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by William Pell
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Beckoning Beacons
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by Joe Woodlock
Exotic South Sea and South American beacons call to us from distant points as the low band
DXing season opens.
by Donald Kreis
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Allan Weiner is just the sort of person George Bush warned you about -- a tro uble- maker, a
liberal, and the chief perpetrator of Radio New York Inte rnational. His story has been told from the
New York Post to The Village Voice ... and now in Monitoring Times.
How did he get started on this path? Just exactly what happened, and where's he headed now?
Says Kreis, he may have peace and understanding in his head, but Weiner's feet are firm ly p lanted
on the soil of capitalism. Whethe r in Appeals Court or on a new shortwave station, we'll be hearing
from Weiner again!
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Monitoring the Crash of
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by Everett Slosman
October 1989
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cameras scan the shoreline while people with portable communication units
randomly stroll the compound occasionally talking into their units.
Protecting the seaward side is PSD's responsibility. Lt. Commander
D onald B. Thompson runs both the PSD and Portsmouth Harbor SAR.
He ca me to the station in May 1989 after a stint as an intelligence officer in
Washington.
PSD enforces a 500 yard "waterborne" security zone around Walker
Point, marked by buoys. It is always there, but only in effect when the
President is at Sea Ledge. Sailors hear a Notice to Mariners on channel
22.A when the zone is activated.
The detachment's coxswains, engineers, and crewmen man standard 41
foot utility boats specifically designed for SAR and law enforcement
missions; stable fair weather platforms equipped fo r towing, first aid, and
firefighti ng.
Before the presidential party arrives, it's a different story. Coast Guard
boats, including 19-foot r ubber-hulled whalers, move along the demarcation
line. A 110-foot Island Class patrol boat, such as the Wrangell, provides
addit ional support. It's here the officer-in-charge of the PSD shift
maintains the security zone command post.
T he patrol boats shift in and out during a PSD mission. Therefore,
du ring a two or three day presidential vacation, several patrol craft may
have a piece of the action. Home ports for these vessels vary, but most are
under the ultimate command of the First Coast Guard D istrict in Boston,
Massachusetts.
There is no interference with boaters outside the zone and vessels are
free lo continue sailing around Cape Arundel as long as they avoid the
zone.
Lobstermen, with permission to work their traps while the President is
at Walker Point, are on an access list. They check in with a patrol boat
when they arrive in the area.
Coast Guardsmen conduct a security sweep on-board the lobster boats
making sure each person is cleared by the Secret Service and not being
coerced. A check is conducted for explosives and other items that could be
a hazard to the President or his family.
T hen the crew is free to enter the zone, work their traps, and come back
out.
When not engaged in activities at Kennebunkport, the unit pulls a
normal two-days-on two-off search and rescue shift at Portsmouth Harbor.
The difference between the unit and other personnel is the duty roster
designat ion that keeps them available fo r a PSD mission.
PSD is made up of personnel from several other duty stations who have
been posted to Portsmouth. This puts a viable unit in place at a single,
convenient location. Many current unit members also patroled Walker
Point when Bush was Vice-President.
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163.0750
163.4875
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164.9625
165.0375
173.5375
173.5625
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156.300
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156.450
156.600
156.450
156.600
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156.650
156.700
156.650
156.700
156.750
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156.800
156.800
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156.850
156.850
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157.000
157.050
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157.150
157.200
157.250
157.300
157.350
157.400
156.275
156.325
156.425
156.475
157.150
157.200
161 .850
161.900
161.950
162.000
156.275
156.325
156.425
156.475
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156.525
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156.625
156.675
156.725
156.925
156.575
156.625
156.675
156.725
156.925
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157.125
157.175
157.225
157.275
157.325
157.375
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Signals from
South America
African beacons seem to be beyond the
range of North America. South American
beacons arc often difficult to catch, but
some do get within our range. Argentina
and mainland C hile a re virtually never
reported. Brazil is far from easy, but here
arc a coup le that have been hea rd in the
US: Santana STN/270 kHz and Tefc
TFE/300 kHz. There are others reported
now and then.
The northern part of South America is
much
more
productive. Georgetown,
Guyana, ha s a beacon, TIM, on 356 kHz.
This has been hea rd fairly often along the
east coast, but is rarely reported further
inland. El Valor Peru (LOR/521) has
been heard in the upper middle west, but ,
certainly, neither easily nor often. The
same can be said for Salinas, Ecuador
(SLS/ 415).
Colombia and Venezuela arc considerably easier 10 log. This doesn't mean yo u
automatically hear them , but you will have a
pretty good chance 10 log the following
beacons when conditi ons arc just right.
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MONITORING TIMES
October 1989
SLI/244
MIQ/292
VUP/325
HOT/353
BGA/400
MTR/260.
RHC/295
TUR/352
SPP/387
17
ALAN WEINER
The Notorious
Radio Pirate
of Monticello,
Maine
by Donald Kreis
The Federal Commu1tications Commission (FCC) hates him, the U.S. Coast Guard
doesn't know what to do about him, and The
Village Voice loves him. The ACLU is
defending him for free, all the way to the U.S.
Supreme Court if necessary.
Allan Weiner has been running afoul of
the law since he was 18 years old. Now 35,
Weiner is still at large in Aroostook County,
Maine.
Not to condescend to stereotyping or
anything like that, but Weiner looks like a
hippie. He sports long, straight, light-brown
hair that reaches below his ears and threatens
to fa ll into his eyes, which arc covered by a
pair of wire-rimmed spectacles. He would
not be out of place at the Common Ground
Fair, but he happens to be sitting in the living
room of his fa ther's garden aparimcnt in
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Oc1ober 1989
Yonkers, New York, with four lanes of CrossWestchester Expressway whizzing away
outside the window, e>..-plaining to a visitor
how a back-to-the-lander from Monticello
(north of Houlton, south of Presque Isle)
could become America's notorious radio
pirate.
Weiner is the chief perpetrator of somethin<T called Radio New York International,
whi~h has twice now sought to light up the
airwaves of the East coast by broadcasting
rock and roll music from off the coast of New
York aboard a rusting, 160-foot former fish ing
(and drug-running) vessel known as the Sarah.
The first time, in July of 1987, the Coast
Guard showed up after three days and
arrested everyone on board. The
second time, in October of 1988, the
Coast Guard showed up after four
days and fired a temporary
restrai ning order across Sarah's
bow. The restraining order has
since become permanent, but
Weiner has a date in August before
the U.S. First Circuit Court of
Appeals.
All of which has both everything
- and nothing - to do with Allan
Weiner's decision to ntigrate from
suburban New York City to
northern Maine in 1971. As an 18year-old recent graduate of Lincoln
High School in Yonkers, just north
of The Bronx, Weiner was already
an avowed radio techie with a
record as a radio pirate.
While other kids were playing
their Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
records, Weiner and 20 "neighborhood friends" were broadcasting
them, without benefit of license
from the FCC, from the basement
of Weiner's parents' home, AM
and FM, no less, in the name of
peace and understanding," Weiner says.
"And of course that was the height of the antiwar movement, so our radio stations were
pretty political."
The local ham radio club just thought we
were communists, literally," he continues.
"And they put pressure on the federa l authorities in New York." So, in August of 1971, at
the ungodly hour of 8 a.m., the doorbell rang
at the Weiner home.
Weiner was arrested, his broadcasting
equipment confiscated, and at age 18 he
ended up with a year's probation and a draft
classification of 1-Y. 'That," he says, "meant
that they wouldn't take me unless there was
nuclear war or something like that. That was
the one good thing about being busted for
free radio."
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October 1989
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Not to be discouraged,
Weiner has big plans for
a worldwide shortwave
station at his farm in
Monticello_
20
October 1989
The 1990
World Radio TV
Handbook
44th Edition
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Officials wanted to
know who had
allowed sightseers
on the runway
Then irritation
turned to elation
as they realized:
There were
survivors!
A Salute to Humankindness
The response shown by our
midwestern community in the nation's
heartla nd shou ld serve as a model for
all communities in the U.S. and the
world. I salute the groups I heard on
the scanner: the brave pilot, Al Haynes,
and his crew who minimized the loss of
life with their great skill, the hospitals,
nurses, doctors, ambulance crews
EMTs, Life Flight crews, Air Na~ional
Guard, police, fire, Highway Patrol,
Sherifrs units, Red Cross, Salvation
Army, Civil Defense, County Disaster
Control, airport staff, tower crew, FAA,
DCI, FBI, local city and state communication operators, news people of the
nation, University of South Dakota
Psychological staff, Briar Cliff Colle"'e
0
and students for shelter and food
public and private security officer~.
These are the people I heard
mentioned on the scanner, and there
were many other volunteers and donors
not mentioned, but whose efforts were
much appreciated.
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October 1989
23
SbortW'ave Broadcasting
Glenn Hauser
Box 1684 - MT
Enid, OK 73702
October 1989
1-;:=================================t
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ShortW'ave Broadcasting
International is still planned to come on in January, with the go_al of
serving Pacific neighbors with programs in their languages and a signal
strong enough to relay. It will be run by a partnership between the
Ministry of External Relations and Trade, and Radio New Zealand,
the latter continuing to be responsible for program content and day-today running of the station, according to a media release. (via F.D.
Trumpy, IA)
PAKISTAN Radio Pakistan in English at 1721 on new 15200.
(Bruce MacGibbon, DX Spread)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA According to a QSLcard, Radio West
Sepik, Vanimo, has been renamed Radio Sandaun, the name of the
province; address is P.O. Box 37. (Eric Swedberg, OR, DX Spread)
3205 kHz.
PERU Radio Vision, Juanjui on new 5457 kHz at 0230. (Gabriel
Ivan Barrera, Radio Nederland Radio-Enlace)
Andean music and IDs measured after 1000 UTC from these
stations: 4820.82 Radio Atahualpa; 4824.50 La Voz de la Selva;
4826.27 Radio Sicuani; 4881.63 Radio Nuevo Mundo; 4910.78 Radio
Tawantinsuyo; 5030.5 variable Radio Los Andes. (Ernie Behr, Ont.
RCI SWLD)
PHILJPPINES FEBC Manila on 15100, opening at 1112 with
interval signal, English ID as "Vietnamese tribal broadcast," religious
program to 1400, next day to 1430. (Ernie Behr, Ont., RCI SWLD)
October
1989
MONITORING TIMES
Broadcast Loggings
Let other readers know what you're enjoying. Send your
loggings to Gayle Van Hom, P.O. Box 1088, Gretna, LA
70053-1088. English broadcast unless otherwise noted.
0000 UTC on 11735
Yugoslavia: Radio Yugoslavia News and commentary, followed by feature
on the church's role In Yugoslavia, and a university for senior citizens.
(Leonard Price. Annandale, VA)
0005 UTC on 4810
South Africa: Radio Orlon. Top 20 Chart music countdown and
commercial !or sleep aid. Station ID/request line phone number. (Bob
Doyle, Shelton, CT) (Harold Frodge, Midland, Ml)
0005 UTC on 4825
Brazil: Radio Cancao Nova. Portuguese. Popular Brazilian tunes and
station ID/frequency schedules. Weak stgnal consistent through
atmospheric static. (Robert Landau, Secaucus, NJ)
0014 UTC on 11685
Czechoslovakia: Radio Prague. Editorial about NATO, and announcer with
program frequency schedule. lnterterence lrom radio-teletype. (Harold
Frodge, Midland, Ml) Monitored at 0100 on 5930 kHz. (Gunter Wurr,
Santos, Brazil) Other freqs to check are 6055, 7345, 9540, 9625 and 11 990
kHz. (Lance Mlcklus. Essex Junction, VT)
0035 UTC on 4915
Brazil: Radio Anhanguera. Portuguese. Frequent IDs and Braz pops to
news at 0100 UTC. Poor signal lighting to get through the static. (Robert
Landau. Secaucus, NJ)
0047 UTC on 4755
Brazil: Radio Educacao Rural. Portuguese. lively pop vocals lrom DJ
format. Accordlan music and news briefs on Brazil. (Frank Hllllon.
Charleston, SC)
0112 UTC on 7415
Pirate: Free Radio One. Feature on the pollllcal aspects ol medicine,
followed by religious music. Statton address, 3434 Pacific Hwy, Medford,
OR 97501. Also noted this station !Ding as "Radio North America One wllh
an 800 phone number and discussions about pollllcal prisoners. Station
audible for several nights. sometimes on 7416 kHz. (Harold Frodge.
Mldland. Ml)
0215 UTC on 11710
USSR: Radio Kiev. "Ukraine Today' program on the Increasing amount ol
train disasters In the USSR. Sports news report and Ukranian lolk music.
Parallel on 11890 kHz. (Robert Hurley, Balttmore, MD) Audible on 7400
KHz at 2330 UTC (Gunter Wurr, Santos, Brazil)
0 229 UTC on 6804
Clandestlne: Radio venceremos. Spanish. Commentary with reference
to El Salvador and pop music. Frequency change of 6808 kHz at 0233
UTC. earlier had found them on 6812 kHz. (Harold Frodge, Midland, Ml)
0230 UTC on 11920
Iraq: Radio Baghdad. Commentary on Lebanese politics and traditional
traql music to 0247 UTC. Letterbag show monitored to 0300 UTC.
(Robert Hurley, Baltimore, MD)
0233 UTC on 9705
Portugal: Radio Portugal. National news and weather forecast to report on
presidential visit to the Azores. (Harold Frodge, Midland, Mt) Audible on
9680 kHz at 2344 UTC. (Robert Hurley, Balllmore, MD)
0241 UTC on 6215 SSB
Pirate: Radio carollne. Noted as being off the coast of Kent, England. DJ
presents pop music program, with only occasional chat. Heavy
lnlerterence for this one tonight. (Harold Frodge, Midland. Ml)
0252 UTC on 9500
Albania: Radio Tirana Feature on Albanian history, anct introducing You
to Albania." (Harold Frodge, Midland, Ml) Monitored on 15115 kHz at
0533 UTC. (Frank Duggan, Pnoenlx. AZ)
0253 UTC on 15455
USSR: Armenia-Radio Yerevan. Discussion on the demand needed !or
qualified workers In Armenia. Broadcast sign-off at 0258 UTC. (Robert
Hurley, Baltimore, MD)
0255 UTC on 15380
Romania: Radio Bucharest. Folk music program and Invitation to DXers to
Join the station's "listener's Club." Spanish programming commencing at
0256 UTC. (Frank Duggan, Phoenix. AZ) Audible on 11940 kHz at 0243
UTC with "Ham Radio Show: (Lance Mlcklus. Essex Junction. VT)
0256 UT C on 9475
Egypt: Radio Cairo. Arabic music program. anthem and world newscast at
0315 UTC. (Harold Frodge, Midland, Ml) Monitored on 15220 kHz at
2355 UTC with Arabic programming. (Frank Duggan, Phoenix. AZ)
0305 UTC on 15280
Bulgaria: Radio Sofia. lnlernatlonal news and edllorlal on changes In the
Chinese communist party leadership. "Viewpoint Sludio" show, and
discussion about Armenian refugees struggle. (Robert Hurley, Baltlmore.
MO) (Jerry Witham. Keaau, Ht)
0400 UTC o n 15485
New Zealand: Radio New Zealand. International and regional news to
station ID. w11n strong clear signal quality. (Jerry Wilham. Keaau. HI)
(Frank Hlllton. Charleston, SC)
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Octol>er 1989
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Utility World
Larry Van Horn
P.O. Box 1088
Gretna, LA 70053-1088
TABLE 1
Military Op Areas off the U.S. Coast
W102
W-104
W-105; 506
W-107
W108; 386
W-50; 72; 122
W-161; 177
W-132; 134; 157; 158; 159
W-151 ; 155; 168; 174; 465;
470; 497
W453
W92
W-228; 602
W-60; 61; 251; 260; 283; 285;
289; 290; 291; 513; 532; 537
W-570
W237; 460; 601
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October 1989
the
the
the
the
coast
coast
coast
coast
of
of
of
of
Florida
Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
MONITORING TIMES
TABLE 2
New Military Frequency Designators
WHISKEY DESIGNATORS
W-100
W-101
W-102
W-103
W-104
W-105
W-106
W-109
5800
6757
7475
7831
13247
See note
listed In past as TAC Air/DEA/Mystic Star ch.
See note
listed as USAF GCCS Croughton house channel and
Mystic Star channel
listed as a FM Regional channel
listed as a USAF MARS Transcon RTTY channel
See note
A truly unique frequency with a tot of 000 different
activity on It.
SIERRA DESIGNATORS
S-304
S-391
S-393
S-312
4495
6761
11 243
13211
SAC
SAC
SAC
SAC
Post
channel
channel
channel
channel
9017
11 226
PAPA DESIGNATORS
P-382
See note
X-RAY DESIGNATORS
X-904
X-905
ATIS:265.2
120.950/ 267.5
134.65/ 284.5
135.925/ 313.7
135.825/ 369.9
11252 In USB
MONITORING TIMES
October 1989
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Utility World
Utility Loggings
Abbreviations used in th is colum n
cw
FAX
FEC
ID
Amplitude modulation
SITOR
Morse code
Facsimile
Forward error correction
ldenlificatlon
ISB
LSB
RTTY
UNID
use
lndependenl sideband
Lower sideband
Radloleletype
Unldentllled
Upper sideband
7552.0
7614.0
7860.0
8112.0
8186.0
8390.0
8400.0
8401.0
8401.0
8404.0
8404.5
8405.0
2103.5
4067.0
4020.0
4125.0
4670.0
5218.0
5320.0
8432.0
5370.0
8744.0
5526.0
PanAm 440 working ATC Belem. Brazil, wttn lls ETA to Miami at 1015.
Heard at 0420 In USB. (Ken Baresford, UK) Welcome aboard, Ken.
Thanks for the first time report.-ed.
5696.0
8765.4
5830.0
Blank earner heard at 0200, 1nen Into English female sending flve-dlgil
numbers from 02150300. Noted no words sent during broadcast. It
was easy to follow along and make a transcript, whlcn I did. II you
think l went crazy listening to this for 45 minutes. wait till you see
10735.0. (Thursday UTC). (HS. CA) More patience than I have, HS.
ed.
6227.0
8765.4
6506.4
8765.4
6637.0
6714.0
8867.0
6756.0
8867.0
(HS,
6757.0
8918.0
6842.0
Tenran Radio working two aircraft. One was a JAL fllghl, tne other
unidentified. In USB al 1520. (McKenzie, BC)
8942.0
6876.0
8967.0
6892.0
8984.0
7473.0
8990.0
7485.0
Poor Treat working Six Hotel Mike, Beaver. 12 Bravo etc. with RAF
communications in USB at 2017. (Battles. NH)
9010.0
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October 1989
MONITO RI NG T IMES
(Salties,
9014.0
9023.9
9283.0
9450.0
10024.0 Lima Radio, Peru, working many aircraft In USS In Spanish at 0320.
(McKenzie, BC)
10066.0 Kuala Lampur Radio, Malaysia, working Malaysia 4 with position
reports and frequencies for Madras (6556). Nothing heard on that
frequency. l>J 1635 In USS. (McKenzie, BC)
10194.0 Century 62 working Trenton Mllltary, canada, al 2104 In
told to switch frequencies to 13207. {Baltles. NH)
use.
AJrcraft
10478.0 Bravo Romeo working Yankee Whiskey with a radio check and tactical
!rattle In USB at 0Cl15. (Battles, NH)
10632.0 SUC-Calro Aeradlo, Egypt, sending RTTY RYS at 2308.
(Kirby, UK)
(Kirby,
(Kirby, UK)
11466.0 Andrews AFB, Maryland, working SAM 86790 and Dress Sult at 1940 In
use. (Batlles, NH)
11475.0 HMF52-KCNA Pyongyang, North Korea, heard at 2242 with English
RTTY news. (Kirby, UK)
11636.0 KRH51-Department of Slate Radio, London, heard at 2246 In RTTY.
Believe the transmitters are at RAF Croughton. (Kirby, UK) Chris
says he gets key dicks all over the bands from KRH51 and the
transmissions appear to come from Croughton. -ed.
12348.6 GOVL working Rainbow Radio with phOne patch trattic from vessel Act
IV at 0041 In use. (Battles. NH)
12831.5 ULY4-Aleksandrovsk Radio, USSR. heard In cw at 0339 calling UIJ2
with negative results. Then called UWX2 but again no contact. Not
sure whal this service ts, but It Is a marilime allocallon. (Halstead. WV)
13306.0 Gander ATC, Canada, working Speedblrd Concorde 4 In USB at 1949.
Concorde advised to call Gander on 126.9. (Battles, NH)
13211 .0 Brown Rat working Home Team and Str1nger on channel Sierra 312 at
0112 In USB. (New ID?) (Batlles, NH) t think so, Bi/1.-ed.
"How does Bill Battles hear so much?" you may ask. Well, his
111011it01i11g post testifies to his dedicatio11: three /COM receivers, two
Realistic sca1111ers, two Regency sca1111ers, a11d more. And that was
last year!
MONITORING TIMES
October 1989
31
Cellular Secrets
Cellular
Harmonics
When
Larry
Hardie wrote in and
explained that he was
monitoring cellular
phones between 454
and 455 megahertz, I
figured that he was
probably confusing
cellular calls with tire
mobile teleph one ser/
vice on 455 megahertz.
After I printed Lany's letter in the June iss~e,. more letters_ came
in explaining that tire intercepted trans1111ss1ons were tndeed
cellular, and not mobile, telephone.
All of the scanner buffs that responded have a cell~lar t~w~r
within 011e-half mile of their liste11ing post. If you live w11/11n
close proximity to a cellular tower and can monitor cellular calls
between 454 and 455 megahertz, I'd like to /rear about it.
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October 1989
MT Treasure Hunt
If you have not participated in any of the past Treasure Hunts,
don't miss out on this one. The prizes include two 1300 H/A
frequency cou nters from Opto Electronics and two quartz halogen
dimmer controlled lamps from Littlite/CAE Inc..
The 1300 H/A that you can win is housed in an aluminum
cabinet and features 1 MHz to 1300 MHz frequency coverage in a
small pocket-size instrument. The red LED displays eight digits
and automatically secs the decimal point.
Input sensitivity is excellent, making the 1300 H/ A one of the
world's most sensitive hand-held frequency counters. The excellent
sensitivity makes the 1300 H/A ideal for portable frequency
hunting. Transmissions from police, fire, taxis, etc. can be
detected while on foot or from within your vehicle.
If you r entry is selected as one of the luck]' winners, the 1300
H/A will be sent to your door step with rechargeable Ni-Cad
batteries, telescoping antenna and a 9 volt wall transformer.
Can't wait? The 1300 H / A retails for approximately $170.00
and can be ordered directly from Opto Electronics, 5821 N.E. 14th
Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334.
With the approach of winter, our daylight hours will begin to
shorten, and a lot of us will be scanning after dark. Like most of
you, I don't like scanning with the entir e room illuminated.
Regular desk lamps were okay, but they were often too bright and
MONITORING TIMES
The April 1989 edition began our first treasure hunt. Provide
the answer for clue #4.
2. 'The Pros Subscribe. Shouldn't You?" What was the original
wording of this popular MT ad?
3. Take a standard sheet of 8-1 /2 x 11 typewriter paper and
place it over the front cover of the July 1989 edition of MT.
Align the top and left hand edge of the paper with the top
and left hand edge of the cover. Trace the arm of the girl
onto the paper. When you're done, her hand will appear to
be pointing. Using the July 1989 edition, turn to page 53 and
tightly press the paper into the left hand seam of the magazine. Once again, align the top edge of the paper with the
top of the page. The hand is now pointing to a specific
sentence on page 53. What are the four numbers in that
sentence?
4. On commercial airplanes, flight recording devices are
commonly called "Black Boxes." What color are the devices
actually painted?
5. The fo,lJowing is the last sentence from a popular column in
the Jun'e 1989 issue of MT: "Drop us a line." What is the
name of the column?
Okay, that's all of them. When you send in the answers,
remember that an SASE is not needed. A lot of folks simply send
the answers on a postcard. Here's the address: Treasure Hunt,
P.O. Box 98, Brasstown, NC 28902.
Frequency Exchange
A few months back, Steve Hada from northern California asked
The Opto
Frequency
Counter and
the "Littlite"
goose neck
lamp are the
prizes for the
Oct-Nov
Treasure Hunt.
Mobile Unit
155.910
155.850
154.950
154.950
154.725
159.030
Dispatcher
154.890
153.920
154.950
155.370
153.995
158.790
If you want the complete list, here's the deal. Send an SASE to
Texas Frequencies, P.O. Box 98, Brasstown, NC 28902. This is
another freebie, folks, so hurry. Letters postmarked after October
31, 1989, should include a dollar to cover copying and handling
charges.
If the lights go out in south-central Georgia, here are some of
the frequencies for Georgia Power and Light: 451.075-Albany,
451.1-Tifton, 451.025/451.125-in many areas including Thomasville.
Thanks to Wain Buckley for sending these along.
Leaving the warm Georgia air behind, our next stop is Groton,
Connecticut. Although the November air can be quite cold up
there, Arthur Heely's scanner radio is kept warm by monitoring
the hot action frequencies of the Groton Submarine Base:
Housing
Public Worl<S
Base Security
Are/Ambulance
Pier Secur1ty
Hospital Paging
Radiation Control
138.850
139.550
140.350
140.225
140.700
149.075
149.125
MONITORING TIMES
October 1989
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155.1 15
155.12
155.235
155.34
155.37
155.385
155.43
155.475
155.625
155.715
155.775
155.925
155.955
157.65
158.88
158.895
158.91
159.12
159.33
160.425
160.62
160.65
160.77
160.89
161.1
161 .25
161 .37
163.25
163.4125
453.2
453.25
458.2
458.25
McDonald's
Roy Rogers
Taco Bell
Wendy's
Customer Clerk
30.8400
457.5500
457.5625
30.8400
30.8400
457.5875
460.8875
462.7625
35.0200
154.5700
154.6000
457.5375
30.8400
457.6125
460.8875
154.5700
467.7750
467.7875
154.5700
154.5700
467.8125
465.8875
467.8875
154.6000
170.2450
171.1050
467.7625
154.5700
467.8375
465.8875
Location
Allanta. GA area
Baltlmore, MD area
Washington, DC area
Washington, DC area
Occoquan, VA area
Vienna. VA area
Washington. DC area
Washington. DC area
Washington. DC area
Washington, DC area
Washington, DC area
Washington, DC area
Washington, DC area
Washington, DC area
Washington. DC area
The Unscrambler
It wasn't that long ago that speech inversion was considered to
be a state-of-the-art method for insu ring voice privacy. A ham
radio operator, tinkering around at home, buill the first inverted
speech decoder. A few yea rs later, the units sold in magazines for
under fifty bucks.
Although th e ECPA has made the decoders illegal for use with
a scanner radio, the devices are still available for other purposes.
Ramsey Electronics sens an inverted speech unit for telephone
security. Th is handy kit could also be used with any scanner radio
to unscramble inverted speech.
Using the device in this manner wou ld be illegal. So, limit your
use to test purposes only. The retail price of the kit is about
$30.00. If you are interested, contact Ramsey Electronics, 2575
Revisiting Connecticut
No, I still refuse to print the camera locations. However since
I'm being so nice to my other readers, I'll wrap up this col~mn by
offering them for an SASE. Send your request to P.O. Box 98,
Brasstown, NC 28902.
B~b Kay's book, the_Ci1jze11 's Gujde to Sca1111j11g, will be published
this fall by DX Radio Supply. Look for it at your radio store.
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October 1989
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HF Edition, there'd be a lot '
more people involved in this
hobby. Author Bob Evans
h.as produced a very impressive work covering every
conceivable aspect of aeroDXing imaginable.
Within the 270 pages,
there's commercial airlines
AFTN RTTY networks, USAF
and other military services,
Drug Enforcement Agency
Operations and even QSLing.
The Aeronautical Communications Handbook is
rounded out with a master
list of over 500 active
fr~q.uencies, a glossary and a
b1bhography. All this costs
just $19.95 plus 1.25 book
rate delivery. Send check or
money order to DX Radio
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shortwave bands.
There's also an up-to-date
station listing. Total pages:
192, including 85 illustrations.
Pirate Radio Stations is
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ams interested in taking
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during this time of exceptionally high sunspot activity will
want to check out the new
IC-726. This small, lightweight,
and easy to operate HF
transceiver covers 500 kHz to
30 MHz and from 50 to 54
MHz.
There's 100 watts power
output, wide dynamic range
26 memory channels and '
best of all it's a compact unit
designed to meet the
demands of mobile users.
The IC-726 is now available for $1,299 at your
favorite radio store.
Tune-In Underground
Broadcasts
f you've ever wondered
how everybody else seems
to be tuning in pirates that
you never hear, this book is
for you. Not just a list of
stations or collection of
profiles, author Andrew Yoder
explains how to tune them in
identify them, and OSL them.'
Yoder also traces the
history of pirate radio from its
emergence in the 1920s
interviews the broadcast~rs
and provides a "behind the
scenes" look at one some
people say is the last
remnants of fresh air on the
L...
FDNY Video
Trans-Atlantic
Medium Wave
DX
edium Wave News, a
British DX club, is
offering a 20 page
booklet called Eleven Years
of Trans-Atlantic Medium
Wave DX. It is a booklet
says the club, "that no DXer
should be without.
Eleven Years is a
chronicle of every station
from the Americas and
Loop Coupler
lot of people who would
otherwise make pretty
fine AM broadcast band
DXers find themselves limited
by their non-DX radios. While
these consumer-grade units
have a built-in ferrite-bar
antenna, it cannot be disconnected and there is often no
provision for connecting a
better, external antenna.
Palomar Engineers have
put an end to this problem,
MONITORING T IMES
MIL-SPEC
COMMUNICATIONS
Communications Manager
by Datametrics
and edited.
Three different scanresume delay characteristics
may be chosen: Select the
delay time in seconds
whether or not a signal
remains on; select a
minimum delay time; or
select a delay time in
seconds after the signal
drops out (like a real
scanner!).
Summer DX Specials
AR-2515 Wide Coverage Scanner .............. $679
AR-2002 Scanner ........................................ $455
AR-900 Scanner w/cellular ......................... $276
ICOM R-7 lA HF Scanning Receiver .......... $850
Collins R390A(Reconditioned/Calibrated)$750*
Japan Radio NRD-525 .............................. $1,150
Sony ICF-2010 ............................................. $318
Sony ICF-2003 ............................................. $245
Sony Pro-80 ................................................. $350
RACAL RA-6790 (GM)/R-2174 .............. CALL
Realistic PR0-2005 Scanner ....................... $399
3TF7 Ballast Tube - Brand New! .................. $40
Bearcat BC-200XLT - w/Cellular restoration .........$27 5
Cost include Fedcnl l!>preu Sblppins
memorized frequencies)
PAUSE (wait for your
command to resume)
RESUME (start scanning sequence without
waiting for automatic
command)
FILTER (sets targeted
channels such as
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MAIN MENU (return to
choosing basic
program functions).
We rate the Communications Manager program tops
in the field for professional
data handling of R71A and
R7000 receiver routines.
Communications Manager
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2575 South Bayshore Drive,
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demonstration disk for
system evaluation are available for $15.
MONITORING TIMES
October 1989
38
October 1989
Phillips/Magnavox 02935
Personally, I would opt for either of the
above analog readout receivers. But I grew
up playing with analog dials and have learned
to tolerate the system. If you absolutely must
have digital readout, this might be a good rig
to start out with. It's a high performance
portable with membra ne controls.
Like the Panasonic, it has a four inch
speaker. Check this one over thoroughly
before buying, especially the performance of
the keypad. T ry to keep the price down
around $80.
Realistic DX-160
There must be more of these little gems
sitting around collecting dust than any other
radio made for this hobby. This was a fairly
high performa nce "Entry Level" radio that
gave many currently well-known DXers their
start. It is analog readout with a bandspread
dial calibrated for the amateu r bands.
You will learn the fun of tuning with two
hands. It really makes you feel like you are
playing radio. These wonders still command
$75 when being sold third and fourth hand but
they tend to be worth every penny. I have
kept track of mine through three owners and
I'm trying to buy it back for my # 1 son.
Realistic DX-400
Panasonic RF-2200
1 Sony
The digital shortwave portable that redefined the hobby can now be found for well
under $100. A lot of these hit the used
Kenwood R-300
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the 'HAM 10 Is the perfect compliment to all slngleband t en met er rigs.
The stainless steel base of the 'HAM 10 Is supplied with an
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Balanced Budget
Unlike Uncle Sam, Old Uncle Skip did not
have to go into deficit spending.
Receiver
$80.00 (average)
MT Subscription
18.00
Antenna wire
What Else
Your budget station will really only need
two other pieces of equipment to get you
started in style.
First off, you will need a log book of some
sort. Some sort being a low-priced lined
notepad or simple t hre~ ring binder for a start.
Check the December 1988 issue of MT for Old
Uncle Skip's copious conclusions on rolling
your own logbook.
Last but not least, you are going to need all
the support and information you can gather to
take full advantage of your modest, but
p owerful, listening post. Therefore, you
simply must tear the subscription card out of
this issue of MT you are reading and get down
to some serious radio business with the whole
MT crew.
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Dave Jones
430 Gamor Drive
Suffield, OH 44260
October 1989
MONITORING TIMES
IRS on the
Computer Trail
The Internal Revenue Service is planning
to teach its CID (Criminal Investigative
Division) agents how to recover data in
computers that have been confiscated during
a raid. The IRS views computer disks as
nothing more than electronic file cabinets
which could contain data useful for their case.
A course is in the planning stages at the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in
Glynco, Georgia, and should be in operation
by the time this newsletter issue is mailed.
Your Own
"Authoritative Source"
There is a place where you can pick up an
amazing number of "tips" to help you in your
listening. Commerce Business Daily (CBD) is
published each business day by the federal
,
government.
It lists requests (from various federal
agencies and military branches) for quotes on
equipment and services. Quite often, listings
appear for radio communication equipment
and systems, and at times even frequency
ranges and specific frequencies arc listed.
One recent one was by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) for
radio communication equipment. ATF has
stated its intention to purchase vast amounts
of Motorola DES equipment for the
"nationwide ATF DES network."
The equipment varies from mobile radios
to crystals to control stations to antennas. A
brief highlight of the equipment is as follows - Syntor X 9000 series digital radios with
receiver pre-amplifiers, lOOW 16 channel
mobiles; VHF quarter wave mobile antennas,
crystals for frequency of 165.5125, MX 300
hand-held accessories, cellular adaptor
boards, various types of DES modules, and so
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plane talk
October 1989
may be, including the reasons for them -- i.e., sectors will be saturated with traffic.
With this advance alert, Central Flow
closed runways, local weather conditions, or
noise abatement requirements, and/or winds Control will contact the ARTCC involved and
which may dictate particular approach p roce- arrive at a decisions. Sometimes, additional
personnel can be put on the controller posidures.
Obviously, traffic and weather conditions tions in the sectors which will be involved. In
arc dynamic and moving. To keep all other instances, traffic may have to be
concerned current, live feeds from air traffic rerouted around the red sectors.
radar covering the entire U.S. go into the FAA
With more than 600 sectors in the system, a
facility at Atlantic C ity and are then fed to the saturated sector can pop up at any time.
computer at Central Flow Control; the Consequently, a red sector caused by a saturated airport or severe weather in one area of
computer is updated every three minutes.
Aircraft aloft are depicted on these the country can have a direct and very often
computers. However, only lights tracked by unexplained effect on lights anywhere else in
an Air T raffic Control Center can be identi- the system.
One of the most frustrating and nervcfied. By placing the cu rsor over a dot, a
controller can identify an aircraft by flight or N wracking aspects of flow control, on which
(tail) number and learn its altitude, departure pilots, controllers, and dispatchers alike agree,
point, route, destination, and time to destina- is the failure to maintain current communication.
tions despite radio, land lines, satellites, radar,
Conversely, a controller can pinpoint the and computers.
location of a given flight by typing into the
In addition to the daily TELECONs,
computer a request to search for that specific Central Flow Control also passes information
aircraft.
to all flight services stations over Aeronautical
As the daily traffic begins to build, color Radio, Inc. (ARINC), and on the Aeronautical
codes are given to flights operating to specific Fixed Telecommunications Network (AFTN).
destinations. This way, at a glance, the strings
TI1ere are two telephone hotlines, which are
of color show where flow problems are devel- dedicated to airline dispatchers, available for
oping.
immediate query or update. In addition,
Central Flow Control discusses conditions there is an 800 telephone number going into
with the ATC centers involved. If the the facility for aviation system users to get a
acceptance rate of a given airport is down or is recorded recap of current conditions, updated
reaching saturation, ARTCC and approach as conditions change.
control facilities may want additional spacing
By this writing, new computer screens that
between arrivals.
cover the walls should have replaced desk-top
To achieve this, it may be necessary to alter screens to provide faster, better recognition of
the speed of lights hundreds (and sometin1es traffic movements for all Flow Control
thousands) of miles away from the crowded personnel.
sector. Thus, a flight crew will get a speed
However, even with the new, updated
reduction request from ARTCC even though equipment and the best efforts of the entire
nothing in he immediate vicinity requires it. FAA system, the problems of gate holds,
If weath :r is the culprit, the ARTCC may rerouting, and airport saturation are going to
reroute tra fie based on its Severe Weather continue.
Avoidance ''Ian (SWAP). The SWAP uses as
This is due to a combination of more people
many prec< ordinated routes as necessary to flying, which means more aircraft in the skies,
keep traffic Oowing, depending on the location airport capacity which has not grown to handle
and sevcri~ of the weather.
the increased flying population, and conditions
Another problem that Central Flow that are above and beyond any man-made
Control mu:a contend with is the unpredictable solut ion. So keep your scanners on, folks.
numbers and routes of genera l (private) avia- It's going to get more and more interesting to
tion and military air traffic. Another see how these problems are being coped with.
computer fncuscs in on this.
And, remember, you'll read all about it here in
All fligh1 pl:ins from military base opera- Mo11iton'ng Times!
tions and flight service stations as well as those
pre-filed by airlines arc in the data bunk. The Recommended Publications
computer anulyzes routes and forecasts which
I am a firm believer in using books, magaATC sector> may become saturated and when.
These sectors will blossom in red on the screen. zines, and other publications to enhance
From approximately 30 minutes to one hour in and/or aid our monitoring. Let's examine a
udvancc, the computer will predict which few of them:
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Let us know four to six weeks before you move and we will make sure your
Just remove the mailing label and affix below.
Then complete your new addrress (or any other corrections) in the space
provided.
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My new address:
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Times
P.O. Box 98
Brasstown
NC 28902
ARRL Wants a
No Code License?
This past summer, the Board of Directors of
the American Radio Relay League met and
decided to propose a "No Code" Amateur
Radio License. The Board was split in its decision. The vote was nine "yeas" and six "nays."
Here's the result of that tussle:
The exam will consist of Element 2 and an
expanded element 3A. The expansion of 3A
will consist of questions about Morse code!
Which means the applicants will be required to
at least know what Morse code is and demonstrate that they know the code if they see it.
(After passing Element 2 and 3A2 all the new
ham needs to do is pass a five word per minute
code test to qualify for a regul ar Technician
license.)
The call signs issued to this new "Communicator grade" of license will be assigned from
the D Call sign block, and tests will be administered through the present VE system. 111e
name of the new license will be Commu11icat01:
Licensees will be rest ricted to 250 watts of
power on frequencies above 220 MHz, and will
not be allowed to be the control operator of a
repeater or auxiliary station.
Too Timid?
As the saying goes, "half a loaf is better than
nothing." However, I strongly feel the League
missed the idea behind the whole thing.
Forcing the new licensee to learn to recognize
Morse code on paper was simply pap to
appease the rabid "Morse Forever" gang!
I agree that it is simple to memorize Morse
in a visual fashion. But remember there is
almost no Morse operation at these frequencies and if the new Communicator wants to
learn Morse so he can advance to a higher
grade of license he will do so on his own.
Nor will restricting the new license to 220
MHz and above allow the newcomer to sample
the fare on two or six meters as was originally
proposed by the League's fact finding group!
I understand the idea of not giving a lot of
spectrum to the Communicator on two meters,
for much of the two me ter band is
overpopulated in many parts of the U.S.A.
But to deny access to the six meter band is
criminal! I doubt if there is any area in the
country that has an over abundance of activity
on 50 MHz. In fact this band is so underutilized that it could be the subj ect of the next
band take-over!
Couple this with the fact that it is possible to
work half-way round the earth when the band
is open and there is no point in not allowing the
Communicator on six. Doing so would be good
for everyone; it will let the newcomers see what
it is like to work stations in other parts of the
44
October 1989
However:
We arc at least on the right track, and every
one of us should get behind this new license
and push for its acceptance as soon as possible.
As I mentioned earlier, there a rc flaws in
the plan, but to fight over them will only put off
this important new license to the detriment of
amateur radio in this country. We need the
Communicator license now'
ORM
Interference from other stations (QRM)
has been a major problem for radio amateurs
and SWL's ever since radio was invented.
There are several types of QRM: the first and
most common is casual interference from
other stations operating nea r your frequency
and producing a strong signal that your
receiver is not able to filter out.
The second most common interference is
from stations operating directly on your
frequency because they cannot hear you or the
station you are in contact with.
The third and least common (but most
heard about) is deliberate interference from a
station who wants to be a pain in the .
Coping
There are several ways of dealing with deliberate interference. The best way is to ignore
the fool or move to some other frequency and
hope he won't follow.
Little can be done about a station that
cannot hear you. There arc many reasons
stations cannot hear certain signals. The first is
due to vagarities in propagation wherein you
and a station some distance away can hear each
other, but someone at some other location on
the earth can not hear either signal.
Sometimes the offending station does not
have his gain turned up, or local noise may be
masking weak signals. Or perhaps the offender
has a high power station and directive antenna;
if the antenna is not aimed at you he may not
hear you, but his high power is producing
enough signal from his side lobes to produce
OR1v1. Whatever the reason, the best thing to
do in this case is to move freque ncy.
The first cause of QRM (i.e. poor receiver
selectivity) can be cu red in several ways.
Purchasing a new
receiver will help if it
has improved selectivity.
Less drastic steps
are favored by the
MONITORING TIMES
Adding Filters
Add on selectivity is the method most of us
choose today. Years ago one could purchase or
build a variety of devices, among them the QMultiplier, Selectoject, super IF strips and
crystal filters. All would help reduce the
problem to a more manageable degree.
Today's choices still favor IF selectivity in
the form of sharp multi-pole crystal or
mechanical filters. The main difficulty here,
however, is that such a filter allows the operator only one option -- the bandwidth of that
particular filter. Consequently if you choose a
400 Hz filter and need 300 Hz or 1.8 Hz you
must purchase or build another filter.
Since most receivers allow only a half dozen
or less filters to be installed we quickly run out
of options, and considering the cost of a decent
IF filter, the expense is high.
In the early 60's the audio filter hit the scene
and things have not been the same since when
it comes to QRM reduction. The first devices
were fairly simple and allowed the operator to
insert a filter between his receiver and headphones. The filter produced a fairly sharp passband and did not require digging into the
receiver's innards.
Passbands of 6kHz down to a few Hz are
easily produced with many of today's audio
filters and it is possible with some modern
filters to incorporate both peak and null
features to enhance selectivity in almost any
situation.
For example, if you choose a sharp peak
filte r but still have interference from a strong
adjacent signal, simply switch in the null filter
and sweep it across the passband to reduce the
strength of the offending signal to the point
where it does not over ride the effect of the
peak filter.
Many combinations are possible with good
audio filters. One such filter is shown in the
accompanying photo. It is the MFJ Signal
Enhancer Model MFJ-752C which I chose to
use in conjunction with my Argonaut QRP rig.
This unit has allowed many QSO's to continue
in spite of extremely difficu lt QRM.
This particular filter is actually two filters in one: the primary filter
can be used in conjunction with the auxiliary filter to produce extremely
sharp peaks. The unit also features a low pass filter to reduce high
frequency hiss, splatter and noise, a high pass filter to remove u~wanted
low audio frequencies and a notch filter to supress unwanted signals by
as much as 70dB.
In addition, a 2 watt amplifier allows use of a speaker. At a cost of
under 100 bucks this is one dandy unit. This little gem can make QSO's
possible on CW and SSB when everything else fails. You can get the
MFJ-752C from your local dealer o r directly from MFJ, PO Box 494,
Mississippi State, MS. 39762.
Antenna Bargain
A few years ago at
the Shelby, NC, Hamfest, I spotted a dandy
two meter quad that
was being sold by a
fellow and decide to
purchase one. Returning a few hours later
with cash in hand I was
disappointed to find
that he had sold out
and gone home.
Later the same year
I spotted him at the
'Atlanta Hamfest and
de~ided ;o grab one early.
You guessed it, he sold out again_ and w~s
gone by the time I got back with the cash. So when I spotted hun at this
year's Atlanta show I grabbed my money and went straight out and
bought one of these dandy little five element quads.
The antenna has a five and a half foot boom, and is made entirely
from aluminum - no glass or plastic spreaders. Sturdy is the word that
best describes the antenna. An S0-239 mounted directly to the spreader
of the driven element accepts the PL-259 on your 50 ol1m coax. The
antenna comes complete - all you need do is assemble the elements on
the pre-drilled boom with the included hardware.
Did it work? You bet! With 250 milliwatts I can access repeaters I
never heard before, and at my 25 watt level, contacts on simplex out to
100 miles are common (my new location is terrible for VHF).
The quad is very lightweight and is easily rurned wit~ a TV rotor. The
manufacturer claims 12dB gain for the antenna (I dtd not make any
measurements, but the gain is quite adequate). SWR on my unit was
under 2 : 1 across the entire band. Front to back reject ion is about 25dB
and side rejection is very good.
Another feature I like is the fact that the antenna can be erected for
horizontal or vertical polarization with out worryi ng about the material
the mast is made from. Mine is vertically polarized on a steel mast, with
no distortion of the pattern due to the steel mast.
The basic antenna is five elements and costs only 35 dollars. The
manufacturer will ship the antenna anywhere in the continental USA
fo r only five bucks. Additional elements up to 8 can be added at a cost of
$5.00 per element. Models are available for 220 MHz too.
You can obtain one of these fantastic bargains from W4PYO Peg
Dickson, Route 3 Box 411, Williamston, SC 29697.
ICOM: IC-781 , 765, 761 , 751A, 735, 725, R71A, R7000, 271, 371 ,
471, 1271, 275, 375, 475, 575, Cl-V
KENWOOD: TS940,440, 140, R-5000,680, 711,811
YAESU: FT-767, 757 GXll, 757 GX, 747, 9600, 736
JRC: NRO 525
COLLINS: 651 S1
Datacom couldn 't be simpler. Knowledge of MS-DOS Is not necessary
-the Installation program does it all ! Datacom allows complete control
of your rig from t he keyboard.
Propagation
Wildly varying solar activity is keeping things interestin~ on the ha~
bands. Flux levels have varied from a low of 192 to a htgh of 326 m
recent months. The average solar flux remains at about 200.
October is the beginning of the DX season in the Northern Hemisphere; consequently we should see some fantastic openings on the
higher frequency bands.
RUDAK-2
RUDAK - 2 Transponder will Fly on RS-14 in Mid-1990. At a meeting
between AMSAT-DL and the Soviet amateu r radio satellite organization known as 0 REITA at the AMSAT-UK/RSG B DATASPACE 89 a
tentative agreement was reached to fly a "follow-on" RUDAK transponder aboard RS-14.
.
.
Many will remember that the RUDAK expenment which flew .on
A0-13 (RUDAK is a German acronym that stands for Regeneratmg
Transponder for Digital Amateur Communications) failed to realize its
full potential because a temperature sensitive PROM would not allow
the RUDAK computer to boot-up properly.
Despite many intensive efforts to work around this problem, it was
not possible to solve and all attempts were eventually abandoned.
But characteristic of the indomitable spirit of the RUDAK group
within AMSAT - DL organization, there will soon be a new and
improved version of this digital experiment known as RUDAK-2. This
new experiment promises to be extremely interesting, and amateurs
involved in digital communication are looking forwa rd to the new effort
(via AMSAT).
We will try to keep you posted as events develop wit h this project.
That's all for this month gang, see ya in November. 73 - Ike, N3IK
MONlTORING TIMES
[[!
October 1989
45
ARGENTINA
Radiodifusora Argentina al E.xte rio r-RAE, 9690 kHz.
Full data station logo card, without verificatio n signer.
Received in 120 days for an English reception report.
Booklets and Argentine travel b rochures enclosed
with QSL Station address: Correo Central 10000,
Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Donald Choleva, Euclid,
01!)
Ol\1A CZECHOSLOVAl(IA
AUSTRIA
Radio Austria International. 9870 kHz. Full data
card or Austrian fo lk costumes, without veri!ication
signer. Station stickers and p rogram schedules
enclosed with QSL Station address: A-1136 Wien,
AlL~lria. (Robert Landau, Secaucus, NJ) (Gregory
Gru~hko, Chester, NY)
CHILE
Radio Santa Maria, 6030 kHz. Partial data card and
info booklet. Verification signer, Pedro Andrade
Vera. Received in 120 days for a Spanish reception
report and two JRCs. Station address: Casila I,
Coyhaique,
Chile. (Aboc
Thalicp,
Ilatang.
Indonesia)
COLOMlllA
La Voz de los Ccntauros, 5955 kHz. Full data QSL
Verification signe r, J uan Carlos Torres Leyva,
Gerencia. Received in 66 days for a Spanish
reception report and two IRCs. Station :iddress:
Apartado A. 2472, Villavicencio. Meta, Colombia.
(Robert Landau, Secaucus, NJ)
CUBA
Radio Havana, 6140 kHz. Full data card o f Lenin
Park in Havana, without verification signer.
Received in 270 days for an English reception repo rt.
Station address: P.O. Ilox 7026, La Habana, Cuba.
(Donald Choleva, Euclid, OH)
Radio Rebelde, 5025 kHz. Full data personal
lelter, card, and pennant. Verification signer, Jorge
Luis Mas Zabala (Relacio nes Publicas y Gerencia
Commercial). Received in 45 days for a Spanish
reception report. Station address: Apartado 62n, La
Habana, 6 Cuba. (Aboe Thaliep, Batang. Indonesia)
EGYPT
Radio Cairo, 9900 kl-lz. Full data card of Egypt ian
art and hieroglyph ics, without verificatio n signer.
Received in 100 days fo r an English reception report.
Station address: P.O. Box 566, C1iro, Arab Rep ublic
of Egypt. (Robert L.1ndau, Secaucus, NJ)
Y35 Time Signal Station. 4525 kHz. Partial data QSL
card and station info booklet, without verific.1tion
signer. Received in 126 d.1ys for an English utility
repon. Station address: Fachgcbict Zct Und
Frcqucnz, Furstenwnlder Damm 388, DDR-1162
Berlin, Germany. (Nick Grace, Ha1vard, MA)
Ghana Ilroadc.1Sting Corp. (GBC), 49 15 kHz. Full
data station card, without verification signer.
Received in 36 days for an English reception report.
Statio n address: P.O. Box 1633. Accra. Ghann. Africa.
(Gregory Grushko, Chester, NY) (Donald Cholcva,
Euclid, OH)
li
Prir1ing
Rlinbow CerdSodc
200
PIRATE
GREECE
300
9~20
kHz.
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46
INDONESIA
PAKISTAN
GHANA
Specify
MOROCCO
GERMAN DOR
100
A ntennas West I
October 1989
SHIP TRAFFIC
MISS AL!KI, 500 kHz-USil (Oulk cnrrier vessel).
Full data verilication leller. Verification signers. ~Ir.
Olof Nilsson of Sweden. Mr. Pntrick O'Connor of
I Jinsdalc. Received for a utility repor1 and return
postage enclosed. Ship address: M/V MISS ALIKJ.
Shipping & Produce Co.. Ltd .. Prince Rupen I louse
MONITORI NG T IMES
SOUTH AFRICA
Radio Five. 11880/4880 kl-lz. Full data art/scenery
cnrd. without verification signer. Received in 56/45
days for an English receptio n report and two IRCs.
Stickers and program schedules enclosed with QSL
Station address: P.O. !lox 4301. J ohannesburg 2000,
Republic o r South Africa. (John Carson, Norman,
OK) (Fraser Bonnett. Keltering. 01-l)
THAILAND
Rndio Thailand, 9655 kHz. Full data color card of
o rchids Fro m Thailand." without verification signer.
Received in 60 days for an English reception report.
Station address: Rajdamner Avenue, Bangkok 10200,
Thailand. (Donald Cho lcva. Euclid, OH)
VENEZULA
Radio Capital, 4850 kHz. Full data logo card, with
illegible signature. Received in 105 days for a
Spanish reception repo rt ond two IRCs. Station
address: Centro Commercial Los Ruices, Av.
Francisco de Miranda. Caracas, Venezuela. (Robert
L'ndau. Secaucus. NJ)
reading rtty
Jack Albert
203 York Place
New Lenox, IL 60451
processor), a computer and software development. It's not a job for Superman! That's for
sure. But I want you to start on it tomorrow
and report to me in a week.
But seriously, because of its complexity
this system poses a real challenge to the
hobbyist who wants to build a decoder. You
could probably purchase a unit by simply
calling one of the three abovementioned
manufacturers, but you will probably receive
an invoice for $70,000.00 (not including tax).
I wonder if GE will include a free toaster?
Nightmare on HF Street
He was tuning another radio and, apparently, calling someone on another channel.
Sounds that were coming from other radios
indicated that the "comm" center used RITY
gear. I guess you can say that a "stuck mike"
is a radio man's nightmare.
FREQ
SHIH/WPM
COMMENT
3.1914
4.0439
4.620
5.0731
5.3729
5.3879
6.432
6.993
7.871
7.923
7.9234
9.2141
9.9607
9.961
9.9907
10.206
10.2588
10.316
103172
10.3174
10.6095
10.8628
11.0486
11.0068
11.0071
12.5259
11.5395
75/100
85/100
85/100
170/ 45
75/45
85/45
100/67
170/67
75/100
170/100
65/100
170/67
65/67
75/67
75/100
75/100
65/ 100
85/100
30/100
65/100
30/67
75/100
170/67
75/100
85/67
170/67
170/67
AP
AP
AP
UPI
UPI
UPI
UPI
AP
UPI
UPI
AP
AP
UPI
UPI
AP
UPI
AP
AP
AP
AP German
UPI
AP
UPI
Weather
AP
UPI
UPI
Another Find
This summer was the best for SWLing
because the skip conditions caused openings
into Europe just about every night on 20
meters. I did some tuning above 20 meters
and found two strange sounding FSK signals:
one on 14.823 and the other on 14.833.
After playing with the M7000 for a few
minutes, I found that it synchronized with
TDM4 mode using 170
Hz shift and 192 baud.
That, according to Fred
Osterman at Universal
SW, is a first, because
one has ever
no
reported TDM4 loggings.
I left my receiver
and modem on the
whole night in order to
catch traffic but I
received nothing but
errors. This went on
for several weeks. If
you had any luck with
TDM4 modes, drop me
a line.
MON ITORING TIMES
NNN
October 1989
47
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48
October 1989
A Few Problems
Once you've gotten over the initial thrill of
monitoring SCPC you' ll discover the
shortcomings of such reception via the
portable TV radio. Here are a few:
1. SCPC signals are fairly weak.
2. Carrier to noise ratio is very high on the
noise and low on the carrier.
3. The signal seems to drift around a lot
requiring retuning of the signal every ten
minutes.
4. Signals are jammed together so close as to
make reception of some impossible.
S. The audio is ti nny. It's like listening to
music over a telephone line.
6. You're actually missing a good bit of the
SCPC band because the radio doesn't tune
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Here's why. They are there for the Canadian public and arc uplinked by Can Com and
distributed to Canadinn cable systems via
Anik D. This allows Canadinns to watch the
four American networks which would not be
available to many Canadians otherwise.
The decoders are not available, legally, in
the U.S. and Ca n Com has no U.S. marketing
strategy. It's a peculiar fact that these
uplin.kers (called common carriers) do not
need pcnnission of the stations involved nor
do they have to compensate the signal originator for the programming. They simply
collect the ever increasing cable fees for their
efforts.
i/ "I would like to know if there is any way I
can get a list of TV stations in North
America." - James Green, Oklahoma City,
OK.
a lot!
As to listings, there really aren't any. I've
noted only the BBC, VOA, Voice of China
Radio, Radio Ca nada, and United Nations
Radio (most on Westar 4).
i/ "About a year ago you gave out an
add:es~ for ...a great pamphlet for those just
bcgmnmg to purchase satellite equipment...!
would sure like to get it." - Dan Packard,
Seattle, WA.
Here they are, Dan:
Satellite TV and You -- 30 pages, magazi.ne
format and it's free. Write: Triple D
Publications, P.O. Box 2347, Shelby, NC
28151 or call 704-482-9673.
Satman - Mail order dealer, small but
useful booklet on TYRO gear. It's free, too.
Write: Sat TV Buying Guide, Satman, 5017 N.
Melody, Peoria, IL 60614 or call 800-4-
SATMAN.
Satellite TV Buyer's Guide 1989 Edition
($3.50). 100 pages of top grade TYRO info.
Worth the money. Write: Satellite TV
Weck, P.O. 308, Fortuna, CA 95540.
For more information on the Heil SCONE! and free listings of SCPC channels,
write Bob Heil, K9EID, H eil Sound, Marissa
IL 62257.
'
For more information on the Model T C48 Turns Counter Dial write: Kilo-Tee, P.O.
Box 1001, Oak View, CA 93022.
And one final note: Monitor the TYRO
users net on 20 meters on Sundays around
14.309 MHz USB at 1800 UTC. It's an
informa l get-together of amateur radio operh
1 TV
~tors
w o are a so
RO dealers or hobbyists. Hams with a n interest in TYRO are
welcome, and SWLcrs might also be inter t h e sub"~ect.
est c d 111
lmfj
October 1989
49
bandscan
amer1can
Karl Zuk
P.O. Box 98
Brasstown , NC 28902
The Miracle on
Lakeshore Road
WZZZ cost only one dollar. It could be
called a miracle, but it's really the product of
love. Peter and Carol Hunn call it their
"Little House that Talks and Sings." But
things weren't always that cheery.
The first time they saw the station, they
couldn't even find the driveway. It, like the
rest of the station, lay mouldering under a
heavy cover of weeds and brush. An old rainsoaked console decomposed quietly, its
rusting innards providing a moist home for
hundreds of spiders and crickets.
Burnt station records and materials were
everywhere. The huge neon sign that once
proudly proclaimed "WOSC" was broken and
rusting. Carol Hunn looked at her husband
and said, "Honey, I don't think this is the one
for us." But Peter had other ideas.
After what seemed like years of negotiations, Hunn had bought the station for one
dollar. The former owners had accrued an
enormous debt with the Internal Revenue
Service. They destroyed all the station's
records and assets, and let them rot outdoors.
They had also acquired a more desirable
nearby station, and the FCC required them to
sell the old station first. In exchange for the
one dollar price tag, Hunn was to assume the
outstanding debt. The FCC approved the sale,
and a few days later WZZZ was born.
A local television station sent a crew to
witness the opening. They struggled through
the vines, weeds, insects and mud, and
entered the small transmitter building from
the rear. The door was stuck and had to be
broken down. The floor was several inches
below ground level and filled with water.
The ceiling was caving in, the familiar smell of
a damp basement pervasive.
For the next two weeks, Peter and a ham
buddy of his camped out in the building and
lived on pizzas. More than twenty loads of
junk went to the town dump. The driveway
was cleared, and the old General Electric
transmitter was refurbished, tuned up, and
WZZZ RADIO
7M.
so
October 1989
~~~RADIO 1300
MONITORING TIMES
Jina, area are transmining the soundtrack of the six o'clock newscast of
nearby Channel 28, WPTF, in Durham. The AM stations sell rheir
own advertising and broadcast the show as if it were a syndicated talk
show.
WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, wanted to gain an edge
over archrival WBTV and offered their newscasts to WRHl in Rock
Hill and WIRC in Hickory. TI1ese two small AM stations were
delighted to be able to rebroadcast a complex and proficient newscast
every night at 6 pm, and WSOC-TV has gained many would- e viewers
who might still be in their cars heading home.
What do you do when you want to have a parade but you don't
have a marching band? WILT-AM in Willimantic, Connecticut,
solved their community's predicament by creating a "Boom-box
Parade." Since 1985, Willimantic residents have marched on July 4 to
the march music played by WILT. Participants carry everything from
small portables to enormous boom-boxes all tuned to the station.
One of the floats every year is a large radio, and everyone seems to
love the idea. WILI certainly knows how to line up an audience.
Mailbag
Be an American
For Sale
Do you like to ski? If you do, this might be for you. A small
market Colorado AM/FM station is for sale. It covers two ski resorts
in a beautiful winter and summer resort area. Only $50,000 down.
Call Bill Kitchen at 303-665-8000.
A northeast Wisconsin FM is priced at $250,000, and features a
possible power upgrade and a low down payment, with seller financing
available. Call Nick Strandberg at 612-831-3300.
If you have Georgia on your mind, how about a one kW fulltime
AM station for $400,000? Call 404-237-2570 for details.
KWYS, 920 AM, in West Yellowstone, Mont ana, is on he block.
Call 406-646-7361, and buy yourself a kilowatt signal.
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International Bandscan
The Eternal Word TV Network is building a 24 hour a day radio
network near Rome, Italy. TI1e network will broadcast from two
towers atop a mountain in the vicinity of Rome, and will broadcast in
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. Supported
by the Vatican and other sources, there will be no on-air fund raising.
They will ca rry some of the audio from EWTN's cable TV network,
although most will be in fore ign languages.
A WR Asia hopes to start a noncommercial FM station from Facpi
Point, near Agat, Guam, by the end of 1989. The service will cover
the Mariana Islands of Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan. A 24 hour a
day operation, with 3 kW of power, A WR will broadcast news and
public affairs programming along with digitally recorded music.
New Irish longwave station Atlantic 252 is looking for disk jockeys.
Send your tape and cover Jetter to: Trevis Baxter, Station Manager,
Atlantic 252, Mornington House, Summerhill Road, Trim, County
Meath, Ireland.
Shortwave broadcaster Deutsche Welle has decided to cease
funding Radio Antilles, the 200 kW p owerhouse from Montserrat in
the Caribbean on 930 kHz. The Voice of America and The
Caribbean News Agency have shown interest in the station.
Cadena 13 in Catalunya, Spain, is planning a 900 kW medium wave
transmitter to cover Europe. It should be an easy catch for the most
casual DXer!
r:m
l1lliJ
Credits
Our thanks to readers Ken Hydeman, Ruth Hesch, and W. Earle Doan for
sending along materials for this month's column. Also, thanks to Broad
casting, Radio World, The New York Times and The M Street Journal, and lo the
British DX Club for our tnlernallonat news. See you next montht
October
1989
51
outer limits
W~O. C.10i:541
.acorionue10..,.ayour~
52
October 1989
MONITORING TIMES
BUGGED???
need when it begins shortwave programming.
As you can sec, Latin Ameri can broadcasting is a tim ely topic these days. If you
find the subject "alien" or at least very
confusing, I would suggest Joan Didion's
outst a nding book, Miami, published by
Pocket Books.
Didion does make some references to
the innu ence and role of radio, but for the
most part hers is not a radio book.
However, it will give the reader
considerable insight into the world view of
the Latin American, especially the Cuban
exile, and the impact he has had on both
Latin America and this country. I highly
recommend this book. It will make your
radio listening more enlightening, and your
nonradi o monitoring friends may also find
it helpful.
SENSITIVITY
CAPRI ELECTRONICS
P.O. Box 589M
Bayfield, CO 81122
(303) 884-9084
That Outlaw X
If you were listening to radio at anytime
during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s or even
earlier, then it is almost a certainty you
came across XERF, XEG, and other
"border blasters."
Considered by some to be illegal, the
stations did have licenses issued by Mexico.
They ran high power, as much as 250 kW in
the case of XERF. Most broadcasts were
in English and could be heard coast to
coast, and somet imes literally around the
world.
With a repertoire of gospel and country
music, plus a large stable of fundamentalist
preachers, they sold almost everyt hing
in cluding miracle prayer cloths, live baby
chicks, and questionable to downright
dangerous medica l treatments. They also
;
.,,...
MONITORING TIMES
Oc1ober 1989
53
Joe Woodlock
P.O. Box 98
Brassto w11 , NC 28902
Rumbli ngs
the Basement
I usually like to check out these transmissions myself, or at least make a try o n the
same frequencies. In this case, however, that
was impossible. My receiver gives up somewhere down around 130 kHz. So I turned to
the man who wrote the book abou t low
fre que ncies, Peter Carron.
Of course, the GWEN stations a re operat ing between 150 and 175 kHz. With the
second stage transmitters under construction
in various places, it is likely that t hese
frequencies will be active for some time to
come. They send encrypted packet radio
bu rsts and sound almost like heavy b reathing.
54
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TABLE ONE
Location
Call
Freq
GMT
Cora l H a rb our
Quebec
Labrador
Reso lute
Prince Rupert
Tofino
Churchill
St. John's
Mnntrea l
Sydney
Victoria
Hal ifax
Iqaluit
Killinck
Riviere-au -Renard
Yarmouth
Mont J oli
St. Anthony
VFU
YCC
YO K
VFR
YAJ
VAE
YAP
VON
VFN
484
474
444
474
420
478
420
478
420
464
430
484
430
416
434
489
446
489
+ 40 02/13/15
+20 00/ 13/ 15
+20 2/8/14/20
+20 01/ 13
+20 08/11/ 20
+ 20 08/12/20
+30 02/1 4
0000 0920 2130 +
+ 10 00 / 13/ 15
0100 1230 2230
+20 09/ 13/21
+00 12/ 14/22+
1430 18 & 2300
+00 1/18/ 23 +
+50 00/ 13/ 15
1300 1730 2300
+30 00/13/ 15
0210 1305 17/21
vco
YAK
vcs
YFF
VF?
VCG
YAU
VCF
VCM
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0004 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Give Peace a Chance. A
weekly review of events In lhe International
peace movement.
0009 Radio Yugoslavia: Music Break. A brier
musical lnlerlude.
0011 Radio Yugoslavia: Current Affairs. Background reports and analysis on current
news Items.
0014 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Yours ror the Asking.
Panelists give short answers to listener
questions.
00 16 Radio Yugoslavia: Art and Culture. A look at
different art displays and other cultural
happenings In Yugoslavia.
0030 BBC: Composer or the Month. Prollles of
great composers and selections from their
worl<S.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. News analysis
from correspondents worldwide.
0050 Vatican Radio: With Heart and Mind. A look
at the spiritual d imension of human living.
0052 Radio Nelherlands: Over to You. A listener
contact program with Barry O'Dwyer.
0101 BBC: Ptay of the Week. Hour-long drama
selections.
011 O Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. A short
break featuring East German music.
ft
M=Monday
S=Sund ay
T=Tuesday W=Wednesday
H=Thursday F=Friday
A=Saturday
...A
LEGEND
are th e program start time in
UTC.
IQ
56
October 1989
MONITORING TIMES
MT Program Team
Kannon Shanmugam,
Program Manager
4412 Turnberry Circle
Lawrence, KS 66047
Jim Frimmel
Willow Park, Texas
Dale Vanderpoel
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
0336 Radio Prague: Spin the Discs. See S 0136.
0337 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Over to You. See S
0052.
0355 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0357 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Commentary. See S 01 12.
0404 Radio Bertin lnt'I: Give Peace a Chance.
See S 0004.
0414 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Yours for the Asking. See
0014.
0430 BBC: Boys In the Back Room. A look at
the people behind the scenes in the
theatre.
0430 Radio Netherlands: Sunday Spotlight. A took
at events and issues affecting Alrlca over
the past week.
0445 BBC: Personal View. A personal opinion on
topical Issues In British life.
0500 Vatican Radio: The Pope, the Church. and
the wortd. A look at the Pope's weekend
message and a brief meditation.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. Analysts of the
main news of the day.
0530 BBC: Financial Review. A took back at the
financial week.
0540 BBC: Words of Faith. People share how
their scripture gives meaning to their lives.
0545 BBC: Letter from America. Alistair Cooke's
distinctly British view of America
0630 BBC: Jazz for the Asking. A Jazz music
request show.
0709 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0730 BBC: From Our Own Correspondent. See S
0315.
0730 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station. Tom
Meyer's family entertainment program with
music and letters.
0745 BBC: Book Choice. Short reviews of current
or future best-sellers.
0750 BBC: Waveguide. How to hear the BBC
better.
1115 BBC: From Our Own Correspondent. See S
0315.
progra1n
1130 BBC: Composer or the Month. See S 0030.
1130 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station. See S
0730.
1201 BBC: Play or the Week. See S 0101.
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
1330 BBC: Sports Roundup. The day's sports
news.
1345 BBC: Personal View. See S 0445.
1401 BBC: The Chinese People Stand Up.
Chinese history, from the 1949 revolution to
the
Tlananmen Square uprising.
1430 BBC: Anything Goes. Sounds from the BBC
archives as requested by listeners.
1430 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station. See S
0730.
1515 BBC: Concert Hall. A program of classical
music from the world's great concert halls.
1615 BBC: Feature. Program ming on various
subjects.
1630 Radio Netherlands: Happy StaJlon. See S
0730.
1645 BBC: Lener from America. See S 0545.
2300 Radio for Peace lnl'I: Peace Talks. Issues
such as peace education, and development
and peace.
2310 BBC: Book ChOlce. See S 0745.
2315 BBC: Letter from America. See S 0545.
2330 BBC: The Chinese People Stand Up. See S
1401.
2355 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
2357 Radio Bertin lnt'I: Commentary. See S 01 12.
Monday
Oct 2nd, 9th, 16t h, 2 3th, 30t h
0001 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Mailbag. A weekend
feature answering listener letters and
thanking listeners tor writing.
0011 Radio Yugoslavia: lnlematlonal Economic
Review. A look at the economic situations In
different countries worldwide.
0013 Radio Bertin lnl'I: Weekend Mag8llne. A
look al many different cultural events In
East Germany.
0014 Radio Yugoslavia: Music Break. See S 0009.
0016 Radio Yugoslavia: Tourism. Visits to many
popular tourist spots In Yugoslavia.
0020 Radio Yugoslavia: Music Box. Interviews with
Yugoslavian composers and excerpts from
some of their com positions.
0030 BBC: In Praise of God. A hall-hOur program
of worship.
NEWS GUIDE
This is your guide to news broadcasts
on the air. All broadcasts are daily
unless otherwise noted by brackets.
These brackets enclose day codes
denoting days of broadcast. The
co des are as fo llows:
Sa Sunday
T = Tuesday
H =< Thursday
A~ Saturday
M Monday
W= Wednesday
Fa Friday
BBC: Newsdesk
Christian Science Monitor: News
Kol Israel: News
KVOH: UPI Radio News
Radio Australia: lnlernatlonal Report
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Canada lnl'I: News (S-M)
Radio Havana Cuba: lnt'I News [M-AJ
Radio Moscow: News
Spanish National Radio: News
Voice or America: News
WWCR: News (M-FJ
Radio Beijing: News About China
Christian Science Monitor: News (T-FJ
KVOH: UPI Headline News
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak (MAJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News (T-SJ
Voice or America (Americas. East Asia):
News (Special English) (T-SJ
0030 Voice or America (East Asia): News (Special
English) (MJ
0051 Spanish Natlonal Radio: News Summary (SJ
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Tuesday
Oct 3th, 10th, 17th, 24th , 31st
0001 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Our Report. Reports and
updates on events happening In Eas1
Germany and wortdwlde.
0006 Radio Berlin ln1'1: Spotllgh1 on Sport. A
wrap-up of 1he weekends national and
ln1ernallonal sports results.
0008 Radio Yugoslavia: Commentary of the Week.
Selected topics for commentary are
discussed.
0013 Radio Berlin Jnl'I: RBI DX Club Meeting.
Articles for DX'ers and responses to
member commen1s.
0018 Radio Yugoslavia: People and Events. The
lives of Yugoslavian people and topics thal
affect their way of Ille.
0030 BBC: Megamlx. A compendium of music.
sport, fashi on. health, travel, news and
views for young people.
0030 Radio for Peace lnt'I: Stepping ou1 of
Babylon. Interviews with people concerned
with freedom and liberty.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0050 Vatican Radio: A Many-Splendored Thing
(except October 31st: Letterbox). See M
0500.
0052 Radio Netherlands: The Research File. See
M 0752.
0100 Radio for Peace lnt'I: Wings. Women's news
and currenl affairs.
0101 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
0110 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
01 12 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Commentary. See S 01 12.
01 13 Radio Prague: Newsvlew. Commentary on
current news Items In Czechoslovakia.
0116 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
0121 Radio Berlin ln1'1: Spotlight on Sport. See T
0006.
0122 Radio Prague: Folk Music Section.
Traditional folk music from the Slovak
region.
0125 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
0126 Radio Prague: Introducing Czechoslovakia.
Different facets of work and Ille In
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Rac!lo Berlin lnl'I : RBI DX Club Meeling. See T
0013.
BBC: Short Story. Brief tales written by BBC
listeners.
Radio for Peace lnl'I: New Dimensions Radio.
Innovative thinkers and Ideas on the leading
edge.
Radio Prague: Sports Roundup. Full coverage
of European sports, and sports commentaries.
Radio Prague: Meet the People. Questions from
listeners are posed to guests In the studio.
Radio Prague: The World Federation of Trade
Unions Calling. Reports on business dealings
and trade unions.
BBC: Europe's World. A magazine program
reflecting life In Europe and Its linkS with other
parts of the world.
Radio Prague: Interview Time. Interviews with
tourists visiting Czechoslovakla
Radio Bertin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S 0110.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Our Report. See T 0001 .
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Spotlight on Sport. See T
0006.
BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
Radio Berlin lnl'I: RBI DX Club Meeting. See T
0013.
BBC: Nelwork UK. A look at the Issues and
events that affect the lives of people throughout
the UK.
BBC: Sports International. Feature program on
a topic or person making sports headlines.
Radio for Peace lnt'I: European Profile.
Correspondent reports on European politics
and social developments.
Radio Portugal: Sun to Sea. See M 1611.
Radio for Peace Jnt'I: United Nations Radio.
Various programming relating to the Unlled
Nations.
Radio for Peace lnt'I: University of the Air. See
M 2300.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S 0110.
Vatican Radio: A Many-Splendored Thing
(except October 31sl: Letterbox). See M 0500.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Commentary. See s 0112.
Radio Prague: Newsview. See T 0113.
BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
Radio Berlin lnl'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Spotlight on Sport. See T
0006.
Radio Prague: Folk Music Section. See T 0122.
Radio Prague: Introducing Czechoslovakia. See
T 0126.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: RBI DX Club Meeting. See T
0013.
BULLETIN BOARD
0330 BBC: John Peel. TrackS from newly releas'ed
albums and singles from the contemporary .,__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __.
music scene.
0330 Radio Prague: Sports Roundup. See T Ot 30.
BBC features for October
0333 Radio Prague: Meet the People. See T 0133.
0337 Radio Nelherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
At 1615 UTC on Sundays, the BBC
0339 Radio Prague: The World Federation of Trade
presents
"A Year of Dying Dangerously," a
Unions Calling. See T 0139.
look at the role of murder and manslaughter
0349 Radio Prague: Interview Time. See T 0149.
in today's society (October 1st/8th);
0352 Radio Netherlands: The Research Fite. See M
0752.
"Getting to Know You," a program about
0355 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
such practitioners as handwriting analysts,
0110.
ast rologers, and phrenologists (October
0357 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
0401 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Our Report. See T 0001 .
15th); and "In the Psychiatrist's Chair," a
0406 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Spotlight on Sport. See T
series of interviews with well-known
0006.
personalities (October 22nd/29th). These
0413 Radio Berlin lnt'I: RBI DX Club Meeting. See T
programs are repeated on the following day
0013.
0430 BBC: Off the Shell. See M 0430.
(Monday) at 0730 UTC and 1330 UTC.
0437 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
At 0101 UTC and 1515 UTC on
0445 BBC: New Ideas. A radio shop window for new
Mondays, the BBC presents Lillian
products and inventions.
0455 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
Hellman's drama about a private boarding
0500 Vatican Radio: Talking Polnl. A roundtable
school for girls, "The Children's Hour"
discussion on both religious and secular topics.
(October 2nd/9th); "Chinese Lives," profiles
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
of various Chinese individuals (October
0530 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
0540 BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
23rd); and 'The Child Behind the Eyes," an
0545 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
Israeli drama about a handicapped child and
0630 BBC: Rock Salad. Tommy Vance presenls
his mother (October 30th).
another series of heavy metal music. (Rock
The BBC also features this month a
on?)
0709 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
rather odd series, entitled "Food Plants." In
0730 BBC: Europe's World. See T 0145.
their words, the ten-minute programs profile
0737 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
"the history and economics, science and
0745 BBC: Nelwork UK. See T 0215.
Netherlands: Images.
A cultural
0752 Radio
folklore of the relationship between human
magazine. hlghlighling film. thealre. opera.
beings and those plants that nourish us." The
bookS, and serious music.
program can be heard weekly at 1215
111 5 BBC: Waveguide. See S 0750.
on Wednesdays and 0630 UTC on
1125 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
1130 BBC: Megamlx. See T 0030.
Thursdays.
1137 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
Coincidentally, each of those broadcasts
11 52 Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
comes right before a broadcast of "The
1200 Valican Radio: Talking Point. See T 0500.
Farming World," perhaps reflecting a new1215 BBC: Multitrack 1: Top 20. See M 2330.
1245 BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
found agrarian bent in Bush H ouse!
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
1330 BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
1345 BBC: Boys In the Back Room. See S 0430.
1405 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
1430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
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Oct 4th, 1 Hh, 18th, 25th
0001 Radio Berlin tnt'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
0006 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0008 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Stamp Album. Updates on
new Issues, history, and other lnformallon
about stamps.
0012 Radio Bertin lnt't: GOA Kaleidoscope.
Features on science, social Ille, and youth
affairs tn East Germany.
0030 Radio for Peace lnt'I: Peace Forum. The
search for world peace.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0050 Vallcan Radio: Talking Point. See T 0500.
0052 Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
0100 Radio for Peace lnt'I: Red Cross Roads.
Activities of the Red Cross.
0101 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
0110 Radio Berlin lnl'I : Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0112 Radio Bertin lnl'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
0113 Radio Prague: Newsview. See T 0113.
0116 Radio Berlin lnl'I : Commentary. See S 0112.
0121 Radio Berlin lnl'I : Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0123 Radio Bertin lnt'I: Stamp Album. See w
0008.
0124 Radio Prague: Culture. Interviews with Czech
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0332 Radio Prague: Economic Report. See W
0132.
0337 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
0344 Radio Prague: Folk Music (except October
25th: Brass Band Music). See W 0144.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
0355 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0357 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
0401 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
0406 Radio Benin lnl'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0408 Radio Berlin lnl'I : Stamp Album. See W
0008.
0412 Radio Berlin lnl'I: GOA Kaleldoscope. See w
0012.
0430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
0437 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0445 BBC: Country Style. See W 0145.
0500 Vatican Radio: Vatican Week. A look at the
Pope's weekly general audience.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0530 BBC: Flnanclal News. See M 231 o.
0540 BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
0545 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
0630 BBC: Meridian. The world of the arts,
Including music. drama, and books.
0709 BBC: TWenty-Four Hours. See s 0509.
0730 BBC: Development '89. Aid and development Issues.
0737 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0752 Radio Netherlands: Mind Your OWn
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1206.
0407 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Pop Corner. See H 0007.
0414 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Question Time. See H
0014.
0430 BBC: Off the Shell. See M 0430.
0437 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
0445 BBC: Andy Kershaw's World of Music. See
M 0215.
0500 Vatican Radio: Vatican Viewpoint. An
examination of the ethical and moral Issues
0509
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0540
0545
0630
0640
0709
0730
0730
of Catholicism.
BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
BBC: Flnancial News. See M 2310.
BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
BBC: Food Plants. See W 1215.
BBC: The Farming World. See W 1225.
BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
BBC: Write On... Paddy Feeny answers
listener letters.
Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
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October 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th
0001 Radio Bertin lnl'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
0007 Radio Berlin lnl'I: Mid-Week Sports Report.
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0230 BBC: Up the Garden Path. See H 11 30.
0230 Radio for Peace lnl'I: Media World or This
Wondrous World. Details not available at
press time.
0245 Radio Portugal: Cultural and Current Events.
See H 1611 .
0245 Radio for Peace lnt'I: United Nations Radio.
See T 0245.
0300 Radio for Peace lnt'I: Peace Forum. See
w 0030.
0310 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0310 Vatican Radio: Vatican Viewpoint. See H
0500.
0312 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
0313 Radio Prague: Newsvtew. See T 0113.
031 5 BBC: The Worl d Today. See M 1645.
0316 Radio Berlln lnt'I: Commentary. See S
011 2.
0322 Radio Berlln lnt'I: Mid-Week Sports Report.
See F 0007.
0325 Radio Prague: Folk Music Section. See T
01 22.
0328 Radio Prague: Health and Medicine. See F
01 28.
0330 BBC: Focus on Faith. Comment and
discussion o n the major Issues In the
worlds of faith.
0330 Radio for Peace lnt'I: University of the Air.
See M 2300.
0334 Radio Bertin lnt'I: The Land We Uvo In.
See F 001 9.
0335 Radio Prague: Letter from Czechoslovakia.
See F 0135.
0337 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See s 0037.
0340 Radio Prague: DX Chat. See F 0140.
0349 Radio Prague: The World Federation of
Trade Unions Calling. See T 0139.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Media Network. See H
0752.
0355 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
0357 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
0401 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Commentary. See s 01 12.
0407 Radio Berlin lnt'I: Mid-Week Sports Report.
See F 0007.
0419 Radio Berlin lnt'I: The Land We Live In. See
F 0019.
0430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
0437 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
0445 BBC: Jazz Scene UK (October 6th, 20th) or
Folk In Britain (October 13th, 27th). See H
1345.
0500 Vatican Radio: The Church Today. The
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for peace.
Radio Portugal: Mailbag or DX/Philately. See
F 1611 .
Radio for Peace lnt'I: United Nations Radio.
See T 0245.
Radio for Peace lnt'I: University of the Alr.
See M 2300.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
Vatican Radio: The Church Today. See F
0500.
Radio Berlin tnt'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
Radio Prague: Newsvlew. See T 0113.
BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
Radio Berlin Int'!: Our Report. See T 0001 .
Radio Prague: The Week's Events In
Czechoslovakia See A 0120.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Panorama See A 0007.
Radio Prague: The Arts In Czechoslovakia.
See A 0125.
BBC: The Vintage Chart Show. Past top ten
hits with Jimmy Savlte.
Radio Prague: North American Mailbag
Program. See A 0135.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Did You Know? See A
0021.
Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt Express. See
F 0752.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Musical Interlude. See S
0110.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Commentary. See S 0112.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Our Report. See T 0001.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Panorama. See A 0007.
Radio Berlin lnt'I: Did You Know? See A
0021.
BBC: Here's Humph! All that Jazz with
Humphrey Ly1telton.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
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0100 UTC
The first lour digits of an entry are the broadcast slart time In UTC.
The second four digits represent the end lime.
In the space between the end time and the station name is the broadcast
schedule.
M = Monday
Fa Friday
T =Tuesday
A Saturday
12025 15415
21585 21690
Radio Moscow N. America Service 7165 9600
0000-0100
9865 11710
11 850 11930
15330 21470
0000-0100
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
15485 17705
0000-0100
Radio for Peace, Costa Rica
13660 21565
9655 11905
0000-0100
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
Radio Tonga, Tonga
0000-0100
5050
SBC Radio One, Singapore
0000-0100
5010 5052
9630 15110
0000-0100
Spanish National Radio, Madrid
15580
0000-0100 T-S Superpower KUSW, Utah
0000-0100
Voice of America, Washington
5995 6130
9815 11580
15205
0000-0100
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
7315 9495
0000-0100
7355
WANO, New Orleans, Louisiana
0000-0100
WYFR, Oakland, California
5985 9505
BBC, London, England*
0030-0045
6195 7235
15360 17875
BBC, London, England
0030-0100
5975 6005
9915 9590
0030-0100
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
9745 11 775
Radio Budapest, Hungary
6110 9520
0030-0100
11910 15160
6020 6165
0030-0100
Radio Netherlands, Hilversum
6005 9720
SLBC, Colomba. Sri Lanka
0030-0100
All India Radio, New Delhi
0035-0040
3925 4860
0045-0100
15575
Radio Korea (South). Seoul
0045-0100
15485 17705
Radio New Zealand, Welllnglon
0048-0100
WJNB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15145
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
0050-0100
9605 11 780
17860
21790
9700
11730
13605
17880
9720
11750
15290
11 940
9455 9775
11695 11740
15170
9570 11945
6175
12095
15155
9585
7325
15260
15230
9835
15315
15185
9850 13760
LEGEND
S = Sunday
H =Thursday
Radio Moscow
w= Wednesday
II there Is no entry. the broadcasts are heard dally. II. for example, there Is an
entry of "M." the broadcast would be heard only on Mondays. An entry of "M,W,P
would mean Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays only. "MF" would mean
Mondays through Fridays. "TEN" Indicates a tentative schedule and "TES" a lest
transmission.
[ML] after a frequency Indicates a multl-llngual transmission containing
English-language programs.
The last entry on a tine Is the frequency. Codes here Include "SSB" which
Indicates a Single Sideband transmission, and v for a frequency that varies.
[ML) after a frequency Indicates a multl-llngual transmission containing
English-language programs.
v after a frequency Indicates that II varies
Notations of USB and LSB (upper and rower sideband transmissions) usually
refer only to the Individual frequency after which they appear.
Listings followed by an asterisk (*) are for English lessons and do not contain
regularly scheduled programming.
We suggest that you begin with the lower frequencies that a station is
broadcasting on and work your way up the dial. Remember that there Is no
guarantee that a station will be audible on any given day. Reception conditions
can change rapidly, though, and II It Is not audible one night. It may well be on
another.
0100-0110
0100-0115
0100-0120
0100-0125
0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0130
9605
6055
11715
9575
6020
11605
9535
1m5
11780
7215
11745
11800
6165
12077
9755
15180
9535 9910
1511 0
15315
15615
11845 11940
HOW TO USE
THE PROPAGATION CHARTS
Propagation charts can be an invaluable aid to the DXer in
determining which frequencies are likely to be open at a
given time. To use the propagation charts, choose those
for your location (the are divided into east coast, midwest
and west coast of North America). Then look for the one
most closely describing the geographic location of the
station you want to hear.
Once you've located the correct charts, look along the
horizontal axis of the graph for the time that you are
listening. Th e top line of the graph shows the Maximum
Useable Frequency [MUF] and the lower line the Lowest
Useable Frequency [LUF] as indicated on the vertical axis
of the graph.
While there are exceptions to every rule (especially those
regarding shortwave listening). you should find the charts
helpful in determining the best times to listen for particular
regions of the world. Good luck!
MONITORING T IMES
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15405 17800
71 13V
15145
6080 11890
6040 6085
9735 11865
5975 6005
BBC, London, England
01000200
9410 9590
15260
6195 9625
CBC Northern Quebec Service
01000200
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6 160
01000200
6160
CBU. Vancouver, British Colombia
01000200
0100-0200
CFCF. Montreal, Quebec
6005
6030
0100-0200
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
0100-0200
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
6130
Christian Science World Service
7400 9850
0100-0200
0100-0200
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
0100-0200
6070
0100-0200
FEBC, Manila, Philippines
15445
0100-0200
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
9745 11775
0100-0200 TA KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
17775
0100-0200
Radio Australia, Melbourne
15160 151 80
15395 17715
17750 21740
0100-0200
Radio Havana Cuba
11820
Radio Japan, Tokyo
0100-0200
5960 17810
0100-0200
Radio Luxembourg
6090
0100-0200
Radio Moscow
15415 17605
17880 21585
0100-0200
Radio Moscow, N. American Service 7165 7290
9720 9865
11850 11930
0100-0200
Radio New Zealand, Welllngton
15485 17705
0100-0200 TA Radio for Peace. Costa Rica
13660 21565
0100-0200
Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
5930 7345
11685
1 t990 13715
0100-0200
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
9655 11 905
0100-0200
Radio Tonga, Tonga
5050
01000200
RAE, Buenos Aires, Argenllna
9690
0100-0200
SBC Radio One, Singapore
5052 11940
01000200
SLBC, Colombo, Sri Lanka
6005 9720
0100-0200
Spanish National Radio, Madrid
9630 15110
01000200 TS Superpower KUSW, Utah
11695
0100-0130
Radio Sweden. Stockholm
0100-01 30
Laotian National Radio
0100-0130 S,M WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
Radio Berlin lnl'I, East Germany
0100-0145
Deutsche Welle, West Germany
0100-0150
0100-0200
6145 9565
15105
6175 7325
9915 12095
13760
MHz.
50.00
50.00
0200 UTC
17850
21690
9600
11 710
21470
17860
21790
9700
11750
25945(A)
9540
15540
0200-0230
0200-0230
0200-0250
0200-0250
0200-0255
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
15425
Coo~
11845 11 940
17775
6145 7125
7185
11 605 12080
6080 11785
9610 9800
17665 17690
6095 6135
12035 17730
5995 7205
15160 15205
6035 7285
15205 15235
11 745v
6155 9510
11940 15380
5975 6005
9410 9590
12095 15260
6195 9625
6160
6160
9650
15615
11890 15125
11675 15180
9725
9815 11580
18157 USB
9690 11945
17770
9570 11830
6175 7325
9660 9915
15310 17875
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9680 15170
11645
9585 9835
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9420
9520
15160
9875
11945
9755
15365
15240 15320
17795
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15155 15230
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MHz.
{I)
0100-0200
Voice or Indonesia, Jakarta
WHAi, Noblesville, Indiana
0100-0200
0100-0200
WANO New Orleans, Louisiana
0100-0200 IRA WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
0100-0200
WYFR. Oakland, California
0130-0140 TS Voice of Greece, Alhens
0130-0145WHFA Radio Budapest. Hungary
E.ad
Western Europe
5995
9740
11740
18157
9680
7315
7355
15690
5985
9395
6110
11910
9870
11810
9535
15330
15145
6080
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02000300
02000300
02000300
02000300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300 A,S
02000300
6005
6030
6070
6130
9455 9850 13760
6080
9745 11775 15155
17865
15160 15180 15240 15320
15395 17715 17750 17795
21740
11810 11945
Radio Baghdad. Iraq
0200-0300
9475 9675
Radio Cairo, Egypt
02000300
9535 9755 11845 11940
0200-0300 TA Radio Canada Int'!. Montreal
02000300
Radio Havana Cuba
9710 11820
02000300
Radio Luxembourg
6090
02000300
Radio Moscow, USSR
11845 12025 15415 17600
17860 17880 21585 21690
21790
Radio Moscow N. America Service
02000300
7165 7290 9600
9720
9865 11710 11 750 11850
15425 2 1470
02000300
Radio Orton, South Africa
3955
0200-0300 TA Radio for Peace. Costa Rica
13660 21565 25945(A)
02000300 A Radio New Zealand, Wellington
15485 17705
02000300
9580 9615 11935
Radio RSA. South Africa
02000300
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
9655 11905
02000300
Radio Tonga. Tonga
5050
02000300
SBC Radio One. Singapore
5052 11940
0200-0300
SLBC. Colombo, Sri Lanka
6005 9720 15425
0200-0300 TS Superpower KUSW, Utah
11695
02000300
Voice of Asia, Taiwan
7285
02000300
Voice of Free China. Taiwan
5950 7445 9680 9765
02000300
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
6045
0200-0300
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15145
02000300
WHRt. Noblesville, Indiana
73t5 9495
020().0300
7355
WRNO. New Orleans. Louisiana
0200-0300 IRR WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
7520
0200-0300
WYFR, Gallfornta
5985 9505 15170
0215-0220
Radio Nepal, Kathmandu
5005 7165
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
02300240
3925 4890 5960 5985
6020 6040 6080 6140
9520
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East Coast To
West Africa
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7010
17660
9730
11 755
6060
9705
7205
3905
5960
7195
11 830
9640
11675
0230-0245
0230-0300
0240-0250
0245-0300
02520257v
I 0300
UTC
0300-0330
0300-0330
0300-0330
0300-0345
0300-0345
0300-0350
0300-0350
0300-0355
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
MHz.
13610 15240
15185
6080 9600
11840
03000400
03000400
9680
0300-0400
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
0300-0400
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
0300-0400
WHAi. Noblesvllle, Indiana
0300-0400
WMLK, Bethel. Pennsylvania
0300-0400
WANO, New Orleans, Louisiana
0300-0400 IRA WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
0300-0400
WYFR Satelllle Nel. California
Vatican Radio. Vatican City
0310-0330
0315-0345
Radio France lnl'I. Pans
9675
15325 17765 21610
11705
15125
17705
9545 11810 15205
11945
1171 5 15066 15130
17855
9625
0330-0400
9850 13760
11775 15155
East Coast To
South Africa
Middle East
40.oo
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11850
17600
21625
11 685
9525
11745
7280
11670
15135
6175
12095
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11830
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5930 7095
5975 6005 6175
7325 9410 9915
12095 15260 15390
Indian Ocean
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11 750 13610
East Coast To
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50.00
10.00
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0300-0315
0300-0330
0300-0307
0300-0330
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0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0405
Radio Uganda. Kampala
0400-0410
Radio Thailand. Bangkok
0400-0410
RAI, Rome. Italy
0400-0420
Radio Botswana. Gabarone
0400-0420 T-S Radio Zambia. Lusaka
0400-0425
Radio Bucharest. Romania
4976 5026
9655 11905
6155 11905 15330
4620
3345 6165
6155 9510 9570
11940 15360
0400-0425
Radio Netherland, Hliversum
6165 9590
0400-0430
BBC, London, England
3955 5975 1>005
7105 9410 ~1540
9600 9915 1<!095
15390 15245 15420
17665
0400-0430
La voz Evangellca. Honduras
4820
0400-0430
Radio Berlin Int'!, East Germany
11 785 15125
0400-0430
SLBC. Colomba. Sri Lanka
6005 9720 15425
0400-0430
Radio Tanzania. Dar es Salaam
9684
0400-0430
Swiss Radio lnl'I. Berne
6135 9725 9865
9535 11930
0400-0430
Trans World Radio. Bonaire
0400-0430 S,M WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15145
Deutsche Welle, West Germany
0400-0450
7150 7225 9565
15265
Radio Pyongyang. North Korea
0400-0450
15160 15180
0400-0455
Radio Beijing. China
11 665 11840 15195
0400-0500
CBC Northern Quebec Service
6195 9625
0400-0500
CBN. St. John's. Newfoundland
6160
CBU. Vancouver, British Colombia
0400-0500
6160
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
0400-0500
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
0400-0500
6030
CHNS. Halifax, Nova Scotia
6130
0400-0500
Christian Science World Service
9455 9870 13760
0400-0500
0400-0500
CKWX, Vancouver. British Colombia 6060
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
6070
0400-0500
FEBC. Manila. Philippines
11850
0400-0500
0400-0500
HCJB. Quito, Ecuador
11775 15155 15185
0400-0500
Radio Australia. Melbourne
11910 15160 15240
17715 17795 21740
MHz.
0400-0500
Radio New Zealand. Wellington
0400-0500
Radio for Peace. Costa Alea
0400-0500
Radio Tonga. Tonga
Radio 5, South Africa
0400-0500
0400-0500
SBC Radio One. Singapore
0400-0500 TS Superpower KUSW. Utah
0400-0500
Voice of America. Washington
11630
6195
9560
15070
17615
0400-0500
0400-0500V
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0425-0440
0430-0455
0430-0500
12035
9765
0500 UTC
15320
5965
7290
15230
15540
21625
15485
73751
5050
4880
5052
9615
3980
7170
9540
15275
6045
6100
7315
9465
6185
5985
5990
9895
3955
9410
9915
15245
7210
9460
9535
3205
15325
9495
9520
7275
13700
5975
9510
12095
15420
9750
11835
11930
7205
17620
6005 7165
9580 9600
15070 15260
11945
(Irr)
0500-0510
Radio Lesotho, Maseru
0500-0510 MA Radio Zambia, Lusaka
0500-0515
GBC, Accra. Ghana
0500-0515
Kol Israel. Jerusalem
0500-0515
Vatican Radio. Vatican City
0500-0530 S,M Trans World Radio. Bonalre
0500-0530
Trans World Radio. Swazlland
4800
3345 6165
4915
11588 15640 17575
9645 11740 15190
9535 11930
3205 5055 7210
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East Coast To
East Coast To
Central kia
South East k io
Indonesia
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0500-0545
0500-0550
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
40.00
..
0530-0600
0530-0600
0530-0600
0545-0600
0545-0600 M-F
0555-0600
0555-0600
0600 UTC
s
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0600-0700
0600-0700
7210
17775 21700
17800 21645
6140 7155
11 840 15225
3366 491 5
6165 7235
6185 9645
17820
7113
11910 15160 15240 15395
17715 21525 21740
15240 17880 21645
15165
6070
6045
5965 11810
4850
11765 13790 15185 17875
13650 15160 15180
5975 6005 6195 7150
9410 9580 9600 9610
9640 9760 11925 11940
12095 15070 15245 15280
17740 17815 17885 21470
6160
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0600-0615
Radio Ghana, Accra
0600-0615 MA Radio Zambia, Lusaka
Vatican Radio. Valican Cily
0600-0620
0600-0630 F FEBA. Mahe. Seychelles
0600-0630
Laotian National Radio
0600-0630
Radio Australia. Melbourne
0600-0630
0600-0630
0600-0630
0600-0630
0600-0645
0600-0645
0600-0650
0600-0650
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0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
Voice of Asia, Taiwan
0600-0700
Voice of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
0600-0700 IRR Voice of Nicaragua, Managua
0600-0700
Voice of the Mediterranean
0600-0700
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
0600-0700 MA WMLK, Bethel, Pennsylvania
0600-0700
WYFR, Oakland, California
WYFR Satelllle Net, California
0600-0700
0615-0630 M-A va11can Radio, Va11can City
0625-0700
Trans World Radio Monte Carlo
0630-0635 M-F RTVC, Brazzaville, Congo
0630-0700
AWA, Forll, Italy
0630-0700
Radio Australla, Melbourne
0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0700
6030
6130
9455
6080
6070
9720
6215
11835
9560
7275
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5050
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11 910
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21600
6120
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0630-0700
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0630-0700 A,S Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
BBC, London, England
0645-0700
Radio Ghana, Accra
0645-0700
Radio Bucharest, Romania
0645-0700
9840 11 980
9745 11775
9570 11830
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12010
13645
15405
17635
21645
17705
11905
12030
13710
15425
17665
0700-0710
11 940
17805
Radio Sierra Leone. Freetown
5980
Radio Ghana (HS). Accra
3366
BBC, London, England
3955
9600
12095
15400
Burma Bcasting Service, Rangoon
9730
Radio Australia, Melbourne
9655
15240
21740
Radio Bucharest. Romania
21600
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
15485
Radio Zambia, Lusaka
11880
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
15340
ABC, Perth, Australia
15425
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6160
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
6130
Christian Science World Service
9455
CKWX, Vancouver, Bri11sh Columbia 6080
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
6070
ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
11830
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
6130
11925
6215
King of Hope, South Lebanon
6130
Radio Ghana Accra
Radio Havana Cuba
11835
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5990
17765
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11955
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0700-0730
6080
7200
9540
6095
7280
9575
0700-0730
0700-0730
0700-0730
0700-0750
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
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9840 11980
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9745 11835
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5965
11695
6040
21465
12050
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6140
11635
15450
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0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900 s
0800-0900
0800-0900 A, s
0800-0900
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0830-0840
6130
9455
6080
6070
6215
11 715
5995
9710
11955
15135
17660
12030
5050
5052
6135
11790
7270
7355
15210
7175
11 915
17855
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0830-0900
0830-0900
0830-0900
0830-0900
0830-0855
0830-0900
0830-0900
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50.00
5960
6050
71 10
7280
15235
6035
11850
6130
9700
15245
9770
11685
9560
21695
9855
7105
6055
5960
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7110
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11850
13670
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17795
17575
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6010
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9610
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6020
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11850
11925
15440
21485
21705
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15630
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7280 7295
15235 15250
6020
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9610
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5960
6050
7110
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11850
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7105
0900-0910
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6548
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15425
0900-0920
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15210
0900-0920
0900-0925
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5915
0900-0925
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17575
0900-0930
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9800
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3925
0900-0930
0900-0930
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11755
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21710
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11685
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9770
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6160
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2310
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2485
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2325
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9670
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0900-1000
9410
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15070
15400
0900-1000
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6005
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0900-1000
6030
0900-1000
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6130
0900-1000
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9455
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
0900-1000
0900-1000
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
6070
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
0900-1000
6130
0900-1 000
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6215
0900-1000
KNLS. AnchOr Point. Alaska
6065
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4450
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0900-1000
5995
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7550
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10001030
1000-1030
1000-1030
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1000-1 100
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10001100
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15607
9850
13660
6055
11805
7165
5050
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5960
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9725
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11860
17387
10001100
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9410
15070
21710
10001 100
6160
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1000-11 00
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6005
10001 100
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6030
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100011 00
61 30
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9455
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1000-1 100
6070
10001 100
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11850
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1000 1100
13720
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10001 100
11805
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4405
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1000-1 100
5995
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10001100
9600
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17830
25780
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9850
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10001100 s Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
6055
10001100
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11805
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5010
1000-1100 s Superpower KUSW, Utah
6135
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10001100
6030
15425
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7270
1000-1100
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7355
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5950
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15606
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5980
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7220
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15450
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71 80
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6130
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6020
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71 65
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11835
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15630
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7345
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9725
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11 001200
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1100-1200 s R8Cllo Zambia, Lusaka
1100-1200
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1100-1200
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11 00-1200
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1100-1200
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j 1100 UTC
1100-11 05
1100-1120
1100-1 125
110011 30
1100-1130
1100-1130
11001 130
11001130
1100-11 30
1100-1 130
1100-1 130
11001 145
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1100-1 150
1100-1155
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1100-1200
11 001200
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71 15
11895
11645
7220
15160
6055
11815
7105
6090
15606
6020
7120
6130
9820
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9525
11 835
13635
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61 15
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9660
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6065
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6160
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6030
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6130
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9455
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6070
7290
17760
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9745
11665
21550
11818
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15570
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15540
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11 00-1200
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11001200
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1100-1200
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111 0-1 120 M-F Radio Bolswana, Gat>orone
11151130
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11151 130
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11151 145
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11835
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17830 21770
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25750
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6100
11 605
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11860
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5960
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9465
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4820
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5005
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6155
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21520
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9480
7215
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11620
6248
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6060
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11815
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17660
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9650
11 900
6080
9710
7215
9770
11840
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17815 17830
21800
21590
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6030 9590 9660
11720 11 745 11915
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21485
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13730 15430 21475
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17880 21465 21540
9715 17575 21460
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7110 9610 9675
11850 15320
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15440 17880
17865 21515
9693 11938
17720 21665
15400 21550
6095 7285
7215 9575
5955 9715
21520
15165
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1200-1230
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6095
1200-1230
9540 9600
Radio Tashkent. Uzbek, USSR
1200-1230
9655
11905
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1200-1230
17740 21555
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1200-1230
11880 (IRA)
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6165 9535
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1200-1230
9615 12015
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11600 11660
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1200-1255
17855
2310 [ML]
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1200-1300
9660
ABC Brisbane, AUstralia
1200-1300
2485
ABC, Kattierlne, Australia
1200-1300
ABC, Per1h, Australia
9610
1200-1300
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2325 [ML)
1200-1300
17890
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6012
1200-1300
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9725 11 870
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6195 9510
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11775 11 940
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1200-1300
6065 9625
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6160
1200-1300
6005
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1200-1300
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12001300
6030
6130
1200-1300
CHNS. Halifax, Nova Scolla
9495 9530
1200-1300
Christian Science World Service
1200-1300
CKWX, Vancouver, Brillsh Colombia 6080
CFRB. Toronto, Ontario
1200-1300
6070
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11740 1511 5
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12030
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11815
1300-1350
9325
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11335
11600
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1300-1355
15455
ABC, Alice Springs. Australia
2310
1300-1 400
1300-1400
ABC Brisbane, Australia
9660
ABC, Katherine, Australia
2485
1300-1400
ABC, Penh. Australia
1300-1400
9610
1300-1400
ABC, Tennant CreeK. Australia
2325
1300-1400
CBC Nonhern Quebec SeNice
9625
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
1300-1400
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
1300-1400
6160
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
1300-1400
6005
1300-1400
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6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1300-1400
6130
1300-1400
9495
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1300-1400
CKWX. Vancouver. British Colombia 6080
1300-1400
6070
CFRB. Toronto, Ontario
1300-1400 s ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
11830
1300-1400
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11850
1300-1400
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11740
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9725
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5995
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9580
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9625
1300-1400
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9560
1300-1400
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9750
1300-1400
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7315
9655
17655
1300-1400
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11805
11940
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ABC. Katherine, Australia
2485
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9610
ABC. Per1h, Australia
14001500
Adventist World Radio. Italy
7275
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All India Radio. New Deihl
9545
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5995
BBC, London, England
1400-1500
9750
15140
17790
25750
6160
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundtanct
14001500
9625
14001500
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6160
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14001500
CFCF. Montreal, Quebec
6005
14001500
6030
CFCN. Calgary, Alber1a
14001500
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6130
1400-1500
13760
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1400-1500
CKWX. Vancouver. British Colombia 6080
1400-1500
6070
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
14001500 s ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
11830
14001500
9670
FEBC, Manila. Philippines
1400-1500
HCJB, Quito. Ecuador
11740
14001500
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9725
14001500
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5995
7205
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9625
14001500
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9505
15410
1400-1500
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9570
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14001500
9640
12010
15320
17660
1400-1500
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11 925
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7165
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5010
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14001500
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9850
14001500
6110
Voice of America. Washington
15205
1400-1500
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6100
14001500
4950
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14001500
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11925
1400-1450
11810
6195
11750
15310
17840
15335
7180
12095
15400
21710
9465
15690
5950
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3230
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7245
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11935
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1400-1500
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9740
15070
17640
21470
11720
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11780
13770
11685
21505
9740
17880
15160
17820
15305
13730 21490
15150 17605
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11735
15305 15325
21545
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11 850
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6035
9580
11720
9695
6060
15140
11955
11865
9750
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12065
15490
17815
21535
15575
11840
15135
15540
21630
21590
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1500-1600
1500-1515
1500-1520
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7200 17630
11955 15090
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9410 9740
11940 12095
15260 15400
17740 17790
21710 25750
15325
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17820
11815
11900
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15585
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1500-1530
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1500-1530
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15001530 A.S Radio Tanzania. Dar es Salaam
15001530
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15001550
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15001550
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25790
5052 11940
9760 11920 15160
15245 15410 15425
1500-1555
1500-1600
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17870
6195
11750
15070
17640
21 470
7180
11775
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21660
11775 11940
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15310
15445
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11980
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15460
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5985
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9625 11720
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CBU. Vancouver, British Colombia
6160
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6005
6030
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6130
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13760 17555 21780
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6070
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11830
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11650
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9560
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9870
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9640 9755 11840
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5010 5052 11940
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9720
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6110 9575 9645
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7165 9560
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11784 15150
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6100
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4950
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15105 21840
1500-1600
1500-1600
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11965
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15690
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5950 11580
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1500-1600
1500-1600
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1500-1600
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11900
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1600-1630
1600-1630
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1600-1630
1600-1630
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1600-1630
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1600-1630
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6130
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21640
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6070
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12025
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11980
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11650
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5995
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15130
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6175
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17795
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9560
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Radio Malawi, Blantyre
3380
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9655
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15425
21565
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9705
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9684
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15650
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1600-1650
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9530
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11760
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11990 13715
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7325 9410
12095 15070
15420 17640
17880
4835 5995
15260 17820
7150 7250
3265 4855
15235
15255
12020 15010
11 920
9525
15265
17765 21535
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18001830
Radio Bamako, Mall
1800-1830 MF RaCllo Canada lnl'I, Montreal
1800-1830
RaCllo Kiev. Ukrainian SSR
1800-1830
Radio Mozambique, Maputo
1800-1830 s Radio Norway, Oslo
1800-1830
Voice of Alrtca, Egypt
1800-1830
Voice of Vielnam. Hanoi
1800-1845
RaClio Abidjan. Ivory Coast
1800-1845
Trans WorlCl Radio, Swaziland
RaCllo Bras, Brasilia. Brazil
1800-1850
RaCllo RSA. Soulh Alrlca
18001856
1800-1900 F ABC, Alice Springs, Auslralia
15215
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5945
7105
11940
5995
7205
9665
6135
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1800-1900
1800-1900
1900-1903
Alrlca No. 1. Gabon
19001905 MA Vatican Radio. Vatican City
1900-1915
Radio Bangladesh, Dhaka
19001915
Radio Tanzania. Dar es Salaam
1900-1925
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19001925
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11750 12095
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15250
11 735 15310
15010
15390 17810
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20.00
11870
9560
12020
13790
9470
11620
9740
15140
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7310 9640
11920 15255
17820
11850 11865 15270
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11760 11 920
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11 730
12010
15265
15585
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50.00
9895
11995
15245
15425
15475
6190 6248 7250 9645
6240 7505 11510
9684
6020 15560 17605 21685
9695
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17630
7160
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19001930
9665
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19001930
15260
19001930 MF Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal
Radro Japan. Tokyo
9695
19001 930
15235
19001930 s Radro Norway lnt'I, Oslo
19001930 MF Radio Portugal. Lisbon
11740
19001930
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
7245
Voice of Vietnam. Hanoi
9840
19001930
Deutsche Welle. Koln. W. Germany 11810
19001950
Radio Beijing. China
19001955
6860
7412
19002000
All India Radio, New Delhi
BBC. London. England
9410
19002000
15070
17880
CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625
19002000
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
19002000
19002000
CBU. Vancouver. Brilish Colom bia
6160
1900-2000
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec
6005
6030
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
19002000
6130
CHNS. Halifax. Nova Scotia
19002000
Chrlsllan Science World Service
21640
19002000
CKWX, Vancouver, Brlllsh Colombia 6080
19002000
19002000
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
6070
19002000
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
15220
19002000
Radio Algrers, Algeria
9509
1900-2000
Radio Australia, Melbourne
6035
7215
19002000
Radio Ghana. Accra
6130
19002000
Raelio Havana Cuba
15340
19002000
Radio Jordan, Amman
9560
19002000
Radio Kuwait, Kuwait
11665
19002000 MA Radio Malabo. Equatorial Guinea
9553
19002000
11840
Raello Moscow. USSR
13605
17605
19002000
Radio Moscow British Service
7240
19002000
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
11780
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Radio Prague. Czechoslovakia
5930
19002000
Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9705
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17765
19002000
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9580
19002000
Spanish Foreign Radio, Madrid
11790
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15650
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19002000 A.S Swaziland Commercial Radio
19002000
Trans World Radio Swaziland
19002000
Voice of America. Washlnglon
19002000
19002000
1900-2000
1900-2000
19002000
1900-2000
1900-2000
19002000
1900-2000
1900-2000
191 01920
19152000
19201930
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15180
15580
17800
9760 11760
15205 15410
15600 17740
17870
11770
17830
15566 21615
13695 15170
4820
13610 15255
9395 9425
7480 9440
6155 12010 13730
9690 9750 11940
15575
9022
7290
11870
11860
7250
9575
9645
2000-2005
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2000-2010 A Radio Zambia, Lusaka
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
2000-2010
2000-2015
Radio Togo, Lome
2000-2015 M-A Radio Ulan Bator, Mongolia
2000-2015
Trans World Radio, Swaziland
2000-2025
Radio Beijing, China
2000-2025
6155
3205
9525
11870
15445
17785
9595
6100
7255
13760
15295
9465
15420
15690
15215
11830
3356
9665
7430
5047
2485
6955
5945
7145
9870
6030
15185
7275
9575
9755
6190
3345 6165
3345 6165
6100
3220 5047
9575 11 870
3205
6955 7480
11 715
5990 6105
9750 9690
9440
9745
7145 7195
11940
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15650
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13760
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15420
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11580
21525
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20452100
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21 002200
21002200
21002125
21002125
21002125
21002130
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9575
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7325 9410 11 715
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2100-2200
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9620
7550 15575
13700 15560
7155 9700 11720
15330
11 835
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9550 9910 11620
21002105
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21002105
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2100211 o A. S Voice of Kenya. Nairobi
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21002200
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5990
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6120
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9860
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17810
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6480
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7340
11980
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9655
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9885
ELWA. Monrovia. Uber1a
11830
Radio Berlin lnl'I. East Germany
9730
Radio Yugoslavia. Belgrade
7215
Radio Baghdad. Iraq
13660
WYFR, Oakland, California
11 580
15566
Deutsche Welle. West Germany
9765
Radio Belling, China
9860
ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
2310
ABC, Katherine. Australia
2485
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2325
All India Radio. New Deihl
7412
BBC. London. England
3995
6180
12095
17755
9625
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CBN. St. John's. Newfoundland
6160
CBU. Vancouver. British Colombia
6160
CFCF. Montreal, Quebec
6005
6030
CFCN. Calgary, Alber1a
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
6130
Christian Science Wor1d Service
15390
CKWX, Vancouver. British Colombia 6080
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario
6070
King of Hope, Southern Lebanon
6280
7365
KSDA. Agat, Guam
KVOH, RanchO Simi. California
17775
Radio Australia. Melborurne
151 60
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15325
21002 11 5
2100-2125
21002125
9720
15095 17710
3345 6165
6100
9925
7480
6105
9750
11 755
13700
11765
17890
7550
7420
15240
11705
13635
9440
9745
7145 7195
11940
11 845
15560
15230 15270
15575
9550
9820
15525
11620
6005
9410
15260
17880
11715
6175
11750
15400
15610 17555
15125
15240 15395 17795
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21152200
21252155
21302145
21302200
21302200
21302200
21302200
21302200
21302200
21302200
21352150
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IRA
s
A.S
MF
S-F
9560
9865 11675
11840 11940
12050 13605
17700 17850
9552.5
5050
21565 25945
9580
11 790 15280
15650
15280
9700 9760
15410 15445
17785 17800
13760 17830
13720
15690
15185
15095 17710
9525 11965
9900
9870
5965 7160
6030 7230
15270 17790
11880 15150
13660 15325
11 660 15330
6100
61 90
11830
11730 11820
11980 12030
15295 17605
11760 15205
15580 15600
17870
15185
9635
21470
17820
17875
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Radio Berlin lnl'I, East Germany
21502200 MF ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
I2200 UTC
5965
11830
9730
2300 UTC
3993 11830
15095 17710
5980
2310 [ML)
2325 [ML)
5965 7160
9640 11740 15120
5990 9710
9615 11830 15105
2485
7412 9550 9910 11620
11715
CBC Northern Quebec Service
2200-2230
9625 11720
15280
2200-2230 s KGEI, San Francisco, California
Radio Beijing, China
22002230
3985 6165
22002230
5965 9730
Radio Berlin lnl'I, East Germany
Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal
5960 9755 11905
22002230
22002230
Radio Jordan. Amman
9560
15265
22002230 s Radio Norway lnl'I. Oslo
Radio Prague, C:zechostovakia
6055
2200-2230
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
11660 15330
22002230
Radio VIinius. Lithuanian SSR
9610 11675 15180 17690
2200-2230
BBC, London, England
3955 5975 6005 6 175
22002245
7325 9410 9590 9915
11920 12095 15070 15260
15400 17755 17760
Radio Cairo, Egypt
9900
2200-2245
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
9445 9685 17760
22002250
RAE, Buenos Aires. Argnetlna
11710 15345
2200-2255
6160
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
2200-2300
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6160
2200-2300
CFCF, Mon1real, Quebec
2200-2300
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
2200-2300
C HNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
6130
2200-2300
Christian Science World Service
9465 15300 17555
22002300
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
2200-2300
CFRB. Toronto, Ontario
6070
2200-2300
King of Hope, Southern Lebanon
2200-2300
6280
2200-2300
KVOH, Rancho Simi, Callrornta
17775
Radio Australia, Melbourne
15160 15240 15320 15395
22002300
17795 21740
Radio for Peace. Costa Rica
21565 25945
2200-2300
Radio Havana Cuba
7140
2200-2300
Radio Moscow. USSR
12025 12050 17570 17700
2200-2300
Radio Moscow North American Svc 7165 9720 9865 9530
2200-2300
9765 11710 11750
Radio Tonga. Tonga
2200-2300
5050
SBC Radio One, Singapore
5010 5052 11940
2200-2300
Superpower KUSW, Utah
15580
2200-2300
11880 15185 15290 15305
Voice of America. Washington
22002300
15320 17735 17740 17820
18157 USB
Voice of Free China. Taiwan
9955 15345
2200-2300
95951198513605 17612.5
Voice of the UAE, Abu Dhabi
2200-2300
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
13760 17830
2200-2300
WINB, Red Lion. Pennsyl vania
15185
2200-2300
WRNO, New Orleans, Louisiana
13720
2200-2300
WWCR, Nashville. Tennessee
15690
2200-2300
WYFR, Oakland. California
11580 13695 15170 15215
2200-2300
17845 21525
22152230
BBC, London. England*
11820 15390
2230-2300 A.S CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625 11720
2230-2300
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
11588 11605 15615 15640
17575 17630
6110
2230-2300
Radio Medilerran. Matta
22302300
Radio Polonia, Warsaw. Poland
5995 6135 7125 7270
7215 9480
22302300
Radio Tirana. Albania
All lndla Radio, New Delhi
6055 7215 9535 9910
2245-2300
11715 11745
BBC, London, England
3955 5975 6005 6175
2245-2300
7325 9410 9570 9590
2200-2205
2200-2205
2200-2210
22002215
22002215
2200-2215
22002215
2200-2225
22002225
2200-2230
2200-2230
23002330
23002330
2300-2330
2300-2330
23002345
2300-2345
23002350
2300-0000
9755 11730
611 0
11 785
1371 5
15145
5985 11 580 15170
13650
6055 7215 9535
11715 11 745
Adventist World Radio, Costa Rica
2300-0000
9725 11870
BBC, London, England
23000000
3955 5975 6110
7325 94 10 9590
11 945 12095 15260
6195 9625
23000000 MF CBC Northern Quebec Service
2300-0000
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
23000000
6160
23000000
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
6005
2300-0000
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
2300-0000
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
6130
2300-0000
Christian Science World Service
9465 15300 17555
2300-0000
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
2300-0000
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario
6070
2300-0000
KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
17775
Radio Australia, Melbourne
2300-0000
15160 15240 15320
17795 2 1740
Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal
23000000
5960 9755
23000000
2 1565
Radio for Peace, Cos1a Rica
2300-0000
11765 15195 1/810
Radio Japan. Tokyo
23000000
6090
Radio Luxembourg
2300-0000
11845 12025 12055
Radio Moscow
17850 21690 21790
2300-0000
Radio Moscow. (N. American Srvc) 9530 9765 11710
11 750 15290
2300-0000
5995 6135 7125
Radio Polonia, Warsaw
23000000
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
11660 15330
2300-0000
Radio Thailand. Bangkok
9655 11905
23000000
Radio Tonga, Tonga
5050
23000000
SBC Radio One. Singapore
5010 5052 119-10
23000000
15580
Superpower KUSW, Utah
23000000
Voice of America, Washington, DC 15290 17735 17820
USB
23000000
Voice of the UAE
9595 11985 13605
2300-0000
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
13760 17830
2300-0000
13720
WRNO, New Orleans. Lou1s1ana
2315-2330
11820 15390
BBC. London, England
611 0 9520 9585
23300000 MA Radio Budapest, Hungary
11 910 15160
9610 9800 11675
23300000
Radio Kiev. Ukrainian SSR
17665 17690
2330-0000
Radio Korea, Seoul. South Korea
15575
2330-0000
Radio Tirana, Albania
9760v
23300000
9840 15010
Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi
23302355 MA BRT, Brussels, Belgium
9925
23352345 MA Voice of Greece. Athens
9395 9420 11645
23450000
BBC, London. England
3915 6080 7180
2345-0000
Radio Berlin lnl'I, Eaast Germany
6080 11690
23480000
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15145
MONJTORING TIMES
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9910
6175
9915
15395
17620
11730
7270
13157
9835
15180
9580
Lawrence Magne
Editor-in -C/rief
Passport to World Band Radio
Tests wit h the production model show that the '500 is still
stylish, still has high-tech circuitry, a nd st ill is easy to operate.
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Alrea dy Grundig has indicated that future production -not ably, a fter serial number "2000," presumably mea ning number
802000 -- will result in a better set. T he chapter may not yet be
closed on this unfolding story.
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antenneXe
" The Magazine tor Antennas"
Waiting
1n the Wings
Among names that are known, the AOR AR3000 super scanner
has been in E uropean dist ribution for many months, but has never
surfaced domestically.
A report from Australia reveals that the 3000 has met with
some problems and has been withdrawn from the market for
redesigning. Our Aust ralian informant suggests that frequency
drift and microprocessor lockup might have been causes for the
recall.
Another J apa nese product is the Yupiteru MVT5000, a handheld programmable scanner with continuous 25-550, 800-1300
MHz frequency range.
spite of additional
features
being designed into the radio.
It is exp ected that preproduction prototypes
will undergo extensive
field tests this fal l with
full production to fo llow.
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Software
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as the Grove
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Hello,
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he day of the clumsy,
belt-hanging pager may
soon be gone. Two
major American-based
companies, Motorola and
Timex, have joined forces to
produce the world's first
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Yes, America can now
tell time and know who is
trying to get in touch with
them, both at the same time.
The user-friendly wrist
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TV for
the Blind
oston's WGBH-TV
(Channel 2), which
developed closed
captioning for the hearing
impaired, is now proposing
to make watching TV less
frustrating for those who are
visually impaired.
According to the Boston
Globe, the TV station will
soon begin regularly broadcast Descriptive Video Services (DVS) using stereo TV
technology.
WGBH, which was
among the first stations in
the nation to broadcast
stereo TV, plans to transmit
DVS on the second audio
program or "SAP" channel.
The SAP channel will carry
narrated descriptions of a
television program's key
visual elements and can be
picked up by any TV or
VCR with a built-in MTS
decoder.
Narrators describe the
actions and settings on
screen, deftly inserting their
descriptions during pauses in
the dialogue.
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A Practical Preamp/Matcher
Ll, in combination with tuning capacitor
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WI RE
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to
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Figure 2 is a pictorial diagram that shows
how the parts connect to one another. As is
the case with all RF circuits, the leads must be
kept as short and direct as practicable. If
long leads (more than, say, 1/2 inch) are used,
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Capacitors otner tnan C2 are disc ceramic o r polystyrene. C2 Is a 365pF air variable from a junked AM
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experimenter's W"orkshop
Converting to Shortwave
Welcome back!! In the immortal words
of Monty Python's John Clease: "And now fo r
something completely different!"
Probably nothing over the last few years
has been as revolutionary to the RF experimenter as the Signetics NE602N "receiver on
a chip ." Well, actually it's not really a whole
receiver on a chip. It's more like the
mixer/oscillator portion of a receiver in one
package.
The NE602 is a neat little device that,
when used with a few external components,
can quickly become a very compact receiver.
(Note: details of the NE602 are contained in
"The Neophyte Receiver" by John Dillon,
WA3RNC, in February '88 QST.)
I promised you something different, so
here it is. This month's "Experimenter's
Workshop" project is a shortwave convert er
for the 31 meter international shortwave
band. D A "Mike" Michael (W3TS) has
written your scribe a nd included a great
weekend project that will provide many hou rs
of op erating fun.
How would you like to have an SW
receiver in your car, so you could keep up with
your favor ite shortwave stations while traveling to and from work? How about a spare
SW receiver for the shop or den, that will let
you listen in on the world without having to be
tied to the shack?
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I have recently procured a Yaesu FRG7700 SW receiver. Unfortunately, it has
some digital display problems. On the 0, 1,
and 2 MHz positions on the Band selection
switch, the LCD wiU read 39.545 MHz and
t he display does not change when the main
tuning dial is rotated.
The receiver still works fine (indicating
that the VCDs are not coming out of lock),
and I can use the analog dial to find my way
around. As the receiver warms up, this
problem gradually moves up through the 6
MHz position on the Band switch. The
display problem does not affect the operation
of the receiver; it's just annoying.
Wanted:
MU-7700 12 channel memory unit for a
Yaesu FRG-7700 receiver. According to Dr.
Harold (Dr. DX) Cones of Newport News,
Virginia, this memory unit can be modified to
provide 120 memory channels fo r the FRG7700 (this mod will be provided as soon as I
can get the info from the good doctor).
So, how about it? Anybody have an MU7700 that they want to part with? Also
needed are the FRT-7700 antenna tuner and
the FRY-7700 VHF converter for the FRG7700. If you have any of these optional
extras for the FRG-7700 receiver, please
contact me directly.
Well, that's a wrap for this month, gang.
Till next month, 73 es gud DX.
Questions/comments/mods, write:
Rich
Arland, K7YHA, 25 Amherst Avenue,
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702.
October 1989
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antenna topics
Reflections on a Half-Wave
"One of the simplest directive antennas
is a single half-wave dipole associated with
a reflecting screen ... " This statement,
which comes from a classic text 1 on
antenna engineering, should intrigue
everyone who uses antennas.
Another respected radio engineering
text 2 p u ts it this way: "... a flat conducting
sheet...is often placed near an antenna
system to modify the field pattern and
increase the gain."
We can express the same thought in yet
a different way by saying that, if you have a
simple antenna (i.e., not a beam) you can
probably make it act like a beam by simply
putting a sheet of condu ctive material (like
a flat metal screen or metal sheet) in an
appropriate position near your half-wave
antenna.
The resulting antenna system will no t
only have a directional pattern, which will
all ow you to concentrate your monitoring
on signals from one direction at a t ime, but
will also give you a signal gain on the order
of 6 dB.
That much gain is equivalent to a fourfold increase in the power of the transmitter to which you are listening. The
result is a worthwhile increase in signal
strength for weak signals.
Steps in Construction
1. Find
the appropriate
Equation 1 above .
length
from
Equation 1:
LENGTH (in feet)
1.5 (936/frequency [MHz])
Equation 2:
SPACING (in feet)
.1, (990/frequency [MHz])
D!Af:CiWN-
OF
SIGNAL
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AT LEAST 1.5
WAVELENGTHS
LONG
FAQN T VIEW -
il
FEDLINE/
ATT/.CHED
NOTE THAT
~
THE LfNG}H_ OF ~
HE.1~
HALF-;;;:~
ANTENNA
VIEW
CARDBOARD '
RECTANGLE
, WITH
FOIL
;!;'COMING -
--
SID[
FOIL/
SIDE
FIG f
MONITORING TIMES
On UHF TV Too!
A good way to get the hang of this techniqu e is to make a foil reflector for a U HFT V channel wh ich you ca n receive only
weakly when you use the T V set's rabbit
ears antenna. Th e ears shou ld point out
horizontally, not up in a "V." Then use
the foi l, as described above, to improve the
pi cture quality.
Usually, you will be able to make the
pictu re more "watchable" by moving the
fo il until the picture is at its best. T h is
technique won't change a poor-quality
pi cture to a great-quality picture , but it will
improve the picture noticeably. On
moderat e-quality pictures, it can help take
out the snow, which improves the picture
qual ity also.
5. O nce you find the best position fo r the
fo il rectangle, you may want to mount it
so that it can be left in this position
when you want the bea m or the gain
cha racteristics which it gives to you r
antenna .
How you mount it is up to you. Some
ways that can be used are: hanging it from
the ceiling by strings, making a stand of a
coup le of dowels fitted into holes drilled
into a board base to support it, making a
cardboard sta nd from a box, o r making a
plastic support bracket which co nnects the
cardboard to the ante nna itself.
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ask bob
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time.
One ambitious way to overcome the shift
in signal propagation is known as dual
diversity, whereby two receivers are utilized
in tandem to adjust for best reception.
Another is called antenna diversity; here, two
antennas, separated by several feet, combine
their shifting signal strengths for more stable
reception.
Ideally, a receiver has automatic gain
control (AGC), adjusting itself by offering
more amplification during signal fading and
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Feeling
Left Out?
A
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LETTERS
continued fro m page 3
Tht: author cites recent studies of
members of the American Radio Relay
League (ARRL) and they reportedly show
much highe r incidences of cancer than anyone
expected. He also discusses the more than
duublt: incidence o f leukemia a mong people
living two houses or less from pole-mounted
s1ep-duwn transformers; the effects of 147
MH1 and 450 M Hz E LF [Extra Low
Frcquc:ncyj signals on our nervous systems,
embryos and immune systems.
l\tr Wolll in.k is interested in building a
meter t<l monitor 60 Hz magnetic fields in
milli-g<lllss "but I'm not exactly sure how to go
about 11, especially the calibrating. I would
<tpprl:ciate any help. Perhaps we could
prepare an article. I would love to assist in
any \v;iy I could."
All right Let's hear from some of our
more technic;.il!y skilled readers. We'll put
you 111 llluch with Fred. You know, folks,
t her<.. 's a product -- and a darned good selling
one, I'll wager -- just wa iting t o be developed
f<'r this. Thanks also to James Tunnell of El
Sobrante, Califo rnia, for his input on the
subject a;.. well.
Did I mention that we' re still waiting to
Monitoiing Times?
"I 'm interested in JOmmg a sho rtwave
radio club. I'm not interested in going into
mortal combat with super D Xers t.'Very
month. This is a hobby for me, not a way to
prove my worth in life. How about a fri endly
little club somewhere that would appreciate
my modest loggings?" So says reader Karl
Willis of Eastmont, T ennessee.
Try the American Shortwave Listener's
Club, Karl. It's run by Stew MacKenzie and
is this year celebrating its 30th a nniversary.
Each issue includes some chatty-style notes on
the club and industry, a p rop agation forecast,
member's loggings grouped by region of the
world, shortwave news, a QSL Corner, utilities and more.
ASWL is non-profit, independent (it's the
second group to drop out of ANARC in
recent mon ths) a nd best of all, fun. It never
takes itself too seriously - I not iced that it
hasn't even published its membership rates in
several months - and doesn't try to
commandeer t he world of s hortwave.
W e're impressed by its p rogressiveness, as
well, using terms like "worldband" to make
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Monitoring Post Pin-Up
John's mobile unit is a beauty,
housed in a metal briefcase, and
consisting o f a PR032 (a PR034 is in
lay-away) an external speaker and microcassette recorder. The control panel
contains a preamp, a d escrambler,
inputs for all devices and antenna
for scanner and CB.
The panel also has switches fo r a ny
function he may want to monitor, record,
or descramble, and (wisely) a light to tell
him if the unit has been left on.
Well, as John himself says, "Nifty,
eh?!"
John J\1hnson, KWV8BP, of Barbours\ille, We't Virgi nia, admits he's a
~camwr nttt.
His mod ified PR02004 is
hnukcd into an LXI l<lpe recorder and
ex1crn;iJ speakers throughout the house.
Sc\eral other sca nners, handhelds and
Cfls keep him in tou ch with his portable
nw111toring post. A n Apple computer
help;., him keep tr;ick of his hundreds of
nationwide frequencies.
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CONVENTION CALENDAR .
Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia wasn't created until the end of the war and
even then did not take the name Yugoslavia until several years later in Sep30-0ct1
1929; Turkey is not a Balkan state; most of its territory is in Asia Minor
Sep30-0ct1
and not on the Balkan Peninsula; that Serbo-Croat is orthographically
correct and not Serbo-Croate as printed in the article.
.oct. 1
We thank Mr. Krecic for sharing his obviously extensive knowledge
of the area and its history. And we've taken the liberty of forwarding bcti
his letter to the author, Charles Sorrell.
' Location
Club/Contact Person
Louisville.KY
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
93
. ACE Communications
9L
Advanced Electronic Technologies
97
. Alpha Delta
39
American Antennas
25,46,97
Antennas West
89
AntenneX
39
Antique Radio
Capri Electronics
53
Communications Electronics
9
87
CQ Communications
45
D atacom
Cover II
D atam:etrics
. D ata RX
91
67
D X Radio Supply
11,55
Electronic Equipment Bank
41
Galaxy Electronics
Giffer. S hortwave
13
GRE America
17,99
Grove Enterprises
21,35
Ham Radio magazine
s
Cover IV
ICOM America
Tnt' I Broadcasting Service
IS
Jabco
17
LF Engineering
95
37
MilSpec Communications
Monitoring Times
103
Naval Electronics
51
OPTOelectronics
Cover III
Palomar Engineering
7
Spec-Com Journal
49
Spectronics
101
TEP
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Universal SW Radio
87
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Closing Comments
Writing for Fun and Profit
R ecently MT editor Larry M iller and I had
a discussion centered around writing; it was
fittin g for us since we both do it. What really
concerned us, however, was that not enough
other people do it. From the lcllers we
receive, we know that there is some real,
untapped talent out there in MT land.
Our present "stable" of writers is
recognized internationally for its quality; yet, as
MT grows, so does our need for more good
writers in all fields. We aren't alone in this
quest fo r additional talent; even the electronic
trade and engineering magazines constantly bait
their readers to become writers.
Many subscribers regard writing as a closed
profession, populated by those few lud,1' stars
who happened to be in the right place at the
right time. I know I did before I decided to
take a crack at it. It's not that way at all. If
you have an interesting subject and can present
it well, someone out there wants it.
Take MT for example; we are always on the
lookout for topics of interest to our readers.
Even the briefest glance through our 104 pages
reveals the breadth of interest - scanning and
shortwave equipment and accessories, international broadcasters' station profiles, i111erviews
with prominent hobbyists and professionals,
unusual incidents and anecdotes which are fun
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< 1 mv
< 3 mv
< 3 mv
450 MHz
< 5 mv
< 3 mv
< 3 mv
850 MHz
< 20 mv
< 5 mv
< 3 mv
1.3 GHz
< 100 mv
< 7 mv
< 7 mv
NA
2.2 GH z
< 30 mv
< 30 mv
ACCURACY ALL HAVE +/- 1 PPM TCXO TIME BASE .
CCA
10 MHz
550 MHz
Security
CCB
10 MHz
1.8 GHz
Security
$299
$99
NA
< .5 mv
< 1 mv
NA
NA
NA
NA
< 5 mv
< 5 mv
< 5 mv
< 10 mv
< 30 mv
All counters have 8 digit red .28" LED displays . Aluminum cabinet is 3.9" H x 3.5" x 1". Internal Ni-Cad batteries
provide 2-5 hour portable operation w ith continuous operation from AC line charger/power supply supplied . Model
CCB uses a 9 volt alkaline battery. One year parts and labor guarantee. A full line of probes. antennas. and accessories
is available. Orders to U.S. and Canada add 5% to total ($2 min, $ 10 max). Florida residents. add 6% sales tax .
COD fee $3. Foreign orders add 15%. MasterCard and VISA accepted .
Orders to U.S. and Canada add 5% to total ($2 m in. $ 10 max). Florida residents, add 6% sales tax. COD fee $3.
Foreign orders add 15% . MasterCard and VISA accepted.
OPTOELECTRONICS INC.
5821 N.E. 14th Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334
1-800-327-5912
FL (305) 771-2050
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