police Dept.
Hartwell City - utilities
Hartwell City - Fire
Hort Co. E.M.S.
Elbert Co. Sheriff - relfter
Anderson, SC - Sheri
Hort Co. - jail
CorP. of Engineers
Franklin Co. E.M.S.
Georgia Forest[)' Commission
Madison Co. Sheriff
Barrow Co. Sheriff
Holl Co. Sheriff
Athens - Clarke Co. Police Dept.
Jackson Co. Sheriff
Jackson Co. E.M.S.
Jackson Co. Fire
Cornelio Police Dept.
Baldwin Police Dept.
Stole Prison
Civil Air Patrol
George Forestry Airplane

RX

IX

12.M

AslliY.

RX

158.850
155.790
155.520
154.905
154.905
154.755
155.475
155.400
155.940
154.280
154.800
155.910
31.100
159. 120
159.285
151.205
155.505
155.550
163.600
166.5375
172.800
155.190
155.790
155.595
151.130
154.995
156.210
155.430
158.790
154.725
155.430
158.730
155.670
155.490
155. 130
151.130
155.400
154.995
155.520
154.370
155.145
158.730
155.700
158.805
156.210
159.635
155.100
154.415
155.340
158.730
155.415
158.400
163.4375
156.180
159.390
155.430
155.010
154.725
154.830
155.670
155.295
154.220
156. 105
153.860
153.740
1'18. 150
159.285

156.090
155.790
155.520
154.905
154.935
155.970
155.475
155.400
153.920
154.280
154.800
155.910
31.100
151 .370
159.285

127.3

U.S. Forest Service

Towns - Union Co. Sheriff
Habersham E.MA
Clarkesville Fire Dept.
Baldwin Fire Dept.
Habersham E.MA
Cornelio - local ~overnment
Habersham Co. heriff
Banks Co. Fire
Clarkesville Police Dept.
Baldwin Police Dept.
Jefferson Police Dept.
Jackson Community r rter
OglethoCe Co. Sheri
Jackson o. - Special Operations
Jackson Co. tactical 1
Jackson Co. tactical 2
Jackson Co. tactical 3
Jackson Co. - tactical 4
Jackson Co. - Body Bug
Jackson Co. K-9 dogs
Jackson Co. Corrections Inst.
GBI 2 (Georgia Bureou of lnvestigotionl
GBl-7
GBI - NE Georgia
GBI red bug
GBI white bug
GBI ATL Court Int. Div.?
State Prison
GA Air Notional Guard
GA Air Notional Guard
Barron Fire 400
Barron Toe 1
Barron - Toe 2
Barron - Toe 4
Barron Bug
Corp. RBR
RBR Main
U.S. Forest
U.S. FS LE
U.S. FS 4
U.S. FS 5th
Notional Park
FBI Braselton
FBI Braselton
FBI Braselton
White Co. Fire
White Co. Fire Command
State Fire Mutual Aid
White Co. MRD
White Co. E.M.S.
White Co. Seorch and Rescue
Lumpkin Co. Fire
Hall Co. Fire
Habersham Fire
Unicoi State Pork
Arcade Police De~t.
Rabun Mountain atral
Stodom Winder repeater
Stodam - Winder

168.775
154.815
155.265
156.165
154.385
155.310
153.755
155.595
154.325
155.070
153.860
159.615
153.605
155.685
154.600
155.460
156.000
156.030
156.250
156.075
154.570
151.625
155.505
154.815
151.205
154.695
167.200
158.970
153.740
148.800
149.775
154.430
154.175
154.415
155.325
155.370
163.4375
163.415
168.775
169.900
168.200
166.675
166.300
163.600
166.5375
172.800
155.715
155.835
154.280
155.595
155.265
154.295
154.445
154.340
156.165
155.895
159.615
154.515
153.605
154.100
151.415
155.085
154.860
154.740
159. 150
158.730

127.3
127.3
85.4

131.8

Borrow - communications

Borrow simplex
Univ. of GA - police dept.
Dowson Co.
Holl Co. repeater
Clayton
Submitted by Kenneth Payne

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164.200
163.415
168. 175
164.825
166.900

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DXing the Radio Basement

his month's DeMaw's Workshop got me thinking about one o f

my favorite utility bands-the basement frequencies down
be low 200 kHz.
W hile I have had some success over the years in the 0-200 k Hz
freq uency range. it wasn ' t until we moved in to the cou ntryside that I
was able to exploit moni toring activ ity here to its fulles t. In this
month s Utilitr World co lumn we will take a look at some of the radio
systems (man made and natural) transmitting in radio s basement.

I Music of the Earth

One of the more fasci nating activities to lis ten to in the basement
band is natural radio. With an inexpensive ELF/VLF (extremely low
frequency/very low frequency) receiver, a wide range of nat ural radio
sounds can be heard. T he frequency range fo r natural radio receptio n
runs fro m 200 Hz to 10 kHz.
As you read in this month's cover sto ry, lightning storms, Eart h's
mag netic -fi eld (the Magnetosphe re), and the Aurora Bo realis and
A ustrali s (Northern and So uthe rn Lights) all produce an amaz ing
vari ety o f electromag netic "'sou nds.' Sferics ( li ghtning-s troke static),
twee ks . whist lers o f cou ntless variety, the inc red ible "cho rus .. (chirping. bark in g. and squawking radio "'sounds'' produced by the S un 's
solar wind hi tting Earth's magnetic field) . various kinds of "hi ss."'
bizarre "' wavering-tune"' emissio ns. and an endless variety of fasc inating radio emissions can be heard in thi s spectrum.
For more information o n natural radio. see DXing the Planet Earth
in the October 1992 Mon itoring Tim es. As the autho r of that piece. I
can rightfull y say. you really o ught to give natural radio listening a try .
lt is unlike any radio you have ever heard before.

I The Navy's ELF Communication System

The ELF frequency range is c rit icall y important to the Navy
becau se of its value in prov iding a way to communi cate with submerged submarines. As a res ult of the high electric al conducti vity of
sea water. signal s arc attenuated rapidly as they propagate downward
through it. In e ffect. the sea water " hides" the su bmarine from
detection w hile si multaneous ly preventing it from communicating
w ith the outs ide world th rough norma l radio transmissions.
The degree to which a signal is atte nuated depends on its freque ncy. however. The lower the frequency. the more deeply a sig na l
can be received in sea water. In order to receive conventional radio
transmissions a submarine must travel at slow s peeds and be near the
s urface of the water. Both o f the se situations make a s ubmarine more
s uscepti ble to c;:nemy detect io n. Frequencies in the ELF range. however. can be recei ved considerably deeper. and broadcasts using thi s
mode provide a primary link between the nation' s cummancler-inchief and the submarine force.
One of the great d ifficulti es associated with the use o f EL F fo r
communi cati o n pu rposes. is the problem o f generating a uscfu I signa l.
T he physical s ize of an antenna th at can produce a usab le signal with

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reasonable efllci ency is in versely proport iona l tu the frequency. For

exampl e, an antenna use ful for cellular telepho ne frequenc ies need
on ly be severa l inche s lo ng to be com ple te ly effecti ve. At ELF, o n the
ot her hand, a reasonably effic ien t a ntenna must be qu ite large.
The ELF system. wh ich became operational in 1989, uses two
transmitting antennas, o ne in Clam Lake. Wiscons in. and one in
Republic. Michigan. T he two si tes must operate simultaneously to
meet worldwide coverage requi re ments.
Each amenna looks like a power li ne, mounted o n wood en poles.
The Wisconsin antenna consists o f two lines. each about 14 mi les long.
The Michigan antenna uses three lines, two about 14 m iles long and
o ne abou t 28 miles long. Each site has a transmitter bu ilding near the
antenna. The transm itter faci lity in M ichigan uses about six acres of
land and the o ne in Wi scons in abo ut two acres. The operat ing freque ncies are 44 and 76 H z.

I Alpha and Omega

The U nited States and Russia both operate navigation radio syste ms in the I 0-15 kHz area. The Russian systems is know n as "Alpha"
and was modeled a fte r the United States system k nown as "Omega."
Omega was initiall y deve loped hy the Department o f Defense and
like ma ny old er navigatio n systems is bei ng phased out in favo r of the
sate ll ite-based g lobal position ing system or GPS . Omega's navigation
system is officially set fo r terminat ion on September 30. 1997. Natu ral
radio li steners will reall y appreci ate getti ng rid of these powerful
manmade radio signals that interfere with sferics reception in this
portion of the radio spectrum.
Li sten for Russian A lpha signals on 11.9. 12.6. and 14.8 kHz. The
U.S. Omega system can be heard o n I 0.2. 11.05, 11.33, 11.55, 11.8,
12.85, 13.1. and 13.6 k Hz. The two U.S. s tation s that are part of the
international omega network are located in Hai ku, Hawai i, and Lamoure.
North Dakota.

I Navy/Air Force Strategic Communications

The spectrum from 15 to 100 k Hz is do minated by U.S Navy
strategic submarine communications system and the U.S .Ai r Force
S LFCS (Survivable Low Frequency Communications System). Shorebased stations and aircraft (mi litary airborne command post) transmi tters a re utilized in thi s range. T he predominan t mode used by the
m ili tary in thi s range is MS K (M ulti-Shi ft Keying).
Table I is a list of U .S. Navy VLF stations. call signs. and frequenc ies that are known to o perate in this portion of the spectrum.
The U.S. Air Force a lso has a strategic communications system in
the 15- 100 k Hz range . lt is called the survivab le low frequency
communications system or SLFCS. The SLFCS system is capable of
transmitting and/or receiving secure. low data rate messages during
p re-. trans-. and post-attac k nuc lear scenarios. The S LFCS provides
connectiv ity be tween an airborne command post and military ground
stat ions.

Silver Creek, Nebrosko (SLFCS ground stotion)

Notional Airborne Operating Centers (NAOC) oircrott
Airborne Notional Commond Post (ABNCP) oircroft

48.5 kHz
52 I kHz
52 9 kHz

The U.S. Arm~ ha' an intere,ting 'tatiun at the Alternate ;-.;a1iunal

Military Command Ce n1cr (AN1'1CC) al Ft. Richie. Marylaml. which
operales on 58.7 kH1. Th i, !>lation is al so u' ed to communicale with
/\ BNCP ai rcraft.

TABLE I: US Navy VLF Stations

NAACutler, Moine
NAMNorfolk, Virginie
NAUAguodo, Puerto Rico
NLKJim Creek, Washington
NPGDixon, California

Frequencies kHz
14. l
14.7
18.0
18.2
19.8
21.4
25.3
26.l
40.75 47.45
57.9
58.3

NPLSon Diego, California

NPNBorrigodo, Guam
NPM-Luoluolei, Hawaii
NSS-Annopolis, Maryland
NUDAdak, Alaska

Ot her VI .F ti me signal slat ions from around the worl d include:

OMA

Czech Republic
France
Germany
Switzerland
Grcol Britain

DCF77
HBG
MSF

50 kHz
162 kHz
77.5 kHz
75 kHz
60 kHz

It has hcen reported th at the Russ ians have several time standard
stations in radi os basement at 20.5. 23.0. 25.0. 25.1. 50.0, and 66.6
kl-l z.

I GWEN

14.8
18.4
22. l
26.4
51.6

15.3
18.5
22.3
26.8
53.0

15.5
18.6
23.4
27.5
53.35

15.7
18.8
24.0
28.5
54.0

16.6
19.0
24.8
30.6
54.05

17.8
19.4
25.0
32.9
55.5

TACAMO (E6) aircraft

17.0
18.0
21.0
22.9
23. l
23.0
29.0

22.0
24.0

22.5
25.0

22.6
26.1

22.7
27.0

22.8
28.0

LORAN<

T une around 100 kl-11. am] you cant miss the data sig1wls be in g
tran smi tted by the worldwide LO RAN -C navigation network.
Lora n-C is a low frequency. pu l,cd. hyperbo lic radio aid 10
navigation system. \\ hi ch operate' in the lJO to I I 0 kH1. frequency
band. Although pri111aril) u'cd for na\igation. Loran-C tran, mi,,ion'
arc al'o u'ed for precise ti me dis,cmination and freq uency rckn.:ncc
purposes.
Lora n-C was deve loped to provide the DOD a radio navigation
capability with longer ra nge and much greater accuracy than it'
predecc"or. Loran-A. Luran-C is the federally provided radio navigation ')''!em for civ il marine u-.e in L;.S.coa,tal \\atcr,. The U.S. Coa't
Guard i' respon,iblc for operating the ') ' tem in the U.S.
The na\ igati on 'Y' tem con'i'ts of transmi11ing :-tat ion' arranged in
groups fo rm ing chains. /\ t least three tran,mitting station' make up a
chai n. One transmi tting stat ion is dc, ignatcd master wh ih.: alI o th e r~ arc
called s..:co ncla ri cs . Chain coverage is de term ined by each ~ t ation s
tran smitted power. the di stance between maste r and secondary station,. and the geontctri<.: arran ge ment between ' tations within the
chain.
The Loran-( navigation syste m is curn.:nt I) 'chedul ed for ter111i nation in the year 2000 as stated in the IlJlJ4 Federal Radi n Navigation
Plan (FR P). The like ly termi nation date j, 3 1 December '.:WOO.

Time Signals on lowbands

Mo, t utility enthu , ia,1' arc fa miliar\\ ith the co n ~tant ti 111c ticb
fro m HF radio ~ ta t ion " u c h a~ WWV-Ft. Col lin, . Colorado ( 2.5 . 5. I0.
15. and 20 Ml-l z). WWV I 1-Kehaha. Hawa ii (2.5. 5. 10. and I:'i Ml I!.).
and Canadian time standard station Cl IU-Ottawa (3.:n . 7.T~:'i. and
14.(170 MHz). But low band ute moni tors abo have their own , ta t io n'
to monitor.
111 th<.: U.S .. the l\ational Bureau 11f Standards and Tech111>log)
(which ru ns WWV and W\VV H) ha s a VLF time siandard ' tatron
WWVB at 60 kH1..

Pu1 yo urse lf at ground zero duri ng a nuclear blast. As the mushroom c loud rises, electromagnetic pulses (EM P) rise up to the ionosphere. It is theorized that th is would be enough lo completely d isrupt
high frc4 uency (I-I F) communications. and render strategic I-IF communications with major mil itary com mand centers useless.
To compensate fo r that eventuality. the De partment of Defense
<DoD) dc\eloped the GWEN (Ground Wave Emergency Network)
'yste111. Si nce the end of the Cold War and quite a bit of unfavorable
publicit y in the U.S. media. this system has been scaled back a great
deal from DolYs original plans.
The GWEN system st i IIex ists and provides survivable con necti vity tu tl<.:~ i gnate<l U.S. Air For<.:e bomberand tanker bases. Each station
typically runs 5-kW into a 299-foot antenna. Each station uses a
wideband packet signal wit h pu lses (encrypted) to pass on informati on to the nex t relay site. The packet signal has been reported to be a
1200 haud/800 hertz sh ift signal.
There are supposed to be twen ty channels assig ned to the system.
hut channe ls 2 ( 15 1.875) and 12 ( 164.375) do not appear to have any
~ tal io n' currently assig ned.
Table 11 is the latest li ~ t of 18 fre4uencies and the 57 stations in the
GWEN network.
I hope you have enjoyed th i' bri ef tour of radio's basement. A
co mple te listing of the acti vity that is available in the land below 200
kl 11 i' beyond the scope of what can be presented in thi s column. A
more complete list oflow band stations can be fo und in the 8th edition
of the li11h Gn11e's Slwmmre Directory available from Grove
Enterpri se,.
Now it is time to sec what you ha ve been hearing this month in the
U1ili1r World.

TABLE II: Ground Wave Emergency Network

liq

Ch.

150.625
153.125
154.375
155.625
156.875
158.125
159.375
160.625

3
4

5
6
7
8
9

161.875
163. t25

10
II

165.625

t3

166.875
168.125
169.375
170.625
171.875
173.125
174.375

14

15
16
17
18
19
20

GWEN sites
Macon, GA; Bobo, MS; Hudson Foils, NY; Kensington, SC; and
Spokane, WA
Norfolk, VA
Hockleburg, AL; Fenner! CA; Iowa City, IA; and Medora, ND
North Amherst, MA; Bil ings, MT; and Waterford , NJ
Onondaga, Ml and Bend, OR
Grady, AL; Denver, CO; Acushnet, MA; a nd Egg Harbor, NJ
Canion, OK; Gettysburg, PA; and Goldvein, VA
Edinburg, ND; Albuquerque, NM; Elmira, NY; Wenatchee, WA;
and MilWoukee, WI
Walnut Grove, CA
Aurora, CO; St. Mary's, IA; Annapolis, MD; Klamath Foils, OR;
Erie, PA; and Appleton, WA
Fayetteville, AR; Chico, CA; Pueblo Ordnance Depot, CO; Ainsworth,
NE; and Remsen, NY
Bakersfield, CA, and South Brooksville, ME
Manarda, ME
Pueblo, CO; Sovonnoh Beach, GA; a nd Clark, SD
Baltimore, MD and Devils Lake, ND
Flogstaff, AZ; Grcol Falls, MT; Hawk Run, PA; and Summerfield, TX
Topeka, KS; Ronan, MT; Bcoufart, NC; and Tiverton, RI
Gaodlond, KS, a nd Omaha, NE

June 1997

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A bbrev ia tio ns used in this colu mn
Abbreviations used in this column
AM
Amplitude Modulation
ANDVT
Advanced Narrowband
Digital Voice Terminal
ARO
Synchronous transmission
and automatic repetition
teleprinter system
ARO-E
Single channel ARO
teleprinter system
ARO E3
Single channel ARO ITA3
teleprinter system
AROM2 Multiplex ARO teleprinter
system with 2 or 4 data
channels
ASECNA Agence pour la Securite de
la Navigation Aerienne en
Afrique et a Madagascar
CAR
Caribbean
CEP
Central East Pacific
Continuous Wave (Morse
cw
code)
Diplo
Diplomatic
Fax
Facsimile
FEC
Forward Error Correction
One-way traffic FEC
FECA
teleprinter system
GHFS
Global HF System
HF
High Frequency
ID
Identification
LDOC
Long Distance Operational
Control
Lower Sideband
LSB

Meteorology
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Defense
Motor Vessel
Major World Air Route
Area
North Atlantic
NAT
North Atlantic Treaty
NATO
Organization
POLARO Polish diplomatic ARO
teleprinter system
ROUFEC Romanian diplomatic FEC
teleprinter system
RTTY
Radioteletype
Special Air Mission
SAM
Search and Rescue
SAR
SITOR
Simplex teleprinting over
radio system
SITORA Simplex teleprinting over
radio system, mode A
SITOR-8 Simplex teleprinting over
radio system, mode B
SUBLANT Submarine Atlantic
SWED-ARO Adaptive Swedish
diplomatic simplex ARO
teleprinter system
Twinplex Four-frequency duplex
teleprinter system
U.S.
United States
Upper Sideband
USB
Voice Frequency
VFT
Telegraphy
wpm
Words per minute
Meteo
MFA
MOD
m/v
MWARA

4880.0
4980.5
5161.0
5350.0
5437.0
5450.0
5547.0
5550 0
5600.5
5629.0
5644.0
5692.0
5748 5
6340.0
6478 0
6628 0
6639 0

All transmi,sions are USB (upper , ith:band) unless otherwise indicated.

All frequenc ies arc in kHz(k ilohcrtz) and a ll times are UTC (Coordinated
T ime Universal )
285.0
355.0
3282.3
3413.0
4020.0
4025.0
4214 .0
4222.0
4226 0
4270 0
4294.0
4317.0
4331.0
4442.0
4480.0
4483.0
4491.5
4492.0
4574.9
4721 .0
4731.0
4745 .0

36

Pipestone Municipal Airport (Pipestone. MN) with automated weather

observations at 1527 in AM. (Terry Jones-Plankinton, SD)
Appleton Municipal Airport (Appleton, MN) with automated weather ob
servations at 1520 in AM. (Jones-SD)
CSP20Portuguese Guarda Police wit11 traffic in SITDR Bat 0000. (fernand
Vaillancourt-St. Pampl1ile, PO Canada)
New Zealand 15 working San Francisco aeradio at 0454. (Gordon LevineAnaheim. CA) Central East Pacific (CEP) MWARALar.ry.
RFFHCFA-French Forces station with practice transmission text in French
on the history of French military music using AROE 72 baud at 0050.
(Vaillancourt-PO)
3BZPlaisance Air, Mauritius. with 48 baud traffic using ARO-E3 at 0200.
(Vaillancourt-PO)
ZSC-Capetown Radio, South Africa, with SITOR-B navigation area warnings (parallel to 12601.0 and 16816 0) at 1705. (Robert Hall-Capetown,
RSA)
XSNNingbo Radio, China, with CO CW marker at 11 44. (Dix-NY)
XFM-Manzan illo Radio, Mexico, witl1 CW marker at 0434 . (Levine-CA)
Unidentified station, female repeating long series of letters phonetically at
2136. Possible Mossad. (Takashi Yamaguchi-Nagasaki. Japan) PCD2
Mossc1d has been reported l1ere-Larry.
WNU-Slidell Radio. LA. with CW marker at 0747. (Levine-CA)
ZSC -Capetown Radio, South Africa. with CW marker at 0529. (Levine-CA)
WCC-Chatham Radio. MA. with CW marker at 0510. (Levine-CA)
Air Force One working Nightwatch 01 at 0415. (Anonymous in Omaha)
Spanish female 5-digit number station in AM at various times. (Jones-SD )
R3C working M3P at 0701. (Anonymous in Omaha)
FDE14-Unidentified French Air Fo rce station with V CW marker at 0028.
(Dix-NY)
Bat 14/21 working Gunpost 8. State Line Ops and Atlas Ops at various
times. (Anonymou~ in Omatia)
V-Single letter HF marker witl1 CW Vat 0033. (Dix-NY)
Air Force One working Andrews at 0234. Some ANDVT. (Anonymous in
Omaha)
SAM 60204 with a phone patch to Red Apple Base via Andrews on F-249.
(Anonymous in Omaha)
Andrews calling Spar 99 on "47-4-5 ... No contact at 0759. (Anonymous
in Omaha)

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Unidentified station. female repeating long series of letters phonetically at

2136. Possible Mossad. (Yamaguchi-Japan) ULX2 Mossad has been
reported /1ere-Larry
Bravi Sierra working Cato 37 (some secure voice) at 0759. (Anonymous
in Omaha)
ASECNA Niamey. Niger. with meteo information on both AROM2 96 baud
cl1annels at 2345. (Vaillancourt-PO)
FED14-Undentified French Air Force station with V CW marker at 2358.
(Dix-NY)
Unidentified station. female repeating long series of letters phonetically at
2209. Possible Mossad. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Royal Air Force Volmet with aviation weather at 0131. (Anonymous in
Omaha)
Northwest 928 working Honolulu aerad io at 0628. (Levine-CA) Anot/1er
CEP MWARA family frequency-Larry.
Europa 144 working New York aeradio at 0528 and KLM 744 working New
York at 0638. (Levine-CA) T/1is is a Caribbean MWARA family frequency
(CAR-A}Larry.
6PXJUnidentifiecl CW station repeating "V ABYZ DE 6PXJ" at 1014. also
noted on 344016785. (Yamaguchi -Japan)
SYN2- lsraeli Mossad number station at 2146. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
4XML Unidentified CW station repeating "V BFR7 DE 4XML" at 2040.
Another day this station v1as heard on 5644.5 at 1046. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
U.S. Coast Guard helicopter working SAR involving the sailboat Allegro at
various times. (George MihalikStamlord , CT)
FDl8-Frencl1 Air Force Nice, France. with V CW marker at 2322. (Dix-NY)
ZLORoyal New Zealand Navy Waiouru. with CW marker at 0527. (LevineCA)
KPH -San Francisco Radio. CA, with CW marker at 0720. (Levine-CA)
KLM 744 working New York and KLM 789 working Santa Maria aerad ios at
0658. (Levine-CA) T/1is is a NAT-E MWARA frequency-Larry.
November 245 Tango Tango called Cedar Rapids LDOC. answered by
M1am1 LDOC at 0437 . (Levine-CA)
SAM 60204 with phone patch traffic via Andrews (Mystic Star). Moved to
F-807. (Anonymous in Omaha)
Steamcar workinn Boomtown at 1359. Moved to frequency Charlie Bravo.
(Anonymous in Omaha)
King 81 working Moffett Rescue at 0546. (Anonymous in Omaha)
Rescue 252 working Air Force Townsville (Royal Australian Air Force) at
0917. (Anonymous in Omalia)
SAM 29000 working Andrews at 0121. Some ANDVT. (Anonymous in
Omal1a)
SAM 5697 4 with a phone patch to SAM Command via Andrews at 0230.
{Anonymous in Omaha)
Dragnet Uniform working Big Foot at 1633. (Anonymous in Omaha)
SAM 20375 with a phone patch to Andrews via Hickam GHFS at 1015.
(Anonymous in Omaha)
VLB2-lsraeli Mossad number station heard at 2145. also noted on 8641
kHz. (Yamag uchi-Japan) Trenton military weather broadcast at 0135 on
wrong frequency The next hour I heard them back on 6754. (Anonymous
in Omaha)
Mash 55 working Brickyard at 2340. (Anonymous 1n Omaha)
Spanish female 5-digit number station in AM at 064 7. (Jones-SD)
Unidentified station transmitting 75 baud ATTY test tape at 2251. (Dix-NY)
SAM 56974 working Andrews at 2019. (Anonymous in Omaha)
Love Eagle Forward working Love Eagle Rear at 1802- t 811 . Wild Eagle 01
in com ms with Wild Eagle at 0026. "Recon" mentioned. as well as "Rhino".
Also asking if Oscar 4 Hotel is available. At 0028 Rhino is departing at this
time ......all issues are complied with. " 0029 Range Safety ..... says to wait.
they have no comms w1t11 One Battery ... 0031 Wild Eagle 01 advises Wild
Eagle that the RSO. a Capt. McCormick(?) has HF capability. Wild Eagle
asks if it is a 134 foot loop. Wild Eag le 01 replies that RSO is using a dipole
Several mentions of "Pawhaw (?)"in traffic . (Brad Clark-Lewiston, ID)
SAM 60206 with phone patch to SAM Command via Andrews at 0050.
(Anonymous in Omaha)
Unidentified station repeating "V Z6MJ DE WZ70" in chirpy CW at 1136.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
Unidentified station with 5-figure gro up CW transmissions . using
ADGIMNRTUW instead of 0-9 (don't know the exact order. if I did. that
would be cheating ... heh). Message format was the message number (in cut
format) five times. BT three times. text. then AR three times. Fist was good
for hand keyed 15 wpm. good clear DC note with a minimum of click.
Chinese Diplo (Vancouver BC to??)? Signal was extremely loud at 0200 to
be off-shore. (Clark-ID)

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4XZ-Unidentified station repeating "VVV de 4XZ" in CW at 1445.

(Yamaguchi-Japan) This is the Israeli naval radio station in Haifa-Larry.
Spanish female number station in AM at 0202. (Steve Clark-Pampa, TX)
How many characters per group Steve-Larry?
U.S. Navy Bravo Whiskey (BW) network link 11 coordination net at 2105.
(Vaillancourt-PO) Bravo Whiskey working Lima Whiskey at 0157. (Anonymous in Omaha)
SAM 60403 working Andrews at 1546. Some ANDVT. (Anonymous in
Omaha)
Female numbers station 5-figiure groups at 0045. (Jesse FinklesteinWilmington . OE) What language Jesse-Larry?
L2B/C-Argentina Naval Radio, Buenos Aires. with V CW marker at 1003.
(Dix-NY)
English female 5-digit Lincolnshire Poacher number station at 1531.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
Abnormal transmission of SYN2 Israeli Mossad number station heard at
1513. Repeating only SYN2 phonetically for more than 30 minutes.
Another day SYNOK2 heard at 1531 with heavy interference from
Lincolnshire Poacher number station (8464 kHz) . First time I have
encountered such a curious Mossad callsign. Any comments? (YamaguchiJapan) None here-Larry.
VIS-Sydney Radio, Australia, with CO CW marker at 2123. (Dix-NY)
XSO-Guangzhou Radio, China. with CW marker at 1502. (Levine-CA)
VIP-Perth Radio, Australia, with CW marker at 1456. (Levine-CA)
CBV-Valparaiso Radio, Chile. with CW marker at 0518. (Levine-CA)
VAX-Victoria Harbor Radio. Hong Kong. with CW marker at 1452. (LevineCA)
03ELuanda Radio, Angola, with CW marker at 0625. (Levine-CA)
CTPNATO Lisbon, Portugal, with CW marker at 0507. (Levine-CA)
KLB-Seattle Radio, WA, with CW marker at 1438. (Levine-CA)
HPP-Panama Radio, Panama. with CW marker at 0458. (Levine-CA)
XSW-Kaoshiung Radio, taiwan . with CW marker at 1422. (Levine-CA)
VLD2-lsraeli Mossad station heard at 1545. Also VLB2 at 2148 and ELB2
at 1346. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
KPHSan Francisco Radio , CA. with CO CW marker at 1345. (YamaguchiJapan)
SYN2-lsraeli Mossad number station heard at 1546. (Yamag uchi-Japan)
WSC-Tuckerton Radio, NJ, with CW marker at 0424. (Levine-CA)
GZTl-Unidentified CW station repeating "SAGJ DE GZTI" at 0916.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
SOB working Lajes GHFS. Azores. with a phone patch to SUBLANT (8361078) for an "Exercise Esteem Highly Alpha" at 0107. (Mr TV-UK) Look 76
with a phone patch to Raymond 21 (Offutt) via Elmendorf GHFS at 0031 .
(Anonymous in Omaha)
Chalice Bravo working CanForce Trenton military at 1615. Navy LL79 with
a phone patch to VP-30 duty office via Trenton at 0152. (Anonymous in
Omaha)
RFTJO French Forces Libreville with ARQ-E3 traffic in French to unidentifed
station at 0501 . (Hall-RSA)
P7X with 5-letter groups in VW at 2035. (Vaillancourt-PO)
SAM 56974 with a phone patch to SAM Command via Andrews at 0242 in
LSB. (Anonymous in Omaha)
VLB2-lsraeli Mossad number station heard at 1545. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
8BY-Unidentified station with V CW marker at 1842. (Dix-NY)
Unidentified station transmitting 4-digit groups in CW at 1825. (Dix-NY)
YON-Unidentified CW station repeating "V JPQ OE YON " at 1049.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
GXOBritish military with VFT 48 baud ATTY test tape at 1945. (Roger
Parmenter-Hyannis. MA)
Unidentified station transmitting 5-letter groups using SITOR-A at 1805.
(Dix-NY)
Unidentified station sending 75 baud ATTY meteocodes at 1432. (Dix-NY)
R20 working unidentified station at 2221. (Anonymous in Omaha)
SAM 60204 with a phone patch to SAM Command via Andrews at 1833.
(Anonymous 1n Omaha)
Snoop 55 (RC-135 55th SRW, Offutt AFB, NE) working Andrews GHFS,
MD. with a phone patch to Banter Control (95 RS command post
Mildenhall. England). Requested the status of Quid 68 (USAF KC-135
tanker aerial refueling mission in southern Europe) at 2013. (Mr TV-UK)
Look 98 conducting a radio check with Look 99 at 1643. (Anonymous in
Omaha)
The Mexican fishing fleet is back. Spanish chatter dealing with "alta
freqencia" and " ... confirmar en numero de canal... " then more leisurely
chatter at 1710. Assuming they were checking comms between boats?
(Clark ID)
Papa Delta working McGhee at 1713. This was very weak and fading
heavily. the only thing I could tell was that papa Delta was airborne, due
to one occurrence of a high level of 400Hz hum.

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Herb with Caribbean weather net at 2122. (Jones-SO)

KPH-San Francisco Radio, CA, with V CW marker at 0940. (Eddy WatersAustralia)
Unidentified station sending 75 baud ATTY meteo codes at 2103. (OixNY)
KFS-San Francisco Radio. CA. with CO CW marker at 0945. (Waters
Australia)
XSW-Kaoshiung Radio. Taiwan, with CO CW marker at 1054. (WatersAustralia)
DZJ-Bulacan Radio, Philippines. with CW CO marker at 1353. (Dix-NY)
JYO-Aqaba Radio, Jordan. with CO CW marker at 1200. (Dix-NY)
RKLM-Arkhangelsk Radio, Russia, calling 4L Yin CW at 2113. (Dix-NY)
VIP-Perth Radio, Australia, with CO CW markers at 1050. (YamaguchiJapan)
VRX60-Victoria Harbor Radio, Hong Kong, with CO CW marker at 1259.
(Dix-NY)
JOS-Nagasaki Radio. Japan, with V CW marker at 0927. (WatersAustralia)
Grassfox working MacOill GHFS, for data check at 2054. Face Card
working McClellan GHFS for data check at 1722. (Anonymous in Omaha)
SAM 60204 working Andrews at 1540. (Anonymous in Omaha)
SAM 5697 4 with a phone patch to SAM Command via Andrews at 1912.
(Anonymous in Omaha)
S-Single letter HF marker with CW Sat 1534. (Dix-NY)
EZl-lsraeli Mossad number station heard at 1532. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
JMH4-Tokyo Meleo. Japan, with 1201576 fax weather charts at 0934.
(Waters-Australia)
P6Z-MFA Paris, France, with FEC-A 5-letter groups to Islamabad at 1141.
(Waters-Australia)
Male English 5-digit number station in AM at 1448. (Dix-NY)
Navy 49676 with a phone patch to Andrews via MacDill GHFS at 21 16.
(Anonymous in Omaha)
RFTJO-French Forces Libreville with ARQ-E3 traffic consisting of 5-letter
groups at 1113. (Hall-RSA)
C-Single letter HF marker with CW Cat 1521. (Dix-NY)
FZS63-St, Denis Meleo. Reunion , with 1201576 fax Indian Ocean weather
charts at 1135. Superb charts! (Hall-RSA)
MFA Islamabad, Pakistan, with encrypted Twinplex (11511701515) text at
1130. At 1131 caught 5-letter groups being sent using SITOR-A (100/
170). (Waters-Australia)
Zanzibar Radio calling 3EIMC-m/v Pina at 0830. (Hall-RSA)
English female 5-digit Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station at 1332.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
USO-lzmail Radio, Ukraine, calling 4KI in CW at 1534. (Dix-NY)
UVA-Gelendzhik Radio. Ukraine. with CO CW marker at 1501. (Dix-NY)
JOS-Nagasaki Radio. Japan. with V CW marker at 0911 . (WatersAustralia)
MGJ-Royal Navy Faslane with the usual 75 baud ATTY tes tape at 0726.
(Hall RSA)
SAM-MFA Stockholm, Sweden, with 5-letter groups using SWED-ARO at
1520. (Hall-RSA)
SAM-MFA Stockholm, Sweden, with 5-lettergroups using SWED-ARO at
1155. Also traffic to Swede ambassador Kampala at 1203 and the
ambassador at Rabat at 1025. (Hall-RSA)
Reach 609B (C-141) working McClellan GHFS with phone patch traffic at
2105. (Anonymous in Omaha)
MFA Warsaw, Poland with news in Polish at 1130 using POL-ARO. (HallRSA)
RFFA-MOD Paris, France, with 5-letter groups to unidentified station
using ARQ-E3 at 1644. (Hall-RSA)
MFA Lisobon , Portugal, with 5-letter groups in SITOR-A to unidentified
station (probably Kinshasha) at 1500. (Hall-RSA)
RPFN-Lisbon Naval radio. Portugal, with test tapes using 75 baud ATTY
at 1300. (Hall-RSA)
V5G-MFA Bucharest, Romania, using ROU-FEC at 1151 sending
"circulara." (Hall-RSA)
BMF-Taipei Meleo. Taiwan, with 1201576 fax weather map at 0916.
(Waters-Australia)
BDF2-Shanghai Meleo. China. with 1201576 fax weather map at 0920.
(Waters-Australia)
ZSCCapetown Radio, South Africa, with CW 10/SITOR idler at 1054 on
new frequency. (Hall-RSA)
MFAJarkarta, Indonesia, with SI TOR-A Indonesian traffic to Cairo Consul
about a passport problem at 1019. (Hall-RSA)
V5G-MFA Bucharest, Romania, with Romanian news using ROU-FEC at
1140. (Hall-RSA)
XSW-Kaoshiung Radio, Taiwan. with CO CW marker at 1058. (WatersAustralia)
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Monitoradio, WRMI Give Up On Shortwave

On April 15, Moni toradio International included a one-minute
item in its broadcasts that The Church had decided to sell the
Monitoradio news operation, ;md sell or lease separately the shortwave outlets WSHB and K HBI. The radio news operation had been
a financial drain. Prospecti ve buyers had already been contacted, and
one possibility was Publ ic Radio International, for w hich MRI had
already been the news source. Deadl ine is June 30, after which the
SW stations, if not undernew ownership brokered by George Jacobs,
will expand religion to seven days a week. I nterviewed on Media
Network, David Cook, Monitor editor, said Monitoradio had been
costing $9 million a year, the SW stations $6 million.
At the last Grove Expo, JeffWhite was heard joking about selling
off WRMI, subsequentl y denied. But now he's serious. Just days
after the MR story broke, George Thurman learned that George
Jacobs was also brokering the sale of WRMI : asking price$ I million
includi ng the not-yet-operational North American antenna. So it
seems Jeff and hi s partners would rather have a megabuck than a SW
station. W ill these facilities will fall into the hands of the extreme
religious/right, further skewing A merica's image abroad?
That' s what' s in store at Macon, Georgia, where a new momand-pop SW station i s under construction along the lines ofWGTG,
but supposedly non-political. From the FCC website via Tracy
Wood we learn that the CP expires in August 1998 for Charles C.
Josey to build a 50 kW transmitter, yagi antenna with 10 dB gai n
rotatable from 330 to 0 to 30. L udo Maes of the Transmitter

Documentation Project adds: it w ill be primarily religious, on aironly

at night from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. I nterviewed on DX Party line, Joanne
Josey said it would avoid broadcasting in daytime because of interference i t would cause from its downtown location. Call sign is yet to be
decided; should be on the air by January, primaril y serving Canada
and China (a favorite target, even i f propagationally nonsensical ).
The organization is Oil and Wine Ministries.
Even though i t fought tooth and nail to avoid paying a cent to
operate RC!, the CBC has the power to appoint i ts management. CBC
CEO Perrin Beatty i ssued a press release, forwarded by Bill
Westenhaver, that he was replacing Terry Hargreaves, RC! Executive
Director during five turbulent years, w ith Bob O'Reilly on an interim
basi s. A further shakeup in RCI management, staff, and programmi ng
was expected; among those who have already retired i s Andre
Courey, replaced on the Mailbag by Mark Montgomery.
Radio Australia's fate was the subject of almost daily newspaper
stories, via Mike Cooper. A BC threatened drastic cuts in domestic
programming i f it could not close down RA. BBC, VOA, and DW
expressed interest in usi ng the RA transmitters instead. At one point
i t was proposed to keep RA going on a much reduced budget, onl y in
English and only on satellite. Opposition grew, based on RA' s
di plomatic and image value, especially in neighboring countries and
Asia. At presstime it appears RA will be preserved on shortwave but
i ts budget cut 2/3 to $7 million and at the expense of the A sian
languages. The Darwin station would be closed.

stories in between until 1200 on a Thursday (Jay

AFGHANIS TAN R. Afghanistan. the anti-Taleban outlet from CIS, heard on 7082v at
Novello, Cape Hatteras)
1330-1430 whilethe Taleban station is on 7200from 1330 (SarathWeerakoon,
VNG timesignal station. now operated by National
Sri Lanka, UADX via BC-DX)
Standards Commission. has to pay Airservices Australia
ALASKA KNLS website: www .monlara.com/WCB/dxeraaaa.htm(BBCM)
A$81 K instead of A$46K. People using the service are
ALBANIA R. Ti rana English: 1845-1900 on 9570, 7270; 2100-2130
asked to contribute; if the differencecan not be made up,
on 7110, 9515; 0145-0200 on 6115, 7160; 0230-0300 on
VNG will have to close down (John Birch, NSC, P.O. Box
6140, 7160 (B. Cooley, BC; Roger Chambers, NY; Benno Klink,
282, North Ryde, NSW 2113; fax +61 2 9888 3033; via
Germany and Te rry Kriiger, FL, DXWvia BC-DX) Has a series
Electronic DX Press)
of 13 QSL cards on folk music instruments, donated by the R.
AUSTRIA ORF Z-97 English to NAm: 1230on13730; 0030,
Tirana Listener Club in Munich (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, BC-DX)
0230 on 9655 (LAm 0230 also on 9870, 13730); 0530 on 6015 via Canada; 0630
If you hear ORM to RFPI on 7385, TWA's Shjijak site is Z
has been replaced by French including OX/mailbag Flash des Ondes dimanches,
97 registered on that frequency only, daily at 1500-1530, daily
2:30 am in Quebec. In German. Kurzwelfenpanorama which already dealt with
exc Thu at 0515-0530, non-daily 0830-0900, 1030-1100,
satellite and Internet info has been renamed lntermedia. to us harder to hear on
1535-1605, 1700-1715 in East European languages (viaTWA)
new sked Sat 0105, 11 05. Separate 5-minute DX-Telegramm with lots of off-air
ALGERIA RAI changed sked again; English 1600-1700 on 11715. announced but not
taped illustrations, Sun 0525, 1225, Mon 0025, 0225 among others (ORF and via
heard on 15160; 2000-2100 on 11715, 252 longwave (Dave Kenny, BDXC)
Sandy Wayne Wilson) Has new URL: http://www .orf.aVrai/(Wilson)
ANTARCTICA In response to a proposal I made to R. Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel last
BOUGAINVILLE R. Free Bougainville reactivated on 3850 at 0900-1600 (Sam Voron,
year, Mayor Victor Hugo Figueroa, Chief of Esperanza Base agreed lo start a
Bougainville via Hans Johnson, DXing with Cumbre)
mailbag program. but only once a month on the last Friday, as they gel airmail only
BULGARIA R. Varna, 9775v, Fri only in Bulgarian at 2115-2300 (PanlvieW)
once a month, if they're lucky, 1900-2100 on LRA36, 15476 (Ruben Guillermo
BURMA [non] Democratic Voice of Bu rma tested two new sites in CIS at 1230-1300,
Margene!, Argentina via Gustavo Fernando Du ran, World of Radio) Such as May
planned to keep the better one in addition to Norway: 7330 Vladivostok, 11820
30, June 27. July 25, maybe including some English (gh) Had English segment on
Tashkent (Jeff Cohen. WAN)
another Friday at 2045 (Michael Schnitzer, Germany, DX Partyline) Europeans are
CAMEROON CATV Yaounde QS L received for 6-year-old report with no follow-up,
hearing this a lot better than Americans (gh)
signed by Eyebe Tanga, Tech. Dir., B.P. 1634;
AUSTRALIA Revised RA sked grouped weekday talk
fax 237-20-43-40.
features on science. arts. at 0031 repeated at
All times UTC; Al/f requencies kHz; *before hr = sign
CANADA RGI made usual one UT-hour earlier
0931, 1431, 2131; music features at 0531 .
programming shift for DST, and mostly same
on, * after hr= sign off; II = parallel program-ming; +
1731 (RA website)
Sackville frequencies as last summer, such as:
= continuing but not monitored; 2 xfreq =2nd
Australian Defence Broadcasting, huge sig1200-1300 daily and 1300-1400 M-Fon 9640,
nal on 6418.50 LSB at 1112 with pre-recorded
/zanno11ic; J-97=May-Sept; Z-97=Summer season; W11855, 13650; Sunday Morning 1300-1600
messages from family members to sailors on
97=Winter season; {non]= Broadcast to or f or the listed
on 11855, 13650 only. 1330-1400 Mon-Sat
HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Adelaide, etc.; ancountry, but not necessarily originating there.
17820. No more English until 2000-2100 on
nouncer played humorous fake news and sports
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17870, 17820, 15325, 15150, 13670, 13650, 11690; 2100-2130 on 17820,

15325, 15150, 13670, 13650, 11690. 2200-2400 13670 added to 9755. 5960.
0200-0300 back on 6120 along with 9755, 13670 (RCI via Bill Westenhaver) Look
for CBC programs to be cancelled at end of June, such as Now the Details, Sun
2231, Mon 0231 (gh)
CFVP, 6030, Calgary presumably carries new nightly show for Hong Kong
immigrants in Chinese Apple Radio at 0400-0600 as publicized for its AM 1060
outlet (Fisher, NU via OzDX)
CHINA CRI English section now has E-mail: <[email protected]> (BC-DX) As
abruptly as it went to 9790, CRI via French Guiana returned after a few weeks to
9730 at 0400 (gh, OK)
COLOMBIA R. Mira reactivated af1er a sesquiyear, 6014.45 at 1047 (Dave Valko. PA.
OzDX)
COSTA RICA On RFPI , Micro-Radio in the US has been renamed Rebel Radio,
alternating with Food Not Bombs Radio Network, Mon 2130 on 15050, Tue 0530
on 7385, 6205-usb (RFPI)
CUBA Our 1996 Tenth Anniversary OSL showing Malena Negrin and me at the mikes.
is still available this year for reports on our monthly appearence on RHC's En
Contacta-, send to me at ICRT, 23 No. 258, Vedado, Ciudad Habana 4 (Manolo de
la Rosa) That's last Sundays at 1335 on 9550, 11760: 215012155 on European
frequencies; UT Mon 0135 - gh
Rebe/de DX confirmed at summertime of Sat 0438-0442 on 5025; varies a lot
as early as 0425, nominally at 0430 (gh) RHC's tinored E-mail address crashed
for weeks at a time. so added this other one: <[email protected]>
(Arnie Coro, DXers Unlimited)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HIMI, R. Cristal lnt'I. 5010, sent very nice full-data OSL card
after follow-ups; asks for photos of listeners for their album (Jerry Berg, MA.
DSWCI DX Window) 5013v, had Caribe DX mailbag at 0024 on a UT Sun (Henrik
Klemetz, ibid.)
Onda Musical loud and clear on 4776.66, not 4780, at 2329 lottery info (Jay
Novello, NC)
ECUADOR HCJB English to Europe at 1900-2200 started Z-97 on new 11990 ex11960, oblivious of Kuwait's long presence here, and also RFE Bulgarian in first
hour! Soon shifted to 12015, and asked for prayers to avoid such mistakes in
future (gh)
FRANCE Fortunately, last month's lead story was not entirely correct. as RFI continued
to be heard in English at 1200-1300 on 13625 via French Guiana. Although a
number of transmissions to NAm were in fact cancelled including English direct
from France at 1200 on 15530, this one actually for Central America remained
(Jacques d'Avignon. Ont.) Such a technicality, always with huge signal here in
CNAm if not in ENAm (gh) RFI is available via RealAudio in French, Spanish,
English at http://Www.francellnk.com (Brad Bellaver. Cyberia)
GEORGIA V. of Hope sent great oversized card for this site. worth having, from
Hereford UK address (Jerry Berg, MA, OzDX) For Z-97 shifted to 1800-2000 on
9310 (Edwin Southwell, England) Then on 9315 (BBCM)
GERMANY DW has new show What's New? UT Fridays around 0130, 0330, 0530 with
rotating features: Headcrash, Science and Technology, MediaMag, Made in
Germany, also Mondays at 2130 to Africa on 15135 (OW tune in via Jim Moats)
GREECE As predicted last month, VOG has gained access toa second VOA-Kavala 250
kW transmitter, so now up to four frequencies at once: Z-97 NAm 0000-0350
6260, 7450, 9420. 9935 including news in English at 0130-0140, 0340-0350;
1200-1350 including English 1335-1345 9375, 15175. 15630. Macedonia Radio
Z-97: 0500-2205 9935, 11595, 1400-2100 6245 (John Babbis, MD)
/CELANO RUV Z-97: Eu 1215-1300 11402, 13860; 1855-1930 7735, 9275; NAm
141 0-1440 11402, 13860; 1935-2010 11492[sic]. 13860; 2300-2335 9275.
11402 (RUV via EDXP)
INOONESIA RPO Halmahera Tengah, 3125v, 1312-1433* with phone talk, poor
(Juichi Yamada. Japan. Jembatan DX) VOi English at 2000-2100 quite readable.
in the clear on 9525 (Jay Novello. NC)
INTERNATIONAL VACUUM WORLD OF RADIO on World Radio Network for Z-97:
NAm Sat 0530, 1600; Eu Sat 0330, 1600, Sun 1030; As/Pac/At/MESat 1600, Sun
1700. Now availablemuch earlier on Sound Store, Sat 1645; go to www.wrn.org
(WRN)
/RAN VOIRI English schedule announced for Z-97: 0030-0130 on 6050, 9022, 9685;
1100-1230 on 7115, 9555, 11875, 15260; 1530-1630 on 7215. 9550; 1930-2030
on 7260, 9022; 2130-2230 on 6165. 61 75 (OzDX)
[non] V. of Southern Azerbaijan made one-hour time switch on the same odd
DST date Israel did, Mar 21, to 0515-0614 on 11935 (Pan/view)
/RAO Republic of Iraq Radio, all SW frequencies irregular: 0255-2415 main program
on 9715v, 7150v. 4615v; Kurdish 0315-2130 on 6560; Mother of Battles Radio
1700-2200 3935, unconfirmed on 9750v (BBC Monitoring) Maybe one hour
earlier now- gh
IRELAND [non] West Coast Radio Ireland, via Deutsche Telekom, Z-97 NAm UT Thu
0100-0200 changing to 9875;Al 1900-2000 on 15625: Eu Sat 1500-1600on 6175
(~ja Steven Cline: Dave Kenny, BDXC) NAm planned to change to 9470 (Pan/view)
ISRAEL Kol Israel English corrections to last month: 1400-1430 on 12080, 15650;
1900-1925 on 7465, 9435, 11 605, 15640. They still need mail, the only way to

show people are listening against budget cut threats.

Send to: Raphael Kochanowski, Kol Israel Radio, P.O.
Box 1082, Jerusalem (Doni Rosenzweig ,
rec.radio.shortwave)
ITALY RAI has new website: www.mix.iV(Benno Klink, BCDX)
JAPAN Not only Media Roundup but most other familiar
shows have been cancelled; still existing is Hello from
Tokyo UT Sun at 0110, 0510, 0710, 121 O. 1510, 2110;
and at the same times on Sat, Asian Weekly (NHK website)
JORDAN R. Jordan waited until NAm date April 6 to make DST shift: English at 10001630 on 11690 (Eugene Gebruers, RVI Radio World)
KOREA NORTH Young Soldier's Broadcasting Station is back on 2625 with usual war
drama in Northern dialect, better than other two frequencies 1615 and 3025 kHz.
Different programs of same format are aired simultaneously around 1400-1900
or 2000-from a country that can't even afford to light up the streets (Sunny
Ashimori, Japan, hard-core dx)
LIBERIA [non] "Radio ELWA" program heard on TWR via South Africa, 9510, Hausa
until 2030 English ID (Craig Seager, Australian DX News)
LIECHTENSTEIN [non] The Investment Channel dropped all broadcasts to Africa in
mid-April, remained with these to Mideast: 0200-0355 6160, 0300-0425 7190,
0330-0555 9525, 0430-0555 11820. 15225. 0600-1155 15165, 0600-1455
21745, 0600-1725 17665, 1200-1755 15170, 1630-1725 11870, 1800-2155
9475, 1830-195511870, 1900-2155 7225 (Kathy Otto, SENTECH, South Africa,
via Dave Kenny, BDXC) They lambasted greedy financial advisers giving poor
advice (as opposed to the Investment Channel). advertised Supermarket Fund of
America. aMovieProduction Fund, Technology Fund, info from their Liechtenstein
offices. Doubtless any investor would wish to check what protection he would
have in channeling investments through a Liechtenstein-based company (Mike
Barraclough, World DX Club Contact) It's P.O. Box 1250, FL 9490Vaduz; fax 4175232-3882 (Ed Rausch, NJ) Hope they're not stealing people's life savings, a la
Albania (Willliam McClintock, MN)
LITHUANIA (non] R. Vilnius. English to NAm at 0030 Z-97 on 5910 (Bob Thomas, CT)
Via Jiilich, Germany. Now if somebody would get rid of that terrible utility that
plagues the frequency, it would give listeners without a notch filler achance to hear
RV without all the racket (Sandy Wayne Wilson. IN)
MAL TA [non] A sched ule dated March from V. of Mediterranean said Japanese Sat
2300-2330 on 9800; Sun 0200-0330 English. 0330-0500 Maltese to Philippines.
Au/NZ on 17570, 15550. Sun 0400-0500 English, 0500-0600 Maltese, 0600-0630
German. 0630-0700 Japanese on 7300 to WNAm; same languages at 0600-0900
Sun on 13600 to C/ENAm. Says Mon-Sat programs are called Voice of Malta;
Sundays in Maltese, Japanese as R. Melita; Sunday evening Valetta Calling.
None of these have been heard and are questionable. The European service
VOM via Russia is on 12060 and 9765 ex-7440. English 2000-2100 exc Fri, Sun
only 2100-2130 French. 2130-2200 German (Eugene Gebruers, Belgium, RVI
Radio World) V. of Mediterranean testing new site from end of April to May 11 at
1800-1900 on 5890, 9765 (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, BC-DX) Looks like
Germany-gh
MEXICO XERMX-OC, R. Mexico Internacional, 9705, and in mornings and afternoons
also 5985, time-shifted schedule for DST to 1200-1600, 1800-0500 (UT Sun, Mon
-0400). Mail Boxwith new host Alejandro Joseph, Tue 1500, Wed 0400, Thu 2000,
Sat 1900, Sun 1400; Estacion DX with new host Yuri Bilbatua. Thu 0100, Sat 1800,
Sun 1200. 2200; Radio Correo de/ Aire Sat 0100.
1200, 2200, Sun 1800. Power inc.rease expectedM J
Pol l ) o
.
in June from previous 5 kW (via Juan Mort.

.,
XERMX) Spanish programs often start 5-10
minutes late; no motivation to start on time.
rmno
LA RAlJKJ
since second halves of hours are music fill (gh)
XERTAupdate: tested some more in late March, early April on 4800 in the 18000400 period with 2.5 kW. to be increased to 5, using audio from FM Globo Estereo

"u

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

Review of International Broadcasting

SW Programming, opinion , equipment, satellite monitoring.
Samples $2.50 each (outside North America US $3 or 6 IRCs)
10 issue subscriptions $26 in USA, or both for $49
Glenn Hauser, Box 1684-MT, Enid, OK 73702
June 1997

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without any IDs of its own: was audible in Nayarit (Dr. Julian Santiago Diez de
Bonilla via Hector Garcia B. World of Radio) Still unheard here. blocked afternoons
and evenings by RTIY. except on a Sunday when the Guatemalan was heard (gh.
OK)
MOLDOVA [non] R. Moldova International. Z-97 English all on
.
.
,
7520: NAm 0330. 0430: Eu 2200. 2230. Has been seven
days instead of MFfor ayear nov1 (Valeriu Vasilica. Head of
)
RMI) He invites reception reports covering 1 or 2 weeks to
fax 3732 723307 (Ruben Guillermo Margenet via Gustavo ..... ... .....,..!..
Fernando Duran) via Romania
MONGOLIA VOM Z97 English: EAs 0900-0930 15170; Au t 230 1300 12085; SAs
15001530 9720. 12085. Has 9 different OSLs, appreciate two IRCs or $1 for
postage to CPO Box 365. Ulaanbaatar 13; E-mail:
<[email protected]> (D. Batbayar, Mail Editor, English Section. DX
Window via EDXP)
NEPAL !non] No more straining to hear R. - - - - - - - - - - Nepal on SW: now audio on website:
Kadl9 91o&dculh>i Bemce
http://Www.catmando.com/news/radio
RADIO NEPAL
nepal/radionp .htm (gh) Located in
.o__ ..,._........._ou,Hu..
Washington. DC (RNMN)
,,, , QSL-VERIFICATIOll-CARD
NORWA Y Gunnar Nygard. pioneer and father of SWBC in Norway. died in Jan at 99; was first leader of RNI (NRK via Bob
Thomas)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby 4890 instead of NBC called itself Voice of Papua
New Guinea at 1300. discussion instead of music (Hans Johnson, TX, DXing with
Cumbre)
PARAGUAY More on R. Guaira, 5975: sign-on varies between 1000 and t 200. but
much later on Mondays. Asks for SW reports to address: Alejo Garcma y
Presidente Franco, Villarrica: phone 2385 and 2130. Called them and found out
transmitter is new 1 kW. usually on until 0000 though I often hear until 0100 (Levi
Iversen. Paraguay. DSWCI DX Window) Station says sked is 0900-0200 (Takayuki
Inoue N., Japan)
PERU R. Majestad, Huancayo, Junin, 4870.1 at t 152-1 230 folk music, claiming
national coverage (Pedro F. Arru nategui, Lima) 4870.09, 1100 11 37 with many
huaynos, canned IDs, lnx to PFA tip. Has one-year experimental license for 1 kW
as OCX4T. SW outlet of Sonorama Radio with transmitter acquired from R.
Pampas ex-4854.3 (Takayuki Inoue N., Japan)
R. Selecciones. new on 5956.8 from Arequipa at 1130-1223, needed USB due
to ORM from Uno on 5955.1. R. Cadena R. Victoria on 5818.9 at 1t10-1136
religion //6018.2. R. lnteroceanica, Puno. 6096.4 1140-1230, blocked by WSHB
until t 158 (Arrunategui)
RadioJL heard on 6261.1, ' 2345-0400". from avillage or shopping mall called
Consuelo, near San Pablo, near Saposoa, in the region of San Martin: can't find
Consuelo on map; lots of ORM from Greece on 6260 (Henrik Klemetz. Dateline
Bogota via Play-DX)
R. Cuzco, 6203.73. at 0010-0302". ads and IDs. weak to fair. not heard very
often. Must use LSB to avoid RFPI 6205 (Brian Alexander, PA)
R. Ondas del Rio Mayo on new 6797.76. 250 watts in broad daylight at 1149
ID, religion (Jay Novello. NC) Should now be a 1 kW transmitter. different from the
one on 6803 (Takayuk1 Inoue. Japan)
ROMANIA RRI announced Z-97 English to us: 2300 on 9510. 11940. 0200 on 5990.
6155. 0400 on 9510, 9570, 11 940, but try European service 9690 at 1900, 2100
(Larry Russell, Ml, rec.radio.shortwave)
SA/PAN KFBS' single English broadcast is Wed 1830-1900 on 9465 to CAs for Z-97
(Bob Padula. Electronic DX Press)
SERBIA R. Yugoslavia. J-97 English to NAm: 0000 exc Sun and 0430 daily on 9580,
11870 (via Benno Klink, BC-DX)
SLOVAKIA RSI Z-97 English: Eu 1630, 1830 on 5915, 6055, 7345; S&NAm 01000130
5930, 7300, 9440; Au 0830 on 11 990, 15460, 17570 (Edwin Southwell. England)
SOLOMON ISLANDS SIBC: 1959-0730 on 9545, 5020; 0730-1130 on 5020 (BBCM)
SOMALIA R. Free Somalia is on 7250 at 1000-1200; may OSY in June (Sam Voron via
Hans Johnson, DXing with Cumbre)
SOUTH AFRICA Channel Africa Z-97 changed all English to half-hours: 0300, 0400
5955; 0500 9675; 0600 11900: 1600 6120. 9685: 1700 11900 (via Dave Kenny,
BDXC) see also LIECHTENSTEIN
SWEDEN R. Sweden Z-97 English to NAm: 1130. 1330 11650 15240: [LAm 0130
7290]: 0230 7135: 0330 9430 (MediaScan)
TAIWAN VOFC E-mail: <[email protected]> (Boogert. DXW)
THAILAND R. Thailand, English 1900-2000 on 7210. news 2030-2045 on 9680 ex
9535 (Edwin Southwell, England; Wolfgang Biischel. Germany)
TIBET More to last month's item: As of April 5. V. of Russia was off 7195. and Lhasa
PBS back on it again //611 O. 4035 and other 5 & 6 MHz frequencies. But at "1400
VOA opens on 7195 in Tibetan! followed by SE Asian languages. obliteraling
Lhasa. So we have VOA ORMing them on 7195 and 611 0. Lhasa is often missing
from one of their frequencies. New on this station: long talks, discussions.
interviews, new announcers, but don't hear Tibetan chants much these days. Still

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June 1997

have English ID at 1500 "and tthe program for overseas listeners"- meaning
foreigners living and working in Tibet? (Mike Ryan. Bangkok, World of Radio)
TURKEY VOT changed English: 0300 on 7300 not 6120: 1230 on 13750 not 13695
(Benno Klink. BC-DX) We hear the 1830 on 13695 best-supposed to be reduced
carrier LSB, but usually more modula
tion on the high side, with wobbly carTURJOSH
rier. Very informal woman announcer
RADIO
greets listeners between shows and
~~"-:toN
gushes about what a great place to visit
the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is (gh, OK)
UK 0 GB AN I BBC On Air for April, May gave misleading info on BBC freq uencies:
t 1835. African stream via Ascension is really on until 2300" with good signal here;
5975 and 6175 to North America again this summer close at 0700 not 0800' but
nov1 duplicating European stream, the 0730 features should be audible on 7325,
9410, 12095. Haff-hour feature blocks at 1215, 161 5 are gone, and no American
1requencies at 1830 which remains. but try 12095. 9410 (gh) You can still get a
free sample of BBC On Air by phoning 1-800-875-2997 (Will Martin, MO)
R. Free London, pirate, planned to replace 6400 with 5805 from May 18, a good
clear frequency heard in NAm, and increase power from 12 to 90 watts (Andrew
Yoder. PiPa)
UKRAINE RUI has some new English hours: 1200 to NAm on 12050, Au on 12045,
Scandinavia on 7150; 2100 LAm 13720: also to NAm at 2100. 0000 on 9550,
12040: 0300 on same plus 7150 (Bob Thomas. CT) Also new at 1700 on 12050
(NRCU Kyiv via Joerg Sajuk. Germany. BCDX)
From April 14. R. Marabu will add high-power SW 50 kW via Radio Independence. Lviv, in cooperation with lhe All-Ukrainian Festival "Afternativa," daily
1000-1200 and 2100-2400 on 11830, plus MW and FM (R. Marabu, P.O. Box
1166. 49187 Belm, Germany) Not heard here. but one day until 2102 had barely
modulated German on this frequency with fair signal; could above times be local
UT+3? gh
US A WRMI, 9955 as of April, remnants of which may still be in effect: Viva Miami in
English: M-F 1430, Tu-F 0015, Tu-Sa 0330; also Wed 1400, Sa 2030 (weeks 1, 5).
Sa 2100-2200, 2300 (weeks 2, 4, 5). Computer Beat Mon 1330, Tue 1315. Sat
2330. Sun 2000. AWR Wavescan Tu-Sa 0245; Tue, Wed 1330; Sat 2015, 2230
(weeks 4, 5) , Sun 1215, 2015, Mon 0000 (WRMI) WRMI will soon be on the air
24 hours (Jeff White, Viva Miami) Jeff planned to be traveling a lot in May, so likely
more and more VM reruns - gh
WORLD OFRADIO on WWCR as of April: Thu 2030 15685. Sat 0530 5070, 11 30
5070. 1300 15685, Sun 0900 3210, 2330 5070 (12160 in June. July, August), Tue
1230 15685. Munda Radial. gh's monthly Spanish DX report aired weekly is now
on Thu at 2100 following W.O.R., Fri 2115 on 15685. Ask WWCR biweekly aired
weekly, Fri 200015685, Sat 0915 5070, Sun 231512160, Mon 0500 5070, 2100
15685. See also INTERNATIONAL VACUUM (gh)
DXing with Cumbre. the only program worth listening to on World Harvest
Radio. rescheduled to: WHRI, Sat 0500 5745, 731 5: 14306040: 1730, 22309495;
Sun 0330, 2200 5745: KWHR. Sat 0230 17510, 0500 17780. Sun 183013625.
Mon 0330 17510. Also reaftime feed on website (OWC)
KJES. The Lord's Ranch, NM, finally into prime-time on new 7555 at 0100
0230, usual children's bible readings. co-channel to RnY station which may
object (Sheldon Harvey, PO & gh, World of Radio)
WINB for Z-97 on unexpected 13790 from 2000 ex-11 740, confounding some
listeners (George Thurman, TX)
WANO back on 7355 ex-7455 at 0800-1500 Z-97 (George Jacobs & Associ
ates)
VOA Communications World managed to get a Greenville USB frequency for
the Sat 1230 broadcast, improving reception in NAm: 7768.5 but came on late two
weeks running; also on 9760, 6160 from Philippines: best bets at other times are
Sat 1030 on 5985 Delano, 1730 on 17895, 15410 Morocco, 2130 9760 (gh)
Establishment of a R. Free Iran, and a R. Free Africa were suggested at
congressional hearing on budget for international broadcasting (VOA Communi
cations World)
VATICAN R. Vaticana to NAm 0250-0310 as usual for summer J-97 on 9605 ex-6095
117305 (R. Vaticana)
VENEZUELA YVTO. 5000. spurs on 4900, 5100. 5200 are heard nightly: also.
automated voice IDs are not synchronized to run at same time each minute. but
repeat every 50 seconds, occasionally stepping on time announcement each
minute at :50. It's pretty bad when a standard time and frequency station
experiences these technical lapses. and obvious inattention by operators (Randy
Stewart. MO) Also weak s11urs on 4800, 5300 (Brian Alexander, PA)
VIETNAM [non I Voice of Vietnam via Russia in English to us:
0100-0127. 0230-0257 on 7250 (Bob Thomas. CT) Now in between in
Vietnamese (Ivan Grishin, Ont.) Also English at 0330 (Brian Carling, Cumbre DX
via BC-DX)

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0000 UTC on 9570
PORTUGAL: Radio Portugal lnt'I. Frequency quote to news by Christian
Miguel. Strong and clear signal quality. (Sue Wilden, Columbus, IN)
0005 UTC on 971 0
MALI : China Radio lnt'I. News and update on upcoming Hong Kong reunification. (Wilden, IN)
0012 UTC on 7405
USA: Voice of America. Japanese and NYSE prices to news on Albania.
(Wilden, IN)
001 3 UTC on 6725.6
PERU: Radio Satelile. Nice Peruvian music to Spanish announcements.
Station ID and announcer chat. (Mark Veldhuis, Borne, Netherlands, via
email)
0028 UTC on 5900
BELGIUM: Radio Vlaanderen lnt'I. Interval signal to ID, frequency information and program preview. Brussels Calling at 0031 , signal fair to poor by
0048. (Steve Ponder, Houston, TX, via email)
0030 UTC on 6185
MEXICO: Radio Educacion Intl Spanish ID "para Radio Educacion de
Mexico enforme.. ." (Brian Bagwell, St. Louis, MO) Rad io Mexico lnt' I on
9705 at 1600-1630. (Lee Silvi, Mentor, OH; Mahendra Vaghjee, Rose Hill,
Mauritius)
0044 UTC on 9700
GERMANY: Deutsche Welle. Spanish program to IDs. German service
logged on 15275//17810 at 2102. (Wilden, IN)
0155 UTC on 9575
ITALY: Radio Roma. Italian. Male/female announcers with news text. (Jerry
Witham, Keaau, HI) Station noted 2230 on 9685 in Italian. (Howard Moser,
Lincolnshire, IL) Italian service on 17780 at 141 Owith national soccer game
Bologna vs. Naples. (Bob Fraser, Cohasset, MA)
0240 UTC o n 3300
GUATEMALA: Radio Cultural. Weak rom antic choral songs to 0259. ID and
national news items . (Giovanni Serra, Rome, Italy, TFWvia email)
0405 UTC on 5019. 7
COLOMBIA: Ecos del Atrato. (Tent) Spanish text and ballads. No ID heard
so presumed for this poor signal quality. (Serra, Italy)
0425 UTC on 4775
SWAZILAND: Trans World Radio. English sign-on for religious programming, suffering rapid drop in signal. (Lora Humelsine, via email)
0500 UTC on 7125
RUSSIA: Voice of Russia. Eastern European news covering NATO Expansion and Albanian elections. (Moser, IL) Moscow Yesterday and Today
program featuring the coronation of Catherine the Great and her cultural
works, heard on 5940 at 2030. (Fraser, MA)
0540 UTC on 9675
SOUTH AFRICA: Channel Africa. ID and text of parliamentary speech about
budget proposals. (Witham, HI) News coverage of Zaire to sports update.
(Moser, IL)
0828 UTC on 4918.9
ECUADOR: Radio Quito. Spanish. Non-stop Latin music to brief announcement and station ID. SINP0=34444. (Veldhuis, NLD; Wilden, IN)
0845 UTC o n 4831.9
COSTA RICA: Radio Reloj . Latin music to Spanish time check and regional
news. (Veldhuis, NLD)
1058 UTC on 4820
HONDURAS: La Vaz de Evangelica. Spanish religious program with prayers
and hymns. (Brian Boulden, Fairfield, CA, via email)
1104 UTC o n 4890
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NBC. National news and regional weather update.
(Boulden, CA; Witham. HI) Noted 1930-2006 to news. (Walter Mola, Torino,
Italy, TFltV)
1135 UTC o n 9580
AUSTRALIA: Radio Australia. Commentary on cultural ties with Thailand.
(Tom Banks, Dallas, TX) Dateline show by Jane Murphy at 1330 on 5995.
(Wilden, IN)
1400 UTC o n 9530
THAILAND: Radio Thailand. English news lo festival information. (Silvi, OH;
Vaghjee, MAU)
1410 UTC o n 7160
MALAYSIA: ATM Kuching. English ID to music mix of regional and European
pop songs. Sl0 =333, /n 160. (Humelsine) ATM noted on 4895 //5005 at
2245. (Giampiero Bernardini, Chieti, ltalyl TFW; Vaghjee, MAU)
1429 UTC on 9535
JAPAN: NHK World/Radio Japan. English features // 12045. Radio Japan via
Gabon in English on 15355//9535 at 1510-1559. (Silvi, OH)
1505 UTC on 5987
MYANMAR: Radio Myanmar. Commentary in English on economic sanctions to weather forecast. Announcement noted as "52nd Anniversary of the
Armed Forces Objective." Instrumental music to anlhem and 1559". (Vaghjee,
MAU)

1625 UTC on 6543.8

SOMALIA: Clandestine: Voice of Ala Suma Waljama. (Tent) Islamic prayers
and text. Radio Mogadishu in regional language to music. (Witham. HI)
1629 UTC on 6130
CANADA: CHNX Nova Scotia. Great signal for Oldies 96relay show. (Silvi,
OH) Canada's RCI via Sac kvllle on 9535 at 0006. (Wilden, IN)
1630 UTC on 11750
QATAR: Qatar BC Svc. Radio drama play to Arabic text. (Silvi, OH)
1743 UTC o n 4976
UGANDA: Radio Uganda. News report on press conference of South
African Commerce and Industry members. Soccer results and ads for
public health. (Vaghjee, MAU)
1755 UTC on 9548
BANGLADESH: Bangla Betar. English programming on history of the
Islamic religion, into regional music. (Witham, HI)
1800 UTC on 6160
CANADA: CKZN Newfoundland. Talk show, news, and CBC relay. (Silvi,
OH)
1821 UTC o n 3335
TAIWAN: CBS. Very long text in Chinese about Zhongguo. (Serra, Italy,

TFltV)
1825 UTC on 7288
TUNISIA: ATV Tunisienne. Arabic. Talk to telephone call-in with musical
request. National news and religious programming at 1908, //7475, 12005.
(Vaghjee, MAU)
1957 UTC on 7395
USA: WANO. LSUIGeorgia baseball game (Wilden, IN)
2015 UTC on 9605
MADAGASCAR: Radio Netherlands. Sounds Interesting program on international radio on the Internet. (Fraser, MA)
2020 UTC on 7335
BULGARIA: Radio Bulgaria. Commentary that Bulgaria considers the
l. M.F. demands as unrealistic, // 9700. (Fraser, MA; Wiiden, IN; Vaghjee,
MAU)
2043 UTC on 11835
ASCENSION ISLANDS: BBC-WS. Newshourwith report on the continuing
hostage situation in Peru,// 11750. (Fraser, MA)
2146 UTC on 6195
UNITED KINGDOM: BBC-WS. Weak signal for 40's and 50's music show.
(Wilden, IN)
2153 UTC on 7450
GREECE: Voice of Greece. Traditional Greek music, time tones at 2154.
Interval signal at 2202 to station announcement. (Wilden, IN)
2200 UTC on 7500
MOLDOVA: Radio Moldova lnt'I. News and talk lo ID at 2214. SINP0=22342.
(Zacharias Liangas, Thessalloniki, Greece, TFltV)
2300 UTC on 4747.5
PERU: Radio Huanta 2000. Spanish. SINPO: 44444 to 2330. Peruvian
music to ID as, "A travos de esta emisora Radio Huanta 2000. Ad to public
service announcement. (Pedro Arrunategui, Lima, Peru/TFltV)
231 0 UTC on 9655
TURKEY: Voice ofTurkey. Songs & Stories program on the various regions
of Turkey. (Fraser, MA)
2320 UTC on 9725
COSTA RICA: Adventist World Radio. Your Story Hour program to musical
ID as "the Voice of Hope" at 2329. If is Written program at 2359 to station
ID. (Ponder, TX) AWA on 5030at 1112 with Amazing Facts show. (Boulden,
CA)
2324 UTC on 3339.9
PERU: Radio Altura. Spanish. Music to ad and ID, "una sola calidad Altura,
una emisora al servicio del paos." Peruvian Radio Paucartambo noted on
5894.8 at 2325.(Arrunategui, Peru)
2325 UTC on 11700
NORTH KOREA: Radio Pyongyang. English news to Asian music at 2328.
Communist readings to time/frequency quote at 2343. Strong signal quality
with considerable polar flutter to 2346".(Rudy Hanau, Rye Brook, NY, via
email) Monitored on 11700 to 2310 (Moser, IL)
2350 UTC on 3316
SIERRA LEONE: SLBS. Afro pop and easy listening music. News and
public service announcements at 0000 to 0016" with national anthem.
(Banks, T X)
2354 UTC on 4004.9
PERU: Radio La Voz del Campesino. Fair signal quality and ID as, "Radio
La Voz del Campesino del Alto Piuraa." Campesino music and announcements to 011 o. (Arrunategui, Peru)

Tlianks ro our co111rib111ors - Hme yo11 sell/ in YOUR logs?

Send to Gayle Van Hom , d o Monitoring Times (or e-moi/ [email protected])
English broadcaJr unless othenvise nored.

June 1991

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41

_Th_e_Q_SL_R.....
eeo_rt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _@"Wit
Gayle Van Hom, gay/[email protected]

Danke Schon Deutschland

From the heart of Europe . we
spotlight QSLing from Germany.
One of the first stations to be
confirmed by a new world band
listener is Deutsche Welle. OW
broadcasts via worldwide transmitters from Europe, Asia. Africa, Canada, and the Caribbean.
While a favorite among DXers fortheir generous enclosures of free
stickers, pennants. and the ir excellent news magazine DW-radio
tune-in, they usually include a "no data" QSL, except for a special
occasion or broadcast. DWonline is avai lable at <http://
www.dwelle.de> with links 10 their Eng lish and multilingual
services, as well as Audio On Demand, music, news, and emai l at
<online @dwelle.de>.
Bayerischer Rund funk from Munich is the public broadcasting
authori ty for Bavaria. Broadcasting in German on 6085 k Hz, 24
hours, Bayem 3 confinns with full data cards. Their webs ite

ASCENSION ISLANDS
BBC Atlantic Relay Station, 99 15 kHz. Full data verification on station
letterhead, signed by Mrs. Nicola Nicholls. Received in 66days foran English
report and one U.S. dollar. Station address: BBC Atlantic Relay Station,
English Bay. Ascension Island. South Atlantic Ocean. (Darren White,
Hattiesburg, MS)
AUSTRALIA
VLC-Radio Australia, 9590 kHz. Full data QSL card signed by Danotia
Gordon. Received in I06days for an English report and two IR Cs, my per.mnal
amateur radio QSL card and a souvenir postcard. Station address: P.O. Box
428G, Melbourne, VIC. Australia. (Irv McWherter, via email)
COASTAL STATION
OXI Nuuk Radio, 500 kHz. Full data QSL letter, prepared QSL card s igned by
Bjorn Jokumsen and personal letter from Sven Lutzen. Received in 98 days for
a utility report and one U.S. dollar. Station address: Greenland Telecom, P.O.
Box 1002, DK-3900 Nuuk. Greenland. (Hank Holbrook, Dunkirk, MD)
VFF Frobisher Radio, 500 kHz. Full data prepared QSL verified and amateur
radio QSL card. Received in eleven months for an English utility report and
mint stamps. Station address: Transport Canada, Iqaluit C.G.R.S., Iqaluit,
NWT (Frobisher Bay) Canada. (Holbrook, MD)

GERMANY
Bayerischer Rundfunk. 6085 kHz. Full data color winter scenery card of
Sonnenobservatorium with illegible signature. Received in e ight days for
English repon sent via email at station website. Full data plastic sticker card
received via snailmail. signed by Thomas Sella. Assortment of station slicker.;
and two oversized station brochures/program schedules and personal note
from veri signer. Station address: Rundfunkplatz l , D-80300 Munich, Germany. (Gayle Van Hom. Brasstown, NC) Station verified in 14 days for a taped
recording of G111e Nacht Frewule program. Station schedule, decals, and my
returned casscue tape. (Stokes Schwartz, Madison. WI)
Deutsche Welle, 6040 kHz. No data globe card unsigned. Received in 82 days
foran English report and one IRC. Station address: Postfach I 00444, D-50588
Cologne, Gennany. (Frank Hillton, Charleston, SC)
,_J

Columbus Can1erb11ry ELUB8. 16528 kHz USB. (Merchant ship) Full data
prepared QSL card stamped and s igned by Second Officer. Hubert Frik. who
doubles as Radio Officer. Received in 26 days for a Gennan utility repon and
two U.S. dollars. This Hamburg-Sued ship was fonncrly known as the Monte
Rosa DGLM but was recently rcflagged as ELUB8. Most traffic is now via
satellite, except for dai ly cxch:mges on HF SSB ( 16528 kHz at OOOOZ).

42

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June 1997

<http://www.br-online.de/> is mostly in Gennan, but accepts

English reception reports at the email link. Return postage or
currency is appreciated if corresponding via ainnail.
Radio Bremen also broadcasts in German. Although not as
widely heard, they transmit o n 6190 kHz, 24 hours, and verify with
a QSL card and slickers from: Burgern1eister-Spit1a-Allee 45,
28329 Bremen, Germany <http://www.radiobremen.de/>.
Sudwestfunk. a publicly owned station, transmits from Rohrdorf
and is responsible for the Rhineland-Palatinate and so uthern BadenWurttemberg area. Their QSL policy includes a fu ll data card. The
pop/rock DJ fonnat is easy to recognize on 7265 kHz, 24 hours in
German. Send your report and
ret urn postage to; Hans
Bredowstr. , D- 765 30 BadenBaden, Gennany. Station website
<http://www.swf3.de> includes
Real A udio and an emai l ink.

Included within the card, a letter on official Telex paper and a current list of the
line' s 19 ships, only four of which retain Gennan flags. The ship"s HF radio is
a Sailor Compact RE-2 100. I wrote to the ship's home office in Hamburg. but
they have an agent at Columbus Line. 249 East Ocean Blvd., Suite 200, Long
Beach, CA 90802. (Rick Albright, Merced, CA. via email)

MADAGASCAR
Radio Netherlands Relay Station, 11655 kHz. Full data QSL folder card, signed
by Rahamefy Eddy. Received in 42 days for an English report and two IRC's.
Station address: P.O. Box 404, Antananarivo- IOI, Madagascar. (White, MS;
Tom Banks, Dallas, TX)
MEDIUM W AVE
KFDI, I 070 kHz AM. Full data prepared QSL card signed by David A. EarlyChief Engineer. Received in eight days for an AM report and mint stamps.
Station address: P.O. Box 1402, Wichita, KS 6720 I . (Terry Jones, Plankinton,
SD)
KWKH. 11 30 kHz AM. Full darn prepared QSL card with illegible signature.
Received in seven days for an English AM report and mint stamps. Station
address: P.O. Box 31 130, Shreveport, LA 7 1130. (Jones, SD)
CKWX, l 130kHz AM. Station' s slogan .. .All News, All Day, All Night, All the
Time. Received in 12 days for an English AM report and two IRC's. Station
address: 2440 Ash St., Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z4J6. (Jim Wright. Federal
Heights. CO)
CFAC, 960 kHz AM. Station's slogan ...Calgary's Home of Country Music.
QSL verification on station letterhead from Robin Hilderbrand. Received in 41
days for an English AM report and two IRC's. Station address: 3320 17th Ave..
S.W. Calgary AB Canada T3E 6X6. (Wright, CO)

PA LUA
Voice of Hope, 9985 kHz. Partial data QSL card unsigned. Received in 22 days
foran English report and two IRC' s. Station address: P.O. Box 66, Kom e, Palau
96940. (White, MS)
SHIP TRAFFIC
A. V. Kastner ZCAM9, 500 kHz (Bulk Carrier). Full data QSL note. Received
for an English utility report and mint stamps. Ship address: Strachen Shipping
Co.. I 0416 Alta Dr.. Jacksonville, FL 32226. (Holbrook, MD)
May11g11e~ WZJE, 500 kHz (Container Vessel). Full data QSL letter.
Received for an Englis h utility repon and one U.S. dollar. Ship address: Puerto
Rico Marine Management. Inc., P.O. Box 71306, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009361306. (Holbrook, MD)

SS

How To UsE THE SHORTWAVE GUIDE .

1:

Convert your time to UTC.

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

Choose a program or station you want to hear.

Some selected programs appear on the lower half of the page for
prime listening hours-space does not permit 24-hour listings.
Occasionally program listings will be followed by "See X 0000." This
information indicates that the program is a rerun, and refers to a previous
summary of the program's content. The letter stands for a day of the week,
as indicated below, and the four digits represent a time in UTC.
S: Sunday
T: Tuesday
H: Thursday A: Saturday
M: Monday
W: Wednesday F: Friday
3: Find the frequencies for the program or station you
want to hear.
Look at the page which corresponds to the time you will be listening.
Comprehensive frequency information for English broadcasts can be found
at the top half of the page. All frequencies are in kHz.
The frequency listing uses the same day codes as the program listings; if a broadcast is not daily, those day codes will appear before the

station name. Irregular broadcasts are indicated "tenr and programming

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

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

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

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

HoT NEws.

PROGRAMMING TIPS BY JIM fRIMMEL

DEUTSCHE WELLE INTRODUCES

NEWSLINK
The Voice of Germany dropped
European Jounral and News/in e
Cologne in favor of a news
magazine program called Ne11.1/ink
tu provide
~D,tw comprehensive
news from
Europe. The new
program runs about a hal f-hour and
is broadcas t live four limes a day.
Ne1rsLink can be heard to North
America at 01 and 03 hours and 10
other regions at 02. 04. 06. 09. 11 .
16. 19. 20. and 23 hours UTC.

INTERNET

TV

In other news from Germany.

Deutsche Welle TV became the fi rst
European broadcaster to go li ve on
the internet (www.dwcllc.de).
Almost simultaneously here in th<:
U. S.. Trin ity Broadcasting N.:twork
began >imulcasti ng its programs via
the TBN website at www.tbn.org/
home.him. See our April colu mn
(p. 4 3) for details about the new
RealPlayer technology that is
making this possible.

COMPUTER

Asia
Australia
Pacific
various
domestic broadcast
omnidirectional

BEAT

That 's the name of a new

program on WR MI dealing with the

world of wmputcrs and lhc world
wide web. Tune your ' horlwave to
9955 kHz on Sun al 2000. Mun at
I :no. Tue at I :l 15. or Sat at 2330.

BBC FEATURE ON HONG KONG

To mark the occa, ion of the
return o f the British colony tu China
the end of this month. B 13C is
featuri ng a six-part program ca lled
.. I-long Kong: lmp.:ria l Orphan:
Former Be ijing correspondent Tim
Luard presents the ex traordi nary
story of how a remote colonial
outpost grew IU outshine the two
empires which spawm:d it. Part um:
of the >erie' began the third
weekend of May and cu111inues
through June 26th.
AE Stream: Sun 1701 (repeated
Tues 0630 and I 130)
AF Stream: Sun IO:lO (repeated
Tue 1930)
AS Stream : Sat 05:10 (repeated
Wed 1830 and Thu 0230)

THE RETURN OF WAVEGUIDE

BBCs Wmeg11ide program
appca" lo have re-emerged during
May. Assuming that it will continue
in June. th.: schedu le should be as
foll ows:
AE Stream: Tue 1730 (repealed

Wed 1230)
AF Stream : Sun 150 1 (repeated
Mun 0730)
AS Stream : Sun 1501 and Wed
0345 (repeated 2345)

THE DEMISE OF MONITOR RADIO

Sec pages 6 and 38 for other
reports on The Christi:m Science
Church "s surprise decision to sell
major portions of its broadcasting
operations. In addition to Monitor
Radio. WS HB in Cypress Creek,
South Carolina. and Kl-IB1 on the
island of Saipan are up for sale or
lease.

SUMMERTIME IN lrALY
August is the month of
vacations in Italy and mu~t Italians
will be enjoying it at the beach or in
the mountains. The Ital ian exodus
was foretold recently when Radio
Vaticana's March 10 October
broadcast schedule arrived. T he
printed sclu:dule was prominently
labeled as bei ng effective for .. aprilmay-junc-j uly-september-October
1997:

TOPS IN SHORTWAVE LISTENERSHIP

It is generall y <L~s umed that the
two must innucntial shortwave

broadcasters
arc the Voice
o f America
(VOA) and
the British
Broadcasting
Corporation
(BBC). But. wh ich broadcasters
'
rank second and third in this
category? Accord ing to Spanish
Radio and T V. Vatican Radio
occupies the third spot and Spanish
External Radio comes in fo urth.
Spain produces 42 hours of
broadcasting each day in Spanish.
three dialects, and six foreign
languages. (Hmmm ... I wonder if
Deutsche Welle comes in fifth? Any
broadcasters care to challenge this?)

SELECTED PROGRAMS FOR JUNE

World Harvest Radio (WHRI
and KWHR) and World Wide
Christian Broadcasting (WWCR )
provide the bulk of the featured
programs for this month. These
schedules were current at press
time. but the nature of commercial
radio combi ned with pri nting lead
time often defeats all efforts to
bring you the latest. If religious
programs aren' t your cup of tea,
you can use this info rmation to tune
out as well as tune in.

June 1997

MONITORING TIMES

43

FREQUENCIES.
00000100
00000100
00000100 vi
00000100 vi
00000015
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
0000-0100
00000010
00000027
00000100
00000030
00000015 vi
00001100
0000(})45
00000100
0000-0030
0000-0100
00000100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0050
0000-0100 vi
0000-0100
0000-0030 mtwhfa
00000100
00000030

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio
Aus1ralia. VL8K Ka therine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Cambodia. Natl Voice ol
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St Johns
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt Radio Cairo
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam. TWR/KTWR
India. All India Radio
Japan. R Japan/NHK World
Kazakhstan. Radio Almaty
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia.LCN/R L1ber1a lnl
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuchmg
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS
Serbia, Radio Yugoslavia
Spain. R EX1erior Espana
Thailand. Radio

SELECTED PROGRAMS .

6090am
13605pa
5025do
4910do
11940as
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6t60do
9710na
6205am
5895eu
5930na
9745am
9900na
3366do
9870as
7150as
6155eu
6230eu
9960va
5100do
7295do
7160do
6020na
15115pa
1I335na
9675do
7105na
9580na
6055am
9690af

15415as

11695na
7385am
7165eu
7345na
21455am

0000
0000
0000
0030
0030
0030

9705as
61 BOeu

0000
0000
0015
0030
0030
0030
0045
0045

India, All India Radio: Press Review.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Prophetic Voice Broadcast A
program from Gospel Tru th Ministries of Cincinnati.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Whal Does the Bible Say?. M.
H. Reynolds exposes 01her religions.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: World ol Prophecy. Texe Marrs
and a guest discuss the evils and pillalls ol loday and lhe
outlook for tomorrow.
WHRI (Angel 2): Open Bible Dialog. Joseph Chambers takes
listeners' phone calls.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Message of Hope. Sam While.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Lile's Railway to Heaven. WT
English evangelizes from South Carolina.

0000

0000
0000
0000

44

13760na

15130na

7125na
11870na

0005
0005
0030

Ukraine. R Ukraine Intl

00000100

United Kingdom. BBC WS

00000045
00000030
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100

UMed Kingdom. BBC WS

United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. ICTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio lnll
USA. Voice of America

00000100 lwhfa

USA. Voice of America

00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
0000-0100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00000100
00300100

USA, WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McGaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl /R Miami Intl
USA, WRNO New Orleans LA
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Australia, Radio

11620as

00300055
00300100
0030-0100
00300100
0030-0100
00300100
0035-0040

Auslria, RAuslria Intl

Iran, VOIRI
Lilhuania. Radio Vilnius
Netherlands, Radio
Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka BC
Thailand. Radio
India. All India Radio

7250na

0050-0100

Italy. RAI Intl

June 1997

India. All India Radio: Radio Newsreel.

USA. KWHRNaalehu HI: People to People (live). A program
oflering practical scriptural insights with Bob George.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary.

Wednesdays

0000
0000
0000
0000

0000
0005

India. All India Radio: Press Review.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: USA Radio News. See T 0000.
USA. WWCR 11 Nasllville TN: Newswatch Magazine. See T
0000.
USA. WWCR 13 Nasllville TN: The Intelligence Report (live).
See M 1600.
WHRI (Angel 2): Jack Mclamb Show (live). See T 0000.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: People 10 People (live). See T
0005.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.

Thursdays

0000
0000
0000

0000
0000
0005
0005
0030
0054
0054

India, All India Radio: Press Review.

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: USA Radio News. See T 0000.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Newswatch Magazine. See T
0000
USA. WWCR t3 Nashville TN: The Intelligence Report (live).
See M 1600.
WHRI (Angel 2): Jack Mclamb Show (hve). See T 0000.
India. All India Radio: Radio Nmsreel.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: People lo People (live). See T
0005.
India. All India Radio: News and Commenrar;.
Radio Nelhertands: Documentary. 501h Anniversary
Celebrations: Wim Kok (51h). See W 1254.
Radio Netherlands Documentary. Cities (Parts 1. 2. and 3)
(12th/19th/26th). See A 2354.

Fridays

0000

0000
0000

India. All India Radio: Press Review.

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: USA Radio News A livemin111e
news bullelin.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Newswatch Magazine. David
Smilh compares world news to bible prophecy.
USA. WWCR 13: The Intelligence Report (live). See M 1600.
WHRI (Angel 2): Jack Mclamb Show (hve). Jack Mclamb.

MONITORING TIMES

9845na

0030

India. All India Radio: Press Review.

USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Universal World Church. 0.
Lee Jaggers of Los Angeles preaches about lhe tree of life.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Commodities Markel Update.
Bill Mischack.
WHRI (Angel 2): Tile Hour ol Courage. Ron Wilson talks
politics and the precious metals ma1kel.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Wonderful Words ol Lile. See
1115.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: 1n1erna11onal House of Prayer.
Jacqueline Brown conducts servtces from Brooklyn. New
York.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: 701h Week Magazine. Ben
McKnight 1alks about survivalist subjects.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Failhlul Teaching Ministry.
Jeffrey Hayes.
WHRI (Angel 1): Truth lor the World. Churches of Christ
spokesman Jim Dearman examines Scripture.

Tuesdays
0000

6165na

00000100
I 7750as

11760na

9950as

. . ....
5905na
7180na
9905na
5965as
6195as
11955as
3915as
111oas
5810am
15590am
17510as
7535na
7215as
15290as
5995am
9775am
5825eu
5085am
5745am
11950am
7490na
9955am
7355am
3215am
6085na
9660pa
15365pa
9655na
6050eu
591 Ona
5905as
9730as
15370as
4860do
11870do
6010na

6010na
7240na
12040na
5970am
9410as
1531oas

6020na
9550na

7150na
9560na

5975am
9590am

6175am
11750sa

9580as

11945as

152BOas

9430sa
9770as
17735as
6130am
11695am
6890na

15665as
11760as
17820as
7405am
13740am
15375sa

15725as
15185as

5070am
9505ca
11640as
17795pa

7435am

13845am

12080pa
17860pa

13755pa
17880pa

9455am

9022eu

9685eu

7305as

9855as

11655as

5050do

7110do

11830do

9675na

11BOOna

... . .. . . . . . . . ... ......... ..... ........ ... .. ..... .

Mondays
0000
0000

15510as

4915do

Sundays
0000
0000

... ....

0000
0000
0005
0030

India. All India Radio: Press Review.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: USA Radio News. See T 0000.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Newswatch Magazine. See T
0000.
USA. WWCR 13 Nasnv1lle TN: The Intelligence Report (live).
SeeM 1600
WHRI (Angel 2): Jack Mclamb Show (live). See T 0000.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: People to People (live). See T
0005.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary.

Saturdays
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0005
0005
0030

India. All India Radio: Press Review.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: USA Radio News. See T 0000.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Newswatch Magazine. See T
0000.
USA, WWCR #3 NashvilleTN: The ln1elligence Report (live). See
M 1600.
WHRI (Angel 2): Jack Mcl amb Show (live). See T 0000.
India. All India Radio: Radio Newsreel.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: People to People (live). See T 0005.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS
AUSTRALIA : RADIO AUSTRALIA
Z -97 recommended for NAm:
0030-0400
13755
17795
00300630
0030-0800
15365
0400-0630
11880
0630-1230
9860
9580
0800-0900
6020
[ 1230- 1300 95801
11800
1300- 1700
5995
1300-2 100
9580.
1430-2 100
12080
1530-1 800
6060
1700-2 130
11880 9860
1830-2200
72-10
17860 17795
2130-2400
2200-2400
15365
(RA web site)

13755

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SHORTWAVE GUIDE
i

FREQUENCIES .
0100,)200
01000200

Anguilla Ca11bbean Beacon

Auslraha Radio

0100-0200 vi
01000200 vi
01000200
01000200
01000200
01000200
01000200
01000200
0100-0200
0100-0200
01000200
01000110
01000200
01000127
0100-0200
01000150

Auslraha. VL8K Katherine

Auslraha. VL8T Tenl Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Monueal
Canada CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CllNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN Si John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl
Cos1a Rica.RF Peace Intl
Cro.1lk1 C1oa11an Radio
Cuba. Radio liavana
CLech Rep, Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deulsche Welle

0100-Cl 15
0100C130
01000200
01000 125
01000200 lh
01000110
01000200

Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Hungary. Radio Budapesl
Indonesia Voice of
ltan. VOIRI
Ireland W Coast R Ireland
llal/ RAI Intl
Japan R Japan NHK Wo1ld

01000200
01000200
01000200 Snlll'lh
01000125
01000200
01000200
01000200 vi

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Lebanon. Voice of Hope

L1be11a LCNIR Ltbena Int
Malaysia. Radio
ive1he11Jnds Radio
Nelhe1lands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC

6090am
9660pa
13755pa
17715as
17880pa
5025do
4910do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
9535am
6205am
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6000na
6200na
9745am
6040na
I 1810na
3366do
6075na
9525na
6050eu
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6010na
5960na
13630am
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11640as
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1i750pa

9755am
7385am
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9820na
7345na
21455am
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12080pa
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1i795pa

13605pa
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0100-0200
01000200

Ph1lipp1nes. FESCI R Intl

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

01000130
0100-0200
Ot000200
01000130
01000200

Slovakia. R Slovakia lnl

Spam. R EX1e11or Espana
Sri Lanka. S11 Lanka BC
SvlllLerland. S111ss R lnll
Ur1led Kingdom. BBC WS

Ot000200
01000200
01000200
0100-0200
01000200
01000200

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA KJES Mesquile NM
USA. KTBN Sall Lk Cily UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Mon11or Radio Intl
USA. Voice of Amenca

0 I 000200 IWllla

USA. Voice of America

01000200
01000200
0100-0200
01000200
0100-0200
01000200
010J0200
010J0200 nnwhl
010)0200
01000200
01000130
01000126
01300150
01300200
0130-0200
01300200 s
01400159
0145-0200

USA, WEWN Birmingham Al

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA WANO Ne>'1Orleans LA
USA. \WHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Uzbekistan. R Tashkenl
V1e1nam. Voice of
Greece Voice of
Netherlands. Radio
Sweden. Radio
Sweden. Radio
Vatican Slale. Valican R
Albania. R Tirana Intl

9830na

6145na

4915do
6075na

6190na

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15500as

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9640na

9580na

9845na
9855as

11890na
17810as

I 5450as
7105na
15180na
5930na
6055am
9730as
6135na
5965as
6195as
I 1750am
15360as
5810am
7555am
7510am
17510au
7535na
7115as
1I725as
17820as
5995am
9775am
5825eu
5085am
5745am
11950am
7490na
9955am
7355am
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2390am
6065na
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9435as
7290am
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12010na
15595na
7300na

9440na

9885na
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9590am
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6175am
9605as
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7205as
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9635as
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1l705as
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6130am
13740am
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7405am

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3215am
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5070am

5935am

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9420na
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SELECTED PROGRAMS . . . . .
Sundays
0100
0100
OtOO
0100
0100
0107
Ot30
0131

Canada. RGI Montreal Nms. News ft0m etther the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) or Radio Canada
International (RGI)
USA. KWHR Naalehu Iii: The Water ol Life Broadcast Doyle
Davidson preaches ltom Plano. Texas.
USA. WWCR !1 Nashv11le TN: Faith Holiness Church. Larry
Cam evangelizes lrom Soulh Carolina.
USA. WWCR 13 riashville TN: Pro1ec11ng 'four Weallh (hve).
Mike Callahan's linancial commenta1y, mveslments. and
polihcs dealing 1111h money issues
WHRI (Angel 2). Open Bible Dialog. See S0000.
Canada. RGI Montreal Innovation Canada Canadian
entrepreneurs mven101s. and researche1s and their ideas
and d1scove11es
USA. IVWCR 1 riashville TU The Lights of Spiritual
Guidance. Gospel and song with J. Harold Lowman.
Canada. RCI Mont1ea1 Earth Walch Environment and
ecology maners.

Tuesdays

0100
0100
0100
0100
0100
0111
0130
0155

Wednesdavs

0100
0100
0100

Mondays

0100

0100
0100

0100
0111
0130
0155

0100
0100
Ot05
0106

010;
0115
0130
0130
013 t
0145
0145

Canada. RGI MontreJI: Nel'IS. See S 0100.

USA. WWCR #1 NaSllVllle TN' Ftrsl Hand. Rick LIVlngood
with a wotld evangelism update.
USA, WWCR #3 Nas11v1lle TN: Ftee at Lasl Mike Seymour
wilh a halfhour or music and scriplurn.
WMRI (Angel 112): USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): MUSIC. Sees 0200.
WHRI (Angel 2): Radio F1ee America (live). Tom Valenlme
hosls lh1s talklinte1v el'I pt0gram.
Canada. RCI Montreal: The Arts in Canada. A look at lhe
Ca11M1n11 arts scene.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Chnsl al Ille Door. Leland
Wood.
USA. KWHR Naaleh HI Chnst Gospel Broadcast See S
t300.
USA. WWCR 11 Nas~v1lle TN: Slandmg m the Gap. Rose
Ondush evangelizes 'rom lhe Pocono Mountains m
Pennsylvania.
Canada. RCI Monueal The Mailbag. Listener 1ene1s,
musical selections. and happenings m Canada
USA KWHR Naalehu HI Bible Gems Jim Knstott
evangelizes !tom Ind ana
USA. WWCR 11 Mi1acle Revival Hour Terry Dtxon.

Canada. RGI Monlreal. News. See S0100

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Turn YOUI Radio On. See M 0400.
USA. WWCR #I Nashville TN: Patriol Radio News Hour (live).
Eric Ceaderslrom.
USA. WWCR 3 Nashville TN: The Slan Solomon Show (hve).
A newslalk 1adio prog1am.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Prophecy Clul. See S 2330
Canada. RCI Monlrear Spectrum. I. weekday magazme
program of cunent affaus. features. and a business 1eport.
WHRI (Angel 2). The Hou of Courage. See M 0000.
Canada. RGI Montreal News. See S0100.
Canada. REI Montreal News See S0100
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI. MUSIC. See s t 600
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Patnol Radio News Hour (live).
See T 0100
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The S1an Solomon Show (live).
See T 0100.
WHRI (Angel 2). The Ptophecy Club. See S 2330
Canada, RGI l~onlreal: Speclrum. See T 0111
WHRI (Angel 2): The Hour of Cou1age. See M 0000.
Canada. RGI Monueal: News. See SO I 00.

0 t 00
Qt 11
Ot30
0155

See T 0100.
WHRI (Angel 2) The Prophecy Club. See S 2330
Canada. RCI Montreal: Spectrum See T 01t1
WHRI (Angel 2): The Hou or Courage. See M 0000.
Canada. RCI Mon11ea1: News. See SOtOO.

Saturdays
0100
0100
0100
0 t 00
0100
0111
0130
0154
0154

0155

Canada. RCI Montreal: News. See S0100

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI. Home Schooling. Te1ry and Vicki
Brady of the Home Education nelwork take calls aboul
schoohng.
USA. WWCR It Nashville TN. Patriol Radio Ne\'IS Hour (live).
See T 0100.
USA. WWCR #3 NashVtlle TN The Stan Solomon Sho11 (hve).
See T 0100.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Prophecy Club. See S 2330.
Canada. RCI Mont1eal: Speclrum. See T 0111.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Hout of Cou1age. See M 0000.
Radio Nelherlands: Documentary. 501h Ann1ve1sary
Celebralions: Wim Kok (71h). See W t 254.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. C1t1es (Parts 1. 2. and 3)
(141hi21sV281h) In this co-production 1111h Ireland and
Scotland. the competition between major c11ies ol a country is
examined.
Canada. RCI Monlreal: News. See S0100.

Thursdays
0100
0100
0100
0100
0100
0111
0130
0155

Canada. RCI Monlreal: News. See S0100.

USA. KWHR ri aatehu HI: Music. See S 1600
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Pa11101 Radio News Hour (live).
See T OtOO.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Slan Solomon Show (live).
See T OtOO.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Prophecy Club. See S 2330
Canada. RCI Montreal Spec1rum. See T 0111.
WHRI (Angel 2) The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
Canada. RCI Montreal Nms See S0100.

Fridays

0100
0100
0100
0100

Canada. RCI Mont1eal. News See S0100.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI. Music. See S 1600
USA. WWCR '1 Nashville Trl Palflot Radio Nel'IS Hout (ltve)
See T OtOO
USA. WWCR ;3 Nashville TN: The S1an Solomon Show (live)

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Aus1raha Radio

0200-0300 vi
0200-0300 vi
0200-0210
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300 1whfa

Aus1raha. VLBK Ka1he11ne

Auslralm. VLBT Tenl Crk
Bangladesh. Bangla Belar
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Mo111real
Canada CFRX Toron1o
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX HahfaJ<
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada lnll

0200-0300 sm

Canada R Canada lnll

0200-0300
0200-0210
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
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Cosla Rica.RF Peace lnll

Croatia. Croatian Radio
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Germany, Oeulschc Welle

0200-0300 vi
0200-0300
0200-0300 smlwh
0200-0300 s
0200-0230
0200-0300
0200-0230 m
0200-0300 vi
0200-0300
0200-0256

Kenya, Kenya B1oadc Corp

Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malta. VO Mediterranean
Nelhcrlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ lnll
Norway. Radio No1way lnll
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Ph1hppmes. FEBCIR 1011
Romania A Romarna lnll

0200-030J

Russia.Voice ol Russia WS

0200-0300
0200-0230
02000300

S Al11ca. 1nves1men1 Ch
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia
Slovakia Adv World Radio

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11710am
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4910do
4880do
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6005do
6070do
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6130do
6160do
6160do
6120am
136703m
6120am
13670am
6205am
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9745am
9475na
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0200-0300
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Soulh Korea. R Ko1ea lnll

S11 Lanka, S11 Lanka BC
Taiwan. VO Free China

0200-0300

Untied Kingdom. BBC WS

0200-0230
0200-0300
0200-0230
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300

Urnlcd Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KJES Mesqu11e NM
USA. KTBN Salt Lk C11y UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Moni1or Radio lnll
USA. Voice of Ame11ca

0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300 mlwhl
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0215-0225
0230-0300
0230-0259
0230-0300
0230-0300
0230-0300 vi
0230-0200
0230-0300
0230-0256
0230-0300 vi
0245-0300

USA. WEWN Burningham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINS Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R M1a1m lnll
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Nepal. Radio
Albama. R Tirana lnll
Aust11a. R Aus1r1a loll
Hungary. Radio Budapes1
Nethcllands. Radio
Ph1hpp1nes. R P1hpinas
Sweden. Radio
Umled Kmgd om. BBC WS
V1e1nam. Voice ol
Zambia. A Zamb1a/ZNBC 2
India. All India Radio

0245-0255 vi
0250-0300 sf
0250-0300
0255-0300 vi

Mozambique. R ll'ozamb1que
Greece Voice ol
Valican Slate. Va11can R
Zambia R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1

7275as
9730as
5950na
11825as
5970sa
6195eu
15280as
9590am
5810am
7555am
7510am
9975am
175 IOau
5850na
7115as
11725as
17820as
5825eu
SOBSam
5745am
11950am
7490na
9955am
7355am
2390am
6065na
7165do
6140na
9655na
6190na
9855as
11885me
7135na
7325am
7250na
6165do
3945do
15135do
4855do
6260na
7305am
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11725am

11B10am

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15345as
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15310as
9915am

9680na

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6135af
9605as
15360as

6175am
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9635as
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11 705as
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5070am

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7205as
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3215am
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7160na
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9840na
11655as
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13730sa
11910na
15270me

9895am

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7110do

11830do

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9420na

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SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays

Tuesdays

0200
0200

0200
0200

0200
0200
0200
0200
0205
0230
0232
0245

Canada. RCI Monlrcal: News. See S 0100.

USA. KWHR Naalehu Ill: Failh Mounlain Minislries. Henry
Vanderbush.
USA. WWCA #1 Nashville TN: Open Bible Dialog. Joseph
Chambers preaches Bible prophecy from No11h Carolina.
USA, WWCR 13: Sper.1rum (live). SWLs and Hams call 1800-774-7435 wilh 1echnlcal queslions and commenls.
WHAi (Angel 1): Music. Conlcmporary christian music and
inspiralion.
WHRI (Angel 2). World ol Prophecy_ Texe Marrs and a guesl
discuss lhe evils and p11falls ol loday and lhe oullook for
lomorrow.
Canada. RCI Montreal. Double Exposure. The comedy learn
ol Bob Robenson and Linda Cullen present !heir award
winning brand of polilteal satire and mumcry.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: l.Jvmg Failh M1rns111es. Bill Perg.
Canada. RC! Monlreal. The Royal Canadian Air Farte. The
!raveling comedy show thal was broughl back by popular
demand.
USA. KWHR Naalehu Ill Fa1!11Chrtsltan Church. Paul Shirek.

Mondays
0200
0200
0200
0200
0200
0205
0205
0206
0230
0231

46

Canada. ACI Monlreal News See S 0100

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI Melhod1s1 Hour Music. mlerviews.
and 11mely messages.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: World ol Prophecy. See S
0000.
WHAi (Angel I): UPI News See s 0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): USA Radio News_See S 0400.
Canada. RCI Montreal The Inside Track. An award-winning
program of sports 1ournahsm, exam1111ng lhe 1mpac1 of
sports on lhe lives ol Canadians.
WHAi (Angel 1): MUSIC. Secs 0200.
WHAi (Angel 2): Radio Free America (live). See M 0106.
USA. KWHA Naalchu HI The Voice ol Power. RW
Schambach preaches lrom Tyler. Texas
Canada. RCI Monlreal: Now lhc Dc1a1ls A CBC program
aboul 11le media.

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0200
0206
0215
0230
0245

Canada. RCI Montreal: News. Sec S0100.

USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Trulh House. Evangelistic
leachings by E.C. Fullcher plus his global shor1Wave club.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Slan Solomon Show
(live). See T 0100.
Canada. RCI Monlreal: The Bcsl ol Morningside. Repeals ol
the CBC's morning program.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600.
WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Sold Out for Jesus_See M 111 5

Fridays

0200
0200
0200

0206
02 15
0230
0245

Saturdays

Wednesdays

0200
0200
0200

0206

0206
0215
0230
0230
0245

0200
0200
0200

0215
0230
0245

Canada, RCI Monlreal: News, See S0100.

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Trulh House. See T 0200.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Stan Solomon Show
(live). See T 0100.
Canada. RGI Montreal: The Bes1 ol Morningside. See T
0206.
USA, KWHA Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600.
WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S0200.
WHRI (Angel 1): Sold Out lor Jesus. See M 1115.

Canada, RCI Montreal: News. See S 01QQ_

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Truth House. See T 0200.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The S1an Solomon Show (live).
See T 0100.
Canada. RCI Montreal: The Bes1 ol Morningside. See T 0206.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. Sees 1600.
WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.
WHRI (Angel 1): Sold Out tor Jesus. See M 1115.
Canada. RCI Monlreal: News. See S0100.
USA. V/WCR I 1 Nashville TN: Trulh House. See T 0200.
USA. V-/WCR 13 Nashville TN: The Slan Solomon Show (live).
See T 0100.
Canada. RCI Montreal: The Besl ol Morningside. See T 0206_
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. Sees 1600.
USA. KWHR IJaalehu HI: DXing wilh Cumbre. See M 0330.
WHAi (Angel 1): Music. Sees 0200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Sold Out for Jesus. See M 1115.

Thursdays

0200
0200
0200
0206
0215
0230
0245
0254
0254

Canada. RCI Mon1real: News See S 0100.

USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Trulh House. See T 0200.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Stan Solomon Show
(live). See T 0100.
Canada. ACI Mon1rea1 The Besl ol Mornmgslde. See T
0206.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI Music. See S 1600
WHRI (Angel 1): Music_See S 0200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Sold Oul for Jesus. See M 11 15.
Radio Netherlands: Documemary. 501h Anmvcrsary
Celebrations: Wim Kok (5th). See w 1254.
Radio Ne!herlands: Documemary. C11tes (Parts 1. 2. and 3)
(1211V1911V261h). See A 2354.

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0300-0400
0300-0310
0300-0400
0300-0327
0300-0400
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Australia VL8K Kathe1111c

Australia. VLBT Tent C1k
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canacfa. CFCX Monl1ca1
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada CFVP Calga1y
Canada CHflX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St Johns
Canada CKZU Vancouvc1
China. Ch111a Radio Intl
Cosla Rica.Faro del Carob
Cosla Rica.Rf Peace Intl
Croalla. Croallan Radio
Cuba Radio Havana
Czech qep Radio Prague
Ecuado1. HCJB
Egypt, Radio Cairo
Gernw1y. Deulsche Welle

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400 s
0300-0330
0300-0325
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Japan R JapanlNHK Wo1ld
Kenya Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon Vo1te of Ho1>e
Lesotho Radio Leso1ho
Malaysia RTM Kuch1ng
Malta. VO Med1terranea11
Mexico. Radio Mexico 11111
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua !Jew Gumea. NBC
Philippines. R P1hp111as
Russia Voice of Russia ws

0300-0330
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0300-0400

S Atnca. Channel Af11ca

SAfrica. l11ves1111e111Ch
Sri Lanka. Sri Lank,1 BC
Tarl'lan. VO free China

0300-0330
0300-0400

Thailand Radio
Turkey Vorce of

. . ..

'

..

6090am
t360~pa

t 7750pa
50?5do
4910do
9G25do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6t30do
6 160do
6t60do
9690am
5055rl o
6205am
5895cu
6000na
5930as
9745am

13755pa
t7795pa

9710am
7385.1111
7t65cu
9820na

t54t 5as

15510as

11695a111

9830na

73~5as

2t~55am

94 7~na

608511a
96401rn
3300do
17685va
4885do
9960va
J800do
7t 60do
15550as
9705na
9855as
151 t5pa
9675do
t t885as
7t25na
t36J5na
5955af
6t60al
9730as
5950na
153J5as
9655na
7270as

6t85n;i

4935110

9535na

961 Sna

6150110

I 7570au
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t5 t20,1s
12000na
13665na

15270as
t 20t 0na
15180na

12050na
t5595na

7t90at

9535me

t 1820me

7t30na

9680na

I 182Sas

tt890na
7300cu

I 1905na
15190va

-~-~

. ..

0300 UTC

..

..... . ....

0300-0315 ffil\'.llf
03000400
0300-0330

Uganda Radio
Ukraine. R Ukraine Intl
Uniled Kingdom. BBC WS

03000J00

Un11ed K111gdom BBC WS

0300 0400
03000400
0300-0400
03000400
03000400
03000100

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWlm Naalehu HI
USA. Mon1101 Radio Intl
USA. VOICe of Amenca

0300-0330 smtwh
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0.IQO
0300-0400
0300-0345
0300-0310
0300-0400 vi
0300-0-100 vi
0300 0400 vi
0310-0340
0330-0357
0330-0355
0330-0-IOO ll'lhfa
0330-0400
0330-0400
0330-0400
0330-0400

USA. Voice of America

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMllR Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYfR Okeechobee FL
USA. WYfR Okeechobee fl
Vatican Stale. Vatican R
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZN6C t
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 2
Zunbab\'lc. Zimbabwe BC
Val ican Stale. Vatican R
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Moldova. R Moldova Intl
Portugal. R Po11ugal Intl
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Sweden. Radio
Ta111an1a Radio
Urnted Kingdom. BBC WS

0335-0355 vi
0340-0350
03J5-0400
0345-0400
0345-0400 as
0356-0400

India. All India Radio

Greece. Voice ot
Burundi. Radio Nat1onale
Ta1rl.1stan Radio Dushanbe
Uganda. Radio
Zarrbia. Ch11st1an Voice

4976do
7150na
5970sa
15360as
3255af
6190af
9605as
15310as
58t0am
75t0am
9975am
17510au
5850na
6080at
7290af
4960af
5825eu
5085am
5745arn
7490na
9955am
7395am
2390am
9985at
6065na
7305na
49t Odo
6165do
3396do
7360at
9480me
7520cu
6t50am
9465af
9430na
5050at
6t 75arn
t5280as
711 Odo
6260na
6t40do
4975as
4976do
3330af

9550na
6135af

12040na
7325am

5975am
6195va
9895am
17790as

6005af
9410eu
11760as
21660as

6180eu
9600af
12095af

7535af
6ttSat
7340af

7105at
9575at

7280af
9885at

6890na

9370sa

9895am

7315am

3215am

5070am

5935am

9610at

11730at

I t955as

11830do
7450na

15135do
9420na

9935na

9505na
9605am

1t600as
9570am

9905as
6065at

SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0300
0300
0300
0300
0300
0330
0330
0345

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI Whole Trulh Broadcast. Bishop

Rapha.
USA. WWCR It Nashville TN: faith Mountain M1n1stries.
Henry Vanderbush
USA. WWCR , 3 Nashville TN: The Golden Ag e of Radio
Theater. Relive rhe golden momenrs ol rad1os yesteryear
WHAi (Angel t ): MUSIC. See s 0200.
WHRI (Angel 2) Biblical Studies lnslllute Bob Tref
evangelizes lrorn Rapid City. South Da ~ota
USA. 'IN/CR 1 Nashville TN The Street Preache1 Steven
Keeler.
WHRI (Angel 2): DXmg wilh Curnbre. A what's-onl he-air
program hoslcll by ~tarie Lamb.
USA. WWCR 1t Nashville TN. A Study rn God's Word f rom
NMh Ca1olina Hezak1ah Sm11h reads Scrrpcure.

Mondays

0300
0300

0300
0305
0306
0330

USA. KWllR Naalehu HI The S\1ord of the Sp1111 Mike

Keyes evangelizes from Tucson. Arrzona
USA. WWCR t Nashville TN: USA Radio Mews See S
0400.
WHRI (Angel t ): UPI News. Sec S 0400
WHRI !Angel t ): Music See S0200
WHRI (Angel 21 Radio free Amerrca (hve) See M Ot06
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI OXrng 1-.1th Cumbie A what'sonlhe-a1r prog1am hosted by Marie Lamb

Tuesdays
0300
0300
0300
0300
0305
0305

USA. KWflR Naalehu Ill UPI News five mmures of news

from lhc UPI Radio lletwork.
USA. wwcn " Nashville TN: The R.1d10 Bible Hour. J
Harold S1111111
USA. IVWCR 3 Nas1v1llc TN Sc11ptu1es foe Amenca (llve)
Peter J Petc1s exposes lhe worlds e.11s
WHAi (Angel t ) UPI News. See S0400
USA. KWltR Naalehu HI Music. See s 1600
WHRI (Angel 1): Music See S 0200

0330

USA. \WICR t Nash11llc TU. The P1ophecy Club Stan

Johnson discusses bible prophecy from Topeka. Kansas.

Wednesdays
0300
0300
0300
0300
0305
0305
0330

USA. KIVI IA Naalchu HI: UPI Ne\'/S. See T 0300.

USA. WWCRIt Nashville TN: The Radio Bible Hour See T
0300.
USA, WWCR 13 Naslivrllc TN: Scr1ptu1es for Amenca (llve).
See T 0300
WHRI (Angel I) UPI News See S 0400
USA. KIVHR Haalehu Ill Music. See S t600
WHRI (Angel t ): MUSIC Sees 0200.
USA. WWCR f 1 Nashville TN: The Prophecy Club. See T
0330.

Thursdays
0300
0300
0300
0300
0305
0305
0330

USA. KV/llR Naalehu HI UPI News See r 0300

USA. WWCH t Nashville TN: The Radio Oible limn See T
0300
USA. WIVCR 3 Nashville HJ: Sc11ptu1es for Ame11ca {llve).
See T 0300
WHRI (Angel 1): UPI NC\"IS. Sees 0-IOO
USA, KWHR ~laal CllU HI' Music. See s t600.
WHAi (Angel t ) Music. See S 0200
USA IVWCR ' 1 Nashville TN: The Prophecy Club See T
0330.

Fridays
0300
0300
0300
J300
J305
0305
0330

USA. KWHR 1/aalehu Ill UPI News See T 0300.

USA. WWCR t Nasl1v1lle TN: The Radio Bible Hour See T
0300.
USA. WWCR N3 Nasliv1llc TN: Scriplwcs tor Arncnca (live).
See T 0300
WHRI (Angel t) UPI Mews. See S 0400
USA. KWHR flaalehu HI 1.tusc. See S t600
WHRI (Angel t ); Music. See S 0200
USA. WWCR I t Nashville TN The Prophecy Club. See T
0330.

Saturdays
0300
0300
0300
0300
0305
0330

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: UPI News. See T 0300.

USA. WWCR It Nashville TN: The Radio Bible Hour. See T
0300.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Scriplures for America (live).
See T 0300.
WHRI (Angel t ): UPI News. See s 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): MUSIC. Sees 0200.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Prophecy Club. See T
0330.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS

NEW ZEALAND: R. NEW ZEALAND

INTL
J-97 from Ma y~ to Oct 25:
M -F
6 145
1650
1855
Sat/Sun
6 145
1952
9845
Sun-Thu
2052
11735
2 107
Fri
11 735
2059
Sat
11 735
2.107
daily
15 115
O-ti9
9795
08 17
M-F
6 100
Sa1/Sun
6100
0758
1206-1 650 occasional fo r spon on 6 105

(RNZI website)

June 1997

MONITORING TIMES

47

~-~-~~

FREQUENCIES .

..

SHORTWAVE GUIDE

0400 UTC

04000500
04000500

Angu1lfa.Canbbean Beacon
Auslraha. Radio

04000500 vi
04000500 vi
04000500
04000500 vi
04000500
0400-0500
04000500
0400-0500
04000500
0400-0500
04000430
04000500
04000500
0400-0500
0400-0500v1
0400-0500
0400-0450

Aus1raha. VL8K Ka1he11ne

Australia. Vl8T Ten! Crk
Bulgaria. Radio
Canada CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Mon1real
Canada. CFRX Toron10
Canada CFVP Calgar1
Canada CHNX Hahtax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. A Canada tnll
China. China Radio lnll
Cosla Rica.RF Peace lnlf
Cuba. Radio Havana
Cyprus BRT ln1erna11onal
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

0400-0500 twhfa
0400-04 15
0400-0500 vi
04000500
0400-0500 s
0400043) ma:VI
0400-0458
0400-0450
04000430 m
0400050) vi
04000456

Gualemala. Radio Cullural

Israel Kol Israel
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Malla. VO Med11erranean
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
New Zealand. R NZ 11111
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Nomay. Radio Norway lnlf
Papua New Gumea. NBC
Romanta R Romama Intl

040005()'.)

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0400-0430
0400-0430
04000430
0400-0500
04000430
0400-0430
04000500
04000430
0400-0500

S Afuca. Channel Afuca

S Africa. lnvestmen1 Ch
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Slovakia Adv World Radio
Sn Lanka Sn Lanka BC
Sv111zerland. S\'llSS R lnll
Sw111erland. Swiss R lnlf
Tanzama Radio
Turkey Voice of

6090am
11880pa
I 7750as
5025do
4910do
9485na
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
9715me
9730am
6205am
6000na
6150do
9745am
5990af
I 1765al
3300do
7465na
4885do
9960va
15550as
9705na
15115pa
t5180as
7485na
9675do
5990na
11940na
12000na
13665na
5955af
6160af
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721 Seu
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6135na
9905ca
5050af
7340na

.-

..
13605as
17795pa

15240pa

r/,

.
t5415as

-~

.. .

. .

0400-0415
04000500

Uganda. Radio
Ulllled Kmgdom BBC WS

04000430
04000500
0400-0500
04000500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500

United Kmgdom. BBC WS

USA KAtJ Dallas TX
USA KTBN Sall lk City UT
USA KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KV/HR Naalehu HI
USA. Mo1111or Radio lnll
USA. Voice ot America

0400-0500
0-100-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
04000500 sm1whf
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0405 mlwht
0400-0500
0400-0430
0400-0500
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500 vi
0415-0440 vi
0425-0500
0430-0500
0430-0459
0430-0500 m-flvf
0430-0455
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
0-1550500
0459-0500

USA. V/EWN Bummgham Al

USA. V/GTG McCJysv1lle GA
USA. V/HRf Noblesville IN
USA, VIJCR Up1on KY
USA, WMLK Belhel PA
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. VNICR Nashville TN
USA. WWCR 1Jasliv1lle TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee Fl
V1e111am. Voice ot
Zamb1<. Ch11s11an Voice
Zambia. A Zaml>1i/ZNBC I
Zambia, A ZambialZNBC 2
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe BC
llaly R~I lnll
N1ge11a. FRCN Radio
Aus1raha.DefenseForces R
Auslna. A Aus111a loll
Lesolho. Radio Leso1ho
Moldo\a. R Moldova lnll
Nelherlands. nau10
S Af11ca. lnvestmenl Ch
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Swaziland. Trans World R
Umted Kmgdorn. BBC WS
l.1alays a Voice of
Nm Zealand R NZ lnU

11720na

I 1835me

15275me

7385am
6180na

9820na

21455am
6015af

7225af

9435na
4935do

I 7545af
6150do

9830na

9565af

17570au

15230as

17765as

6155na
12990na
1201ona
15180na

9510na

9570na

12050na
15595na

13645na

7190at

9525me

9885na

::~~ ; : :~~

..
4976do
3255al
6175am
i160al
11955as
153 IOas
21660as
9605as
58t0am
75103111
9975am
17780as
7535c11
6080at
7290at
15205va
5825eu
5085am
5745am
7490na
9465e11
7395am
2390am
3215am
6065na
12020na
3330af
4910do
6165110
3396do
5975eu
3326do
13525as
6155eu
4800do
7520na
6165na
9525me
9580na
11600eu
3200at
15420at
6t 75as
9795pa

....

3955eu
6180eu
94t0na
12085at
15575va

5975a1
6190af
9600at
t 2095va
17640al

6005al
6195eu
11760va
15280as
17790as

9610at

9895am

11730at

9840al
i t iOal
9575af

7265at
9885af

7280at
11965me

6890na

9370sa

i315am

3210am

5070am

5935am

9505na
15010na
6065Jf

9985eu

1t695af

7270eu
4i70do

4990do

13730eu

9590na
11820me
11870na

15225af

4775af

6070at

9750as

15295Ju

6100af

SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0400
0400
0400
0400
0400
0400
0403
0404
0405
0405
0430

0400

Canada. ACI Monlleal: News. Sec S0100.

USA, KWHR Naaleh11 Ill: Gospel Crusade Minis1ries.
Scrip1Ure teachings by Roger Head11ck and free bible
correspondence courses
USA. WWCR fl NashV1lle TN: The Old land Ma1k Church R.
l. Milchelf presen1s 1he Holy Way Hour from Clucago.
USA. WWCR 13 NashVllle TN: USA Radio News. News
summary from 1he USA Radio News Network
WHAi (Angel 1). UPI News. Five minutes ot news from the
UPI Radio Ne1work.
WHAi (An gel 2): USA Radio News. A five-minute news
bulle1in.
VIHRI (Angel 1): Turn Your Radio On Bill Brasier plays
southern gospel music
V/HRI (Angel 2): The Pal Boone Show Pal Boone sings.
Canada. RCI Monlreal. lnnovauon Canada. See S0107.
USA. WWCR 3 NashVllle TN: Ame11ca's Grealesl Heroes.
USA Radio Network.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Prop11e11c voice Broadcast See s
0000.

Mondays
0400
0400
0400
0400
0407
0430

Canada. RCI Mon1real. News. See S 0100.

USA. K\llHR Naafehu HI Turn Your Radio On Bill Brasier
plays soulhern gospel music.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN The Extraordinary Science
Radio Hour. J.W. McGinnis ot lhe Tesla Soc1e1y.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Prophecy Club. See S2330
Canada. RCI Montreal The Mailbag See M 0131.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Hour of Courage See M 0000.

Tuesdays
0400
0400
0400

48

Canada. RCI Mon1rea1 News. See S 0100.

USA. KWHR Naalehu Ht Music. See S 1600.
USA. WWCR 11/3 Nashville TN. Sc11p1ures 101 Ame11ca (hve)
See T 0300.

MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

0400
041 1
0430

WHRI (Angel 1). Bob Enyart (live). Bob lakes hslener phone
calls about everyday Ch11s11an topics.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Prophecy Club. See S 2330.
Canada. RCI Mon1rea1 Spec1rum. See T 01t1 .
WHRI (Angel 2) The Hour ol Couraoe See M 0000

Wednesdays
0400
0400
0400
0400
0400
0411
0430

Canada. RCI Monlreal: Nel'ls. See S 0100

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600
USA. Wl/ICR 1113 NaShVllle TN: Scnplures for America (live).
See T 0300.
WHRI (Angel 1): Bob Enyarl (live). See T 0400.
WHAi (Angel 21 The Prophecy Club See S 2330.
Canada. RCI Mon1rea1 Speelrum. See T 01 11
WHRI (Angel 2): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000

0411
0430

Canada. RCI Monlreal Spectrum See T 0111.

WHRI (Angel 2): The Hour of Courage See M 0000.

Saturdays
0400
0400
0400
0400
0411

Canada. RCI Mon1real News. See S0100.

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI. The Pat Boone Show. Pal Boone
sings.
USA. WWCR #1/3 Nas~v1lle TN: Sc11piures for America
(live). See T 0300
IVHRI (Angel 1/2): Bob Enyart (hve). See T 0400.
Canada, RCI Mon1real. Spectrum. See T 01 1t .

Thursdays

0400
0400
0400
0400
0400
0411
0430
0454
0454

Canada. RCI Montreal Ne<IS See S0100

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: MUSIC. Sees t600.
USA. WWCR #113 Nastw111e TN: Scuplures for America (live).
See T 0300.
WHAi (Angel 1). Bob Enyan (INe). See T 0400
WHRt (Angel 2): The P1ophecy Club See S 2330
Canada. RCI Monlreal Speclrum. See 1 011 1.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Hour of Courage See M 0000
Radio Netherlands. Docurnentar/ 50th Anntversary
Celebrallons \Vim Kok (Slh). See 1/11254
Radio Nelherlands: Documenlary. Cilles (Parts 1. 2. and 3)
(121h/191h/261h). Sec A 2354.

Fridays
0400
0400
0400
0400
0400

Canada. RCI Mon1real. Nws. See S 0100

USA. KWHR N1alehu HI: MUSIC. Sees 1600.
USA. WWCR 11/3 Nashvdle TN: Sc11p1ures lor America (11\e)
See T 0300
WHAi (Angel 1) Bob Enyan (hve). See T 0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Prophecy Club. See S 2330.

HAUSER' s HIGHLIGHTS

JAPAN: R JAPAN NHK

Z-'J7

E n~li'h 10

0 I00-0200
O.'i00-0530
0500-06fXl
0600-07<Xl
1100- 1'.WO
1500- 1600
1700- 1soo
2 100-2200

NAm:

5960-C. I 1790. 13630

11 895-F. I 36.10. 15230
6 1 I 0-C
983.'i . I ~030. 15230
6 120-C
9535
953.'i. 9835
13630

C=Canaua. F=Frcnrh Guiana

WC- DX>

'

~~~~OA~ME~~T

--~-

FREQUENCIES ...

osoo UTC

\HOI~ fllll~Vfi C!l.JH)-...

05000600
0500-0600
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600
0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0530 mtwhl
0500-0600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000550

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio
Australia. VLBK Katherine
Australia. VLBT Tent Crk
Austral1a.DelenseForces R
Cameroon. Radio Cameroon
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada lnll
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica. Adv World R
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

05000600
05000600 vi
05000530 vi
05000600

Guyana. GBCN01ce ot
Italy. IRRS
Italy. IRRS
Japan. RJapan/NHK World

0500-0530
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600
05000505
05000600
05000510 mtwhl
05000600
05000525
05000600
0500-0505
0500-0600 vi
05000600

Japan. RJapan/NHK World

Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Lesotho, Radio Lesotho
Uberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malawi. MBC
Malaysia. Voice ol
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Rad10
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice ol Russia WS

05000530
05000600

S Alrica. Channel Africa

S Alrica. Investment Ch

. ..
6090am
13605as
5025do
4910do
13525as
4850do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6050eu
9560am
5030ca
6205am
6000na
9745am
5960na
6185na
3290do
3985va
7125va
6110na
11920na
13630na
4885do
9960va
4800do
5100do
3380do
6175as
5995na
9795pa
3326do
9675do
12000na
13645na
9675af
9525me

- - ~ -~-~ - J!I_"'"'-

...

15510as

1553oas

7295al

11835al

6150ca
7385am
9830na
21455am
6045na
9615na

9725ca

- --

. .. . . .. . .
17795pa

15430me

6120na
9650na

61 45na

11840as

11895eu

7230eu
13630
t5230na
4935do

6150do

9750as
6165na

15295au
9590na

4770do

4990do

12010na
t 3665na

12040na
15595na

12050na

t 1820me

15225al

17790me

... .

0500-0556
0500-0515
0500-0600

Spain. R Exterior Espana

Uganda. Radio
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0500-0530
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600
0500-0600

United Kingdom. BBC WS

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

05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600 smtwhl
0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600
0500-0530
0500-0520
0500-0600
0500-0530 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-0530 vi
0505-0600
0525-0600
0530-0559
05300600 vi
0530-0556

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA

USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Up1on KY
USA, WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican Stale. Vatican R
Vatican Slate. Vatican R
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC t
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe BC
Swaziland. Trans World R
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
Austria, RAustria Intl
Kiribati. Radio
Romania. R Romania Intl

05300600
05300600 vi
05300600 vi

Thailand. Radio
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC

... . ..... .
6055am
4976do
3255al
6175am
7120va
9610af
153 10as
17640at
1528Qas
5810am
7510am
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9930as
7535eu
5970af
7195at
t5205va
5085am
5745am
7490na
9465eu
7355am
2390am
5985na
9660al
4005eu
3330al
4910do
6165do
3396do
3200al
3366do
6015na
9810do
11790al
15340as
9655eu
7220do
5975do

3955eu
6180eu
7160al
9740as
1536Qas
1776Qas
17790as

5975am
6190al
9410va
11760as
15420af
17885af

6005al
6195va
9600al
12095as
15575va
2166Qas

6035af
963Qal

6080at
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7170va
t2080al

5070am
9985al

5935am
11580eu

7315am

3210am
7355eu
11625al
5882eu
6065al

7250eu

4775al
4915do

6070al

9500al

11940al
17720as
11905eu

15250al
17790at
1511 5eu

15270al

SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0500
0500
0500
0500
0505
0515
0515
0530
0530

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Breakthrough. Rod Parsley

conducts services from the World Harves1 Church in
Columbus, OH.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: These Last Days. Appantions
and prophecies of the Lady ol the Roses.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 112): The Joy of Living Broadcast. Ms. Hursl
and Ms. Smith evangelize with words and song.
USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: Ham Radio and More.
Amateur radio and satellite news and techniques \vith Len
Winkler.
WHAi (Angel t): Music. See S 0200.
WHAi (Angel 2): Taste God's Goodness. Lela Pendergrass
teaches about the coming rapture.
USA. WWCA #1 Nashville TN: The Lutheran Reformation
Hour. Richard Shekner preaches from Chicago Heights.
Illinois.
WHAi (Angel 1/2): The Mercies of God Radio Broadcast.
Pastor Peter Notier from Michigan preaches mercy tor lost
sinners.

Mondays
0500
0500
0500
0500
0500
0515
0530
0530
0555

USA, KWHA Naalehu HI: Music. Sees 1600.

USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Rock the Universe. See S
1200.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Ask WWCR. See S 2315.
WHAi (Angel t ): John Hagee Today. Evangelizing by John
Hagee of the Cornerstone Church In San Antonio, TX.
WHAi (Angel 2): UPI News. Sees 0400.
USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Old Time Religion Hour.
Brother Hogan will send you a Bible.
USA. WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Hour ol Courage. Ron
Wilson talks politics and the precious metals market.
WHAi (Angel 1): In Touch. See S 1200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Inside Pitch. Marvin Lau.

Tuesdays
0500
0500
0500

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. See S t600.

USA. WWCA #1/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): John Hagee TOday. See M 0500.

0500
0505
0506
0515
0530
0530
0555

WHAi (Angel 2): UPI News. See S0400.

USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Spoken Word of God.
Alexander Scourby narrates the King James version of The
New Testament.
USA. WWCA #1 Nashville TN: f<Jr the People (hour 2).
Chuck Harder is back with his old talk radio show.
USA, WWCA 13 Nashville TN: The Old Time Religion Hour.
See M 0515.
USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Hour ol Courage. See M
0530.
WHAi (Angel 1): In Touch. See S 1200.
WHRI (Angel 1): Inside Pttch. Se~ M 0555.

Wednesdays

0500
0500
0500
0500
0505
0506
0515
0530
0530
0555

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600.

USA, WWCA #1/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): John Hagee Today. See M 0500.
WHAi (Angel 2): UPI News. See S0400.
USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Spoken Word of God.
See T 0505.
USA, WWCA #1 Nashville TN: f<Jr the People (hour 2). See
T 0506.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Old Time Religion Hour.
See M 0515.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Hour of Courage. See M
0530.
WHAi (Angel 1): In Touch. See S 1200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Inside Pilch. See M 0555.

Thursdays

0500
0500

0500
0500
0505
0506
0515

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600.

USA, WWCR #113 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): John Hagee Today. See M 0500.
WHAi (Angel 2): UPI News. See S0400.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Spoken Word of God.
See T 0505
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: For 1he People (hour 2). See
T0506.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Old Time Religion Hour.
See M 0515.

0530
0530
0555

USA. WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Hour ol Courage. See M

0530.
WHAi (Angel 1): In Touch. See S 1200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Inside Pitch. See M 0555.

Fridavs
0500
0500
0500
0500
0505
0506
0515
0530
0530
0555

USA. KWHA Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600.

USA, WWCA #1/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): John Hagee Today. See M 0500.
WHAi (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
USA, WWCA 13 NashviUe TN: The Spoken Word of GOd. See
T0505.
USA. WWCA #1 Nashville TN: For the People (hour 2). See T
0506.
USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: The Old Time Religion Hour.
See M 0515.
USA, WWCA 13 Nashville TN: The Hour of Courage. See M
0530.
WHAi (Angel 1): In Touch. See S 1200.
WHAi (Angel 1): Inside Pitch. See M 0555.

Saturdavs

0500
0500
0500
0500
0506

USA, KWHA Naalehu HI: OXlng with Cumbre. See M 0330.

USA, WWCA #1 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Countdown. Joseph Krill.
WHAi (Angel 112): DXlng with Cumbre. See S 0330.
USA, WWCA #1 Nashville TN: For the People (hour 2). See T

0506.
05 t 5
0530
0530
0530
0530

USA, WWCA #3 Nashville TN: Lyon Gold and Silver Magnet

Program. Jackie Lyon hawkS a variety of products tor
healing.
USA, KWHA Naalehu Ht: Christian Country Music. Joe
Brashier plays country music with a Christian slant.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: World of Radio. See S 2330.
WHAi (Angel 1): Christian Country Music. Joe Brashier plays
country music with a Christian slant.
WHAi (Angel 2): A Temple of Jesus Christ. Cleveland Waters.

June 1997

MONITORING TIMES

49

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FREQUENCIES .

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio
Australra. Radio
Australia. VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Australia.DetenseForces A
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany, Deutsche Welle

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

Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp

Guyana. GBCNoice of
Italy, IRAS
Japan. A Japan/NHK World

06000700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0650
0600-0630 s
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700

Kenya. Kenya Sroadc Corp

Kiribati. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Vorce of
New Zealand. A NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Radro
Nonh Korea. A Pyongyang
Norway, Radro Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0600-0655
06000610

S Africa. Channel Africa

S Africa, lnves1ment Ch
S Africa. Trans World A
Sierra Leone. SLBS

6090am
13605as
11880pa
5025do
4910do
13525as
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6t30do
6t60do
6205am
6000na
9745am
11915af
f7860af
3366do
3290do
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118403s
t5230na
4885do
98t0do
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15415as
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7385am
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0600
0600
0630
0630
0630
0630
0645

4990do
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1201oas
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1204Das
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12050as
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t 1800af

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t5225al

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Witness of Power. Randy

Brodhagen.
USA. WWCR #t Nashville TN: Ever Increasing Faith. Fredrick
"K.C." Price evangelizes from Los Angeles.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Prophecy Flash. William
Dankenbring preaches about the second coming.
WHAi (Angel t/2): The Call to Worship. Bernie Timmerman
wrth services from Zion Chapel, Holland. Michigan.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Elerrial Good News. Germaine
Lockwood teaches from the Old Testament
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Faith Mountain Ministries. See
s 0300.
WHAi (Angel 1): The Banner of Truth Broadcast. Sponsored
by the Free Reformed Churches of North America.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Voice of Power. AW Schambach
preaches from Tyler. Texas.
WHAi (Angel t ): Music. See S0200.

06t 5
0630
0635
0645

0600
0605
0605
06t5
0630
0635
0645

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: World Harvest. Joe Brashier is bolh

disc jockey and host.
USA, WWCR #t/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel t/2): The Radio Bible Hour. Or. J. Harold Smith
has been preacl1ing on the radio since t935.
USA, WWCR #t Nashville TN: The Hour of Courage. See M
0530.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Freedom's Call. Bo Gritz hosls
!his1alk radio program.
WHAi (Angel t/2): Failh Seminar of lhe Air. Kennelh Hagin
evangelizes.
WHAi (Angel 112): Uslen 10 Jesus. Clinton and Sarah
Oulerbach from The Redeeming Love Chnslian Cenler of
Nanuel. NY.
USA. WWCR #t Nashvllle TN: Ken's Counlly Classics. Key
Berryhill wilh counlry music from a bygone era.
WHAi (Angel t/2): The Voice of Praise. Pastor Kenneth Ivey
leaches from the word ol God.

MONITORING TIMES

- -

0600
0600

0645

June 1997

0600-0630
06000700
06000630 vi
06000700

Slovakia. Adv World Radio

Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Solomon Islands. SIBC
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
06000700
0600-0630

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio Intl
USA, Voice of America

06000700
06000700
0600-0700
0600-0700 smtwhf
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0645
0600-0630
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
06030610
0605-0700

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voice of
Yemen. Yemeni Rep Radio
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. A Zambia/ZNBC 1
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Swaziland. Trans World A

0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0658
063 1-0640
0645-0700 as
0645-0700

Australia. Radio
Belgium. A Vlaanderen Int
Georgia, Radio
Valican State, Vatican A
Romania, A Romania Intl
Monaco. Trans Wortd Radio
Romania. A Romania Intl

0655-0700 mtwhf

Monaco. Trans World Radio

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: World Harvest See M 0600.

USA. WWCR #1/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel 112): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Hour ol Courage. See M
0530.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Freedom's Call. See M 0605.
WHAi (Angel t/2): Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 06t5.
WHAi (Angel t/2): lislen to Jesus. See M 0630.
USA. WWCR It Nashville TN: The Intelligence Repon. See
M t600.
WHAi (Angel t/2): The Voice ol Praise. See M 0645.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: World Harvest See M 0600.
USA. WWCR #t/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel t/2): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
USA. WWCR #t Nashville TN: The Hour of Courage. See M
0530.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Freedom's Call. See M 0605.
WHAi (Angel t/2): Failh Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
WHAi (Angel 112): Listen to Jesus. See M 0630.
USA, WWCR I t Nashville TN: The lnlelligence Report. See
M t600.
WHAi (Angel 112): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.

Thursdays
0600
0600

0600
0605
0605
0615
0630
0635

.... . ......

..... .

Wednesdays

0645

so

lI

Tuesdays

0600
0600

0605
06t5
0630
0635

0605

t t7403s
120303s

4770do
1523Das
7295pa

0600

0605

17820as

15295au

Mondays

0600

15t85af

t 7750as

9750as

0600
0605

0600

15530as

9835as
t t920na
178t0as
6t50do

Sundays
0600

--

7230eu
119t 0am
15550va
4935do

SELECTED PROGRAMS . . . . .
0600

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. . . . . . . . .. . .

. ..

0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0633
0600-0700vl
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0650

0600-0630
0600-0700

1~:~~ : ; :~~

USA, KWHR Naalehu Ht: World Harvest. See M 0600.

USA, WWCR #1/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel t /2): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Hour of Courage. See M
0530.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashvllle TN: Freedom's Call. See M 0605.
WHAi (Angel 112): Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
WHAi (Angel t/2): lislen 10 Jesus. See M 0630.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The lnlelligence Report. See
M t600.
WHAi (Angel 1/2): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.

13715af
5905am
5020do
5975am
6190at
7325va
11760as
153103s
15575va
21660as
5810am
75 t0am
9975am
9930as
7535eu
5970af
7f70va
t1950af
5825eu
5745am
7490na
9465eu
7355am
2390am
5985am
7355eu
5925as
9780do
33303f
7220do
5975do
5985eu
4775af
t173Qaf
9580pa
6035eu
t1805eu
11625af
9550eu
9755eu
t t740pa
17720pa
9755eu

9545do
6005af
6t95eu
94t0va
t t780eu
t5360as
176403f

6175am
7t45as
9600al
t t9403f
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6180eu
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5995af
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7315am

6035af
9630af
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6080af
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3210am
9455af
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t 0060as

5070am

5935am

7t65eu
6t00af

9830eu
9500af

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9860pa
9925eu

9940au

t 3765af
9665eu

15570af
11810eu

t 5365eu

11840pa

t5250pa

15270pa

6065af

Fridays
0600
0600

0600
0605
0605
0615
0630
0635
0645

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: World Harvest See M 0600.

USA, WWCR #1/3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
WHAi (Angel 1/2): The Radio Bible Hour. See M0600.
USA. WWCR #t Nashville TN: The Hour ol Courage. See
M0530.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Freedom's Call. See M
0605.
WHAi (Angel t/2): Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 06t5.
WHAi (Angel 1/2): Listen to Jesus. See M 0630.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The lnlelligence Repon.
See M 1600.
WHAi (Angel 112): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.

Saturdays
0600
0600
0600
0600
0600
0604
0606
0615
0630
0630
0630
0635
0645
0645

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: The Banner of Tru1h Broadcast.

Sponsored by lhe Free Reformed Churches of Nonh
America.
USA, WWCR It Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S
0400.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Music City Discovery.
Listen to the la1es1 singers to hil Nashville.
WHAi (Angel t ): UPI News. See S0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Call lo Worship. See S 0600.
WHAi (Angel 1): Tum Your Radio On. See S 0403.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Unshackled. Pacific
Garden Mission's radio drama.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Call lo Christ Jimmy Surgeoner.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: The Word of God Broadcast
Sisler Polly preaches from lhe Knoxville House of Faith In
Tennessee.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Words of Hope. See S
t230.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Voice of Power. See S 0630.
USA. WIVCR #t Nashville TN: The Intelligence Report.
See M 1600.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Tru1h for the World. Churches of
Christ spokesman Jim Dearman examines Scriplure.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Have a Good Day. Rubin
Leulhold.

~~ooA~ ~~~12: 00 PM Por

FREQUENCIES ..

.... .

07000800
0700-0800

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio

07000800 vi
0700-0800 vi
07000800
07000800
07000800
07000800
07000800
0700-0800
07000727
07000800
07000800 as
07000800 mtwhl
0700-0715
0700-0800
07000800 vi
07000800

Austraha. VL8K Katherine

Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Canada, CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea, A East Africa
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guyana. GBCNoice of
Italy. IRAS
Japan. A Japan/NHK World

07000800 vi
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800
0700-0715
07000800 asmtwh
07000800
07000800
0700-0758 as
07000750
07000730 s
07000800 vi
07000745
07000715 s
07000745

Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp

Kiribati, Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia, Voice of
Monaco, Trans World Radio
New Zealand, A NZ Intl
North Korea. A Pyongyang
Norway, Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Romania. A Romania Intl
Romania, A Romania Intl
Romania. A Ronnania Intl

0700-0800

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

07000800
0700-0710
0700-0l!OO vi
0700-0800
07000800
07000800

S Africa. Investment Ch
Sierra Leone. SLBS
Solomon Islands. SIBC
Swaziland, Trans World A
Taiwan. VO Free China
United Kingdom, BBC WS

0700-0800 as
07000715
07000730

United Kingdom. BBC WS

United Kingdom. BBC WS
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0700-0800
0700-0800
07000800
07000800
07000800
07000800
0700-0800
07000800 smtwht
0700-0800
0700-0800
07000800 vi
07000800
07000800 vi
0700-0800 vi
07030710
0730-0755
07300800
07300745 s
0730-0735
07300800
07300800 as
07300800
07400800
07450800 s
0745-0755
07590800 as

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA, KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA, WEWN Birmingham AL
USA, WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCA Upton KY
USA, WMLK Bethel PA
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WWCA Nashville TN
Vanuatu. Radio
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia, Croatian Radio
Austria. A Austria Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Greece. Voice of
India, All India Radio
Netherlands, Radio
Palau, KHBNNoice of Hope
United Kingdom, BBC WS
Guam, TWR/KTWR
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Greece, Voice of
New Zealand, A NZ Intl

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Austraha. VL8K Katherine
Austraha. VL8T Tent Crk
Bhutan. Bhutan BC Service
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. A East Africa
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Finland. YLE/A Finland
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam. TWAIKTWR
Guyana. GBCNoice of
Indonesia. Voice of
Italy. IRAS
Kiribalt. Radio
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Liberia,LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia, Voice of
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Monaco, Trans World Radio
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. A NZ Intl
New Zealand. A NZ Intl
North Korea. A Pyongyang
Norway, Radio Norway Intl
Pakistan. Radio
Palau, KH8N/Vo1cc ot Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia,Voice ol Russia WS

0800-0900
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0800-0810
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0800-0900
0800-0900

S Atrica. Investment Ch
Seychelles. FEBA Radio
Sierra Leone. SLBS
Solomon Islands. SIBC
South Korea. R Korea Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

08000900 as
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United Kingdom. BBC WS

United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA, KNLS Anchor Point AK
USA, KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, KWHA Naalehu HI
USA. Morntor Radio Intl
USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA, WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCA Upton KY
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA. VNHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCA Nashville TN
Vanuatu. Radio
Zambia. Chrtsttan Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Nigena. FRCN/Radio
New Zealand, A NZ Intl
Chile. A Esperanza
Australia. VL8A Alice Spg
Australia. VLBK Katherine
Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Georgia. Radio
India. All India Radio
Netherlands. Radio
Slovakia, A Slovakia Intl
United Kingdom. BBCWS
Russia. R Pac11tc Ocean
Guam. TWR/KTWR

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5995pa
9860pa
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4910do
6030do
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5760am
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11550pa

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7315am

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9930am

3210am
7260do

5070am

7t65eu
4770do

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0900-0927
0900-1000
0900-0930
0900 I 000 as
0900-1000 mlwhl
0900-0950

Angu1lla.Ca11bbean Beacon
Auslraha. Radio
Aus11aha. VL8A Alice Spg
Auslraha, VL8K Ka1he11ne
Auslraha. VL8T Tent Crk
Belgium. A Vlaanderen Int
Canada. CFCX Monlreal
Canada CFRX Toronlo
Canada CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Hahlax
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Chile. A Esperanza
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Ecuador. HCJB
EQt Guinea. A East Al11ca
EQt Guinea. Radio Afroca
Germany. Deutsche Welle

0900-0915 mtwtl
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0900-0930 s
0900-1000 as
0900 1000 vi
0900-1000

Gl1ana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Guam, TWR/KTWR
Guyana. GBCN01ce of
Italy. IRAS
K111bati. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
L1beria.LCNIR Liberia Int
Malaysia, Radio
Mongolia. Voice cl
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. A NZ Intl
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Palau. KHBNN01ce cl Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice ol Russia ws

0900-1000
0900-0930
0900-1000

S Alroca. Investment Ch
Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0900-0915
0900-0945
0900-1000
09001000
0900-1000
0900- 1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1 000
0900 1000 as
0900-1000
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0900-1000
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0900- 1000 vi
0915-1000
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0930-0955 m1v1hfa
0930- 1000
0930-1000
0930-1000
0930-1000
0935-1000
0944-0949 vi

United Kingdom. BBC WS

Umted Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMllR M1am1 Intl
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia. A Zamb1a/ZNBC t
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Gl1ana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Armenia. Voice ol
Aust11a. A Austria Intl
Canada. CKZN St John's
Georgia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Pakistan. Radio
Kazakh stan. Radio Almaty

6090am
9860pa
23t0do
2485do
2325do
6035eu
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6089am
11755pa
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17715au
3366do
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9810do
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9810as
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5810am
75f0am
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5960na
9400am
6040am
7490na
9955am
7355am
13825al
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5950na
6065al
7220do
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15270eu
15240au
6160do
11910me
12065au
I 1635as
17900eu
11840eu

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia Radio
Australia. VLSA Allee Spg
Australia. VLSK Katherine
Australia VLST Tent Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronlo
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halllax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Chana. China Radio Intl

6090am
9710pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
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1000-1 100
1000-1100 as
10001100 mMhl
1000-1 100

Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl

Ecuador. HCJB
Eql Guinea. R Easl Alrica
Eqt Guinea. Radio Al11ca
India. All India Ra<110

1000-1100 vi
1000-1100
10001100
1000-1100
1000-1100 vi
1000- llOOvl
1000-1025
1000-1100
1000-1100 as
1000-llOOvl
10001100
1000-1100

Italy. IRAS
Jordan. Radio
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Malays a. Radio
Malaysa. RTM Kuchang
Malaysa.RTM Ko1aK1nabalu
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand, A NZ Intl
Palau. KHBNN01ce ct Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philipp nes. FEBCIR Intl
Russia Voice ol Russia WS

1000- 1100
1000-1005
1000-1 100

SAfrica. lnveslmr.111 Ch
Solomon Islands. SIBC
United Kingdom. BBC WS

1000-11ooas
1000-1 030
1000-1 100
1000-1100
1000-1100
1000-1100
1000-1100

United Kingdom. BBC WS

Unil ed Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA, V01ce ol America

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1000-1100 as
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1000-1030

USA. WEWN B11m1ngham AL

USA. WGTGMcCaysville GA
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMl/R M1am1 Intl
USA. WANONe1. Orleans LA
USA. IWHA Greenbush ME
USA. IVWCR Nashville TN
USA. IVYFR Okeechobee FL
Vielnam. Voice of

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Zambia. Christian Voice

Zambia. A Zamb1a/ZNBC I
Vauca1 Slate. Va:1can R

1030-1055 s
1030-1057
1030-1100 mlwhf
1030-11 00
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Austna, A Auslria Intl

Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Elh1op1a. Radio
Guam. AWR/KSDA
Netherlands. Radio
South Korea. A Korea Intl
S11 Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
UAE. Radio Dubai

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6195am
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ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS MONTH'S SHORTWAVE GUIDE:

13710pa

15440pa

6205am
9645pa
15186al
15186al
11585as
17840as
7125va
11690eu
9960va
7295do
7160do
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9700pa
9730as
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I 1800au
I 5490va
I 7775va
9675af
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5965va
9740as
I 1940al
15565as
17885va
15190am
15360as
5810am
7510am
9930as
6095na
5985pa
I 1720as
15745na
9400am
6040am
7490na
9955am
7355am
13825al
2390am
5950na
5940as
12020as
6065af
7220do
5882eu
I 7550eu
15240au
7345eu
5990do
9870as
6045eu
11715am
11835as
13675eu

THANK YOU ...

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John Babbis. S ilver Spring, MD; Iva Delcheva, Radio

Bulgaria:Bob Todd Dokey, Lodi. CA; Paul R. Donegan. Glendale,
CA: Ed Evans, Monitor Radio: Mark J. Fine, Remington , VA;
Bob Fraser. Cohasset, MA ; C lyde W. Harmon, Ann iston, AL;
Frank Hillton, Charleston, SC; Paul Jablo nowski, Greenfield, WI ;
Rafa) Kiepu szewski. Poli s h Radio Warsaw; Rev. Michae l G.
Mayer. Dover, DE: Jim Moats, Ravenna.OH ; William D. Ricker,
Bosto n. MA: Bill Scarbroug h, Robert E. Thomas, Bridgeport, CT;
Knoxvill e. TN: Lee S il vi. Mentor, O H: Vural Tekeli , VO Turkey;
Mahcndra Vag hjec, Rose Hill. Mauritius; Larry Van Horn,
Brasstown. NC: Valeria Vasilica. Radio Moldova Intl; Jeff White,
W RM I Rad io: Alden C. Wires Jr., East Point, GA: BBCMS; BBC
Summary of World Broadcasts: BBC 011-A ir; Internet Shortwave
Newsgroups: NASWA Joumal: C umbre DX: Fine Tuning.

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Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

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1100 1200 vi
11001200

Australia, Radio
Australia, VL8A Alice Spg
Australia. VL8K Kalherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Cosla Rica. Adv World R
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Africa
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Germany, Deutsche Welle
Iran. VOIRI
Italy, IRRS
Japan. R Japan/NHK World
Jordan. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia,LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia, RTM Kuching
Malaysia.RTM Ko1aKinabalu
Mozambique. Radio Maputo
Nel herlands, Radio
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Pakistan, Radio
Palau, KHBNNorce of Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

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Switzerland, Sl'liSs R Intl
Taiwan. Voice of Asia
United Kingdom. BBCWS

11001130 as
11001130
11001 145
11001200
1100-1200
11001200
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United Kingdom. BBC WS

United Kingdom, BBC WS
United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio Intl
USA, Voice of America

11001200
1100-1200
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USA, WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami lntt
USA. WRND New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voice of
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Australia,DefenseForces R
China. China Radio Intl
Lesotho. Radio Lesolho
Myanmar, Voice of
Netherlands. Radio
Sweden. Radio
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Vatican State. Valican R
India. All India Radio

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SELECTED PROGRAMS . . . . . . . .
Sundays
1100
1100
1100
1100
11 15
11 30
t 145

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: The Water of Lile Broadcast. See S

0100.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Words of Hope (Paul Bryson).
Paul Bryson preaches from Georgia.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: America's Jukebox Gold. Bryan
McKaye spotlights the music of the 50's and 60's.
WHRI (Angel 112): Breakthrough. Rod Parsley conducts
services from the World Harvest Church in Columbus. OH.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Wonderful Words of Lile. The
international ministry of the Salvation Army.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Stall of Lile. Irene Armstrong
evangelizes from Zion, Illinois.
USA, WWCR #1: Church of Christ. Nokamis Yeldell.

Mondays
1100
1100
1100
1100
1100
1105
1106
1115
t 115
1130
1130
1130
1145

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Biblical S1udies Institute. Bob Trel

evangelizes from Rapid City, South Dakota.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: World Wide Country Radio
(repeat). News, weather and the best of country music.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): Ever Increasing Faith. Fredrick "K.C." Price
evangelizes from Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles.
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): Music. See S 0200.
WWCR #3: Good Morning from America (live). Gary Kaye
hosts a WWCR-produced variety music and call-in program.
WHRI (Angel t ): Sold Out for Jesus. Paul Tebbano
evangelizes from Cookton Park, New York.
WHRI (Angel 2): Abundant Lile. Walter Holland evangelizes
from Texas.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Faith Seminar of the Air. Kenneth
Hagin evangelizes.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Grace and Truth. RJ Bruno.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
USA, KWHR: Listen to Jesus. Clinton and Sarah Outerbach
from The Redeeming Love Christian Center of Nanuet. NY.

Tuesdays
1100
1100
1t00

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: UPI News. See T 0300.

USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: World Wide Country Radio
(repeat). See M 1100.
USA, WWCR #3 NashvilleTN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.

1100
1100
1105
1105
1106
1115
t 1t5
t 130
1130
t 130
1145

WHRI (Angel 1): Ever Increasing Faith. See M 1100.

WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See s 0400.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. Sees 1600.
WHRI (Angel 2): Music. See S 0200.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1106.
WHRI (Angel 1): Sold Out for Jesus. See M 1t15.
WHRI (Angel 2): Abundant Lile. See M 111 5.
USA, KWHR: Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 1130.
USA, WWCR#1: Women Who Overcome. Shirley Beaver.
WHRI (Angel 112): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Listen to Jesus. See M 1145.

Wednesdays

t 100
1100
1100
1100
1100
1105
1106

1115
11 t 5
1130
1130
1130
1130
1145

USA, KWHR: Biblical Studies Institute. See M t 100.

USA, WWCR #1: The Hour of Courage. See M 0530.
USA, WWCR#3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): Ever Increasing Faith. See M 1100.
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): Music. See S 0200.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1106.
WHRI (Angel t ): Sold Out for Jesus. See M 11 t 5.
WHRI (Angel 2): Abundant Life. See M 1115.
USA, KWHR: Faith Seminar of the Air. See M t t 30.
USA, WWCR #1: Wonderful Words of Lile. See S 111 5.
WHRI (Angel t): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
USA, KWHRNaalehu HI: Listen to Jesus. See M 1145.

Thursdays

1100
1100
1100
1100
1100
1105
1105
1106

1115
1115
1130

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: UPI News. See T 0300.

USA, WWCR #1: The Hour of Courage. See M 0530.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): Ever Increasing Faith. See M 1100.
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S0400.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. See S 1600.
WHRI (Angel 2): Music. See S 0200.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 11 06.
WHAi (Angel t): Sold Out for Jesus. See M 11 15.
WHRI (Angel 2): Abundant Lile. See M 1115.
USA, KWHR: Faith Seminar of theAir. See M 1130.

1130
1130
1145

USA, WWCR #1: Ken's Country Classics. See M 0635.

WHRI (Angel 112): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Listen to Jesus. See M 1t45.

Fridays
1100
1100
1100
1100
1100
1105
1106
1115
11 t 5
1130
1130
1130
1145
1154
1154

USA, KWHR: Biblical Studies Institute. See M 1100.

USA. WWCR #1: The Hour of Courage. See M 0530.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): Ever Increasing Faith. See M 1100.
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): Music. See S 0200.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1t 06.
WHRI (Angel 1): Sold Out for Jesus. See M 1115.
WHRI (Angel 2): Abundant Lile. See M 1115.
USA, KWHR: Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 1130.
USA, WWCR #1: The Street Preacher. See S 0330.
WHRI (Angel t/2): The Hour of Courage. See M 0000.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: First Hand. See M 0100.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. 50th Annrversary
Celebrations: Wim Kok (6th). See W t 254.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Cities (Parts 1, 2. and 3)
(13th/20th/27th). See A 2354.

Saturdays
1100
1100
t 100
1100
1105

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Eternal Good News. See S 0630.

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S0400.
USA, WWCR #3: Ken's Country Classics. See M 0635.
WHRI (Angel 112): UPI News. See S 0400.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Word of Wisdom. Howard
Kirkwood evangelizes from Arkansas.
t 105 WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.
1106 WHRI (Angel 2): For the People (repeat). Chuck Harder is
back with his old talk radio show.
111 O USA, WWCR #1: The View from Europe. Harvey Thomas
presents the European point ol view on current events.
t 115 USA, KWHR: Church of the Living God. Arnold Rogers.
1115 USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Rhema Radio Church. Kenneth
Hagin, Jr. preaches from Tulsa. Oklahoma.
t 130 USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: World of Radio. See S 2330.
11 30 WHRI (Angel 1): The Voice of Power. See S 0630.
1145 USA, WWCR # t Nashville TN: Brother Ed. Ed Skultety
evangelizes from Oregon.

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1200-1230
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1200-1300 vi
1200-1300
1200- 1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200- 1300
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Australia. VLBA Alice Spg

Australia VL8K Kalherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Brazil. Radio Bras
Bulgaria. Radio
Cambodia. Natl Voice of
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN SI John"s
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl

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Canada. R Canada Intl

China. China Radio Intl

1200-1230 vi
1200-1300
1200-1300 vi
1200-1300
1200-1300 as
1200-1300
1200-1300

China. China Radio Intl

Cosla Rica. Adv World R
Cyprus. BRT Inlernational
Ecuador. HCJB
EQI Guinea. R Easl Africa
EQI Guinea. Radio Africa
France. Radio France lnll

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Italy, IRAS
Japan, R Japan/NHK World
Jordan. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Malaysia, Radio
Malaysia.ATM KolaKinabalu
Myanmar. Voice of
Nelherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Poland, Polish R Warsaw

1200-1300

1200-1300

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

S Africa. lnvestmenl Ch

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S:OO AM PDT

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South Korea. R Korea lnlf
Taiwan. VO Free China
Ukraine. R Ukraine Intl
United Kingdom. BBCWS

1200-1300
1200-1300
12001300
1200-1300
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USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA, KTBN Salt Lk Cily UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio ln11
USA. Voice of America

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
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12001300
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1200-1300
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1200-1230
1200-1300
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1230-1300
t230-1300
1230-1300 mtwhf
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMl/R Miami ln11
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Uzbekistan, R Tashkent
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Croatia, Croatian Radio
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
Egypt, Radio Cairo
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Austria, R Austria Intl
Bangladesh, Bangla Betar
Belgium. R Vlaanderen lnl
Finland. YLE/R Finland
India. All India Radio
Indonesia, RRI Sorong
Mongolia. Voice of
Romania. R Romania Intl
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia
South Korea. R Korea Intl
Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka BC
Sweden, Radio
Thailand, Radio
Turkey, Voice of
Vietnam, Voice ol

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SELECTED PROGRAMS . . . . . .
Sundays
1200
1200

1200
1200
1230
1230
1245

USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Voice of Hope. Oliver Fenison.

USA, WWCR #3: Rock the Universe. Rich Adcock's
selections of rock recordings includes some rare treats.
WHAi (Angel 1): Witness of Power. Randy Brodhagen.
WHAi (Angel 2): In Touch. The Atlanta Bible-leaching
ministry of Charles Stanley.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Words of Hope. Eugene
Brown preaches from Nashville, Tennessee.
WHAi (Angel 1): Message of Hope. Sam While.
USA. WWCR #1: Totally Oevoted. Chartes Johnson.

Mondays
1200
1200
1200
1206
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1230
1245
I 245
1245

USA, WWCR 11: New Harvest International. Dennis Deruz.

USA, WWCR #3: USA Radio News. See s 0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1106.
USA, WWCR #1: Lords and Sons. Larry Williams.
WHAi (Angel 1/2): Reach Out. Pastor Jerry Lynn, Calvary
Chapel of Albany. New York with Bible teaching.
USA. WWCR #1: Bread of Life Victory Hour (1 ). Brother
Jack Meeks offers a free bible study correspondence course.
USA. WWCR #1 : The Hour of Grace (3/5). Gene Grilfin.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Viclory Baptist Church (214).
David Robinson preaches lrom Hildebrand, NC.
WHAi (Angel t/2): Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Walking Through the Land of
Promises. Bobbie Lively evangelizes from Tennessee.
WHAi (Angel 1): Abundant Lile. See M 1115.
WHRI (Angel 2): Lile in the Word. Joyce Meyer offers help
by example for everyday living.

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USA. WWCR 11: The King is Coming. Steve Johnson.

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121 5
1230
1230
1245
1245

June 1997

USA. WWCR #3: USA Radio News. See S 0400.

WHAi (Angel 2): TheVoice of Praise. See M 0645.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1106.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Have in God. Claude Milan.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Reach Out. See M 1215.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: World of Radio. See S 2330.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
WHRI (Angel 1): Abundant Life. See M 1115.
WHRI (Angel 2): Life in the Word. See M 1245.

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Faith and Truth. Ken Megilligan.
USA, WWCR #3: USA Radio News. See S 0400.

1200
1200
1206
1215
1215
1230

1230
1245
1245
1254

1254

WHRI (Angel 2): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.

USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1106.
USA, WWCR #1: Faith Revival Ministries. Randolph Scott.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Reach Out. See M 1215.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Chapel Hour. Otis Tiiiman
evangelizes from Buffalo, New York.
WHRI (Angel 112): Fallh Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
WHAi (Angel 1): Abundant Lile. See M 1115.
WHAi (Angel 2): Li fe in lhe Word. See M 1245.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. SOlh Anniversary
Celebrations: Wim Kok (4th). Ginger da Silva speaks with
the Labour Union leader Wim Kok 20 years atter his first
interview.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Cities (Parts 1, 2. and 3)
(1 1th/1 8th/25th). See A 2354.

Thursdays
1200

Tuesdays
1200

1200
1200
1206

USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Abounding Grace. Gary

Jones of the Charismatic Teaching Center near Orlando,
Florida.

1200
1200
1206
1215
1230
1230
1245
1245

USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.

WHRI (Angel 2): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Good Morning from America
(live). See M 1106.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Reach Out. See M 1215.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Atterglow. Don Johnson plays
beaulttul sacred music.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Fail h Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
WHRI (Angel 1): Abundant Life. See M 1115.
WHRI (Angel 2): Life In the Word. See M 1245.

Fridavs
1200
1200
1200
1206
1215
1230
1245
1245
1245

USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Faith for Today. William Rowe.

USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Voice of Praise. See M 0645.
WWCR #3: Good Morning from America (live). See M 1106.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Reach Out. See M 1215.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Faith Seminar of the Air. See M 0615.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Battle Cry Sounding. Deborah
Green evangelizes.
WHAi (Angel 1): Abundant Life. See M 1115.
WHAi (Angel 2): Life In the Word. See M 1245.

Saturdays
1200
1200
1200
1205
1207
1215
1230
1230

USA, WWCR #1: Brother Ed (from 1145). See A 1145.

USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Extraordinary Science
Radio Hour. See M 0400.
WHAi (Angel 1/2): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): The Pat Boone Show. See S 0404.
WHRI (Angel 2): For the People (repeat). See A 1106.
USA. WWCR #1: Bible Prophecy for Today. Tom Benvenuttl
analyzes the news and Its application to Bible prophecy.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Day Of Decision. Bob Roman
evangelizes from Texas.
USA, WWCR #1: Battle Cry Sounding. See F 1245.

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1300-1400
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1300-1400
1300-1400
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1300-1400 s
1300-1400
1300- 1400
1300-1330
1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400 as
13001400
1300- 1330 vi
13001400
1300-1310
1300- 1400
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1300-1400 vi
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1300-1400 vi
1300-1400
1300-1356
1300 1400

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Australia. Radio
Australia, Radio
Australia. VLSA Alice Spg
Australia. VLSK Katherine
Australia. VIST Ten t Crk
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Brazil. Radio Bras
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada CKZN St John's
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Canada R Canada Intl
Canada. R Canada Intl
China. China Radio Intl
Cosla Rica.RF Peace lnll
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypl, Radio Cairo
Eql Guinea. R Easl Afr1ca
Eql Guinea. Radio Africa
llaly. IRRS
Jordan. Radio
Liberia.LCNIR Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuching
Malaysia.ATM Ko1aKinabalu
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Romania. R Romania ln11
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

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Singapore.A Singapore Int
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka BC

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1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1 330

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KNLS Ancllor Po1111 AK
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Ra dio lnll
USA. Vorce of America

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1300-1400
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USA, WG TG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVH A Greenbush M:
USA. WWCR Nasllv1lle TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Chnsllan Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Canada, R Canada Intl

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1330-1 400
1330-1400
1330-1400 vi
1330-1400
1330-1400
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Guam. AWR/KSOA
India All India Radio
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Nelherlands. Ra<110
Swecen. Radio
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Uzbekistan. R Tashkcn1
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Sundays
1300
1300
1300
1300
1330
1330
1330
1330
1330
1345
1345
1346

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Chris! Gospel Broadcast. BR Hicks

wi1h a Bible lesson.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Wings of Healing. Evelyn
Wyatt direc1s this international broadcast from Los Angeles.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Answers for Life. Gospel
music and a sermon by Pas1or Hoover of Wichita. Kansas.
WHRI (Angel 112): Gospel Crusade Minislries. ScripJure
teachings by Roger Headrick and lree bible correspondence
courses.
India, All India Radio: News and Commenlary.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: The Call to Worship. Bernie
Timmerman with services from Zion Chapel, Holland,
Michigan.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Wayne Avenue Church al God.
J.C. Wilber preaches from Columbus. Ohio.
WHRI (Angel 1): Beginning of the End. George Washinglon.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Banner of Truth Broadcast. See S 0630.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview.
WHRI (Angel 2): Bible Palhway. Rick Hash wi1h live minutes
of Sible readings.
India. All India Radio: Musical Interlude.

Mondays
1300
1300
1300
1305
1330
1330
1335
1345

USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Powerline. Southern Baptisls.

USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Overcomer Broadcasl
(live). Brother R. G. Stair preaches abou1 the last days.
WHRI (Angel 112): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 112): Music. See S0200.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Pro Life Perspeclive. An ti
abortion message lrom 1he Nalional Right-lo-Life
Committee.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Brighi Spot Hour. Music
and medilalion by Harold Slghtler of Greenville, Sou1h
Carolina.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview.

Tuesdays
1300

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: MaslerConlrol. A magazine

program of currenl topics. lilestyle issues. and Christian
themes.

1300
1300
1305
1330
1330
1335
1345

USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: TheOvercomer Broadcasl

(live). Sec M 1300.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Music. See S 0200.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Pro Lile Perspective. See M

1345
t 346

1330.

1300

USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Brighi Spot Hour. See M

t335.
India, All India Radio: Program Prev1c11

Wednesdays
1300
1300
1300
1305
1330
1330
1335
1345
1346
1354
1354

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Counlry Crossroads. Counlry

Crossroads provides you with 30minutes lo kick back.
relax, and en1oy llie lines! in country music entertainment.
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Overcomer Broadcasl
(live). See M 1300.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 112): Music. See S 0200.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary.
USA. WWCA 11 Nashville TN: Pro l ife Perspective. See M
1330.
USA, WWCA #1 Nashville TN: The Brighi Spot Hour. See M
1335.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview.
India. All India Radio: Indian Music.
Radio Nelhcrlands: Documen1ary. 50ih Annive1sary
Celebralions: Wim Kok (41h). See W 1254.
Radio Nelhcrlands: Documentary. Cities (Parts I. 2. and 3)
(11th/18thi251h). See A 2354.

Thursdays
1300
1300
1300
1305
1330
1330
1335

USA. WWCR I 1 Nashville TN: On Track. Good

comtemporary music and helpful thoughls.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Overcomer Broadcast
(live). See M 1300.
WHRI (Angel 112): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): Music. See S 0200.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary
USA. WWCA 11 Nashville TN: Pro Life Perspective. Sec M
1330.
USA. WWCR 11: The Bright Spot Hour. See M t335

India. All India Radio: Program Preview

India. All India Radio. llslcnc1s' Choice.

Fridays
1300

1300
1305
1330
1330
1335
1345
1346

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Bapl 1st Hour. A half-11our

of sermon and song from Fort Worth. Texas.
USA. WWCR ;3 Nashville TN: The Overcomer Broadcast
(hvel See M 1300.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): UPI News See s 0400.
WHAi (Angel 112): Music. See S 0200
India. All India Radio: News and Commenlary.
USA. V'NICR #1 Nashville TN: Pro Lile Perspective. See M
1330.
USA. V'NICR #1 Nashville TN: The Brighi Spot Hour. Sec M
1335.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview
India. All India Radio: Indian Music

Saturdays
1300

1300
1300
1300
1315
1330
1330
1330
1330
1330
t345
1345
1345
1346

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Sprrit OI Tru th. Don Young ofl ers
words ol encouragement and 1oy
USA. WWCR '1 Nashville TN. World al Radio. See S 2330.
USA. V'NICR #3 Nashville TN: Hour of Trulh. W1ll1am Bonner
preaches lrom New York C11y.
WH Ai (Angel 1): Listen to Jesus. See M 0630.
USA. KWHR Naalehu' HI: Grace and T1 uth Gospel Hour. Bill
Jones.
India. All Indra Radio. News and Commentary.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Chrrsl Gospel Broadcast. See S
1300.
USA. WWCR ;1 Nashville TN Hour of Reasoning_P. Mobley
preaches to hrs congregation 111 Oakland. Cahlornia.
WHRI (Angel 1): Eternal Good News Germaine Lockwood
leaches lrom the Old Teslament.
WHRI (Angel 2): Biblical Studies lnst1lutc. See S 0300.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview
USA. KWHR Naalelw HI: The Bread of Life Broadcast. Ron
Kresge preaches lrom the Church 01God at No~1alk.
Connccl1cut.
WHRI (Ang el i ): Music See S0200.
India. All India Radio UN News Magazine

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1400

1400
1400
1402

1400

1400
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1400
1420
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1445
1453

India. All India Radio Feature Program

USA. WWCR I Nast ville TN Foursquare Gospel Tidings J.E
Can1er presenls a halfhour ol gospel music and med1lat1on.
USA. WWCn 13 Nashville TN Church of tire Harvest Clarence
McClendon preaches lro111 Los Angeles
WHRI (Angel 1/2) Chrishan Center Church (hve). Steve
Sumrall preaches lrom Ch11st1an Center of Praise 1n
Noblesville. Indiana
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USA. WWCR 1 t~ashv1lle TN A Temple of Jesus Christ
Cleveland Wate1s p1eac11es from Ph1!aoepha
India. All India Rao10 News
India. All India Radio Prog1a111 Preview.

Mondays
1400
1400

1400
1400
1402
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1400
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USA IVWCR t flash,,lle TN The Nice Je1,sh Bo1 See M

1400
USA. WWCR 3 Nash'111e 1N USA Radio News See S 0400
WHRI (Angel 112) Wo1ld Harvesl (live). See M 1400
USA. WWCR '1 Nash,,lie TN The Grace Hour (hve). See M
1402.
USA. WWCR 3 Nash1111e TN. Prescnplion for Heallh (live)
See M 1405.
India, All India Radio Press Review
India. All India l1ad10 News
India. All India Radio Program Preview.

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1420
1445
1453

June 1997

India. All India Radio Radio News1eel

USA. WWCR 11Nashville TN The Nice Jel'llSh Boy. See M
1400
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN. USA Radio News. See S0400.
WHRI (Angel 112) World Harves1 (live). See M 1400.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN The Grace Hour (live). See M
1402
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Prescnpt1on for Health (live).
See M 1405
India All India Radio: Press Rev1e,v
India. All India Radio News.
India. All India Radio Program Preview.

Thursdays
1400

l11dia, All India Radio nadio Ne11sreel.

USA, WWCR .f t Nashville TN The Nice Jewish Boy. Jonathan
Calm
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN USA Radio News See S0400
WHAi (Angel 1121 World Harvest (hve1 An hou1 of Christian
music and 111!011n.111on ror WHRI supponers
USA, WWCR 11 Na~tlVllle TN The Grace Hcur (hve). Cail
Stevens of Oalt11nm c answers hs1ener ques11ons about religion.
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN P1escripllon for Health (hve). A
program about natural hc;i1tt1 foods and die1 supplements.
India. All India Radio Press Reviel'I
India. All India Radio DXers Corner (V4).
India All India Radio Nel'ls
India. All lnd1a Radio. P1ogram Piev1e:i

Tuesdays
1400

1400
1400

1400
1400
1402
1405
1420
1445
1453

USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Nice Jewish Boy. See M

1400.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 1/2): World Harvest (hve) See M 1400.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN The Grace Hour (live). See M
1402.
USA. WWCR f3 Nashville TN: Prescnp11on !or Heallh (llVe).
See M 1405
India. All India Radio: Press Review
India. All India Radio: News.
India. All India Rnd10: Program Preview.

Fridays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1402
1405
1420
1445
1453
1454
t454

India. All India Radio Radio Newsreel

USA. WWCR t I Nashville TN: The Nice Jewish Boy See M
1400
USA WWCR r3 Nashville TN USA Radio News See S Q.100.
IVHRI (Angel 112) World Harvesl (hve). See M 1400.
USA WWCR II Nashville TN The Grace Hour (l1Ve). SEe M
1402
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN Presc11p11on !or Heallh (live).
See M 1405.
India. All India Radio Press Review
India. All India Radio: News.
India. All India Radio Program Preview.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. 501h Anniversary
Celeb1at1ons W1m Kok (6th) SeeW 1254
Radio Netherlands Documentary C1t1es (Parts 1. 2, ano 3)
(1311t120th/27th). See A 2354.

1400
1400

1400
1400
1405
1405
1415
1420
1430
1445
1453

India. All India Radio. Feature

USA WWCR #1 Nashville TN Divine Temple Church.
Roben Suell preaches.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN The Great American Polka
Show. An hour of polka favo11tes both old and new.
WHRI (Angel 1) UPI News See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): Bible Pathway See S 1345.
WHRI (Angel 1) Home Schooling (hve). Terry and Vicki
Brady of 1he Home Education ne1Work take calls about
schooling.
WHRI (Angel 2)' The People's Lawyer. Legal advice lor
the average c1trzen as well as employers.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Banne< ol Truth Broadcast See S
0630.
India. All India Radio: Press Review.
WHRI (Angel 2): DXing v11!h Cumbre. See S 0330.
India. All India Radio: News.
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USA. V01ce of America

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7410do
9700do

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11955af

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SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1500

1500
1500
1500
1515
1530
1530
1530
1530
1545

USA, KWHR Naalelw HI: Christian Center Church (live) _

Steve Sumrall preaches from Christian Center of Praise in
Noblesville. Indiana
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Prophetic Word Program. A
'Tlessage of salva!lon from Dan Kubish of the House of
Yaweh.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashnlle TN. The Whole lruth. Anthonee
Patterson conducts services from Pennsylvania.
WHRI (Angel 112): Message to Israel A program for Jewish
isten ers from Brooklyn. NY
WHAi (Angel 112): The B1ead of Life Broadcast. Ron Kresge
oreaches from the Church of God at Norwalk. Connecticut.
India. All India Radio: National News
USA. WWCR 11 Nash1ille TN: Cross Roads Baptist Church.
Lloyd Ferguson preaches from Lawrenceville. Georgia.
WHRI (Angel 1): Call 10 Christ.Jimmy Surgeoner.
WHRI (Angel 2): Sandra Davis M1111stnes. Sandra Davis
evangelizes from Massachusetts.
WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.

t 515
1515
1515
1530
1530
t 530
1545

inspiration.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Life 1n fhe Word. Joyce Meyer
otters help by example for everyday living.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Living Waters Broadcast.
Father Bob Guste evangelizes from Louisiana.
WHRI (Angel 2): Ever Increasing Faith. See M 1100.
India. All India Radio. Nafional News.
USA. WWCR i 1 Nashville TN: The Time of Deliverance.
Ben1amm Smith preaches from the nme of Deliverance
Evangelistic Church m Philadelphia.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Voice of Power. See S 0630.
USA. WWCR ; 1 Nashville TN: Wisdom from tile Word. From
the New Covenant Church in Philadelphia.

Tuesdays

1500
1500
1506
1510
1530

USA, WWCR 11/3: USA Radio Nel'IS. Sees 0400.

WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. Secs 0400.
USA. WWCR 13: Freedom's Call (live). See M 0605.
WHAi (Angel 1): Music. See S0200.
India. All India Radio: National News

Mondays

Wednesdays

1500

1500
1500
1506
1510
1530
1554

1500
1500
1500
1505
1505
1505
1506
1510
1510
1510

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Reach Ont. Pastor Jerry Lynn.

Calvary Chapel of Albany, New York with Bible teaching.
USA. WWCR il/3: USA Radio News. See S0400.
WHRI (Angel 1): Bible Pathway. See S 1345
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
USA. WWCR #1 Nash1ille TN: Messianic Minutes. Ted
Simon presents five minutes of scriptwal imerpretation for
Jewish lis1eners.
WHRI (Angel 1): Inside Pitch. See M 0555.
WHRI (Angel 2): Bible Pathway. See S 1345
USA. WWCR n: Freedom's Call (live). See IA 0605.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Spiritual Awa\ening. Wisdom
from the scriptures
WHRI (Angel 1) Music. See S0200.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Voice of Salvation. W1ll1am Wilson of
the Church of God of Prophecy presenls music and

1554

USA, WWCR #1/3: USA Radio News. Sec S0400.

WHAi (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
USA. WWCR #3: Freedom's Call (live). See M 0605.
WHRI (Angel !): Music. See S0200.
India. All India Radio: National News.
Radio Net11er1ands: Documentary. 50tll Anniver sary
Celebrations Wim Kok (4th). See VI 1254.
Radio Neth erlands: Documenfary. Cities (Parts 1 2. and 3)
(1 1th/18th/25th). See A 2354.

151 O WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S0200.

1530 India. All India Radio: National News.
1545 WHRI (Angel 2): Reach Out. See M 1215.

Fridays
1500
1500
1500
1505
1506
151 O
1515
1530
1530
1545

Saturdays
1500
1500
1500
1500
1505
1515
1530
1530

Thursdays

1530

1500
1500
1500
1505
1506

1530

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Reach Out. Sec M 1500.

USA. VNICR 1113: USA Radio News. See S0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
USA. WWCR t 1. Messianic Minutes. See M 1505.
USA. WWCR 13: Freedom's Call (live). See M 0605.

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Reach Out. See M 1500.

USA. WWCR #113: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): UPI News. See S 0400.
USA, WWCR #1: Messianic Minutes. See M 1505.
USA. WWCR 13: Freedoms Call (live). See M 0605.
WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Life in the Word. See M 1515
India, All India Radio: National Nel'ls.
USA. WWCR 11: The Time of Deliverance. See M 1530.
WHRI (Angel 2): Reach Out. See M 1215.

1530

USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Let tile Bible Speak. James

Hickey wifh a program from New Testament Christianity
in Oklahoma.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Real Worl d.
Evangelizing from Ohio.
WHRI (Ang el 1) UPI News. See S 0400.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Message of Love and Victory. Jan
Graybill of Tulsa, Oklahoma with music and a Bible
lesson.
WHRI (Angel 1): Music. See S0200.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Eternal Good News.
Germaine Lockwood teaches from Ilic Old Tesfament.
India. All India Radio: National News.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Rhema Radio Cllurcll Kenneth
Hagin. Jr. preaches from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Showers of Blessings
Broadcast. Ed McAbee sermonizes before a live
congregation.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Reasoning from Scripture.
Jamey Tucker preaches from SVJainsboro. Georia.
WHRI (Angel 2): Bible Enrichment. Beverly Crawford.

June 1997

MONITORING TIMES

57

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1600-1 700
1600-1 700

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An9u1lla.Canbbean Beacon
Ausuaha Radio

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1600-1700 vi
1600-1700 vi
1600-1610
1600-1700 vi
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600 1700
1600- 1700
1600-1700
1600- 1700
1600-1700
1600 162i
1600-1 700
1600-1 700

Aust1alia. VLSA Alice Spg

Aust1alia, VLSK Katherine
Austi.11ia. VLST Tent Crk
Banglaclcsh, Bangla Betar
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
C.1nacla, CfCX Montreal
Canada. CrRX ro1onto
Canacla. CFVP Calga1y
Canada, CllNX llalilax
Cdnacld. CKZN St Jolln's
Canaoa. CKZU Vancouver
Cl11na China Radio Intl
C1cch Rep Radio Prague
Elluop1a Radio
France Radio France lnll

1600-1650

Germany Deutsche Welle

1600170C
1600 170(
16001 63C
1600170( vi
1600163C
1600-1610
1600-1700
1600-1650 occsnal
1600-1630

Guam. AVIR KSOA

Guam. TVIR KTWR
lian. VOIRI
Italy IRAS
Jordan. RJd10
Lesotho, Radio Lesotho
Malaysia. Radio
New Zealand, R NZ lnll
Pak1st.1n. Radio

1600-1700 vi
1600-1700

Papua New Guinea. NBC

l1uss1a.Vo1ce of Russia WS

1600 1630
1600- 1700

S Af11ca Channel Africa

S Al11ca Investment Ch

1600- 1700
1600-1 700
1600-1 700

Smgapore R Co1p of Srng

Slovakia Ad v World Radio
South Ko1ea . R Ko1ea lnll

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S1'111Zertand, S\'llSS R Intl
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1600-1615
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600 1700

Umted Krngdor l. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Sall Lk C1ly UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalchu HI
USA. Monilor Radio lnll
USA. Voice of Amenca

16001700
1600-1700
16001700
16001 700
1600 1700 srntwhl
16001700 rntwhf
16001700
16001700
16001700

USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA
USA

16001610
1600-1630
16001700
1600-1700 vi
16001700vl
1610-1615
16151700as
1615-1630

Va11can Stale. Val1can R

Vietnam. Voice of
Zambia. Ch11st1a11 Voice
Zambia. R Zambra!ZNBC 1
Zambia. R Zarnbta/ZNOC 2
Bangladesh. Bangla Betar
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Valican State. Vatican R

16301655

Aust1a. R Aust11a lnll

16301657
1630-1700
16301700
1630-1700
1645 1700 1rreg
16451700
1650-1700
1650-1 700 rntwhl

Canada. R Canada lnll

Egypl. Radio Cairo
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Slovakia. R Slovakia lnll
Alghamstan. Radio
Ta11k1stan Radm Dushanbe
Eqt Gmnca. Rao10 Africa
Nel'1 Zealand. R NZ lnll

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WGTG McCaysville GA
WHRI N0Jlesv1lle IN
WJCR Uplon KY
WMLK Belhel PA
WRMl/R M1a1m lnll
WRNONew 01leans LA
WVICR Nashville TN
WYFR Okeechobee fl

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7355am
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6165do
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GI 55eu
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7245as
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11855me

137 10as

15105arn

121 60am
11830na
11635as
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SELECTED PROGRAMS . . . . . .
Sundays
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1630

1600

USA. KWHR Naalel111 HI. Musrc_ Contemporary christian

rnus1c and msp11a1ion.
USA. WWCR I 1 Nashville TN: Latin Ca1holic Mass. Father
Go111111a1 De Pauw conducts lhe 1radi1iona1 Latin Mass.
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Apostolic Assembly. Lonnie
Wollard p1caches from Milllown, Connecticut
WHRI IA11gel 1): The Water of Life Broadcast. Doyle
Davidson p1e,1chcs hom Pla110. Texas.
WHRI (Angel 2): The Treasure of Truth Broadcast Joe Gray
under tile sponsorship 01 111c United Churches of Ch11st.
WHf11 IA11ge1 2). Witness of Power. See S 1200.

Mondays
1600
1600
t600
1600
1600
1615
1630
1645
1645
t645

1600
1600

58

USA KWHR Naalehu HI Music Sec S 1600.

USA. WWCR ,.1 tlasllv1lle TN World Wide Country Radio
Jhve) Sec M 1100
USA WWCR 3 Nashville TN The Intelligence Repor1 (live)
A pat1101radio program with John Statm1ller.
WHRI !Angel 1): The Voice of Power See S 0630.
WHRI (Angel 2) Lester Sumrall Teachmg Senes. The head
ot lhe Ch11s1ran Center Church teaches
WHRI !Angel t ): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
WHRI (Angel 1): M1dmgh1 Cry. C. Parker Thomas
cvang~li1es trom Sou1hern Pines. Norlh Carolina.
USA, WWCR II Nasllv1lle TN: The Living Word Broadcast
An evangelrzation by Bobby Hoover ol Bethel Church,
M11c1tellv1llc. Maryland.
WHRI (Angel t ): Abundant Lile. See M t 115.
WHRI !Angel 2): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
USA. KWHR Naalchu HI. Music. See S 1600.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: World Wide Country Radio
(live) See M 1100
USA. WWCR 13: The Intelligence Report (live). See M 1600.
WHRI (A11gel I): The Voice of Power. See S 0630.

MONITORING TIMES

1645
1645

June 1997

WHRI (Angel 2): Les1er Sumrall Teaching Series. See M

1600.
WHRI (Angel 1): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
WHRI (Angel 1): Midnight Cry. See M 1630.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Living Word Broadcast
Sec M t645.
WHRI (Angel 1): Abundanl Lile. See M 1t15.
WHRI (Angel 2)' The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.

Wednesdays
1600
t 600
1600

Tuesdays
1600
1600

1615
1630
1645

1600
1600
16t5
t 630
1645
1645
1645

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Music. Sees 1600.

USA, WWCRII NaSIW!lle TN World Wide Country Radio
(live) See M 1100
USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The lnlelligence Repor1 (li1e).
See M 1600.
WHRI (Angel 1) The Voice of Power. See S 0630_
WHRI (Angel 2) Lester Sumrall Teaching Senes. See M
t600.
WHRI !Angel 1) The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
WHRI !Angel 1) Midnight Cry. See M 1630.
USA, WWCR #1 : The Living Word Broadcast. See M 1645
WHRI (Angel 1)' Abundant Life. See M 1115
WHRI !Angel 2): The Radio Bible Hour_See M 0600.

Thursdays
1600
1600

1600
1600
1600
1615
1630
1645
t 645
1645

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: MUSIC. Sees 1600.

USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Wo~d Wide Country Radio
(live). See M t tOO.
USA, WWCR 13 The Intelligence Repor1 (live). See M 1600.
WflRI (Angel t ): The Voice of Power. See S 0630.
WHRI (Angel 2) Lester Sumrall Te3ching Series. See M
t600.
WHRI !Angel t) The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
WHRI (Angel 1)' Midnight Cry. See M 1630.
USA, WWCR #1 : The Living Word Broadcast See M 1645.
WHRI (Angel 1): Abundant Life. See M 1115.
WHRI (Angel 2). The Radio Bible Hout. See M 0600

Fridays
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1615
1630
1645
1645
1645

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI' MUSIC. Sees 1600

USA, WWCR 11 Nashvrlle TN: World Wide Country Radio
(live) See M 1100
USA. WWCR 13 The lnlelligence Repor1 !live). See M 1600.
WHRI (Angel t ). The Voice ol Power. See S0630.
WHRI !Angel 2): Lester Sumrall Teaching Series. Sec M
1600
WHRI (Angel 1): The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.
WHRI (Angel t ) M1dn1ght Cry. See M 1630.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN The Living Word Broaocasl
Sec M 1645.
WHRI !Angel 1)' Abundam Life. See M 1115.
WHRI (Angel 2). The Radio Bible Hour. See M 0600.

Saturdays
1600
1600
1600
1600
1604
1605
1605
1615
1615
1630
1630
1635
t645
t645

USA, KWHR Naalenu HI UPI News See T 0300.

USA. \VWCR ,1 Nashvll!e TN A Brighler Day Jane
Rogows~1 evangelizes from Maryland
USA. WWCR 3 Nashv11e TN A Glimpse of Heaven !live)
Nathanrel Best
WHRI (Angel 112): UPI flews. Sees 0400
USA. KWHR Naatehu HI Turn Your Radio On. See M 0400.
WHRI (Angel t ): Music. Sees 0200.
WflRI (Angel 2): Li1etnne Commentary. AD Slurrn
evangelizes from Minneso1a.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashvil'e TN: End Day Prophecy Broadcast
Brother Sharpe evangelizes from Georgia.
WHRI (Angel 2) Ch11st Gospel Broadcast BR Hicks with a
Bible lesson.
USA. WVJCR 11 Nashvtl'e TN: The Word of Victory. Joyce
Corbitt preaches
IVHRI (Angel 2). Jesus 10 lhe World Mission. A plea for
funds from Germany.
\l/HRI (Angel 2) The People's Lawyer. See A 1405.
USA. WWCR #1 NashvilleTN Hope for Today. J. Olis Yoder.
WHRI (Angel 2) Hear1fell Mmistnes Advice from the hear1.

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17001800
17001800

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Aus1raha. Radro

170018001
1700180011
17001800;1
17001800;1
17001800
17001800
17001800
17001800
17001800
17001800
17001800
17001730
1700 1800 as
17001727
17001800
1700 1800
1700-1730
17001800

Aus1ra1ra. VL8A Alice Spg

Auslralia. VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Moweal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN S1 John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Ctuna. China Radio Intl
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica. Adv World R
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Egypt, Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
France. Radio France Intl
Japan. R Japan/NHK Wo~d

17001752 mtwhf
1700 1750
I 700 1800 vi
1700-1755
1700-1800

New Zealand. R NZ Intl

Norlh Korea. R Pyongyang
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Poland. Polrsh R Warsaw
Russ1a,Vo1ce of Russia WS

1700-1730
17001800
17001730
1700-1800

S Africa, Channel Africa

S Africa. Investment Ch
Spain. R Eterior Espana
United Kingdom, BBC WS

1700-1745
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800

United Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of America

1700-1800 mtwhf

USA. Voice ot America

1700-1800
17001800
1700- 1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700 I 800 sm~1hf
1700-1800 mtwhf
1700-1800
1700-1800 m1whf
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1745
1700-1800
1700-1800 vi
1700-1800 vi
1700-1800 vi
1730-1800 vi
1730-1800 m1Wht
17301800
1730-1800
1730-1756
1730-1800
1730-1800 s
1730-1759
17451800
1745-1800

USA. WEWN Birirnngham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Belhel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 2
Znnbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Cyprus. BRT lnlernational
Georgia. Radio
Guam. AWR/KSOA
Netherlands. Radio
Romania. R Romania Intl
Sweden. Radio
Sweden. Radio
Vatican S1a1e. Va1ican R
Bangladesh. Bangla Betar
India. All India Radio

1745-1800

Swaziland, Trans World R

11775am
6060pa
9860pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
9625do
6005do
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6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
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1800-1900
18001900
1800-1900
1800 t900
1800-1900
1800 1830
1800- 1900
18001900
180019)0

Brazil. Radio Bras

Canada. CFCX Montreat
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hal1lax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Afnca
Georgia. Voice of Hope
India. A I India Radio

18001900 vi
1800 1900
18001900 s
1800 1900
18001825
1800 1815 mtwhf
1800- 1830 s
18001900 vi
1800-1900

Italy. IRAS
Kul'lait. Radio
Morocco. RTVM Marocaine
Mozambique. Radio Maputo
Nelhe~ands. Radio
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl
Norway, Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

1800 1900
1800 1900
1800 1900
1800-1830
18001900

S Africa. Investment Ch
Sudan. Radio Omdurman
Swaziland. Trans World R
Swaziland. Trans World R
United Kingdom. BBC WS

18001830
18001900
1800-1900
18001900
1800-1900
18001900
1800-1900

United Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA, KJES Mesqu11e NM
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of America

4965af

1800-1900
18001900
18001900
18001900
1800-1900
t 800-1900 srn1whf
1800 1900as
18001900
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18001900
1800 1845
18001827
18001900
1800- 1900
1800 I 900 vi
1800 1900vl
1800 1900 vi
18051830
1825-1900 vi
1830 1900 I
1830-1900
18301900

USA. WEWN 811mingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINS Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRMllR Miami Intl
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voice of
Yemen. Yemeni Rep Radio
Zambia. Clu1s11an Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Malawi. MBC
Cyprus. BAT International
Belarus. Rad1osta Belarus
Georgia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio

7120af
11940af
13800.a
13800va
15570al
9570eu
9650eu
13770as

18301900 w
18301900a
1830-1900
18301835
18301900
1830-1900
1830-1900
1833 1900
18401850
1845 1900
1845 1900 mtwhf
1845-1900 11reg s
1852-1900

Saipan. FEBC/KFBS
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia
Slovakia. R Slovakia Intl
Somalia. Radio Mogadishu
Turkey. Voice of
United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. Voice of Am erica
Cote D lvoue. RDTV
Greece. Voice of
Albania. R Tirana Intl
Armenia. Voice of
Mah, ROTV Malienne
New Zealand. R NZ Intl

6080pa
11880pa

7150at
7335af

9580pa
12080pa

9615as

7405af

15640al

11 615af
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9835na

12015me
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9640af

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15350\la

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7225af

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9630af

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11860af

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11 870as
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13760am

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13845am

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1800-1900

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Australia. Radio

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Auslra\ia, \llSA Ailee Spg

Australia. IJLBK Katherine
Australia. Vl81 1ent Crk
Bang\ades\1. Bang\a Selar
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7210eu

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13695na
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1800 UTC

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6005do
6070do
6030do
6t30do
6t60do
6160do
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15\86ar
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9955am
7355am
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9475am
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9840eu
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3330al
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6005af
7170as
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11645al
7270eu
4810me
4783do
9795pa

11 775am
6080as
961 5as
23\0do
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2325do
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5910eu

POLAND: POLISH RADIO WARSAW

7240pa
9860pa

7330as
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9570as
\3645al

\ 5520do

9580pa
12080pa

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1200- 1255
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Anyu1ll.1.Ca11bbean B~acon
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Au~lrJhd Ramo

1900-2000 vi
1900-2000 vi
1900-2000 vi
1900-1920
19002000
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1900-2000
1900-?000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-1930
1900-2000 vi
1900-2000
1900-2000
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1900-2000
1900 1950

AU>lrah,1. VL8A Alice Spg

Aus11,111,1 VLBK Ka1he11ne
Aus11ah.1 'ILBT Te111 Crk
Brazil Rau10 Bras
Bulga11a R,1d10
Canada CFCX Montr'.ll
Canada CFRX Toro1110
CanaJa. CFVP Calgr1
Canad,r. CHNX Halllax
Canad.1. CKZN St Johns
CJniula CKZU Va11rnuve1
China. Ct11113 Radio Intl
CostJ Rica, Adv Wor Id R
Cole o ivorre RD rv
Cyprus Bfi r lntetnJllOnal
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Ger mny. Deu1sche Welle

1 900-~000

Guat~111ala. Adv Wurld R

liunga11 Radm Buddpesl
India A India Radio

1900-1930
1900-1945

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153.tSeu
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9700eu
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1900-2000 vi
1900-2000
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1900-1930
1900-2000

l1el,llld,IV Coasl R lrcl<1nd

Israel. KJl Israel
Italy. IRAS
Kenya. Kenya Broarlc Corp
Kuwait. Radio
Latvia. Radro
Li~erra LGr! R Liberia Im
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
Ne1herl,111ds, Radio

1900-195 1 Smlwh
1900-1958 ta
1900-2000 vi
1900-2000

New Zealand. R NZ Intl

New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua N~,1 Gurnc,1. NBC
Romama. R Rornamo Intl

190020(0

Russia Vo1c;; 01 Rus>,J WS

1900 2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2QOIJ
1900-1930
1900-2000

S Afnc.r lnvest1nen1 Ch
Soulh Korea R Korc.1 Intl
Swaziland Trans World R
Thailand Radro
Turkey. Voice of
Unrtcd Kingdom. BBC WS

1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000

USA. KAIJ Dallas f X

USA. K1 BN Salt Lk Cny UT
USA. KWHR llaalchu HI
USA. Mamtor Radio lnll
USA. Vrnce of Arnc11t.a

1900-1930 s
1900-2000
1900-2000
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1900-2003
1900-2000
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1900-2000
1900-2000 mwillfa
19002000
19002000
1900-1927
1900-2000
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1900-2000 vi
19002000 vi
19302000
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1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
1935-1955
1950-2000
1952-2000 smMh
1959-2000 fa

USA. Vo1:e of 1\me11ca

USA. WEWN Birm1ngl1am Al.
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA \VHRI llebles11ll~ IN
USA WlflB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA WMt K Bel hel PA
USA WRl~llR M1,11111 !nil
US4, WANO Nw Orle;,ns LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA, WWCR Nasltvrlle TN
USA WYFR Okecclrob"e FL
Vietnam Voice of
ZamtJM Chnstian VoH:e
Zarnbra RZombra LIJBC I
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Z11no,1n.-1e ZrmOJO\'iC
G~o1 y1,1 . R<1010
Iran. VOii!!
Polalld Pol1;n R WJt>Jl'I
S:1"den. ~adro
Uniled Kingdom BBC WS
Italy. RAI lml
Vatican Slale. l/a1tc.11t R
Nc:1 Zc.rlJnj R fU 11111
Ne\'1 Zealand. R NI 11111

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4828do
11760eu
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6065eu
11835af
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4005tu
117J5pa
11735pa

7240pa
9860pa

.
7330as
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9580pa
12080pa

11720eu

9~4 0af

15460am
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9640af
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9670af
13790at

7155eu
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13770as

9755eu
9950me
13780as

I 1620eu
15075as

9435na

11605va

15640au

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I 7605al

7195eu
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7295at
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13670af
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13695na
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--

2000 uTc

4:00 PM EDT/ 1:00 PM PDT

- ---

..
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100

Angola Radio Nac1ona1

Angwlla Caribbean Beacon
Auslraha Radio

2000-:n 00 vi
2000-2 100 vi
20002100 vi
2000-2100
20002100
2000-2100
2000 2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100 as

Auslraha. VL81\ Allee Spg

Auslraha. VLSK Ka11ic11ne
Australia, VLB Te111 Crk
Canada CFC X Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Hahlax
Canaaa CKZN S1 Johns
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada lnll
Ca11ada. R Canada lnll

2000-2100

China. China Radro Intl

2000-2100 vi
200C 2027
200C-2100
200G-2100
2000-2030
2000-2050
200C2030
2000-2010
2000-2100
2000 2100
2000-2030
2000-2100 vf
2000-2100 vi
2000-2100
2000-2100
20002030
2000-2025

Cyprus. BAT lr1erna1tonal

Czech Rep Ra J10 Prague
Ecuador HCJB
Eqt Guinea, Radio Af11ca
Frnland. YLE/R Finland
Germany. Deutsche Welle
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Greece. Voice of
Gualemala Ad1 Wor Id R
Indonesia Vart.e of
Iran VOIRt
Italy. IRAS
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Kuwail. Radio
Malta. VO Med1teiranean
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
Netlierl<1nds. Radio

2000-2100 fa
2000 2100 snll,,h
2000-2005
2000-2050
2000-2100 vi
2000-2025
2000-2030 nllwhl
2000-2100

New Zealand R NZ Intl

llw Zealand R NZ Intl
Nrge11a. FRCNIRad10
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Papua Ne,1 Guinea NBC
Poland Polish R Warsaw
Portugal. R Po1tugal 1m1
Russia.Voice 01 f1ussm WS

2000-2100
20002015
2000-2100
2000-2015 rrreg
2000-2100 llll\'lhf
2000 2015
20002030
2000-2015
20002100

S Ahc hwestrncnl Ch
Sierra l~one. SLBS
Slovakl<l Adv World Radio
Somalia. Radio Mogadishu
Spain. R Extenrir Espana
Swazrlancl. Trans World R
Switzerland. Swrss R 11111
Uganda. Radio
United Kingdom BBC WS

2000-2100
2000-2100
2000 2100
2000 2100
2000-2030

USA KAIJ Dallas Ix

USA KTBN Sal lk City uUSA KWHR Naatehu HI
USA Mon1101Radio lnll
USA Voice of Amc11ca

2000-2100
20002100
2000-2100
2000-2100
20002100
2000-2100 Snll\'lllf
?0002100
2000 2100
2000-2100 m1whfa
2000-2 100
2000-2100

USA. WEWN Brrm1ngham AL

USA WGTG McCaysville GA
USA WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Reel Lion PA
USA. WJCR Up1on KY
USA WMLK Belllel PA
USA WRMl,fi Mram1 lnll
USA WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Grnenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA WYFR Okeechobee FL

2000-?010
2000-2030
2000-2100
2000-2 ICY.l vi
2000-2100 vi
2005-2100
2015-2030
2025-2045
2025-2035 m1111tl
2030-2100
20302100
20302100
2030 2100
2030-2100
2030 20-15
2030 2100 dS
21)30 2057
2045-2100

Va11can State. Vatican R

Val1can State. Vat1c.111 R
Zambia Chrrstran Voice
Zambia R Zarn bra'ZNBC 2
Zrmbilb1:e. Zrmbau..:e BC
Syr1a Racho Damdscus
Namrbra NBC
Italy. RAI Intl
Lacv1a Radio
Armema. Voice JI
Egypt Radio Cano
Gern,anv Ad ven11st World ii
SIOl'cKia Aov World Raoo
S\';eaen. Radro
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USA Vo!Le of A HCllW

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Indra All India Racl10

.
3355do
I 1775am
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9860pa
2310do
248Sdo
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6005do
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6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5995va
11690af
15325af
5220eu
11715af
6150do
5930eu
11960eu
15186af
6120eu
7170eu
3366da
7430eu
5980am
9525as
7260af
3955va
4885do
11990eu
7440eu
9705na
6020al
15315af
11735pa
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3326do
6575eu
4890do
6035eu
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7350eu
9665eu
5965af
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9400am
9495am
13790eu
7490na
9465eu
9955am
7355am
13695va
9475am
7355eu
21525af
4005eu
7365af
3330af
6165do
4828do
12085na
3270do
7120na
5935eu
7480eu
15375af
9830eu
9J55af
6065as
9655cu
J950al
9840eu
7150eu

11620eu

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953Sdo
7240pa
I 1880pa

7330as
12080pa

7235eu
13650af
17820af
6950eu
151 lOaf

13670af
17870af
9440af

9580pa

15150af
9920eu

11600au
21455am
9855eu
4915do
9380eu
9022eu
4935do

6150do

12060eu
i120at
17605a1

9895af

11655af

47i0do
9345as

4990do
9640af

9975as

6095eu
71 10eu
7370eu
9775eu
7225af

7285cu
9780eu
7440eu
9880eu
9475al

9815cu
9620eu
11675eu
11870al

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12075al

13635al

5975as
6195va
11835a1
15575va

6005al
9410eu
12095cu
17830al

11550eu
6035at
9770at
15445a1

11860pa
7375af
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74 15af
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13615na

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15745na

12160am
11580eu

1384Sam
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15685am
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5882eu
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4965at

7250eu
11 625al

9645eu

6180eu
9630af
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13760eu

13610eu
3290do
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9965eu

13625as
9680eu
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7410eu
t1715pa

1190Seu
15010eu

9910a11

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FREQUENCIES . . . . . .
2100-2130
2100-2200
2100-2200

Albania, R Tirana lnl l

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Auslralia, Radio

2100-2130
2100-2130 vi
2100-2130 vi
2100-2200 vi
2100-2130vl
2100-2200 vi
2100-2125
2100-2200
2100-2115 vi
2100-2200 vi
2100-2200 vi
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2130 as

Australia, Radio
Australia, VL8A Alice Spg
Australia. VLSK Katherine
Australia, VLSK Katherine
Australia, VLST Tent Crk
Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Bulgaria. Radio
Cameroon. Radio Cameroon
Cameroon. Radio Garoua
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada, R Canada Intl

2100-2130 mlwhf
2100-2200
2100-2130
2100-2130
2100-2200
2100-2200 vi
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2150

Canada. R Canada Intl

China, China Radio Intl
China, China Radio Intl
China, China Radio Intl
Cuba, Radio Havana
Cyprus. 8RT International
Ecuador, HCJB
Egypt, Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Germany, Deutsche Welle

2100-2130
2100-2200

Hungary. Radio Budapest

India. All India Radio

2100-2200 vi
2100-2200
2100-2107 vi
2100-2200
2100-2115
2100-2107
2100-2200 smtwh
2100-2200
2100-2200 vi
2100-2156
2100-2200

Italy. IRRS
Japan. RJapan/NHK World
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Namibia, NBC
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Radio
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romania. R Romania Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

2100-2200
2100-2130
2100-2200
2100-2130
2100-2105
2100-2110
2100-2200

SAfrica. Investment Ch
Serbia, Radio Yugoslavia
South Korea. R Korea Intl
South Korea. R Korea Intl
Syria. Radio Damascus
Uganda. Radio
Ukraine. R Ukraine Intl

2100-2200

United Kingdom. BBC WS

2100-2130
2100-2145
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200

United Kingdom. BBC WS

United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of America

2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200 smtwhf
2100-2200
2100-2145
2100-2200
2100-2200 vi

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WINS Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 1

7110eu
11775am
7240pa
11855as
6080pa
2310do
2485do
5025do
2325do
4910do
5910eu
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6160do
6160do
11690af
15325af
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11715af
3985eu
9585eu
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11990eu
15375af
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3975eu
71 SOeu
11620au
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6035as
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4976do
5905eu
7180eu
9550na
12040na
3255af
5975as
6195va
11750sa
15400af
9630af
11680sa
13815am
15590am
11815as
9355am
6035al
9535af
15185as
17725af
13615na
9400am
9495am
13790eu
7490na
9955am
7355am
13695af
9475am
15565af
3330af
4910do

9515eu
9660pa
12080pa
9860as

9850pa
13605pa
118BOpa

11695pa

11720eu

2100-2200 vi
2100-2200 vi
211 5-2200
2115-2130
2130-2200
2130-2155
2130-2 t 57
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2145-2200 a

Zambia, R Zarnbia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe BC
Egypt, Radio Cairo
United Kingdom, BBC WS
Australia. Radio
Austria. R Austria Intl
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam. AWR/KSDA
Iran, VOIRI
Sweden, Radio
Greece, Voice of

6165do
4828do
9900eu
6175arn
t3755pa
5945eu
11600al
3366do
t5310as
6165au
6065eu
7480au

2200-2300
2200-2300

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio

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

Australia, VL8K Katherine

Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada, R Canada Intl

22002230
22002300
22002300
22002300
22002245
2200-2300
2200-2215
22002230

Canada. R Canada Intl

China, China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Cuba. Radio Havana
Egypt, Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Ghana. Ghana arcade Corp
India. All India Radio

2200-2230
2200-2225
22002300
2200-2215
2200-2300
22002230
2200-2300 smtwh
2200-2215
22002230 s
22002300 vi
2200-2300

Iran, VOIRI
Italy, RAI Intl
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia, Radio
Moldova, R Moldova Intl
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Radio
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

2200-2300
2200-2215
2200-2300
2200-2300 as
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300

SAfrica. Investment Ch
Sierra Leone, SLBS
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Spain, R Exterior Espana
Taiwan. VO Free China
Turkey. Voice of
United Kingdom. BBC WS

22002230
2200-2300
22002300
2200-2300
22002300

United Kingdom, BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA, KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA, Voice of America

22002230 mtwht

USA, Voice of America

2200-2300

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

2200-2300
2200-2300
22002300
22002300
22002300
2200-2300
22002300 s
2200-2300
22002300
22002300 vi
2203-2210
22302300
22302227
22402250
2245-2300
2245-2300
2245-2300

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA

USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WINS Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Canada, R Canada Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Greece. Voice of
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
India. All India Radio
Vatican State. Vatican R

6090arn
1t695pa
17795pa
5025do
4910do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5960eu
15305am
11705as
71 lOeu
7385am
6180na
9900eu
15186af
4915do
7150eu
t 1620au
6165au
6150as
9960va
5100do
7295do
7520eu
11 735pa
3326do
9405sa
9675do
7105na
9665na
7225at
3316do
6055af
6t25eu
15600eu
6135eu
5965as
6195as
9660as
11835af
12095eu
13815am
15590am
7510eu
7215as
15185as
17820as
6035al
t 1975al
6890na
15745eu
5085am
5745am
t3790am
7490na
9955am
7355am
5850eu
9475am
21525af
4910do
5895eu
5960am
7345na
7480au
3366do
7170as
7305as

15390am
17795pa
6155eu

17715am
17860pa
13730af

6175au
9430af
9425au

2200 UTC

13650af
17820af
7235eu
6950eu
15110af

13670af

15150af

9920af

9620eu
21455am

9670as
11865af
7250eu
7410eu
11715au

9735af
15135af
9835eu
9910eu

9535na
4935do

13630as
6150do

9765as

9950eu

3290do
4770do

4990do

7195eu
7350eu
9655eu
9765eu

9690eu
7370eu
9665eu
9775eu

11810eu
i440eu
9710eu
9880eu

7225af
6185eu
15575eu

9475af

11870af

13610eu
6010eu
7240eu
9560na
13590na
3915as
6005af
73251a
11835af

6020eu
7280eu
9640na
13720sa
3955eu
6180eu
9410eu
11945as

6090eu
7380na
9905na
5965as
6190af
9630va
12095eu

15485af

11550eu
6040me
9760eu
15410af
t 7735as
15375sa

12160am
17555eu
4965af

13840au
7375af
11870pa
15445af

7415af
11975af
15580af

15745eu

13845am
t7845af

15685am
21525eu

Ju ne 1997

11855as
17860pa

13755pa

t5365pa

9755am

13670am

13740am

74 lOeu
11715au
6175au
9565as

991 Oeu

9950eu

4770do

4990do

7250na

9620na

9475af

11870af

11775af
17750eu
7280eu
5975am
7325va
9890as
11955as

9560na
6175am
9410va
9915am
12080as

9655na
61 BOeu
9590am
11750am
15400af

13770sa
9705as
15290as

15665as
9770as
t5305as

11 760as
17735as

7340af

7375at

7415al

9975eu

136t5na

15375sa

12160am

t3845am

15685am

7165eu
9755am
11600na
9425au
49t5do
9705as
9600as

13830eu
13670am

7170eu

11815pa

9950as
1t830au

9655na

1t620as

M ONITORING TIMES

61

FREQUENCIES

2oLlu-OGOO
2300-0000

AngLI1!!J.C;H1btl~.1n B~acon

23000000 vi
2300-0000 vi
2:iJO-OCOO
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

2o0u-OOO'l
2300-0000
2300-2330 mtwhf
2300-000) as

Au;tral1J. VL8K Kather111e

AustrJl1a. VL8T Tent Crk
Bul;;am Raaio
Canada. CBC N Out:bec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Ca1ada. CFVP Calgary
C.,.:Jd,1 CHi<X HJl1IJ,
Canada. CKiN St Johns
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. RCanada Intl
Caratla. R C.1~Jda Intl

;_3;,J-GUJ,j

Cv:;ta Rl-.<J, Adv \Vurld R

2300-GuO.J
2300-231,)
23uJOOO.J
2300-235')
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-000)
2300-2315
2300-000)
2300-000J as
2300-2305 SITil\'111
2300-231 5
2300-2325
2300-000J vi

Ccsta Rica.RF Peace Intl

Croatia. Croatian Radio
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Gemw1y Deutsche Welle
GuJm. AWA, KSDA
Guatema'a. Adv World A
India. /Ill India Radio
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
L1be11a.LCN1H L1be11a Int
Malaysia. Radio
Ne\'/ Zealand. A NZ Intl
Nel'I Zealand. A NZ Intl
N1ge11a. FRCNIRad10
No1lh Korea. A Pyongyang
Papua r<ew Guinea. NBC

Australia. Rad1u

2:~1-00(})

t:.:i~J.Ji)CJ

... ... .

. . . .. ...

. .
6090am
9660pa
15365pa
5025do
49t0do
7480na
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6t60do
11 940am
5960am
1530oam
5J30am
13750am
7385am
5895eu
9900na
5980as
t 1775as
11775am
7170as
9960va
5 IOOdo
7295do
151 15pa
11735pa
3326do
11700na
9675do

11695as
17795pa

12080pa
17860pa

9435na

15305am
9755am
6150am
15460am

11940am

13670am

73ioam

9725am

7165eu
7235as

9690as

9705as

9950as

4770do
13650na

2300-2356

Romania. A Romania Intl

2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

Russia, Voice of Russia WS

S Africa. Investment Ch
Turkey. Voice of
United Kingdom. BBCWS

2300-2315
23000000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

United Kingdom, BBCWS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monrtor Radio lnll
USA. Voice of America

2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000 mtwhf
2300-0000
2300-2315
2307-0000
2330-0000
2330-2355
2330-0000 vi
2330-0000
2330-0000
2335-2345
2335-2345

USA. WEWN B11mingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WAND New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
Vatican State, Vatican A
New Zealand, A NZ Intl
Australia, Radio
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
Iraq. Radio Iraq Intl
Netherlands, Radio
Greece, Voice of
Sierra Leone, SLBS

13755as

11620as

4990do

... ..
5990na
11940na
7105na
7225af
6135na
3915as
9580as
11945as
1540Qaf
13815am
15590am
17510as
7510af
7215as
15185as
17820as
6890na
9400am
5745am
13790am
7490na
9955am
7355am
9900af
5070am
7305as
15115pa
13605pa
9925sa
4915af
6050eu
6020na
9395sa
3316do

61 SSna

9510na

7125na
9475af
7280eu
5965as
9590na
11955as

9665na
11870af
9655na
5975am
9915am
15380as

13625as
9705as
15290as

13770sa
9770as
15305as

9975na

13615na

9570na

6175am
11750sa

11760as
17735as

7315am

7435am
9600as

9475am
11830na

13845am

17880pa
11690am
11890eu
6165na
9425sa

9845na
9935sa

11595sa

SELECTED PROGRAMS
Wednesdays

Sundays
2300
2300
2300
2300
2315
23 15
2330
2330
2330

India. All India Rodio: News and Commentary.

US/I. WWCR I 1 Nashville TN 1he Down Home Gospel
Program Brother Gary and Sister Wanda evangelize.
USA. WWCR H3 Nashville TN Harvest Time Gospel music
ar.d inspiration from the United Pentecostal Church
International
WHfll (/lngcl 2): Music. See S 0200.
India. All India Radio: P1ogra1n Preview.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Ask WWCR. A mailbag
program \hat answers listener questions about the
busrness of shortwave and radio propagation.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Breath of Lile. Nathan Halton

2300
2300
2300

pre,1chcs.

Thursdays

USA. WWCR #3 Nasll'lllle fN: World ot Radio. Glenn

Hauser's con11nunicat1 ons program for shortwave radio
lislene1s
WHAi (Angel 2): The P1ophecy Club. Stan Johnson
discuss~s bible prophecy lrom Topeka. Kansas.

2300
2300
2300
2300
2305
2305
2315
2345

India. All India Radio: Nel'IS and Commentary.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: The P1ophecy Club. Stan Johnson
discusses bible prophecy from Topeka. Kansas.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Freedom Nol'l (hvc). Irwin
Schiff.
USA. WWCR ' 3 Nashville TN: The Kurt Saxon Show (live).
Kurt Saxon.
WHAi 1Angel 1) UPI News. Sec S0400.
WHHI 11\ngel 2) USA Radio News See S 0400.
VIHRI (Angel 11 MUSIC. See s 0200.
WHRI (Angel 2) People 10 People (live). A program
olle11ng practical sc11\ural insights with Bob George.
lnd1a.1\ll lnd1a Radio: Program Preview.
USA. KWHB Naalenu HI Reach Out. See M 1500.

Tuesdays
2300
2300
2300

2300
2300
2305
2305
23 15
2340
2345

62

India. All India Radio News and Co111men\ary.

USA. KWHR riaalehu Ht The P1ophccy Club See M 2300.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Freedom Now (live). See M
2300.
USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: Nwswatch Magazine. Sec T
0000.
WHAi (Angel 1) UPI News. Sec S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 1) Music. See S0200.
WHAi (Angel 2) People 10 People (live). See M 2305.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview.
India. All India Radio: DX-ers Corner 1214).
USA. KWHA Naalehu HI: Re,1ch Out. See M 1500.

MONITORING TIMES

2300
2300
2305
2305
2315
2345
2300
2300
2300
2300

Mondays
2300
2300

2300

June 1997

2300
2300
2305
2305
2315
2345

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.

USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: The Prophecy Club. See M 2300.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Freedom Now (live). See M
2300
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Kurt Saxon Show (live).
Sec M 2300.
WH Ai (Angel 1): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WH Ai (Angel 1): Music. See S0200.
WHAi (Angel 2): People to People (live). See M 2305.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: Reach Out. See M 1500.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: The Prophecy Club. See M 2300.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Freedom Now (live). See M
2300.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Newswatch Magazine. See T
0000.
WHAi (Angel 1): UPI News. See S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): USA Radio News. See S0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.
WHAi (Angel 2): People to People (live). See M 2305.
India. All India Radio: PrOQram Preview.
USA. KWHA Naalehu HI: Reach Out See M 1500.

Fridays
2300
2300
2300
2300
2300
2300
2305
2305
2315
2345
2354
2354

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI: The Prophecy Club. See M 2300.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Freedom Now (live). See M
2300.
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Kun Saxon Show (live).
Sec M 2300.
WHAi (Angel 1): UPI News. See S0400.
WHAi (Angel 2): USA Radio News. See S 0400.
WHAi (Angel 1): Music. See S 0200.
WHAi (Angel 2): People to People (live). See M 2305.
India. All India Radio: PrOQram Preview.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Reach Out See M 1500.
Radio Netherlands: Oocumentary. SOth Anniversary
Celebrations: Wim Kok (6\h). See W 1254.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Cities (Parts 1, 2, and 3)
(13th/20th/27th). See A 2354.

Saturdays
2300
2300

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary.

USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Light of Life Hour_ Clement

2300
2300
2300
2315
2315
2330
2330
2345

Bogle evangelizes from California.

USA, WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Hour of Courage. See M
0530.
WHAi (Angel 1): Music. See S0200.
WHAi (Angel 2): The Prophecy Club. See S 2330.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview.
USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The Blessed Word of Life.
Perry L. Johnson preaches in Spanish and English from
Washington, DC.
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: A Temple of Jesus Christ Cleveland
Waters.
USA. WWCR #1 Nashville TN: The People's Gospel Hour.
From Nova Scotia, Canada. Perry Rockwood lnterpre1s
scripture for Christian life.
WHAi (Angel 2): Wind of the Spirit Barbara Jennison.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS
UZBEKISTAN:

R. TASHKENT IN

ENGLISH:
0 100-0130
7190.9530,97 15
7285.9715. 15295
1200- 1230
7285.9715. 15295
1330-1400
(Pan!l'iew)
0100 heard on 9375
(A lok Das Gupta. India. BC-DX)

M T MONITORING TEAM
Next Reporling Deadline: J1111e 20, 1997
Ji m Frimmel
Gayle Van Hom
Frequency Manager Program Manager
swbcsked@grove_net [email protected]
Jacq ues d' Avignon
Dave Datko, CA
Loyd Van Horn , NC
Propagation
Ontario, Canada
[email protected]

THE
By Jacques d'Avignon
[email protected]
Before we di ve into the topic of the
indices, let's wrap up one more aspect o f
sunspots. Last month we discussed the
definition and significance o f the solar flu x
and sunspot numbers. One question that I am
asked very often is "what the relationship is
between the flux and the sunspot numbers?"
Over the years some simple equations
have been e laborated to relate these two
values to each o ther. I will give you two
s imple equations that could be used for
going back and forth between the two units.
For sunspot number to solar flux:
SF=73.4+0.62R

SF is the solar flu x and R is the d aily sun spot

number. For example, an SSN of 5 should
g ive you a flu x of67.
To convert from flux to sunspot num ber
the equation is not as straightforward:
SSN=SQRT [ ( (85. I2=flux) x (33.52) 11 - 408.99

The square root (SQRT) of the final number.

As a test : for a flux of 67 you should be
getting a SSN of 5.

AAND KINDICES
OPTIMUM WORKING FREQUENCIES (MHz)
For the Period 15 June to 14 July 1997
,. '
,. ' ,, '
' ' '
"

Flux=80 SSN= 16
'

II

TO/FROM US WEST COAST

16 1 16~ - 18
15

SOUTH AMERICA

18

16

15

15

15

14

13

12 11 10

10

II

13

14

WESTERN EUROPE

12

II

10

10

10

10

11

10

11

13

15 . 16

EASTERN EUROPE (P)

11

12

13

14

14

15

13

12

14

14

15

MEDITERRANEAN

14

14

14

12

15

16

!~6 -

18

18

19

19

15~- 16J 1 6

15

15

1-;- 14 1-;Jl- 12

17

17

18

18

18

I 11

18
1-

14

16

15

MIDDLE EAST (P)

13

13

15

16

16

16

13

12

14

15

17

18

17

15

13

CENTRAL AFRICA

12

11

10

12

11

15

17

18 19

19

19

16

14

12

SOUTH AFRICA

10

10

12

11

15

17

18

18

15

SOUTH EAST ASIA (P)

18

17

17

17

17

17

16

14

10

II

11

12

13

1'

14

14

14

.0

16

FAR EAST

16

15

15

15

16

16

15

13

11

10

10

10

10

10

11

12

12

12

12

12

14

15

16

AU STRALIA

20

20

19

19

20

18

17

15

14

12

11

12

12

11

11

12

12

17

20

19

17

-~

TO/FROM US MIDWEST
SOUTH AMERICA

16

14

14

14

13

12

11

11

10

10

11

13

15

16

17

18

18

18

11 1 18

17

17

WESTERN EUROPE

14

12

12

11

11

11

10

10

10

12

13

15 1 16

16

17

16

16

16

16

17

17

16

EASTERN EUROPE

11

11

12

13

13

11

12

13

14

15

15

15

15

151 1s

14

12

11

MEDITERRANEAN

14

14

13

13

13

11

10

13

15

16

17

li

17

17

Ii

17

16

15

15

MIDDLE EAST (P)

13

13

14

16

15

14

16

17

18

19

18

16

14

14

13

CENTRAL AFRICA

12

11

10

11

11

15

17

18

19

16

SOUTH AFRICA

10

10

10 II

11

15

17

18

19

I 18

15

SOUTH EAST ASIA (P)

16

16

16

17

16

15

10

11

12

1'1

14

I4

14

14

14

15

FAR EAST

16

16

16

16

16

15

13

11

10

10

II

12

I 13

13

13

13

13

13

14

15

16

AUSTRALIA

18

18

18

18

18

16

15

13

12

12

12

12

11

11

12

12

17

19

i 19 I 19 - 19

8j12

13
~

12

16

18

TO/FROM US EAST COAST

THE KAND

A INDICES

Two more numbers that appear whenever

we read or listen to shortwave propagation
forecasts are the K and A indices.
What happens on the sun has an effect on
how the Earth 's magnetic field will react.
Therefore, by monitoring how Earth reacts
we can infer what is "really" happening o ut
there! The measure of the Earth 's magnetic
field reaction is reported by the " K" index
that is broadcast by WWV at 18 minutes past
the ho ur.
The "K" index is a measure of the
reaction of the earth's magnetic field to the
sun's influence and this measurement is
made every three hours. The unit of measure
is the nanoresla, and the measure ment is
corrected for each station that measures this
index - necessary since each station has its
own varying " background count" of
magnetism. The range of the "K" index is
from 0 to 9 .
Also registered every three hours at each
station is a number related to the K index ,
called the "a" index . The daily average of
eight "a" indices taken every three hours at a
specific station is desig nated the "A" index.
The range for the "A" index is from 0 to 400.
Should you hear that the "A" index is in the

SOUTH AMERICA

14

12

12

11

11

10

10

12

13

15

16

16

16

16

16

16

WESTERN EUROPE

13

11

10

10

10

10

11

13

15

16

17

17

11

I 16

15

15

16

EASTERN EUROPE

11

11

11

12

10

0.

"()

11

13

14

16

16

15

15

16

16

17

16

MEDITERRANEAN

13

13

12

11

11

11

10

12

13

14

15

16

16

16

16

16

16

MIDDLE EAST (P)

13

13

14

13

11

13

14

15

16

17

17

18

18

17

16

CENTRAL AFRICA

12

12

11

10

12

1l

13

15

16

17

18

18

19

19

19

19

~H6
15 15
14

16 15
- 15

14

li

1'

12

15
15
11
~

-14
14

13
13

13

SOUTH AFRICA

10

11

11

14

16

18

18

18

19

18

15

11

SOUTH EAST ASIA (P)

16

16

16

14

0'

13

15

16

16

15

14

14

14

14

14

13

13

FAR EAST

16

16

16

16

14

10

11

12

13

14

13

13

13

13

13

14

15

AUSTRALIA

17

18

18

17

15

13

12

11

11

11

10

11

12

12

12

17

18

100 range, grab a good book and a cup of

coffee - chances are that listening cond itions will be horrible. Try another day 1
It would be difficult for me explain in
minute details the SSN and the nux
numbers, plu s the Kand the A indices in j ust
a few pages. But if you are interested in
finding more about these subjects. here are a
few references that you could consu lt:

1. The NEW Shortwa ve Propagatio11

Handb ook; Jacobs. George. W3ASK:
Theodore J. Cohen, N4XX: Robert B. Rose,
K6GKU. CQ Communications Publishing,
1995. ISBN 0-9430 16- 11 -8 . (Exce llent
reference book.)

-15 -16

13

10

14
16

17

2. A Radio Freq11e11n Use r -.~ Guide Tu The

Space E11viro11111e111 Services Ce111er Geophy sirnl Alert Broadcasts; Rosen thal , Dav id
A .. Joseph W. H innan. Nation al Ocean ic and
Atmospheric Adm ini strati o n. S pale Environment Laboratory. Ju ne 1990. Revised May
1992. Technical Me morandum ER L SEL-80.
(Everything you always wan lcd to know
about the WWV/WWYH b roadcasts fo r
wh ich you coul d nol find a so urce.)
I hope that the last two co lumns ha ve
cleared up some to the mysteries s urround ing
these u nits. If you ha ve more question s write
lo me al the magazine o r al the e- mail address
above .
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BEGINNER'S CORNER
UNCLE SKIP'S GUIDE TO MONITORING

SKIP AREY, N2EI

[email protected]

Random Summer Thoughts

his is the time of year we all tend to get

a bit lazy . The temperatures rise and wc
all te nd 10 look for a shady spot tu re lax.
Well. there is no reason you can 1 rela x and
play radio. or al the very lcast devote some
thought lo ii. Follnwing arc sorne loose notio ns I found o n d igging th rough my files
which somehow ne ver germinated into a full
column.

~
~

Society for the Preservation of Radio

Al a local halllfesl crawl. I ran across a very

old book published by the American Radio
Relay League call ed H m 1 /o R l'co111e 11 H11dio
A m a /<'111". Certainl y the League and several
ot her sources ha ve pu bli shed many lllore
modern and appropriatc books since th is one,
copyri ghted in 1974. Howcver. the book
caught my eye for anothcr reason. In it were
schematics and constructiun information for
a basic but highl y se rviceablc 80\-10\ 15 meter
recei ve r and a great little I0 wall, one tube
80\40 one tubc transmille r rolled togethe r
around the venerable 6T9 vacuum tube.
I happened to come acro s~ thi s book about
the same lime as the Augu ~ l '96 issuc of MT
came out in wh ich I mentinned the old W5LET
o ne tube 1ransmi11cr circuit that appeared in
Elec1ro11ics l//11s1m1ed bac k in I968. I was
surprised to recei ve a good deal of e- mail
about that old circuit. This got me to thi nking
(always dangerous): We have a lot of folks in
the radio monitoring hobby who arc dedicated lo the restoration o f o lder and even
antiq ue radio rece ivers a nd trans mitte rs.
Maybe there is roolll in the hobby for a group
dedicated to the preservation. construction.
and ac ti ve use of o lder design radi o ci rcuit s.
such as those that ha ve appeared in yea rs gone
by in any one of a doze n radio hobby magazines. Maybe we could ca ll it .. The Society for
the Preservation of Good O ld Fashioncd. Build
at Homc. and Used With Pride . Radi o.
I don't have enough hours in the day to get
somethin g li ke this off the ground. but if
anyo ne want s to take up the mantle. I would
be happy lo jo in and even contribute a few
des igns rrom my file s. ll could be an idea
whose time has come. In this world of surface
mount technology and equipment that can t
be serviced al Imme with less than a few
tho usand dollars of test gear. it s refreshi ng to
know you can sti ll pul a decent ~ i g n al on the

64

MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

air for a fe w bucks and with a few tools. And

since th is i ~. in fac t. a beg inner" s column. I
would remind you that it" s a lot easier to
understand how radio works when you go
over one of these older radi o c ircuit des igns.
Hec k, in many modern rigs al l you can do is
po int to a chip and say .. some kind of mag ic
happens in there ...
A Journey to the Junk Box

And in a related topic. let me ask you all a

question. How doe s your junk box look these
days? What. you don ' t have a junk box? Even
beginners need a junk box 1 The junk box is the
place you will li ke ly find many nf thccompone nts you will need to try out some of those
c ircuits you will lik e ly find in the
SFf POGOFBAH AUWPR clu b nc wsleuer ( if
it ever gets off the ground ).
It' s never too earl y in the rad io hobby to
start a small collection of future useful electron ic stuff. Espec ial ly be on the lookout for
t ho~e things that are increasingly hard to find.
suc h as air variable tuning capacitors and
transformers with more than just a 12 volt
~eco nd ary wi nding.
Be warned that as you grow in this hobby
you will disco ver that junk boxes can easil y
grow into ju nk closets. junk roo m ~ . and eve n
junk floors. Tha1 sgrcat if you ha ve the space:

however. if you just concentrate on keeping

those few thi ngs that can t be fou nd in ei ther
Rad io Shack orone of the better parts cata logs
suc h as Mouse r or tv!CM. you shou ld be able
to keep your collec tion ma nageable.
Getting Wired

Related lo the aforementioned topic: 1keep

a separate junk box these days fo r wire and
cable. Ju st abou t every radio projccl from
circui t construction to antenna des ign requires
that you be in possession of some quantity of
wire. Instead of run ning out lo the local electroni cs outlet every time I need some wire, I
firs t duck into my wire junk box. I can usuall y
save quite a fcw pen nies this way.
Again, a word of caution is in order: Never
use a wi re smallerthan expected by the circ uit
design unless you know what you arc doing.
If the project ca ll s for #6 (big) and you try to
use # 18 (small ) wire. al the ve ry least thc
circu it won t be as stu rdy: at the worst. the
wire may not be able to handle the amperage
load and you may experience heating. fa ilure,
and even fire. So pay alle ntion to such things
as wire gauge in project construction.
Speaking of wi re: Do you need a good
source for nice heavy antenna wi re that wil l
last a long time withou t problems? Drive ri ght
past your electronics supply outlet to your

nearest hardware superstore (Builder's Square,

Hechinger's, Home Depot, or Rickels, j ust to
name a few ). I have fou nd the better stocked
electrical sectio ns of these stores routinely
carry w ire gauges a ll the way up to #4 (reall y
nice a nd bi g) and stranded cable of even more
monstrous gauges for fu ll house w iri ng
projects. T hese wires are usually sold by the
foot and can be had with or without insulation.
I bought some of this stuff to construct
dipoles that posit ively scare my neighbors.
but I won't have to worry about them comi ng
down in a big wi ndstorm unless they snap
their support trees off at the trunk ! If you don't
have a hardware supe rstore in your neck of the
woods, just hi t the yell ow pages under Electrical or Electric ians Supplies and you should
be able to fi nd si milar stuff.

I Signal Route Canal

Wh ile you' re in that super-duper hardware
store s electrical ais le, you can find some neat
goodies that can really make for safe, neat
antenna routi ng into your shack. I' ve long
been part ia l to adapting common household
clothes dryer vent outlets for routing w ires
into my radios. While these work just fine,
invariably someone fee ls the need to ask,
" Hey, how come you have your antennas
hooked up to your dryer?"
After running o ut of sarcastic answers for
this question, I realized that there might sti ll
be an even better way to get this job done, or
at least reduce the number of times I would
need to expla in it to fol ks. Sure enough. whil e
I was shopping for that serious gauge anten na
wire. I came across an idea that may work for
you in some app lications.
As a beginner. you wi ll di scoverthat peace
at home and wi th your neighbors can depend
on making your anten na system look as neat
and professional as possible. Getting the cables
into the house is ofte n a place where decorum
dies in favo r of expedie nce. This does not
need to be the case. Let's thin k about what we
are doing here: We are trying to bring wires
into our house. Well , how do the professiona l
e lectric ians do thi s? They use a specially
designed inlet called a "Weather Head." If
you want to get an idea of what I' m talking
about, go outside your humble abode and take
a look at how the main electrical service
comes into your home.
T he weather head is usually made of metal
with in sul at ion. or more modern ones are
made out of PVC. Us ing such an inle t, it is
easy to route antenna cables into your house in
a manner that w ill look neat. but will also
protect you from leaks as well as those little
creatures that tend to fi nd every openi ng. I

must admit that keeping the squirre ls out of

my old dryer vent system was a bit of a chore.
At my hardware outlet I found a couple of
different weather head designs . These all
coupled to PVC condui t pipe. so the install ati on could be made eithe r verticall y th rough
the roof or horizontall y through a wal l. A few
doll ars and a little bit of imagination should
yield a route for your wi res that wi ll be downright handsome. Now all you' ll have to do is
expla in why you have two e lectrical services
coming into your house. instead o f why your
dryer needs an ante nna!
By the way. don' t forget to install surge
protectors into your outside cable runs . before
the cables enter the weather head. A lways
route the ground w ire fo r these surge protectors as direct ly as possible to a good earth
ground. And remember that great big wi re we
talked about earl ie r? Use nothing less than #6
for your ground connection. Safety first! Always make sure your antennas and cables do
not cross the path of other services coming
into your home. Also. always check your
local buildi ng codes to assure compliance.
Don't leave the hardware store or electron ics supply house just yet. We still have to get
the wires from the weather head to the rigs.
Since it is not always possible to have your
lead-ins come into the same place your radios
are located, you may want to do a bit of
thinki ng about runn ing your wires through
the walls. This is a bit scary if you've never
done any work li ke this, but check your local
library or the book sect ion of that big hardware outlet. You' ll find plenty of help in
figu ri ng out how to route wiring through
wa lls, crawl spaces, and ceil ings. Properly
done. this can make your station look professional both inside and outs ide.
What I have done wi th my latest system is
to bring my cable in through a weathe r head,
through a wall , and into a common outlet box
installed in the wall for j ust this purpose. All
my cables route nice ly through thi s box and,
should I change my locati on, the now e mpty
box can simply be blocked off with a cover
plate. Neat, clean. and simple. using com mon
electrician' s supplies.
Well, the re you have some random tangents that shou ld give some food fo r thought
as you relax th is summer. T he warm weather
is the best ti me to rethink your antenna systems, so have at it. If the cou nte r person at the
hardware store gets a little confused. why not
take a few minutes to te ll the m about the
greatest hobby in the world? Maybe you can
get them to join in on the fun. Of course,
there's also the possibility of a di scount on
supplies if you can get them hooked, so it's
worth the conve rsation, right?

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LDXA Returns

ete ran readers will remember the

Long wave DX Award (LDXA) contests that we ran a few years ago.
These e vents we re e xtre mely popular. and
recen tly I' ve had several requests for a new
longwa vc contest. Based on suggestions from
several readers, I' ve put together a new event
for '97. Everyone is in vited to participate!
The object of LDXA 97 is to log the most
miles-pe r-watt on I0 beacons of your choosing. T he be acon s used must be in the range of
190 to 530 kH z, and the Aero/Marine Beacon
Guide will serve as the o ffi c ial source fo r
determining transmitter output power and location.
To de termine your"m iles-per-watt" score,
s impl y di vide the distance (in mi les) by the
power output o f the beacon. For example,
suppose you log a station that is 525 miles
away running 25 watts . Your score would be
2 1 poi nts (525+ 25W=2 I). Here are some
othe r sco ri ng e xamp les: 800 miles/I 00
watts=8 points. I 000 mi les/50 watts=20
points. 2000 miles/400 watts=5 points .
All pa rtic ipants are elig ible fo r two le ve ls
of pri zes as foll ows:
Beacon Chaser 's Award- A ll participa nts earning at least 150 points will receive
a numbered LDXA wall certificate (see Figure I).
Grand Prize- The DXer eam ing the highest tot al points will al so receive the grand
pri ze- a free copy of The Arr ofNDB DXing.
donated by Ste phe n P. McGreevy. (See the
May issue fo r a brief revie w of this book.)
Proof of rece ption fo r the I 0 beacons can
be provided in two ways:
I. A signed QSL card or a verificati on letter
dated a fte r June I. 1997.
2. A cassette tape recording of each beacon's
ID. (Sorry, tapes ca nnot be returned.)
Entering the c ontest is s imple: Write the
IDs of your I 0 best catches on a piece of
pape r. Be sure to indicate the "miles-perwatt" o f e ac h catch using the form ul a expl ained above. Below thi s. indicate your
c laimed total score .
Mai l your entry al ong w ith proof of rece ptio n a nd two U.S. le tte r stamps (.32ct e ach) to:
Be low 500 kHz - LDXA contest, P.O. Box
98. Brasstown . NC 28902. Entries must be
received by Jul y 20th, 1997. All award winners will be announced in "Below 500 kHz."
Good luc k!

66

MO NITORING TIMES

June 1997

nia. (This is only the second time I've received

mobile loggings, and the
fi rst time I' vc had them
handed to me in person
at a radio meet!) Thanks
to all contributors.

LDXA

I End Notes
I guess I've known
it all along, but at this
year' s WinterSWLFest
I rediscovered the camaraderie th at exists
between radio hobbyists. It became clear to
me that there's someFIGURE 1. A score of at least I SO entitles you to this certificate. thing almost magical
about radio that extends
far beyond the sterile
I Loggings
bounds of the Internet, computers, GPS, and
We have an exce llent turnout for loggings
other "high technologies."
this month. The contributors are: Al Hemmalin
One listener put it th is way: If his hobby is
(RI), Hank Holbrook (MD), Phi l Gentile and collecting rocks, and someone comes out with
John Storsberg (mobile- Eastern, PA), Allen
a synthetic rock, it poses little threat to his
Renner (PA), Perry C rabil (VA}, and Dick
hobby . He'll go right on collecting the real
Pearce (YT).
thing. And so it is, I believe, with radio.
The logs from Phi l Ge ntile and John
I plan to be at next year's Winter SWL Fest
Storsberg require some explanation. They
(March 13 & 14, 1998), and it would be a
were made during the ir southbound trek to the
pleasure to meet you there. Stay tuned for
Winter SWL Fest in Kulpsville. Pennsylvamore detai ls .

Loggings
FREQ. ID

LOCATION

212
212
221
230
232
260
264
269
275
280
281
284
287
305
307
310
311
327
335
338
338
339
342

Jackson, Ml
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Rangley, ME
Alwood, NC
Grand Turk I., BWI
Yaritagua, Venezuela
Pottstown, PA
Wellsville, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Isla De Pascua, Chile
Cartwright, NFLD
Bogata, Columbia
Santa Marta, Colombia
Roswell, NM
Laurens, SC
Canivete, Brazil
Panama City, Panama
Cayenne, Fr. Guiana
Concordia, KS
St. Barthelmy, Guadalope
Lancaster, OH
Lehighton, PA
Chase City, VA

BY

FREQ. ID

LOCATION

BY

JX
UCF
ROM
AOE
GT
VAR
PT
EL
ING
IPA
CA
TEH
SMR
RO
LUX
CN
TBG
FXC
CNK
BY
LH
LOX
CXE

P.C. (VA)
A.H. (RI)
P.C.(VA)
D.P. (VT)
A.H. (RI)
A.H. (RI)
P.GJJ.S.'
P.C. (VA)
P.GJJ.S.'
A.H.(RI)
A.R. (PA)
A.H.(RI)
P.C. (VA)
D.P. (VT)
D.P. (VT)
A.H.(RI)
A.H. (RI)
A.H. (RI)
A.A. (PA)
A.H. {RI)
D.P. (VT)
P.GJJ.S.'
D.P. (VT)

345
BGI
Bridgetown, Barbados
Kingston, Jamaica
360
KIN
Pt. Salinas, Grenada
362
GND
RNB
Millville, NJ
363
HXM
Hazelton, PA
366
HA
Hao Aloi, Fr. Polenesia
367
385
UR
New York (La Guardia)
Willow Grove, PA
388
NXX
Challis, ID
397
LU
UP
Upemavik, Greenland
399
400
CAX
Rio De Janiero, Brazil
405
UTX
Jupiter, FL
HZE
Hazen, ND
414
Lawrenceville, GA
419
TX
421
EF
McKinney, TX
Iqaluit, NWT
500
VFFt
500
WJLPt New Orleans, LA (ship)
500
WUOLt Newark, NJ Pier (ship)
500
St. George's Bermuda
ZBMt
Lexington, OK
512
HMY
Jefferson City, MO
515
ONH
Logged mobile in Eastem PA
t Maritime CW transmission

A.R. (PA)
P.C. (VA)
A.H.{RI)
P.GJJ.S.'
P.GJJ.S.'
A.H. (RI)
D.P. (VT)
P.G/J.S.'
P.C. (VA)
A.H. (RI)
A.H.(RI)
D.P. (VT)
A.A. (PA)
A.H.(RI)
A.A. (PA)
H.H. (MD)
H.H.(MD)
H.H.(MD)
H.H.(MD)
A.R. (PA)
D.P.(VT)

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AMERICAN BANDSCAN
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Dou Smith, W9WI

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Expanded-band Special

hc c.:xpanded 1610- 1700 J..111. AM band

<:ontinues to bc lll>rn.: 10 mo,1 of the big
new' in domcstic-band radil). A couple
of new stations have appcarcd. and the.: FCC ha'
rclca,cd yct anothcr fn:qucncy a,, ignmcn11ablc.
Wann up~ our recci1 er and :.harpcn your logging pc.:nci l: lhcre ~go ld up there in thc top end'
FiN. the new a'sign111.:n1 table. This table
wa~ n.:lea,cd un ivlarch 17 and appcar:, to bc
fina l. It draw' fro m thc plan I mcn1io11cd in thi,
column Ja ,l June. but in...:ludc' thc rc, pon>e to
severa l pclil ions for rccon, idcrati on. If you
havc lntcrnct access. you can rcad the official
Public 'otice al hllp://\111 w.kc.gov/Bureaus/
i\lass i\lcdia/l'uhlit No tices/

In February, I 111e11ti1111ed the Cone/rad

emergency broadcasting sysfl.!111. the
"'gra1ulfather'" of tuday 's J:."r\ S. Stephen
J eske N OCRS uf .rnlmrlmn Mineapolis sent
this gmer11111e111 p11111p/Jlet explaining the
sy:>te111.

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pnmm7038.html.
wide 'wa th of the
Station' li sted in
country. In mid-Febthi s tabk have u111il
ruary. DXers began
to notice two very
June 15 lo file FCC
Form 30 I requesting a
loud and very obviconstruction permit to
ous touri st-informac hange rn.:quency.
tion stations on the
Once the Commission
expanded band. Both
i, corl\"i11ccd thc appl istation;. arc using the
cal ls WQ0-767. and
cation' an.: tcdrnically
\VOW-950 Omaha is not 011 the expa11dedcomplete, thcy" II reboth arc located at
ba11d list, fur good reason. Its coverage 011
lease a '"cut-o lTlist'"alth e
Dallas-Fort
the 590 k/lz freq11e11cy is already the envy of Worth International
lowing others to chalmost of the 5 kW stations and many 50 k\V
lenge the technical paAirport. The station
operations!
rameter,. A-,suming
on 1640 kl lz carries
there arc no such cha ll .: ngc~. or that they don "1 in formation on American Ai rlin<.!s arriving
succeed (in my opinion a reasonable assumpfligh ts. and the one on I 680carri c~ information
tion). rnn,truction permi t' will be granted.
on departing !lights.
Once the new expa nded-band facilitil'S are liBoth ' tations have been heard on both
censed for regular operati on, stations will be
coast,. and even in New Zealand' The si gnals
allowed lo operate 011 hoth their new and old
an: very strong. Believe it or 1101. they"re only
running 60 walls to 50-foot loaded wh ip antenfreque ncies for as long a\ li ve years.
The table is similar to the one released la'l
na ~! (I told the enginccr in charge l"d like one
year. but with a few important changes. You
for my ham 'talion - he advised me they cost
may remember that KX BTstan.:d its expanded$2.700 .. ) Give these two a try: they s hould be
easy addition' to your log. John Mayson in
band career on 1640 kHz. then moved down to
1630 whcn the June 1996 table was released.
ea~ tern Flori da and Dcnnis Elya in Jefferson
Thcy"ll now move back lo 1640. Alsn note that
City. Mi,souri. have both already landed these
KALT-900 in Texas remains the only stati on to
two. (John forwarded most of the technical and
be assigned 10 1610 kHz. While the Public
QSL information: thanks' ) If you do log these
Notice do.:;.n" t say >.o. I as. umc 1610 will
~ t a ti o n~. you can emai l fo r a QSL to
continue.: tu be reserved for tourist- information [email protected]. or write to Mr. Joe
Blair. c/o DFW International Airport. P.O. Box
>.1<1ti on~.
A~ you may remember. WJDM and KXBT
619428. DFW Airport. T X 7526 1.
011 e thcir early pre~enc..:: in the expanded band
Another 'et of tra1cler -information sta10 a ~rccia l act of Congress requ iring the astions ha' c appeared in lhc Chicago area. There
signrncnt of an ex panded-band J"requcncy to
arc three.: 'lations. opcrated by METRA, the
any daytime-only station that's the on ly station
co11111nHcr rai Iroad in the nort hern suburbs. All
licen,ed ll> a city of over I00.000 population .
three operate on 1630 kH1.. They can be distin When the law was wrillen. Eli1ab..::th. NJ. was
gui shed by a train whi,tle that"s part of their
the only city qua li fyi ng. but population growth
tape loop. One station. at Lake-Cook Station
cau>.cd Vallejo. CA. to also qua lify. Solid ru(which I believe is in Northbrook. Illinois mor on the Intcrnc1 now sugge,1 that Costa can any Chicago-area readers confirm ?) seems
Me-.a. CA. has also p;h~ed the I00.000 mark.
dominant at my locati on. bu t I can al\o hear the
qual ifying KNNZ-540 for an aulllmatic spot in
other 1wo underneath. Yct another travelersthe cxpandcd band.
ini"ormat ion ' tal ion 1ha1 s been around a bit
longer. but i~ also widely heard in the East. is on
Report" arc that KNN/.. KNNS - 1260 (also
in ~uburhan Los AngcJc,). and Xl::T l ~-540
1620k l1 1 in Augusta County. Virginia (about
Tijuana. Mexico. will ' i11111lca'1 a clas-;icalI 00 mile, ,outhwe, t or Washington. D.C.J.
mu,ic format. Keep your car:. opc.:n on 1650:
there may already he a ' ignal th..:: re hy the timc
I Bits and Pieces
you rc.:ad thi'.
Dropping back into the regular band. but
The next news item in vo l ve~ two 1011-powsticking with the th..:mc of travelers-informacrcd statiuns that arc still be ing heard over a
lion stations. Mike King forwarded an item on

COUNTRY

590 AM

94.l FM

NEW EXPANDEDBAND LIST

Old

New

C21J

QJjy

1LfilI.

1LfilI.

C21J

Old

KALT
WGYJ
KAHi
KECN
WHLY
KHAT
KOil
WJRZ
KENN
WKZO
WTAW
WRRA
KRIZ
KWFM
KOQO
WRDW
KCJJ
KHVN
KSHY
KBLU
KXBT
WVMI
WSYD
KLXX
WTRY
KCRC
KPHP
KURV
KTKK
WKSH
KWHN
KN NZ
KRKS
WAOK
KCFI
KTMT
KSVE
WPMH
WNTM
KLOO
WM IB
WRE N
WOSN
WGIV
KOWB
WJDM
KSLM

Atlanta, TX
Atmore, AL
Auburn, CA
Blackfoot, ID
South Bend, IN
Minot, ND
Bellevue, NE
Toms River. NJ
Farmington. NM
Myrlie Beach, SC
College Station, TX
Frederiksted, VI
Renton, WA
Tucson. p;z
Clovis. CA
Augusta. GA
Iowa Ci1y. IA
Fon Worth , TX
Fox Farm, WY
Yuma, p;z
Vallejo, CA
Biloxi, MS
Mount Airy, NC
Mandan, ND
Troy. NY
Enid. OK
Lake Oswego. OR
Edinburg, TX
Sandy. UT
Sussex, WI
Fort Smith, AR
Costa Mesa. CA
Denver, CC
Atlanta, GA
Cedar Falls, IA
Phoenix, OR
El Paso. TX
Portsmouth, VA
Mobile, AL
Merced. CA
Marco Island, FL
Kansas City, MO
Kalamazoo. Ml
Charlotte, NC
West Fargo, ND
Elizabeth, NJ
Salem, OR

900
1590
950
690
1580
1320
1180
1550
1390
1520
1150
1290
1420
940
790
1480
1560
970
1530
560
1190
570
1300
1270
980
1390
1290
710
630
1370
1320
540
990
1380
1250
880
1150
1010
710
1580
1480
1250
1470
1600
1550
1530
1390

1610
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1620
1630
1630
1630
1630
1630
1630
1640
1640 '
1640
1640
1640
1640
1640
1640
1640
1640
1640
1650
1650"
1650
1650
1650
1650
1650
1650
1660
1660
1660
1660"
1660
1660
1660
1660"
1660

WCHO
Camuy.PR
1360
1660
Waco, TX
1580
1660
KAZI
Brigham City, UT
BOO
1660
KSOS
KHPY
Moreno Valley, CA
1530
1670
KHTE
Redding, CA
600
1670
KCOL
Fon Collins, CO
1410
1670
WRCC
Warner Robins, GA
1600
1670
Salisbury, MD
1670
WLVW
960
1420
1670
KBTN
Neosho, MO
Hobbs, NM
1480
1670
KKEL
1480
1670
WTDY
Madison. WI
1550
1680
KXEX
Fresno, CA
KBZS
Grand Junction, CO
620
1680
WXTO
Winter Garden, FL
1600
1680
KJCK
Junction City, KS
1420
1680
1440
1680
KMLB
Monroe. LA
Muskegon. Ml
1600
1680
WSFN
KBRF
Fergus Falls. MN
1250
1680
WHWH
Princeton, NJ
1350
1680
1680
WKTP
Jonesborough. TN
1590
1680
KBNA
El Paso, TX
920
KLFE
1590
1680
Seattle, WA
KRCX
Roseville, CA
1110
1690
KOXI
Arvada, CO
1550
1690
WBIT
Adel, GA
1470
1690
1070
1690
KILR
Estherville. IA
WOOD
Johnson City, IL
810
1690
WPTX
Lexington Park, MD 920
1690
1010
1690
KLAT
Houston. TX
WGOD
Charlotte Amalie, VI
1090
1690
WEUP
Huntsville. AL
1600
1690
KNST
Tucson, AZ
790
1700
KOKE
Soledad, CA
700
1700
Miami Springs. FL
1210
WCMO
1700
1390
1700
KKSO
Des Moine. IA
1700
WZNN
Rochester. NH
930
1370
1700
KAST
Astoria. OR
Rapid City, SD
920
1700
KKLS
KBOR
Brownsville. TX
1600
1700
KDSX
Denison-Sherman. TX 950
1700
WSVA
Harrisonburg, VA
550
1700
WJDM and KXBT are already operating in the
expanded band , though KXBT is currently on 1630.
KNNZ's 1650 kHz operation may have begun operation
in April. WREN is currently located at Topeka. Kansas,
but has a construction permit to move (on their old
frequency) to Kansas City.

QJjy

New

1LfilI.

M Hz and ICC I on 10 1. 1MH1.. A ll si x of these

FMs should be audi ble in the ,outhern USA by
sporadic -E ski p. and in !'act DXen, in Florida
and A l abama ha ve heard the 89.9 stati on.
l ncidcntial ly . as you read th is. wc re at the peak
of the ~porad i c-E season: some se rious D X is
po"iblc on the FM and low (2-6) TV channcls.
With the va rious Internet addresses appearing in thi~ month's col umn. maybe i t'~ time for
a few more. T here arc three rencctors" mai ling lists for those i n terc~ t ed in domcsticban d D X i ng. A co mprehensi ve l ist is the " A M /
FMrTVDX" group at a m fmt v d x @ ~ rove . n e t.
For the "AM Ncwsna,h."" ~end your emai l
ad dress.
nam e.
an d
l oca t ion
to
by t heway@ atk.com . A nd for the ox L ist"
for FM rTV D Xcrs. write chcrnos@ web.net.
And of course . b1.: sure to check out the do mestic-hand cl ubs in C l ub Corner. i n the back of
thi s i ~sue of MT.
Le t us know what you' r..: heari ng on the
domestic hands! Write P.O. Box 98. Brasstown
:--iC 2890 I . or \'i a th e I n terne t to
72777 .3 I [email protected]. Good D X!

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Q UTER LIMITS

THE CLANDESTINE, THE UNUSUAL, THE UNLICENSED

George Zeller
[email protected]

Pearce QSLS 100 Milliwatt Station

ongtime Mo11i111ri11g Tilll<'.1' contributor Ditk Pearce of ~ ra1t l e boro. Vermont. se nt in the QSL that we sec here
fro m MIN on 1642 kH 1. in Aitk in. Mi nnesota.
Alt hough MIN is unl icensed. its I00 milli watt
transm itter is legal under FCC regulatio ns.
Station operator Lyle Kochler. KOLR. reports
that Dick s recepti on report i ~ the fi rst one that
the swtion has ever recei\'ed from New Eng land. We cert ainl y congrat ulate Dick o n this
outstand ing DX catch. In the March iss ue we
pro l'ik d the reco rd break ing 15.000 wall
C hrist 111as Eve pirate trans mission from
WJUI , but Dick proves that it's possible to
hear slat ions wit h a l iny fracl ion o r that power
lei el.
New Weiner Book

Al lan We iner. forme r operator of many

promine nt No rth /\ meri can unlice nsed station ~ u c h as Radio New York Internati onal
and KPF-941, ha~ written a book about hi s
experiences. Co-authored by veteran DX author Ani ta McCormick. t\cces.1 to the Air11rnt's: My Fight ji1r F/'l'e Radio has been
publi~hed by Loo m pon i c~ Unlimited.
Weiner. ce rtain ly a co n t ro\'c r ~ i a l fi gu re . is
still the best kn own pirate operator in North
American hi sto ry. The 250 page book discusses his career in radio and hi s confrontations with the FCC. It's a\'ailable fo r S 17.95
pl us $-L95 shi pping and hand ling. You can
u~.:: the toll free Loomponic~ nu mber of (800)
380-2230: the book is al so ava ilable from
many Mu11it11ri11g Times advert ise rs.
FRN/ACE Web Change

Last month we menti oned the new world

wide web site of the Association of Clandesti ne rad io En1 hu s ia ~ l ~. up.::rated in cooperation with John Cru1.an and Kirk Tru mme l at
the free Radio Network. Refore the ink was
complete ly dry in the May Mu11itori11g Ti111es.
both o r these s i te~ changed their addresses.
The excellent Free Radi o Nt.:twork pirate site
now ha~ htt p://www.frn.net/ as its URL.
while htt p://www.f'rn.net/acc/ is the address
nf the new /\CE \1cb page. If yo u wa nt to
search the web for pirate radi o information.
1hc'c ~i t es arc certain ly the be~ l place to start
your su rfi ng.

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~~

L.j.,_

Altldn. I-Ill S6431

Dick

Pearce~

from the Austin A111erica11-S1a1es111c111 via

Maury Mildo of Wimberley. Texas. where
Ca li forn i a'~ KPF i\ is re layed on I 05 .9 MHz.
and l'rom The Disf){ilch and '/lie Nock /slallll
Argus. which covered Mban na Kantako ' s renamed Huma n Rights Radio in Springfield .
Illinois. Kantako 's long-running pol itica l station has moved from the John Hay Publ ic
H ou~ing Project to a new site on North Sixth
Street in Springlleld.

amazing I 00 111 W QSL

I What We Are Hearing

I Mexican DX Conference

Je ff White of W RM I in Miami advises us

that the Third Nati o nal Meet ing or Mex ican
DXe rs wi ll be he ld August I and 2 in Veracruz.
Mexico. Thi s in fo rmal get togethe r. spono;ored jointl y by four Mex ica n DX dubs.
antic ipates partic ipation from short wave stati ons in Mex ico and the United States. USA
DXers arc welcome. although .lcff ad vises
that it would help if you speak some Spanish.
Foraddi tional info rmation. rcg i ~ trati o n fom1s.
and hotel information. contact Jeff at Radio
Miami International. PO Box 526852. Miami. FL 33 I52. The wr mi @com puser vc.com
e -mai l address a lso wor k~ fo r messages lO
Jeff.
Micropirate Activity

Scores of low powered FM pirates arc

cont inuall y active in the USA. especially in
urban area~ . Jeff Ryan of Yardley. Pennsylvania. sends in a log of WZZR on 98.5 MHz.
T he stati on' s announcer " Vo lcano" programmed rock music fro m an an nounced locati o n in West Chester. Pennsy lvania. He
gave no add ress. but took phone ca lls al (610)
738-7030.
Rad io Free Lena wee, which we have already menti oned twice this year. has made
more news fro m southeastern Michigan. Stati on operator Rev. Ric k Strawc uller received
a tape from Heavens Ga1ej us1two days before
the mass suic ide of 39 cu ll members in Califo rnia. Strawcutter's station re mains on 97 .7
M Hi'. from Ad ri an. Michi gan. d.::spite an FCC
bust. and hi s tape was aired by WTOL-TV in
Toledo. Thanks go to M T reader Rob Hol man
of Flat Roc k. Michigan. for t h i~ ~lo ry that ran
in The Mo11me En,11i11g Ne11s.
Aceounb on other microp iratcs arrived

Your pirate logg ings are always we lcome

via PO Box 98. Brassrown. NC 28902. or via
the e-mail address at the top of the co lu mn.
All frequencies are in kHz. wi th times in
UTC.
North American pirate ~ta t ions listed here
use the fo llowi ng addresses: PO Box I. Belfast,
NY 147 1l :POBox109. Bl uc Ri dgeS ummit.
PA 172 14: PO Box 284 13. Providence, RI
02908: PO Bux 146. Stoneham. MA 0 21 80:
PO Box 11522. Huntsvi lle. Alabama 35814:
PO Box 88. Moline. M 1-19335: PO Box 293.
Merlin. Ontario NOP I WO: Postfach 510.
CH-40 I0 Basel. Switzerland: Box 99. I st
Floor Sui te. 253 Sclhurst Road. London SE25
6XT. England: and PO Box 3103, Napier.
New Zealand. For re turn po~tage. enc lose
three 32e stamps in the envelope to USA
addresses. S2 US or two International Reply
Coupon~ go 10 fore ign mai ldrops.
Anteater Radio- 6955 at 0200. Their comedy
consists of skits on topics like W hite Trash
Airlines. Barry reported a killer signal. Addr:
Belfast. (Kenny Love, Columbia, SC; Barry
W ill ioms, Enterprise, A L; Pearce)
Cherokee Radio- 6955 at 2330. Apparently also
using a slogan or ID of Native American Radio,
this new classic rock station seems to identify with
American Indian issues. Addr: None; said would
QSL logs in The ACE. (Shawn Axelrod,
Winnipeg, Manitoba; George Zeller, Cleveland ,
OH; Rich and Talea Jurrens, Katy, TX; Neil
Wolfish, Toronto, O ntariol
Free Hope Experience- 6955 at 22 15 . M ajor
Spook has a working transm itter again, so we
can hear his offbeat mix of rock and unusual
commentaries. Addr : Blue Ridge Summit. (Peter
Lautzenheiser, Wooster, OH; Coatsworth;
W illiams I
FBI Radio 6955 at 0230. "Females Broodcasting
Interference" are back with their rock music,
supplemented by commentary on cults a nd the
comet. Addr: Huntsville. (Bill Mclintock,
M inneapolis, M N ; Jerry Cootsworth, Merlin,
Ontario; Lee Silvi, Mentor, OH; M ike Ryan,

Bueno Pork, CA; Jurrens)

K-2000- 6955 at 2300. Some hove wondered if
this extremely funny station is still verifying. Scott
answered this question when he got a "5 Years of
Hell" QSL cord in 31 days. Addr: Stoneham .
(Scott Krauss, Cleveland, OH)
KIWI- 7475 al 0715. This New Zealand pirate
hos been relaying South American pirates like
Radio Piroiio and Radio Cochiguaz, so be
careful when listening for identifications. Nice
catch, Harold! Addr: Napier. (Harold Frodge,
Midland, Ml)
Laser Hot Hits- 6955 at 1600. It's very rare lo
hear this Europirole rocker directly from a
European transmitter, but it gets o boost
occasionally from a transmitter in North America.
Addr: Merlin. (Silvi)
Lounge Lizard Radio- 6955 at 0030. The
programming on this new soft rock station is selfdescribed as "lounge Music." Addr: Providence.
(William Hassig, Mt. Prospect, IL; McClintock;
Silvi; Williams)
Mystery Radio- 6955 at 0000. After you listen
for a while to their miscellaneous new age music,
it's possible to recognize the station just from the
mood it creates. Addr: Providence. (Basil Shelley,
Blythe, CA; Mike Ryon; Silvi; Williams)
Omega Radio- 6955 at 1930. Kevin submitted
this log as unidentified, but Dick Totor's "Spirit in
the Sky" interval signal makes it probable that a
show of weird phone calls was from this station.
Addr: Moline, but Belfast still works. (Kevin
Noulo, Grand Rapids, Ml; Hassig)
Radio Azteca- 6955 al 2300. Brom Stoker's
hilarious DX parody shows o re one of the great
attractions of pirate radio listening. Ranier was
extremely pleased to report that this North
American station hos been heard in Europe!
Addr: Belfast. (Ranier Brandt, Germany; Mike
Prindle, New Suffolk, NY; Axelrod; Coatsworth;
Jurrens; love; Nouto; Pearce; Prindle; Silvi;
Williams; Wolfish)
Radio Eurogeek- 6955 at 0200. This clever spoof
of European broadcasters hos returned, with a
"Remedial Network" parody of Radio Nether
lands featuring Andy Sennett and Horpo Marx.
They've been heard on 11902 kHz as well. Addr:
Providence. (Mike Ryon; Axelrod; Coatsworth;
Jurrens; Williams; Wolfish)
Radio Free London- 3944.7 at 0 200. Ranier
Brandt heard Radio Azteco from Europe this
month, but Mike Prindle returned the favor with a
direct log of this European rock and pop music
pirate. Congratulations, Mike! Addr: London .
(Prindle)
Radio Free Speech- 6955 at 2315. Despite his
announced retirement, some suspect that Bill 0.
Rights may return to the pirate bonds later this
year. In one bit he genuinely called the FCC lo
report a pirate station, but reached only a voice
moil advising him to coll the manufacturer of his
electronic equipment. Addr: Belfast. (Brondon
Arlmon, West Chester, PA; Coatsworth; Hassig;
Pearce; Silvi; Williams; Wolfish)
Radio KAOS- 6955 at 0100. Joe Mama's well
produced rock and comedy shows ore still with
us, although Joe hos announced a forthcoming
retirement repeatedly. Addr: Belfast. (Rondy
Ruger, North Hollywood, CA; Mike Ryon;
Axelrod; Coatsworth; Frodge; Hassig; Jurrens;
Nouto; Prindle; Shelley; Silvi; Williams; Wolfish)
Radio Korok International- 3927 al 0030. Pirate
broadcasting inside the amateur radio bonds is a
bod idea , but sometimes we hear stations like this
one on 80 meters. Michoel said that their big

bond music was followed by a Spanish language

numbers station, so there ore multiple sources of
ORM in this frequency range. Addr: None.
(Prindle)
Radio Sporks- 6955 al 1445. This Swiss
Europirote sometimes supplements its relays via
licensed European broadcasters with o North
American pirate transmitter. Neil soys this one
was via WREC. Addr: Basel. (Silvi; Wolfish)
Radio Tellus- 6955 al 0100. Sometimes using a
"Radio Tell us Earth Station" slogan, they mainly
concentrate on rock music. Addr: Providence.
(McClintock; Axelrod; Coatsworth ; Silvi; Jurrens;
Nouto; Ruger; Williams)
Radio Zero- 1640 al 0345. With a big bond
music format and a slogan of "Your TIS Alternative, this one reminds us to check the medium
wove bond from time lo time. Addr: None, but
asked for reports on the oft.radio.pirate
newsg roup. (Axelrod; Wolfish)
Rocket 99- 6955 at 0500. Apparently this rock
station is a different operation from Bennie
Dingo's Rock-It Radio, but we don't know much
about it yet. Addr: None. (Jurrens)
Stereo Sound Radio- 6955 at 0000. Colonel Billy
Bob's rock music shows ore not really in stereo,
but his friendly chatter is getting good reviews.
Addr: None; QSL's via the Free Radio Network
Grapevine; see URL above. (Axelrod; Coa tsworth;
Frodge; Silvi; Jurrens; Prindle; Shelley; Williams;
Wolfi sh)
Tangerine Radio- 6955 at 2130. Here's a real
veteran old-timer. Raunchy Rick's a narchist
sta tion has blown the dust off its transmitter with a
program of "Mennonite" music. Addr: Belfast.
(Hassig; Silvi)
Up Your Radio Shortwave- 69 55 at 17 45.
Production values are slick Woody B. Serious'
po litical comedy station, which supports a liberal
ideology. Addr: Blue Ridge Summit. (Hassig;
Jurrens; Silvi; Williams; Wolfish)
VOXXX- 6950 at 0515. Barry soys that reverb in
their identifications makes for tough copy, but he
did hear their comedy show. Addr: None; says
will QSL logs in The ACE. (Williams)
WARR- 6955 at 0300. Captain Nobeard's rock
music and marijuana advocacy hove not
impressed listeners; the station scored low in the
1997 Pirate Popularity Poll in The ACE. This may
be because the operator hos not been in contact
with his moildrop, leading to unforwarded
reports. Addr: Belfast, but unreliable. (Hassig;
Naulo; Silvi; Wolfish)
WBIG- 6955 at 0430. Lost month we pictured th is
sta tion's QSL, but James received his this month.
Addr: Belfast. (Jomes Griswold, Dallas, TX)
WBNY- 6955 at 0030. The Voice of the Rodent
Revolution seems to return every spring with its
clever clandestine parody, but it unfortunately has
not replaced its old maildrop. Addr: Washington,
DC address defunct. (Axelrod; Williams)
WEED- 6955 at 0400. Johnny Smoke's rock
music and drug advocacy station hos been heard
by listeners throughout North Americo. It often
uses la te time slots that support propagation to
the West Coast. Addr: Huntsville. (Coatsworth;
Jurrens; Wolfish)
WUS- 6955 al 1700. Jack Boggan's uniq ue
formal ploys shortwave broadcast station interval
signa ls as hit records. A recent show celebrated
his 7th ann iversary as a pirate. Addr: Merlin.
(Coatsworth; Hassig; Love; Nouto; Silvi; Williams;
Wolfish)
WLNZ- 6955 at 0300. WLIS may promote
interval signals, but this new one promotes static

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WLIS loves Interval S ignals: WI, Wl/S

Loves WL/S !
with on "a ll slotic o ll the time" slogan. Addr:
None. (Jurrens)
WLWUS- 6955 al 2215. Don't confuse "We Love
WLIS" with the rea l WLIS. The six letter station
tra nsmits gu ita r riffs as interval signals, saying it's
a tribute lo WLIS. Addr: Providence. (Axelrod;
Hassig; Jurrens; Shelley; Silvi; Wi lliams; Wolfish)
WMPR- 6955 al 2245. Lately they hove been
programming lechnopop dance music with ID' s
by synthesized voices. Addr: None. (Frodge;
Jurrens; Pearce; Shelley; Williams; Wolfish)
WREC- 6955 at 1845. P. J. Sporks' rock music is
spiced with comedy and novelty segments, such
os the "Sold My Hondo" song to the tune of "Help
Me Rhonda." Addr: Blue Ridge Summit.
(Coatsworth; Hassig ; Pearce; Shelley; Silvi)
WTTN- 6955 at 0345. We don't know much
about this new one yet, but it hos been testing
with rock music. Addr: None. (Frodge; Wolfish)
XEROX, Radio Duplicado- 6955 a t 0000. Ba rt
Sombo hos resurfaced with pira te radio parodies.
A recent show relayed the pirate talk from the
1997 Winter SWL Festival in Kulpsville, PA by
Andrew Yoder a nd your editor George Zeller.
Addr: Belfast. (Axelrod; Coatsworth; Frodge;
Jurrens; Nauto ; Williams; Wolfish)

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ON THE HAM BANDS

F

DAMENTALS OF AMATEUR RADIO

I e Kersc ner, N3/K

Busting Loose

um: b bu,1im: 0111 all mer. and it"' definil.::I) ham ra~lio 'fun nll1n1h' Two of the
most .:njoyabkcuntc'b occur thi' rnunth.
The first "funt est.. i, th e AR RI. VI IF rnnt.:st
which lakes place lhl' s.:cund wcdc ncl o r the
111onth. During thi-: period 111any individual
ham' and clulh tal-.c lo the hill' and '.:1 up 'up.:r
,tatium for th.: \1c.:l-.cnd - gi1 ing VHF opi:rator' the oppon unil) lo worl-. rar.: grid 'quare,.
While most act ivity take, pl ace on SS B and
CW. the re is con, idt:rable FM acti vity. too. Be
aware. though : FM acti vit y t:an nol ht: on repeaters or the national call ing frequencies. All
l'l'vl acti1ity 111u,t he , irnplex. U'e all VHF
hands from SO M 111 up.

Join the Fun

[\ .:n i r you do lllll belong to a group which
i' participating in the: con1c,t. you can join in
the fun. All it taJ..e, i' a VI 11' rig and 'omc free
1i111t: during the conl.:'t wcek.:nd. Most panic ipanls will operate from th.:ir home , l;llion and
try to work a, man~ grid' a' pu"ih lc. If you
have the time and 11 .lilt 'lHllc alh cnturi:. pick
ou t a high 11 ildt:rnc" ar.:a 10 'cl up ~our ' tat ion.
If that an;a i' a rar.: grid ' quarc. )llU may be
'u rpri ~ed how other> 11 ill 'ed you out.
Use the b,,t ante nna J1ll"ibk and get it in
the clear. I lik.: a four eklllc nt quad on two
m.:tcr' and u'e a 1wo.:km.:111 quad on ,ix. If all
)OU have i' an llT. d1rn'1\\OIT):a11a1t or two
or powe r tied lo a dcc.:nl antenna and good
location will provide contac1' hu11dn:ds or mile,
away in lll\ht ca,cs. No need tu ha1.: rig' for all
band~ - pick your ra1 uritc and gl>fo r it.
Thi' eonte>t tal-.e, place at an ideal time of
yea r: good wcatlwr u'uall y 1)1"e1;11b and prnpa!.!ation is often c:-.ce llcnt.
- You stil l have time to get colllplcle rule,.
c heck shee ts. ;111d log 'heel' from the ARRL.
Address your rcquc,1 for the June V HF conte't
to ARRL. 225 :'\1ain St.. l\".:111ng1011. CT 061 11
Alln: VHF co111c,1. lnclud.: a large SASE with
two uni t' of pn, tage.

Field Day
\Vhilc writ in~ for rule' and 111!!' for the VHF
contc>l. you mi~ht cnn,id.:r 1Hitinl,! IU ARRI.
fur Field Day log,. check 'h.:.:1,. and rulc,at the
'1me time. Same addrc". but write to ..altn.
l'icld Day:
Many ham' con:-.ider Field Day tu b.: the
premier operating ac1i1it) of the ) car. Field

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June 1997

Da) i' nnl really a conic>!. but rather an .:1cnt.

(For 1101 bcim! a conlc't. you will lind thi, 'omc

of the holl.:st ~ompetitinn cv.:r- 'omc friendl y.

and >rnne delinitcl y nnl 1)
Fi eld Day is a t.:sting of a11Hll1.:ur radios
emergency prcpa rcdnc". Activ ity takes place
on all band> and all mmlc,. Some club, ha1e
C\lrcniely .:la borate 'etup> total-..: ath antage of
,vc r) point nlkr.:d in thi' nun-conte't. Poi nb
fo r >endi ng field day n1cs,age:-. tn A RRL officiab. ball cry power. low power. USC AR conlac1' etc. provide plent y of Opportunit y for
i ll VClll i1cne''
Club:-. and indi1 idual halll:-. tal-.c lo thl' outdoor' and ~c t up \lat ion' runn ing on emergency
power. Often elaborate 'ct-up' inc lud ing muhilc hnm.:s. gencrator,_ tow.:rs. and bt:ams with
rotor' ar.: the order of the day. On the other
hand. other' 1hro11 a wir.: in a tree and run off
ba11.:ry power.
1-"il'ld Day is the .:vc111 tha1 ofte n bring:-. hams
and non-hams into close relationship. Very
fr.:qucnt ly non-han1' 'crv.: a> coob. loggers.
cquip111c111 maintainer:-.. and general go-fers.
l:ac:h ,itc ha> a fri.:nd:-.hip that bring, the participan1' back ) .:ar after ) car. And 'tor i e~ of
lie Id da), pa,1 fu el gab fc,t, all year long.
Again. if yuu ca n rind a group goi ng O ll i for
Fidd Day. and can join it. do so. Ir you prcl"cr:
g11 it alone or with a
friend or two.
You can participate rmm home. but
i1,ju:-.t 11otlbcsamc '

SAREX Frequencies
\Vant to work the 'pac.: , hullle'Th.: following frcquem.:ics arc in use whenever th.: shull lc
is in orbit.
Downlink (phone ) 1-15 .55 Ml-I L
Uplink !phone) 1-1-1.91. 1-14.93. 1-1-1.95.
1-1-1.97. 1-1-1.991\l HL
Oo 1101 call the , h111tle on 1-15.55 ~Thi:-. is the
do\111link and mu st be l-..:pt open. it is the
frequ e ncy eart hbound humans rece ive the
,1w11lc on. Transmit 011 one of the uplink frcqu.:ncies.
Packet downlink i:-. 1-15.55 MHz
Packet uplink is 1-1-1.-19 MHL

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Th.: Computer Board 80 i'vleter TX put' out
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One of the be,1 wa~' Steve Ortmauer
111 \l.t\ ahrca'-.1 ofthi,
fa,1 -1;accd hubby i' the \V5YI l<cport. i-:1-ery
cvcnt conce rning a111a1.:ur radio and loads of
inforlllalion about the ~0 11l111uni c a1ion s indu slrv ca11 b.: found in thi ' rinl! publicat ion . Publi:her Fred l\ laia ha~ h.:cn prmlucing the \V5YI
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A WG ,i1cs . However. usi ng the " 1m.: gauge
si1..:-: in AWG wil l work just fine. Any of the
!.!il"<.: n wi re sizes can vary by as much a' two
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That.sit for June. gang: now bu,t out or that
nll and let' s h.:ar you on the air in June'
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DEMAW'S WORKBENCH
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Monitoring the LF and VLF Frequencies

ou are missing some fun if you have a

rcce iver that doesn' t tune below 510
kH z. Man y older receivers lack that
provis ion. A simple solutio n is to use a convener ahead of your recei ver to make those
additional freque ncies a vai lable. This month
we di s cu ~s a low co~ t home- made converter
that provides reception from 0 to 500 kH z. We
also examine the typical s ing le-wire ante nna
syste m and describe a way to make it perform
more e ffecti ve ly at LF and VLF.

A Low-Cost Converter
On ly three transistors and a few ordinary
parts are needed to build the circuit in fi gure
I. Most of the pans arc avai lable from electroni cs surplu s deakrs. Point-to-point wiring
may be used instead of asse mbling the con\'Crtc r on a printed-c ircuit board if the leads
are kept short and direct.
A low-pass filter (FL I) is used at the input
of the con vener. It passes all RF energy below
500 kHz. but attenuates signal s that appear

above 500 kHz. This helps to prevent overloading from strong, nearby AM broadcast
stations, should you live near one of them.
VLF signal energy that passes through
FL I is amplified by QI, which is a broadband
linear amplifier that has 15 dB of gain. The
ampli fied signal is routed to the mixer, Q2. A
crystal-controlled oscillator, Q3, produces
the second signal that is fed to the mixer. The
combination of the two signal frequencies
(i.e. , 5.0 MHz minus 0.1 MHz = 4.9 MHz)
produces an intermediate frequency (IF) in
the 4-MHz range. The Q2 output matching
trans former, TI, is a broadband toroidal type
that permits uniform IF signal response from
4.5 to 4.9 MHz. It is thi s tuning range on your
main receiver that allows you to copy signals
from I 00 to 500 kHz when using the converter. Actually, you can monitor VLF down
to zero kHz by tuning your receiver higher
than 4.9 MHz. Howe ver, most activity of
inte rest is between I 00 and 500 kHz.
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FIGURE 1 - Schematic diagram of the LF/ VLF converter for use with a general-coverage
receiver. Capacitor.~ other than CJ-C4 are disc ceramic, 50 or JOO V. CJ-C4 are high-Q
polystyrene or silrer mica. Resi.1tors are 114-watt carbon. LI and L2 are 25. 7-H toroidal
i11d11ct11rs. Wi11d ./I turns of 110. 26 enamel wire 011 Amidon T68-15 toroids.1 L3 is a Mouser
110 . ./3./-03-333} 33-mH RF choke. IA is a Mouser 110. 434-17-272] 2.7-mH RF choke. For
Tl wi11d 30 turns uf 1111. 28 e11a111. wire 011 an Amidon FT-50-43 ferrite toroid. The secondary
(output) winding has four turns of no. 28 e11am. wire. YI is a Mouser 5-MHz crystal no.
520-HCA-500-20. Most ./Ft.Ts are suitable for use at Q2 and Q3. MOSFETs are also
suiwble. Ql can be a 2NSJ 79, 2N2222A or 2N4400 with 110 circuit changes.
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proximately$ I or less in the surplus catalogs.

Q3 is a Pierce oscillator. C 11 and C 14 are
feedback capacitors that enable the crystal to
oscillate at 5 MHz. If you happen to obtain a
sluggish (slow starting) crystal, you may experiment with the values of C 11 and C 14 to
increase the feedback ratio.
A different tuning range on your receiver
may be chosen if you change the frequency of
YI. For example , a 3-MHz crystal would
change the main receiver tuning range to 2.5
to 2.9 MHz, if that was your pleasure. Then,
500 kHz would be heard at 2.5 MHz on your
receiver and 100 kHz would be heard at 2.9
MHz, and so on. Changing the crystal frequency may require experimenting with the
values of C 11 and C 13. No other changes are
required.

Making the VLF Antenna Perform

Many SWLs use whatever antenna is at
hand for monitoring below the broadcast band.
Reception is generally poor when this is done.
A typical antenna might be a short length of
wire that is not very high above ground. It is
important to realize, for example, that a quarter wavelength wire for 300 kHz, would need
to be 780 feet long. This can be an impractical
length. Our best bet is to make a shorter wire
resonant as a quarter wave antenna by means
of a tuner. Many dB of signal increase will
result if we use a tuner to match the antenna to
the receiver while resonating it at the operating frequency.
Figure 2 shows a circuit that uses a combination of inductance and capacitance to
achieve the foregoing objectives. Two ferriterod or bar antennas from discarded BC band
transistor radios are used as the core of the
tuner. They are labeled Loop I and Loop 2 in
the diagram.CI is the tuning capacitor from a
BC-band transistor radio. Both sections of the
capacitor are wired in parallel to obtain roughly
200 pF of capacitance. A 365- or 400-pF
variable capacitor would be better in the interest of greater tuning range. Old tube types of
radios contain two-gang variable capacitors
of that kind.
The Litz wire is removed from both ferrite
rods. No. 26 enamel wire is close-wound over
213 of each rod. The windings on the two rods
or flat bars are tapped every 25 or 30 turns to
provide various amounts of inductance, as

LOOP 2
LOOP 1
seen in figure 2. Use as many
C1
lo t to hear below 500 kH z.
taps as you wish. The more
the better. Be careful when
A Correction
tapping the windings to enKen Corn ell. WA2 1MB .
sure that no two turns of wire
wisely pointed out that I had
are short-circuited to one anan error in my Decemher 1996
other. A shorted turn will ruin
column co ncern ing Be A Min i
the Q of the coil. It is a good FIGURE 2 - Circuit for an antenna tuner/matcher that works at LF and
Broadcaster. " 1 stated that 5 I 0
idea to put a small piece of VLF with short end-fed wire antennas. Loop 1 and Loop 2 are ferrite rods
to 1600 kH z is available u nder
bond paper or masking tape or bars from transistor BC-band radios (see text for coil winding data). The
Part 15 of the FCC rules for
under and around each tap taps permit selecting the required inductance for the operating frequency.
un licensed tran sm itting w ith
point. This will prevent a
up to 100 m W of input power
shorted coil turn.
noted. The lower the receive frequency the
and an antenna that docs no t exceed I 0 feet in
A short length of s tranded hookup w ire and
g reaterthe coil inductance required. A peak in
length. Ken said that the FCC rules presen tl y
an alligatorclipare used to se lect the coil taps.
a ll ow experimenters to use 510 to 1705 kH z
signal stre ng th indicates antenna resona nce.
A multiposition rotary switch can be used in
fo r unlicensed transmissions.
Loop I and Loop 2 func tio n as loading coils .
place of the alligator clip for tap selection if
CI tunes out unwanted reactance to provide a
you want a fanc ier tuner. Mo user Electronics
reasonable impedance match for the 50-ohm
Notes
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wooden or metal box, but will work okay
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without being enclosed. Brass screws serve as
When you tune your receiver to 5 MHz you
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Adjusting the Tuner
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prevent unwanted s ig nal e nergy from enterThe figure 2 tuner will be effective no
ing the converter by any means other than the
matter how long or short your end-fed wire
antenna.
antenna may be . The longer the wire the
You will be able to monitor the LOW fe r
greater the signal strength, even when a tune r
band between 160 and 190 kHz with this
is used.
converter. Experime nters operate beacon
Tune in a weak signal be tween I 00 and
transmitters in that range . Signals elsewhere
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PiLANE TALK
MAKING SENSE OF CIVILIAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Jeon Boker, KIN9DD

Airline Company Frequencies

elco me aboard. everyone' Today.

our inll ight entertainment will be
a look at some ai rline company
frequencies. and then we 11 stop dow n in
Australia fo r an update on monitoring. courtesy of Bob Be ll. our Austral ian correspondent.
As a rul e. most airl ines utili ze more than
one freq uency fortheir compan y usage with in
the U.S. Bear in mind that just because an
airline uses a ce rt ain fre quency at o ne airport .
that doesnt mean the same freque ncy will be
used everywhere. Herc arc some represen tative frequenciess for major airli nes:
129.000:
129.050:
129.075:
129.100:

USAirways New York LaGuardia (LGA)

British Airways - Chicago O'Hare (ORD)
United Ramp - ORD
TWA New York Kennedy (JFK): Denver
(DIA)
129.150: British Airways (JFK); Miami (MIA); TWA
Hartford/Springfield (BDL)
129.200: American Airlines Tampa (TPA): Salt Lake
City (SLC): JFK; Nashville (BNA); Ft. Myers
(RSW): American Eagle - Providence. RI
(PVD)
129.225: American Airlines Boston Ops (BOS): BNA:
Indianapolis (IND) also for American Eagle
on this freq.
129.300: United Ops - DIA: MIA; JFK: Pittsburgh (PIT)
129.325: American Airlines - BDL: (Maintenance MIA); Pittsburgh (PIT)
129.350: ARING San Francisco Radio: Emory
Dispatch San Francisco (SFO)
129.400: ARING San Francisco Radio: United DIA
129.425: United - DIA; UPS
129.500: Delta Radio - Atlanta: Delta BOS: MIA:
Tampa (TPA): United - DIA; SLC
129.550: Delta - IND, Orlando (MCO) DIA: Business
Express - Flight Control: Northwest - PIT
129.600: Delta Radio - Atlanta: Delta ORD; Sikorsky
BDL
129.625: TWA - St. Louis (STL)
129.650: Delta Ramp JFK. West Palm Beach (PBI)
129.675: Delta - Atlanta Passenger Services (ATL);
New York (LGA)
129.750: KLM - JFK: Aer Lingus JFK: SAS JFK:
USAirways BNA. TPA
129.775: TWA STL
129.900: Delta Radio Atlanta: Pakistan International
JFK: HF Check - ARI NG. New York
129.925: Continental ATL. DIA. MIA, SLC. IND
130.000: USAirways BDL. (PIT)
130.100: USAirways IND; BOS: LGA
130.125: Air France JFK: FinnAir JFK: United ORD: Sabena JFK
130.225: Swissair - JFK: TWA Indianapolis
130.250: Continental DIA: Signature Aviation BOS
130.350: Continental DIA
130.400: Continental BOS & TPA
130.475: Air Nova - Halifax; American Eagle - BNA
130.500: Lufthansa BOS; USAirways PIT
130.525: Continental RSW. BDL. PIT. POR, PVD;
Valuejet dispatch ATL

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130.600

Business Express - JFK: Beechcraft East Bedford, MA; Millionaire BDL

We' ll have more frequencies for you next

month. In the meantime. ifyuu find co mpany
frequenc ies fu r your area that are not listed
here. please write to me with the freq uency.
company. and location information.

I Touchdown in Australia
Herc is Bob Bel l' s report on ai r traffic
cont rol (ATC) in Australia:
The whole country is cont rolled at high
level airway level by only two ce nte rs - one
loca ted at Melbourne and one at Brisbane.
Melbo urne is in the state of Victoria (far
sou theas tern state). and Bris ba ne is in
Queensland (far northeastern state). The major airpo rts (e.g., Sydney) st ill have tower.
approach. depa11urcs, director (mid-downwind
on approach until finals), clearance de li very.
gro und. etc. But all hi gh level ATC is no
longer call ed co ntrol as in "Sydney Cont rol.''
but (as in the U.S.), is call ed a center.
Once a departing aircraft has reached 30
nauti cal miles on, for exnmpl e. Syd ney Departures, they transfer to either Brisbane center or Melbourne center. depending on whether
they are no rth or south boun d. or east or west
bound. Bri sbane co nt rols a ll oceanic arri va ls
and depart ures. and has take n over all the
internat io nal and do mestic HF responsibil ities from Sydney.
The typical freq uency change sequence
now fo r an aircra ft YSSY (Sid ney) to KLAX
(Los Angeles) is as s uch:
Clearance Delivery 127.500 -<> Company
(United) 131.400-<> Sydney Apron 126.500
-<> Sydney Ground - 121.700-<> Sydney Tower

120.500 (or 124.7)-<> Sydney Departures

l 23.0-<> Brisbone Center - 128.600 -<> Digital
Dotolink sotcoms or Brisbone HF Radio 3467,
5643, 8867, 13261, 17904-<> Nodi Radio
(Dotolink or HF) -<> Honolulu Radio (Dotolink or
HF) -<> Honolulu Radio (Dotolink or HF) -<> Los
Angeles Center -<> SoCol (Southern California)
Approach -<> Los Angeles Tower -<> Los Angeles
Ground.

Brisbane and Me lbourne celllers wo rk

through Australias OPTUS satell ites. but all
ai rcraft transmit in airband VHF and the
ground stat ion receiver converts to Ku-band
( 12 GHz) to beam it ei ther to Melbourne or
Brisbane. The answe r from the groun d station
gels converted from the 12 GHz frequency to
local airband VHF. wh id1 the ai rcraft receives as we ll .
The ai rcra ft don't need sate lli te equi pme nt
to work tht! ce nt ers. But wi th intern ational
digital datalin k through lnrnarsat. they tra nsmit and receive from the aircraft on frequencies arou nd 1.6 GHz. usi ng surlboarcl .. shaped
antennas atop the plane s fuselage .
Thanks. Bub: we e njoyed the visit 1

I Readers' Corner
George Grimes (PAJ tells us about a new
web site he d iscovered. It" s li ve ATC act ion al
the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport' You' ll need the
Real
Aud io
player
( free
al
ww w.reala udio. com ) - go tu http: //
www.simuflitc.com. click on the Li ve AT C
on the right of screen: have fun lis teni ng'
Shawn Horseley (NY) shares freq ue ncies
from the New York Arca with us in Tab le I.
Thanks. Shawn '
That's all for this month: See you in Ju ly.
Unti l then . happy landi ng'

TABLE I - NEW YORK AIRPORT FREQUENCIES - VIA S. HORSELEY

Approach

Departure

John F. Kennedy JFK

123.700
124.45
126.800
127.400
132.100
La Guardia LGA
120.4
118.000
120.800
127.05
Newark EWA
120. tSO
119.2
126.700

Clearance
Delivery

Ground

Tower

ATIS

135.05
124 .75
134.35

121 .65
121.9

11 9.1
123.9

115 4 (Appr)
115.1 (Dep)
11 7.7 (Appr)
128.75 (Appr)

132 85
135.2

121.7
121 .85

118.7

125.95 (Appr)
127.05 (Oep)

118.85

121.8

118.3
134.05

115.7 (Appr)
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fEDERAL FILE

A GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS

John Fulford, WA4VPY

emoil: [email protected]

WUNnerful Intercepts

ve been spending a Jui of time recently

monitoring the federal agencies on shortwave circuits. I have had a lo! of help in
doing this by be ing a 111c111ber of the WUN
elec troni c ma ik r. The WUN is the World wide Utili ty New~ Cl ub. It is a hobby radio
club fo nn<.:d in January 1995 to promot<.: th<.:
sharing of i11for111atio11 aboul the shortwave
utility hobby. Several ti111cs a day I get down loads through my Inte rnet provide r from the
mail server at Grove regarding the latest HF
intercepts. I will ex plain at the e nd of the
column how to bcco111c a member of the
WUN group.
R<ty Colbert and Je ll C ha111b<.: rs have been
most instrumenta l in pro viding intercepts regarding our Mexican neighbors and the associated workings with our federa l age ncies.
For example. the Mexican Fede ral Highway
Police net has been monitored o n 7790 kHz.
They will be ,cry open regarding the types of
traffic they arc pa~~i n g . Tra ffic such as. "b<.: on
the lookout for various typcs of vehicles.
aircraft. per~ons. and boats" arc often 111onitored 1hne. Si mil ar operations arc monitored
on IOIJO. 10 140. and 10150 kHz. bu t the
7790 kHz channel is th<.: busicst. Call sig ns
used are 18 1. 183 . 163. 154. 165. 176. 132.
and 187.
What docs thi s have to do with U.S. fede ral
agem:i<.:s? Often our federal ag..: m:ies in other
cnu ntrics will hi: heard on th<.: host country's
radi o system s. As an ex a111pl<.:. it is rumored
that so111c of the above calIs igns and traffi c arc
re lat ed to joint Mexican/DEA operations.
The Mexico Ci ty DEA office has bee n
monitored on I 1494 kH z. This is apparently a
joint operation o f so me sort with the Mex ican
government. The Mexica n DEA (our DEA
units in Mex ico) ide ntify with the call sign
CONDOR. Some o f these uni ts ha ve been
monitored working join! opc rations with thc
PGR. which is the Mexican /\ttornL:y General ' s
Office in anti-drug acti vi ties.
Some ufthecallsigns monit ored and tentativel y identifi..:d arc:
CONDOR 100--MEXICO CITY
CONDOR 200-GUADALAJARA
CONDOR 400-MATZATLAN
CONDOR 600- HERMOSILLO
CONDOR 700--MERlDA
CONDOR 800-MONTERREY

U.S. Customs have be..:11 active late ly 011

the high freque ncy bands also. They were
monitored 0 11 5277 kHz working Miami Coast
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USS Stennis aircraft carrier

Guard in a search and rescue. The ident itier of
PANTHER. which is DEA Bahamas. was
also heard on this frequency. Also active with
Customs is the frequency of 5732 kHz. where
they were heard with encrypted vo ice 011
upper sideband (US B).
This is an interesting freq uency. because a
German numbers station camps out here alsothc mystery neve r ends. The freque ncy of
584 1 kHz had Panther 1912. which is a Bahamas DEA unit calling 32 Charli e (unide nti fied unit)-advisi ng him to chan ge to en crypted mode . Units also heard on th is frequency were 93 De lta and 53 Alpha.
Our old friend 7527 kHz has hee n active
again. This is an interesting freque ncy. For a
long time a Cuban numbers stati on usecl it for
its home. The station was pin-pointed wit h
direction finders to the numbers transmitte r
site at Bauta. Cuba. This was the site run by
the Soviets when they had a commanding
presence in Cuba. The site is still there. and
most of the Cuban numbe rs statio ns from the
island of Cuba come from there. even lO t hi~
day.
However. the frequency of 7527 is now
home to U.S. Customs. It is one of the fre que ncies used for their automatic link establi shme nt equ ipment. Encrypted sp..:cc h has
been monitored there using callsign SERVIC E CENTER. They were 111011itored call ing OMA HA 57. which is a Customs airc ra ft.

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the Mi lcom group. nre availab le on the Grove
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I have my W UN and Mi leom mailers. and
others. through an Ameri ca On Li ne account.
not the address on the top of th is column. For
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More Federal Trunking

Back on March 20th of this ycar. Robert

Wyman. one of our devoted South Florida
monitors. went up to Port Everg lades near

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There he took his lunch

hour or so, monitoring the radio traffic from
the USS Stennis aircraft carrier which was in
port. Robert reported the foll owing:
136-144 MHz band---no traffic
149-151 MHz band---no traffic
406-420 MHz band---TRAFFIC

The navy uses the Ericsson tru nked system on

its vessels. The foll owing freque ncies were in
use on the Stennis:
410.025
411 .525---control channel
41 1.950
412.425
413.150
419.900--input

As you can see, more and more agencies are

going trunked.

air. The card can also be changed out when

you wish to change the entire e ncryption
sc heme. The phone works with ex isting cell
sites. There are no special "federal cell-sites ..,
What was interesting was that the name
given to these phones was CONDOR. Condor
again? I wonder if Robert Redford is being
consulted?

I read some internet traffic regarding U.S.

Coast Guard traffic in the ACS B mode. This
is the amplitude compati ble sideband mode
that is being used on the 220-222 MH z band.
It seems that one monitor had picked up a
wideband signal on 4 16.2375 MHz. Upon
looking al it with a spectrum an alyzer he
di scovered it was a USCG relay of marine
channels 16 and 22. This was a multi plex
relay of the channels for poi nt to point traffic.
The monitor was wondering if it was ACSB.
In a word-no. What he was hearing was
indeed a wideband FM signal with sideband
subcarricrs. What you will hear on your scanner will be an FM signal with "donald-duck"
sideband speec h. This is the sideband
subcarrier. Each subcarrier will have to be
demodulated. The R- 7000 docs a nice job of
it-as do many other high end radios. These
systems are very common in short haul, low
density traffic systems. The Florida Turnpike
operates several of them in the 930 MHz
range around Orlando and Disney World,
which is where I first discovered them.
I "For Spies Only"

Recently I was crui sing through the National Security Agency internet homepage at
http://www.nsa.com. There I learned about
special cellular telephones that are available
to "certain key government agencies." These
phones are made by Qualicomm and they
work in either the digital mode or the analog
mode.
The interesting point is that these phones
have a PCMlA port on the m into which the
encryption card is plugged. The card is capable of changing the encryption key over the

Clearfield. UT
Ogden. UT

166.225
166.225

I Federal Law Enforcement Training

Center

Located in Brunswic k, Georgia, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is the
police acade my for nearl y all of the federal
agencies. While th is is not on the beaten path
for most monitors, if you should happen to be
in Georg ia on vacation. it makes for good
monitoring. Their radio setup is as follows:

Security and Mainte11a11ce Support:

I Maritime Mode

Smithso11ia11

Security
Maintenance

170.975
170.100

Channel
01

Investigations Trai11i11g Support

Investigator
Investigator
Investigator
Investigator
Surveillance

173.125
171.500
173.7875
170.825
172.200

Ch.1
Ch.2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.5

E11forceme11t Trai11i11g Support

Simulation
Simulation
Simulation
Simulation
Simulation

173.7375
170.8250
170.925
172.300
173.175

Ch.1
Ch.2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.5

Vehicle Driver Training Support

Skid control
Coordination
Coordination
Response
Coordination
Coordination
Coordination
Coordination

169.550
169.600
170.000
170.425
170.600
173.025
173.075
173.125

Ch.1
Ch .2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.5
Ch.6
Ch.7
Ch .8

The National Capital Police Training Unit

uses the frequency of 411.825 MH z for its
training operations there. The Gene ral
Services Administration paging transmillers
arc on 4 15.2 and 417.2 MHz.
Speakingof the GSA, a li ttle-known agency
of which very little is ever wri tten is the
Federal Supply Service. This is, quite simpl y, the supply service of the General Services Administration, whi ch is the landlord of
all controlled federal property. The Suppl y
Service has these known channe ls in use:
Anchorage, AK
Bell. CA
Stockton, CA
Colorado Spngs, CO
Denver, CO
Washington. DC
Hogback Mtn .. VA

166.225
164.275
149.000
166.225
166.225
168.575
168.575

The Personal Property Services or the Federal Supply Service has a nationwide channel
of 164 .275 MH z. The Public Buildings Se rvice has nationwide allocations or -I 13.950
for the repeater inpu t and -11 5.2000 MHz for
the repeater output.
The Law Enforcement Branch. fo rmerl y
known as the Federal Protecti ve Service. which
gua rd s federal buildi ngs around the cou ntry,
has a nati onwide radi o system as foll ows:

02
03
04

Frequency
419.1750
417.2000
417.2000
412.2000
417.4250

Use
Repeater Input
Repeater Output
Simplex
Simplex
Simplex

Wit h the cut backs in federal monies. some

of the federal sites have gone to private security services to maintain thei r own security.
These guard services will ofte n be in the
commercial business frequl!ncies.

I A Federal Institution on the Move

1r you are in Washington. D.C.. this summer. the Smithsonian Institution is a wonderful place to visit. But did you know that the
Smithsonian may come to your town") Yes.
they have trave li ng exh ibi ts fo r important
displays. You might want to check with their
public affairs office to sec when the next
traveli ng exhibition will be in your area.
The Smithsonian has its o\\"n securi ty force .
They operate both in Washi ng ton and also
when they have traveling ex hibi ts. The freque ncies used are as foll ows:
Channel
Xx

Frequency
165.0375

01

169.3750
169.2000
169.2000
169.0500

02
03

Use
Simplex--National
Assignment
Repeater Input
Repeater Output
Simplex
Motor Pool--Simplex

The Nati onal Gallery of Ar1, whi ch is a part

o r the Smithsoni an. opl!rates a security repeater on -1 11 .5500 in put and -106.5500 output. In the neighborhood is the National Zoo.
It has its operations net on 169.7250 MHz.
simph.: x.
No matter whe re you go on vacation. federal monitoring is somew here at hand 1
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SATELLITE TV
ADVENTURES IN THE CLARKE BELT

Ken Reitz, KS4ZR

Radios Future Now: Digital Music Express

no~.

ifty yc:1r' from

wh..: n hi storian'
c\a n 1111..: the la,t q11anerof th i' centur).
the ,11hj.:c1 of en11:nainmcn1 \\ ill lonrn
la1 gc. Thanl-.;, 10 the increa,ing pre,ence ilf
the mi no-chip and the appl i<.:atinn of digital
11:ch11ohgy. th i, era\\ ill he knll\\ 11 a' the Ag.:
of El.:ctrunic,. 11 i' the era of i11,tant. world wi de c1>1111111111icatio11-,: of powerful persona l
co mputer, . .iml the mh ent of the C\)mpact
Di w. 1-.mn\ n 1he \\ urld o\ er in e \Cl") language
a;, the CD.
The ill\ enlliln of the CD \\a' the bigge;,t
re\l>lut11H1 111 1en1rded 11Hhil" 'i 1K'e acetate
di,l, rcplacLd \\a\ e) lindcr,_ Finail). wobbl)
l<tpc;, anti '>l"l'atl h) LP' could be ret ired. and
the cri,p. trlll: 'ound r.:prnduction of the CD
\\ ould becumc the aud io ' tandard. O\er the
la;,t In ~car;, ('I), ha ve taken owr home
.:ntcnainmc111 ') ,1cn1' :111ll drnninatcd the
mu ,ic pla) ed lll /\mcrica , rad io , 1atio11;,.
Thin gs ha ve Ill' \ er ;,ou ndcd ;,o good.
ll11t. that 's j11;,t thc bq?inning . The next
pha'>L' llft hc di gital audio tidal \\'a\c i' digital
brn:11ka,ti11g. \Vi th in thc next tin: year' there
\\'i ll he dig11;d l) 1ra11'm i11ed radio for )'ilUr
ca1. and full) digital F;\ 1 radio hroadea'h \I ill
!lilt hl lar bl'111nd. There\\ ill be a \I hole llC\I'
gen,Tat1011 of FM rccei w r' 1>11 thc market. and
the choice' for 111u,ic programming for any
gi\ en lncatio n I\ ill number in the hundred, of
channcb .

throu ghout the l 1J7(h. In

198(1 he fo unded DMX
and ha' ~low l y built a
di s tri b uti o n 'ys 1e 111
where the progran11ning
i;, avai la hie on hundreds
of cable frand1i;,cs and
via Ku-band satellite as
well"' DBS. OMX also
enjll)' an extc: n,i\ e audience in Europe via the
ASTRA 'atellitc.
I Receiving OMX

D:\lX wa;, origi nall y

concci\ ed a~ a mu sic /),If X Direct, the 120 clu11111el direct-to-h11111e digital audio
;,ou rce for bu;, ines;,c;,. ser11ice, 11tili~es a recei,,er by C11111Strea111, a compact a11te1111a
hence the name "DM X dish and the DMX ...JJ}@.
l3u ;,ine;,;, ... Stand-alon..:
sy;,tc1m cu mpkte with di,h and kc:d horn
compatible ;,ate ll itc ;,ystem. Thi s simpl y means
we re provided to the hu;, i11c;,s and a no minal
that yuu must have a C/ Ku -hancl feed on your
111011th Iy charge w;1, bi lied . However. it didn 1 di;,h and add a !>pliller to feed the DMX
tal-.c l1111g bd'orc the value: of the ;,crvicc
recei\er. (lt, important to note 1hat with thi s
beca111c: known to cable op..:rators. and an \Cl-up you should make sure the fee d to the
abbreviated forn 1of OM X 111igralcd to th.: CDMX rc:cc iver ha' a DC b lock filli ng to the
hand feed found on Satcn111 C3 channt:I 2-1.
coax cahlc to prevent DC \'oltage fro m the
Thi rt ) ,,f the mon; popular fnnnah arc carried
LNB fro m damaging the DM X receiver. )
o n 8.'iOcable sy;,tems in the U.S. Rcl"entl y. the
By turning your d i,h to Tl'l;,tar -102 KuDBS pionc:cr Primc,tar drnpped it;, insipid
hand 011 an) e\cn numbcr.:d channel you' 11 be
Supcr,\udi o 'en il"e;, in l'a\ ur of adding the able to pick up the DMX ;, ignal. The DMX
!>ame .~O DMX channels. Subscription 10 th is
rel"ei\n i' a complt:tc satellite receive r. but it
,en ice i, Cl)\'t:rc:d by the basic Primcstnr
i, de;,ig11cd 10 rcl".:i \con I) one channel on one
Step into the Future
\Ub;,niption charge.
polarity. It d ot:~n t mauer whic h channel your
D HS newrnmc:r /\ 1phaStaroffers two DMX satellite rcccivc:r i;, on. but it must be set to the
But. why 11 ait'.11 Noll' you ca n !>ll'P into the
fulll1 l .i nd jllill wi th 2 niilliun other mth ic
padage,. tht.: -;;11 nc 30 cha1111ds a;, Primeslar
right polarity.
Ill\ er'\\ hti a1 c L'njil~ ing the plca,urc;, of digi- or the who le impressive play list. UnfonuTYRO , ub,nibcr;, mu'1 buy the OMX
tal radiu today through th e ;,a1elli1e
natt.: ly for DMX. the agreement to
rece iver (about 5.XOO) and. 01Ke authori zed,
dc: live1vd 111u,ic !>crvice 1-.nDwn a'
offer th..: full service on /\ lphaStnr
pay the monthly fee (S l .'i). Once you've li sha;, 1101 bee n the success lir;,t imagDi gital \lu 'il hprc" IDMXJ.
tened to DM X ) ou II soon disco\'cr that it
ined. Thi;, is owed entirely to the
Di\ lX 11llcr' (_'() qualit). ctH11mcr;,hould ha1e it' m1 n dedi cated dish. There
cinl-t"rc:c 1>rugran11 ni ng 1H1 111ore than
poor , 1an AlphaStar has made in
I fR
IT fl l \ 1 L 'I (
will be man y time;, wht: n you'll wa111 to just
90 lu1111.11 l"ha11nc:I' ll"ilh no di'c
tht: DBS marl-.eting world bu1
li'1en In the fabulou;, programming while
joL 1-.e) ' t)f' ,111) ut lll'r i111nrup1in1h.
,hould improvc drama1icall) ifAlphaS1arcan
other famil) member' will want 10 watch T V.
It liiill-. a'"\\ y bu;,inc"man \I ith a llllbic l"atch up to the competi tion. S u b~c ribers to the
Luc kily. DM X i'> prepared fo r the si tuation
IO\l'f', heart 1<1 create: I>M X. but 10 Jerry
Alph aStar .\Ochanncl service pay in the same
and offer-, a complete d i-,h/ k ed horn set up
Ruhi11,ll111. ( 'ha1rt nan and Chief E\enlli\e
manner a'> Primc:,tar cu,lll111l'rs. l lowe\er.
() ou pro\'ide the pole and coa.\ cable).
AlphaStar ;,ub;,nihcrs ~ i,hing to have the
Of11ce1 11t l>?.I.\. 11 wa' a nalllral 11.:\1 '1ep i11
the c\"1lut1011 ol recorded music. Ru binste in
whok DMX ;,c:n ice 111U\l buy the additional
I The Programming
graduall'd fril111 I <>) ola L I\\ Sdiool in 196.'i
Di\ 1X recci\ er and pay an additi ona l month I)
All currt: nl DBS -;cnicc,. most cable sys;111d 'et 1ii f llfl a c:11 Cl'r a' hu'i ncs' manager fo r charge.
tc:ms. and TVRO owners have access to many
pop , 1,11 -, like lt>11i ;\ li tehell and Neil Young.
The: ;,e rvicc i;, al ;,o ofkrcd to the TVRO
music 'ourccs. Wi th the exception o fC -band
I Ii;, 11 11l1c'1 i11111u,ic kd 111 'linh a' chairman
marl-.c:t. In thi~ GISC. '-Ubseribcr;, must purTVRO.
all musil program ming is part of a
nf l.' 11itcd ,\ 111,1 RLcord' ;1nd r\BC Rc:corlb
c h a~e th..: l)M X rc:cci vcr and ha ve a Ku-band
l

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June 1997

pay package. However. no service comes

anywhere near matching the OM X deal. Its 90
plus channels offer the most divers ity and
depth of anything on the market. The re is no
competition.
There are s ix channels of Latino-oriented
mus ic from Brazilian to salsa; fi ve different
jazz channels from classics to Di xie land; four
separate instrumental c hanne ls; three country
music c hannels; six '"oldies" cha nne ls from
big bands to the ' 80' s; eight pop/adult channels from soft hits to folk rock; four rock
c hanne ls; six "urban" c ha nnels fro m uncensored rap to traditiona l blues; fi ve class ical
music channels including one j ust fo r classical guitar; a stunning twenty-o ne c hannels of
international music including Hebrew hits,
Cantonese pop, Gree k, Indian , Italian, German, Frenc h, Danish, Fle mish, and that 's not
half! There are fi fteen specia lt y c hannels featuring everything from Gospe l and Christian
to Hawaiian and Cajun. All transmi tting full
fidelity CD quality. 24 hours a day with no
interruptions.
Did I mention the polka c hanne l? There's
a cha nnel for movie sound Tracks and one for
show tunes. There s a special children s channe l with music just fo r kids and a ho liday
music channel wh ich features holiday oriented music year ' round. One of my favo rites
is the environmental sounds c hanne l which
brings the serenity of the rain forest or a
mountain brook, a summer thunderstorm, or
pounding surf into your home. But. OMX is
not content with thi s line-up! T hey are planning to add more channe ls; they have room to
expand up to 120 channels.

I The OMX Trump Card

Havi ng access to all this music is great. but
it 's not long before you start to wonder who

recorded chis? What C D is this from? Who

wrote this piece? With a ll other music sources
there's no way to know un less you have an al lintrusivc di sk jockey to tell you. At OMX the
slogan is " Dis k jockeys shou ld be seen, not
heard. " So. OMX has an infra-red remote
control they call the DMX/dj which features
an LCD di splay screen. With the press o f a
button, data from the receiver is transferred to
the remote control and all avai lable information o n the song curre ntly playing is displayed. Thi s makes all the diffe re nce in listening to music. especially unfam iliar pieces and
he lps settle disputes about who recorded what.
The DMX/dj is avai lable onl y on the full
serv ice subscription and is not available on
the Primcstar. AlphaStar, or cable se rvices
using the 30 channel fo1mat. Only DirecTV,
wh ich uses Music Choice (DMX's only competition). offers similar in formation; however, the in formation is displayed on the T V
screen. w hich means you have to have your
TV on the whole time you're listening to the
music.

I The OMX Receiver

The OMX DR200 receiver is made by
ComStream and comes with a 40 page user
guide. The DR200 is simpl ic ity itself. There
a re o nl y three buttons on the un it - a power
switch and channel up and c hannel down
buttons. The green L ED display indicates the
music c hannel c urrentl y in use, and two indicator LEDs show that the satellite signal is
being rece ived and that the unit is authori zed.
lfe itherofthese two lights are not on, you w ill
hear nothing. There is a nearly hidden pulldown panel under the three sw itc hes which
conceals a slot for a fu ture News Datacom
Smart Card. So far, the Smart Card is not used.
The back of the receiver has an "P' connector for the LNB input; a mini jack for
signal strength output (used by professional
installers in the fie ld); a monaural RCA output jack and two RCA output j acks for stereo.
There is a digi tal output jack fo r stereo systems equipped to recei ve direct d igital input.
The OMX remote control has a limited
range of about 20 fee t and can't have any
obstructions in the way. though the signal can
be bounced off walls and ceiling. However, to
rece ive data from the rece iver. the remote
control must be pointed right at the receiver.
A n infra-red remote extender can be used
w ith thi s system for one-way remote control
from other rooms.
One of the most convenie nt functions of
the remote control is an extremely accurate
signal strength meter which is displayed on
the receiver's front panel. Thi s is most useful,

because very few satellite receivers feature a

front pane l signa l stre ngth meter and peaking
your di sh fo r optimum DMX reception ensures top grade performance on C- and Ku band video as well. Aside from a mute button
and volume control, there is direct channel
entry and a .. last .. button to recall the previous
channel selection. T here are numerous buttons which indicate that OMX has prov ided
fo r fu ture funct ions and expansion. This is an
extre mely well planned system.

I An Audiophile's Dream Come True

Imagine owni ng tens of thousands of CDs
and playing them on a state-of-the-art audio
system: That's OMX. Once you get past the
init ial expense of the receiver. paying $15 a
month for th is much diverse programmi ng is
cheap. For less than the full price of one CD
you have the entire output of the C D industry
in your home. What's more, you' ll have access to music you would never have bought or
even heard in most locations. Expose yourself
to the world's music and everything it has to
offer - you'll be surprised at what you've
been missi ng. Digital Music Express is the
greatest thing since s liced quartz.
For information on DMX call or write:
Digital Music Express
11400 West Olypmic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064-1507
Phone: 310-444-1744
DMX is also available from Skyvision
10l 0 North Frontier Drive
Fergus falls, MN 56537
Phone: 800-543-3025

KEEP YOUR C-BAND SYmM

RUNNING STRONG!

Free Buyer's Guide

Fax; 218739-4879

lnr l: 218739-S231

800-334-6455 ~Sky vision'

www.skyvision.com

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EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
TWEAK, TUNE, AND MODIFY!

Bill Cheek
email: [email protected]

Forgotten Memory for Forgotten Scanners

rofcssor Peabody" - a prolific instigator o f great scanner hacks rece ntl y awakened from an extended
self-induced coma (he call s it ..out-of-body
experience" ). and crispl y chided me to revi sit
fi vc classic ~canners of yesteryear. the Unide n
BC-760XLT . BC-950X LT. BC-590XLT , BC600XLT . and Regency R 1600 . Tumbling bac k
into a stupor. he mu mbled. ''Check the memory
chip. pin 19 and ..... and with that. the good
Professor was gone. I mean, hi s mind was
gone. He docs that. I' m used to it now.
Say what? Rev i ~ it live o ld scanners? Well
... hm mmm ... they were great scanners in
their day. but gee whiz. we know everything
there is lO know about the m now. So it was
wit h some misgivi ng that I reached up to the
duqy, long -fo rgotte n service manual for the

BC-760. C huc klin g a t the g oofy o ld

Professor's ways, I turned to the schematic
diagram thinking, "Good grief...the memory
chip? I've already exploited that puppy for all
it 's worth, from its measly stock JOO channels
to 1600 or even 6400 channels. What could be
new? Pin 19. huh?"
There it was, grounded. Big deal.
Wait a minute ! Pi n 19 is amemoryaddress
port (A IO). Why is it grounded? You don ' t
permanently ground memory address pinsnot unless you prefer fewer me mory channels
than is possible ! Why d id Uniden do that?
We don' t know why, but the Uniden BC760XLT, BC-950XLT, and the Regency R1600 are clones of each other: the same radios
with different model names. All three are full
featu red I 00-channel, 800 MHz scanners.
Sc hematically , the three are identical. Likewise, the Uniden BC590XLT and BC-600XLTare identical clones, and almost identical
to the first three except that there is
no 800 MH z plug- in module. In
the memory chip area, all five are
ali ke. T he remainder of this article
applies to all five scanners for a
cheap and easy doubling of the
programmable channels.

FIG-1: STATIC RAM CHIP

PINOUT GUIDE
U;ed in these scanners:
PR0 -20041516
PR0 -2021 t2022!2032
PR0-39t37 J34l32

B C-760/950/590/600 XLT
R-1600
+5v Vee 24
.Ai~
A8 23
A9 22
A5
Top \11/E
21
A4
Viet'V
A3
OE 20
AlO
19
A2
CE l 8
Al
.AD
1/08 l 7
1/0 1
1/0 716
1/0 6 15
1/02
1/0 5 14
1/03
Ground
1/0 41 3
Al

2
3

4
5

6
7
8

10
11
12

Possible IC T~e Numbers

C:( K58 16t1-15L LC 3 517Bt1L-15
TC5517CFL -20 MB8416 - 20LPF
p. PD446G-4 5
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I Eureka!
By goll y, that old Professor
was on to something. There it was,
in black and white: IC-1 3, Pin 19,
machine-soldered to a permanent
ground trace ! Well, that will hardly
do ! But let's think it through first,
as we refer to Figure I- the pinout
guide for the common static random access memory (SRAM) chip
that' s used in a number of popular
scanners.
We see eleven address pins,
AO through A I0 , distributed among
pi ns 1-8, 23, 22, and 19. A cursory
rev iew of the scanner' s schematic
diagram reveals that ten addresses,
AO-A9, are connected to the CPU,
but A I 0 is grounded. The meaning
is simple: ten memory address pins
arc controlled by the C PU; one
address is not controlled , since it is
tied to a permanent "low" (ground) .

FIGURE 2: BOTTOM VIEW OF

SCANNER CIRCUIT BOARD

What would be the result if we were able

to control that eleventh address, A 10, at Pin
19? Easy: The number of memory locations
would double. Whoa, Bubba, not so fast!
Notice the scanner's CPU is internally programmed to deal with only I 00 channels. You
have to understand that we can' t do anything
about that. We cannot alter the programming
of the CPU.
Are we stumped? Nope; this is the easy
part. Given that the C PU addresses and displays only 100 channels at a time, we will
install an external control (switch) with two
states, off and on, each position of which
creates a separate and unique block of 100
channels to make 200 channels, total - free, or
almost so. It doesn t get much better than this.

I Let's do it
Remove the top and bottom cases of the
scanner: four screws on each side. Tum the
radio upside down, front panel facing you.
Referring to Figures 2 and 3, locate IC-13, a
24-pin surface mount chip. There should be
no confusion: there are not many components
on that side of the board. It's mostly just the
solder side.
Study IC-1 3 for a moment to understand
the pin numbering arrangement, and then
identify Pin 19. Figures 1 and 3 will assist.
You' II see where Pins 19 and 20 are soldered
to a common ground pad.
We have to melt the solder on that pad and
lift Pin 19 up and free of the solder so that it is

FIG-3 : 2x MEMORY MOD FOR

BC760/950, BC-590/600 & R1600

Solder one o f the switch wires

lo the free e nd of the I 0-k ohm
resistor. Solderthe other switch wire
to a source of +5v in the scanner,
typicall y Pin 24 of the memory chip.
See Fi g-3 for a possibly handier
spot than Pin 24. Use a volt meter to
veri fy the +5v spot, if you are not
sure, or if you have better ideas.
Yoila! You ' re done.

I Test

cou ld be othe r scanners, I suppose. that do not

use Pin 19, but this w ill be read ily seen by it
be ing grounded (or perhaps ti ed to a permanent spot fo r +5v. ) As fa r as I know. only these
fi ve, all from Uniden. have the hidden. ex tra
I 00 c hanne ls.
Inte resting ly enough. the U nidc n BC855XL T holds an easi ly liberated 50 more
channels and it is legend how the PR0-2004
hides an ex tra I00-channcls. These seven are
the on ly scanners of which I am aware that
have concealed , easily li berated rncmory.

Apply power to the scanner;

I Correspondents, Please Note
tum the switch to its OFF position;
and test the scanner for normal opI have a new e-mail addrc ss wit h a 24-hr
eration. You should not have lost
direct connection to the lntanet now. Please
any previously progra mmed c hannote the new address and make an added note
ne l data, and othe rwise, the scanner
that my BBS. The Hertzian Inte rcept. is closshould appear normal in all respects.
ing down for good on May 3 1, 1997 . It will be
Program a channe l or two; turn the
replaced, bigger and belier. by 111y Web and
scanner off and on tu see if the
FTP sites in the coming months.
1 Unsolder & elevate Pin 19above11s pad, isolated
2 Solder resistors to Pin 19. add W>nng & switch as shown
programming " took."
3 OFF normal ('1st) 100 channels ON 2nd Bloc~ of 100 channels
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The O FF position of the switch
homer.oges/ bcheek
is your " normal" or previous I00
isolated, not touching anything. S lip a sewing
FTP:
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c hannel program. The O N position of the
FAX:
(6 19) 578-9247 anytime
needle between Pins 18 and 19 (if you' re
switch cuts out the " norma l'' program and
Postal:
PO Box 262478; San Diego, CA
right-handed) or between Pins 19 and 20 (if
92 1962478
brings in a whol e new block of I 00 cha nne ls,
you are left-handed). Angle the needle so that
ready fo r your input. You can use o nly one
it uses the adjacent pin as a ful crum and exerts
I 00-c hannel block at a time, of course, but
a bit of upward force on Pin 19. Gently now !
you can sw itch one out and the other in at any
Very gentle .....
time. whether the scanner is on or off.
Now with the gentle upward force on Pin
If you are in the Manual mode, there will
19, heat the pad for Pins 19 and 20 until the
be no visible effect of s wi tching until you
solde r melts, at w hich ti me, Pi n 19 should
perform a subseque nt acti on, li ke hi tti ng
"pop" free and move up a little . If it is free of
Ma nual again, or Scan, or Searc h, etc. If you
the pad, re move the soldering penc il and le t it
are scanning or searching when the sw itc h is
;f""""!'.J'FW
cool. If pin 19 isn't free of the solde r blob,
Serious radio control !! Search, sort. scan by
fli pped, the c hange w ill be immedi ate.
the n exert a bit more upward force until it
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clears the pad and the n re move the soldering
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Solder one e nd of a 100-k ohm 1/8 or 1/4
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(OMPUTERS & RADIO

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RADIO-RELATED SOFTWARE REVIEWS

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Armchair Flights of Fancy

month~

his
column might be called
..Computers. Radio & Aircraft. .. When
I look.1rou nd my im med iate part of the
world. bes ides the des k tops fill ed with radios
and comp uters. I sec my hooks helfli ned with
over forty aircraft soft wa re s imu lators. Wel l.
I gul!~S that' s not that surprising. Back in 1972
I soloed in a single engine aircraft. after nine
hours of terrorizing myself.
Perhaps. because of sheer will to overcome my initial "fear of fl ying" I now list
getting my flyi ng lice nse- at th e US
government's minimum req ui red 40 hours of
fl ying time-at the top of my personal accomplishment.. There reall y is nothing like a bit
of acrobatics to give you a new perspecti ve on
li fe and the world. This third dimension adds
a whole new set of problems and opportunities not encountered by ground huggi ng hu mans.
Over the past few yea rs othe r priorities and
respons ibi Iities have re legated me to the computer simulation hanger and aircraft band
scann in g: both o f which I do avidly. Compu ter "fl ying .. ut ilizes a majority of my
computer's time. Beginning in the late 1980' s
with Yeager' s Combat Simulator. and conti nui ng today with the latest Microsoft Flight
Simul ator and Janes USN Fighte rs. the line
between rea l !lying and simulations is becoming blurred. At Web sites such as Mike
Marando s simflight.com you can download
very realistic scenery and airports (with all
thei r radio emissions) fo r your Flight Simulator program . After practicing landings at Nice.
Fn111cl!. you' ll feel right at ho me landing on
th..: Ri viera . The amount of aircraft simu lation
so ft ware available on the Internet is staggering.
Another large chunk of compu ter time is
taken up . canning aircraft freque ncies using
my seve n sca nner~ and shortwave receivers.
Any of the ScanCat li ne of software work
great for collecting. storing. and controlling
ai rcraft moni toring rad ios. But lately I' ve
real ized I'm using my computer and Internet
fo r lots o f other aircraft monitori ng related
purposes. One purpose is to download aircraft
frequency lists directl y into my ScanCat Gold
program. By down loading these files and
saving them as ".txt" text fil es. they can then
be read by ScanCa t.

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F- 15 Eagle

Monitoring Aircraft on Shortw ave

T here are two distinct categories of ai rcraft

users to be monitored: military and civ il. The
c i viI category includes comme rc ial. bu si nes~ .
and private aircraft operal\>r\.
For long haul s. such as transatlantic crossings. all types use the shortwave bands in the
single sideband mode to communicate with
ground stati ons. An exce llent source of data
fo r all shortwave (I-I F) Ul'.l'O frequenc ies can
be downl oaded into you r receiver contro l
soft ware fr o m ww w.g rovc.net/-la rry/
hfacro.html - That' s right: it' s Larry (the
Chie f) Van Ho rn himself' Co mmercial aircraft also stay in touch with their com pany via
shortwave. These "company" frequencies can
also be fo und at this site.
Being "Civil" on VHF

Information section.
The cnrout e centers
haw much strongertrnnsmillers and can be heard
as fa r away as 50 miles
unde r certain conditions.
A~ wi th other VHF signals at the~e frequencies.
recepti on is almost line of
sight. The refore. hearing
high fl ying aircraft 80 miles away is quite
possible. Hearing ground :-.tations 20 miles
away is possible but rare if structures and
natural land fea t ure~ intl!nene.
Us ing the Navaid Information sect ion of
Air av you can earch by frequency. name.
or identifier for navigationa l radio signals.
Aircraft u~.: non-dirl!ctional b.:acons (NOB)
for direction in fo rmation. Therefore their exact location is also g ive n in the Nava id database. These beacons. which arc below the
medium wave AM broadcast band. are of
int.:n.:'t to long\\'a'..: l iste n er~ . This site pro\' idc~ a ready-made lo ngwa\e ~ta l i on datab;1sc for the~e fo lks. VHF()() to 116 M Hz)
rm\ igational stations arc al so Iisted in Navaids
databa~e.

Military Aircraft The Spoilers

There i ~ alwa) ~ the guy who has to be

Ju st above the FM commercial broadcast
di
ffere
nt ' Military aircraft u'e their own freband si ts the 108 - 1:\6 MHz civil a ircraft
band. u ~i ng the AM
mode. Two ty pes of
ground to air station s
- those at an airport
a nd those at cnro ut e
ce nters ( in c lu di ng
Fligh t Service weathe r
ad visory stations) can be heard on VHF.
Airports have tower.
ground. approach. and
na v ig ati o nal s ignal s
that can be mon itored
wit hin a radius ofabout
I0 to :m mil es of the
airport. To find the frequencies of the airports
in your area try AirNa\
at www.ai r nav.com/
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quem;y range: 200 Lo 400 M 111.. UHF. But

they do hroadcast in the AM mode Ii"~ their
ciYil coun terpart,. Therefore. in order for the
civil air traffi c controllers to communi cate
wi th mi li tary aircraft. the ground ;,talion mu st
tran;,mit on a frcquerK) that ci\'i l traflil lannot hear. In many ca;,c;, the ground ;,tations
broadca;,t in the ci,il band and tho:: militar)
band. simultaneously. That ex plai n;, why you
can so metimes hear the ground ~ t at ion but not
the military aircraft he i;, talking to.
This parallel band capability i;, common
throughout the US air traffic con trol network.
To find the frcqucncic' of military ba;,e;, in
your area you might check Ji m Fordycc 's
Aviat ion Scanning In formati o n pag..: at
www.li.net/-j-ldice/avifrcq.html for lot;, of
good mi l scanner frequenc ies to download.
I Mil Callsigns
Since military aircraft don't really want to
announce where they have come from. or their
destination. they use cock ;,igns ;,uch u~ Jaw;, ...
Although the y can be changed dai l). ha\'ing a
li ~ t of c all s i gn~c an help identi fy the homeba;,e
and aircraft type in many si tuations.
Try www.pcrsonal.u -ncl.mm/-morlis/
callsign.htm to download a li;,t of military
aircraft callsigns. This location has not always
been acce-,sible. Yau can also get European
ba sed mi litary airc raft ca ll !-. ign ;, at
www.ccc.hw.ac.uk/-cccamhfrallsign.html
Can anyone E- mail me the addn;;,;, of a CSA
based military aircraft call sign list? Promise.
I' II shan; it.

Uni versal Electronics. ff you arc into /\CA RS.

go to hllp://wcb.intcr.nl.nct /hcc/Ha ns.
Wildschut/acars.htm Thi' 'itc is in the Netherl and;, or Belgium. But the info is usefu l all
01 ..:r the world. Anot her u;,eful AC' A RS page
i' on our 1cr) own www.grove. net/
-acarswcb/indcx. html
The rdcrcncc 'ection i;, 'er) u,eful for the
exp..: rienc..:d or new ACA RS mon itor.

Just remember that things on the Web arc

cha nging rapidly. Dont expect e,ery link that
" <.: m<.:ntinncd to work eve ry time.
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I Hearing is Believing

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you wi ll be able to hear li v..:. a~ it happen s.
aircraft COllllllllllicatio n;, a l Dalla' rt. \.\'orth
airport. /\ her you down load Rcal/\udio then
go to www.simuflitc.com/ and click on
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you know it.

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you ar<.: monito ri ng usi ng rtr11 Trax. See
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nf charge. Flyte Trax di ;,p l ay~ a map with the
aircrart s route as fi led in their fli ght plan and
the ir current location. E;,tim ated arri \'a l data
will al ~o be disp layed when avai lahlc.
I Don't Just Listen - Read!
W..: 11 . anyont.: who ha;, read thi s colu mn
overt he past year has seen at lca'>l one AC ARS
d..:coding review. Thi!> pac"et-li ke digital mode
is used hy the airlines to report in-flight route.
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KIS RADIO

SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE FRUGAL MONITOR

Rich Arland, K7SZ

[email protected]

Those Beloved Boat Anchors

hi~

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mun th s column devoted to collecti ng vintage or cla~~ i c commun ications equi pmt:nl. Affectionately called
"boat anchors" or 13A s. by thuse who coll ec t.
re ~tore . and use them. cla s~ ic vi ntage comm
gt:ar is one or the fastest growing facets or the
hobby.
Whetht:r it "s Co ll in s. Ha lli crarters.
Johnson. Hammarlund. Natio nal, Heathkit ,
Knightkit. Eico. or Gonsel. these rigs bring
back the: hi ~to ry and glamour of the past in
amateur radio and s hortwave listening. It was
an era wht:n quality Amcric<lll made eq uipment dom in ated the commc:rcial and amateur
communications ind ustry worldwide.
My c:: nt ry into 13A collecti ng/restoration
started a couple of years ago when I an~we red
an ad in lhl.' Ha111 Tmda Yellmr Sheers' for a
G R-8 1 super-n.:genl.'rati vc: SW receiver. This
had bl.'cn 111y very fir~t ki t as a budding SWL.
I bought it for $25. When it arri ved it was very
di rty. Aft er a cos metic clean-up using
Murphy's Oi l Soap and some Si mple Green.
along with a liberal application of contact
c leaner in the control s and tube soc kets. the
little rig came ali ve and lontinues to work
today.
Shortly thereafter I found the companion
receive r. a GR-91 ~ u per het of the same year.
It was in excellent condition except fo r the
cabinet that the prev ious owner had painted
an ugly gold. A quick tri p to tho.: sand blaster.
a spray of the cabi net wi th priml.'r and top coat
and I had a pri sti ne GR-9 1 to place beside my
G R-8 1. I cont inue to regularl y use both sets
ror ge neral SW listt: ning.
About two years ago. a fri end of mine
offe red me an unbuilt Heat hk it GR-78 SW
r..:ceiver. I wok my time and in about two
yl.'ars (yep. you read it right ) I had myself a
pria ine GR -78 .
I have had several Zenith Trans-Oceanics
come my way. The li rst o ne. a model R-600
(circa 1954 ) was give n to rnc by one of my
cm~o rker~ . It had li ved in a baseme n! for
about 30 years and was a physical mess.
Electrically il worl..ed aft..:r the standard recapping ( r..:plm:ing all the papa and electrolyti c capacitors on the c ha ~~ i s) and alignme nt.
T he ph]'ical restoration was much more: in ten~e. involv ing ge lli ng rid of the mi ldew
sm..:11 frrn n all lhu'e years in a dank basement.
The black s i111ul ated lea ther (call ed "stag"

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- - -- ~ .
-~.
by Ze nith ) was reor u ~ who ha ve be..:n
\/';,.~
at thi s a while come
glued to the: wooden
to the realization that
case in the areas that
had pu lled up. Next.
you cann ot co llect
Murphy's O il Soap
and restore everywas used to t ho rthin g yo u wa nt. It
oughly wash the inboi Is down to too
many radios and too
ner and outer surfaces
uf the case. After allittle time.
Afte r the initial
lowi ng it about two
Tuu many radios and too lillle time m eans
c11/ti11ating a specialty - .Hy weakn es., is
exposure to BA ~ .
days in which lo dry.
fur Hallicrafters, like this 1960s era llTblack s ho..: dye was
111ost of us sell le into
./4. (Photo courtesy "Transmillers,
a niche and conn :napplied all over the
l :xciters & Power A mplifiers " by
trate on obtaining a
leatherette to a uniRaymond S. Moore)
form blackness. Then
-,peci fo: brand name
four coats of handor type: nf classic raru bbed black past..: wax was applied and
dio. My per~onal favorites arc 1-lallicra fte rs
buffed. The result s: an outstanding case that
receivers and t ran s m i t t er~ from the mid-50s
comple ment s the radio v..:ry we ll. All the
to th..: late 60,. This br in g~ back 111emori es or
brass fillings and hinge' were c leaned with
my ..:arliesl cxpo, urc to ham radio and SW
brass polish. The plastic rronl panel and conDXing.
A rully restored SX- 11 7/l-I T-44 rece iver
tro ls we re cleaned. I now ha ve an absolutely
beautiful Ze nith T-0 that is -+O years old but
and transm itter now comprise the I-I F station
stil l works great and is a pleasure lo look al.
that I use regularl y. I ha ve one of t he I-I Q- I70s
paired up wi th a B&W 5 1008 100 wall /\M
A l th e 1996 S hurt wave Winl e rfes t
Dr. Harold Cones and I \\ere walki ng through
t ran~miller for my AM ' tat ion. If I reall y want
the mini Ilea market and ran across a Zenith
to get no,talgic. I lire up the crystal-conmodel Royal IOOO Trans-Oceanic. This was
trolled Knight ki t T-60 novice CW transmitter
the very lir~t transi ~tor model that came out of
and HR - JOB 1-kathkit recci\er and reli\e my
the Chicago plant in 1959. Harold told me lo
no\ ice d ay~. I do my general SW listening
o ffer the sci ler $ 15 (he wanted $20). I did. and
using a beautifull y restored Hallicraflers SXwalked away with a new T-0. The seller
7 I receiver.
Other BA co llectors ~pecial i ze in Heathkit.
warned that the set di d not work. Harold said
that was not a proble m.
Knightkit. Collins. etc. It all depends upon
Outside the Ilea market. we opened up the
your personal inte rest,. the avai labili ty of
back of the set and Harold pointed out the
units. and. or co ur. e price. Collin s and E. F.
transistors to pull and spray down the sockets
Johnson seem to demand premium price.while
Heathkits and Knight kils cost ve ry litt le by
and tran sistor leads with good qu ality contact
cleaner. The plan was to reseat the transistors
comparison. Al the Virgin ia Beach hamrcst
several times to remove any corrosion. Once
last Septe mber. I pu rchased a complete
I did th is and replaced the batteri es. I had a
Heathkit SB-IO I 'talion (power supply.
working Royal 1000 1 It was that easy. After
speaker cabinet. stat ion console. mon it or
the obligatory cosmeti c c leanup 1111d alignscope. and microphone) with ex tra tubes and
ment , the set fu nctioned pcrfcctly. Later in the
all manuals for S 150~ ot bad for a \image
SSB ' latio n.
year. I traded th a t rece iver for two
Hammarlund HQ- 170ACs and restored both
of these receivers to full working conditio n.
I Other Places for Plunder
See how thi s hobby bu ilds upon it~clf wi th
Sometime' you can run across a BA barminimal cash o utlay?
gai n at a yard sale. This is an idea l situation.
because seldom doc' the sellcr really know
I Cultivating a Specialty
the worth of the rad io. Thi' last summer I was
Or it would. ir it wercnl for the fact that
15 second s loo late to buy two working R390s
BAs can become extrem..:ly addictive. Those
for a total of SI 0.00 1 Cam Hartford. N6GA.

f?und a pristine SX-7 1 with matc hing speaker

sitting on a curb side awaiting the garbage
truck! Needless to say, Cam now has a great
SW receiver and he didn't spend a dime!
Another source is your local flea market.
These events have become quite popular all
across America. Be prepared to haggle. Most
? f the " regulars" at fl ea marke ts have a good
~de aofthe value of old receivers. and they will
Jack the price up accordingly. Once in a while
you' ll get a really good deal, but most of the
time you will end up paying marke t value for
a BA at a flea market.
Hamfests are another source o f BAs. Most
of the time the good deals are gone early in the
day, leaving nothing but overpriced junk to
the late comers. Ha mfests produce some good
buys, but also be aware that you can get
burned, too. S horted power or modulation
transformers in tube-type tra nsmitte rs or
Ii nears are a lmost impossible to economically
replace. Beware of the "screwdri ver tec hnic'.an" who might have modified a piece of
vintage gear.
Last July at our local hamfest, 1 picked up
a scru ffy Hallicrafters SX-140/HT-40 recei verllransmitte r pair for $40. The previous
owner said that he had recapped the receiver
but could not get it working. I took the units
home, c hecked the wiring against the schematic and found that he had installed the
e lectrolytic capacitors in the power supply
backwards! Some quick work wi th a soldering iron had both units up a nd playing in short
order. T he cases were sandblasted, reprimed
and painted (KrylonTM # 160 1 " Pewte r" is a
good matc h for the early 60's light Halli
gray). I procured an HA- I T.O. Keyer and
sold the completely reconditioned station for
$250! Needless to say, the profits of this sale
went back into the BA hobby.
O ther sources include the Ha m Trader
Yellow Sheets. whic h are a very good source
o f used ham and SW equipment. The re are
sev~ra l "collec tors" nets on HF, along with
regional swap nets. My favorite source is the
Boatan c h o rs Re fl ec tor o n int e rn e t:
boatanclzors@theporch. com. Thi s is a subscription list and costs $ I 2/yr, bu t is worth
every penny. Not only are there about 750
me mbers who have a wealth of knowledge to
share, but you can post a question and get an
an swe r without the us ua l "flaming a nd
spamming" encou ntered on the rec. radio
new sgroups. The BA reflector caters to all
forms of " radios that g low in the dark.'" From
Collins, Ha mmarlund. and Ha llicrafters to
mili tary collectors and vintage test equ ipme nt
collectors, it 's all there.
If collecting Heathkits is your niche. I
highly recomme nd Heathkit: a Guide to the

Amateur Radio Products by Chuc k Penson

WA7ZZE. 2

I Restoring Tips
Let me inject some words of caution regarding restoring boat anchors. First there is
the need to be familiar w ith vacuum tube
c ircuits. Tube techno logy is not re lated to
trans istor technology. Voltage differences
as ide, you have to start thinking in " hollowstate" in order to be an e ffecti ve boat anchor
troubleshooter. Old ARRL handbooks of the
I 950s and 60s arean invaluable source o f tube
technology info.
One thing to re member: tubes wi ll work
when they are ma rg ina l, ofte n giving indications of proble ms e lsewhere in the radio.
Trans istors either work or they don' t: There is
no mi ddle ground. But. j ust because a tube
chec ks good in a tube checker does not mean
that it will work in a c ircuit. The best method
ofchec king a tube is substitution with a known
good vacuum tube. Likewise, do not assume
that if you buy new, old stoc k (NOS) from a
tube supplier that the tube is good . A fau lty
NOS 6SS7 in my S-5 I Hal licrafters caused
me about three hours of headaches. Once the
6SS7 was re placed the IF stage functi oned as
adverti sed.
T he re is someth ing exotic about working
tube equipment , especially when you realize that lurking beneath the c hassis is enough
voltage and current to kill you! SA FETY
FIRST! USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN
WORKINGONVACUUMTUBERECEIYER
AND TRANSMITTER CIRCU ITS. LETHAL
VO LTAGES AND CU RRENT S A RE
PRESENT ABOVEANDBELOWTHECHASSIS!
Follow the old technici a n's rule of working with one hand in your pocket, so you don' t
become part of any circuit that can cause
e l.ectrocution. It takes very little c urrent (yes,
11 s c urrent that kill s you) to make you a
forme r reader of this column. As little as 30
milliamps taken direc tly through your heart
muscle can cause death. While human s kin is
an excelle nt insu lator, your body' s total resistance changes dramatica lly as s kin become
moist due to perspiration. Low skin resistance
coup~ cd with high voltages can set the stage
for disaster. No kidding, fo lks, use cautio n.
.T hat's a wrap for this column. Hope you
enjoyed our brief tour o f boat anc hors. One of
these days I'll tell you the story about restoring the rarest of a ll Zenith SW portables: the
Global. Made foronly three or four months in
I 946, fi nding a G loba l is like discovering the
Holy Grail for Zenith aficionados. But meanwh ile. start out with what's at hand, and Keep
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Radio Shacl< FRS-105 UHF transceiver

By Steve Donnell WA1YKL

adio Shack was the guiding force behind thc creation and the FCC s approval of. the newly authori zed Family
Radio Service (FRSJ. In the April issue of MT.
Bob Grove.: took a quick look at thi s sunu11er" s
release. the FRS- 108, but the more powerful
FRS-105 was Radio Shack' s first transceiver
speci tically des igned for FRS.
Thc imcnded purpose of the new service is
tu pro vide a way for family members and other
individuab to reliably communicate over short
distances o r up to two mi Jes. The frequencies
allocated for thi > function arc fo urtee n intersti tial or "'spli nter"' freque ncies in the -162 and 467
M H1 bands. Thc f"RS-105 is ca pable of operating on just the scve n frequenc ies in the 462
MH z ran ge. (Sec table I) These channels arc
manuall y -;elec ted by way of a rotary sw itch:
The FRS- 105 docs not contain any channel
scanning. fu ncti ons. TABLE 1
FRS radios arc
rcquircd to limit
FRS-105 CHANNELS
their tran s mitter
CH l 462.5625 MHz
power to no more
CH 2 462.5875
than 500 mill iCH 3 462.6125
watt>. and the anCH 4 462.6375
tenna must be perCH 5 462 .6625
manentl y all ached
CH 6 462.6875
CH 7 462.7 125
to prevent the use
of range-enhancing
""gain antennas and/or ex ternal amp Iifie rs. The
FRS- 105 uses a llexible ru bber antenn a. measuring 3.5 inches long.
Subaudible tone s ignal ing i> pcrmilled. but
not required. The FRS-105 may operate on any
or seve n CTCSS tones: 77 .0. 88.5. 97.4. I07.2.
118.8. 127 ..'. and 136.5 Hz. The radi o will
encode and decode only the se lected tone on all
of it' seven channels. The tone is selec ted by
way of a rotary sw itch in side the ballery compartment and behind two batteries. Although
s imple to use. it may al so be seen as a constrai nt
if you wan t lo contact others who are using
different CTCSS tones.
As wi th 1110'1 other radio; that u'c CTCSS.
the FRS- 105 inc ludes a Monitor button that.
when pushed. will brieny defeat the CTCSS
decode function and ope n the radio s squelch to
lbtcn for u'ers that are not usin~ the same
CTCSS tone as the one you have ,~ J ccted.
The FRS- 105 i> con ven iently powered by
three AA size batteries. Whil e thi:re is no provision internally fur using rcc hargcab lc balleric,. use of ex ternally charged NiCcb or even the
new rechargeable alkaline ballc ri.:s is possible.
During extended outings. howncr. I rccom-

88

MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

mend you use non-rechargeable alkaline ce lls.

Like many other port able
scann ers, the FRS- 105 includes a banery-saving circuit
that cuts down on rcccivercurrcnt drain during idle periods.
The FRS- I 05 is rated for 20
hou rs of use on a set of alkaline balleries. against a typi ca l"" usage pattern of I0% ta lking/receiving and 90,4, standby
time.
Although there are no provision' for connecting external DC power. the FRS- 105 does
include jacks for ex ternal mi crophone and earphones. Radio Shack currently offe rs a couple
o f different accessory packages for the FRS105. These include a headset with boorn mic. or
a more di screet molded earpiece wit h an inline
rnic.

Refarming Debut
Beyond the si mpl icity of its opcrating frequency and CTCSS fun ctions. the FRS- 105
heralds a new beginn ing in radio beyond FRS:
It is one of first "'nex t generation of radios that
can operate on (U HF) fre quencies spaced only
12.5 kHz apart. as required in order 10 meet the
FCC' s spectrum '"rcl"arming req uirements. One
of the earliest concerns regarding the creat ion
of the Family Radio Service. was that they
would result in interference to and from other
radio users on the primary'" radio frequenci es
that the FRS splint.:r frequencies res ide between.
From what I have seen so fa r in evaluating
the FRS- 105 such concern s have proven ground less. First of all , tran smitter freq uency deviation in our FRS- 105 was measured 10 be j ust
s lightly over 2 kH z. While thi s will make the
FRS- 1OS's transmillcd audio sound lower compared to other types of radios, thi s should pose
no problems between other FRS radios. This
lower modulati on level should easily prevent
any "'splashovcr problems ont o the adjacent
GM RS primary chan nels.
The FRS- IOS's receiver was equall y imprcssi,e. With the CTCSS deactivated and a
strong test ca rrier signal bei ng produced. it
modulated with a I kHz aud io tone at.+ kHz of
deviation. When the test carri er was moved
pl us or minus 8 kH z from the celllcrof the FRS105 s freq uency. it was no longer noticeabl e. In
a field test. the FRS- 105 was checked two miles

away from GMRS repeater, which had a fai rly

heavi ly modul ated voice on its carrier. The
FRS-105 was switched between two of its channels that were adjacent to the re pea t e r '~ output
freq uency. No interference was received and
onl y a small amount of the repeater' s signal
could be recognized when the FRS-1 OS's Monitor button was prcs>cd.

Physical Considerations
Ph ysically, the FRS- 105 measures approximately 4S' x 2.5" x 1.2". with nicely rounded
edges that make it easy to hold onto and slide
into your pocket. The FRS- 105 al so comes with
a detachable belt clip. While the clip could be
somewhat more rugged. it" s better than ones
found on many scanners. The rest o f the FRS105' s case seems to be very durable and is well
scaled against weather contam inat ion.
The cover for the battery compartment is
well designed to prevc111 it from accidentally
fa lling off. but it requires some practice to
mastl!I" the art of setting and releas ing the two
latches on the sides that hold the cover in place.
One ergonomic glit ch I noticed concerns the
labe ling for the volume-on/o ff control and the
channel se lection sw itch: When you look at the
FR S- 105 face on, the labeling for the volume
control is correct, hut the channel selection
numbers are reversed.
It is also interesting to see that there is no
attempt to "hide the true manufaclllring lineage of the FRS- 105 : With the Motorola name
on the front and its "'Big M"' on the bell clip, it' s
obvious where the FRS-105 hai ls from. I suspect thi s was a cak:ulatccl marketing strategy,
given the reputation fo r hi gh quali ty that
Motorola has garnered in recent years wi th
other product lines. In case you haven "t yet
noticed. the FRS-1 05 is a very close c lone of
Motorola s own FRS series radios. the Sport 7.
If you use the FRS- 105. with CTCSS act ivated. with a non-Motoro la radio. you will
experience a loud. annoying squel ch tail" following the received signal. It is not a problem
when used with another Motorol a radio, because. upon releas ing the Push To Talk button.
the phase of the transmitted CTCSS tone is
rc,crscd. This instantl y slops the decoding of
the c ress tone on th.: receiving end.
The FRS- I 05 is an casy-10-~1sc. low cost
radio that's great for use by fam ilies or individuals that walll rel iabl e short-range communications. without the need of obtaining an FCC
lice nse.

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Simon Spanswick has announced a new publication: Global Radio Guide. Produced under
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For the most part, the bi-annual booklet consists of advertisements, the usual introductory
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Recently a number of excellent directories of former radio
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The bulk of the book's 248 pages
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when the Ohio company re-entered the shortwave receiver market some years ago. it was greeted
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Drake, realizing that some of
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trol. This is the same radio that

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New JRC-345
If the above-mentioned Drake
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the higher-priced R8-A , then the
new introduction from Japan Radio Company is the consumer version of the NRD-535. However,
at a price of' under $900, the NRD345 is clearly intended to compete wi th receivers in the so-called
"professional" price range.
This is a nice receiver. The
NRD-345 combines some of the
luxury of the higher-end JRCs
and. according to the manufacturer
offe rs
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Among the most highly touted is
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Heres how the rest of the JRC

NR D-345 shapes up: The NRD345 is clearly a high-quali ty .
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MAGNETESTS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW

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

International MT-798 Travel Portable

ack whe n Gerald Ford meant mo re

than Henry Ford. it used to be th at a
trave ling gladiator of the airwaves
faced three choices.
Most practical was to take along a compact. low-cost plastic analog portable. and
slllffit in with the ~oc k s and ~ hirt s. But if that
wouldn't do the trick. you could tote a full sized portable. such as a Zenith Transoceanic.
No rdM ende G lobetrotter or. for the
cognoscenti. a Barlow-Wadley XCR-30 Mark
I I. These were beefy. as port ab les go. but they
we re a solid notch heller than the smaller
offerings. Indeed. the Sout h African BarlowWadley qualified as a genuine DX recei ve r of
sorts. and you didn't have to worry about
battery failure. After all. it could easil y run for
a year or more on a set of "D'' cells.
Barlow-Wadley aside. gearhead s who
wanted serious hardware were forced to trot
off with one of the smalle r tabletop mode ls.
such as a Drake SPR -4. and some sort o f
homebrew or other qua~ i -portab l e anten na.
Trouble is. these created luggage pro b l em~ .
and once you arri ved al your destination you
were at the mercy of the local power company. as battery power was not practical.
I went this last route in 1971 on a solo trip
to France. sticking my beloved Drake R4 -B
into a modified Kodak Carousel projecto r
carrying case. To this I added an Englishmade "Joysti ck" antenna that was like a tubu lar broomstic k with a m il amid ships.
The first ni ght after I arri ved. I tried listen ing from a fourth-story walku p in Asnicres.
o utside Paris. What a payoff- I was in DXe r' s
heaven. pulling in at least several minutes of
juicy Asian catches'
However. un be kn ow n ~ ! to me. the power
in Asnieres reg ularl y varied plus or minus 40
percent. and I had plugged in my beloved R4B during one of the power grid 's wilder swings
on the high side. Something essential in the
rad io got fried. so I spent the next seve ral
weeks looking like an NSA agent on the lam.
toting suspicious-look ing but useless eave~
d ropping gear on train ~ throughout France.
Ever since, I' vc bee n scouring the pl<1net
fnrthe holy grail ofa small portable that' s not
so pricey that I can't afford to lose it.
T ime has been kind. Thercs no longer a
need to lug around Big Iron on any trip t h i ~
side of a DXpedit ion. The Sony ICF-20 10
comes as close to the id..:al as a serious radi o

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. g 01er a

, e been loo kin

Recently we v . pri'ced analog
...
r b rgcun1111rnber OJ a .
t of China ...
portables corning o11

couple
the same as a
d
. ht and cost abo11t
had decent ban
... These ar~ sma.l~, 1:1 the past, sou.1e It~.~~ trying to find one
.r Montecnsto cigar.. 111r) b11t we re s t
OJ
d ood senst t ,
coverage an b~ electivity, as well.
with reasona e s

h;

lo ver could hope for. although it 's a hand ful

and doesn' t come cheap. T he Sony ICFSW I00 is itsy and light enough to carry on th..:
Tour de France. hut its audio quality ri val~
that of an antique te lephone. and it costs
nearly as much as a 20 I0. Its sensiti vit y isn t
the greatest. eithe r. and earl y production un its
suffered from a tendency for the com putertype cable between the two ha lves of i t ~
clam she ll to give out after mon ths of flex ing.
Probably the best O\'crall co mprom ise is
the Sony ICF-S W7600G. With its sy nch ronous selectable sidebaml. it comes rea~o n
abl y close to performi ng like a 20 I0. but is
smaller and cheaper. Sti ll , al around $200 it '~
not somethin g you'd want to forget on Wail-. iki
Beach. or involuntarily donate to the Sha nghai Hote l Emp l oyee~ Fund.
So. recently we've been looking mer a
number of bargain-priced analog portable~
coming ou t of China. Th e~e arc ~ma ll. light.
and cost about the ~am e as a couple or
Montecri sto cigars. In the pasl. some have
had dece nt band coverage and good sens it i\'ity. but we ' re ~ t il l trying lo !Ind one wi th
reasonable ~c l ec ti vi t y. a~ wel l.
So. hopi ng fo r a bit of Irish good luck
around SL Patrick s Day I ordered an Intern a-

tional MT-798 eo mpac t analog portable at a

Sco t sma n ~ price of $35. including shipping.
Physically. it 'how~ promise. weighing we ll
under a pound wit h two AA" bat1eries. And
although it ~ what we classify at P asspor l IO
Wo rld Band Nwlio as a compacl. at just under
seven inches by three inches by 1- 1/2 inches.
it' s a small compact. indeed-close to ideal
for traveling.
It covers longwave. which can be useful in
Europe. North Afr ica. and the Near East. Of
course. the usual FM band is incl uded. in
mono. along with the AM band to 16 10 kH z.
Alas. t ha t ~ li ne for much of the world. but in
North Ame rica the AM band now goes to 1705
kH z. even if the rec has been slower than an
armadi llo in mud gelling stations all ocated
wi thi n the 1610-1700 kHz "expansion band."
Shortwave coverage i ~ 60 meters (47005100 kHz). 49 meters (5830-6200). 4 1 meters
(7050-7500 kl lz). 31 meters(94 I 0-9900 kH z).
part of 25 m e te r~ (I 1450-1 1880 kH z). most of
19 mete r~ ( 15050- 15550 kHz) and 16 meters
( 17400- 18050 kH1.). Omitled entire ly are 120
meters (2 Ml11 ). 90 meters (3 MHz). 75 mete r~
(4 MHz). 22 mett.:r~ ( 13 MHz) and 13 me t e r~
(2 1 MH z).
T wenty-two meters ( 13 MHz) was first

c reated al the 1979 World Adm inistrat ive

Radio Co nference (WARC-79). and h a~ been
used i ncrc a ~ i ng l y C\'er since. Chi na may be
the land o r the Great Wall and Shllrl wave
jamming aplenty. bul ccn ai nl y 18 years is
ample time fo r 1he ex istence of 22 meters to
have pe netrated e ven the mo~ t remote re ach e~
of this populous nation.
Too. the.: real-world 25 meter band ~ t ops at
12 100 kH z. not 11 880 kf-1 7 (although the
radio' s dial shows lhe upper limil as I 1950
kH z. so some samples may lune hi ghcr th an
ours). Eve n the pre- W ARC-79 uppcr limi1
was I 1970 kHz.
Otherwise. thi s radio i ~ c h arac te r i ~ t i ca ll y
uncomplicated . There s a cloth w r i ~ t ~tra p . a
small tun ing kn ob. vo lum e slide r. two
bandswitc hes. single-LED 1uning ind icator. 3
VDC input for an AC adaptor (not supplied).
and an ea rpiece jack (ditt o). The on-off button. which lacks a tra vel-off lock. i ~ easil y
activated by acc ide nt. so tra\'clers should remove at least one battery befo re packi ng the
rad io away.
The telescopic antenna swi,cb. but can t
rotate. T h i ~ makes it a prob le m 10 hear the
radi o when it is laid on its back- a l1hough it
i~ less tipsy than most small rad i o~ in thi s
regard . II also adds to 1he potcnli al of the
antenn a s being broken by accident.

I Shortwave performance? A
disappointment!
To begin wit h. on our unit the fac tory
ali gnment is so sloppy thal the rrcq uency
readout is sometirncs off by 70 kH z. Twc nty.
even 30 kl lz. okay. but being off by I4 chan nels is rid iculous.
The radio comes with a bright Mao-red
labe l on the front proclaiming ... Hi gh Sensiti vi ty." Forget it- thi s claim is as braze n as
they come. Alt hough wevc tes1ed a few radios with less s c n ~ i ti , i t y. the MT-798 may
have you wondering whether your hcaring
has failed. or there' s an ongoing maj or ionos pheri c di stu rbance. Po we rh o uscs come
through okay. along with some modcrate signals. but by and large t h i ~ is a radio fo r th.:
deaf.
Audio quali1y. single-position ~c lcc t i v i t y
and image rejection arc onl y slight ly better.
but pa ~ sab l e for a model of thi s c la~'
In all. 1he MT-798 is a major letdow n.
because.: ir there.: s one good reason to get an
analog radi o instead of a ch..:ap digital model
it' s better usable se nsitivity.
The AM band? It would be passab le. but
here. too. se n ~ i ti vity is medioc re. Howcver.
FM broadcast selectivi ty. sensitivity. and capture rnli o arc all dece nt. even if aud io q uali1y
throug h the speaker is nowhere equal to the

listening potential of lm.:al -qua lity ~ i g nal s .

Our lnternalional MT-798. all hough from
Chi na. h a~ no indicatio n o n the radio. box. or
othe r ..:ontents as to the country of origin. It is
avail able at various shops abroad. o r in North
America for $3 5. postpaid. hy chec k or money
order (nn cardq from RGB Enterprises. Box
5367. Old Bridge NJ 08857: phone 908/67980~ 6 or fa x 800/605-5162.

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Box JOOM . Penn s Park PA 18943 USA .

This equipment review is performed independently by Lawrence Mogne and his colleo9ues in accordance with the
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SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST

Bob Parnass, AJ95

Innovative Scanner Patents of the 1970s

ibran -.. hchc-.. an.: filled with book'

about the h1storyol automobilc.... tra111-...
fi rca n m. tanks. rm:kch. and just about
c1cry oth<.: r i1wcntiun - <.:>.<.:Cpl the na rrow.
hut inll.: n.:sting hi story o r -.canner radios. My
bascment i-., fu ll of ol d S<.:all llCrS and monitor
n.:cci1er... and thcir -.. torie-.. d..:-..crve to be told.
Howc;111weget hi storica l informati on? By
foll ow ing the patent trail. The federal gove rn 111ent iss ues pate nt -. which protect the in ventor, or company to whom th<.: patc 111 rights arc
assigned. from other people wrong full y using. manu facturi ng. or se lling their invention.
Amon g other requ irements. patent applicant -..
lllUSl disc lose the detaiIs or their in ve nti on.
That" s why patents are good sources o f technil:al information - 1he in formati o n is publicly available. and I wil l te ll you how to
obtain complete copies of patcnts.
Some scanner patents cont ain information
about sca1111cr cirL uitry and intcrnal fir111 warc
dcsign ) lHJ won 1 find in a -..cnice manual.
though 1101 all pah:nts arc commerl:iali zcd .
Whar fol 1011 'arc 'omc of till' more i n terc~ ti ng
-..can ncr patenb from tht: 19 70s.

on th..: front panel.

I June 1972, Frequency-Skipping
System for a Signal-Seeking Receiver

I111azeki s second idea was for a way of

bypassing channels without wasting time processing them while scanning. A s imple chan nel lockout scheme. as used in the Heath kit
GR- 110. was merely to deactivate the crystal
using a -.w itch. but the scanner would spend as
muc h time sampling a lucked out channel as it
would an enabled channel.
Though it"s difficult to believe, earl y scanne rs ..:ither had no channel loc kout, or wou ld
permit locking out only one channel (e.g.,
Midland 13-90-l. Sonar 25 14)! lmazeki allocated a lockout switch for eac h channel so any
one or more chan nels could be skipped. Patent
3794925 was assigned to GRE in 1974.
I September 197 3, Programmable
Signal Seeking Radio Receiver

John Brown and Anisur Khan applied for a

patent to cover an early programmable three
band scan ner. The design used a phase lock
June 1972, Priority-Frequency System
loopsynthes izcr whose freq uencies were "'profor a Signal-Seeking Receiver
gram111cd"" by configuring the diodes within a
large diode matrix. The same diode mat ri x
K ~11uyos h i Imazeki. of Tokyo. devised two
also rnntaincd band information for switch...canncr inn ovations and applied for two pating various front e nds.
e nt s simultancous ly.
A s ing le antenna was
First. hc in wnted a priused for reception on
ori!) '-Ca ll ci rcuit for
all band-..
crystal control led -..canBrown and Khan
ners. Jfr, dc-..ign uses
w..:re awarded US
an a ~t a bk sw itching
patent 4000468. whi ch
cirrnit. (an o-..c illator)
was ass igned to Teabto periodically ovcr.
erry E l ec t ronic ~ Corp .
ridc th..: 'l<Jllning L'i rin 1976. Teaberry of

cu it to tune the rcc..:ivcr

fered crystal control led
to a priori ty cha11 11..:I.
sca nners. but I don "t
Thcprimity d1anncl in Top: Radio Siwek (GJ(E) Patrolman l'R0know or any sy nthcI 111azcki s scan ner was 88 with priority clu11111e/ selector switch.
-;izcd Tcaherry scan... ..:l..:ct..:d by a rotary Bollom : Tennelec MCP- 1, co11trolled by a
n..:rs offe red com111cr-.,\\'itch.
Cl'U and programmed 11ia f111/ n11111eric
y.
ciall
I ma1.d i " work r..:- keypad (photo by Pam l'arnas.v N9H RZJ
s u Itcd in pat..: nt
:ixo191-l. a ...-.. ign..:d to GRE(Gencral Research March 1974, Crystalless Scanning
Radio Receiver
uf Ek ctrnn ic.,) in 197-l. GRE made seve ral
~c ann ..: r~ for Rad io Shack and the Patrolman
Patent 396 126 1cover., a ~yn th ..:sized scanPR0-88 111udcl i ll u-..tratc~ thc priority kalllrc-..
ner which could be program med through fron t
in thi s pate nt. Th..: PR0-88 i... o ne or the few
pane l sw itch..:s. Peter Pllaster..:r was the in models with a priurity channcl se lector -.witch
ventor and Tcnnelec. Inc .. the assignee.

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Plla~tcrcr s scanner was a I 6channel multiband design. Th..: user programmed sy nthe-.. izer data for eac h freq uency into a RAM in
binary usi ng two keys (for 0 and I re spective ly). Li ke earlier crystal scanners. each
channel had a lamp which lit when the recci1er wa-.. tuned to that channel. The sa me
lamps were used to indicate the binary code-.
whi le programmi ng.
The 150 - 170 and 450 - .no MHz band~
were con vertcd down to a tunable IF of 30 - 50
MHz. Each front end used a ~cpara t e antenna.
Many of th..: ideas in th i-.. patent were ..: mbodied in the Tennekc Memoryscan MS2.

I May 197 5, Crystalless Scanning

Radio Receiver Controlled by
Processing Means

This patent improved upon the scanner

d..:scribed above. Pflasterer added a full nu111..:ric key pad and display and con trolkd them
usi ng a CPU. Tcnnclcc. Inc .. was assigned
patent 39626-l-l a year later and developed the
M cmory~ca n MCP I model.
I May 1975, Tunable Scanning Radio
Receiver

Scanner radios up unt il thi s time used either cry~ tal ~ o r a phase lock loop synthesiz..:r
to determine freque ncies. Raymond Hanson
had a differe nt. lower cost idea. He pate nted a
r..:cciver d..: ~ign in which each frequc ncy was
determi n..:d hy the voltage applied toa varactor
diode. A varactor diode is a type of diode
whose capacitance can be varied by applying.
a variable vo ltage across it. Each channel in
Hanson' s scanner had its ow n potentiometer
\\ hich had to be adjus ted to provide th..: appropriate voltage to the varactor. The scanner
included conventiona l circui try fo r tunin g th..:
commercial AM and FM broadcast bands. as
we ll.
Patent -10 I 15 15 was assig ned to Ge neral
Ekctric in 1977. which offered the Surveyor
model.
I June 1976, Frequency Synthesized
Scanner Having Conductive
Programming Elements for Channel
Selection

Ric hard Koc h devised th..: idea of us ing

Tup: Regency WHAM0- 10. programmed

using m etal combs. Bollom: Ten nelec 1\tfS-2.
programmed using binary codes entered
through the 0 and I keys (photo by Pam
Pama.1.1 N9HRZ)

aluminum combs to program a ~ynthes i zed

scanner. T he brittle metal teeth we re broken
accord ing Lo a binary code. then the user
inserted the comb into a socket. US Patent
4057760 was assigned to Regency Electronics ;ind is best illustrated by the WH/\MO 10
scanner.

I July 1976, Channel Selector for a

Scanning Monitor Receiver
Craig Corporation's Marshall Brown proposed a scanner design in which cach channel
had a switch wi th three posi tions: sca n. bypass. and selec t. Previous models used 2position switches to permit bypassing channel s while scanning. The select position in
Brown' s scheme all owed the user to designate a subgroup. or bank. of channel s. An
additional Selector switch all ows the use r
th ree choices: scan all chan nels. scan all nonbypassed channels. or scan only selected c hannels.
Brown' s design included an internal. two
speed. scan speed control. The chan nel selector circuitry activated a higher scan speed
when skipping over a bypassed or nonse lectcd
channel. increasing the effecti ve overall scan
rate. Brown s patent.-l063 I79. was granted in
December 1977.

ning or stopping prematu rely while searching.

The inve ntion used a "window detc<.:tor"
circuit to moni tor the discriminator current.
The window detector output was a digital
signal which ind icated whether or not the
reccivcr was tuned ''c lose enough ... wit hin
preset li rn its. toasignal' scenterfreq uency. It
wa:-. more accurate than earlier schemes. wh ich
relied on signal 'trength measurement for
tuning.
Patent 4245348 was g ranted in January
1981 . Window detector c ircuitry is found in
most GRE-manufacturcd Radio Shack :-.canner,. as well as Bearcat models.

July 1977, Scanning Receiver

Joseph Yiu. Jeffrey Lea. and Roy Holmes
patented a scheme whic h al lowed channels to
be lockt:d out from sca nning wi thout the
expense of providing a separate lockout switch
for e;1ch channel. T ht:ir idea used a R/\M to
keep track of which c hannels we re to be
bypassed. A user could designate a chann el to
lock out by stepping the scan ner to the de,i rcd channel and flicki ng a switch. wh ich
would set a bi t for that channel in the RAM.
The idea was appli cable to both sy nthesized and crystal cont rolled scanners. Patent
-1-187-1-6-l wa ~ a'signt:d to Hy-Gain de Puerto
Rico. Inc .. in February 1980.

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Two /~'/ectra scanners f eaturing ser11ice

search. BC20/20 lop, BC-300 bottom (photo
by Pam Pamass N9HRZ)

I May 1977, Center Frequency Tuning

System for Radio-Frequency Signal
Receiver

I April 1979, Processor Controlled,

Service Selecting, AM/FM Scanning
Radio Receiver

A receiver should be tuned as close as

possi ble to the ce nter frcquem:y of the de:-.ired
station for best reception wi th min imum noise.
Kazuyoshi lmazeki of GRE de vised a new
ci rcuit which provided a gat in g signa l when a
receiver was tuned to the center frcquency of
a selected signal. It preve nted a scanner from
stopping on off-frequency signals whi le scan -

I mentioned thi s pate nt in the Jul y 1996

colu mn. Wi II iam Baker of the Masco Corporation applied for a patent coveri ng a St:rvice
Search feat ure. Baker invented a better way
to scan signals in police. tire. or ot her service:-. than merely st:arching betwt:en two
frequency limits. Allocations for a gin!n 'ervict: arc often intermixed with frequencic, of
othe r services. Further, Baker po inted ou t

that serv ices. e.g. aircraft and fire, may use

different emission modes and require activating dil'fcrent detector circui t' with th e same
receiver.
Baker" s scanner wa~ preprogrammed \\ ith
frequencies based on FCC and federal hand
plans. T he preprogra mmed l'requencies cou ld
be subdiv ided into categories. e.g .. pol ice. fire.
etc. US patent -l.270.217 wa-; assigned in 1981
to Masco. which owned Electra. maker of the
Bearcat scan ner Ii ne. Electra embodied Baker'
Service Search concepts in the ir BC220 and
B C~OO models.

I How to Obtain Copies of Patents

Scanner patents arc often several pages
long and contain drawings. block diagrams.
and circ uit schematics. T he patent de,cription
exp lains the invention in detail. and i:-. a good
way to learn ho\\. 'can ner' really work. This is
especially true of modi:rn scanner:-. which
employ large ~c alc proces\or ICs.
Ir you want to undi.:rstand the sq ue lc h a lgorith11111sed in the Uniden/Bearcat BC9000XLT.
for example. you can glean much more information studying the rclc1ant patent!'> than by
reading the Unidt:n sen ice manual. I will
discuss other scanner patents in fu tun: columns.
Printed copies of US patent:-. may be purcha:-.ed for SJ each. but you must know the
patent number. Cred it card orders arc taken
over the te lephone by the Assistant Commissioner for Patents at (703)~05-4350. /\ltcrnatively. you can mail a check or money order.
made payable to The Assi~tant Commi~sionn
for Patents" to:
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Washington. DC 2023 I
For more informat ion about thi.: US l'atcnt
and Trademark Office. call their automated
information mc~ sagc sy. tern toll-free at
(800)786-9199.
If you have I nternct and WWW access. you
can searc h a paten t database and view port ions
of patents at no charge by u"ing the IRM patent
~crve r at www. patent.wom plex.ibm.com.

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ANTENNA TOPICS
BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS

Clem Small, KR6A

Antenna Resonance

asl mon1h. in an''' cri ng my own Radio Riddk. 1 matk thc 'latemcnt 1 ~1at
.. Any antenna 1s rL'Sonant at .10111e lrequency or frcquenc ies. 1' ho uld ha ve 1hough1
it out mun; full y before I wro1e thal. Sumc of
the oncs which I menlioncd a' non-re,o nanl
antenna' ac1uall y don 1 have any rc,onant
freq uency.
Let' s 'ce what makes 1n antenna re,ona nl ,
and then sce why 'ome arc nol re,onant al any
frequency.
I A Simplified Model

Just whal cau,es re,onancc in an anlcnna is

not obviou' nor simple. Nevenhelcss. r II
o ffer a si mplified explanation here that wi ll
give us '0111e insigh1 inlo anle nna function.
When a passi ng radio wave encoun1crs a
dipole an1enna ii causes current to flow in thc
antenna. If 1hc antenna is half a wavele ngth
long. a' 111any antennas arc. 1he electrons
comprisi ng lhal currenl travel to one end of
the conductor umil they can go no farther. and
are 1hen n.:lkcted back in 1he direction from
which I hey came. Thi s changes the current s
relationship to the RF ' ignal which c<1used i1.
such 1hal the 1wo are no longer .. in step: We
would say tha1 thcy me .. oul of phase .. by 180
degree,.
Howe ver. 1raveling un in 1his reverse dircctiun. the currenl will eventuall y encounter
lhc conduc1rn"' 01her end where it is again
reflected and it shifts in pha:>e <1gai n by another 180 degrees. The two rl!flection' have
given the current <1 total uf a 360 deg ree phase
sh if1. which equals o ne co111plcte cycle. The
current is also in phase with the next e111.:rgy
arri\ ing from the !>ame snun;e which caused
the initial c urrcnt. Morc on the importance of
thi s later.
Con, ider now that as the cu rro.: nt L:onl inue'
on down lhe wi re and pa,se' 1he poinl where
it first startcd. its total travel will have been
twice thc full le ng1h of the \I ire. Thi' 1ravcl.
two hal lwa\ cs. repre,cnls a 360 degn.:c (one
full w<1vc lc ng1h or cycle) pha'e shift which
agai n will 111>1 put this orig i11a l current oul of
phase wi1 h the incomi ng energy from next
cycle in thc rccei ved wave. Thus. a' the current which ha, bcen c irculaling in the antenna
starts <1 new round-trip jourm:y along the wire~
length , it is exactly in-phase with any new

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currelll wh ich will be induced in the <1111enna

by a con tinuing input from the same signal
source whi ch initial ly slarted the ci rculati ng
curn.: nt fl owing.
Di fferenl c urrents which are in-pha'e combine to produce a 'trunger signal level than
each in<li vi<lu<.11 current c.:ould producc by itself. In a mrn -rcsonant antenna, current caused
by 1h..: incoming wave <1nd the antenna current
alrcad y received from ..:arlier portions uf that
wan: (c irculating curr..:nt) aren' t nc ces~a ri ly
in pha,e: some cancellation usually occurs
between the two. Th is is one re<1son why
signal strenglh is greater in a resonant an tenna
than in a non-resonalll anten na.
The above expla11<1tion i' simplilicd. but it
gets the basic idea acros~: If the an1enna is
constructed such that circulating current induced by a pass ing wav..: stays in phase with
later inslances of current induced by the same
signal. lhen the an tenna i' resonant.
So Aren't All Antennas Resonant?

The antennas mentioned last month as being non- reson<.1111 werc the c lass ic non -resonant V. nun-resona111 rhombic, and !he Beverage. Con trary lo my statement that .. Any antcnn<.1 is rt:,onant at some frequency: these
a111enna;. - when terminated to ground by
resistor;. at one end - have no reso na111 frequency in the sense we use it here. They act
more like a transmission line in which signals

from the direction of max imum ante nna response induce c urrent which nows from the
antenna to the feed linc and on to the receiver.
Signals from the opposite directio n induce
currents which now from the antenna to ground
through the grounding resistor,. There is essentiall y no ci rculating current to he either inphasc or out of phase with incoming cun-ent.
and resonance is not possible.
Want to Make a Resonant Antenna?

The halfwave folded dipole antenna is

somcwhat different from a simple halfwave
dipole. Although it funct ions as two straight
dipole eleme nts connected in paralle l. it looks
a bit like a skinn y loop. and it covers a greater
band width than a simple dipole. Let's make
one.
I. Cut a piece of 300-ohm T V twinlead
the length of the antcnn<.1 shown in fig. I. The
tolal length of the antenna should be 468/
freque ncy (MHz). Thus a I0 MHz antenna
would be 468110 or -16.8 feet long. In the
metric system use 143/frequcncy (MHz). A
I0 MHz antenna would be 14 .3 meters long.
2. Tri m bare about 1/2 in of insulation
from e<1ch wire at one end of the twin lead.
Separate the two wires at this end so that you
can put one of the separated ends th rough an
insulator. Twist the bare end of this wire
together wi th the bare end of the other wire.

FIGURE 1. A folded-dipole antenna showing connections f or either a coax or twinlead

lead-in.
" -- - - -- - -- -- - - ANTENNA LENGTH

\ INSULATOR

ROPE

COAX TO RECEIVER

- - - -- -- - -- ---"1
INSULATOR

/
ROPE

This will form a loop through the insul ator.

Solder the two ends together. Do the same to
the other end of the twinlead with a different
insulator.
3. At the exact center of the antenna cut
only one of its two wires. Trim insulation
from the ends of this clipped wire fo r about I/
2 in. This is the point to attach eithera twin lead
feedline or a 4 to I balun for a coax feedline.
4. If your lead-in cable must be long (say
I00 ft or over for HF. 50 ft or over for VHF and
higher) you may want to use twinlead as your
lead-in for its low-loss characteristics. You
can the n use a 4 to I balun at the receiver end
of the lead-in with its low-impedance winding
connec ted to your receiver, and high impedance winding to the feed line (see fig. I). If you
use a balun at the antenna feed point you can
connect the hi gh impedance winding to the
antenna feedpoint. and the low-impedance
winding to the coax feedline (fig. I). Attach
the othe r end of the coax directly to the receiver.
5. Install the antenna as high and in-theclear as practical, never near power lines.
6. Remember to provide lightning-induced damage protection. Minimum here is
never use the antenna in lightning weather,
and disconnect and ground the antenna when
not in use.

field is created by the next cycle of RF which

is beginning to energize the antenna. Just as
the first field did, this new field moves out
from the antenna at the speed of light. Of
course the returning field wi ll meet thi s newly
created field coming towards it. The interaction between these fields when they meet is
such that the returning fie ld is repelled outward (launched) away from the antenna by the
new field.
Of course the antenna s changing electrical current produces a magnetic field. and so
there is a magnetic field associated with the
electric wave. Once launched, these two fields
travel (propagate) together through space, and
are what we know as electromagnetic waves,
or rad io waves.

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by the transmitter charges the capacity of the
antenna. This charge will discharge through
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As this c urrent nows, an electric field is
created around the antenna. The field so created moves from the antenna outward at the
speed of light. This field attempts to return to
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Rochester Amateur Radio Association I Rochester Hamfest and

Computer Show/ Information: 716-424-7184, Ticket Information: 716671 -4430 I Location: Monroe County Fairgrounds, Route 15A, Rochester,
NY. Talk-in 145.28/88.
Livermore ARK I Noel Anklam, KC6QZK, 510-4473857
Montreal ARC I Gerald Philips, VE2XGP, 514-683-6469
Newington AR League I Fred Jarvis, N1KWJ, 860666-1952
Starved Rock Radio Club I Debbie Burton, N9DRU, 815-795-2201
Chelsea ARC I 20th Annual Swap and Shop I K. Alan Robbins, KBSVCK,
3800 Hooker Rd, Pinckney, Ml 48169, 313-878-0363 / Location: Chelsea
Fairgrounds, Chelsea, Ml. Gates open Sam.
Hall of Science ARC I Arnie Schiffman, WB2YXB, 718-343-0172 /
Location: New York Hall of Science parking lot, Flushing Meadow Park,
47-01 11 l th Street, Queens, NY. Talk-in 444.200 WB2ZZO Repeat
146.52 Simplex. 9am - 3pm $5 admission.
Breezeshooters ARC I George Artnak, N3FXW, 412-854-5593
Ole Virginia Hams I Mary Lou Blasdell, KB4EFP, 703-369-28n
Texas State Convention (Ham-Com '97) I Tom Gentry, K5VOU, 972-4421721, Fax: 972-442-3609, http://www.hamcom.org
Guelph & Kitchener-Waterloo ARCs I Bill Smith, VE3WHS, 519-8216642, E-mail: [email protected]
Independent Repeater Association/ IRA Info Line: 616-534-6803
Twinslan ARC I Shep Shepardson, NONMZ, 6 12-633-8135
Conn. Valley FM Association I Conrad Ekstrom, WB1GXM, 603-5431389
Bergen ARA I Jim Joyce, K2ZO, 201-664-6725
Champlain Valley ARC I Chuck Orem, KD2AJ, 518-563-6851
Maple Ridge ARC I MRARC, Nick, VE7FYT, 604-463-9476
Egyptian RC I Bill Dusenbery, N900K, 618-396-1456
Six Meter Club of Chicago I Joseph Gutwein, WA9RIJ, 630-963-4922
Wabash County ARC I Don Spangler, W9HNO, 2 t 9-5635564
Northern Kentucky ARC I Robert Blocher, NSJMV, 513-797-7252
Long Island Mobile ARC / Rich Settzer, N2WJL, 516-481-8263
Lancaster ARC I Charles Koester, WD2AIK, 716-937-3592
Charlotte ARC I Daryl Sampson, KM4GO, 704-522-4971 (Ext. 3330)
Goodyear ARC I Ken Phillips, K8CHE, 330-733-5795
Central Wisconsin Radio Amateurs I John Feltz, WA9LWJ, 715-457-2506
Georgia Section Convention I Arthur Shipley, N4GPJ, 912-439-7055 or
912-439-2351 (Ext. 15), E-mail: [email protected]
Central Alberta Radio League I Bob King, VE6BLD, 403-782-3438
Northwestern Division Convention I Randy Stimson, KZ7T, 503-297-1175
Ft. McCoy Amateur Radio Operators I Bob Dary, K4VDX, 352-694-6160
Paducah ARA I Craig Martindale, WA4WBU, 502-444-6822 or 502-4433860
Pine State ARC I Roger Dole, KA1TKS, 207-848-3846
Midland ARC I Jeff Weinberg, W8CQ, 517-839-9371 or 517-636-0643
Skyline ARC I Andrew Slaugh, KB2LUV, 607-753-0597
Forsyth ARC /Tierney "Sparky" Ramey, KE4TES, 910-777-0381
Northern lights AR Group I Stacey Hanrahan
Maple Valley ARC I MVARC, PO Box 488, Maple Valley, WA 98038
Satellite ARC I Eric Lemmon, WB6FLY, 805-733-4416, Fax: 805-733
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Lake County ARC I Malcolm Lunsford, WN9l, 2 19-769-3925
Frederick ARC I Eric Gammeter, N8AAY, 301-865-0865
MIT RS & Harvard Wireless Club I Steve Finberg, W1 GSL or Nick
Aftenbemd, KA 1MOX, 617 -253-3n6
Monroe County Radio Communications Assn. I Fred VanDaele, KABEBI,
313-242-9487 / location: Monroe County Fairgrounds, M-50 at
Raisinville Rd (about 2 miles west of Monroe). Talk-In 146.72112. 7:30am
- 1 :OOpm. $5 at the gate.
Cuyahoga AAS I Rich James, N8FIL, 216-468-2035 or 800-404-2282
East River ARC I Don Williams, WA4K, 540-326-3338, Fax: 540-3222282
Southern Berkshire ARC I Bob Schoenfeld, KA tARR, 4 13-229-8695
Ozone & Pearl River County ARCs I Ronald Riviere, WB5CXJ, 504-8825067
Raritan Valley RC I Robert W. Pearson, WB2CVL. 908-846-2056 or John
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KC2NB, 908-873-2198 / Location: Columbia Park. near intersection of
Route 529 and 28. Talk-in 146.625(r) 447.250(4) tone 14 1.3, 146.520(s).
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Milford ARC I Chris Reinfelder, KBSSNH, 5 13-753-5066
Tri -County ARC & Northumberland Amateur Repeater Assn. I Pete,
VA3PGB, 613-473-1171 or Richard, VE3BZY, 613-473-2665
Hanover Area Hamming Assn. I Pleasant Hill Amateur Radio and
Computer Show I Wayne Leister, N 3MTR, 4 10-239-8451 /Location:
Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department, about 5 miles south of Hanover,
PA on PA 94. Talk-in 146.895. Sam - ?
Georgia State Convention I William R. Bass, W4LFC, n0-493-8438
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North American Club Listings B- D

Bay Area Scanner Enthusiasts: Bruce Ames,
P.A.O., 105 Serra Way #363, Milpitas, CA 95035,
(408)267-3244. Western U.S.; 25+ MHz. Listening
Post (bi-monthly). Meets 2nd Mons. 7:30 Milpitas
Police Admin Bldg. $25 US, $2 sample, or SASE
for info.
Bayonne Emergency Radio Network (BERN):
Ray Baron/Bob Frasca, P.O. Box 1203, Bayonne,
NJ 07002-6203, 1-800286-2876. Metro NJ, NY;
Fire/disaster, pub safety.
Boston Area DXers: Paul Graveline, 9 Stirling St.,
Andover, MA 018 10- 1408, (508)470- 1971, 50 mile
radius Boston; 3-30 MHz. Meets 3rd Fris 7:30pm,
The Lexington Club, Route 4/225 1/4 mi W of Rte
128.
Canad ian lnt'I DX Club: Sheldon Harvey, 79
Kipps St., Greenfield Park., Quebec, Canada J4V
3B1 , (514)462-1459, (514)671-3775 fax. Canada
nationwide/membership open to all; General
coverage. The Messenger. $28 Can, $25 US,
$US30 or $Can38 ww. $2 sample. Meets 2nd
Tues 7pm Montreal; several annual events.
Capitol Hiii Monitors: Alan Henney, 69 12 Prince
Georges Ave, Takoma Park, MD 20912-541 4,
(301 ) 270-2531/5774 fax. DC, MD, No.VA, So.DE.
Scanner bands. Frequency Forum BBS 703-2079622 (8-N-1 ) Capitol Hill Monitor. $10. Meets
irregularly.
Central Florida Listeners Group: Mike Twyford
KE40RR, 207 Hill St, Casselberry, Fl 327073424; (407) 695-6529, e-mail
[email protected] Central Florida; All bands.
Net on 146.820 MHz Sun 8 pm. Conference #10
on Laser BBS (407) 647-0031 or Bullwinkle's
Corner BBS (407) 896-5772.
Central Indiana Shortwave Club: Steve
Hammer, 2517 E. DePauw Road, Indianapolis, IN
46227-4404. Central Indiana; SW broadcasting,
pirates, and the offbeat. Shortwave Oddities.
Central VA Radio Enthusiasts: Richard
Rowland, POB 34832, Richmond, VA 23234-0832.
Metro Richmond and vicinity. VHF/UHF. SASE. No
newsletter, no dues. Meets quarterly in Richmond.
Chicago Area DX Club: Edward G. Stroh, 53
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Chicago A rea Radio Monitoring Association
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ASK BOB

ANSWERS TO YOUR RADIO QUESTIONS

Bob Grove, WA4PYQ

[email protected]
Q. I am hearing the same AM
broadcast stations in several spots
on my receiver's dial; how can I
tell if these are images or
intermodulation? {Jonathan
Mu/care, Ellijay, GA)

A. If both stations an.: di splaced from the ir

repeat frequencies by the same amount. say
910 kHz (typical in receivers with a 455
kHz inte rmed iate frcqlll:ncy). then it is image interfcn:ncc prod uced by the receiver
IF ~age. More likely. you arc hearing
intermod produced by ~tro n g signal overload. either in the receiver or generated by
nearby metallic junctions like rusty guttering or ekctric wiring which radiates mul -

Bob's Tip of
the Month
Simple Stand
for Portable
Radios and
Scanners
Long-time MT reader Tom Welch
was looking for a way to pro p up his
Sangean portable. when he came across
a plastic tray for holding 3-1 /2" computerdiskettes. After removi ng the di sk
holder portion from the li d and placi ng
the holder o n a table at its natural tilt, he
fo und that it held his radio at a perfect
viewing angle.
Hand-held scanners can undoubtedly be stabil ized by the same method.
using similar, inexpensive, plastic utility trays ava ilable from the e lectronics
sections of di scount sto res. Thanks.
Tom.

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tiple products of the signab. You can determine if th is is the case.

Using a length of win: for a makeshift
antenna. assu ming you still have the interference. take the recei ver and the antenna to
another house down the street and listen there:
if you stil l have the interfen.:nce. it is caused
hy the receiver.
You ca n tell if the receiver is suffering
from intermod by installing an attenuator (or.
if your receiver has a built -in attenuator.
::.witching it on): intcrmod rcdm:cs much faster
than the actual signal. For example. if you
install a IOd B attenuator. the S metcnhould
drop IO dB on the signal ~tn.: ngth: if one of the
spurious signals goes down by much more
than 10 dB. it's inte rmod.
If you can borrow another model of a high
qualit y receiver. you could try it on your
antenna to see if you get the same interference. ~amc strength . This may indicate that
the t ran~mitter itself is "dirty." radiating ~ pu
rious sig nals into the airwaves.
Finall y. harmon ics of stations will always
be whole-n um ber multiple~ of the original
freqL11.:ncy: in other word ~. if a 600 kHz broadcas ter is radiating harmonics. you wi ll here
them on 1200 kH1.. 1800 kHz. and so on.
dim in i~hing in strength with the higher freq uenc ies.

What frequency is used for

"AirMedia Live" broadcasts to
personal wireless receivers of latebreaking news, sports, financial
reports, and personal e-mail?
(Name withheld)
Q.

A. Accordi ng to Ai rM ed ia, the transmissions

arc made over PageNet"s nationwide digital
paging network. For more information. visit
Ai r Med i a~ web site at www.airmedia.com.
On what frequency was the SOS
sent by the Titanic? {Numerous

Q.

inquiries)
A. 25-year-old

radioman Jack Phillips sent

th i' emergency mes,age Apri I 15. 19 12. on
the mari time distress frequency 500 kH1.:
"CQD DE MGY." which means. "All ships.
we arc in distress and requi re immcdiate ass istance: thi-> i' the Titanic."

Now that the medium wave

broadcast band has been extended
to 1705 kHz, can present day
radios by modified to cover that
extra 100 kHz? (R.H. McMinn,
Whittier, CA)

Q.

Q . Despite ads and reviews, I still

cannot figure out what advantage to
a monitoring station a frequency
A. Not ifthe radio i~ 'ynthe!.ized (step tuned).
a' vi rtuall y all automoti ve radios are. Noncounter is. It displays an active
frequ ency, but so does my scanner, syn thesized. continuously-tunable radios can
and from much farther away. Some be extended. however. by merely adju~t in g
o~ci llator and RF ampl ifier trimmer cacounters will store those frequencies , the
pacitors on the back of the tuni ng capacitor.
but so will my scanner. And I can
actually hear signals on my scanner.
Am I missing something? {Fred
Q. While listening recently to EMS
Pierce}
communications on 463 MHz, I
could clearly hear the hospital, but
A. You arent missing a thing. Frequency not a nearby mobile unit. Do they
counters add absolutely nothing to a moni toruse some type of encrypted system?
ing pmt. Their low scn:;iti vity makt:s them
{Tom
Whitmore, San Antonio, TX)
useful o nl y to nearby s i g n al~. they have no
selectivity. so you can' t choose whi ch ~ignal
you re 111easuri ng. and they don t have detectors so you can't hear the co nt e nt ~ of the
tran!.mis~ion.

The singular advantage of a frequency

coun ter is that if there is an cmi~s i on from a
near-field transmitter. the freque ncy will be
revealed instantly. w h crea~ a ~ca nner would
have to search for the signal.

A. There arc ten UHF channels used for

ambulance/hospital communications. The hospi tab tran,mit in the 463 MHz b;111d while the
ambu lances respond 5 MHzhigher(468 MHz).
They may or may not use repeaters (their
option) which might account for your not
hearing the 468 MH1. ambu lances.

Q. While tuning the shortwave

bands, I frequently receive telephone conversations on or around

6950 kHz. The signal sounds like
FM; I can hear both sides of the
conversation, and it originates from
my own telephone system! What
causes this? (Jeff Wayne, North
Haven, CT)

A. Over the last several years I' ve had occasional reports similar to yours. Jeff. My guess
is that your phone has a microprocessor in it.
and the ti me base oscillator is being modulated by voltage fluctuations produced by the
voices. This would produce an FM signal.

Q . Are the miniature satellite dishes

on ma;or gas stations and fast food

restaurants used to receive "orders
from headquarters?" (Mike Elcsisin,
Lake Berryessa, CA)

A.

These ve ry small aperture terminals

(YSATs) are used to relay in ventory and sales
reports lo administrative headquarters of the
chains. AT&T, General Motors, and many
other super-magnates use them to send their
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
Alpha Delta ...................... ......... 7, 15

Q. Many mobile two-way radio

operators have a scanner in their

vehicles as well. What prevents the
transmitted signal from overpowering the scanner through the ad;acent whip and causing damage?
(Fred Pierce}

Antique Radio Classified ...... ..... ... .. . 69

Arcron Zeit .... .... ...... .... .. ... ............. 65
Atlantic Ham Radio ..... ............ ....... 73
Communications Electronics ............... 3
Computer Aided Technologies ... 90, 91
Davis Instruments ............ .. ..... ... ..... . 97
Delta Research ............. .. ....... .... ..... 67

A. Nothing except good scanner design wi th

diode-protected fro nt ends. I have a 50 watt
Icom transceiver and a scanner in my vehick ;
their wh ips are separated by about three feet.
Our local law enforcement offi cers have a
similar installation along with their I 00 watt
mobiles. None of us have experienced damage to our scanners. But, if you wish. you can
make a nifty liltle overload protection device
th at is virtuall y foolproof.
Simply mount two antenna connectors on
a small metal box, and solder their ct!nter pins
together. Next solder two small-signal diodes
( 1N9 I4. 1N4 148 or similar. available rrom
Radio Shack) from center pin to frame. but
cross-polarized. Thal is. connect the ca thode
(+) of one diode to the cente r pin, but the
anode (-)of the other 10 the center pin. and the
other two leads to the metal box. This will
short-circuit excessive signal voltage harmlessly lo ground. while having no effect on
overall perfo rmance of the scannt:r.

Drake, R.l. Company .. .... ............... 21

DX Computing ........... .... ... ..... ........ 56
Electronics Equipment Bank ............. 27
Erie Aviation ............ ........ .. ........ .... 97
Future Scanning Systems ....... .......... 83
Glenn Hauser ............ .... ... ............. 39
Grove Enterprises ....... 45, 77, 99, 101
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ICOM ....... ...... .... .......... ........ Cover Ill

Index Publishing ............ ................. 77
lrdial Discs ... ....... ........ ........... .... .... 25
Jacques d'Avignon ...... ....... ...... .. .. .. 46
JPS Communications ....... ... .. .... .... ... 85
KIWA Electronics ... .......... ....... . 69, 85
Klingenfuss ............. .. ........ ...... ....... 67
Lentini Commun ications .. ... ....... ....... 67
Monitoring Times .... .. ......... .... .. .... 103
Motron Electronics ...... .. ... ............ ... 83

Research Help Needed

Na tional Scanning Report ............... 31

OptoElectronics .................. Cover II, IV

November 30, 1997, will mark the

I 0th anni versary since former Soviet
Union stoppedjammingofWestern rad io
broadcasts. Rimantas Pleikys, Lithuanian
Min ister of Telecommunications and
Informatics, is writing a booklet for that
occasion. The bookle t will contain a review of the history of jamming, its techniques etc. The booklet will be published
in English.
ANY information aboutjammers with
ID signals I D, I G, 4F, 4N. 7K, 7M , 8A.
8L, which jammed Polish broadcasts oi
Radio Free Europe is appre1.:iated. For a
list or more specific questions, or to forward any information or names of recommended contact persons, write to:
Mr. Rimantas Plcikys <ju stasp l @
pu b.os f.l t> o r Mr. S ig itas Z ili o nis
<dx@ is.lt>, Postal: P.d. 985. LT-2300
Vilnius, Lithuania, Fax: +370-26S l092,
+370-25 18246

Palomar Engi neering .. .................... l l

Peet Brothers ....... ... .. ...................... 87
PW Publishing .. ...... .... .... ............... 77
Radiomap ............. .. ...... .... .. .... ...... 95
Radio Progressive ....... .... .... .. ....... ... 87
Ramsey Electronics .. ... ..... .... .. .... ..... 33
R.D.I. White Papers ... ............ ..... .... 93
Reim Communications .... ..... ............ 13
Satellite Times ... .. ... .. .. . .. .. . .. . .. .... . .. l 03
Scanner Master .. .. ... .. .. ..... ... ........... 73
SGC Inc ...... ...... ...... ... ............. ... ... 93
Signal Intelligence .. .... ........... ... .. .... 73
Skyvision .. ... .. .. ...... ............. .. .. ... ... . 81
Universal Radio ............... ..... .... .... .. 75
Viking International .. ..... ... .............. 97
WiNRADIO ........... ..... ... ....... ..... ..... . 5
Worldcom Technology ..... ..... ... ....... 71

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MONITORING TIMES

103

LOSING
OMMENTS

By Bob Grove,

Publisher

The Auctioning of the Capitol

I don t ~ ub:-.L" ri b e to con ~ pi racy theori es: usually.
tht.:y appear to me to bl' O\'Crsim plifil'ations by the
brnin-deacl . fodder for paranoids. The ge neral rationail' seems to be. " If it treads on my real or imaginary
rig ht:-.. it must be a L"onspi racy ... But let's add a liule
fud to the fire.
Privileged relati onships between Congressiona l
members and their t.:o n1111crcial sponsors, exhi bited
during th at ~ h a 111 c ful T V display orchestrated by the
House Teb :ommunicat ions Subcommiuee and the
Cell ul ar Telecommuni cat ions Industry Association
and reported in our April issue, should be especially
alarming to conscienable America ns. Whi k we can
vote scoundreb Olll of offi ce every four years. the
electi on o ft en goes to the best-funded new sco undrels. Money owns the polit ical system. and one of
the best sourt.:cs of appa rentl y inex haustablc revenue
is the rad io spectrum.
Keep in mind that the FCC docs not n.:ccivc a
penny of the auction proceeds-these go to the
gem:ral treasury. The poten tial revenue is astronomical. in the hundreds of bi ll ions of do llars. Congress.
at it~ d isrn:ti on. can disburse these fu nds as they sec
fi t. including abusing the privilege wit h sel f-indulgent pork-barrel p rojcl' t ~.
With an incalcu lable cash cow of salable spcctn1111 still waiting. what frcquent:y block wi ll be
next'! The a1natcur rad io spcctru111 has been under
sicgi.: rel'e ntly. wi th kt.:y allocations in the VHF,
UHF. and min owavc ra nges no w being targeted by
land mobile and satelli te se rvices.
Does the FCC actuall y have the right to sell
frequencies'! How do the Internat ional Tek:communirntions Un io n (ITU) and the International Frequency Ri.:gistrat inn Burea u ( LFRB ) feel about American corporati ons owning globall y-shared radi o frcq uen<.: ies? Docs a commercial entit y have the excl u~ivi.: right to own a freq uency? Art er all. a rrequent:y
i ~ nnt tang ihll' prop.:rt y. it i~ a measurement. Can
so111eonc own blue? 98.6 dcgrees1 C sharp minor? 87
ind1cs?

There isconsiclcrablc Congressional acti vity afoot

to aboli sh the FCC and allow anyone to transmit
anywhere on a non-interference basis. How can
manufacturers design equipment witho ut knowi ng
which service. modes. powers. and frequencies will
be needed? Who wi ll reconcile disputes? Who will
set standards? How will interference complaints be
handled? What enfo rcement will be needed. and by
whom?
Recentl y a set of reg ulatory guidelines fo r industry was established by the FCC requiring amateur
radio statio ns to 111easure their RF exposure levels.
Naturally. amateurs arc ill prepared to make those
measurements, so Congress ha ~ a new ex pedient to
close any service which may bi..: deemed "hazardous
to your health." What is the true motivatio n here. a
concern fo r enviro nme ntal hazard. or a chance to
make a buck sell ing confisca ted spectru m?
I Selling Spectrum: Selling Out

Does our po liti<.: al system breed the incestuous

pandering we are witnessing with growing regul arity? At the last election. several freshman candidates
annou nced their withdrawal from re-election. disillusioned with the corrupt system. The cost of power
is staggeri ng. Can any elected representati ve afford
to maintain his integri ty and still keep his seat?
Consumer ad vocates like Common Cause continue to hammer at the electo ra l system. Congressional representati ves carry the banner when it is
politicall y ex pedient . but efforts toward campaign
financing reform arc defeated with disappoin ting
regulari ty. History offers lillle reassurance. since
many of today's offenses were yesterday's reforms.
One has to wonder if there is any way to break the
self-perpetuati ng cycle of mutual back-scratching
that is Washington. Our prec ious radio spectrum is
only the latest victim on which these parasi tes have
decided to "capitolize ... As long as they see green.
chances arc they' ll suck it dry. Short of using bucks
for ballots. is there anything we can do about it?

(161

104

MONITORING TIMES

June 1997

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