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CONTENTS

VoI.17, No.ll

November1998

Making the Best of Apartment Monitoring 10

By Steve Doug lass

I had spent the last five ye ars ge tting the

mon itoring post j ust the way I wa nted and now I
had to tea r it all apart. But all's we ll that en ds

well. No one would know that a miniature intercept statio n is operating in the no ndescri pt apa rtment next to them , and reception is alm ost as good as before the move.

Jamming Wall

16
By Rimanta s Pleikys

On November 29 , 1988. the Soviet U nio n cea sed

j amming forei gn rad io sta tions fo r the first time in 40
years. Th is look hack at the equipment and the statio ns
invo lved in that effo rt is written in dedication of the
10th anniversary o f its end .

COl'er StolT

Inside Italy's RAI

By Jim Frimmel

On a recen t trip to Italy,

MTs programming man ager
had the op portunity to meet the
frie ndly staff at Radio Roma,
RA l lnte rnational. Come along
on a rare, qu ick tour be hind the
gates at RAJ. T he station

broadcasts in 24 languages from

its tran sm itter site at Prato
Smcraldo . Story on page 8.
OU f cover pic ture is of a
vert ical curtai n ant en na northeast of Mosco w, similar to
many of the antenna arrays used
to j am broadc asts from the
West. (P hoto by Be rnd

Trutenau)

New! Inmarsats and How to Hear Them 22

By Dave CaWley

A g rowing num ber of globe- trotting indi vid uals are j oining the rank s of ships, rov ing
rep or ters, and intern atio na l bu sinessmen who
conduct their business on Inm arsat. It is we ll
wort h the slightly extra effort req uired to pu ll
these sig nals into yo ur sc anner to moni tor
these glo bal co mmunicat io ns!

Reviews:
"Tank-to ugh " is how Ma gnc categorizes a
new DSP SW tab le-top from Germa ny. the
Knc iser + Doer ing KWZ 30 (p. 90 ). Parn ass is
eq ually impressed with the sturdiness o f the new
A linco [)J -X l OT sca nner (p.n). Last mon th
Catalano installed the WR ISOllc so ftware radio ; this month he waxes poet ic o ver its performance (p .94) and also plays with an Ir[)A
mou se from Se lecte ch. Kiwa has prod uced
its first " natural rad io" detector , E a r t h
Sou nds , put to the test by LF co lumnist
Kevin Carey (p .96) .

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MONITORI NG TIMES

November' 998

Washington Whispers
What's Behind Hom Reslrocluring 2

Communications ....................... 6

Scanning Report
That New Band to Scan
U~lity World ,................., ,
NCS: Swords intoSHARES
Digital Digest
,.,..,.._.._
Digital Equipment Overview
Globol Forum
,.,
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WBCO - An Aliemotive SW Station
QSL Report
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Adventist Wo rld Radio
English Long SW Guide
,
Prcpcqcticn Conditions

26
30
33
34
38
39
60

Where to Listen on the Bands

Programming Sporlight .._ _ ,
61
Tracking Ihe Global Economy
New! Satellite Radio Guide .....,......... 62
Ne w! The launching Pod
66
Learning to Love Satellites
Beginner's Co mer

68

Undersranding Radio Wa ves

New! View from Above
Keeping on Eye on the Weather
Mi!com ,
New USCG Air Stolion Opens
Plane Talk
,
Coming to Terms with Radar-2
American Bondscan
Beverage Questions

72
74
76

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EDITORIAL STAFF
Freq uen cy Ma na ger
Freq ue ncy Mon itors
Pro g ram Man a ge r
Ame rican Band scan
A nd More '

70

Outer limits
77
WBCO: Pirate Slolion Goes Legil
Below 500 kHz
78
Tips From our Readers
KIS Radio
80
Heathki/ GR-64 Res/oro/ion
Experimenters Workshop
82
Automolic NiCd Cell Discharger
Antenna Topics
,
84
Why all the Noise abaul Noise?
On the Hom Bonds
86
Wish lisl for a Hom's Chrislrnas
And More!
87
Radio Shock's Easy FRS Radios
Ask Bob ,..,...,................................. 88
The "Power Tip'" Scam
Mogne Tests
90
Kneisner + Doering KWZ 30
Scanning Equipment ............................ 92
Alinco DJ-X lOT
Computers & Radio............................. 94
WinRadia WR 1500. ; AirDalo Mouse
Review
"",
96
Kiwa Eorth Monitor
What's New"." " ". ,." " """".."
" 97
Letters
""" .......................... 101
Stock Exchange "",
102
Advertisers Index
102
Closing Comments
104
The Frequency Lisl and Ihe Groin 015011

... goyle@grove.net

Gayle Von Ha m
David Dct kc , Ma rk J. Fine

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Jim Frimmel
Doug Smith. W9WI

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Jock Ell iott KB2GOM

Iigh tkeepe r@sprin tmo il.c om

Antenna Topics
Beginn e r' s Corner

W. Clem Small. KR6A

T.J. Arey. WB2GHA

demsmo]@bilferrool.net

Below 500 kH z

Kevin Carey, W B2Q MY

1ow bond@golewoy .nel

Compulers a nd Ra dio
John Catala no
Dig ital Dige st
.
Bob Evans
Bill Cheek
Exper imente r' s wkshp
Feder a l f ile
.
Jo hn Fulford , WA.dVPY
K.I.S. Ra d io
. Richa rd Arlond . K7SZ
Mogn e Tests
.
Lawrence Mogne
Milcom
.
Larry Von Horn N5FPW
On the Hom Bo nds
Ike Ker schner . N3 1K
Outer Limits
... George Zeller
/
pes Front Line ..
... Don Veenema n
Plane Tal k
.
Jea n Boker, KIN9 DD
Progr a mming Spo tlig ht
John Fiqliozzi , KC2BPU
Jacques d' Avignon
Propaga tion
QSL Corner
.. Gayle Vo n Ho rn
Rober t Smothers
Sat ellite Redic G uide
Bob Pcmc ss. AJ9S
Scann ing Equipme nt .. .
Scann ing Rep ort
. Richard Barnett '.
G le nn Hauser .. .
SW Broadca sting
. G ayle Von Horn ..
SW Broad cas t Log s ..
The Lounch ing Pod
. Ken Reitz, K54ZR .
Utility World .
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Hug h Stegma n, NV6 H
Lawrence Ha rris .
View from Above
Wa shing ton Whi sper s
Fred Moio, W5YI

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revans @totol.net
bch eek@son.rr .com
JO HNF0413 @ool.com
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larry@g rove .ne t
George .Zelle r@ocdin k.co m
do n@decode .com
jfjg liol @nycap .rr .com
monitor@roc.co
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rob erts@nmia .com
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radio spec trum. T he ne arly 200 co untries that

make up Gen e va-ba se d Intern atio nal T elecommun icat ions Un ion (IT U ) agreed twen ty years
ago that ha m o pe rators had to be able to man uall y se nd and rece ive Mo rse code messages if
the y wanted to op erat e o n the world-wi de ban ds
below 30 M l-iz. Th e intern ation al law do cs not
spec ify a parti cu lar co de spee d. Mos t cou ntr ies.
howe ver, belie ve that 5 word s-per-minute is a ll
tha t is nee de d under the law . C ha ng ing the
intern atio na l ru les takes time. A lot of time . It
wi ll be anot her three or fo ur years be for e th e
m utter ca ll be co ns idered at a World Radi o
Co nfere nce .

The ARRL makes the first move

T he United States has a n ince ntive syst em of
am a te ur radio lic ensing. T ha t means ham operator s get additiona l frequen c y. tran smi tte r pow e r
...a nd ev e n ca ll s ig n privi leges in ex c ha nge fo r
more knowl edge and op e rating skill. Cu rrent ly
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s pee d ex a minatio ns : Five wo rds-per- mi nute is
requ ired for the No vice lind Te c hnic ia n PIllS
licen se. I J wpm for the General and Adv ance d
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o ne thing, the y wan ted the exam ining commu nit y to he a uthorize d to o btai n a nd review mcdica l records o f those requ est ing a waiver.

Checkmate by t he FCC
But there is re ason to beli e ve the FCC doesn' t
go a long. We he ard abo ut a high level meeting
held thi s past spring betwee n FCC a nd ARRL
officia ls where the Lea gue wa s told that the
Com m ission wa s co ns idering a sing le S w pm
code speed whic h wo uld el iminat e the need for
a ny wa ive rs. T he mee ting a lso co inc ided w ith
a ll age ncy-w ide re view of outdated regulat ion s .

Th e Ama teur Service ru les were added to the

list.
By summe r. amateurs became ver y curious
an d co nce rned abo ut wha t the FCC had in mind
und rumors we re rampant that 5 wpm wou ld
inde ed be the top c ode speed tested for a ny
a mat eur lice nse. Th e FCC sta ff co mpleted a
s tra ig ht No t ice of Propos ed Ru tem aking
(NPR M ) and subm itted it to the Commi ssioners
for thei r approva l and release .
About that time. the A R RL had sec o nd
tho ughts . Th e y saw the handwriting 011 the wa ll.
At the ir J uly Board meet ing, the Lea g ue vot ed to
see k red uced telegrap hy proficiency a nd fewer
lic e nse classes. For o ne thi ng. the di rec tors
ag reed that 5 wp m should be the code speed
requi reme nt for the Genera l C lass instead of 13.
And Adv ance d a nd Extra Class applicants wo uld
o nly have to pass 12 wp m instea d of I J and 20 .
A lett er wa s written by the ARRL ' s attorne y 10
the FCC before the NP R M co uld be re leased.
And the sta ff go t the ir N P R ~'1 docume nt back !
Th e Co mmis sioners wa nted the NPRM c ha nge d
into a co m bina tio n proposal und inqu iry. Inste ad (If speci fy ing lo wer code speeds, the FC C
wanted to know "Sh o uld \ve co ntinue to ha ve
th ree di ffe ren tleve ls, o r sho uld these be reduced
to on e o r two ...a nd if so. what sho uld be the
req uired speed?"
Th e Commi ssioner s agreed with the sta ff o n
o ne point, however. T he y d id n' t go alo ng with
the AR RL'sreq ucs tlomake it more diffi c ult for
the han d ic a pped to op erate Oil the high freq ue ncy ham ba nd s . Th e y sa id the ARRL' s propo sal s ..... pla ce a n un fair burd en on e xa m inees
wi th di sab ilities, a nd ra ise se rious privac y an d
co nfide ntiali ty co nce rns ." Th e FCC ' s also proposed to re d uc e the numbe r of lice nse cl asses
fro m s ix to lour - ve ry s im ila r to that pro posed
in the ARRL 's let ter. Th e Novice a nd T cchni c ian C las s lice nse s wo uld be discontinued unde r
both the FCC and ARR L pro posals . Th e re is a
movem e nt unde rway . however. to o nly ha ve
three classe s.

Now irs your move.

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North Korea's Phantom Satellite
For years North Korea (DPR K) has sold
Scud-class missiles to Iran and Pak istan . so
western ana lysts were e xpecti ng the lau nch of

a more sophisticated Nod ong 3 two-stage

m ed ium range ve rsio n. On Au gu st 3 1st at

3:07 UTe a missile was tracked . What was

strange was the fli ght pa th -

du e ca st, ta ki ng

it d irectly ov er Ja pan.
T he fir st stage fell in Ihe Sea of Ja pan

bet ween Korea and Japan. and the second

stage lan ded in the Pacific Ocea n to the cast o f

Japan. Japan was understandably upset that

the missile new over its territory without an y
prior notifi cati on or perm ission. Human itarian aid to North Korea was quickly cui off.
On Septembe r 2nd the Korean Centra l
New s Agency (KCN A) sa id. "H igh-ran king
officials and other politicians of Japan are
makin g pro voca tive rem ar ks aga inst the
DPRK over a missile laun chin g test that they
say was ca rried out by the DPRK . The y describe the test as something ' regrettable' and
'dangerous' and claim that the test made it
difficult to impro ve relations with the DPR K.
,.. Ja pan' s beh avior is ridiculous, indeed, in
v ie w o f the fact that Japan is zealously deve loping long-distance vehicles and other up-Iodate weapon s and paving the way for ov erseas aggressio n. having worked out ' guidelines for Japan -U.S.defence cooperation: ..,
\V c warn Japan to face up to rea lity. ac t with
d iscretion and renounce its anac hronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK at once:'
... NOI exactly polite things to say to a
neighbo r. especially the one which ca n hel p
you the most.
On September -lth KCNA claimed that it
wasn't a military missile. it was a launch
vehicle for a satellite, saying. " I t will co ntribute to promot ing scie ntific research for peaceI'll I us c of outer s p ace, " T hey sai d
Kwangmyon gson g No . I "s orbit had a perigee of 2 1S.X2 km . and apoge e of 697R.2 kill.
"The satellite is now tran sm itting the melod y
o f the immortal revolutionary hymn s Song 1?J'
Grnerul Kim II Sung and Song of General
Kim l ong II and the Morse sig nals 'J uchc
Korea ' in 27 MH z,"
Yes. 27 Ml-lz - Ci tizen s Band !
As a member of the International Telecommu nicati ons Unio n (ITU) the DPRK is
req uired to file an applicatio n before a tran smiller is put on the ai r which can interfe re
with other transmissions. especially spacecraft. Th e ITU has no filing from the DPRK
for any satellite allocutions. and 27 MHz is
certainly not a hand allocat ed for satellite
co mm unica tions.

Altho ugh the Russia n news agency ITAR 6

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November 1998

TASS cla imed that Russian military officials had tracked the satellit e. it ga ve the identical figures
as in the KCNA ann oun cement .
lea ving out the same missing parameters. Identical par ameters almost guarantee that the numbers
trace back to the same source.
Mor e import antl y. nobody else
has any indication that a satellite
ex isted. It was invisible to all of
the radar and visual tracking station s around the wor ld. and no
broadcasts were hea rd by any listcner s. The USS PAC ECOM offi- .clt 's a bird, it's a plan e, it 's pure propaganda !
cial press releas e (del ayed due to
thc Labor Day holiday ). stated.
The test certainly proved that DPRK ca n
" US Space Co mmand has not been able to
lo ft a signifi can t pay load, whe ther it' s an
con fir m No rth Kor ean assertio ns that it
launched a small satellite on A ug ust S f. 1998."
uppe r stage with a peace ful satellite or a
weapon with a range o f 1.646 km.
Some weste rn offici als said they were told
There' s also little doubt that the test has
that the satellite d id reach orbit but it wasn' t
function ing. Thi s seems high ly dou btful co nincreased tensions in a region already close to
s ide r ing th e c apa bili t ie s of th e
armed confl ict. South Korea is now talk ing
ope nly abo ut accele rating its own domestic
USSPA CE COM track ing net work . It' s hard
rocket tech nology development. and Japan is
10 believe that a sa tellite and its much
talking abo ut fundin g its ow n spy satellites.
larger th ird stage - could be missed for
several we eks . O n the other hand . KCNA
In a country \vhere a significant port ion of
claimed on Septemb er 141h that the satellite
the pop ulation is starving. it has caused the
had fini shed its IOOth orbit around the Earth .
worl d to wonder about North Kore an prioriand eve n claimed that the satellite was large
ties.
Even if yo u believe all of North Korea ' s
enoug h to be visible 10 the naked eye !
So what was it? Portions of the North
claims. it did launch a roc ket over Japanese
terri tory witho ut prior notifi cation and did
K orean statements may be correct; it co nce ivably could have been an atte mpted satelnot properly apply for a license for its tran slite laun ch. However, there's little do ubt that
min ing frequ ency - hardl y indica tions of a
peaceful scientific satellite.
ther e is no satellite in orbit. lfit was a launch
For a " nostalgic" taste o f Col d War rhetoattempt then there was a failure du ring the
ric. see the Korean Central News Agency
third stage bum and North Korea' s still trying
website at http://www.k cn a .eo.jp/
10 delu de itself into believing that it has a
satellite in orb it - functional or no t.
- by Philip Chien, Earth Ne ws

November 2: DX Test
KLER-1300. Orofino.Idaho, will conduct
DX tests betw een 0200 and 02 I5 EST,
com prised of ton es and Morse Code IDs,
usin g 5 kW non -directional. Reception reports may be sentto: Mr. Jeff Jones. Owner,
KLER-AM. P.O. Box 32. Orofino. ID
83544-0032. (Arra nged by Bill Hale for
the NRC CPC.)
Nov 7: Odessa, TX
We st Texas ARC hamfest; Contact Robe rt
Jordan N5 RKN, 9 15- 3 35 -7980 or

n5rkll@apex2000.lIet. For hamfe st det ail s

see WT ARC webpage: hltp:llnonprolit.
apex2000.net/ha mfe stl
Nov 16 -18: Boston, MA
Surv eill ance Expo '98 will take place at the
Hynes Convention Center in conjunction
with No rthe astern University' s Criminal
J ustice Co nference, Seminars. exhibits.
panel discussio ns. Cont act Securi ty and
Investigations Group, POB 20254. Wa shington . DC 20041 or Jim Ross at 800 -US-

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November Nightmares in the

Clarke Belt
Sarcllitc opcnuors wil l breathe much easi e r
whe n mid -Nove mber has co me and gone at least, until nex t yea r. Aro und Novembe r
17th of 1998 an d 1999 the Earth makes its
clo sest pass in a 33 year cycle thro ugh debri s
from the tail o f co rnet Tempel-Tuttle. The
meteor shower. know n as the Leonids. was
last e xperie nced at its height in 1966 at an
es timat ed rate of 150.000 meteors per hour !
But in 1966. sa te lli te s were sca rcely of concern.
However . " we might expect five to 10
func tiona l sate llites to be hit by Leonid me teoroi ds durin g a sto rm," say the four co-a uthors of a repon [ 0 be found on the Internet at
hltp:llicroy.cc.urcgina.ca/%7EastroILeo nids/
Lco _2.htm l.
Although some outage s may be experienced while engineers take precautions by
rep ositi onin g sate llites in the e nd it' s a crapshoo t GE Am eric an hopes to incre ase its
odds of a n impac t to o ne in 100.000 by
re position ing. bUI at 150.000 meteors per
ho ur, that Illay not be too reassuring,

C h uck
J\..l c C ull uu gh
abo ut the: contrap tio n
wh ich sudde nly a ppea red
on the grou nds of'thc Pe ntagon .
Stan Sul ak poi nted us
to a n arti cle in the July
email edition of DOE This
Momll . Th e bi zarre look ing struc ture is an ar ray
of mirrors wh ich con centra tes the sun' s en ergy ont o a receiver/e ngine to generate electric power. Sulak say s. "T he unit insta lled at
the Pentagon is design ed to pro vid e 25 ki lowa tts o f po wer - eno ugh to supply electricity to a n e nt ire village in a re mote area wi tho ut
generat ing ;'lIl Y a ir po llutio n:"
Aftcr spe nd ing six mont hs on di sp luy o utside the Pentagon . the structure wi ll be shipped
to its "real joh'' pro d ucing e lect rici ty in Ari zona.

Bosnian Station Needs Support

Bosni a and Herz cgovnia' s lar gest indepe ndent radio netwo rk is FERN (Free inter -

ALicense to Jam
Th is mont h' s fea ture story o n jam m ing
ce lebra tes the cessation o f so vict j am ming on
a majo r sca le , but a new phe nome no n ha s
eme rg ed in Japan tha t co uld be ca lled
"m ic rojam ming." On ly. the target of this jammer is no t fore ign broadcast ing. but the o m niprese nt ring of thc ce llular phon e.
Restaurants. concert hal ls, mo vie theater s.
a nd hospit al s arc all venu es w ith ve ry good
rea son s for banning cel lph on cs alt ogeth er.
Plaste ring warn ing posters un every wall or
subj ec ting the clientele to sea rch and seizure
docs nothing for good cu stomer re lati o ns.
howeve r. Thus the attraction of new jammers
suc h a s Medic' s "\Vave \Vall: '
Wa ve W:.IIJ sends o ut strung s ignals o n the
same frequencies as the ce llphon cs themsel ves and effective ly jams both incomi ng
and o utgo ing cal ls. $~ SO wo uldn' t have pa id
the ele ctric bil l fo r a even mo nth u f Cold \ Var
jam ming. but it doe sn' t see m unreason abl e
fo r creating a 20 -foo t rad iu s of qu iet
Japa n is just beginning to add ress con cerns ever poten tial m isuse. blocki ng emer gency ca lls to doc to rs a nd othe rs. o r interfe rc nce to othe r de vices such as pace mak er s.

Alien Pods at the Pentagon?

" Is thi s so me sor t of hig h powe red visible
light co mm unicatio ns antenna?" won de red

Ethnic Radi n Ne twork). fu nded by the Organizat ion for Security and Cooperation in Eu rop c (OSCE) a nd the Swi ss Government. In
two ye ars it bus gn)\vn from a temp orary, two
mo nth "election s rad io" to a comp lete 24hou r natio nal ne ws. public informatio n. a nd
e ntertainment operation .
Ho wever. funding comm i tments cease atrer the Septernber 1998 electi ons . It is see ki ng
commercial inve stments. partnership ag reements with ot her medi a. ad ve rt ising. program
spo nsors hip. a nd vol untary co ntributio ns. For
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n a rece nt trip to Rome . I had the

op po rtu nity 10 visit the studios of

Radio Roma, the name commonly

used for RAI (Rudio-Te lcvi sionc Puhli ca

Ital iana ) Inte rnatio nal.
RA l' s co rporate office s oc cupy a vas !corn picx of build ings 0 11 the outski rts o f Rome in
stud ios known as Sax a Rubr a. Thank good.
ness I had arrang ed my visit well in adv an ce of
arrival. because the locati on is not open to the
public a nd is we ll-guarded. Ga ining admittance req uired a pho ne ca ll from the main
guard post (see photo ) to my contact and
escort, Andre a Borg nino .
Whi le waiting for Andrea to arrive. J reg-

istered for a credit-card style: identification

badge with a mag net ic strip. And rea arr ived in
good time a nd, with my badge c lipped to m y
coat pocket, the visit bega n.
We started with a visi t to the o ffice of
Fa usto Spegni. head of the ce ntral radio bran ch
of RAJ. I was very pleased to find that both

A l'iew of tir e main entrance to Saxa Rubra, RAJ's central broadcasting studios.
Mr . Sp egni and Andrea had an ex ce llent co mOland of the Eng lish language, and I did not
ha ve to rcly o n the Italian I had learned while
sta tioned in Italy man y years ear lier.
M r. Spcgni amus ing ly pointed o ut that his
name was very app ropriate for someone in his
posit ion . He e xpl aine d that, in Ita lian. the
name Spcg ni is taken from the verb "spcgncrc,'
mcaning " 10 turn off," as in " tu m off the
radio."
Afte r a nice d isc ussi on about the situation
at RAJ. the three of us undertook a tou r of the
radio an d televi sio n studios.

RAl's Shortwave Output

A ndrea Borgnino maintains m all}' of
tire web pages f or RAJ and is a frequent
contributor to Int ernet DX information.
8

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November /9 98

RA I transmits on shortwa ve to the Americas. Europ e. A frica . Asia/O cean ia. and the
Medit e rranea n. Most broadcasts arc in Italian ,

bu t there is als o programmi ng in English .

Fren ch . Sp an ish . Portu gesc. Ger man . Swedish . Dani sh . Ukrainian. Rom an ian. Slovene,
Croatian . Turkish, Bulgari an. Czech. Slovak .
Poli sh . Serbian, Hun garian. Russian. Arab ic.
Am haric. So mali and Espe ran to, for a total of
24 langu ages. No orie nta l languages a rc used .
In No rth America, mo st shor twave liste ne rs arc fam iliar with Rad io Rom a' s daily 20
minute English broadcast fro m 0050-0 I IU
UTe. The broadcast actuall y beg ins at 2230
hours in Ita lian, sw itches to En glish <It 0050.
co ntin ues on in French atO II O.reverts back to
Ital ian at 0 130 . and the n fini shes with Spanish
from 03050325 , Th e Engli sh porti on of the
broadca st con sists o f ten minutes of news
foll owed by ten minutes orl ig ht muslc. Summer freque ncies in use until October 25th
were 60 10. 9675 and 11800 kHz.

O ne other English tran sm ission that is often hear d in North America is actually intended for the British Isles. The Englis h portion of that broadcast is from 1935- 1955 UTC
on 5970 . 7 145 and 9760 kHz (until October
25th). and is best hea rd in North Am erica on
the Eas t Co ast.

RAJ's Med iumwa ve Output

Radio Roma's main pro gram in the AM
broadcast band is an Italian pro gram ca lled
NotturnoItaliano, which is also broadca st on
shortw ave and via sate llite. It mainly co nsists
of six hour s of ligh t music , opera and sy mphoni c music , operettas, and j azz, with new s
e very hour in Italia n. Engli sh, Fr ench and
Ge rma n. It is heard in Europe from 22000400 UTe on both med ium w a ve and
longwave.

RAI Satellite Prog rams

RAI International Satelradio offers 24 hours
of the top programs of the three nat io nal radio
channel s as well as RAJ International. Programming co ns ists of music , entertainme nt,
news and information . Tra nsmi ssion s are via
Hot Bird 1 to Europe. Asiasa t 2 to Asi a. Or ion
2 to No rth a nd Ce ntra l Am eri ca , Panamsat 3
to the Atlantic coast, Ga laxy LA to Latin
Ameri ca , and to Austra lia via sub carri er of
RAJ' s TV channel. There are also sate llite

Many RA J news reports and fea ture programs are readied for broadcast f rom these
banks of lope recorders.
rebroadca sts on AM a nd FM in Aus tralia,
Ca nada. and the USA.

The Transmitter Site

RAI"s sho rtwave tran smitting ce nter is
separately Iocuted at Prat o Sme raldo in the
outskirts ofRom e. All maj or transrnitters were
destroyed dur ing World War II a nd were later
rep laced in 1948.
Prat o Sme raldo Cent er presentl y broadcasts RAJ ' s signals with six transmitters usin g
30 ant enn a sys tems.
T ransmitte rs are al l 100 kW Bro wn Boven
with a Marconi 100 kW used as backup. The
Boveri transm itters use T hom son wate r-coo led
outp ut tubes . T he AM modulatio n is digit ally
co ntrolled.
Twe lve of the towers use dip oles and IR
use dapple d ipoles with refl ectors. Th e re a re
also num erou s vertica l dip ole s mad e with
lon g wires stretching from tower masts to the
grou nd.

present transmitt ers.

RA I has a twice-yearly pub lica tion culled
QUINAI, available free of charge from RAI
Intern at ional ; La rgo Villy De Luca. 5; 001 88
Rom a. Italy. More info rmation about RAI is
also uvuilnble off the internet at www.rai
inlerna tional, rui.i t

Jim Frimmel is editor of Selected

Progra mming in MT a nd owner of DX
Computing , radio sol1wore for the
Macintos h.

Since Alfa Romeo and Fiat have ceased

exporting autos to the U.S., it was
enjoyable to see all the Italian cars 0 11
the streets and autostradas. Sorry 110
picture of the new Alfa /56, but here is
a shot of the popu lar new Ford Ka,
which parks easily 011 the streets of
Rome.
M

Looking to the Futu re

A view of the Praia Sme ralda

transmitter site on the outskirts of
Rome. (Photo by Andrea Borgnino)

When origin ally co nstruc ted in 193 J. the

Prato S meraldo site was co ns idered far enoug h
away from Rome to be interference-free to
city comme rce. Now. sixty-seve n years later,
Rome has sprea d out to the ext ent that the
tran smitter site is in need of relocat ion , Until
such a mov e is mad e. RAI International is
limited to the lower po wer outputs of the
November 1998

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Mal{ing the Best of

Apartment Monitoring
By Steve Douglass

kn ew it co uld happen - my land lor d had already wa rne d me .

Yet, w hen I opened up the e nvelo pe a nd the letter sa id that the
hou se we we re ren tin g had bee n so ld. it was a s ho ck . I immedi ately beg an to con te mp late the ma ssive a mo unt o f work ahead . T he
lea st o f whi c h wa s di sm antlin g my mo nitori ng po st.
\Vc had bee n livin g in the comfortab le ranch-sty le ho me for fiv e
years. Th e rent was inc redi b ly c heap for the spac ious three- bedroo m
house so my vvife and I felt very lucky to rind it. Since my famil y only
numbers three, on ly two bedrooms were used . Th e ot he r one became
my offi ce .., and . yes. my mon itor ing po st.
In s ho rt ord er the roof o f the ho use beca me an an tenna farm and the
"offi ce" was stoc ked with wal l-to- wal l rad io s. To v isitor s it rese mbled
a miniatu re ver sion of NO RA D. especia lly at nigh t wi th all the LED
readouts bl inking , co m puters fl as hing und huge m ap s of the wo rld
adorni ng the wa lls, I mu st sa y, it wa s pr etty coo l.
I snaggcd a lot o f sig nals from that roo m , Bomber s o n mission s in
the Gu lf War. Hurricane Andrew slas h ing thc co as t. J immy Carte r
tryin g his best to negotiate a pea ce ful se ttleme nt w ith the dictato r o f
Hait i, and eve n the fall o r the Sovie t Un io n, a ll fro m my mo nitorin g
po s t in so uth wes t A ma rillo .
Wa s it a ll a bout to end? W hat if I co uld n' t lin d an oth er such a n ideal
place to monitor? Good hou se s we re at a prem ium in A marillo; could
1 luc k into suc h a find ag ain?
T he answer wa s rev ea led to us in sho rt ord er. Ren tal rat e s in
Am ari llo had skyroc keted and we co uldn' t begin to afford a co mparable pla ce. W it h the deadline for mo ving o ut fast approach ing, we had
to opt for a d eci sion that I had S\ \!Ofl1 we wo uld ne ve r ma ke . \ Ve hat!
to mo ve int o an apartme nt,

Downsizing
A week be fore ou r mo v ing dat e we fi nall y located an apartme nt that

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November 1998

semi -s uited o ur needs. It wo uld be quite a cho re to co mp ress 2700

sq uare fee t of furniture and acc um ulated stuff to fit into 1200 sq uare
feet o f apartme nt spac e. Half wa y through the mo ve we reali zed th at
it just wo uldn 't work . Most of o ur st uff. incl ud ing the bul k o f my
mon ito ring po st, would ha ve to be put in temporary sto rage ,
As a free-lance press stringer for th e local televis ion prc ss it wa s
imp ort an t that I st ill have so me se mblance o f a mo nito ring po s t. After
all, it wa s my job. I had even de ve loped a
rep utat io n o f so rts as the local "j ohn ny o n the
spot" when it came to stories of news interest. If
it wa s hap pen ing and wa s of interest to the
- public , ch an ce s ar e I knew ab out it. The local
p res s de pended on me to be the ir safe ty net and
rep ort the im port ant news that th eir o verworked
reporters wou ld m iss. Would my job s uffer
beca use of the mo ve '! I ass ured my cl ients it wou ldn 't .
I staked out a sma ll co rner of the kitchen/di ning room as my
mon ito rin g roo m and offi ce . The re was n' t mu ch space, only a eight by
tell fo ot sq uare area that wou ld have to hold eig ht scanning rad ios, my
co mp uter sys te m, th ree desk s and a filin g cabine t.
A lso c ra mmed int o the postage-stamp -sized spo t wou ld have to be
no less the n three tel evi sion sets that I used to m o nitor the three loca l
T V networ k affili ates. On e of my daily
services fo r the loc al medi a wa s to
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that report to the statio ns,
Th e hard pari wou ldn' t he ge tti ng
a ll the gear to lit in my Reader's
Digest condensed ve rsio n o f an o ffice , T he problem wou ld be (0 ge t it al l

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to work . Noisy , Rf- spewing

co mputers next to sensitive
radio gear, and three televisions that produced more interference than a co nvention
of radio pirates all had to be
placed within inches of each
other. Plus, I had to ha ve
some kind of antenna farm ,
Puny telesco pic whips would
not do. I had to have an antenn a system that not only
would be effic ie nt enough to
pull in most area-wi de signals
but would also not alarm the
neigh bors or my landlord.
With this impossible task
in hand, I grabbed a pad of
lega l paper and began designing my new monitoring post.
After a few weeks of experimenting, hair
pulling, dozens ofcable ties and ten trips to the
local electron ics outlet, I finally got the new
monitoring post situated. It took a bit of tweaking, but it work s. In fact it works very well.
Although I don' t quite have the reception
ca pabilities that I had at the old place, on the
whole, I can hear j ust as much. HF reception
is a bit deg raded but still much better than I
anticipated. Area-wide police, fire and emergency communications co rne in loud and clear
and I can hear about eighty percent of what I
used to receive on the UHF military bands.
Th e coo l thing is, none of my neighbors are
the wiser. Only those who know me are awa re
that a miniature co mmu nications intercept
station is ope rating in the nondescript apartment next door.
So, fellow apartment dwelling monitors,
take heart. You, too, can monit or the airwave s
almost as well as your home-owning brethren.
Read on for some leads you can follow to find
your own apartment solutions.

Foiling

Interference
The more distance you
can put between your antennas and any interferin g
appliances the better, but if
space is at a premium. try
shielding both your equip-

ment and the source of the noise. When I

encountered interference, 1lessened it by carefully linin g the inside of my receivers with
aluminum foil. Using doubl e-stick adhesive
tape to mount the foil, I was able to reduce
most computer interference by about eighty
percent.
It also helps LO line the inside of nonm etallic computer monitors and television cases
with foil , but a word to the wise - be VERY
careful about doing this. The foil co uld short
out your co mputer or shock you if you are not
very careful in your placement of the foil! Any
contact with electronic components could fry
it or you .*
As I would discover , not all interference
co uld be elimin ated by shielding the equipment. A particul arly annoyin g cyc lic buzz
co uld be heard corning over my DX-440.
After a few days of turnin g off all electronic
com ponents one at a time in order to isolate
the noise, I was able to ded uce that it wasn' t
caused by anything in my apartment but possibly due to some type of
heavy machin ery used in
the complex . Quit e possibly it em ana ted from the
laund ry room and was
bleed ing into the radio
throu gh the power lines.
A digital signal processing (DSP) filter helped
cut down the noise, but

didn 't elim inate it entirely.

The solution came about by
acci dent. After buying a new
radio , I ran out of outlets to
plug it into, I switched the
DX-440 ' s power supply from
the wall to my APC 650 Back
Ups Pro, a backup battery used
for my computer. I had forgotten that th is au tom at ic
e mergency battery supp ly also
had built-in AC line noise filters. Miraculously the line
noise all but disappeared!
Other no ise red uc tio n
steps to improve reception included using high grade coax
cable runs to the antennas and
replacingthe aging,l eakytelevision cable that ran through
the apartment with a new and better grade of
coax.**

Secret Antennas
There arc no less than five antennas connec ted to my monitoring system 'and yet all are totally
discreet. One is for shortwave reception. three for genera l VHFI
UHF monitoring, and one is cut
specifica lly for the 225- 400 MH z
military UHF band.
Logistically, the only place to
mount the antennas was on the
apartm ent's back balcony. Some
tenant s grow mini-gardens on their
terraces; I chose antennas masquerading as two large fake palm trees.
Fro m a distance they can' t be seen.
For shortwave coverage I experim ented with several antennas
until I found one that wo uld give
me adequate recepti on and yet be
discreet. I tried runnin g an almost
invisible thin strand of wire to a
nearby tree, but often it broke and
once a bird landed on it, giving its
presenc e awa y. I'll never forget the
law n man ' sexpression as he caught
sight of the sparrow perched, preening his
feathers see mingly in mida ir.
Since a long wire was out of the pictur e, I

* Editor 's Note : We recomm end u~e ofan adhesive which will 1I0t be affec ted by heat, and caution that, shou ld the foil come in contac t
with internal components it could result in damage to your equipm ent and could be a fi re hazard.

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the standing wave ratio (SWR) was very low,

the cart and railing providing an excellent
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to rece ive some co mmunications at sixty miles
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The only problems I have encountered
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scanning radi os before I key up on the mike ;
the close proximity of tile transmitter wreaked
havoc with their sensitive circuits. So far there
have been no complaints of telev ision interfere nce (TV !) from my neighbors, most likely
due to the fact that I se verely limit my transmissions to emergency comm unications onl y
and resist the urge to chitcha t.

Running the Wires

Tornado Transmissions

decid ed to go ano ther route . Mounted horizontally along the wooden rail of my balco ny
is a Citize ns Band 27 MH z stee l whip antenna.
To make up for the rathe r short antenn a length
I ran the coax to a Rad io Shack shortwave
antenna amp lifier. I grounded the anten na to a
metal plumbing pipe with a short run o f copper wire.
Althoug h the antenna can' t co mpare to a
goo d longwire dipole, recept ion isn' t bad and
o nly reall y falls off at lower freque ncie s. I
have no problem receiving shortwave powe rhouse broad cas ters or even relatively weak
military sideband communications, which is
what I listen to most of the time anyway.
I mounted one of the VHF/U HF d iscone
an tennas o n a photographer' s light stand that
I picked up at a garage sale for a few bucks .
Another home-brew d isco ne was mou nted
using nylo n cable ties righ t on the trunk of one
of the fake palm trees. T he antenna eleme nts
blended in with the faux fronds making it
nea rly impossible to spot.
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November 1998

During severe weat her seaso n I can be

usua lly be found chasing twisters in the Texas
Panhandle. However, there are times whe n I
ju st can't pull myse lf away from work but still
wan t to help coord inate with local weather
spotters and dispatch the press into the area
where severe weather is occurring. For this
purpose I obtained and licensed two program mable VHF FM transmitters. One is mounted
in my chase vehicle and the other is used as a
base station for communicat ing with fellow
storm spotters in the field.
When I can't go out into the field wha t I
usually do is monitor the severe weather on
television, co nnec t to local weather radars via
the Internet, and monitor police lire and emergency cha nnels for reports of severe weathe r.
If the spotters are not in the local area I relay
information via ce llphone. but if they are
close by I use the VHF two -way radio. The
latter posed a rea l problem since I no longer
had a roof on whic h to mount a transmitting
antc nna.
The solution'? I attached <I VHF mobile
antenna to a metal utility ITt that I set out on
the balcony.The cart itself was gro unded with
hose clamps to a metal railing that ran the
length of the apartment. I was surprised to see

All the coaxial cable s fo r receivers run into

the mini-monitori ng pos t through a wallthrough-tube that the prev ious tenants thoughtfully provided so I didn' t have to drill any
holes and ruin any chances of losing my rent
de posit. I d idn' t want the coax for the VHF
transmitter to be in clo se co ntact with the
rece iving gear. so I ran it into the post through
a small ga p between two glass sliding door s.
I check it very o ften for sign s of wear and tear
due to the co nstant opening and closing of the
doors.
Electrical cord s are kept in check with
nylon cab le ties with heavy -duty circuitbreak er-protected power strips reducing the
risk of short circuits or fire from an overload.
All the wh ile I kep t in mind that from time to
time the land lord would be inspecting the
apartme nt and I didn' t want a mass o f tangled
cables scaring her to dea th.

Temporarily Permanent
Our "temporary" move into the apartment
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spe nd the rest of our lives in. Apart ment
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By Rimantas Pleikys
On the evening of Nov e m be r 29 . 1988.: 11 2100
UTe. the Sov iet Union ceased to jam all
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sary of its end.

he Cold War bet wee n Russia and the

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th rough 10 its people an d p UI up an elec tro nic
ba rr ier using powe rful tran sm itters that
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Fou rte en of the 16 Radio Free Europ e!
Radio Libert y language se rvices werej am med.
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(VOA) . Deut sc he We lle was jammed in five
of its I I East Europe a n a nd USS R lan gu ages.

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November 1998

T he BHe was jam med in two of its 12 Eastern

lan g uages.T he effectiven es s of jamming
ranged from a minor an noya nce to tota l bloc kage.
On December 16.l lJXS. Czechos lovakia
stopped the jam mi ng (whic h had bee n go ing
(1I1 for 37 years) nf Radio Free Europe 's broadca sts to that country. a nd on December 23rd
Bulgar ia foll owed suit. By the e nd of yea r
19X9. about 3.000 jamming tran smitter s were
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some 200 to 220 j amming sires.

Shortwave j amm ers (high frequency or
HF) were of two types: short ran ge. also
known as " gro undwave," low pow er faci lities
intended for covering big ci ties. and long
range jammers (ionospheric, or skYW<.lV C j am me rs. w ith di rectional ante nnas) . T he Sovi et
jam ming system was admin istrated by the
RU-2 dep artment of the Al l Unio n Mi nistry o f
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Krestyanino va for morc tha n 25 years. N.
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At ma ny othe r Wides pread locations in the
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Dwar f jam mers were numbered with " 60"
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Libe rty. Rad io Free Europe. Kol Yisrael,

De utsc he Welle. Radio Free Afghani stan,
Vo ice of America. Radi o Beij ing. Radio
T irana. BBC and some other stations before
mid-seventies. Several times, when the political climate became wa rmer. the USS R would
stop jam ming go vernme nt stations from Lon don. Washin gton and Cologne. But the jamming returned with a powerful howl afte r the
Czechoslova k and Polish crises of 1968 and
1980. In add ition. the USSR jammed Polish.
Czech/Slov ak, Bulgarian. Hungaria n and Romanian programs o f the Radi o Free Europ e. as
well as Rad io Free Afghan istan .

A Look Behind th e Jamming Wall

Typi cal gro u ndwav e jamming

equipm ent: com munications tran smitter
" l'ia: -M2-0 1'," 5 klV; 3-30 ,11Hz at
Pane vezys (Lithuania} site. (Photo by
Rimontas P/eikys)
ca l jamming tran smi uers ranged in powe r
from I to 20 kw . typic ally 5 kw . with an
average of 15 transmi tters per station. If the
need occurred. several ja mmers. most ofte n
position ed in different locations. were engage d to hlock a frequency of an enemy radio
station. The antennas for lon g range jammers
usually were vertical curtain arrays of 2/4 or
4/4 confi guration s. Local ja mming facilities
had widcband, mult i-wire dipoles. suspended
vertica lly or at 45 degree angles.
Accordi ng to so me InternationalTelecom mu nications Union (lTU) directio n find ing
triangul ations. clu sters of ja mming so urces
we re ge nerally found in the more popu lous
western regions of the USSR ncar Mo scow.
Leningrad (St. Peter shur g ) and Kiev ; in the
southern rep ublic of Kazakhstan : and in the
ea stern part o f the Russian Fede ration near
No.vosib irsk and Khabaro vsk. So me experts
estimate that the USS R alone might have
bee n spend ing at least US D XOO million annually for ja mming foreign radio stations.
The roa r of jam mers smothered Radio

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Novembe, 1998

The So viets were far more adv anced than

ma ny other countr ies in the numbe r of shortwave radio centers (44 in all ). HF broadcast
transmitters (about 300).antennas(over 1.(00),
and in transmitter power (up to 1.00012.000
kw). plus nearly 3.000 j amming units.
Jammin g Contro l and Co rrec tion Posts
(CCP s ) used to be installed at some distance
from the tran smitt ing sites : fro m 3 to 10 km in
the case of local jammin g stations and up to
se veral thousands of kilometers in the case of
ionospheric wave systems. Th e CC P operators. mo stly women. monitored the HF broadcast bands in order to identify the stations to be
ja mmed. Th ey also ch ecked the "quality" of
ja mming and issued orders to the techni cian s
at the transmi tting facilities. amo ng whom
were a lot of elderly peop le and hea vy drinkers .
Th e jamming mana ger/senior engi neer rece ived a salary of 165 rubles per mon th. Mr.
Vytautas Liatukas, the supe rvisor of Kaunas
city local jammer in Cen tral Lithu ania. compla ined in an institutional pa per " Ka uno
radistas" bac k in 1975 about their station " beA semi-profes sional tape deck " Tembr2M," used in Vilnius (Lithuania) and
other jamming CCPs [or playback oJ
speech-type j amming signals. (Photo by

Ri ma ntas Pleiky s)

ing in continuo us shortage of filament s for

rad io tubes GU -50 . tran smitter measu ring devices , cabling, as well as about the poo r co ndition of the roof of the j ammer building and
ante nnas: ' Som e of the KV-5 type transmi tters were said to be in operation for as much as
20 yea rs with no major ov erhaul and were in
dan ger of fall ing apart at any time.
Si nce th e tran smitter feed ers were
unshielded. V. Liatukas, who had to work in
an environment of 150 MV for more than 30
years . eventually developed cataracts and was
later reassign ed to the safe r CCP .
In order to save tubes, sometimes tran smitters were put at less power. Detailed ja mmin g
records - freq uencies, times. station names.
languages and audibility - we re entered in
shiftjournals.Thejam med radio station s were
called "communications correspondents: '
So me skywa ve jamming tran smitters we re
locat ed at norm al broadcasting or fixed com mun ications radio cem ers. In some cases when
HF broadc ast transmitte rs we re off dut y. they
were assigne d jamm ing dut y.
"The classic jamming pattern still found
( 1965) in the case of RFE C zech/Slovak and
Bulgarian services, and uscd against all RFE
languages prior to November 1956. is that o f
extensive coverage of a country with low or
medium intensity interference from long range
jam mers located in the Soviet Union or in
other satellites , plus reinforce ment in high ly
pop ulated areas by large nu mber of loca l
jam mers" (fro m RFEJRL archive docu ment
dated October 17. 1965 ). For exa mple. severa l HF radio stations near Len ingrad. Kiev.
M o sco w . Sve rdl o vsk ( Yeka ter rnburg) .
Kuibyshev (Samaraj .Tas hkent and Almaty
we re invo lved to gu arantee the effective shortwave jamming of RFE Polish language service.
Czechos lo vakia and Bulgaria most likely
paid the So viets for its export jamm ing . It
would be interesting to know how much they
had to pay. Or whether there was a bart er
arran gement: Czech shoes and Bulgarian fruits
for Sov iet rad io defen se?
According to an old Sov iet standard. masts
of the ja mmers were painted in ye llow and
black unt il 1975. to prevent enemy aircra ft
from ident ifying them in the natural back ground. From about 1975 onwa rd. all the
rad io and TV towers. includingjammers. were
painted in white and red . Thev have been
i ~lu mi nated at night with red non -blin king
light s.

Jamming Techniques
Every short range jammer used the same

ide ntificat ion code . or ca ll sign. fo r a ll its

tran smitte rs, usually made up of two letters.
T he mo re po wer ful sky wav e jamm ing tran smin e rs may per hap s hav e had their own ID
sig na ls. Th e call letters o f the j amm er we re
se nt from eac h transmitter cu rre ntly in op eration tw o time s per mi nut e. and twi ce ea ch
tim e. Th e Mor se signa l wa s produ ced by a
simp le de vice: a di sk , driven by an e lectric
mo tor which co nnected particula r co ntac ts
into a sho rt circ uit cvery 30 seco nds. T he
j ammer per son nel called it by the Ru ssian
word "mashinka." (S ee Table I and the Oct
'8 6 AIT arti cle, " FCC Relea se s Ru sian Ja mmer Loca tions")
Th e IDs wer e assi g ned in order to enable
the C CP monito rs to identify each indi vid ual
jam m ing station. e ve n d istant o nes. T he fi na l
decisio n con cerni ng the jammi ng target was
adopted by the rele vant fie ld CCP: it d epended on the actual aud ibility of the statio n
10 be jammed . CCP o perators issued orders by
dedicat ed ph one lines to the transmitter pe rso nnel to IU ll C u part icul ar transmitter 10 a
particu lar freq ue ncy. Th e jammers eng inee rs
nev er had a chance to listen to what they
jamm ed. Aft er thc unit was tuned in. its radi o
frequ ency stagc wa s swi tched on and off re-

TABLE ONE: MORSE CODE

JAMMERS AS IDENTIFIED BY
THE FCC IN 1986
Originally published in the October 1986

issue of Monitoring Times byBob Grove

10

lG
4F

AW
81

8D
DR

DU

GI

GM
GR
IG

KB

MP
MU
NS
R6

S5
TK
TV

UA

U7

UD
US
WI

Zl

Location
58-47N 029-31 E
38-28N 066-09E
64-42N 175-30E
50-30N 015-30E
52-39N 032-48E
54-21N02 1-00E
54-30N 034-29E
56-18N 032-04E
49-54N 131-56E
48-45N 135-16E
49-13N 135-29E
48-32N 134-20E
49-00N 023-00E
41-50N 064-46E
47-27N 030-30E
43-17N 027-07E
49-05N 016-36E
40-56N 067-41E
55-18N 037- 17E
48-39N 135-47E
49-09N 018-41E
47-04N 134-30E
49-32N 027-54E
55-43N 034-40E
M -03N 024-39.
27-59N 11 7-24E
55-43N 034-40E

Counhy

USSR
USSR
USSR
Czechoslovokic

USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR
USSR

Bulgaria

Czechcslcvckio

USSR
USSR
USSR
Czechoslovakia

USSR
USSR
USSR

Romania
Chino

USSR

"Slleg-Al " /IF tran smitters (19 x

lOOk W), mostly us ed ill pairs to
provide 400 k W, very com mon for
sky wave jamming at radiocenters No.
11-1/2 near Popouka, southeast of St.
Petersburg. (Photographer tIItk, fOWII )
merel y fro m the Cont rol and Correc tio n Post.

Th ere were at lea st ten types o f radi o broadcas t jammin g metho ds :

I. To blo ck out the "m os t anti-S oviet"
stati o ns. a wide spectrum. ele ctroni catl y-ge ncra ted white no ise sig na l was used . RFE/RL.
Kol Yisrac l. and Radi o Ti ra na wo uld ex pc riC Ill:C this type of jamm ing.
2. On A ugust 3. 1964. one more so urce of
interfer en ce was inven ted : Radio Ma yak ( Radio Beacon ) used its dist orted prog ram 10 jam
some "grey propaganda" stations suc h as VO A.
BB C, Deut sch e Well e. and Rad io Be ijin g.
3. Around 1978. So vie ts started 10 usc the
spee ch type, or speech rese mb ling sig na l. Its
adv a nta ge was that it co nforme d to th e timbre
of the h uma n vo ice. T his jam m ing so u nd.
whic h used to be playe d hack from o pe n reel
tape s . was co mpose d of two vo ices of male
an d fema le Ru ssian an no unce rs of the All
Un ion Radio.
4. T he re were sev eral occasions reported
whe n jammi ng mad e use of a non -m odu la ted
carr ie r wave . Th is techni que wa s ineffect ive .
5. An ot he r di ffic ult to identi fy jamming
method is whe n a jamm er started broadcasting a regu lar domest ic o r foreign se rvice prog ram on the freq uenc ies
the tar get statio n.
6. A uniqu e case wa s the Po lish service of
the Radi o Free Europe : from 1971 un til 1980
onl y tap e s w ith recordin gs of lig ht instr um en tal m usic we re emp loyed to j am it, bo th
nondi sro rtcd and o verm od ulatc d .
7. J ust befo re the end o f the jam ming era
o ne mor c insid iou s tric k wa s invent ed . By
means o f a directional HF an ten na . thc pro g ram of the j am med station was recc ived. T he
aud io was fed by cable to the c irc ui t which
cha nge d its pha se hy I SO deg rees. a nd se nt it
back to the jamming tran smi tter. blocking the
targ et statio n.

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same Iype of antenna. (Photo by Bernd
Trute nau)
X. During the 1960... the So vie t Union used
an es pe c ia lly w ild jamming type : med ium

wave transm itter s. usually by nigh t, were tun ed

46 5 kH z inte rmediate freq ue ncy. Such
em iss io ns paralyzed nearl y all o f the neigh bo rin g rad io rec ei ver s. blocking o ut eve rythin g !
9. The " De mo cra tic Republic" o f Ge rmany a ired its d o me stic rad io progra ms via
MW tran smi tters tu ned to approximate ly 800
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April 28, 1988: Demo lition of the 88.5 meter tower of the Vilnius (Lithuania) local
j ammer (" Object No. 6(JO") (PIIlJ/(J by Sigitas Zilionis)
HI. o utside of the freq ue nc ies of the We st

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10 . T he Sov ie t Uni o n never used the
"wobble jammers" - the swing ing carrier
j a mmers. whic h we still hear fro m C uba and
fro m some Middle Eas t countries . Some
so urces re fer them to as being o f Fre nch origin
("!).

The sig nals emitted by po werful jamming

transmitters , which we re usuall y ba sed in
d o wnt own areas . were eve n pick ed up by the

circui ts o f do mestic tape and casse tte mac hines a nd record players and TV sets. Instead

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Penetrating the Wall

T hose \\'110 used to mo nitor the di al and
wer e pat ient enoug h. co uld ofte n li nd "ho les"
in the j amm ing wa ll. T wilig ht imm unity was
on e of sev era l tech nical me thods used fo r
m.U1y years by the We stern broadcasters to
reduc e jam mi ng. Twilight imm un ity in cssc nce mak es usc of broad casting to the target
area on a certa in fr equency on whi ch the
sk yw ave jammer. placed a fe w thou sand kilometers 10 the Ea st. could not be effecti ve for a
give n area becau se o f its lower maximum
us able frequ en cy (M UF) at that time .
So me of the broadcasters liked to bcdeceptlvc : Radi o Be ijing used to ch ungc its freq ue ncie s s lig htly during the broadcas t (freq ue ncy
agi lity method }, lea ving the hoar se cho ir of
Soviet jamme rs as ide . T here we re se ve ra l

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November / 998

occasion s recorded when Rad io Be ijing played

its Russian pro grams hackwa rds. an d the se
partic ular freq ue nc ies were not j umrned !T here
are LW t ) ve rs ions of this tric k. Acc or d ing tothe
first. a spec ia l sec ret ag ree me nt was made by
Mosco w an d Beij ing authorities , v'here the
USSR did not inte rfe re with the Russian service o f Rad io Beij ing o n the freque ncie (s) that
were a ud ible backwards. Moscow mon itor s
would make tap e reco rdin gs. play them back wa rds to make tra nscripts. and submit the
scripts to the KGB a nd Com mun ist party
bosses.
Acco rdi ng to the seco nd theory. the Chi ne se were j ust play ing with R uss ians : th ey
ex pected regular " dear Soviet radio listeners"
to tap e the pro gra ms and later to play them in
reve rse mod e . Pe rso nally. I favor the first
ex pla nation as the more like ly .
In the mid -e ight ies the Un ited S tates Infor matio n Age ncy (USIA ) made the deci sion to
locate its new HF sites for RFEJRL and VOA
rela y statio ns in Israel and S ri Lan ka (C cylo n).
The se projects we re no t imp leme nted d ue to
so me env ironmenta l. fina ncial and po litical
pro ble ms. Ho we ver , the Soviets started preparing for the constru cti on of high power
sh ortwave countermeasure jamme rs in Syria
a nd probabl y Vietnam as soo n <IS they were
awa re of the US IA's pla ns.
Even the " E vil Empi re" co uld not create a
100 per ce nt effective j a mming tec hno logy.
especiall y in the 15. 17, and 21 M Hz hroadcast ba nds . O ne m igh t wonder why the So viet
ind ustry e ven co ntinued to pro d uce portabl e
so lid state rad io rec e ivers wit h 4. 5. 7. 9. a nd

I I MH z bands? Simpl y beca use they had no

o ther wa y to del iver party propaganda to the
va st territories of Siberi a. C e ntral Asia . and
the Far East. which were no t adequ ately covered by AM . FM radio and VHF/UHF televi sio n net work s.
T he response of We stern broadca sters to
the massive increase in Sevi er j a mm ing wa s
to sat urate thei r a ir wave s with more frequen cics. Kol Yisrae l co m me nce d an ex perime nt
in Ru ssian langu age broa dcast by addin g
twel ve new frequ e ncies to thei r reg ular live .
and Rad io Libert y by utilizin g as many as It)
freq ue ncies (there were plans to reach 40
freque ncies in pa ral lel ) to complicat e the jam mers ' task.
Officially. the Sov iets om itted a ny mentio n o f thc fac t that they j am med foreign radi o
statio ns for :J long time . Later they did admit
it hut declared they had right to "d efend the
nationa l sovereignty ofcou ntry in the lie Ids of
infonnat ion and culture ,"
\Vhe n the So vie t Union co llapse d. so me
jamme rs were co nverted int o broadcasting
stations or were put in moth bal ls: o the rs were
dism antled. O ne suc h lo w po wer j ammer,
ins ta lled sho rtly aft er the \ VWII ill the Jc wi sh
ce me tery of the Lithuan ian Balt ic sea port
K luipcdu. was also d ism ant led. and the c ha pel
wa s retu rned to beli evers. In ano the r ci ty the
closed j am me r building wa s co nverted into a
cafe. So me former Sovie tl oca l jammer s were
rcm odi fied into a co mm ercial radio statio n. a s
Radi o 7 in Moscow.
In the rail of 199 7 Mr. Auaroly Hatiushki n,
Deputy Chairma n of the St ate Committee for
Communicat ions and Info rm at ion o f the Russian Federation (one of the former managers
o f the j am ming system ). ga ve this an swer to
my inq uiry:
" All e m ployees who have bad at o ne time
:'1d irec t re latio nshi p with (ja m mi ng ) work a rc
no w retired pen sio ne rs. and my ef forts to ask
the m to review yo ur book (Jamming) were no r
success fu l. Allj a rnrnin g sites have hee n e ithe r
co nverted to ot he r purposes or ha ve had their
equipment wri tte n off. All rela ted lega l. technical and ope rational d ocumentation no longer
exists,"

This articleis based on Jamming, the 164-poge
book written by Riman'as Pleikys in English.
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mnarSill is a svstcm o f co m munica tio n

satellites 111,,1 allo ws peo ple to ta lk a nd
e xch ange data ea sily fro m a lmost eve ry
place in the wor ld. Co mpris ing fo ur geos tatio nary sa te llite s. the system was started in

1979. l1carly 20 years ago. Using simple eq uipme nt and a top e nd sc an ner. mo nitors call hea r
teleph on e truffle and wi tne ss im port ant de c isio ns being mad e 'III o ve r the wor ld. rig ht
no w, i ll real time.
Inm arsut. sho rt for Internation a l Maritime
Sate llite. wa s crc ured so that ships at sou co uld

C"""".,ylnmo,,,,'

rea lized thi s and alrea dy had the ir own satel lite sys tems in ope ration. But what about the
lo ng haul ships. the cru ise liners. ~U1 d ot her
vesse ls out of nor mal co m municatio n ra nge ?
It was Arthur C. Cla rke who. in Oc tober
IlJ45. published his paper "E xtra-Terrestrial
Rel ays." suggesting thaij ust three gcos unio nury satel lites could cove r the wor ld' s surface.
In fac t. his title for the art icle was or igina lly
"T he Future of World Co m munic ations" and.
as we a ll kno w. he was rig ht - as sho wn by
these ope ning remark s:

communicate reliably. HF radio (high trequ cn cy or sho rtw ave) is so meti mes d ifficu lt
10 usc and is ofte n un re liable. T he m ilitar y had

"Although it is possible, by 0
suitoble choice of frequencies ond
routes, to provide telephony circuits
between a ny two po ints or reg ion s

of the eorth for 0 lorge port of the

time, long-d istan ce communica tion

is g reo~y hompered by the peculiorities of the ionosphere, a nd there

a re even occosions when it may

be

impossible. A true broodcast

service, giving constant field strength
a t all times aver the whale globe
would be invaluable, nat to say
indispensable, in a world society."

Once a maritim e communications

system, Inmarsat is increasingly used by
news reporters, relief agenci es,
businessm en, and other world travelers.

22

MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

T he se wor ds mu st have rung true in the

co nsort ium of 47 count ries who agreed in
1979 to build u tru ly wo rldwide com munica tion sys te m. Not limi ted by po litica l or physica l bou ndaries and free for a ll to usc , prov iding sa fety and co ntinuity wh ere ot hers had
failed . lnmursat beca me the o nly se rvice to
usc.
Art hurC . C larke had sugge sted three sate llite s wo uld co vcr the wo rld. but to have overlapping coverage fo ur we re eventua lly used .
ln marsat A has the "c o nstant fie ld stre ng th"
that C larke sugges ted. which mean s that for as
lo ng as the sate llite is visible its strength is

constant. T her e arc few sa te llites that provi de

suc h big "footpri nts." ot her th an perha ps
we a ther sate llite s.

Who uses Inmarsat ?

W ho ma kes usc of the lnm arsut service?
Ce rtai nly mo st ocea n-going ships, hut in re cent years mor e a nd mor e ind ividu a ls arc
usi ng the service. T ake the traveling businessman. for exa mple. There is 11 0 worldw ide
mob il e phon e se rvice. so he ha s to re ly on the
hote l pho ne . ofte n at S12 to S15 per m inute.
anti freq ue nt ly in Third \Vor ld co untrie s pos ses sing little or 110 te lep ho ne se rvice at al l.
If he has a sma ll briefcase-si zed lnm a rsat
phone wit h him , it (,:os ts j ust S ~ a minu te - ~10
argu ment so co mpe lling I'm left wo nde ring
why I do n' t have on e. In fact. despit e o wning
a world coverage GSM phon e, I discovered
wh ile in Eg ypt recently, that. !CS. GS ~ t wo rks
in Egypt. hut no, ther e is no reciprocal lice nsing ag reem ent. ~ hiking import ant ca lls thro ug h
the ant iquated hote l telephone service manned
by onl y Arabic speaking people cost me ov er
5600 in one week!
But there a rc more important no nm arine
and non commercial use s. such as d isa ster
rel ief. hel p in inacce ssibl e and hostil e a reas,
scie ntific res ea rc h, and, of co urse. fron t line
news re po rt ing .

Types of Service
I mll ~l rs a t

lnmarsat A was the first standard to he used

o n the sa tellites . It has a con stant field stre ngth
an d is a na log : in fact , it behaves just like a
good qua lity te lep ho ne line. Use rs can co nnec t modern s anti cull the ir office , se nd a nd
rece ive FAXe s and, of co urse. ha ve a high
qu a lity telephon e co nve rsatio n. So me use rs
co ntinue usin g the A sys te m fo r its analog

qu alit y w he n othe r se rv ices wo u ld be c hea pe r.

T here arc a lso a lot o f A terminal s in usc .
becau se it was the first se rvice and because it
use s the con sta nt fiel d stre ng th ph ilosup hy. Its
use rs have cho se n the A se rv ice for the se
s pec ific qualit ies and are un likel y to s wap to
an other service - good ne ws to the hob byi st.
since it is this serv ice that is so eas y to hea r.
Inmarsal B

lnmursnt B is a di git al se rvice that pro vides

low qu ali ty vo ice co mmu n ica tion and m edium spee d da ta capability. O nce popular. it is
probably a dying mode no w .
Inmarsat C
Inm arsat C is a vcry po pul ar service C' Ipable of se nd ing and rec eivi ng digital data
from a sim ple o mni dir ectio nal anten na. T he
or igina l usc wa s for a T elex typ e system. b ut
the sta nda rd s arc flexible e no ugh to handl e
data for all so rts of uses .
Inmarsat 0
Inmar sut D doe s not ye t officia lly ex ist. b ut
it will soo n. II is conceived as a pa ger and lo w
rat e return syste m. Fo r exa mple. a road vehicle carry ing a valuable cargo ca n be po lle d
fro m the D se rvice . and it ca n re tu rn its G PS
po sition usin g a lo w speed di gi tal signal. No l
much ac tual info rmation wi ll be tran sm itted
or received . b UI for those tha t need th is informario n. it w ill be ve ry valuable ind eed.
Inmarsat M
Inmursa t M is a high er -po wer ed sys te m
usi ng spot beam s. In fact. the s pot beams
co ver mo st o f the civilized world . and fo r
most trave le rs it is q uite sufficient. T he sy stem uses di gi tal speec h and lo w cost. sm all.
light briefcase-t y pe termi nal s. So popu lar is
the M sys te m tha t yo u will lind ad verti ser s in
th is magazine sc lling syste ms.

scanne rs. There arc IW O wa ys arou nd this: o ne

is to pu t up with the s lig ht distort ion on so me
sig na ls. and the othe r is to use a n ou t-boa rd
demodu lat or . In fact. the tra nsmi ss io ns usc a
com pander that limit s the dynamic range
the vo ice transm ission a nd expa nd s it at the
rece ive r.
In rea lit y. a stan da rd out -of-the-box rc ccivcr is fin e for cas ua l mo nito ring o f nearly
all sig nals: onl y the Ita lian s so u nd di sto rted!
W hat if yo u arc willing to put up with a h it
of distor tio n now and ag ain . bu t yo ur di sconc
isn 't pick ing up anyt hing at all? T his is s uch a
com mon qu estio n. I pu t the following. ra the r
tech nical an sw er on the Intern et.
T he ave rag e sc anne r has a sen siti vity of
about 1.0 uV at 1540 MHz ( fo r 12 dB signalto-noise). Usi ng a 35 d B g ain preamp lifier
with a 0.5 dB no ise figu re increases thi s SC Il sitivity to j ust O.OR uv . a d ifference of 22 dB .
1\ 3 1'001 lo ng. c ircula rly po lar ized. heli cal
ante n na c ut for 1540 Ml-lz w ill g ive abo ut 15
dB more gain tha n the best d iscon e. Add
antenna cabl e loss of abo ut 6.0 dB . A nd you
end up with 4 3 dB more sig na l. resu ltin g in a
recei vabl e signa l from ln marsat of aboLll 20 +
dB sig na l-to- noise. So when yo u try to recei ve
In mar sat on yo ur discon c , it will be about 2l->
dB be low the no ise : hen ce . yo u wi ll get ab so lutcl y noth ing at a ll.

or

The Satellites
There arc fo ur sate llites in th e se ries . In
most plac es in the \...-orld yo u wi ll p rob abl y
recei ve two ; here in Eng land I a m ve ry luck y

that I can rece ive three. the maxim u m po ssi ble.

AOR-\V is the West At lantic Region satcllite and cov ers mo st of Nort h and So uth
A me rica and also mo st o f Europe. It ha s mu ch
cl ear spee ch traffic a ll da y a nd nigh t. Its
locati o n is 54 .0 degrees We st.
AOR -E is the Ea st Atlantic Regi on sate llite and cove rs par ts of No rth A me rica. Sout h
America. Europe and the Middl e Eas t. It has
a lo t o f c lear s peech tra ffi c in sev eral lunguagcs as it co vers suc h a large area o f non
Engl ish spe aking people. It is locat ed at 15.5
d egree s West.
lOR is the Indi a Region sate llite a nd co vc rs the w ho le of Ind ia. Europe and Weste rn
Austra lia. This sat e llite has a lot o f very inte restin g traffi c indeed. mo st of it in Eng lish . as
it co ve rs what used to he the main part o f the
Bri tish Empire. It is located at 64.5 d eg ree s
Eas t.
POR is the Pacif i c sate llite and co vers
Japan. A ustralia and the West Coast o r No rth
Am er ica. Th is sate llite is out of m y range. but
I know th at seve ra l Au str alian reader s are
suc cess fully mo nitori ng it. It is located a t 17 X
degrees \Ve st.

Setting up a system
You will find that on each sate llite there is
a z-rhour rad io st.uion. A "'~ (Am eri ca n Forc es
Ne twor k). w hich c an he used to align the
ant e nna. You simply co nnect the cables a nd
usc on e of the s upplied ad apt er s to fit your
sca nne r. W ith the sc anner se t to 15 37.0 MHz

lnmarsat carries clear speech telephon e conversations f rom around the world.
I!I ~ EJ

...."'; lnmarset

How to receive Inmarsat

A lot of scanners and nearly all top e nd
recei ve rs now co ve r the lnm arsa t frequencies
o f 1535.00- 1543.50 M Hz . Th ere arc o nly two
proble ms. T he first is that your recei ver wil l
o nly receiv e ana log vo ice transm ission s and
tha t re stri c ts yo u to the In marsat A se rv ice .
T his is no gr ea t prob lem becau se it alway s ha s
se vera l teleph on e calls at any tim e to mo nitor.
T he seco nd proble m is that yo u will need a
suitable ant enna and a very low noi se pream plifier. T here are at least two manufac turers
ready and wi lling to he lp yo u in th is area.
A slight additiona l problem is that th e
bandwidth of the Inm ar sat A tran sm issions is
slig htly wider than tha t provided on mo st

AOR- ~
POR
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AOR-E
38 .23 Q
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15. 50 QUl 5 4 .00 tJ 178 . 00 Ul 64 .50

A'

L.,

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MONITORING TIMES

23

and the antenna pointed roughly in the

right direction. soo n you will hear the
broad cast; it is a simple matte r to adju st
the antenna for maximu m clarity.
(Editor's note : It has been reported
that AFN broadcasts on AOR- \V and
lOR have beendiscontinu ed and replaced
with high powered HF bro adcasts in the
4 16/ 12 MHz marine ba nds.)
Unlike satellite T V, you haw a tolerance of at least 15 degrees within which
you can still hear (he satellite. From
Chica go. for example. AOR -W is 134
degrees, nearly southwes t. and 30 degree s elevatio n. Once you have found The auth or call receive three lnmarsat satellites
the satellite, usua lly after onl y a few with this array at his location ill England.
minutes, then it' s time to fix the antenna
What you will hear
perma nently. although for years I had mine at
Thi s is the excit ing part !The people using
ground level resting on a plast ic box. I have a
chea p coa x switch that gives me either the lnmarsat systems arc not short of money .
di scone or (he Inmar sat antenna .
w hat they have to say is very inter esting . I
1 have tried nearly all the rece ivers that have hea rd ships being illegally boarded. ship
co ver the lnrnarsat frequ enci es and they all owners instructing their captains abo ut the
work well; you do not need a very expen sive time to dock to improve Custo ms relations.
scanner. As all the signals arc the same strength. news reporters, dea ls inside large com panies.
the receiver' s per formance is not very critical. military co mm unica tions. and lot s more that I
and a preamp lifier helps make up for any simply ca nnot men tion. Th ough you usua lly
deficiencies. However, in my experience , I (hut not always) ge l only one side of the
wou ld recom mend Icorn and AO R as reliable co nversation. it is gene rally ob viou s what is
perform ers.
happ ening.
Those involved in internationul cri me ofThere is a cho ice of at least two com mercia l manufactur ers from which to purchase tcn use lnmarsat: it works anywh ere. it is
the antenna and preamplifier . If you decid e to thought to be secure. it is though t to be bug and
build you r own. there arc ju st a co uple of tap free. and you can pay your bill anywhere
things yo u need to know . Th e transmission s in the world . Monitors have allegedly heard
are in narr owband FM and received with a drug und anns deals. trade embargoes being
right hand . circularly polarized antenna. You r broken. several pirate ships working. and polirece iving sys tem must be able to resolve 0. 1 tician s colluding and genera ting cover-ups.
There arc dozens of channels in use at any
uV or bette r and the anten na needs about 15
dB of gain.
one time ; you simply tune up and down and
There arc other options. too: in Europe it is decid e what to monitor. Nearly everything is
possible to modify a TVRO system, remov e the same signal strength. Com purer software
the 4 or 12 GH z sec tion from the LNB. and co uld he left to scan and. using the voice
feed a two- or three-turn hel ical feed directl y detection mode. co uld store hundreds of mesinto the IF amplifier of the LNB . Difficult. but sages into your computer via its sound card.
not impossible: I have even seen wha t looked
lnrn ursut is perhaps the only wayofusingyour
like nearly co mplete lnrnarsat systems at the scanner to listen to new and sometimes dista nt
Dayton Hamfest!
countries.
At home near Cambridge. England. I have
three antenna s on the end of my house so that
I can listen 10 three out of the four satellites
availab le. If 1 hear any intere sting new s on
CNN. I imm ediatel y select the appropriate
satellite and get the rest of the story hours
before it break s! As I write this article.dozens
of calls arc in progre ss on AOR E. The Joker
in the pack'? Yes. there is an unknow n. ord inary FAX transmissio n in the clear. Wonder
what would happen if you co nnected your
receiver to a FAX decoder?
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Inmarsat monitoring is a huge and

largel y untapped area. You owe it to
yourself to put your scanner to some
good use above 1500 MHz. After all.
didn 't you buy it becau se of its wide
frequency co verage ? No w is the time to
monitor satellites!

Where you can buy

There arc two sources of ready built
equipment. Tim cstep, who provi de a
system co mprising : helical ante nna ,
prea mplifier. 65 feet of cable, power
inserter. adapters for your scanner and a
manual. Th is Tim estcp system. costing
$399. requires only a 12 V power supply.
Swager Enterprises pro vide a 3 foot dish,
feed horn coverin g 1500 -1 ROO MHz. pream plifier, power inserte r, power supply and
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Acknowledgements
Arthur C. Clarke, who so grac iously invited me to his horne in Sri Lanca in July 1992
and who gave me his scientific autobiography
and an annotated cop y of the "Extra-Terre strial Re lay" article .
Mart in Goodrum from British Telecommun icat ion s Research Lab orat ories wh o
worke d with me on a DGPS project using
lnmarsat. hence giving me the enthusias m to
explore fun her.

Dove Cawley, G 4IUG, is owner of Timestep,

which produces weather satellite receiving
eq uipment. He wa s formerly a senior des ign
eng inee r for Philips specia lizing in rece iver

design, ond ha s been a ham for thirty yea rs.

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That New Band to Scan

n previous issues we 've discussed the

pen ding ope ning of the 746- 806 MH z
band for pub lic safely co mmunicatio ns.
T his is the to p e nd o f the UHF T V spec tru m
which is not full y popul ated by broad ca ster s

nationally. The problem is that there are TV

broad casts with in this band seg ment in most

of the major metropolitan regions -

the

exact areas of the country where the spectrum is needed most

T he call fo r add itional frequ e ncies grew
out of the Wo rld Trad e Center bombing a
number of years ago. Many public safety
age nc ies respo nded to the bla st. ye t the re was
litt le or no interopcrnbili ty oil-scene. These
federal. state, regional and local age ncies
lobbied Co ng ress to open up a new range of
c hannels as the re was no ex isting av a ila ble
spec trum o nto which they co uld migrate.
C hannels 63-69 0cc upy o ne of the least pop ulated port ions of the T V ba nd and this is what
ultimately wa s granted to the public safety
com mu nity.
At the APea (Associ ation of Pub lic
Sa fe ty Co m munica tio ns Offi cer s) co nve ntion which was held this past Aug ust in
Albuqu erqu e. Ross Ruth enberg o f Mot o rola
held :.I se m ina r in whic h he descri bed the
status of the alloca tio n proced ure at the FCC.
It turn s o ut that the Co mm issi o n has not ye t
fin ali zed the plan s for the hand , as law e nforcc me nt agen ci es. in part icul ar. are still
de ba ting ho w bes t to ma ke use of the spec trum. Th e FCC, in co nj unc tio n with pu blic
safety autho rities, has been issuing what 's
k no wn a s Furthe r Notices of Proposed
Rulemaking (FN PRMs) .
While we o rigi na lly tho ught tha t licc nsing of the 746-806 ran ge was imm inent. the
list of issues to be resolved is seem ingly
en dless. A par tia l list of ac tio n ite ms inc lude s: ho w to dea l with Ca nadi an and Mexica n broa dca ste rs within the band. th e desir e
to ac tually internatio nali ze the band for g loba l public sa fety usc, the nccd to for mulate
natio na l inter op erabilit y plans . the de ve lopmc nt of di gital mo du latio n a nd trunk ing standards (it is ex pec ted that digit al trunking will
he the nor m within the freq ue ncy ran ge ),
etc .. etc.
Many co nve ntionee rs. inc ludin g APC O

26

MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

me mbe rs and man ufacturers, had as their

objective a desire to ado pt a mor e aggressive
mobileffV shari ng cri teria than tha t used at
470 -5 12 M Hz. T o max imize spectru m ava ilability for public sa fety witho ut not iceab le
im pact 011 TV broadcasters, it is im portant
that the FCC tak es into acco unt th e propagatio n diffe ren ces bet ween 470 M Hz and 750
M Hz ; the lower po we r o utput of mobil es and
portables ; the fact that land mo bile sig nals

are vert ically polari zed whil e tele vi sion

broa dcast is hori zontally po larized, and like
issues. While broadcaste rs seek to insure that
no land-mobi le signals w ill interfere wi th
their televi sion tran smi ssion s, pu blic sa fety
does not wa nt to be hamstrung w ith regu lation s that make it all but imp ossible to utili ze
the ne w ba nd .
At the tim e of the co nvention in Aug ust,
this mu ch was known:

BAND PLAN
Mobile Transmit
Integ nltect Voice
& Dl ta 5Yltems
(3 MHZ)
,"'

HlghS_

HlghS_

OetalVldeo
SYltems

DatllVldeo
SYl lam.

(3 MHZ)

(3 MHZ)

Inttgl1lted Yolce
& Oata SYlteml
(3 MHZ)

-ce.s

.~

80

(000-806 MHz)

(794800 ~Hz )

Fixed Transmit
Inlegnltld Voice
& Data Syatems

HlghS_

HlghS_

DstalYldeo
SYltaml

DatalVldeo
Systama

(3 MHz)

(3 MHz)

(3 MHz)
TVCI'l. 63

78.

(784noMHz)

Inlegnltad Vole.
Daw 5yllam.
(3 MHz)
TVCtl .84
(77o..noMHz)

no

SPECTRUM USE DISTRIBUTION

USE

NARROWBAND
BASIS
, (6.25KHZ
I CHANNELS)'
I

7.8 MHZ
(1248 CH)

SUBJECT TO 3RD
FNPRM
TOTAL

I
!
I'

WIDEBAND
i TOTAL .
(50KHZ BASIS !SPECTRUM
CHANNELS)"
4.8 MHZ
(96Cm

3.4 M H Z S . 4 MHZ
(544 ern
(108 Cm

8.8 MHZ
(36.7%)

12 MHZ
Cm

24 MHZ
(100%)

12MHZ
(l920Cm

~240

24 MH z o r spec trum is due 10 be g ranted

to pu blic safety comp rising T V cha nne ls 63
a nd 64 (7 64-776 MH z ) and channe ls 6S and
69 (79 4-S06 MH z>.
Certa in areas of the cou ntry have no
television broadcasters in th is ra nge c urren tly. bu t the me tro area s. most in need of
spec tru m. do ha ve o ne or more suc h tran sm itt ing stations . These ana log TV statio ns
mu st be tu rne d off at the end of the DTV
(digital rcle vis iou ) tra nsitio n pe riod which is
in 2006. Stat ions in these uppe r UHF ch annels whi ch ha ve gone d igital can stay w here
they are until they ca n subseque ntly be mov ed
be low channel 60 o r. better yet. c hanne l 51.
Th e bal a nce of the new spec trum in the
range will be auc tioned to co m me rcial interests in lOOI.
Usage o f the new spec trum will incl ude
integ rated vo ice an d data sys te ms as we ll as
high -speed data a nd video sys tems. (He re ' s
hopin g that out of all that we can acce ss and
decode the digital. non -encryp ted . voice transmi ssion e.)

T he publi c safety co m munity has also

bee n pushi ng fo r a g rant of spectru m in the
138 to 144 MHz ba nd, ho ping that fe de ra l
and m ilitary autho rities would free up so me
or a ll o f the hand .
T his a ll co nstitutes quit e a n "a ir g rub" of
late for public safety. Age ncies have been
mo vin g to d igital fo r spec tru m e ffic iency :
the smalle r c ha nne l spac ing (suc h as 7.5 kHz
in V HF ) instituted by the FCC will a llow for
mo re c ha nnels : 764-X06 will soon go to
public safety ... a nd 1I0 W the y want eve n
mo re .
It may be j ust a reflexive reaction to
com me rcia l inte rests vy ing to tak e spect ru m
away from sen'ices such as the a mateu r radio
co m mu nity . w hoe ver is first at the door, hat
in ha nd. asking for freque nc ies - or paying
for them a s the cas e may he - may be the
wi nner in the free -for -all. If pu blic safety
doe sn 't grab ,III it ca n no w. it may not have a
chan ce to go back later.

The Burning of Florida

A not he r we ll-att ended AP CO se ssio n
dealt wit h the June and Ju ly Flor ida wildfi res
that co ns ume d much of the cen tral an d no rth e rn a reas ofthe state. as \ve ll as the intere st of
the nati on . Ho we ver. there was no t a g reat
deal o f di scu ssion about the perfo rma nce of
the SOO MHl trunkin g sys tems in the regio n,
leaving one to won der how the y in fact
re sponded.
A rep resen tative of'Flag lcr Co unty. whic h
was ordered 10 evac uate (that' s rig ht : the
entire co un ty -,, 35.()()Oresiden ts rece ived an

c vac ord er !). re port ed tha t all med ica l co m-

muni cation s fa iled as their towe r burned

do w n. Offic ia ls tried to pu t M E D 8 up
1463. 175116S. 175 ) bUI co uld n' t ge l it dune .
Obvio usly. whet he r the ca use is lo wers burning o r phone line s melt ed . mai ntai ning go od
co m munica tio ns und er suc h con di tions is

extremely diffic ult.

Dad e Cou nty even tua lly erected po rtable
repeaters for Flag ler. bu t wh at he lped most
we re ac tually two-me ter ham repeater s that
co ntin ued in operation througho ut most. if
no t all. of the cont l agr ution . Ot her rep re se ntative s re ported that the ir o ld V IIF a nd UHF
equipment carne in handy, parti c ula rly when
the y rail o ut of o ther portables o r those o the r
po rtable ... failed. Proble ms o f kee ping ba tte ries c harge d we re also described .
O n the law e nforce me nt side. co unty
...her iffs o n VHF co uld n' t talk with state
agencies 0 11 HOO f\H1z di gital sys te ms . Th is
so unds like a matt er wh ich need s to be ra ised
at th e ne xt stale budg et hearin g.
T he most inte res ting solutio n in vol ved
the Civ il A ir Pat rol (CAP) , whic h orbi ted lire
sce nes with repe ater s ! T hat' s right. airborne
re peat e rs.ju st like some thing yo u mig ht suspec t to see under batt lefi e ld condi tions which is what thi s o pe ratio n was most akin
to.
Fede ra l author ities that came 10 the state
to ass ist with flrcfighting o pe ratio ns we re
shoc ked to find ho w difficu lt it was to boule
the se blazes that we re occurr ing. not on
mo untainou s terrain . but rather o n flat. suburb an and ru ra l te rritory. T he prob lem lay in
the fac t that subd ivisio ns had bee n built right
into the fo rests. leaving: a bla nket of lim bs.
lea ve s a nd pine need les covering the to ps of
ho me s.
Additio na lly. the federal rad io o ffic ials
were acc usto med to mou ntainto p sites o n
whic h the y co uld pos ition tact ical re pea te rs.
In Flo rida yo u'Jl be luc ky to even find hills.
Fede ra l fircfig ht ing cre ws . which we re reported to have -WJ/40H ~'1I1 1 rad ios (input!
ou tput). could no t co mm unica te with the
Florid ians and had 10 be led in 10 ma ny li re
sce nes by local an d cou nty appara tus.
Further co mme nts o n radi o operatio ns
d urin g the Flor ida wi ldfi res may be for wa rded to me at the main Af T address o r email at scnnmastrrtsv uol.com,

Florida Trunking Systems

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in the nat ion :IIlJ the ce ntra l po rtion of the
state probabl y top s the list as far as sys tem
implem ent ati on . Trunk ing is so pe rva siv e in
Flor ida that a T runk Tru ck e r Ent husiasts

Group may he fo rm ed to hel p foster monito rin g ofloca l trunkcd sys te ms in the are a (go to
www.u-unktra ckcr.corn a nd look under
Information o n how to subscribe toTrunkco m
a nd fi nd o ut mo re abo ut th is e ffo rt) .
Most tal kgro up s are si mulcas t be twee n
the two ma in grou ps. If yo u use the group I
list so me Or a nge County She riff Office
(OCSO) seco ndary channels will not be heard.
If yo u usc the gro up 2 list yo u will nu t hear
O rla ndo Pol ice Department (O PD) emerge ncy cha nne ls. A lso. a ny odd number ID is
;;1 ta lk group th at is bei ng s im ulcas t o r
c rosspatched .
T he follow ing informati on is co urtesy of
num e rou s co ntri bu tors to o ur web site and of

Polin ' Call '99.

ORANGE COUNTY/ORLANDO

System I (O rlando primary ) frequen cie s:

866.1125. 866.2375. 866.362 5. 866.5750.
866.6 125. 866.7 125. 866.73 75. 866.9125.
8670750 . 867.2 125. 867.2375. 867.3250,
867 3875. 867.6875. 867.7 125, 867.7375,
8680375.868.2 125.868.2375.868.3125.
868.6625.868.7175. 868.9 125

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(continued)

Sys tem 2 (Orange Co unty primary ) freq uencies:

857.4375, 858 .'375, 859.'375, 860.'375,
8660500,866.1375 ,866.3875,866.'125,
866 .6625 , 866 .6875 , 866 .8500, 866 .8875 ,
866 .9125, 867 .1625, 867 .5500, 867 .8000 ,
868 .1000, 868 .1250 , 868.2625, 868 .2875,
868 .5750 ,868 .6375,868.8250 ,868 .8750

Orange County Fire

2096
2128

Fire 1
Fire 2

2160
2192

Fire 3
Fire 4
Fire 5
Fire 6
Fire 7
Fire 8
Fire 9
Fire 10

2224
2256
n88
2320
2352

2384
24 16

2" 48
2'80
2312

2544
4272

4304
4336
' 368
" 00
4432

Dispatch
CommCenter/Unit-Unit/Fire
lo ~s Mgt
District 6 Eo$!
Fireground Ea st
District 5 South
Firegrovnd Sooth
District A North/Wesl
Fireground North/Wesl
Mutual Aid

Fire 11
f ire 12

Mutua l Aid (Osceola Cou nty

f D Cross-patch)
Adm in
Inspections

Fire 13

Supply

Fire 1.1

Adm in/Supervi$OrsU nit/Unit

f ire 15
Unit/U nil
EMS to O rlando Regionol Medical Center
EMS to hospital
EMS to Sand Ioke Hospital
EMS10 Flo rida Hospital Orlando

EMS to Florida Hospital Eost

EMS to Florida Hospital Apopka

44 64

EMS 10 Columbia Park Hospital

AA96
4528

EMS 10 HealthCenlrol Hosplial

EMS to Princeton Hospitol

4560
4816

EMS to Winter Pork Memorial Hospital

EMS to Florida Kissimee Hospital

808 0
8 112
9104
9136
13328

Tac 1 Dispotch, unit movement, alarm traffic

Tac 2 Fireground
Tac 3 Fireground
Tac.4 Investigations
Toc 7

O rlando Fire

Orlando Intern ationa l Airport

8016

8048
8720
8752
878 4
8880
8912

8944
8976
9008
926d

13616
136.8
13680
138'0
13872
1d320

Airport Patroli O POAirport)

Airport Fire Dept.
Airport Facilities Toe 2
Adtranz Tra ins (between ma in terminal ond
a irsides)
Airport Facilities Toe I
Airside Operations
cMando E;.c:ecutive Airport Operations
Ainine Operations
Land ~ide Operations
Airport Parfc:irtg
Signal 43 Talkgroup
Airport EMS (Backup Toel
Airport Teletype
Airport Aux (Channel 14)
Airport Emerg (FD Radio Emerg Button Icc!
Airport Cor-Cor
Airport ShuttleBuses

2992
3027
3056
3088
3120
315 2
3 184
32 19
3248
3280
3312
33"
3376
3. 11
3"0
3472
3536

Orlando Police
8208
8240
8272
830.
8336
836 8
8.00
8.496
8528
8560
8592
862.4
8656
8688
926.4

2643
2672

2704
2736

2768
2800
2835
286.
2896
2928
2960

28

Sector I
Sector I
Sector 1

Northwest Patrol
Toc I
Teletype
Sector I
Car/Cor
Sedo r I
Special Cps
Possible Sector 1 Service
Sector 2
East Patrol
Sedo r 2
Tac 2
Sector 2
Teletype
Sector 2
Cor/ Cor
Sector 2
Special O ps
Possible Sector 2 Service
Sector 3
Wesl Patrol

MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

Teletype
Teletype
Emer ncy
Petre

East
West
W eO
West
Central
East

Petrol
Patrol
Car to cor
Watch Commanders
1\
Cenltol
Emerge ncy
13
Teletype
Centrol
Service
Ea st
E me r~ency
Signa .43

1044 8
\ OA80
10512
10544
10672
1182.
11856
12592
12624
1...8
144 80

Winter Pork PD
Winter Pork PO
Winter Par k PO
Winter Pork PO
Winter Pork Fire Dept.
Moirland PO
Maitland PO
Winter Ga rden PO
Winter Go rden PO
Occee PO
Ocoee PO

336
37 1
' 00
9"

Disaster A
Disaster 8
Disaster C
Animal Services

Tee 1
Tac 2
Tac 3
Tac 4

Icc 1
Toe 2
Ioc I
Toc 2
Icc 1
Tac 2

Fire
190'
1939
1968
1808

Combot (dispatch)
Icc 1
Icc 2
Toc3
Toc
Patrol
Admin
Icc 1
City Net
Icc 1 Dispatch
mcltis elec ted dis -

5 136
5168

51. Cloud Fire

51. Cloud Fire

Toe 2 EMS response

Tac 3 Fire response

pet,"

(Dispatch)
East operations
West operations
Admin
County Net

100 -1
100 -2
100 -3
100 -4
100 -5
100 -6
100-7
100-8
100 -9
100 -10
100 -11
100 -12
lQO.I 3

SEMINOLE COUNTY

Patrol
Ea st/ Centrol
Patrol
Wesl
Teletype
Suppa rt
Tactica l
CommChannel
Civil Division
Courthouse Security
Tac 2
law Enforcement Net (counly"wide comman)
County Joil

Fire

Dispatch
(Ta lk Around)
Icc 1
Fire
Fire
Tac 2
Fire
Tac 3
ICS 1
(Incident Comma nd)
IC5 2
(Incident Command - airpo rt
emergencies)
Winter Park Hospitol
Technical Services
Emergency Services
Columbia Pork Medical Cen te r - Sanford
South Seminole CommunityHospital
Florida Hospital Altamonte
Unicorn

County Sheriff
A Patrol North Zones 1,2,3
BTeletype
C Patrol South Zone 4,5
o Patrol South Zone 6,7
E Cor/ Cor

600- 1
600-2
600-3
600-'
600- 5
600-6
600-7
600 -8
600-9
600-1 0
600-1\
600- 12
600- 13
600- 1.
600- 15

000- 2
000- 3
000-7
300- \
300-2
300 -3
300- 4
300 -5
300-6
300-7
300-B
300 -9

Altamont Springs PO
Ca sselberry PO
Lake M.ory PO
Sanford PO pe trol
Sanford POpe trel
Sanford PO
Sanford PO
Sanford PO
Sanford PO
Sanford PO
Sanford PO
Sanford PO

Sheriff
272
78.
528
1040
1296
\552
1744
1776
2064
2928
2576

Patrol
Teletype
Tac 1
Toc2

Coun ty/Met ro Fire

OSCEOLA COUNTY

Toe I
Icc 2
Icc 3
Toc'
Tac 5
Fire

Kississimee Police
Kississimee Police
Kississimee Police
Kississimee Police
Kississimee Police
Kississimee Fire
Kississimee Fire
Kinissimee Fire
Kississimee Fire
Kississimee Fire
St. Cloud'Police
St. Cloud Police
St. Cloud Police
51. Cloud
St. Cloud Fire
St. Cloud Fire

Fregyencies:85 1.3875,851.43 75,855 .4875, 856.2375,

856 .'625, 857.2375,
857"625, 857.9875, 858.2375, 858.4625,858.9875,
859.2375, 859.'625,
85 9_9875, 860 .2375 , 860.A625, 860.9875 , 866.1 125,
866 .3625,866.6\25,
867 .3875, 867 .6375, 868 .03 75, 868.3 \ 25
Fleet Mop (Usr); BO=SO B1.. $ A 82. $4 B3=$4 B4=S4
B5=55 B6=5\ 2

Olher Agencies

18.0
1872

Suburbs
32 16
32'8
3280
3312
33 44
3600
3632
366 '
3696
3728
. 880
4912
.494.4
5072
5104
51 11

Suburbs

Orange County Sh eriff

2576
2608

Sector 3
Tac 3
Sector 3
Teletype
Sector 3
Ca r/Ca r
Sector 3
Special Cps
Possible Sector 3 Service
Sedor 4
South Patrol
Sector 4
Tac 4
Sector.4
Teletype
Sector .4
Car/ Cor
Special Cp s
Sector 4
Possible Sedor .4Service
I-Drive/Disney Patrol
Sector 5
Sector 5
Toe
SectOl'" 5
Teletype
Sector5
Ca r/Car
Sector 5
Special Cps
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Hugh Siegman, NV6H
driver8netrom.rom

NCS: Swords into SHARES

n the 1962 C uban m iss ile crisis. co m muni-

cations failures on both sides made a dangero us situation wo rse. For the United
States. the ultimate result was the: National
Co mmunicat ions System (NCS). c reated by a
President ial me morandum in 1963. In 1984.
the AT&Tbrc akup inspi red anot he r executive

order. which expanded NCS into todays alphabet soup o f 23 agenc ies. all hatc hing plan s
and co ining acronyms at a rate that is d izz ying
even by governme nt standards.
Th erefore. it ' s no su rp rise thai NC S . w ith
its Nation al Coordi nating Ce nter for Telecom m unications (Nee). most defi ni tely plays
a m ajor ro le in Fed e ral NS/E P (Nalion al Sccurity/Emer gcn cy Preparedness)plans. Yes. NSf
EP incl ude s po st-n uclear postmen and al l that,

but inc reasingly the focus has shifted to nat ural disaste rs. And this brings us to SHARES.

Shared Resources
We' ve talked about S HARES in this column before. so this timc we' ll mostly j ust hit
on the changes. Remember that SHARES
stands for Shared Resources. h ' s kind of like
an Hl- <High Freq uency, 3 to 30 Ml-lzlchannel
poo l. but also kind of like the voluntary nets
that hams arc used to. S HARES can be e ve n
more confusing than NCS - and that' s saying
something! - but it' s the relative lack of
structure that makes it work.
SHA KES. after all. is a net of nets. crea ted
by NCS as a back up capabilit y to move urgent
traffic between differe nt agencies which othcrvv.isc might have quite incompatible radios
und proced ures. S HARES is growing rapidl y.
and it's currently up to around 66 members.
operating over a thousund stations, rep resenting gove rnment. mil itary. industry. and disaster prepa red ness groups.
While some 250 frequenc ies have been
announced as available for SHARES. note
that very fcw of these are "S HARES frequencies" per se. T here' been some confusion
about that. Further. only a handful of the
participants arc dedicated Sf-lA RES stations.
All frequencies and resources remain allo cuted to thc original entities thai made them
available. Further. an agcncy might move a
SHARES message on its ow n syste m. further
confusing listeners.
To be accepted for S HARES. messages

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MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

must be for a Federa l <agency . and have NS/E P

conte nt that ca nnot go through no rm al channels. The flag word "SH ARES" is inserted
i nto the message body to identify the traffic.
Sta tions have a 101 o f fl exi bilit y in how they
handle such traffic. hut they must no t CO I11P ro~
mise primary missions to do so. ~1 os t of what
you hear is in upper-side band (US B) voice.
une nc ry pt ed . tho ugh d igit a l modes li ke
AT\n 'OR (A ma tc ur Telc printing O ve r Radio)
arc being encouraged .
Well over half of the stations currently
participati ng in SHARES arc from the Mili tary Affil iate Rad in Sy stem (MA RS). MA RS

operates several ongoing network s oflic ensed

hams, who support the military on non -ama(cur frequencies. Another large group of pa r~
ticipants comes from private industry.
A new player as or late [997 is NT A, the
Na tio nal Tel eco mmun ica tion s Alfiuncc .
Here' s how it carne about: After the AT&T
breakup. the regio nal " Baby Bells" funded
Bcllcorc. u co nsortium that continued certain
centralized act ivities. including .1telepho ne
company poi nt of cont act into NCS and
SHARES. Bcllcorc has recently been sold.
however. md NTA was set up hy the same
co mpanies to maintain this essential function.

SHARES Coordination Network

NCS has provided tell frequencies for a
Shares Coordi nation Network (SCN) - not to
be confused with a completely different SCN.
the Sys te ms Coordinat ion Net operat ed by the
U.S. Coa st Guard. The SHARES net. whose
freque ncies appear in the sidebar. allows coo rdinators to take availabi lity repo rts in emcrgencics and exerci ses. Stations wishing to he
e ntered into :\CCs database as available for
SHARES traffic can check in via this net.
Later. they can stand down. and be re moved
from NCe ' s list. You' ll also hear gene ral
SHARES and ~1AR S logistics. making the net
a good one to monitor in e me rgencies.
We ' re starting to hear a lot of ac tivity on
SC N. Channels I and 2. both long-time r-.:cc
control freq uencies, art: for US B voice. Channels 9 and 10 arc for narrowban d direct printing. or comp uter netwo rking via "packet rudiu." A packet bullet in-board syste m (BBS) is
being created for this usc.
Data bursts on 6XOO kl-lz. the new SCN

cha nnel 9. ha ve recen tly co nfused some

"s pook" watchers. After all, this freq uency
used to be a favorit e of the CIA for its " numhers" broad casts. Now. however. ir' vj ust pla in
old SHARES. and you can decode it at home.
T he remaining sixchannels, which are still
kind of embryonic, arc rese rve d for futu re use
by Automatic Link Es tab lish ing (A LE ) radios. ALE is ne w, and things c hange rapidly
here.
Se N normal ly operates at what NCe calls
level three. in which case routine traffi c is
acce pted. Nee call direct the net to go to level
two. wh ich is a potential eme rgency condition , or level one. an eme rgenc y. Se N wcnt to
leve l one in hu rrican es Bonnie and Earl.
To cusurc rendincss. SHARES holds regutar e xercises. usually every April. August. and
Dece mber. These c a ll bring out a [01 of stations, giving a great chance 10 update your
callsign lists. In Augu vtof 1995. S HARES had
to postpone a simulated hurrica ne to work a
real one: Bonnie in North Caroli na. That' s
em ergency co mmunica tions for you ~

Shares Coordination Network

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Ba llwin, MO
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Utility Loggings
Hugh Stegman

5091.0

Abhrevlutions used in this co lumn

AB
AFB
AM
ARO

Ai r Base
Air Fo rce Base
Amplitude Modulation
Synchro nous transrn ission and automaticrepetitionteleprintersystem
AWACS
Airbo rne Warn ing and
Control System
BBS
Bulletin boa rd system
CAMSLANT Coast Guard Area Master Station , Atlantic :
Chesapeake, VA
CIA
U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency
CW
Morse code telegraphy
("Continuous Wave ")
OEA
US Drug Enforcement
Agency
ETA
EstimatedTI meofArrival
FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
FAX
Facsimil e
GHFS
USAir ForceGlobal High
Frequency System
HF
High Frequency (3-30
MHz)
INA
Iraqi News Agency
MC
Marine Corps
Ministry of Foreign AfMFA
fairs
Minrex
MFA, Cuba

NATO

NorthAtlanticTreaty Organization
NOBP
Narrowband Direct
Printing
NORAO
North American Aerospace Defense Command
Pactor
PacketTeleprinting Over
Radi o
R3E
Single sideband , reduced carrier modulation scheme
RAF
Royal Air Force
RCC
Rescu e Coordin ation
Cente r
RTTY
Radio Teletype
SAM
Special Air Missi on. US
Air Force VIP f1ighl
Se lective Calling lanes
Selcal
Swe d-ARO Swedish diplomaticARO
teleprinler system
Uniled Kin gdom
UK
UN
United Nations
Unid
Unidentified
Uniled States; USN- US
US
Navy
Very Important Pe rso n
VIP
VO LMET "Flying
Wea ther,"
loosely from French
Morse tel egraphy test
VVV
group

5170.0
5180.0
5278.0
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5598.0
5696.0

5715.0
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6577. 0
All tran sm issi ons are USB (upper sideband) unless otherwise indicated. All
freque ncies arein kHz (kilo hertz) and all times are UTC(Coordinated Universal
Time) .
2749.0
2844.0
3047.0
4372.0

6637.0

ULX-Israeli Massad numbers, used to be JSR, at 1600. JSR appa rently now on at 1530. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Cia-Israel i Massad numbers, parallel on 10820, at 1645. Chinese
female numbers, different dayat 2020. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Cape Radio-US Air Force. Cape Canaveral , Flo with Charmer 1 and
NASA Booster Recovery Ves se l UbertyStar, sea rching for Titan IV
debris off Kennedy Space Ce nter, a11402. (Allan Stern-H )
UnidCW M1A numbers station, with unexpected enn-or-month
transmission at 1800 (Boender-Netherlands) like 4905-Hugh
San Francisco-Central/East Pacifi cair route station. working airliners, at 044 0. (David Cole-USA)
NewYork, Gander,and SantaMaria.all inNorth Atlanticair route net,
working Reach 7266 (US Air Forcetransport ) and other aircraft, at
0142. (Pe rron-MO)
U.S. Coast Guard -cont inuou s heavyusefo r hurricane Bonnieinformation. (Bob Kozlarek -N,') Coast Guard 6009 -US Coast Guard
helicopter. position report for CAMSLANT Chesapeake (VA), at
2330.Coast Guard Rescue 1715, also worki ngCAMS LANT, at 2331.
(Eddie Muro-NY) Various Coast Guard cornms, possibly related to
Swissai r 111 crash. (Maryanne Ke hoe-GA)
Unid-NorthKo rean numbers, followed by martial mu si c,on largeAM
broadcast tran smitter at 1400. Similar, but not pa rallel , broadcasts
heard on 4770 an d 5782. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Rescue 24-Canad ian Forces aircraft in search for Swissair 111,
telling Halifax Militaryof intentionto refuel at Shearbrook, at0109.
Rescue 108-Canadian Forces, lelling Halifax RCCthathewas alsoon
VHF marine Cha nnel 16, and UHF air 282.8 and 383.2, at 0545.
(Muro-NY) Rescue 108, With patch to Halifax RCC, taking control of
situationatcrash site,establishing safety of flightwiththree helicopters. and inserting raft with related gear into center of extensive
debris field, at 0436. Menlloning search and resc ue freq uency of
2828 kHz. Reporting rescue 304, a Hercu les , on scene anddropping
flares, at 0553. (McCo rmick-GA)
America n 1165-Air routetrafficwith New York Radio, at0216. (Cam
Castillo-Panama)
Collins Houston-Rockwe llLong Distance Operational Control channel, TX. working various ai rcraft at 0249. (Perron-MO )
SAM 683-US Air Force VIP flight, working And rews after no joy on
F31 1 (11220). at 2145. (Perron-MO)
Halifax Military , worki ng many aircraft in fisheries patrol at 1353 ,
and another day at 1556 and 181 5. Tip Tank-possible Ca nadian
ForcesinNATO exercise.withcodedmessages. simulcast on 10204.
(Pe rron-MO)
Dog Pound-US AirForce, in Nightwatchnet, telling Browbeat that he

6693 0
Saint John's-Canacian Coast Guard, Newfoundland, with Notice to
Mariners in English and French, wa rni ng of whales in the area , at
6694.0
01 49. (Ron Perron-MO l
YHF-Israell Massad numbers, complete ly new frequency, at 1900.
(Takashi Yamaguchi-Japan)
6757.0
Halifax-Canadian Forces, Halifax, NS, ca lling Rescue 108, aircraft
searc hing for crashed Swissair 11 1, at 0438.
~ R o l a n d McCormlCk-GA)
"Alpha-Zulu-Echo" - US Navy, with relayfrom
Giant Killer (Fleet Area Control and Surveil lance Facility, VA ) to "Zulu-Alpna- India." authorizi nglive-fire exerci se. "J-9-J"and "5-0-1"
also heard. Tooknearlyan hourtorelayinfoto
S U B C A R R IE R-F M 2 AUDIO R ECE I V E R
allunits due tobad reception , starting at2350.
(Ray Stickney-U SA)
Unid-Chinese female numbers, at 161 7.
(Yarn auucnl-Japan)
"5-H-C" -Probably US Navy, warning vesse l
"2-W-P" of encroachment on his sector, an d
asking intentions,at 0333. "2-W-P"asking"K9-F" for pe rm ission to leaveass igned area. at
035 1. (Perron-MO)
Halifax Military-CanadianForces , Nova Scotia.
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SUBCARRI ERS -100 kHz to 9 MH z
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3200 IRA Ftrans port) at 0237. (Perron-MO)
Unid-CW M1A numbe rs station, with unexpected end-of-month transm ission at 2000
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could not decode his secure transm issions, then asked by Browbeat
to change callsig nsandseeif thatworked. Dog Pound saidhe'd fhink
about it, fhoughtabout it, and retusedbecause hehad traffic . All this
beganat 0100. (Jeff Haverlah-TX)
Blue93-US Air Force, using the static ca llword tor tankers going fol
from UK, working Blue 75, rega rding status at Blue 94, at 0019.
(Perron-MD)
Unid-Cuban "Atencion" numbers, simulcasting on 6826, at 0300.
(Bill Fairbanks-Fl.)
llnid-Cuban "Atencion" female, AM numbers on Friday at 0205.
Same station, Wednesday at 0210, and Thursday at 11 25, all in
prog ress, all ending with "Fi nal"around 45 after th ehour. (CastilloPanama)
8BY-French Infelligen ce,SainfAssise, with CW "VVV" and a-number
gro ups, separated by slant bars. Si milar transmissions we re heard
on 1042B, 12075, and 14931. (Ya maguchi-Japan)
Unid-Machin egenerated"female"repeating number"106"over and
over, in non-native English, at 0501. (COle-USA! Sounds like the
Russian Man/Lady, a gender-bending "numbers ' voice using several languages and transmitters. -Hugh
SPE-Po land, with CW channel marker at 0248. (Castillo-Panama)
EAD-Mad rid, Spain, with CW channel marker at 0240. (CastilloPanama)
9AR -Rijeka Radio, Croatia, CW marker at 0236. (Castillo-Pa nama)
Endeavor-National Science Foundationresearch vessel out of Rhode
Island , telling unheard station (possiblyNOAA -Hugh) that ship was
nowon"theotherside of theequator," inanightly scheduleat0300.
(Michael LeBlanc-IL)
San Francisco Radio-Central/EastPacificair route contro l, as ked by
Delta 16 it the frequency was primary, at 0415. (Cole-USA)
Blue star-us Navy anti-submarine and drug interdicti on , Pu erto
Rico , clear and secure with Top Rock, Argos, and Midnight, several
times including 0005. Hun ter 02 (Britishaccent), with tracki ng data
for Blue Starat 0343. Bear 3 andClaw02, making clear ("red") and
secure("green")comm checks with Blue Star, also "7-Y-O"wo rking
Tiger 08, all at 2355. (Perron-MD)
CAMSLANT Chesapeake-US Coast Gu ard, telling Rescue 6002 (H60J from Elizabeth City, NJ) that people have been pulled from the
water, so rescue is ca nceled and the helicopter can return to base,
at 1440. (Perron-MD)
U.S. Coast Guard-heavy use for hurricane Bonnie informati on.
(Kozlarek-Nd)
Contacte Radi o-French Ai r Force "Circ us" net, arra ngingdiplomatic
clea rance for flight over Mexico by aircralt 301 and 303, at 0215.
Portuguese Air Force, selcal checks with Alpha Zulu 033, at 0307.
Th is drew interterence complaints from the French. (Pe rron -MD)
Match Stick-US Air Force, calling MacDill, nojoy, at 1405. (PerronMD) Quitea lew militaryoperators are stili heard ca/ling the closed
Global station at MacOillAF8. Oops. -Hugh
Possible US Marine stations Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Lima, Mike, and
Tango , in co mm exe rcise, calling this the "Mullet" frequ en cy, then
switchingto unknown new channel by "kicki ngtoFlounder,"startin g
at 0200. (Perron-MD)
New Star Broadcasting-Taiwan intelligence, with music and numbers messages, in AM at 1500. Similar broadcasts we re heard on
B300, 8375, 11430, 13750, and 15388. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
JMH3-TokyoMeteorological ,Japan , good co py of faxweathe rchart,
at 1656 (Bob Hall-RSA)
IN A-IraqI News Agency, Baghdad, with Arab ic traffic to unknown
station, in arrv at 1632. (Hall-RSA)
Nightwatch01-US Ai r Force E-4B airborne command post, authenticating traffic with Dragnet Uniform, at 1220. Valha lla, also in net,
broadcasting coded message and th en going to secure mode with
Infinite,at1339. Same dayandnetaslogged on 11214. (Perron-MD)
Unid-Possibly CIA"counting" station, butin USB, notR3 E, at 2040.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
CID-israe li Massad numbers at 0247. (Dean Burgess-MA) CIDMassad nu mbers, new frequency thi s hour, at 2145. (YamaguchiJapan)
Woodpecker-Control in US military exe rc ise, with many tact ical
comms concerni ng targets for Bull Knig ht, Bouncer, Sierra Mike ,
Romeo, Golf, and Delta, at 0254 . (Burgess-MA)
AA FA-US Army vessel, passing position an d status to Charlie 2 in
patch via Ascension, at 0050. Army vessels ADM N (USAV Corinth,
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Force001 in patch to IncirlikAB, Turkey,viaThuleat 0224. (PerronMD) Teal 33-US Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Recon "Hurricane
Hunter" WC-1 30, many patches and media interviews with Capt.
Scalf Spitzer, regarding Hurricane Bonnie, at 01 55. (Tony Asse nzaCAl Oti sBl-USAir Force, enroutetoAndrews AFB with"22 souls on
board," toldAndythat they would not staythenight, "just gelf inggas
and going," at 2333. (Muro-NY) Reach 4018-US Air Force Air
MobilityCommand, patch viaAndersen , informing Ramstei n, Germany thataircralthad, "ETA 2300Zu lu with11 HA" (human remains)
and fourwounded. Ramstein told aircraftwheretooffload bodies,at
2023. (Oscar Bosman-Netherlands) AU. S. medical evacuation /light
lrom the embassy bombings -Hugh
Dragnet Uniform-US Air Force AWACS, probably from TinkerAFB,
OK, with patche s through Trenton Military, Canada, to Big Deal,
Huntress (NDRAD regi onal intercept center at Griffis AFB, NY), and
Nightwatch 01, confirming net trequ en cies as Z190 (10204) and
Z1 75 (9016), starting at 1156. (Perron-MD)
Darkstar X-ray-US Air Force, 552nd Air Co ntrol Wing, Tinker AFB,
with patch through Trenton Mititary to Raymond 24 (Tinker command post), requesting relay of cps-normal status to Faicon 2 and
Sentry 3 (also 552nd ACW), at 0237. (Perron-MD)
SAM 27000-US Air Force VIPaircraft, enroute to Germany with US
Secretary of State, many patches throughout day, also working
Ram stein Command Post on UHF. (Bosman-Netherlands) State
Department mission topick up embassy casualties -Hugh
Ascot 3201-Royal Air Force tran sport, UK, getting weather from
Architect(RAFcommand) for Frankfurt, Germany and Brize Norton,
England, at 0155. (Perron-MD)
ADMN-US Army Vessel Corinth, with patch throughThule AB, then
went to 13242. (perron-MD)
Teal 23-US Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter, with ground radio
checks to Accountant(US Air Forcerescue), at 1414. Also Spanishspeaking stations passing Zulu tim es, NATO ph oneti cs, and messages regardi ng para military personnel. Venezuelan Army, or ...?
(Perron-MD)
PWH 33-Brazil Navrad, with Boletin de Drdones (Daily Orders),
Rm, in Portuguese at 1231. (Hall-RSA)
XFM-Manzanillo,Mexico,CW Englishmarkernotingthat this station
will close its Morse services soon, at 0000. (A. Nonomous-NC)
KMI-AT&T High Seas, Invern ess, CA, with phonecall to WY774, the
Aleutian Spring, only onesideheard, at 0232. (Burgess-MA) This is
maritime channel 1301, and the ships transmit on 72230-Hugh
HLS-Seoul Radio, Korea, short music mirror and phone patches,
also using 13161 , at 0100. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Thu le-US Air Force GHFS, Greenlan d, patch to Mudbug Control
(Louisiana) to schedule air refueling for Do om83 and Doom96 (B52s, Barksdale AFB), at 021 9. (Perron-MD )
Irkutsk Volmet-Russian flight weather, in Ru ssian , at 0455.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
Unid-male and femal e voices repeating "Nancy Adam Susan, "
"Frank Young Peter,"and "QueenThomasSusan," differe nt daysat
1400. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Unid-UN High Commissionfor Refu gees, no callor addre ss copied,
with administrative messages in Pactor, at 1647. (Hall-RSA)
Atlas-U S Customs, probably Texas, working Panther (DEA, Bahamas) an d aircraft 37 Charlie, who is enroute to base "Echo 3," at
1B20. (Perron-MD)
Unid-CIA "counting" station, parallel on 21811, numbers in R3E
modu lation at 11 00. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
URL-Sevastopol, Russia, with radi ogramsforshipcrews , inRITYat
1317. (Hall-RSA)
LFI -Lyngby Radi o, Denmark, with new callsign in CW, no longer
DXZ82, at 1326. (Hall-RSA)
CLP-Minrex, Havana, Cuba, on frequency usually use d by MFA
Stockholm, in nrrv at 0954. (Hall-RSA)
Unid-voices repeating "Nancy Ada m Susan," "Queen Thomas Susan," and "Baker Edward Charlie," different days at 1100. First hits
this frequency. (Yamaguchi-Japan) Yup; same people as 14000,
good old Phonetic Alphabet Station -Hugh
SAM-MFA Stockholm, with urgentpersonal messag efor ambassador, in Swed -ARQ at 0833. (HaJl -RSA)
"Quebec-1-2"-calling "Oscar Dos" (02) and "Eco Cera Cinco Seis"
(E056), in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, then we nt to channel "AC061."
(Castillo-Panama)

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Digital Equipment Overview

omi nuing with the theme ofl ast month ' s
culurnn. we no w focu s on the types of
decoders currently ava ilable to the digital monit or. Once lim ited to the HF (sho rtwav e) spectrum. decoders arc now also available for the newer VHF modes as we ll.
Buck in the hue 60 s. must digita l signal
mon itors (yo ur editor incl uded) or ig inally
started by decod ing Baud ot RlTY in the shortwave band s. On ly the strongest and cleanest
signa ls co uld be decoded by these carly AEA .
HAL and Kantron ics units - more so phisticured mon itoring required more expe ns ive
eq uipment. often in the fonn o f s urp lus co mmerc ial hardware. Many of these ea rly deco ders also handled Morse (CW ) and ASCII signals as well.
Then in the 70 s. Infotech introdu ced its
high en d/hi gh priced line of decoders. I remember buyi ng my first used Infotech M-600
from a local policeman at a price of one thou sand dollars (twice the amount of the car I
own ed at the time ). The w avecom unit was
introduced in Euro pe. but was never promoted
successfully in North Amer ica and e ven today
it remains o ne of the most expen sive unit s
a vailable.
Th e late 70's and early 80' s saw the addition of newe r modcs on the shortwave ba nds
SITOR-A and SITOR-B. ARQ M -214. as well
<IS the increasin g pop ularity of HF FAX. Other
standalone decoder s were introd uced and the
Infotcc h line was taken ove r by Universal Radio .
Th e explosive gro wth of computers in the
90's con tributed to the rise of newer co mmun icatio ns pro toco ls such as ARQ- El3. SC I and
FEC -A RQ. Packet and Ccq uele r. as well as a
plethora of dipl omatic digital mode s. Unive rsal and wa vccorn con tinued to introduce outboa rd decoders that addressed these new mod es.
Perha ps the most significa nt facto r in the
rise of popularity of di gital co mmunicatio ns
for the hobbyist W<lS the introduction of the
per sona l computer. A relatively simple inter face. coupled with intellige nt softwa re now
pro vides not on ly a mean s of de codi ng but also
of ana lyzing dig ital transmis sions. As new
dig italco mmunicat ion protocol s are introduced.
progressive software e ngineers can implem ent
new cod e rout ines to process them.
The Hokn series of decoders are very popu (

Early decoders like this IIA.L were costly.

lar amon g many monitors today. Am o ng the
most popul ar is the Hob Co de 3-Gold whic h
retai ls for ju st under S6(Xl. Th e small interface
cable plugs into one o f yo ur CO M port s with an
aud io lead goi ng. to the line -o ut/spe aker out
j ack of yo ur shortwave radio .
In add ition to the standard modes found on
mos t deco ders today , the Hoku Co dc j-Gold
also includes a pleth o ra of specialty modes not
generally available to the digi tal mo nitor.
HF mod es inc lude:
ANNEXIO (o;rcro" SELCALs), ARQ670, ARQ-6-90/98, ARQE, ARQN,
ARQ-E3, ARQS {SIARQI, ARQSWE
(SWE-ARQ), ASCII, Autcspec, Baudot
RID (IAT-2), Baudot F7BBn (2 channel),
Coquelet Mkland Mk2, OCF 77
(Atom;c Time], DUP-ARQ (ARTAC),
Fccsimile (FAX), FEC-A Il 00A/101 and
Row), FEC-S, GMDSS/DSC, Hellscreiber,
HC-ARQ, HNG-FEC, MorseI(W),
Pocket Redic IAX25), PAG OR, Piccolo
MK VI, POl-ARQ, ROU-FEC (RUM-FEC),
SITOR AUTOARQ/ FEC CCiR476-4
CCiR 626 Mode' A & B, SITORARQ
CCiR 4764, CCiR 626 Mode B
NAVTEX, SITOR RAW, Spread, SSTV
(Mort;n-I ), SYNOPdecoder (AAXX/
BBXX with 10.000 sta tio ns). TOM242
ARQ-M/4 -242 CCiR 242, IDM342
ARQ-M2/4 CCiR 342-2. TORG
VHF modes include :
ACARS/S ITA, DTMF. FAX (Meteo",t).
Pocket, and POCSAG/Super POCSAG.
Hok a also makes a profe ssiona l mode l , the
Hoka Co de-Ju. costing mor e than $2000.

Codes, Privacy, and the Law

In the past few years. decoders have also

bee n avai lable for the newer VHF digital mode s

used by pagers (POCSAG and GOLAY) as
well as the digital com munications sys tem
used for a ir/ground a irc raft tran sm issi on s
(A CA RS).
Duri ng the past three years, consider able
controversy has exis ted at the federa l level in
the United States regarding the priv acy of
co mmunications. T hese conce rns have led to
the blockage of ce llular phone freq uenc ies for
sc anne rs sold in the United States as well as
Universal' s se lf-imposed wit hdrawalof sale of
its line of decoders to pri vate Amer ican ci tizens .
Fortunately. as you read this co lumn. the
popul ar Universal M450 and MSOOO decoders will be ava ilable for sa le to the genera l
public once morc v" : howe ver. the updated
versions will no longer feature dec odin g o r the
V HF Pager modes (POCSAG and GOlAV).
Alt houg h it may be very tempting to purc hase a decod er that ha ndle s every co ncei vable
mod e that currently exit s. it should be remem bered that in reality. you probably will never
e nco unter many of the esoteric mod es on the
sho rtwa ve hand s. md even if yo u do. many of
them . such as the newe r diplo matic modes. will
be in the language of thal country. Unless you
are fluent in Serbian, Hungarian. Ro umanian.
etc.. their message co ntent will esc ape yo u.
By way of illu strat ion. Joerg Klingenfuss
in the 1998 Guide to Utility Radio Stations ha s
co mpi led the fo llow ing stati stics from the
11.800 freq uenc ies ci ted in his tome.
" Out of all ncn - lATA 50 Baud tele printer
sig nals of util ity stations monit ored here. there
is:
50 % SITOR-A and SITOR-B;
13 % IAT2 75 Baud;
6 % VFT
5 % AROE
3 % eoch ARQE3, ARQ-M. FEC-A,
IATA2 100 Baud. and PAGOR;
2 % ond less of 011 o ther telepr inter systems eccb ."
Best wishes for a happ y and sa fe ho liday
seaso n.
No te: Univer sa l Radio is on American
company a nd its line of decoders is manu fa ctured
in f lorida . Hoka Electro nics is a Dutch company
a nd is not bo und by U.S. regulat ions . Simila rly,
sca nne rs sold in othe r countries, such as Canada ,
do not hove ce llular pho ne freq uenc ies blocked.

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Shortwave Broadcasting
Glenn Hauser, P.O.Box 16841011, Enid, OK 73702
E-IOOi/:<ghouset@hotIOOil.rom>;Fox: (5BO)233-2948, ArT: Houser

waco -An Alternative Shortwave Station

Hi-Fi, reel to reel tape. teleph one, satellite or internet
feed s. \Ve encourage groups with a leftist. alternative, pacifi st or populist perspective to take ad vantage of this uni que opportunity to get their message
out. Con tact Allan H. Weiner, Gene ral Manager or
Randi Ste ele , Ope rations Manager for further de tails
at (207) 985-7 547."
In response to a call-in que stion. Weiner sa id
WBCQ has 14.2 dbi gain, equivalent to 18-20 over
50 kW tran smitter power. con siderably more than half a megawatt in
the main beam of 245 degree s. but he co uld n' t rem em ber the be am
width . An tenna is a hybrid, both log perio dic and beam, 60 fect or
abou t a halfwave above ground. Transmitter is a 50 kW Harri s MW
converted to SW and now designated a SW -50, with pulse du ration
modu lation (PDM), not plate or linear modu lation ; uses an Ino von ics
222 -02 aud io processor modified for SW; it' s simple. clean and
broadband, and we must sa y the aud io is quite good both on voice and
music (but not on some of the phone lines).
Wei ne r closed his inaugu ral broadcast with "We are the ligh t, and
thunder, and the trut h shall set us free ."
Randi Steel e was moving from NY to Mont icello to be prim ary
operator of the statio n. And she is in for a real winter.
First-night listener J im Wishner in Duluth opi ned : WBCQ has
potential to put some life into SW U ng - so me fun, so me
unp redictability. and some e nergy.

WBCQ. Monticello. Maine, began testing August 20 and began programming September 8, o nly
on 7415 . on a 245 0 beam, which roughly crosses
Buffalo. Colu mbus, Evansville, Little Roc k, San

Antonio, Laredo. Durango, Tuxpan, across the Pacifi c to south of New Zeal and.

During the first week. nothing was more entertainin g th an AI Wein er ' s time-filling monologu es.
with th e possib le exce ption of the wacky revival of
Radio Newyork International with Johnny Lightning o n Sunday
night.
Comm itted to freedo m of speech, Weiner made time ava ilable to
the neo-Na zl American Dissident Voices and to Hour ofthe Time. but
also planned to carry imp ressioni st Harry Shearer' s political satire. Le
Show , Sundays at 7-8 pm ET . as we suggested . AI also said he wanted
to carry master storyteller Jean Shepherd. Gary Bourgoi s' satellite
sho w, Friday Night Live, was at 9 pm-m idnight ET . Th e latest
program sc hedule should be posted at http://theplanet .wbcq .n et
whic h early o n gave this info :
"WBCQ - The Planet is a 50,000 watt shortwave rad io station that
se rves North America. the Caribbean and mo st of South Am erica o n
741 5 kHz . We can broad cast your orga nization's programming to the
wo rld for the lo west co st of any such broadcaster serving our region
of The Planet. Our airtime is avai labl e for as little as $50/ho ur.
" We will acc ept programming via ma iled audi o cassette . VHS -

AFGHANISTAN A. Voice 01Sharrah.Kabul, is onIhe air 0030-1840 but SW7200v

1000 English (Radio-Incontro) One of the World of Radio showsin November
is onlyused partofthe day; includesnews in Englishat 1645-1 700. R.Voiceof
will featurea Wavescan special about this station. on its 25thanniversary (gh)
Shari'ah of Takhar Province. Taloqan, taken over by Taleban forces in mid
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC I've been hearing Bangui back on SW on the
August Irompro-Rabbani rorces. 1230-1325on7085 (BBCMonitoring) Check
(slightly) new frequency of 5036.36 kHz until the new signoH time at 2100.
out my sound filesof thisand many other Asian and African stations: hUp:1I
Receptionisn'tverygood and I'm surethey are nowaynear the nominal power
home.winsocket.com/- Vaghjee/ (Mahendra Vaghjee, Mauritius, hard-coreof 100kW. Soundsmorelike100 Wtome. I believe thestationreturnedinearly
diIJ Kabul's English later switchedto 1700-1715 (Mikhail Tirnoteyev, Aussia)
August after having been silent on SW for some 6 or 7 months (Stig Hartvlq
ANOAMAN ISLANOS AlA Port Blair, 4760. partial data card depictmg statue of an
Nielsen. Denmark, hard-core-dx)
elephant holding its mahout in its trunk received in one month tor an English
RadioMINUACA isa24hrUNmissionstationonFMinBangui whichplanned
report sent registered mail to "General Correspondent." Verie signer A. K.
toaddSW in Sept. 20kW,on differentday and night frequencies (DaVid Smith,
Bhatnagar, Director (Frequency Assignments). Note: this was my second
R. MINUACA, RN Media Network) Set up inconnection withelectionslater this
attempt to aSLvia registered mail. Thefirst attempt wasreturned becausethe
year and may be moved to another country, such as Philippines. afterwards.
correspondent listed in PWBR was no longerthere. If you have anoutstanding
Frequency chosen by aCanadian advisor is 11 300. but I suggested something
request of AIR Port Blair for aOSloyou might want to reman tothis gentleman
clear in the 9180-9260 range; also may use 7,3-7_5 and 11.4-11.6 MHz (Stig
(Aich Hankison, KS. CumbreOX)
Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark. hard*care*dx, It was quickly pointed outby Robert
ANTARCTICA LAA36. A. Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel. 15476, is still 1 kW; may
Joosten, Michiel Schaaythat 11300 is a very active aeronautical frequency in
not get new transmitter until next year; 1230-1430 MNUF but the technical
East Africa. and hoped that R.MINURCA would notactually use it (gh)
operator is sometimes away so a broadcast is missed (Gabriel Ivan Barrera,
CHIL E VOlCristianaheard on 5845 at 0400(Don Putnick. CA. rec.radio.shortwave)
Argentina. radio-escutas) Then it was goingto beinactive foramonth(Barrera,
It's the semi-harmonic 0111690 kHz (gh)
CumbreOX)
CHINA CRI has anewwebsite:hUp://en gllsh.crl. com.cr(Jim, rec.radic.snortwave)
AZERBAIJAN A. Bakuon much better new 9165 ex-6110includingEnglish 1700And fromSept anewarrangement 01their opening musicwithmorehorns (Joe
1730(Kai Ludwig. Germany) Onehour later inwinter?(gh)Was heardat 0215Hanlon, Review of International Broadcasting)
0300, 1100' 1500. 1600-1800invanouslanguages (Mikhail Timoleyev.Aussia,
CONGOD.R. R. Candip, Bunia, under rebel control sincernlc-Au cust, 5066 kHzat
DSWCI OX Windooj
0400-0700.1 330-1800 in French and Swahili. includes News daily at 0500BELGIUM lnon) AVl's English broadcast to NAm
0530. 1500-1530 purportedly from "ATNC
will be relayed via Bonaire from the end of
Kinshasa, but is really pro-rebel. Alternative freAU
times
UTe;
All
frequencies
kHz;
*
bef
ore
hr
sign
October, at 2230 on frequency TBA; replaces
quencies: 7150. 3390 kHz(BBC Monitoring)
on,
*
after
hr
=
sign
off;
II
parallelprogramming;
direct broadcastat1230on15545(AVI Radio
COSTA RICA AFP l's kitty which has taken over
+ = continuing but not monitored; 2 x f req 2nd
Worfrf)
the station has been nam ed Paz, which happens
BHUTAN BBS. Thimpu sked on 5030: Men-Sat harmonic; J~98=May..Sept; z..98=Summer season; Wto sound like Paws. Pacifica Network News wa s
1000-1245 in Ozonkha, 1245-131 5 Nepali.
98=Winler season; [non) = Broadcast to or f or the listed linally addedtothescheduleinSept,frominternet
1315-1400 English; Sunday on 6035 at0400feed ,UTTueSat at0030-01 00.James and Debra
country, but not necessarilyorigiJUlJing there.
0830 in Dzonkha. 08300900 Nepali. 0900lat ham have a new weekly hour. Mi//ennium

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CROATIA Zagreb being heard on new 5040 kHz is again explained as a mixing
productbetween theMWtransmitter on 11 25 kHz and anew SW frequency of
6165 kHz from -2200 UTC(Kai Ludwig, Germany)
CUBA [non] AnAnti-CastroHistoriography's URL includinglotsofclandestine radio
inlohas changedto: http://poliscLhom e.mindspring ,com/ach ,htm(Armando
F. Mastrapa. Cumbre OX)
A broadcaster for R. Marti, Luis Flores, pleaded guilty to lying to the US
Governme nt about personal moving costs from Wash ington to Miami. Flores
could face up to five years in prison and a S250K fine (Fort Lauderdale SunSentinelvia Mike Coope r)
CZECH REPUBLIC Czechs Worried Over Rad io Free Iraq: Here are some excerpts
from Radio Prague's news in English for Sunday, August 23:
"RadioFreeEuropeofficials have rejectedcriticism regardingtheir failureto
consult with Czechgovernment officials onthechosenheadquarters forRadios
Free Iran and Iraq, whichare to go on the air late Septembe r ... Czech deputy
premier Egon Rou nsky pointedoutthat the(billet?)chosentohouse thisservice
was located rightnext to a nursery sc hool andtheca binethad no information
as to what kind of secu rity measures we re being taken. Hestressed that when
the safety of Czech citizens was involved the cabinet should have been
consulted" (Roger Tidy, UKOGBANI)
OOOECANESE ISLANDS The linal VOA Rhodes SW transmitterwas to close down
in mid-Aug ust (Dan Fe rguso n, IBB, Cumbre OX)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Ondas del Yuna, Bonao,on2700.09= 2 x 1350 at2345 with
all-bachata format led by acoustic guitar but with electric bass and occasional
accordion, steady all evening with fine audio past 0352. said 24 hours (Jay
Novello, NC)
ECUADOR Harmonic, 4019.93, LV de Su Amigo , Esmeraldas, 3 x 1340, 0205 to
0500 ' Aug 23. tropical uptempo se lections and "Billie Jean," rnenno ns of
Programa LaFiestaand SuAmigobymaleDJ ,S7 signal, entertainingmusic,and
great audio,despite noise.Signed off withfulil Dmentioni ng1340and 96.3" F ~
Digital," and vocal versionof Ecuadoriannational anthem. Thereare RealAud.JO
samples of thisonmysprawli ng logs/samplespage,http://itre.ncsu .edu/radlO/
samples/ (Jay Novello, NC)
R. Baha'i, Otavalo, 4950.34. caught with English 10 at 0949, asking for
reports and spelling out add ress (Dave Valko. PA, Cumbre OX)
We at HCJB are co ncerned abo ut the report of distorted audio in you r
September column, butweare not usinganOrban 9105a (Roger Stubbe, HCJB
Worldrad io, CO)
HCJBreports that due tothe recent Cuban aircrashinQuito,talkshave begu n
againto implementbuildingofanewairport.Thatis leadinQHCJB e n g i ~ee rs to
renewedeffortstolookfor new sites to relocatethe transmittersfromPifo (Joe
Karthaus, World of Radio) Theprese ntairport is one of themost difficultin the
world to approach. You have to fly around some volca no tops just before
touching down andthecityhas grown upwith skyscra pers during thepast two
ses quidecaoes under thefinalapproach, soaircraft are just afew metres above
thetop of tall buildings,andsometimes clipthem;alsothe area is subject tofog
(An ker Petersen, OSWCI OX Window)
EOUATORIAL GUINEA R. Africa , American religious programs in English, 21302300 onR. NacionalMalabo freque ncy 5003.5.What's goingonhere? (Michael
Schnitzer, Germany, tete-cote-ax; R.Africa was always part of R. Nacional, so
it's notsurprising it showed onthe latter's frequency (gh)
ETHIOPIA V. 01the Revolution of Tigray sent aOSL letter sayingthey have a 10kW
transm itterin Mekelle,the capital cityof Tigray region , on 5500 and 7515 kHz:
M-F0400-0500, 0930-1030, 1500-1 900; Sat and Sun 0400-0900, 1100-1 630.
Address is POBox 450 (Dan ielCano nica, Switzerland, DSWCI OX Wmdow)
R. Fana, Am haricfor "torch" or "light," began on Nov. 7, 1994, operated by
theEthiopianPeople'sRevolutionaryDemocraticFront. Inlate1995R.Fa na said
it was nolonger ownedbyEPRDF butis an "autonomousradiostation deriving
income from educational sponsorshipbysome NGOs." Addr is P Box30702.
AddisAbaba. Alternate HF is 9335. Schedule in Amharic/Oromo all on 6940.
6210and1080 kHz: daily0330-0530,0900- 1100, 1500-1800:Sat andSun also
0530-0730, 1200-1500; M-F also1BOO-2000 (BBC Monitoring) 6210improved
as fall approached, heard from 0328 including rather niceflutemu sic (R obert
Montgomery, PA, CumbreOX)
GERMANY sucdeutscherRundlunk(SO R) and Sudwesttunk (SWF) merged intothe
new SUdwesfrundlunk (SWR) at the end of August. SDR
had SW on 6030 SWF on 7265. Both were to carry the
SWR-3 pop music prog ram 24h, Klaus Kohler was told by
. I
SOR (Kai Ludwig, Germany)
GUAM KSDA had AWR Wavescan Sunday 1330 on13720, three weeks old (gh)

SWR
>

INDONESIA According to my monitoring on August 28 - 29, RRI stations (exce pt

those withasterisk) sig ned off usin gthe "LoveAmbon" tuneasfollows. (Juichi
Yamada, Japan, Jembatan OX) :
32 15.0
3264.6
3325.0
334 4.9

RRI Manodo -1515

RRI Goron talo 1310
RRI Palangkaraya -1600
RRITernote -15 15

3355.3

RRlJombi -1655 '

3976.1
4000.0
4606.4
4753.3
4766.0
4845.2
5040.0
7 173.2
9552.6
974 1.6

RRI Pontianak -1700

RRI Podeng 1655
RRI Serui 15 15
RRI Ujung Pondong 1555
RRI Medon -1600
RRI Ambon -1130'
RRI Pekanbarv- 1600
RRISerui -0910 '
RRI Ujung Pendeng -0850
RRISorong -121S"

/RAM [non] Dem ocratic Voice of Iran. 6210 kHzis useless inSweden, but 5835 kHz
has a good signal. This anti-Iranian government station has nationalistic
ten dencies. 1745 UTCwith news and music. They have a site on the Intern et
http://Www.dvLorg wit h information in English and Persian. (Mehrdad Sah ba,
Sweden, Cumbre OX)
IRAO R. Mother of Battles, the Rad ioof all Arabs (Arabic: fdha'at umm al-ma'arik.
Idha'atukulalarab) heardonexcellent new9685at1600-1 900v1/117B5 un der
OBS (panlview, Bulgaria)
[non] V. 01 theIraqi Communisti Workers ' Party, Sulaymaniyah,1630-1B30
daily in Arabic/Kurdish on 4000 (BBC Monitoring)
IRELAND RTE's media program Soundbyle is on theSunday ove rnight serviceto
USA NPR stations from WRN , and can be accessed in RealAudio, http://
www.rte.ie/radio/soundbyte (Harry Sarkas and Finbarr O'Driscoll, Review of
International Broadcasting)
KOREA NORTH R. for Soldiers at the Frontline reactivated in Aug after 10 months
off, 2625 kHz with usual wardramas. music, political comments, daily 14002000 in Korean; MW 1613v has similar but not parallel programming (Sonny
Ashimori, Japan)
.
KOREASOUTH Yonhap NewsAg ency, Seoul, pressradioteletypeinEnglishtoAsia:
Man-Sat 0030-0300, 0730-0900 UTC on callsign 6MK64 11 602.5 kHz and
6MK50 786B kHz(BBC Monitoring)
KURD/STAN Twostations, theVoiceof Iraqi Ku rdistanon4060and the Voiceof the
Peopleof Kurdistan on4085 stopped their transmissions at 1654 on 13 J un ~ .
Afte r two minutes they resumed. Bothbroadcast fromoneand thesame radio
centre (Mekhonoshln, Ru ssia, World DX Club ContacO Or at least are on the
same power grid (gh)
MALDIVES [non] FEBA Seychelles has a broadcast in the Maldivian language Fri
1630-1700 on 11670 ex-11600. It's jammed by the Maldives govern ment, a
100% Islamic country (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, RN Media Network via
World DXClub Contac~
MEX/CO OfficialsofRadio Educaci6ntold me that theSW transmitteron6185isnow
10kW andinthe nearfuturethey areputtingin service anewantenna withagain
4.4 times the nomi nal power. And Radio Educaci6n has a new SWL prog ram ,
Entre Medias. one hour on all topics of rad io and OXing. Wednesday at 2200
local time (Thursday, 0300 UTI & Friday at 0000 local time (Friday, 0500 UT)
(Pedro Sedano, Spain, Cumbre OX) After DST thetimes should be 0400 and
0600 UT (gh)
XERTA, 4800.7, has anew program En Linea UTTue, t nu, Satat 0200-0300
(as shifted for winter], about Mexican culture, show people, gossip, folk, pop
androck musicbyayoung group of journalists. producedbymyself andAlfredo
Villavicencio (Julia Senadilla, OSWCI OX Window) AlsoonXERTA is the. new
Transcontinental OXprogram, Thu 0000-01 00 (Hector Garcia80Jorge, MeXICO
OF, Cumbre OX)
Dr. Julian Santiago spoke with the director of SistemaRasa in Merida: they
plan to broadcast on XEOM 6105seg ments from their other stations besides

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

Review of International Broadcasting

SW Programming , opinion , equipment, satellite monitoring ,
Samples $2.50 each (outside North America US $3 or 6 IRes)
10 issue subscriptions $26 in USA, or both for $49
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the Global Forum (continued)

CandelaFM.want toanswer alltheletters,andmay soonhavea aSl card.Also
want to price a new more powerfullransmitterand apply for a power increase
(Hector Garcia Bojorge, Mexico OF)
NEPAL R. Nepal. 5005.03 kHz. heard at ' 00110025during alateAug ust geomagnelic disturbance. fair andclear as was m 165.24 butbothhad only averyweak
he!thenext night (Brian Alexander. PA)
NEW ZEALAND The dollar amount of the cut which has caused RNzr s drastic
reductions is less than S100.000 US. If the NZ govern mentisn't willingto pay
it, seems to methat it could beraisedby grants from elsewhe re, evena single
private benefactor. That's peanuts in the world of international broadcasting
(gh)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA NBC's R. Mcrobe.3220. isofftheair due totransm itterfaults.
likely to stay off a while (National newspaper, Port Moresby, via Mall Francis,
h.ard-core-d!i)
PERU Rad io sateue, Santa Cruz. 6725.54, has seemingly started early morning
operation on shortwave. It was first noticeduntil 1200 on 15 Aug. fair signal.
Electricity was formerly supplied only in the focal evening in the Province of
Santa Cruz. so Radio Satelite had operated only at 2300-0300. Therefore, I
assume that they have now electricity for 24 hours a day. According to
announcement. the morning program Saludos MUSicales is at 11001300
(Takyuki InoueNozaki, Japan)
R. Virgendel Carmen. Huancavelica, 4886.72at 1100 with 10, replacing R.
Villa Rica(Takayuki Inoue Nozaki, Japan)
R. Nueva Sensaci6n on new 6618.16, strong at 01 30 withwobbly Peruvian
music, IDs (JayNovello. NC) The onewhich usedto beon6895 until afewyears
ago.Willsoon beonfrom0930allday long: sometimes just "Super Sensaci6n"
(Henrik Klemetz. Colombia. OSWCf OX Windo,,)
Ondas del Rio Mayoagain using alternative frequency 66971sicl mornings
and evenings (Hans Johnson. Cumbre OX) 6797.6B [sic] at 101 9. beautitul
signal with music filling the room (Jay Novetlo, NC, ibid.)
SIERRA LEONE Sixteen people have beensentenced to death for thei r part in last
year's militarycoup, including Hilton Fyle . former BBCbroadcaster and owner
of an FM station here; and Felix George, former head of the SL Broadcasting
Corp. (The Times via Joel Rubin) Foundguiltyoftreason, because they brod cast
materialallegedlyinsupport of thejunta which seized power last year (andwhich
was itself overthrown ea rlier this year with the help of mercenaries (Chris
Greenway. British OXClub)
SINGAPORE R.SingaporeInternational, external services 10 Asiadaily: 1100-1400
Std. Chinese6120. 6000 kHz: 11001400English 61 50. 6015kHz: 1100-1 200
Indonesian & 12001400Malay 7245. 6070 kHz (BBC Monitoring)
SOMALIA I amtheCoordinator lortheUNESCOCivic Ed ucation for Peaceand Good
Governance in Somalia project which is based on community mobilization lor
peacethrough radio. We are partnerswith Radio Hargeisa and Radio Galkayo.
Radio Harqeisa's signal can barely be heard eve nwithin Hargeisa itself.Weare
looking lor technical assistance to assess their needs as wen the possible
donation/sale of used equipment to restore their radio which was destroyedin
thecivil war. Helpis needed urgentlyas Somali refugees in Djibouti andEthiopia
do not have information regarding the situation in Somaliland (North West
Somalia) and are uncertain as to whether to return.
AradioteamfromthroughoutSomaliaisproducingtwoweekly programmes
forpeaceand reconciliation: asoap opera GeedkaNabadda (Tree of Peace) and
aradio magazine, based onmaterial recorded bycommunity groupsthroughout
Somalia, Muuqaalka N% sha (Visions of Life). Weareworking on establishing
networks of community groups trained in some basic radio techniques as a
foundation for future community radio stations. We currently have Peace
Resou rceCentresin Harqeisa . Bosasso, Garowe, BeletWeyneand Mogadishu.
Th eprogrammes plusan Omnibus {thetwoprogram mestogether) is broad cast
wee kly by RadiOHarg eisa. Radio Galkayo and Radi o KBC (in Kenya).
We arefundedby UNDPbutthefundsarebeing reducedduetoanoverall lack
of tundinq for UNDP and adecline in international support lor peace building in
Somalia. We are currently seeking support. including sister stations for Radio
Galkayo and Radio Somalia. We areworkingon anEnglish language featureon
the project for radio stations. However, wedo not have theability to download
it onto the Internet.We could send a copyof the cassette to anyone interested
in broadcastingit (Pamela Collett, Project General Coordinator, UNESCOCivic
EducationforPeace and GoodGovernanceinSomalia;email: mukinduri@formnet.comvia Creative-Radio Mailing list via DevMedia List viaDon Moore)
SUDAN R. Omdurman. 9200. after theAmerican bombing. was onlater than usual
2300' with plentyol IOs. angry-soundingmusic (Jay Novello. NC) l ater heard
on 9220 but still announcing 9200, English with antiAmerican comments at
1800 (Ralph Famularo. Japan. Cumbre OX)
SWEDEN Digital Shortwave - In the future thereshould bea newway to listen to
Radio Sweden in theold way - good old shortwave isn't dead yet. Aroundthe
world there areseveral projectsworking onwhat is sometimes wrongly called
Digital AM , a digital version 01thetraditionalAM mode on long. medium, and
shortwave. Here in Sweden, t eracom. who runourtransmitters. is one of two
international centers carrying out research on how different ways of coding a
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November 1998

radiosignal and fitting it into a normal 10 kHz widesho rtwave channel sound.
f or two weeks lastspring. volunteers spent 6 hours at a time, listening10 and
evaluating different coding systems (GeorgeWood. MediaScan)
SWITZERLAND At the end of October, SRI is closing down the ornrudirectionanl
European service on 61 65 kHz, leaving only the directional transmitter at
SottensinoperationinSwitzerland;SRI iscountingonspilloverfromother sites.
and satellitestofill thegap (BobZanotti,SRI, ReviewofInternational Broadcast
Ing)

UK 0 G8 A NI There has beena smatt overall declinein the estimatedau dienceof

theWorld Servicefrom 143 millionin 1996f7 to 138 millionin 1997/8. The fall
is most marked in developin g countries; for example in Egypt where the
audience has reduced by 4 million. In Europe audiences are slightly down,
largely owing to theclosure of theFinnish service. Aud iences areincreasing in
other countries: up by 1.2 mittion in Russia, up by half a million in Ghanaand
other partsof Africa. IntheUSandtheCa ribbeanaudiences haverisento record
levels.TheWSstilt commandsa massaudience incountrieswherethereisIitlle
elsethat people can depend upon. In countries such as Afghanistan. Somalia,
andRwandatheBBCactsalmostasanational broadcaster.Howeverthenumber
01suchcountriesisdiminishing.Theaudiences whichlindtheWSof most value
lend to be the more highly educated, for whom it is their first choice for
authoritative international news. In Turkey, for example, while only 1% of the
Turkish population listens to the BBC WS. it reaches 25% of the country's
opinionformers. In the coming year theWS will invest more in new servies to
make possible the introduction of television news programmes in selected
languages, drawing upon existing BBC material. They aim to launch a second
WSin Englishchannel andto increase useof fM and digital systemsto improve
reception (BBC Annual Report via David Bowman. World OX Club Contact)
When the solar flux is up. look for BBCWS harmonics above 30 MHz, such
as 30970. 31130. 35410 kHz(Woltgang Buschel, Germany)
U SA Markfrom Michigan is no more. Mark Koernke . co-host of TheIntelligence
Report on WWCR , is probably nolongeronthe air. Afte r failin g to showupfor
atrialin lateMay, Koernkewas ontherunfor afewmonths.accordingto stories
in the Ann ArborNews. Thesame paper reports thathewas caught in lateJuly.
Koernke reportedly had urged listeners to kiltanassistant U.S. attorney onthe
show last year (Hans Johnson, Cumbre OX)
WWBS wasready tostarttesting in mid-Septon11910 kHzonly. 2300-0400
UTC to beexpanded to 11 00; aSL reports with return postageby P-mail only to
PO Box 18174. Macon, GA 31209: inquiries may go to wwbsradio@ao1.com
(Hans Johnson. (c) Cumbre OX) Would clash with Budapest at 0000. 0230 at
least (gh)
New onWGTG is ChurchandSlate. sort of a shortwaveve rsionof Crossfire.
discussions between a liberaland a conservativewith a moderator, Sun 16001700 on 9400 kHz: see hltp:/Imyp age .goptay.com/churchandstate/ (Jim
Corsiatto, Wor/dOfRadio) If still thereunchanged.winter timingwouldbe17001800
World Of RadioonWWCR asexpected to betimeshiftedforwinte r. based on
Septemberscheduling: Thu 1700 and2130 on 156B5 kHz. Sun 0730and 1030
on5070kHz.Tue13300n 156B5kHz.Forthelatestsee hltp://www.angellire.com/
ok/Worldalradia
The AFRTSSSB relays allowed us to hear somegood programmingon SW:
TheSa\f\.Y Travelerwas Sunday at 1700 on 12689.5. butthenext weekthis had
the music service on instead . Into Tomorrowwith Dave Graveline, technology
talkshow, appeared Sunday 1006 on 4278.5 (gh)
Fo r theS98 season, WSHB moved from 1B930 to 18910 kHzat 1600-1900
(Bob German, GJA, Electronic OX Press) we bsitesays staff reduced from17to
9 (Jim Moats. OH, Reviewof International Broadcasting)
Spectrumwas to return in mid-Oct, samelimeasbefore, i.e. UTSun 02000300 on WWCR 5070: winter03000400(Mark Emanuele, MikeJarmus Show
via Alex Draper)
Due to congessional lunding delays, the new Rad io Democracy lor Africa
service is not likely to start before late this year, more likely next year (Kim
Andrew Elliott. VOA Communications Worla)
VENEZUELA R.Barquisimete. 690, plans to reactivateSW9510 starting in October
in order to broadcast the 98-99 season Lara Cardinals baseball games to
Venezuela and abroad: will also have website and RealAudio {three local
newspapers via Dr. Luis A. Guerra Brandt. Mundo Radia~ Same station
previously publicized 9510 reactivation plans which never happened; maybe
this time? (gh)
VIETNAM An historic stack 01tapes 01V. 01Vietnam programs recorded between
1964and 1971 has been acquired from Jack Bock. who wasacivilian communications technician in Japan and Thailand during theVietnam War. Static and
jamminghavebeendigitally cleanedup. Includescombatactionreports, listsof
American KIAsand paw s. anti-war activities,etc.For acatalogof the68 tapes,
available on cassette or reel -to-reel, send 51.50 to WAWNi etnam Veterans
Ra dio Network, 7807 N. Avalon. Kansas City. MO 641 52 (Doc Upton.
alt.war.vietnam via Roger Tidy)
Untilthe Next. Best of OX <1nd 73 de Glenn!

0030 UTe on 9685

IRA N: VO IRI . English broad cast to 0 127 sign off includ ing 1/9022; " 605 0
not heard. (Lee Silvi, Me nto r, OH) Audible at 1735 UTe on 7 190 . Poor
sign al qu ality, 1/ 6025, 969 5 . Internation al news in Arab ic to 10. (Frank
Hillton, Charleston, SC )
0050 UTe on 7335
VAT ICAN: Vatican Radio. Broadcast to southeas t A sia , heard over lap
eHU Canada. English 0 140 0200' , lD to un known langu age 0 100-0120.
(Silvi , OH) 0 140 on 9605 in Spanis h. (Ron ald A. Per ron, Glen Burnie, MD)
Vatica n we bsi te: <htt p :// www.vatl can.v a>
0058 UTe on 11800
ITAL Y; RAI Inll . New s il em on the Music Festival in Rom e 1/ 60 10. (Bob
Fraser , Cohasset, MA)
0105 UTe on 7415
USA : W BCQ Monticell o, ME . Obscu re rock music to sta tion IDll ocali on
between music seg ments , plu s address qu ot e as, ~W BC Q-T h e Planet, 97
Hi gh St. , Kenneb unk , ME 04043. (Harold Fro dge, Midland , MI)
0125 UTe on 15410
AUS TRIA: Radio Austria lntl. German service , 1/ 13730 at 0 150 . (Perro n,
MO) News on national met ro sys te m al 2 150 on 13730. (Frase r, MA)
<htt p ://w ww.o rt .at/ r o ll>
0151 UTe on 13700
FRANCE: Radio France InU. Portugu ese prog ramming , 11 136 40 (French
Guiana relay) French not ed on 17620 at 1646. (Perron, MO) <www .rfl.fr/>
0200 UTe on 7450
GREEC E: Vo ice of. Greek prog ramming noted on // 93 75 , 94 20. (P err on,
MO) World new s to national headlines and Greek folk music 10 2349'.
(Frodge, MI) Address: ERA- 5, 43 2 Me ssog ion Av ., 153 42 Ath ens, G reec e.
(Per ron , MO)
025 4 UTe on 9705
MEXICO : XERMXlRa dio Me xico lnt t.. English prog ramming including
ranchera mu sic, despit e heterodyne interf eren ce from Radio Ethi opia on
lower sideband. 10 at 0300 w ith email add ress quote. (Paul Orma nd y,
Oamaru, New Zealand/ Hard Core OX) Heard 1400 with 10 to statio n
add ress qu ol e.(Larry Zam ora, Garlan d, TX) Station web sit e: < htt p: //
www.tel ecomme x .comllmer/rml.html>
0327 UTe on 4960
SAO TO ME: Voic e of Ame rica relay . VOA newscast to Sign-off 10 and
address. (F rod ge, MI )
0430 UTe on 4828
ZIMBA BW E: ZBC . Poor signal though improving slightly lor 30 minut es.
Afro po ps to English anno unce ments. (Ormandy, NZ ) Add ress: P.O . Box
HG444 , High lands, Harar e, Zimbab we . $ 1.00 helpf ul fo r reply . wed.
0756 UTe on 11784.88
INDON ESIA : (Java ) Voice of. Tune-in to to ne signal at 075 7, inlo English
prog ram ming at 0800. Fai r signa l level , bu t disturbed by Brazilian Rad io
Gualba on 11783.21 at 090 0. (AI Qu aglieri, Albany, NY) VO Indones ia
heard on 15 150 , 1748-1755. (M ark Veldhu is, Born e. Netherl andsl HCD X)
Indo's RRI-Tanjungkarang (Sumate ra) heard on 3395 in unknown d ialect
10 kron cong inte rlude s. (Lianga s, GRC )
0813 UTe on 15294.7
MALA YS IA : Voice of. En glish news comme ntary to time check. Spo rts
report 10 10, freq schedule , into Bahasa Malaysian at 0830 . (Veldhuis,
NLD) W ebsit e: < htt p://a si aco nnect. c o m .my/rt m-n et/>
094 5 UTe on 11804
BRAZ IL: Radio Globe. Port ugu ese spo rts prog ram. Lady an no uncer 10
jingles and comm ercials. Brazil' s Radio Record on 9505. 1, 2 1532 158
with romantic ballad s to 10 . Radio Univer so on 9565 at 22 04. Interf erence
from Indo's RRI.Jak arta (Java) on freq uency . (Ve ldh uis, NLO)
1130 UTe on 5965
CA NA DA: BBC W S relay. A bout Face interview with Rev. Ch ad Va rah
Founder of Sama ritans & Befrienders Int ernational. (Frase r, MA) Sa ckvlne
relay also nol ed on 6175 at 23 17 . (Eddie Muro , Ceda rhurst . NY)
1307 UTe on 17545
ISRAEL : Ko l ls raellRe she l Bel. Heb rew servi ce of news and IDs as "Ko!
Israel." Fair signal. (G ianni Ser ra, Anzio , Ita ly/ The Fou r Wind s)
1337 UTe on 13710
IN DIA : All Indi a Ba dto-Ba nqato re. Eng lis h wo rld news 10 10 and edito ria l,
poor sig nal. A IA -Hyderab ad heard on 4800 at 1754 . (Se rra, Italy/ TFW)
URL :<htt p://al r.k ode.ne b
1353 UTe on 15585
MADA GASCAR: Radi o Net hertan ds re lay . Research Fife prog ram to
Dutch Press Review segment. (Zamo ra, TX) Netherland's Bonaire relay
au dible on 153 15 a101 26 . (Perron, MD) RN webs ite: <htt p :// www .ro w .n l>

1432 UTe on 11785

QAT AR : Q BS. Arab ic text and mu sic, 11 9 570, fair sig nal qualily . (Serra,

ItalylTFW)
1500 UTe on 15560
RUSSIA : Vo ice of. Focu s on Asia & the Pacific program 10 1530. Ru ssian
text 10 1600 . (Jo hn Marko , Co lling da le , PAl Kaleidos cope program on
11675 at 1935. (Fraser , MA)VOR web site : <hn p :/lww w .vo r.ru> Heard
202 0 on 11675 Science & Engin eering pro gram . (Fraser , MA)
1610 UTe on 115 70
PAKISTA N: Radio Pakistan. Engli sh se rvice edito rial on Kashmi r to 16 13.
Classica l mu sic brid ge. frequ en cy quo te to slow speed Eng lish. Az ad
Ka sh m ir Radio via Islamabad noted on 47 90 at 1726. Tal k to 10 and
ann ou ncements to 1752 . (Serra , lIaly/ TFW)
1615 UTe on 11715
A LG ERIA: Radio Algiers Intt. English wo rld news to national briefs. Station
10 to pop/roc k m usic . Fair qu ality signal. (Hilllon, SC)
1740 UTe o n 4900
C HINA : Haixla Zhi Sheng # 2. Chinese talk to program pau se for identification at 1746. Unid entified Chinese statio n on 5050 at 175 7, menti on s of
Zho ng uo, time tip s 180 0, talk and 180 1'. (Serra , Italy/TPN)
1748 UTe on 21500
CHILE: Voz Cristia na . Spa nish 10 at tun e-in, Flori da ad dress to prog ram
jingl es an d prcmos . II 21 54 9.4 con sid erably weake r. (v eld huls . NL D/
HCDX; Se rra, Italy/ TFW)
1823 UTe on 3345
SOU TH AFR ICA: AWR . Rel igious choir musi c to multilingu al station IDs
and AW R interval signa l, 1830' . (Veldhui s , NLD/H CDX)
1912 UTe on 5935
LATV IA : Radio Latv ia lntl. Poor signal for new sca st form at. Pop mu sic to
cl ea r station 10 , pol itical comme nta ry to 1920. Utility sl at ion interfe rence .
(Serra , lIa ly/ TFW)
1959 UTe on 496 5
ZAM BIA: Radio Christian Voice. Sc ripture readings to 10 at 2000, 't his is
RCV broadcasting from Za mbia." Good signal. (Zacharias U angas,
Thessalc niki. Greec e)
1959 UTe on 13690
UK: Mer tin Network On e. Christophe r England's show with po p mu sic and
comm enta ry on the status of modem radio. (Fro dge, MI)
2006 UTe on 9525
POLAND: Pol ish Radi o Warsaw . Fair signal with audio buzz. Spe cial on
WW lI Ba ttle of Britain. Mu sica l vocals to abrupt 2025 ' . (Frod ge, MI )
2040 UTe on 15120
NIG ERI A: Vo ice of. Sixty Mi nutes show of interviews and comme ntaries.
Drum sig nal interval signa l at 2 100, into French service , VOA inte rference
on 15110 . (Frodg e, M I)
2105 UTe on 15345
A RG ENTINA : RAE. Lottery Internacional info 10 station frequen cies quote.
(Lian gas , G RG)
2125 UTe on 4820
BOT SW ANA: Radi o Botswana . En glish music program 10 Rob ert a Flac k
tune . Reg ion al language a12 140 . Fair sign al. (Lia nga s, GRC)
21 30 UTe on 5003.5
EQT . G UINEA : Rad io Africa. Religi ous programm ing to 225 8 identification. Nali on al anthem to 23 00 sign-off . (Vel dhuis, NLD/H CDX)
2211 UTe on 3976 .06
INDONE SIA : (Ka lima ntan/B om eo) RRI -Po ntianak . Tentative lD on sta tion lor anno unce r in Indonesian. Bri ef segment of Islamic mu sic and text.
Interval signal to ide ntif ication form at seg ment. (vetdbuis. NLD/HCDX)
2220 UTe on 9620
URU GUAY: SO DRE. Audible only in LSB . (low er sideba nd) Spanish
comm enlary 10 lD at 2225 . English blues tun e from B.8 . King 10 male/
fem ale duo after 22 35. (Frodg e, Mil
2226 UTe on 33 25
INDO NES IA : (Kalima ntan/ Borneo) RRI-Palangkaraya . Gam elean mu sic
to Indon esian text . Inte rval signal to station 10, interfe rence on fr equency
from presum ed Guatemala n Radio May a d e Barillas . (Ve ldh uis, NLD/
HCDX)
2245 UTe on 9639.95
VENEZUELA: Ecos del Torbes. Spa nis h. Fine signa l for loc al ads. j ingl es
and 10, 11498 0 fair. (Ruud Vas, Nelh eriand sl HCDX)

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Adventist World Radio...

...The Voice of Hope For All Peoples. So says the ope ning
message at the Adventist World Radio website. AWI{ is the
interna tional radio broadcas t service of the Seventh-day Advent ist
c hurch. devotin g over twenty-five years of spreading the gospe l
through radio. particularly in countries where other mea ns of
evangelis m an: not poss ible.
T he AWR website can be found at < h tt p ://w w w . a w r . o r~>
w ith station f4lCIS. infor mat ion and links (0 Broculcust Program
Schedules , News & Lette rs, and more .
Listener'...Corm', inc ludes recept io n repo rt fo rms and sa mple
Q SL s to vie w. Real Au dio and pho tos of AWR s ites arc av ai lable.
O nline reception rep ort s arc av a ilable at the SIIOI"I\\'O\ '(' Rad i o
QSL link <htt p://www.a wr .or Wqsl.htm l> as well as a printable
recept ion report form and an infor mative article 1/0 H' t o Writt' ll
Reception Ri'/JOn.
A WR is an exce llen t verifier and is genero us with stickers and
ca rds. as well ,IS their monthly newsletter Curren t. Rep orts ca n be
con fi rmed for thei r station's transm itters in Africa . Asia. Europ e ,
Pan Ame rica and Russia. Add resses for eac h site are found on the
A W R hom cpag c. IRe s or mint stamps are ap preci ated. For
add itio nal station infor mal ion se nd you r let ter to Ad ve ntist World
IIEtGI Ul\I
Radio Vlaa ndercn lntl. unkn own kil l . Full data ca rd unsig nedplus prog ram schedule
and sucker. Rece ived in 20 days for lin English report . Statio n add ress: P.O . Box 26,
n -](XXI Brussels, Belgiu m. (John Verccllin o. Downers Gro ve, IL)
CU UA
Radio Hava na, 6000 kl lz . Full data QSL card unsig ned plus perso nalle tte r sig ned by
Lourdes Lopez. station pennant and ne..... spapcr Granma tmemacional. Received in
153 day s fo r a cas scnc tape and one U.S. dollar. Stat ion address: Infa nta 105. La
Habana. Cu ba. (Walt Szczepa niak. Phi ladelph ia. PA )
I'- RE ~ C II

G L'IA l"A
Rad io France Intc rnati onal relay, 13625 lI k Full da ta color~lonl:-.in.:ry antenna
ca rd unsigned. plu\ a program sc hed ule. Recei ved in 2 1 ....-eeks for an Engf ..h repo rt
a nd souvenir posrcurd. Sta tion address: Bolte Postal 95 16. F-750 l b Pari s. Franc e .
{Dou g Merkel. 51 Loui s. ~to )

fM
WA UA-81J.5 Mill FM . Fu ll data prcpa red QS Leard signed by Frank Ho ffman . plu v
bu ..ine ss card. and statio n Slickers. Rece ived in onc month for an Eng lish FM report
;lOd mini "lamp... Semon ilddre ..s: We ~1 Virg ma Public Rad io. (-,00 Capi tol St ..
Charle sto n. W VA 2530 1. ( Robe rt S. Ross . Ontario. CA NJAmFmT\D.t)
ISDIA
All India Radio- Thiru van ath apuram 5010 kHz. Fu ll data Icller sig ned by Srauon
Engieeertsjg nature illegible). Receiv ed in I I I dayson third English Icllowup report.
tape, po stcard and souve nir used stamps. Report se nt directly to station site:
Th iru vanan thap uram 695 014 , Keral a.lndia. (Charlie W ashburn . North Perry, ME)

Rad io. Intern atio nal Rela tion s, P.O. Bo x 2lJ23 5. Indianapol is. IN
46229.
Need a new publi cati on 10 co mple me nt yo ur tropi cal DX
sess ions'! T he Dani sh S ho rtwave C lub International has released
thei r 1998 Tropical Hand S urvey. Send ten Inter national Rep ly
Coupons (l RCs) (0 DSWCl. c/ o Bent Niels en. Egek rogen 14 . DK
3500 Vncrlocs e . Denmark . Arranged by -fre quency, plu s station
nam es and schedules . the Trop ica l Band S UJ"l'(V continues to be
highly recommended by many DXcr s !
KDSX 1700 klt z AM. Fu ll dntu ver ification 0 11 station lcnc rhcnd signed by Hube rt
Beavers-Chief O perator KPLX-KLI F. Received in 90da}s for an English A M repo rt and
a self-addresse d stamped env eloped (use d for rcp ly ). Statio n addrcss: 35CKI Map le Ave.
# 1600 . Da llas. T X. ( Harold Frod ge, Midland . MI)
KGl t 1260 kHz AM. Full data card signed by Elai ne Hawkes-A..st. Eng ineer. Received
in 4 d ays a fter an Engli..h follo w up repo rt . Station addres..: P.O. Bo x 25002 8. Los
Angeles . CA 900 25. (p at rick Martin . Seaside , O R)
Rad io Spu n . 792 kHz Am -Hamilton, l"ew Zealand . Full da ta venflcation lener rr ceived
in 13 day.. (or a taped report . Sial io n run s I kw. Station address : 54 Cook St. P.O . Box.
3526. Auck land. New Zealand. ( ~I ani n, O R)
Rad io Universal. 1270 kH z A ~ 1. Ful l da ta verification signed by Ade la Arroba de Dup reIng . Cu m. Recei ved in 70 days fo r a Spanish AM report a nd on e U.S.do llar. Station
address: Ca.\ illa 5177. Guayaq ui l, Ecu ador. ( Paul Ormandy. Oamaru. Ne .... Zealand)
l" EW ZF.ALASD
Rad io NewZcaland Inti 9795 kHt. Full dala N~", uafonJ HirJJ cards un sig ned . Received
in 23 day .. (or an Engli ..h report and three IRC s. Station add ress: P.O. Box 123.
Wellington. New Zea land . (Wa.\hhum . ME )
P E RU
Rad io 1.3 Hora4855 k Hz. Verification leit er signed by Sr . Carl os Gamarra ~f.-Direclor.
Recei ved (or a Spa nish report. Stau on addre s..: Av. G arcila sc -t l I , Distrito de wenchac.
CU!>CO. Peru . (Maune Rirc la, FinlandlH CDX)

ITALY
AW R-Ihe Voice o ( Hope . 7230 k Hz. F ull da ta color Mogic EJ~ flo wer card unsign ed .
Religiou s brochures. stickers, schedule and leite r enc losed . Statio n address: AWR
Europe . Box 383.47 100 Forl i.llaly . (Sa m wright. Bilo xi. MS )
JAPA~

Radio Japan. 11705 kHz . Full data Q SLc ard signed by Y. Fu..himi, plus map c f Japan.
program schedule and reception repo rt form s . Recei ved in 22 days for an English tape
repo rt. Sta tio n ad dress : Tokyo 150-0 1, J apan. (Szczepaniak. PA )

MEDIUM WAVE
Briti sh Virgin hlandsZ BV I 780 kH z A~I . Verifi catio n letter and card signed by
Sandra Pott er Wanica n.Opcrations Manager. Stat ion sticker, cO\'crage mill' and
Malion pro file sheet enclosed. Slation slogan is n,c AM Admntoge. Reeeh 'ed in 15
.....eeb for an Engli sh A M repon . Sialion add ress: Website: <h tt p :// ww".z h.l.com >
Em ail:< z b vl@ cBrl hs u r (.eo m> Ph : 284 -494-2250 . Fa x: 284 -4 94 11) 9 ( W ill
Pils:-.mann , Muelh cim . Geml anylH CD)()
CBN 640 k i ll. A M. Full da ta map card signed by S. W illiams. Recei ved in 876 da y..
fon m Engli:-.h A M repo n a nd mint stamps (returned with rep ly) . Sta tion a dd re:-.~ : P.O
Bo x 120 10 Stalion A. St John' s NF Ca nada A l B 3TB./ W ashhurn. ME)

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November 1998

SWEDEN
TeracomlRadio Sweden. 15235/17870 k.Hz. Full da ta co lor control room photo sig ned by
H . Wid ensted t. Veri fication for rest tran smiss ions . Rece ived in two mo nths for report sent
via email. (Gay le Van Hom. Bra sstown . l'o'" C ) Teracom logo T -shm , broch ures. pro gram
sche d ules and signed bu sine..s car d from Magn us Nilsson-Frequency Man agem ent . R&D
Departm ent (or te st transmissio ns o n 1524 0 . 152 35 . 17870 k.Hz. via e ma il. (Lex Je nk ins.
USA)
TU R K E Y
Voice o f T urkey. 9655 kHz. Full da ta stal ion car d un..igned plus stickers . program
:IoChedule ... tation pennant. and broch ure on Tur kish cuis ine . Rece h ed in 26 days for an
Eng lish repo rt. Stat ion addres s: P .O . Bo x 333 06.4-13. Yenisehi r. Ank ara. Tu rkey.
(Ve rce llino. IL)
UN ITED ST AT FS
W HRA G reenbush. M E. 15460 U lz . Full da ta T Cll QSLellrdl>igned by James Ho lycro ss.
Engi nee ring . Recei ved in 20 7 days for an En glish rcpo n of tcst 1T'"dn:-.mis!>ions. on e mint
!>Iamp incl uded . Stal inn add ress: P.O Box 12. SOlllh Be nd, IN 4 6624 (Ran dy Siew an .
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5HO"llln~\lE GO~OE

English

Language

iN!.

How TO USE THE SHORTWAVE GUIDE .

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

Convert your time to UTe .

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

station name. Irregular broadcasts are indicated "tenr and programming

which includes languages besides English are coded
(various lan-

1:

2:

Choose a program or station you want to hear.

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

0000

-vr

4: Choose the most promi sing frequencies for the ti me,

locatlon and cond itions.
Not all stations can be heard and none all the time on all frequencies.To help you find the most promIsing frequency, we've included information on the target area of each broadcast. Frequencies beamed toward
your area will generally be easier to hear than those beamed elsewhere.
even though the latter will often still be audible. Every frequency Is followed by one of these target codes:
am: The Americas
na: North America
ca: Central America
sa: South America
eu: Europe
af: Africa
me: Middle East

1430

Un ~nown '

013f)

Radio For Peace Inti: "'Conllnenl 01M!l1Ia"

0200 RadioFor Peace Inti: ~World of Radlo0234 Raj lo HavanaCulla: "pxers Unllml1ed"
0258 Vatican Radio: -On-the-AIr'"
0305 Australia. Radio: ' Feedback"
0347 Ra:lio Bulgaria: "Radio Bulgana CalJlng'
0400 WHRI (Angtl 2 lodiana): ~OXiOQ with
Cumbre'
0409 HCJB (am): ' OXPartylme"
0423 Voice 01Turkey: ' OXCorner' {biweekly)
0508 Vatican Radio: "Qn-the-Air"
0523 RadiOExterior deEspana: "Distance
Unknown"
0530 Australia. Radio: "Media Report"
0530 WHR I (Angel 2 Indiana): "OXmg wl1h
cumme"
Q63.4
Radio Havan aCUba: -nxers Unlimited"
0700 KWHR (Angel 3 Hawaii). OXing With
Cumbre"
0730 WWCR 13 (Tennessee): -World 01RadiO"
0830 KWHR (Aflgel 4 Hawaii) "OXing WIlli
Cumbre'
0830 Radio f or Peace InU: "Contment 01 Media0835 Radio Vlaanderen Inll: "RadIOWolld0836 Radio KOtea: Mulli....aveFeedbaCk0900 RadiO Peace InU: "World 01 RadIO'
0905 BBC: -wnre On"
1030 WWCR I] {Tennessee): ' World 01RadlO1038 Radio Korea: "MulliwaveFeeotacr "
1130 KWHR(Anoe14 Hawaii)--OXlllll Willi
Cumbre"
\ 135 RadIOveanceren InU: "RildlOWorld"
1136 Radio Korea: "MultiwilveFeedback1205 BBC: -Write On"
1207 RadiO CJflJda InU: "The Mailbalf
1236 Radio Korea: "MulliwaveFeedback'
1247 RadiOBulgaria: RadIO Bulgaria Callmg"
1335 Ra dio VlaanderenInti: "Radio Wor1ll"
1337 Radio Canada Inti: ''TheMailba\l"

ror

40

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as:
au:

pa:
va:
do:
am:

Asia
Australia
Pacific
various
domestic broadcast
omnidirectional

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

COMPILED BY JIM fRlMMEL

1354
1400

WHRI (Angel 2 Indiana): 'OXing Wll h

Cumbre'
0023 Radio EKlerior deEspana: ' ue tarce
Unknown0030 BBC(as): -w me On'
0109 HCJB (am): OXPartyline'
0123 RadioExterior deEspana: "m
starce

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

guages).

SWL PROGRAMS.
Sundays

..

1515
1636
1637
1705
1130
1730
1735
1835
1930
1936
2031
2105
2108
2135
2300
2300
2330
2330

Vaticangaco . "On-lhe-AI' "

KWHR (Anllel4 Hawaii): "OXmg Willi
CumbreWHRI (Angel l Indiana): "OXmg WIth
cumere"
BBC (al): -Wavegulde- (4)
RadiO Korea "Mulbwavefeedback '
Radio Canada InU: "The MallbagBBC (as) 'wme On'
KWHR (Angel] Hawaii): ' OXmg wllh
Cumbre"
WHRI (Anoe! 2IndlilflJt: ' OXmg Wltll
Eumbte"
Radio V\aandefen Inll: "RadIOWorld"
RadIO Vlaanderen Inll: -RadiOWorld"
KWHR (Angel 3 Hawaii): ' OXlOg erm
Cumbre"
naocxcrea ' MulhwaveFeedback"
Radio Canada InU: "The Mailbag'
BBC: "Write On'
Radio korea "Mul\lwave FeedbackBBC (af): "Write On"
KSOA (Guam): ' wavescan'
Badm ForPeaceInU: "Wol ld of nacre"
Australia, Radio: "Media Report"
WHRA (Anoel 5 Maine): "aXing "Hlth
Cambre"

Mondays

0000

0106
0130
0131
0230

0305
0401
0700
1040
1615
1730
1840
2130
2135
2200

AWR la lm Amenca: "Wavescan"

Deulsche Welle: 'Wood OXMeeting" (4/5)
WRMI (florida): 'wavescan"
Radio Canada Inll: -t re MallbagRadiOKorea "MultlwaveFeedbatk"
BBC: -..VnteOn'
RadiO Canada Inll: MThe Mailbag"
RadiOfor Peaceinn -World 01Radrc"
A1llfMlliI RadIO: ' ux-ers Corner- (214)
KTWR (Guam): "PaCIfIC OX Repon"
WWCR 'I (Tennessee): "Ask WNCRAll lfMlia RadiO: "n x-ers Corner" (214)
A1l lfMlia Radio: -nx.ee Comer" (214)
Racllo New Zealandlnll: ' Mall!mx"
(biweekly)
WWCR 11 (lennessee): -Ask WWCR'

Tuesdays
0030

BBC (as): '"WavegUide" (4)

Novembe r 1998

0900 Kl'NR (Guam): ' Pacnc OX Report"

1330 WWCR I I (Tennessee): "WOIkI 01 RadiO"
1346 RadIO Sweden: ' Me-j ia5can- (113)
1355 FEBC (philippines): "OX Oial1446 RadiOSweden: "Media5can" (113)
1846 RadIO Sweden: Me:lr.a5can- (113)
1900 RadiOFmPeace lntc-World01 Radlo2100 POlish Radio: ~P1lijsh Radio OX Club2111 RadIO Havana Cuba -uxers Unlimited"
2311 RadiOHavana Cuba. -uxers Un llml led ~
2340 AnIndIa RadIO: -OX-t:1$ Corner" (214)

Wednesdays
0140
0146
0246
0300
0335
0346
0535
0730
0730
0930
1000
13 f5
1735
1820
1820
1900
1930
2000
2206

Radio Havana Cuba: ' nxers Unlimiled'

RadIOSweden: -MHlliIScan- (II3)
RadIOSweden: -Mediascan~ (113)
Radio ForPeace Inti: "World 01RadioRadIO Havana Cuba: "Dxers Unhmlled'
Radio Sweden: ' M ed ia SCan~ (1/3)
RadiOHavana Cuba- "Dxersunumnec"
BBC (af): "WavegUide' (4)
HCJB (eu): "Ham Radio Today"
HCJB (pac): "Ham RadioToday"
aaoc For Peace Inti: 'World of Radio"
FEBC (pllilippines): "OX Dial"
Radio NewZealand InU: "Mailbox"
(biweekly)
Argentina, RAE: "OX'ers Sped alM
Pohsll RadiO 'PoIlSlIRadio OX Club'
Merlin Radio Network: -Mcd13 Zoo"
HCJB (eu): ' Ham RadlOToday'
MerllO RadIO Netwalk: -Medlil Zoo"
RadIOBudapest Inti: 'OX Blockbuster"

Thursdays
0130
0239
0345
0430
0545
0730
0754
0800
0953
1153
1320
1352
1700

HCJB (am) "Ham RadIO Today'

ArgentlOa. RAE: -px'ers Specal"
RadiOBudapestlnll: "OX BlockbusterHCJB (am): "Ham RadiOToday'
BBC (am/eu) -..'/aJCguide {4}
BBC(as): -Waveguide" (4)
RadIO Netheflands Inll: "Mcdr.a Network'
KTWR IGuam): -Paclhc OX RellOrt"
RadiONethellands Inti: "Media Network"
RadiONetherlands tnll: ~ Med ia Network"
Polish Radio: "Polish Radio OXClub"
RadiONetllerlands Inti: "Media Network"
W'W CR 'l (Tennessee): "World 01 Radio"

\ 753
1954
2115
2130

Radio Nelherlands Inll "Media rJ etwork~

Radio Nelherlands inn "MediaNetwork"
BBC (as): "Waveouide~ (4)
\VWCR 11 (Tennessee): "World 01 gado"

Fridays

0053

0253
0345

0453
0915
1030
1930
1930
1930
2000
2047
2100
2105
2338

Radio Netherlands lnll "Medl.1. NelVlork ~

Radio NelherJandslnll: '"Media NetworltM
BBC (as ): "Waveguide' (4)
RadiONetherlands Inll: "Mei!la NetwortC
BBC lam/eu): "W3VegUIl!eM(4)
KlWR (Guam): "PaClIIC OXReportAustralia, RadiO: ' Mcdlil Report~
Radio For Peace Inti: -conllnenl 01Media"
Radio uewZealandlnU: "MailbOx
(biweekly)
Radio For Peace Inll: ' World 01RadiO'
RadioBulljarr.a "Radio BulcanaCallinlj"
WWCR 11 (Tennessee): "Ask WWCR"
Australia. Radio: "Feedback"
Voiceof lu rkey: "OX corner' (biweekly)

Saturdays
0005
0044
0136
0330

0330
0336
0400
0400
0438
0530
0536
0600
0605
0630
0700

Australia. Radio: "Feedback"

Radio Bulgaria: "Radio BulgariaCalling"
Voice01Amellca (aspadca)
"commumcancns World (AI"
KWHR (Angel 3 Hawaii)' "OXing with
Cumb,eRadio For Peace Inll: "Coobnenl 01Medlil"
Voice 01 Amenca (al): -cemmcncancns
Worlcl (Br
Radiofor Peace Inll: "World 01RadiO"
WRP.l1 (Florida): ~Wavesca'l'
Voice01 Tuney -OX Corner' (biweekly)
KWHR (Angel 3 HawaII): -OXioa WIlli
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Voice01 Amenca "CommunlCallons WOrld
(A)'
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CumbreAUSlralia. RadIO 'Feedb.ac~
'NHRA(Angel 5 MaiM ) "OXing Willi
Cumbre"
KWHR (Angel ] Hawaii): "OXing lVith
Cumbre"

(Continued onpage 45 )

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GermanyJNeltOmer Ministr
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India. All India Radio
Ireland, Unt Chrisllan BC
Japan, RJaparVNHK World
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USA, WHRI tl obles'{ille IN
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USA. WRMIIR MiamiInti
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USA, WSHBCypress CrkSC
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Austria, R Austria InU
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Sundays

0000 Australia. Radio: RANews. Five or tenminutes 01world.

Australian, andregional news.
00Cl0 Japan. NHKiRadio: News. World news lrom NHK
International.
0000 USA. KAU (DallasTX): World University Network (Or.
Gene Scoll).
DOO5 Australia, Radio: Money, Marhts. aootile Economy.
0010 Japan, NHKlRadiO: Heno from Tolcyo. Theweekend
malJ3llneprogram.
0030 Australia. Radio: cceesoenoents' Report. The ABC's
loreil;tn correspondents reporthomewith Hamish
Robertson.

Mondays

see
see

lIOOO Australia. Radio; RANews.

S 0000.
0000 Japan, NHKlRadio: P4ef/$.
S 0000.
0000 USA. KAU(Dallas TX): World University Network (Or.
Gene SCott)
0010 Australia.Radio: Correspondents' Report. SeeS 0030_
0015 Japan. NHKlRadIO: 44Minutes. Theweekday maoazine
program etteaturereportsand ttle popular vocalmusic 01
Japan.
001 7 Japan. tlHKlRallio: Guest Corner. Thefirstsegmentof tbe
malJ3line program "44 Minutes" ieanees aeenversancn
witha >Milor.
0030 Australia.Radio: TheHealth Report. A program mat
ell3mineshealth issues and makescomplexSCientific (lala
understandable.
0034 Japan, NHKIR.1dio: CloseUp. f ealuringaJapanese pelSOrl
o! note.
0047 Japan. NHKlRadio: Ne....'S Commentary. An edrtorial
OJIinionon the current news.
0052 Japan, NHKlRadio: Tumbling Dice. Focuson a topic 01
interest inJapan.

Tuesdays

0000 Auslralia, RadiO: RANews. seeS 0000.

0000 Japan, NHKlRadio: News. See S0000.
0000 USA, KAtJ (Dallas TX): World University Network (Dr.
GeneScott).
0010 A~stratia, Radio: Asia Pacmc. See S2310.
0015 Japan, NHKiRadio: 44 Millutes. See M 0015.
0017 Japan, NHKiRadlo: Guest Corner. See M 0017.
0030 Australia, Radio: The law Report. Susanna toner brings

aninsiders oes ceceve to the complexities01 thelaw.

0034 Japan, NHKlRadio: Close Up. See M 0034 .
0047 Japan, NHKlRadio: NewsCommentary. See M 0047.
0052 Japan, NHKlRadio: Tumbling Dice. SeeM 0052.

~d~~~ia~~iO: RAN~. See S0000.

0000 Japan, NHK/Rol,dio: News. Set! S 0000.

0000 USA, KAU (DallasTX): World University Network (Or. Gene
0010
0015
0017
0030

0034
0047
0052

Scott).
Australia, Radio: Asia Pacific. See S 2310.
Japan. NHKJRadio: 44 Minutes. See M 0015.
Japan, NHKJRadiO: GuestCorner. SeeM 0017.
Australia. Radio: The Religion Report Hosted by John Cleary.
Japan. NHKJ"Ra:liO: ClOSe Up. See M0034.
Japan, NHKlRadiO: News Commentary. See M 0047.
Japan, NHKJRa!liO: Tumbling Dice. See M 0052.

Thursdays

Australia. Radio: RANews. See S 0000.

Japan, NHKlRadiO: NI!WS. See S 0000.
USA. KAU (DallaS TX): WorldUniversrty Network (Or. Gene
Scott).
0010 Australia.RadIO: AsiaPaCific. SeeS 2310
0015 Japan. NHKlRadiO: 44 Millutes_See M 0015.
0017 Japan. NHKlRalliO: GuestCorner. SeeM0017.
0030 Australia. Radio: Media Report. Agnes Warren presents the
inSidestoryon howthe communiCabcns industryoperates
andputs the spotlight onmedia people andtheir aetMties.
0034 Japan, NHKlRadiO: ClOSe Up. See M0034.
0017 Japan, NHKlRadiQ: NewsCommentary. See M 0047,
0052 Japan. NHKlRadiO: TumblingDice. SeeM 0052.

0000
0000
0000

Fridays

0000
0000
0000

0010
0015
0017
0030
D034
0047

Australia. Radio: RANews. See S 0000.

Japan, NHKlRadio: News. See S 0000.
USA. KAU (Dallas TX): World UniversityNetwork (Or. Gene
SCOIt).
Australia. Radio: Asia Pacilic. See S2310.
Japan, NHKlRadio: 44 Minules. See M 0015.
Japan, NHKlRadio: GuestCorner.See M 0017.
Australia. Radio: Sports ReportTwentyminutes 01news Irom
theworld01sports
Japan, NHKlRadio: Close Up. See M 0034.
Japan, NHKlRadio: NawsCommentary. See M 0047.

0052 Japan, NHKlRadiO: TumblingDice. See M0052.

Saturdays
0000

Australia, Radio: RA N~ . Set! S 0000.

0000 Japan. NHK/Ra(\io: News. See S 0000.

0000 USA. KAU (DallasTX): World Universrty Networ1l; (Or.

seem.

Gene
0005 Australia, RadiO: Feedback. See S 0305.
0010 Japan, NHKlRadio: Asia Weekly. SeeS 1410.
0030 Australia, Radio: Asia Pacdic. SeeS2310.

HAUSIR'S HIGHLIGHTS

KUWAIT: R. KUWAIT
Main Programme in Arabic:

l.!TI:

klli

0000-0200
02(}()-0359
0359 -0900

11 675
15495.11 675. 6055
15505. 15495 .
15 11011l+l5-). 116751(5 30). 6055
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15 1101-(930). 13620.
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15 110. 13620. 98 80
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15495. 9855

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1305- 1605
1605- 181J()
1800 -231Xl

in English:
I8lX)-21lJ()
11 990
(BBC Monitoring)

November 1998

MONITORING TIMES

41

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01000150

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Croatia. crceuen RadIO
Culla. Radio Havana
CzechRep, RadiOPrague
Ecuador, HCJB
Germany. Deutscne Welle

0100-0200s
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0100-0200vi
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01000110
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Gellnany,OveroomerMinistr
Ghana, Ghana Broadc COfP
Gualemala, RadIO Cultural
Indonesia. VOice 01
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Ireland, Un!Chrls!iafl BC
!laly, RAl lfltl
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Namibia, NBC
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USA, WJCR Uplon KY
USA, WRMIJR Miami Inti
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USA, WWCR Nashville TN
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SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays

0100 Ausllalia, Radio: RA Flews. See S 0000.

0100 Japan, NHKlRadio: News. See S 0000.
0100 USA.KAIJ(Dallas TX): World Ufliversity Network (Or.
GeneScoh).
OHIO USA. KJES (MesquiteNMI: Religious Chanting.
0105 Australia, Radio: The Europeans. Mana lijlstrapresents
reports andteatees onaspects 01 European politiCs,
culture andsociety.
0110 Japan, NHK/Radio: Hellolrom Tokyo.
S0010.

see

Mondays
0100 Allstrall3., RadiO: RA News. SeeS 0000.
0100 Japan, NHKlRadlO: News. SeeS 0000.
01<10 USA. KAU(Dallas lX ): WorldUniversity Netwoo:(Or.
GeneScott).
0100 USA. KJES (Mesquile NM): Religious Cllanling.
011 0 AuslralJ3., RadiO: AIaye. Lorefl3. Allam hosts a program ot
indlQenous artsandissues.
0115 Japan, tlHKlRadio: Minutes. See M 0015.
0117 Japan, NHKJRadlo: GueslComer, See M0017.
0134 Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0034.
0147 Japan, NHKlRadlo: News Commentary. Set! M 0047.
0152 .Japan. NHKlRadio: Tumbling Dice. SeeM 0052.

Tuesdays
Australia.RalJio: RA. News. SeeS 0000.
Japan, NHKlRadio: NeVIS See S 0000
USA. KAU (DallasTX): World UniversityIlelwQrk (Or.
Gene SCott)
OHIO USA. lUES (MesqUiteNM): Religious Chanling
0110 Australia, Radio: SCience Show. Robyn Williams presents
theworld01 SCience, both at 1I0meand aarcac.
0115 Japan, NHKlRadio:44 Minutes, See M 0015.
0117 Japan, NHKJRadio: Guest Corner. See M0017.
0134 Japan, NHKlRadlo: CloseUp. See M 0034
0147 Japan, NHKlRadio: News commentary. See M0047.
0152 Japan, NHK/Radio: Tumblin\! Dice. See M 0052.
0100
0100
0100

~d~~~a~a~l~io: RA News. See S0000.

42

MONITORING TIMES

No vember 1998

0100 Japan, NHKlRadio: News. SeeS 0000.

0100 USA. KAU (DallaSlX) : World UniverSity Network(Or. Gene

seem.

0100
0110

OilS
0117
0134
0147
0152

USA, lUES (t.'esquiteNM): Religious Chanting.

Australia,RadIo: TheNational Interest SeeS 1605.
Japan, NHKlRadio: 44 Minutes. SeeM0015.
Japan, NHKlRadio: Guesl Comer. S~ M 0017.
Japan, NHKlRadio: CloseUp. See M0034.
Japan, NHKlRadio: News Commenbry. See M 0047.
Japan, NHKlRadio: TumblingOite. see M0052.

USA. KAIJ (DallasTXj: WClrld Univel1ity Network(Or

seoe 500n).
0100 USA. KJES (MesquiteNM): ReligiOUS Chanting.
0105 Australia, Radio: Ol Sounds 11. See S 0505.
0110 Japan, NHKlRadio: WeekendBreak.. A magazine program
leaturiOO storiesfromaroundJapan.
0130 Australia, Radio: ArtsAustralia, see T 2330.

0100

Thursdays
0100
0100
0100
OHIO
0110

0115
0117
0134
0147
0152

Australl3., Racho: RANews. SeeS0000.

Japan , NHKlRalbo: News. SeeS0000.
USA. KAU (Dallas TX): WorldUniversity Netwoo: (Or. Gene

SCott),
USA. KJES(MesqUite NM): ReligiotlsCllantmg.
Australia. Fbdio: &ckgrOUrJd BriefJl'lg. Australia's lop awardwinnlflg current allail1 program.
Japan , NHKlRadiO: 44 MInutes. see M 0015.
Japan, r~HKlRadio: Guest Comer. see M 0017.
Japan, NHKlRadio: ClOSe Up. seeM0034.
Japan. flHKJRadio: News Commentary. See M 0047.
Japan, NHKlRadio: Tumbling Dice. See M0052.

Fridays
0100 Australia. Radio: RANews. Set! S0000.
0100 Japan, NHKlRadiO: News. See S 0000.
0100 USA. KAlJ (Oallas TX): WorldUni\'eI1r!yNelwoO: (Or.Gene
SCOIt).
0100 USA. KJES (Mesquite NM): Religious Chanting.
0110 Australia. Radio: Hmdsight. seeH 1605.
0115 Japan, NHK1Radio: 44 Minutes. seeM 0015.
0117 Japan, NHK'Radio: Guest Comer. See M 0017.
0134 Japan, NHKIRallio: Close Up. See M 0034.
Ot47 Japan, f/HKlRadio: NewsCommentary. See M0047.
0152 Japan, NHKlRadlo: Tumbling Oice. See M 0052,

Saturdays
01 00
0100

Australia, Radio: RANews. See 5 0000.

Japan, NHKlR adio: News, See 5 0000.

HAUI ER'I HIGHLIGHTI

GABON: AFRICA No. I

Daily in French:

Jm:

ill<

0500-0700
9580
0700- 1600
17630. 9580
1600-2 100
15475. 9580
2 100-2400
9580
News summaries on the hour. anti 15min African newscasts at 0530. 0630.
0730. 1115. 1215. 1830. 22(X) UTe,
http://www.arrica l .com
(BBC Moni tori ng )

FREQUENCIES.
0200.0300

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Australia, Radio

AustralIa. VlBK Katherine

Australia Vl 8T Tent Crk
Canada. caeN Quebec Svc
Cal\3da. CFRX Toronto

Canada. CFVP Calgary

Canada. CHNX HaMa_

0200-0250

canada. CKZN SIJohn's

Canada, CKZU Vancouver
canada, RCanada Inti
ColomDI3. Rdll NaclOnal
Cosla RIC3,RF PeaceInll
Crlhltl3, Croatian Ramo
Cuba, RadiOHavana
Ecuador, HCJB
Egypt, RadiocaIro
Gel many, Deutsche Welle

02000300
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02000300
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neuno. Unl cnnsten BC
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utneana. RadiOVilniUS
MalaYSia, RadIO
Myanmar, Radio
Narmbe. NBC
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New Zealand . R NZInll
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gomama . R Romania lnll

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0200-0300 vi
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l.;K. BBCAsL1n sev ce

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0200-0300
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21460am

9820na
1201 5na
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12045as

11945<1s

95l1O>'
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11655as

0200-0300

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USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KJES MesquiteNM
USA. KlBN saltlk CIt}' UT
USA. Voiceof AmeriC.l

02,0300
020lH1300
02000300stwnta
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200.Q300vl
0200-0300
0200-0300s
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0200-0300
02CQ0300
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02250300
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0230-0300
0230-0257
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02300300
0230-0300
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0250,0300

USA, WBCO MontICello ME

USA. WEWN Birmingham At
USA.WGTGMcCaYSVllieGA
USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINBRed Lion PA
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMIIRMiami Inll
USA.WRrm NewOrleansLA
USA, WSHBCypress
SC
USA. WSHB Cypress Crk SC
USA. WWBS Macon GA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA.WYFR Okeechobee n
Nepal, Radio
Netherlands. Radio
Canada, R Canada lnn
Austria, R Austria lntl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Pakistan, Radio
Philippines, R Ptlipinas
Sweden.Radio
UK.BBC Wolld Service
Vietnam. Voice of
areece. Voiceof
vatcan Slate. Vatican R

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SELECTED PROGRAMS.
Sundays

0200 Austra!l3. RadiO: R.A News, See S 0000.

0200 South Korea. R Korea Inll: News. Seven or tenminutes01
worldand regional news
0200 USA. KAU manas I X): World UnJVersil'J"elWOr1l (01Gene Scott).
0200 USA, lUES (MesQlIIte NMj: ReligiousChanting
0210 AUSlIaJia. Radio: FIne MUSICAustralia_The best Australian
music perlormnes andcompositions arepresented
by Ivan lloyd
0215 South Korea. R Korea lnll: News CommentalY. Opmioo on
devt!lopmenlS in Korea aAd worldwide.
0220 South Korea. R Korea InU: MusicTlap. The mostpopular
music ofSouth Korea.
0230 Auslralia. Radio: Innovations, OesleyBlanc.h reports OIl
Austrarran inventions andinnovative practces
0240 South Korea. R KorealnU: from Us to You. ustener
letters. ecesnens. comments. Q&A Comer andMusIC
Request.

nne

Mondays
0200 Austlalla. RadiO: RA News. See S 0000.
0200 South Korea. R Korea InU: tl ews. SeeS 0200.
0200 USA. KAlJ IDaltasTX): WorldUniverSity Nf1WOr1l (0 1.
Gene Scon).
0200 USA. KJES (MesqUiteNM): ReligiousChantmg.
0210 Aust.alia. Radio: The World Today (Part1). TOfIYE.aslley
WIth cunentaffails updates.
0210 SouthKorea. R Korea IntI; tctoes ot Korean Music. See S
1610.
0230 South Korea. R Korea InU: MultiwaveFeedback. See S
1636.

Tuesdays
0200 Austlalia. Radio: RA f.ews. See S 0000.
0200 Soulh Kor ea, R Korea Inti: News See S0200
0200 USA. KAIJ (Dallas TX): Worl d Univelsity Networ\( (Or.
Gene Scott)
0200 USA. KJES (MesQuile NM): Religious Chanting
0210 Australia, RadiO: TheWOlld Today (Part 1). See M 0210
0215 Soulh Korea, R Korea InU: NeVISCommenlary. See S
0215.

0215 SouthKorea. R Korea Inti: Seoul Galling. see M 1615.

M
0237 SouttlKorea. R Korea Inti: EconomIC News Briets.
1640.
0242 South Korea. R Korea lnU: Notesot r~ostalgia. See M 1645

see

0245

SouthKorea, RKoreaInl/: Taleslrom xcreas Past SeeH

1645.

Saturdays

0200 USA. KJES (MesQtNte NM): ReligiousChanting.

0210 Australia. Radio: The World Today (Part 1). See M 0210.
J215 Soulh Korea. R Korea Inti: N!'NS Commentary. SeeS 0215.
0220 South Korea. R Korea Inti: Seoul Calling: See M1615
0240 SouthKorea. R Korea Inti: Economic NewsBriefs. See M

0200 AUSllal13, Radio: RA News. SeeS 0000.

0200 South Korea. RKoreaInti: News. See S0200.
0200 USA, KAU (DaltasTX): World University NelWOflt (Or.
Gene SCon).
0200 USA. KJES (Mesquite tl M): Religious Chanbng.
0205 Australia.Radio: OCkham's Razor. SeeS 0605.
0215 South Korea, RKorea loti: l ei's l earn Korean!. See F
1630.
0217 Sou1II Korea. R Korea Inti: SItes aAd Sounds. Seef 1620.
0230 AlIStralia, Radio: Earthbeat PeterJacklyn examines
erMronmental issues 01the ft'Qi0ll from aSCientilic

1640.
0245 South Korea. RKorea Inti: Cuttural Promenade. SeeT 1645

0236

~:d~~~.al~~ RA News se. S0000.

0200
0200

Soulh Korea. R Korea lntl:News. seeS 0200.

USA. KAlJ (Dallas TX): WorldUniversity Nelwor1l (Or. Gene

seem

pefSP8Clive.
South Korea, RKOieaInU; GlobaliziOO Korea. See F 1645.

Thursdays
0200

Australl3. Ratio: RANews. See S 0000.

0200 South Korea. RKorea Inti: News. See S 0200.

USA. KAU (Dallas TX): World Univel'Slty Network (Or. Gene
SCottI
0200 USA, KJES tMesQulle NM): Religious Chanting.
0210 Australia,Radio: The Wortd Today (Part 1). See M 0210.
0210 South Korea. RKorea Inti: r~el\'S Commentary See S0215.
0216 Soullt Korea, RKorea Inti: SeoulcamOO See M 1615.
0237 SoulllKorea, RKorea Inl/: EconomiC News enets.See M
1640.
0241 SOUlh Korea, RKorea Inti: Reachmg Forwald. See W 1645.
0200

PROPAGATION FORECASTI:"G

Fridays

0200 Auslrali.1, Ra diI): RA News. SeeS 0000

0200 South Korea, RKorea Inl/: News. See S0200.
0200 USA, KAU (Dallas TX): World University Network (Dr. Gene
SCan).
0200 USA, KJES (MesquiteNM): Religious Chanting
0210 Australia, Ra dio: TheWorld Today (part 1), See M 0210.
0210 South Korea, RKorea Inti: News Commentary. seeS 0215.
0215 scurn Korea. RKoreaInti: Seoul Ganmg, SeeM 1615
0240 south Kor ea. RKorea lnll: Economic News Briefs, SeeM
1640.

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0300-0400
0300-0400

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0300-Q4oo
0300-Q4oo
0300-0400
0300-0400

canaoa. CFVPCaloary
Canada. CHtJX Hahlax
Canada. CKZN StJohn's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China ChinaRadIO Inll
Cosla Rica.Rf PeaceInti
Crootl3. croanen RadIO
Cuba. RadIO Havana
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJtl
Egypt Radio Cairo
Germany, DeutscheWelle

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616Odo
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0300-0305
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0300-0330vi
0300-0400
0300-0330
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0300-0400
0300-0400

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Guatemala, RadioCuttural
Iraq. RadiOIraq Inll
Ireland. unt Christian BC
lIaly. IRRS
Japan, RJapanlNHKWorld
Kenya. Kenya Brcadc Corp
Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz Ra dio
lesotho, Radio l esotho
Malaysia, Radio
Moldova. R Moldova Intf
Namibia, NBC
Netherlands. RadiO
New Zealand, R Nl illtl
Papua New Gumea. NBC
Philippines, R Pilipmas
of Russia WS
5 A'rica. Channel Atnca
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Sri l anka. Sli l anka Be
Taiwan, garno Taipei Inll

03oo.Q4oo vi
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Australia. Vl8i Tent e,k

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0300-0400
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0300-0400

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0300-0330

UK, BBCWorld Service

11960eu
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0300{).l0l
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7555am
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21460am

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03OO.Q400
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0300-0400
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0310-0340
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0330-04LlO
0330-0400
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03300400
0330-0355
0330-0400
03300400
0330-0400

USA. Voce of Amerrca

USA. WBCO Monticello ME
USA. W WI1 BIrmingham Al
USA. WGTG McCaVSvllle GA
USA WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINBRed lion PA
USA. WJCRUptonKY
USA. WRMliR Miami Inll
USA. WRNONewOrleans LA
USA, WSHBCypressCrkSC
USA. WWBS Macon GA
USA. WWCR Nasnsrne TN
USA. wrm Okeechobee fl
vancan State. vatcan R
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Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe BC
VaticanSlate. Vatican R
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
f inland, YlE!R f inland
Hungar/. Radio Budapest
Philippines. R Prbpmas
Sweden, Ra dio
UAf. Radio Dubai
UK. BBC Atrican Service
UK, BBCAsian Service
UK, BBC World Service

0330-0400 s

UK BBC World Service

Vietnam, Voice 01
Greece, VOice of
TajikisTan. Radio
Uganda. RadiO
Zambia. ChristianVoice

0330~00

0340-0350
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0345-0400 as
0356-0400

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USA. KAU DallasIX
USA. KJES Mes ~u lte tl M

0300-Q4oo
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SmaEO PROGRAMS
Sundays

0300 Australia. RadiO: RA News. see S0000.

0300 Ra dio Taiwan Intemalional: News. Twelve m.eutes of world
'Om

USA.KAU(Dallas TX): WorldUniversity f~etwo rk {Dr.

Gene Sconl
0305 Australia. RadIO; Fee<!:mk. ROller Broadbent answers
letters anddiscusses newprograms, receptcnproblems.
and questions aboU1 Australia
0315 RadiOTaiwan International: K.1leidO$COpf!. SpoUight onlite
in Taiwan.
0330 Australia, RadIO: Correspondents' Report SeeS 0030
0330 RadIOTaiwan Intemabonal: Renections. The best01
Chinese literaTure.
0345 Radio Taiwan Intemallona!: t ers learn Chinese .Chinese
lessonswith commentary and translatiOn inEnglish
0300

Mondays

0300 Australia, RadiO: RA Ilews, See S 0000

0300 Radio Taiwan International: News. seeS 0300.
0300 USA, KAIJ (Dallas TX): World University Network (Dr.
Gene Scott).
0310 Australia. RadiO: Aus:ralia TalkS Back, Australians talking
about issues of the dJy WIth sandy M cC U1~heon .
0315 Radio Taiwan fntemauonat food, Poetryand Others, The
program in whichhostPaulaChaotalksabout tier
personal interests.
0330 Radio TaiwanInternational: Mailbag Time. Hosl Carlton
Wong reads tenere 110m listenersandplays music
requests.
0345 Radio Taiwan Intemanonat Let's l earn Chinese. See S
0345

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Tuesdays

0345

0300 Australia.RadIO: RA News, See S0000

0300 Radio Taiwan International: News.
S0300.
0000 USA, KAU (DallaslX): World UniverSIty Network(Dr, Gene
Saln).
0310 Australia. RadiO: Aust ral13. TalkS Back. See M 0010.
0015 Radio Taiwan Inlemational: Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes.
Carlton Viano plays Chinese fOlk and temple muse.
0345 Radio Taiwan Inlernational: l et's Learn Chinese. see S 0345_

see

Wednesdays
0300 Australia. RadiO: RANews. See S 0000
0300 Radl(l Taiwan International: Ne....'S. SeeS 0300.
0300 USA. KAU (Dallas TX): WOfId Universlly Nelwofk (Or. Gene
Saln).
0310 Australia.RadIO: AustraliaTalu Back. SeeM 0310
0315 RadIQ Taiwan Intemalional: People. Anintroductionto people
fromall .....alks01 lifein Iaiwan.
0330 RadioTaiwan International: Trends. Amanda With weekly sound
bilesaboutwhat's newand happening in Taipei.
0345 Radio Taiwan IntemalJonal: l et's l earnChinese. See S 0345.

Thursdays

0300
0300
0300

0310
0315
0330

ausnana. RadiO: RA News, SeeS 0000.

RadiOTaiwan International: News. See S0300
USA. KAIJ (DallasTX): World Universily Network (Dr, Gene
Scon).
Australia. naco: Australia Talks Back. See M 0310
Ra dioTaiwan Internalional: Taiway Today. f ocus on anaspect
01 Taiwanese uresuch as educationor a point 01 interest
Radio Taiwan International: Miss Mook's Big Countdown. Miss
Mook playsthelatest releases of thepopular music0' Taiwan.

Radio Taiwan International: let's learn Chll1ese. See S

0345.

Fridays

0300 Australia. Radio: RAfl ews. SeeS0000.

0300 Racho TaIWan lnternationaJ: News. See S 0300.
0300 USA. KAU (Dallas TX): World UnivefSllyNetwork (Or.
Gene
0310 Australia. Radio: Austral13. TalksBack. See M 0310.
0315 naco Taiwan International: JadeBells andBamboo Pipes
T0315.
0345 Radto Taiwan IntcrnatiOnal: l et'slearn Chll'leSe. SeeS
0345

seem

see

Saturdays

0300
0300
0300

Australl3, RadiO: RA tlews See S0000.

RadioTaiwanInlernational: News. See S 0300.
USA, KAlJ (Daltas TXI: World University Network (Or.
Gene Scon).
0305 Australia, RadiO: BookReading. See f 2305.
0315 Radio Taiwan International: TaipeI MagazlOe. Ayoung
ctluple's escapades 10 Tah..an.
0330 Australia, Radio: Rural Reporter. SeeW2330
0335 Radio Taiwan Intelnational: ute on the Outside
Discovering evef'Jday liteand customsin Taiwan.
0350 Radio tawan Internalional: ters l earnChinese, See S
0345

FREQUENCIES
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Australia. Radio
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Australia. Vl 8T Tent e,k

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Caracla. CBC N uoebecSvc

Canida. CFRX Toronto
Cari da. eM Calgary
Canada. CHNXHalifax
Canada. CKIN51 John's
Canada. CKZU VaI'\CQUYe!
Canada. R Canada Inti
China. China RadIOInU
Costa Rica.RF Peace Inti
CrO.itia. crcauen Radio
Cub), Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

0400-OS00 vi
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Gualemala. Radio Cuhural
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Lesotho. Radio Lesotho
Malawi. MaC
Malaysia. RadiO
MaJa)'Sia, RTM Kuching
Mexico. Radio Mexico Inll
Moldova. R MoldovaInU
Newzeatano. R NZ trill
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romania. R Romania Inll
Russia,Voice01 Russia WS

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04300500
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
04300500

USA. WEWN Birmingham At

USA. WGTGMcCaysvilleGA
USA. WHRA Greenbush ME
USA. WHRI NoblesvilleIN
USA. WINSRedlion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRMIIRMiami Inti
USA. WSHSCypressCr\( SC
USA. wwas Macon GA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFROkeechobee FL
Zambia. ChrislianVoice
Zambia. Natl BCCorp
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe BC
Iialy. RAlintl
Nigeria, FRCNIRadio
Austria. R Austna inn
Nettrenanes, Radio
Swaziland,TransWorld A
Switzerland. Swiss A Inti
UK, BBC WOIld Service

0430-0500as

UK. BBCWorld Service

0455-0500
0459-0500

N i~ er ia . Voice 01
New Zealand. R NZ Inti

0400-0500 stwhfa
0400-0500

0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0000500

11910as

UK BBC Alncan Service

9600a1

0400<J500
041lO-O5OO

9565.>1

17705as

6005.'
1542Dal

619Cal

716Qaf

11955as
21660as
5975am

15280as

153Hlas

6175na

618Deu

9895am
1764!)eu
741Deu

95_

9410eu
15575as

"""',

l t760me

13590na
6478am

12589am

71703f
9575<11

7265al
9885.01

7275:11
11965me

5070am
9505n.a
6065011
6265do
4828do
7270al
4770do
13730eu
9590na
4775al
9905na
6175am

5935am
9985va

7435:1m

11760me

15575a5

61aQeu

6195eu

9410eu

581Qam

7510am
9975am

6080a1
729Oa1
15205va
7415n.a
5825eu

S0850m
9400m<
5745am
11950am
7490na

7315am
13595n.a

94650m
9955c.1
9840af
11905na
3215am

606503
3330al
6165do
3306do
5975011
3326do
6155eu
6165na
3200af
9885na
5975am
17640me
3955eu
12095eu
7255al
11905pa

499Odo

15120al

SELEaEO PROGRAMS.
Sundays
0400
0400

l)4{l5

0430
0455
6455

G455

Australia, Radio: RANews. See S oo.

USA. KAU (Dallas IX): WoodUniversityNetworlt{Or.
Gene SCott}.
Australia. Radio: Pacific Focus. CoYefClOll 01issues 01
relMna!i to people 01 thePaoIiC region.
Australia. Radio: TheWeek'sEnd. No inlormatiOn available
lorlhis newprogram.
Malaysia. Voice 01: Voiceof Islam.
Nigeria.. Voice of: AnthemlProoram Inlormation. t'lational
anthem, prooramtimes and descriptions.

0400
0400
0410
0455
0455

Australia. Radio: RANews. See S oo.

USA, !<AU (Dallas TX): Wol1d UniversityNetwork (Or.
GeneSColll.
Australia. Radio: TheWorldToday (repeat).
M 0210.
Malaysia, VOiCe 01: Voice 01Islam.
N II~ena. Voice 01: AnIIlemIProgram Inlormation. See S

see

0455.

Tuesdays
0400
0400
0410
0430
0455
0455

see

Australia. Radio: RANews.

S oo.
USA. KAlJ {Oanas !XI: WortdUniversity Network (Or.
Gene SColl).
Australia.Radio: The World Today (repeal). See MOllO.
Radio MexictllnU: Music01 Mexico. See S0430.
Malaysia. Voict!01: Voice01 Islam.
Nigeria. Voice 01: AnthernrProgram Inlormati on. SeeS
0455.

~:d~~a~~l~i
o: RANews. See S0000.
USA, KAIJ (Dallas TXt: World University Network (Or.

0400

0410
0455

~U~~fiRadio: RANews. See S oo.

0400
0410
04~

0455

Gene SCOII).
Australia, Radio: TheWorld TodJy (repeat). See M0210.
Malaysia, Voice01: Voice01Islam.

USA. KAU (Dallas TX): WOfld University Network (Or. Gene

SCOU).
Australia.Rallio: The World Today (repeal). See M0210.
Malaysia.
01:Voice 01Islam.
ffJgeria. VOice of:AntnemlPrO(lramInformation. See S0455.

voee

Fridays
0400
0400

Mondays

Nigeria.VOiCe 01: AnthernrPrO(lram Inlormation. See S0455.

Australia. Radio: RANews. SeeS oo .

USA, KAU (0aRas TX): WorldUniversity Networ\((Dr. Gene
Scott).

SWl Programs
0709
0830
0900
0910
0940
1015
1030
1100
1136
1247
1305
1336
1342
1345
1455
1530
1536
1730

continued from page 40

HCJB (eu): ~DX Partyline"

WHRI (An';lel 112Indiana): ~OXing WIth Cumbre ~
K\VHR(Angel 4Hawaii): -DXingWllh Cumbre
HCJ8 (pac): ~OX Partyline~
FEBC (Philippines): "OX Olal~
WNCR 13 (Tennessee): "Ask WWCR~
RadIO For Peace Inll: "Continent 01Media"
RadioFor Peace Inll: "World01 aaoo"
Voice01 America(as pac): "Communications World(A)"
RadiO BulQaria: -RadiOBulgaria Calling"
KWHR (Angel4 HawaIi): ~DX ing with cumbre"
Voice 01 Amenca (aspac): "Communications World (B)"
RadiOTashkent:"Radio Tash ~ent OX Program"
Voice01Turkey: "OXCorner" (b iwee ~ly)
FEBC(Philippines): "OX Dial"
WHRI(Anoel 2 Indiana): "DXing with Cumbre"
Voice01Am erica (as pac/eulal): "Communications World (C)"
RadiO For Peace Inti: "Continent 01Media"

see

0410 Australia. Radio: TheWOrld Today (repeal).

M 0210.
0455 Malaysia. Voice 01: Voice 01 Islam.
0455 N:oeria. Voice ot Anthem'Prooram Inlorma1ion. See S

0455.

Saturdays
0400
0400

Australia. Radio; RANews. See S 00(113USA, KA1J (Oaltas TX): WorldUniversityNetM:lrk (Dr.

0405
0430
0455
0455

Gene ScoU).
Australia. Radio: Pacilic Focus. SeeS 0405.
Australia. Radio: AsiaPacific. SeeS 231 0.
Malaysia. VOiCe 01: VOiCe 01Islam.
Nigeria.Voice01: AnthemJProgramInlormation. SeeS

0455.

1736

VOICe 01Am!OCa(alias pac/ewall: "Commul\ICatiOns

World(A)"
Ra:lio For PeaceInU: "World01RadioWHRI (AngelI Indl3na}: "OXIOII with CumbreHCJ8 (eu): ~DX Partyline"
VOiCe 01 Amenca (atlaspac/ewal): "CommuniC.ltiOns
World(C)"
1958 Vatican Radio: "OnlheM~
2015 Voice01 Tur1ley: "OX Corner" (biweekly)
2114 Radio HavanaCuba : "nxersUnlimited"
2130 WWCR 13 (Tennessee): ~Ask Vffl CR"
2136 voce 01Amenta (aspacleulall : "Communications
World{S)"
2230 WHRA (AngelS Maine): "DXing withCumbre"
2231 samoExterior deEspana:-Disl.1nce Un~nown "
2243 Radio Bul{iaria: "Aadio Bulgaria Calling"
2300 KSOA (Guam): ' wavescan"
2300 Vatican Radio: " OntheAi r~
2323 Voice 01Tur1ley: "OXCorner" (biweekly)
2330 WHRI (Angel l Indiana): "DXing willl cumore"
1800
1830
1909
1936

No vember 1998

MONITORING TIMES

45

fREQUENCIES

..

0501HI600
0500-0600

Ang uil~, .Caribbean

0500-0600 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-060O
0500-<1600
0500-<1600
05()()'0600
0500-060O
0500-0529 mt~lhf
0500-060O

Australia. Vl BK xamerme
Australia. VlBT Tent e,k
Cameroon, aenc Cameroon
Canada.
N Quebec svc
Canada, CFRX Toronto

oseocscs

0500-060O
0500-060O

05()().0550
0500-<1600
0500-<1600
0500-051 5
0500-0600 asM

05()().0600

. .

.
Beacon

"""'m

9660pa
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cac

Canada. CFVP Calgary

Canada. CHNXHalifax
Canada. CKZUvancouver
Canada. R Canada Inti

Costa Rlta.RF PeaceInll

CroatlJ CrQallJn RadiO
Cuba, RadiO Havana
Ecuador. H~ B
Germany. Deutsche Welle
Germany.Overcomer Mmistr
IrelaRd. Um ChrlSllanBC
Israel. Kollsrael
ltaly,l RRS
Japan. RJapal1lNHK World

0500-0600
05()(H)600 vi
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0510 vVm-1
0500-0600
0500-0600 vi
0500-0530 mwht
0500-0600 vj
0500-0525
0500-0600
0500-0505
0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600 ~I
0500-0600

Kenya. KenyaBroadc Corp

tesome. Radio l esotho
l iberia. StarRadiO
l lbel ia.lCN fl l lberia Int
MalaWI, MBC
Malaysia, Radio
Malaysia, RTM Kuching
Mexico. Radio Mexico Inti
Namibia. NBC
Netherlands, Ra dio
New Zealand, R NZ Inti
Nigeria, FRCN/Radio
Nigeria, Voice 01
North Korea,R Pyongyang
Papua NewGuinea, NBC
auese.vctce 01Russia WS

0500-0530
0500-0530

S Africa. AWR Alrica

S Alrica. ctanner Africa

120803$
21820pa

t5240pa

1551 0pa

5025<10

4910110
4850110
9625do

0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600 vi
0500-0515
0500-0600

OSO(HI6OC

Tanzania. RadIo

6150do
6055am
5050<10

Uganda. FladiO
UK. BBC I..lflcan Service

325531

6005J'

!l6OOJ1
9740as
15360as

1542031

Singapore.Reorp Singapore
Spain. R Erteno r Espana

UK. BBC Asian Service

6070110
0500-0600

6'l3Odo

6975am
59.s5eu

9550",
9745na
6Q.I5na
3975eu
6200do
9435eu
i12 0va
6110na
11760as
j 7820me
4885<!0
4800do
340Odo
5HlOdo
5993do
7295do
4895dO
5985na
3270011
6165na
11905pa
3326do
7255011
3550as
9575do
9825na
13790na
6000011
9525011

15575eu
9595eu
15050am

11835.11
21460am

9820na
12015na
6185na
11910as

9830",
21455am
961 5am

l1605eu

17535va

7230eu
11S40as

9835na
118501'3

1543Oa1

11715as
15230pa

716Odo
9705na
3289011
9590na
499Odo

12000na
15425na
6100al

12050na
15495na

USA. Arrr ed ForcesNetwork

USA., KAU Dallas IX
USA., KTEN Salt l k City UT
USA., KVOH l osAngeles CA
USA, Voice 01America

05000600
050(Hl6OJ
050(Hl6OJ
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600 mtwhla
05000600w
05000600
05000600
0500-0530

USA.WBCO MontiCello ME
USA. WEWN Birmingham Al
USA, wtiRA Greenbush ME
USA, WI-RI Noblesville Itj
USA., WINSRed lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMlK Bethel PA
USA. WRt.1I!R Miami Inti
USA, WSHBCypress Crk SC
USA.\'fIVCR Nashville TN
USA.WYFR Okeechobee Fl
vatcan Stale.vaucao R

0500-0600
05000600
0500-0530 vi
0505-0600
05250600
0530-0600
05300600
0530-0600a
05300600
05300600
0530-0600
0530-0600vt
0555-0600

Zambia.cnnsuanVOice
Zambia.Nall BCCorp
Zimbabwe, ZimbabweBC
Swaziland.Trans World R
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
eustna. R Austria Inll
Finland. YLEiR Finland
Kyrgyzslan, Kyrgyz Radio
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia
Thailand. Radi o
UAE, Radio Dubar
Zrmbabwe Zimbabwe BC
Malaysia. Voice 01

11810na

4935do

4770<10
15120011
1171 lleu

0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-<1600
0500-<1600
0500-0600

13790as
13645na
15595na

OSOO-<l6OO

. . .. .

4976do

395'
"
6195eu

UK.BBCWorld Service

6130110
616Odo

n"",

-S278am
581 0am
7510am
9975am
5970a1
7170eu
12080011
7415na
5825eu
9400me
5745am
11950arn
7490na
94653m

995'"

7535eu
2390am
5985na
4005eu
11625011
3330011
6165do
3306do
3200al
3366do
6015na
11945as
4Q l 0do
9580na
9655eu
17830eu
4828do
6175as

1195503s
1776Oa5
597sam

.,,"'"

17640me
&;5&1m

6035011
7195a1
15205eu

619031
1788531
1528035
177903s
6175am
11760me

716Oa1

15310as
21660as
6180eu

,2095<,

12689am

608001
963Da1

7110as
11965me

152503s

731 53m
1359:'na

983531
3210am
9965eu
5883eu
15570011
6065at
6265do
4828do
4775at
4915do
17830au
4Q50do
11870na
11905eu
21605eu
5012do
9750as

5070am
11560a1
725Deu

5935na
9660al

9500al

15445eu

15295au

SELECTED PROGRAMS. . . .
Sundays
0500
0500
0500
0500

0500
0505
0505
OS11
0530
0530

0530
0546

Australia, Radio; RANews, See S OO(M),

Israel, KoI lsraet News. Worldand re{jional news
Radio Mexico InU: Universat Forum. Interview 01a lamous
MellCan and diScusSion 01hiS work.
Nigeria, VOIce 01; RelleCliOns. A fhought-prO'loking talk on
therealmeaning 01 man andhis eusterce.
USA. KAIJ(Oanas TX): World UniversityNetwof'l( (Dr.
Gene SCott).
Australia. RadiO: Ot Sounds 11. Twenty moctes 01 music
selections by Radio AuSlfaiia announcers.
Nigeria, Voice 01: VoNUnk-up. SetS 0220
Israel, Kollsrael: Revill'N 01thePaper Press. Asummary
of items in theIsraeli newspapers.
Australia, Radio: PaCifIC Review. New program - no
information available.
RadiOMexicoInti MuSiC of Mexico. The IracitJonal music
01 MexiCo.
IligerlJ, Voice01: N!\vs. ThIrty minutes of news, Pl ess
revtel't. spOrts, andinlefVlewson llle mostcerrentissues
in Nigeriaandeeewtere.
tligeria. Voice01: News about Nigeria. See S 0220

Mondays
Australia, Radio: RA News, See S0000.
Israel, Kol lsrael: News. See S0500
Nigeria. VOICe01: WaveTrain. A live music magazinewhich
ligtllens upand e rcrrns es tenels.
0500 USA. KAU(Dallas IX) : WOIld University Network (Or.
Geneseem.
0510 Australia, Radio: Pacmc aeet t ne magazinethat provides
a locus onthe people and issues cure regitln.
0511 Israel, Kol lsrael: Reviewof Ihe Paper Press. SeeS0511.
0530 Australia, Radio: Sport. Five or len minutesof sports
news
0530 Nigena, Voice 01: VONSCOPE. See S0530.
0540 Australia, Radio: Pacilic Beat SeeM 0510

0500
0500
OSOO

46

MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

Tuesdays

0500 Australia, Radio: RANews, See S 0000

0500 Israel, KoIlsrael News. See S 0500.
Radio Mexico Inll: AnlennaRadio Summary. A ts-mmote
mauazme of news. hll3nce, alId cuture.
0500 Nigeria.Voiceot WaveTrain. see M0500.
0500 USA. KAU (Dallas TX): World UniverSIty Network (01.Gene
SCan),
051 0 Australia, Radio: Pacilit Beat. See M0510.
051 1 Israel. KoIlsrael: Review oI lhe' Paper Pless. See S051l.
0530 Australia, RadiO: Sport see M0530.
0530 Radio MexicoInn; Music 01 Mexico. Set S 0430.
0530 Nigeria. Voice 01: VDNSCOPE. see S 0530
0540 AuslIalia,Radio: PacifIC Beat See M 0510.
0500

~d~~.ae" RA News see S 0000

0500

Israi!l, KoIlsrael: flews. See S 0500.

0500
0500
0500

Radio MexicoInti: Anlenna RadiO Summary. seeT 0400.

Wgefia. Voiceof: WaveTrain. See M0500.
USA, KAU (Oal:asTX): WorldUniverSIty NefWQ f'I( (Or. Gene

0510 Austral ~ RadiO: PaC"ICBeal. seeM (1510.

0511 Israel, Kol Israel:Revlew01 the PaperPress. See S0511.
0530 Austfillia. Radio: Sport. See M 0530
0530 Radio Me~ico Inti: Music 01 Me ~ico . See S0430.
0530 Nigeria, Voice of: VONSCOPE. See S0530.
0540 Australia.. RadiO: PaCifiC Beat. See M0510

Thursdays

0500
0500
0500
0500
0500
0510

Australia. RadiCl: RANews. SeeS0000.

Israel, Koll srael: News. See S0500
Radio Me~ ico Inll: Anlenna Radio Summary. See T 0400.
Nigeria.Voiceat: Wave Tram. See M0500.
USA, KAIJ (Dallas IX): World University Network(Dr, Gene
SCOIt).
Australia, RadiO: Pacific Beat. seeM 0510.

0511 Israel. Ko1 lsrael: Reviewof me Paper Press. SeeS OS f 1.

0530 Australia, Radio: Sport. See M 0530.
0530 Radic Mexico Inll: Music01Mexico, Set S 0430.
0530 Nigena, VOiceot VONSCOPE,See S 0530,
0540 Australia. Radio: PaCIfic Be.al Set M 0510.

Fridays
0500
0500
0500
0500
0500

Austr3lia, RadiO: RA r~ews . SeeS 0000.

Israel, KoIlsraef:News, SeeS 0500.
Radio Mexico Inn: AntennaRadIO Summary. See T 0400.
Nigeria. Voice of: WaveIran. See M 0500
USA,KAU(OallasTX): WorldUniversity Netwof'l( (Or.
Gene SCott).
OSlO Auslralia, RadiO: PaclliC Beat See M 0510.
0511 Israel, KoIlsrael: Review oIlhe Paper Press. See S0511.
0530 Australia, Radio: Sport. Set M0530.
0530 Radio Mexico Inll: Music ot Mexico. SeeS 0430
0530 Ilige'ia. VOiCe 01: VONSCOPE. See S 0530.
0540 Australia. RadiO: Pacl/ic Beat. See M 0510.

Saturdays
0500
0500
0500
0500
0500
0505
0530
0530
0530

Australia.RadiO: RANews See S0000.

Israel, KoIl srael: News. seeS 0500.
RadiO MexiCO Inll: AntennaRadio Summary. See T G4OO.
Nigeria,Voice 01: Alrican Satan. A musical journey alound
thecountries of Alricawilh counlry proMesandconent
happeninos
USAKAU(Da tlas TX): Wortd Universlr/ Netwof'l( (Or.
GeneSCott).
Australia. Radio: Money, Maf'l(ets, and theEconomy
Australia. RadiO: Earthbeat. See A 0230.
Radio M e~ ico Inti: Music01Mexico. SeeS 0430.
Nigeria, Voice 01: News, seeS 0530.

fREQUENCIES
0600-0700

. .

06000700
0600-0700 vi
06000700vi
06000700vi
0600.0700
06000700
06000700
0600-0700
0600-0700

Australia, Vl 8K xanenne
Auslra1ia. Vl8T Tent erk
Canada.
N QuebecSvc
Canada. CFRX rcrcntc

cae

Canada. CFVP Calgary

canada. CHl j X Hahlax

Canada, CKlUVa ncouver

0600005
06000700
06000700
06OOOS50

costa Rica,RF PeaceInti

create. croauan Radio
Cuba. nar no Havana
Ecuador.HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

06000700 'II
06000700
06000615
0600-07)0
06000700'II
0600-0700

Germary, Sur mse RadiO

Germary Overcomer MIOIsl r
Ghana. Ghana Brcacc COIP
Ireland. Unt Chllshan ac
Italy. IR::tS
Japan. RJapaMlHKWorld

06000700
06000700vt
06ll0-{)700
06000700
0600-{)700
Q6OO-{)700
060007CO vi

Keflya. Kenya arcaoc Corp

l esotho. RadiOlesotho

O6OO-OO~5

06000700'II
06000700
06000630
0600-0700
0600-070) vi
0600-0700
0600-0700
06000630
0600-0630
06000610

tcere. ~adiO venras

teena Staf RadiO
l lbena.lCN,'R l iberia Inl
Malays",-. RadIO
MalaySia. RTM Kuching
MalaySia. VOIce01
Namibia. NBC
New Zea.and. R NZ inn
Nigeria. FRCNiRadlO
Nigeria. VOice 01
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Romania, RRomania Inti
Bussa.voce of RUSSia WS
SAlnca,Channel Africa

S Alrica, transWorld R
Sierra Leone, Sl BS

SELEaEO PROGRAMS.
Sundays
0600

AnguiDa,Caflbl>eJIl Beacon
Austfalla. RadiO

609<l<>m

""""

12:18Oas
1711 5pa

15510pa
5025<10

0630
0630

0600-0700
06000700
15050a01
9830eu
9820na
t 201 5na
13790at
216803s

21460a01
13830au
9830na
21455a01
15185a!

13810au
4915do

15755as

723Deu
118Wpa
4935do

9835na
178103s

716Odo
975ll1s
3289af
':770j o
15120al
11940na
17495au

see

0600
0600

Australia, Radio: RANews. See S0000

Nigefla, Voice01: Across theAges. Anexamm anon 01the
evcranon ot tli\lena's cuUural practices
0600 USA. KAIJ (DallasTX): WorldUniversityNetwork (Dr.

sene seem

Cl610

Australia, Radio. TheAUSlrallan Music $hov.'. KimTaylor

presents themusic. people, andissuesol ltieAustralian
COnlemporarymusIC irM:luslry
0015 Nigeria, voce 01: Nlge-.a al'ld PolitICS. HapPEnlflgsonthe
N!Qenan political scene
0630 Australia, Radio: Sports A ha.ll-OOur 01 sports
0630 Ilillena. Voiceof: WorldNews. Tell mmctesolmternabonal

0600
0600
0600
0610
0615
0630

. .
~ 775af

9500>1

50SOdo
6OO5J1

1174Qas

...

4990<10

17665au

21760au

..
0630
0640
0645
0655

UK. BBC WOllll Service

15360Js
5975am

060().()700
06000700
0600-{)700
0600,0700
0600-0700
06000700
OOO)-{)700 mtwnt
0600-0700 If
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
06000700
06000700 vi
0605-0700
0630-0700
06300700
06300700as

USA. WEWrl Bumingha:n Al

USA, WHRAGreenbush ME
USA. WHRI Iloblesville IN
USA. WINBRed lion PA
USA. \'I JCR upton KY
USA, WMlK BethelPA
U$4. WRMI:R Mlolml InU
USA. WSHB Cypress C,k SC
US,\. YfflCR tl ashville TN
USA WYFROkeechobee Fl
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Nigeria. VOICe of: Commentary. Opinton onevents in Nigena..
Nigeria. Voice 01: News about Nigerl3. SeeS0220.
Nigeria. Voice 01: Program Announcements. SeeS0220.
Australia. RadiO: RANews. SeeS 0000.
Nigeria. Voice of: Nigenan Newsteuer A personal revew 01
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Nigeria. Voice of: Commentary, See T0640.
Nigena. Voice 01: NewsaboUltl igena SeeS0220.
Nigefia, Voice01: Program Announcements. SellS0220.

Thursdays
0600
0600
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fj'gena. VOiceof: Program Announcements. See S 0220.

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95l103s
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97403s
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Australia. Radio
AClstratia, VL8A Alice$Pll
Australia. VL8K Kalherine
Australia. VL8T Tent ell<.
Canada. CBe N Quebec Svc

Canada. CfRX Toronto

Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKIN51John's

' 000-1100

Canada. CKlU Vancouver

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1000-11 00
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1000-1100as
1000-1100mtwhl
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10001100
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1000-1100
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CostaRica,RFPeace Inll
Ecuador, HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Africa
EQI Guinea. Radio Atric.a
Germany. Sunrise Radio
Germany.Overcomer Mirustr
Ge'1l\3ny.Overcomer Minislr
Guam. AWR/KSDA
Guam. TWRlKTWR
India. All India Radio

1000-1100
1000-1100
1000-1 100
1000-1100
10001100irreg
1000-1030 s
1000-1100twhlas
1000-1100vr
1000-1030
1000-101 5
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1000-1 100 vi
1000-1 100
10001030
10001100
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10001100 vi
1000-11 00
10001100 as
1000-1 030

Ireland. Unl Chrisllan BC

Japan. RJapanINHKWorld
Kenya. Kenya Broodc Corp
Malaysia. Radio
MaIaYSia.RTMKotaKinabalu
Malta. VO Mediterranean
N t/.arialla Is, KHBI saipan
Namibia. NBC
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand, R NZ Inti
Nigeria. Voice01
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philippines. FEBC/R Inti
Singapore,ATE Radio
Singapore,RCorp Singapore
Solomon Islands, SIBC
Tanzania. Radio
UK, 8BCAfricanService
UK, BBCAfrican Service
UK, BBCAsian Service

10001100

UK.BBCWorld Service

1000-1 100as
10001100
1000-1 100
10001100
1000-1100
1000-1100

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USA. Armed Fort esNetvlOrk
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA, KlBN saltl k City UT
USA,KWHRNaalehu HI
USA. Voice 01Amenta

1000-1100
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1000-11 00
USA, WHRI NobleSVIlle IN
USA. WJCR uctcnKY
1000-11 00
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1000-1100wh
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USA, WSHB Cypress Crt SC
1000-11 00
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1000-11 00mlYihla USA. WYFROkeechobee FL
1000-1030
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10001100
zambia. Christian Voice
1000-1100
Zambia. Natl BC Corp
1000-1100 vi
Zimbabwe. ZimbabweBC
1005-10105
create . croatenRadiO
1030-1100 s
Austria. RAustriaInll
103Q-l057
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
1030-1100
Georgia. RadIO
1030-1100
Guam. AWR/KSOA
1030-1100
lithuania. Radio vnnes
1030-1100
Nelherlands, Radio
1030-1100
South Korea.. R Korea Inti
10J0.l 100
Sri la nka. Sri LankaBC
UAE. Radio Oubai
1030-1 100
1030-1100
UK. BBCAsian Service

6<l9Oam

60"",
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11880as

98"'"

11755pa

17750as

2485do
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6O:lOdo
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21460am
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17505pa

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15040va

117303s

11850pa

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11740as
6150do
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6458am

12689am

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" . or at least in ink within the Monitoring limes Shortwave Guide.

Please send us your "best catches" on the worldwide shortwave
bands - QSLs, that is - and we will try to use them in future
issues of MT. Your QSLs will be returned.
Noyember 1998

MONITORING TIMES

49

FREQUENCIES.
11001200
11001200
11001200 ...1
1100-1200 vi
1100-1200 v1
11001200
1100-1200

Anguilla,CaribbeanBeacon
Australia, Radi o
Australi a, VlBA AliceSpg
Allslralla, VL8K Katherine
Aus tralia. VL8T rent CrlI
Canada, CFRXToronto

11001200
1100-1200

Canada, CHNXHalifax
canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
costa Rica.RF Peace lnll
Ecuador,HCJB
EQI Guinea. R East Africa
EQI Guinea. RadroAtnca
Germany, DeutscheWelle
Germany, Sunrise Radio
Germany.Overcomer Ministr
aerrnaovnvercorner Ministr
Iran.VOIRI
Ireland, unt Christian BC
Japan, R JapanlNHK World
Jordan, Radio
Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp
Kyr9yzst.on. KyrgyzRadio
Liberia.LCN/R Liberia In1
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia.RTMKotaKinabalu
N Mariana Is. KHBI saipan
Namibia, NBC
Netherlands. Radio
North Korea, R Pyongyang

1100-1200
11001200
1100-1200
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11 00-1200
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1100-1200
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11001200
11001200
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Pakistan, Radio
Palau, KHB ro<Noice 01Hope
Papua New Guinea, NBC

SmqaporeRsmcaoore tnt
Solomon Islands. SIBC
South Korea, R Korea Inti
Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka BC
Swillerland SwissR Inti
Switzerland. Swiss R Inti
Taiwan, Radio Taipei InU

11775am
608035

1100-1200
110012oo vl
1100-1 200

9580pa

2310do
2485do

1100-1200

2325do

Taiwan, Voice of Asia

Tanzania,Radio
UK. BBC Africa n Service
UK, BBC Asian Service

7445a5
5050do
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17885al
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15280as

6070do
603Odo
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12065as
11335.010

17835eu

6150as

178503S
17515as

1371 0as
13650'0'.0

1100-1 130mlwhf

UK. BBCCaribbean Report

1100-1130

UK. BBC World Service

11001130as
11001200
1100-1200
11001200
11001200
11001 200
1100-1200
1100-1200 rntwhta
1100-1200
1100-1200
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1100-120011as
11001200'0'.1
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11001200.05
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1100"1200
11001130
1100-1200
1100 1200
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11 251200
11 30-1155
11301200 '0'1
11 301135
1130-1200
11301200as
11301200
11301200
11301200 f
11301145

UK, BBCWorld Service

USA. ArmedForcesNetwork
USA. KAIJ Dallas IX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, K'NHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voiceof America
USA, WEWN Birmin91lam AL
USA, WG TGMcCaysville GA
USA,WHRI Noblesville IN
~, WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMI/R Miami Inti
USA.WSHB Cypress CIkSC
USA.WSHB Cypress CrkSC
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WWCRNashvilleTN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
USA. WYFROkeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voiceof
Zambia,Christian Voice
Zambia, Nat! BC Corp
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Netherlands. Radio
Belg ium, R vtaanoeren tnt
China.China Radio Inll
Israel, xousraer
Sweden. Radio
UK, BBC Asian Service
UK, BeC WorldService
USA. Voice of ernenca
Vatican Stale, VaticanR
VaticanState, Vatican R

6195ca
5965na
15485eu
17705eu
6195.001
~ 2 78a01

5810am
7510.010
11565pa
5985pa
11720as
9465na
9400.001
6040.001
7490na
9955ca
6095na
9455ca
2390.001
3210.001
15685.010
5950na
5850na
7285as
6065.01
6165do
4828do
6045eu
9925eu
8660as
1564Deu
15235am
15310as
6195.001
1168Deu
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5883eu

11940al

..
15400al

17830al

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17785a$

15220CiI
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15190sa
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6160.os
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15425.os

12095eu
17640eu

15220.010
12689.010

9760.os

9495.001
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5935.001

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5012do
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11i oo..1S
15650va
15240.001
17i85as
15220am
17550'0'.0
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17870am

11740eu

15595va

SELECTED PROGRAMS.
Sundays
1100
1100
1105
1105

1115

1130
1130
1135

1150

1145

Australia. Radio: RA News.See S0000.

Singapore, R Singapore Inti: News. Singapore, reqional
andinternational news.
Australia. Radio: Jan Notes. Thebest of Australian jan is
introducedbyIvanLloyd
Singapore, R Singapore Int!: Reflections. Musings onlife
in Singaporeand theregion asseen throughtheeyes of
wnters. poets. andcommentators.
Singapore, R Singapore tntt Business World. A magazine
program which analyzes the latestbusiness and finan cial
trends in Singapore andthe restot Asia
Australia, Radio:Money. Markets, andtheEconomy.
Singapore. R Singapore Inti: News. See S 1100
Singapore. R Singapore InU: Frontiers. Amagazine
program featuring developmen ts in thefieldsof health,
science, informationtechnology, education andthe
environment.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: Regional Press Review.A
review 01themajorissuesdiscussed in theeditorials 01
theregional papers dUring the week.

1150

11 00
1100
11 09
11to
1115
1130
1130
11 35
1135
1150

1100
1100
1109

11 10
11 15

1110
1115

\ 125
1130
1130
11 35
1135

50

A roundup of financial andbusiness news

Australia, Radio: Asia Pacific (Iepeat). See S231 0.
Singapore. R Singapore Inll: ArtsArena, A program
devoted to thevisual and pertorminq arts featuring
interviews with keypersonalities.
smoapcrc. R SingaporeInti: teo-ween. A capsule on
natureandtile environment
Australia, Radio: Sport, See M 0530.
smcaoore. R Singapore Inti: NewSiWeather. see S 1200.
Australia, Radio: Countrywide, Shane Mahony With daily
issues in primaryindustry.
smoaoore, R Sinoapore Inti: EZ Beat. Adultcontemporary
music program,

MONITORING TIMES

November ' 998

Australia. Radio: RA News. See S0000.

Singapore, R Singapore Inll: News. See S 1100.
Singapore, R Singapore Inll: Business and Market Report. See
M 1109
Australia, Radro: AsiaPacific (repeat). See S2310.
Singapore, RSingapore Inti: Profile. SeeS 121 5.
Australia, Radio: Sport See M 0530
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: NewsJWeathel. SeeS 1200.
Australia, Radio: Countrywide. See M 1135.
Singapore, RSingapore Inti: E-Z Beat See M 1135.
Singapore, R SingaporeInti: TheFront Page, See M 1150

~:d~~~a~~~io: RA News. See S 0000

Mondays
Australia, Radio: RA News. See S0000.
Singapore, R Singapore inn News, See S 1100.

newsmakmg headlines in Sinoapore.me region,andthe

world.
Singapore. R Singapore loti: The trent Page. Headlines from
thefront pages of Singaporean and regional dailies,

Tuesdays

1100
1109

smcaocre. R Singapore Inll: Business and Market Rep ort

Singapore. R Singapore Inti' Newsline. An analysisof the

1130
11 30
11 35
1135
11 50

Singapore. RSingapore Inti: News. See S 1100.

Singapore. RSingaporeInti: Businessand Market Report. See
M l1 09
Auenana. Radio: Asia Pacific (repea t). See S2310.
Singapore.RSingaporelnll: Limelight Interviews with
entertainers.f ashion designers. courmets. or anyone whohas
been in thelimelight this week
Australia.Radio: Sport. See M 0530.
Singapore. RSingapore Inti: NewsJ'Weather. See S 1200
Australia, RadiO: Countrywide. See M 1135
Singapore. RSingapore Inll: uassc Gold. A ccioen-omes
museprogram
Singapore. R smcaocre Inti: The Front Page.See M 1150.

Thursdays
1100
1100
11 10

Australia, Radio: RA News, See S0000.

Singapore, RSingapore Inll: Newsday. wcnausereusaret
Australia, Radio: Asia Pacific (repeat). See S231 O.

111 0
1115
1125
1130
1130
1135
1135
1150

Sinpanore, R SingapOle InII: Business andMalketReport.

See M 11 09.
Singapore, R Singapore Inll: Living. SeeS 1235
Singapore. R Singapore Inti: rco-nesnnauons. See S
1250.
Australia, Radio: Sport. See M 0530
Singapore. R Singapore Inti: Newsrweather. See S 1200.
Australia, Radio: Countrywide. See M 1135.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: LoveSongs. Focusing on love
sores through the ages
Singapore. R Singapore Inti: The Front Page. See M 1150.

Fridays
1100
1100
1109
111 0
1115
1130
1130
1135
11 35
1150

sostrena. Radio: RANews. See S 0000.

SiO{lapore. R Sin9aporeInti: News,See S 1100.
Sil'lQapore. R Singapore Inti: Business andMarket Rep ort.
See M 11 09.
Australia, Radio: AsiaPacific (repeal). See S2310.
Singapore. R Singapore Inti: Frontiers. See S 1135.
Australia. Radio: Sport. See M 0530.
SinQapore, R Singapore Inti: Ne'o'iSiWeather. See S 1200.
Australia, Radio: Countrywide, SeeM 1135.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: Classic Gold. See W 1135.
Singapore. R SinQaporeInti: The Front sace. See M 1150

Saturdays
11 00
1100
1105
1105
1115
1120
1130
1130
1135
1145

Australia. Radio: RANews. See S0000.

Singapore, R Singapore Inti:News. See S 11 00
Australia. Radio:Fine Music Australia.See S0210.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: AsiaBelowthe Headlines. See
T 1235.
Singapore, R Singapore IntI:In Transit.SeeM 1240.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: RegionalPress Pevew. See S
11 50
Australia. Radio: BookReading.See F2305.
Singapore, R SingaporeInt!: News. See S 1100.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: ArtsArena.See M 1115,
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: Business World. S~ S 111 5.

FREQUENCIES .

Angullla,Caribbean Beacon
Auslralia. RadIo

12001300

12001300

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11775am
6020pa

6080as

95BlJP'

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1200-1300

120().1300
1200-1215
1200-1300vi
1200-1300
1200-1300
12001300
12001300
12lXH3oo
120lH229

AUSlratia. Vl8A AliceSP9

AuSlralia. Vl8KKatherine
AuSltJlia, Vl8T Tem Crk
Blazll. R NaClOnal Bras
BuIgJ( a. RadIo
Cambtdia. Nail RadIO 01
CanadJ. CBC N Quebec svc
Canada. CfRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
can,)da. CHNX HaMax
canada. CKZN St John's
canada. CKZU Vancouver
canada. R Canada Inti

Chm.a ChinaRadiO inn

1200' 1~00

1200, 1200
1201H300as
1200-1300
1200-1300
12001300
1200-1230 s
1200-1300
12001300
12oo13JO
120012201a
120013)0
12oo-1230mtwhf
1200-1300
1200-1300 irreg
1200-1300 twhtas
1200-1300 vi
1200-1225
1200-1300
1200-1300 vi
1200 1300
12001300
1200, 1300
1200-1300 vl
1200-1300

SELECTED PROGRAMS

12095eu
15575as
645"'"

12001300

151 7Seu
11940as
9625do
607Odo
6031ldo
6131Jdo
616Odo
616Odo

17585eu

9641lam

96Ila,

11980as
8660as

1200 1300
1200, 1300 mtwbta
1201H 300
12lXJ.1 300
12001300
1200 1300mwh
12001300a
12( 1).l300
12001300 mlwhl.a
12001300
12001228
12001300
12001300
1200 1300 vi
12061300 occsnal
12091215 mtwhl
1209-1215as
12101240
12151300
1220-12401'1
1229,1259
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
12301300
1230-1300
123{H300
1230-1300
12301300
12301300a
12301300
1240-1250
12401300 1
I NO-1255smtwh

USA. WEWN Bnmmgham Al

USA. WGTGMcCaysvilleGA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA.WRMlIR Ml3rni Inti
USA. WSHB CypressCrkSC
USA. WSHBCypress CrkSC
USA. w\VCR NashVille TN
USA. WYFROkeechobee Fl
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Uzbekistan. RTashkent
Zambia. Chrisll3nVoice
Zambia. Natl BCCorp
Zimb.abwe. ZimbabweBC
NewZealand. R t:Z Inti
UK. BBCCaribbean Reporl
UK.BBC World Service
Mongolia. Voice ot
Eg/Pt. RadioCauc
Kazakhstan. RAlmaty Inll
Canada, R Canada Inti
Austria, R Austna Inll
Bangladesh, Bangia Betar
Guam. AWRiKSDA
Italy. AWREurope
SouthKorea. R KoreaInll
Sri Lanka. Sril anka BC
sweoen. Radio
Thailand. Radio
USA.Voice orAmerica
veinam. Voice of
Greece, Voice of
Kazakhstan. RAlmaty In:l
UK. BBC Slew Speed News

1200-1300

11855am

l 3650am

7385pa
l166O.as

9565as
11675as

11700as

121103s

15115,am

21455am

9715as
11795eu

1505O.>m
12005am
1518631
9530015
11600as
5850va
9710as
15715au
6200do
11690eu
9505eu
4935do
4010do
7295do
5980do
9355as
4930al
6045eu
9965as
4890do
6015as
7285as
7130as
505Odo
6190al
2166031

12001300

USA. Armed ForcesNetwork

USA. KAIJ Oallas TX
USA. KlBN Salt lk City ur
USA. KWHR Ilaalehu HI
USA. Voice 01 America

1200-1300

15530am

15540al

15735as

17505pa

962Deu

11720as

17575,am

405Odo

4965al
9860eu

6150as
9610au
11940al

17830011

I 7885al

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

Mondays

1235

11760me
15565eu

1200-1300

1200 AlIstralia, Radio: RA New5. See S OO.

1200 Singapore. R SI~pore Ind: News.Weathel. A five-minllfe
summary.
1205 Au5tralia. gado:Counuy Club (Part 1). ABC's program01
contempor.uy and traditional counuy musicwith RicI\anl
Porteous (1stHour).
1205 Singapore. RSinl)3pore Inll: Instrumentals.
wghauserOusa.net
1215 Singapore. R Si~re Ind: PrOfile. A personall!y profile
01prominent Singaporeans and loreigne~ who have made
their mark in their chosen fields
1230 Sinoapore. R SinlJ3tlOreInll: News. see S 1100.
1235 Singapore. RSingapore Inll: LMng. A lifestylemagazine
lhallOOkS at leisure. 1000. CUlture. heritage:. fashion. l!aVe1.
and consumertrends
1245 Srngapore.R SmlJ3Pore Ind: Snapshots. VISits to places 01
inlelesl in Singaporeandire reoion.
1250 SingapOfe. RSinlPllore Inti: Eto-DeslJnaoons. A 5-minute
series01 programs on eco-tourism in Sarawak.
1255 Singapore. RSingapore Ind: Comment.A personal
viewpoinl 01a political. economic. social orcutluralissue
of Interest to SingaporeandtherC9I00.

1205
1220
1230

15310.15

6195am

154.l5am

Sundays

1200
1200
1205

152803S

596503

2325do

695lJP'

China. ChinaR.adlo Inti

ccsia Rica,RF Peace Inti
Ecuador. HCJB
Eql GUinea. REast Africa
Eql Guinea. Radio Alrica
France. Radio France Im!
Gennary. Sunnse Radio
Germany. Universallile
Gelmany,Overcomer Ministr
Ireland, unt ChristianBC
Jordan, Radio
Kazakhstan, R Almaty Inti
Kenya, Kenya arcane Corp
Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz Radio
Malaysia,RadiO
Malaysia,RTM KotaKinabalu
N Maria~a Is. KHBI Saipan
Namibia. NBC
Nelherlands, Rarnc
Palau, KHBNN oice or Hope
Papua NewGUinea. NBC
Singapore.R Singapore Int
South Korea. R Korea rnu
Taiwan. ;l:adio Iaipei Inti
Ianzama. Radio
UK, BBCAlrican servce

6195a5

UK. BBC World Service

N85do

....5.1,
12001230vl

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23Hldo

151953s
12(1).l300

12001300

12001300

9660pa

9770as
1200-1300 vl
1200-1300vi
1200-1300vi

.. . . .

Austlalia, RadiO: RANews, SeeS OO.

Singapore. RSingap[neInU: News. seeS 1100.
Australia, Radio: LateNight l ive. Topical, political. cultural
and philosophical Issues wilh PhillipAdams 01Radio
rlaliOnal,
Singapore. RSmgapore InU: Newsline. See M 1145.
Singapore, RSingapore InU: Reflections, See S 1105.
Singapore, RSingaporeInll: Business and Markel Reporl.
See M 1109.
SintJapore,RSingapore Inti: Indonesia Today. Ananalysis
of theissues currentlyappearing in Ihe media.

1240
1245

... . . . .

Singapore. RSingapore Ind: InTransit. Aninteresbng aspect

of a regional destinationandacooversalion with someone
Iromthe country beingvislled.
Singapore.RSingapore Inti: Prollkl.
S 1215.

see

Tuesdays
1200
1200
1205
1205
1220
1230
1235
1245
1250

Australia. RUiD: RAflews. SeeS oo .

Singapore. RSingapore Inti: News
S 1100.
Australia. Radio: tateNight live. See M 1205.
Singapore. R Singapore Inti: Newstine, See M 1145.
Singapore. R SingaporeInll: Living. See S 1235
Singapore. RSmgaporeInti: Business and Markel Repon.See
M 1109.
Singapore. R Singapore Inll: Asia Below tI1e Headlines_A 10minute monUge of colOrful snippets lromdmerent parts of
Asia.
Singapore. RSingapore Inti: ro.Oestmabons. SeeS 1250.
Singapore. RSingapore Inti: WifedUp. SeeS 1345.

see

1230

Australia, Radio: tateNight LNe. seeM 1205_

Singapore. RSingapore Inti: Newstir1e, seeM 1145.
Singapore, RSingaporetnll: The Wrmen Word. Focus on
books, wrners. journals and magazines
Singapole. RSingapore Inll: Business and Markel Report See

1235
1245

Singapore. RSingapore InU: Reflections, See S 1l OS.

Smgapore. RSingapore lntt: Frontiers. See S 1135.

t 235

1205
1205

Auslralia.Radio: tate Nighlliw . See M 1205.

Singapore,RSingapore Inti: Newsune.See M 1145.

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Singapore. RSingapore Inti: ArtsArena. SeeJ.t1115.

Singapore. R Singapore Inti: Business andMarket Report
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: Currency CriSis lor
Beginners. SeeS 1335.
SingapOre. RSingapore Inll: UmehghlSee W 1115.

Fridays
1200
1200
1205
1205
1220
1225
1230
1235
1245

Australia.Radio: RA News. See S OO .

Sii'lllapore. R Singapore Inti: N~. WOhau se~usa.net
Australia, Radio: Sound Quality . TIm Ritchie 01 r4ational
Radio presents innervations in conlemporary musiC.
Singapore. R Singapore InU: Newsline. See M 1145.
Singapore. RSil'lQapore Inti: Snapsliots. See S 1245.
Singapore, RSingapore Ind: Currencies. Regional
currency movementsduringtheweek.
Singapore. R SingaporeInti: Business and Market Report
seeM 11 09.
Singapore. RSingaporeInti: Reoiona! PressR~ew. SeeS
1150.
Singapore. RSingapore Inll: Business Wor1cl. See S 1115.

Saturdays
1200
1200
1205
1205

M1109.

~~U~~~Ja
~Radio: RANews. See S 0000,
1200 Singapore. RSingapore Inll: News, See S 1100

61603s
15160as
7425na

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1240

~:d~~~~~i
O: RA NllWS. SeeSOO.
1200 Singapore. RSingapore Inti: News. See S 1100.
1205
1205
1220

1220
1230

4278am
S810am
7510am
11565pa

9SS03s

1220
1230
1230
1235
1245
1250

Australl3, Radio: RANews. See S OO.

Singapore. RSingapore Inll: Newsl\....eamer. seeS 1200.
Australia. Radio: TheWe!k's End. See S0430.
Singapore, RSingapole Inll: Instrumentals,
wghauser@usa.net
Singapore, RSingapore InU: The WrittenWord. See W
1220.
Australia. Radio: Pacific Review. See S0530.
Singapore, RSingaporeInti: News. See S 1100.
Singapore, RSingapore InU: Wifed Up. See S 1345.
SilllJapore, RSingapore Inll: Comment. See S 1255.
SintJapOle, RSingapore Inll: CUriency Crisis lor
Beginners, See S t 335.

Novembe r 1998

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FREQUENCIES .

. . .

1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400

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Australia, RadiO
Auslralla. RadiO

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Canada.CFVPCalgary

1300-1 400
1300-1 400
1300-1400
1300-1 400 smlWhl
1300-1400 mlWhl
1300,1400

Canada. CHNXHalifax
Canada, CKZN St Jotms
Canada, CKlU Vancouver
Canada. R canada Inti
Canada. R canada Inti
China. China RadiO Inll

603Odo
613Odo
616Odo
616Odo
I 1855am

1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400
1300 1400
1300-1400
13001400
1300-133O s
1300-1400a
13001 400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1310
1300-1400
1300-1400irreg
1300-1400twhtas
1300-1400vi
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13001400
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1300-1355
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1300-1400
1300-1400

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CzechRep. Radio Prague
Et uadol, HCJB
Egypt Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. REast Alrica
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f rance, RadiOFrance inn
Germany, Sunrise Radio
Germany, unversanne
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lib eria.LCNfRlibe ria Int
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Sri lan ka. Sn lanka BC

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1330 1400
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1330-1400
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USA.WGTG Mccaysville GA
USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCRUpton KY
USA, WRMlIR Miami Inll
USA, WSHBCypress Crk SC
USA. WSHB CypressCrk SC
USA, WWCRNashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee Fl
Zambia. ChristianVoice
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Zimbabl'>e, Zimbabwe Be
USA. MFR Okeechobee Fl
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Bhutan, Bhutan BC Service
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SELECTED PROGRAMS.
Sundays
1300 Australia. RadIO: RANews. seeS ooCMl1300 Singapore. R Singaporelnll: News.
S 1100.
1305 Australia. Radio: Country Club (Part 2). ABC's program 01
conlemporaryandtraditional countrymusic with Rictlard
P:meous (2nd Hour).
1305 Singapore. R Singapore Inll: f nends01the Airwaves_
Listener etters andcoIorlulll lestylesnippets Iromthe
region
1330 Singapore, R Singapore Inti: News. seeS 1100.
1335 Singapore, R Singapore Inll: CurrencyCrisislor
Beginners. A simplilied discussion01 thevariousaspects
of theIndonesia financial crisis.
1345 Singapore, R SinoaJlOlf Inll: WiredUp. lnleresting
thouQhlS surfacingon theInternet.
1355 SingapOle, R SingaporeInll : News, seeS 1100.

see

Mondays
1300 Australia,Radio: RANros . seeS OO.
1300 SingapOle. R Singapofl lnU; News. SeeS 1100.
1305 Singapore. R SingaporeInU: Singa-Pop. A showcase 01
homegrown Singaporean taieets and localsongs.
1315 Auslralia, Radio: The Planet (Par'l l). l ucky OCeans plays
richlyvariedmusic ftom around meworld
1330 Singapore. R Singapore InU: News. SeeS 1100.
1335 Singapore. R SingaporeInti: Sn.apshots. See S 1245.
1340 Singapore. R SingaporeInti: Newsline. SeeM 1145.
1355 Singapore, R Singaporeinn: News. SeeS 1100.

Tuesdays
1300
1300
1305
1315
1330

52

Australia. Radio: RA News, SeeS OO.

Singapore, R SingaporeInlt: News. See S 1100.
Singapore, R SingaporeInll: Music and Memories. A
musical journey downmemory lane.
Australia. Radio: The Planet(Part1). See M 1315.
Singapore,R Singapore lou. News. See S 1100.

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1335
1340
1355

Singapore, R SingaporeInti: Indonesia Today. See M 1235.

Singapore, R SingaporeInti: flewsline, See M 1145.
Sinoapore, R SingaporeInti: News. S~ S 1100.

rt;d~~~ia~~o: RANews. See S OO.

1300
1305

1315
1330
1335
1340
1355

Singapore, R SingaporeInlt: flews. SeeS 1100.

Singapore, R SingaporeInti: Spinthe Globe. A selection 01
world music,
Australia. Radio: ThePlanet (Part 1). SeeM 1315.
Singapore. RSingapore Inti: News. SeeS 1100.
Singapore. A Singapore !nll: In Transit. SeeM 1240.
Singapore. R Singaporelnll: Newsli nt , See M 1145.
Si~pore, R Singapore I nU : ~ . See S 1100.

saturdays
1300
1300
1305
1305
1330
1335
1340
1355

Australia, Radio: RadiONational News, See F1400.

Singaoo.e. R Singapo.e InU. News. See S 1100.
Australia. RadiO: SCieoce Show. See T0110.
SiflO3;lOre. R Singapore Inlt Spin theGlobe. See W 1305.
Singa;lOre. R SingaporeInti.: News. See S 1100.
Singapore. R Singapore lnlt Currencies. See F1225.
Sinoapore. R SingaporeIntt limelight See W i l lS.
Singapore. R Singapore InU: News. See S 1100.

Thursdays
1300 Australia, RadiO: RANews. seeSOOOO.
1300 Sinoapore. R SinoaPOre Inll: News. seeS 1100.
1305 Singapore. R Singapore Inll: Sinoa-P<lp. See '" 1305.
1315 Australia, Radio: ThePlanet (Part 1). See M 1315.
1330 Singapore. R SiflQaPOfe Inll: News. See S 1100.
1335 Singapore. R Singapole Inll : f co-Watch. See M 1125.
1340 Singapore. R Singapore Inll : Newsline. See M 1145.
1355 Singapore. R SingaporeInti: News, SeeS 1100

Fridays
1300
1300
1305
1315
1330
1335
1340
1355

Australia. Radio: RANews. SeeS OO.

smcaccre. R Singapo.e InU: News. See S 1100.
Singapore. R SingapOfe IntI: Hoi Trax Informationabout new
music releasesin Singapore.
Australia. RadiO: The Planet (Part 1). See M 1315.
Singapore,R Singapore Inti: flews. SeeS 1100.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti: Comment See S 1255.
Singapore, R Singapore Inti; Friday Feature.
wghauser@u sa.net
Singapore,A Singapore Inti: News. See S 1100.

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fREQUENCIES
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AUslratlo1. RadiO

14001500 vi

Australia. Vl8A Alice Spg

1400-1500 vi
14(1(}-1500 vi

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canaaa.cac N uuecec Svc

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Canada. CfRX rorento

Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hall/ax
Canada. CKlN 51John's
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ECU3(lOl. HCJB
EQI Guinea, R East Aluca
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Gellnany.Sunrise RadiO
Germany. umversarute
Germany.Overcomel MlnislJ
Ireland. Unl Christian BC
Japan RJapaniNHKWorld
Jordan. Radio
Kenya Kenya Broadc Corp
MalaYSIa. RadiO
Malaysia, RTMKucllillG
Malaysia.RTMKotaKlflabalu
Namibia. NBC
Nelherlands, Radio
New Zealand, R NZ lntl
Pakistan.Ra dio
Palau, KHBNNoice 01Hope
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Philippines. FEBC/R Inti
S Africa, Channel Africa
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SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1405
1410

Austratia. Radio: RA News. See S OO .

Japan. Il HK/R aclio: News. See S oo
USA, KAIJ (Dallas TX): World University Network (OJ.
GeneScon).
USA. KJES (MesqUIte NM): Religious Chanting.
Australia, RadiO: Other Worlds (Part I). Brent Cloughplays
Iale night lounge mUSiC (l SI hour).
Japan, NHKlRadlO,AsiaWeekly. A maganne 01news from
otherAsian broadcasters. entertainment update and
musIC.

Mondays

1400 Australia, RacliO: RA Ilews. See S OO.

1400 Japan. NHKlRacliO: News. See S OO.
1400 USA. KA1J (DallasTX): WorldUnIVerSIty Ne\W{)rk (Dr.
Gene Scott)
1400 USA. K,JES (MesQlAte NM): Religious Chanting_
1405 Australia, Radio: rre Planel (PM12J. See M 1315.
1415 Japan, NHKlR.adio: 44 Minules. see M 0015.
1417 Japan, NHKlRadio: Guesl Corner. See M 0017.
1434 Japan, NHKtR.adiO: CloseUp. See M 0034.
1447 Japan, NHKJRadio: News Commentary. see M 0047.
1452 Japa n, NHKlRadlo: Tumbling Dice. See M0052.

Tuesdays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1405
1415
1417
1434
1447
1452

Australia. RadIO: RA News. See S OO.

Japan, NHKJRadlo: News, See S oo.
USA, KAlJ (Dallas T'X): World UniverSlly Network (Dr.
Gene
USA.KJES (Mesquite NM); Religious Chanting
Australia, RadiO: ThePlanet (Part2), See M 1315
Japan, NHKlRadIO: 44 Mmules. See M 0015.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Guesl Corner. SeeM 0011.
Japan, NHK/Radio: CloseUp. See M0034
Japan,NHK!Radio: news Commentary. SeeM 0047,
Japan, NHK!Radio: Tumbling Dice, See M 0052.

seem.

~:d~~a~a~1a~i
o: RANews, SeeS oo.
1400 Japan, NHK!Radio: News, SeeS0000.
1400

USA, KAIJ (DallasTX): WorldUniversityNetwork (Dr.

Gene SC1lIl).

1400
1405
1415
1411
1434
1447
1452

USA, KJES(Mesquite NM): Reli g,ousCllantifl\l

Australia, Radio: The Planet (Part2). See M 1315.
Japan, NHK/Radto: 44 Mmutes. see M 001 5.
Japan, NHKlRadio: Guest Corner, See M0017,
Japan, NHKlRadio: Close Up.See M0034.
Japan, NHK/Radio: NewsCommentary. See M0047.
Japan, NHKlRadio: TumblingDice. See M 0052.

Thursdays

see

1400 Australl3, Radio: RANews.

S oo
1400 Japan . NHKlIadio: News. SeeS oo.
1400 USA. KAU (Dallas TX); WorldUniversityNetwQrk (Or. Gene

SCon).
1400
1405
1415
1417
1434
1447
1452

USA.KJES (MesqUIte NM); ReligiousChanting.

Australia., Radio: ThePlanet(Part 2). SeeM 1315.
Japan. NHK':Radlo: 44Minutes. See M 0015.
Japan, NHKiRadio: G~t Comer. See M 0017.
Japan, NHKJRadIO: Close Up. See U 0034.
Japan, NHKlRadio; News Commentary. See M 0047.
Japan, NHKtR.adio: Tumbling Dice. See M 0052.

Fridays
1400
1400

Australia.RadiO: RadioNabonal News. Newsfrom me '

Australi.1n BroadCasbng Network (ABC).
Japan, NHKlRadlo; News. See S OO.
USA.KAU (Dallas TX); WorldUniversltj Network (Dr. Gene

1400
1405
1415
1417
1434
1447
1452

USA.KJES (MesquiteNM): ReligiOUs Chanting.

AustralL3., RadiO: ThePlanet IParl 2). SeeM 1315
Japan, NHKlRadio: 44Minutes. See M 0015.
Japan, NHKlRadio: GuestComer. See M 0017.
Japan, NHK/Radio; ClOSe Up. seeM0034.
Japan.NHKlRadio: NewsCommentary. SeeM 0047.
Japan, NHK!1l adio: Tumbling Dice, See M 0052.

1400

1400
1405
1410

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Japan,NHKlRadio: News. SeeS OO,
USA. KAIJ (DallasTX): World UniversityNetwork (Or. Gene
Scan).
USA. KJES (MesquiteNM): Religious Chanting.
Australia, Radio: New Dimensions. No nuormenon avauaue.
Japan, NHK!Radlo: Weekend Break, See A0110.

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1500-1600
1500-1600

1501H GOO vt
1500-1600 vi
l S(N)-1600v l
1500-1600 vi
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600

1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1559 s
1500-1600
1500 1600
1500-' 600 as
1500-1600
1500 1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1530
1500-1600

Ausli aha, VLSA uce 8pg

Australia. Vl 8KKatherine
Australia. Vl8Trent erk
canaca. eBCN Quebec Svc

Canada. CfAXTafonlo
Canada. CFVP calgary

6020pa
9660pa

soaoas

1500-1530 twhla
15001545 sm
1500-1600
1500-1600

9500as

11660as

1500-1600
1500-1600\1
15(XH600

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Canada, CKIN51 John's

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canada. C+<ZU vancouver

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Germany. sunree aenc

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15O(l-16oo irrl!9
15001530
15001600
1500-16oovl
1500-1525
1500-1600 occsnat
1500-1 600
15001600

Germany,OvertQmer Minrsl,
Guam. TWR:KTWR
I,el'md. Un' ChnShan Be
Israel, KOIlsrael
Japan, R JapalliNHKWorld
Jordan. RadIO
Kenya. Kenya el oadc COIP
lIb eria.L CN/R Ltena Int
MalaYSia. RadiO
Malaysia.RrM KOlaKmabJlu
Mexico, Radio Mexico tnll
Myanmar, aauc
N ~ m ib i a . NBC
Netherlands, RadiO
NewZealand. RNl Inti
Nigeria. Voice 01
Noun Korea. RPyongyang

15001530 as
1500-1600 vi
15001600
1500-1600

Palau. KHBtl Noice of Hope

PapuaNew Guinea, NBC
Philippines. FEBC/R tnn
aussta.vcrce of Russia 'li S

1 500~ 1 600

150lJ.1 530

lI7i'Sam

5995pa
9580pa
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11735am
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11655as

FREQUENCIES

9445al
1160035

11600Js

153603s
6150<10
9730as
505<1<10
619031

1562503s

11860af

1194031

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UK. BBC Asian Service

15O(}1600

UK. BBCWorld Servce

15001600
15001600
15001600
15001600
15001600
1500-1600

USA, Armed ForcesNetwork

USA. KAU Dallas TX
USA. KJES Mesquile NM
USA, KTBN Salt lk Cityur
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voice01America

15590am
11565pa
6"03s

USA. WEWN Birm,"~l1am AL

USA. WGTG McCaySville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville I r~
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMIIR Miami InU
USA, Wv/CR Nasnvine TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia, ChristianVoice
Zambia. rial! BC Corp
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Guam. AWRIKSDA
India. All IndiaRadio
Iran, VOIRI
Vatican Slate. vatican R
Vatican Stale, Vatican R

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9-15503
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Seychelles, FEBA Radio
sevcneues. FEBA Radio
Singapore. "lTE Radto
Singapore.Reorp Smgapore
Sri Lanka. Sri l anka Be
Tanzania. Rldlo
UK. BBCAfrican Service

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13605me

5ELEmo PROGRAMS
Sundays
1500
1500
1500
1500
1500

Australia. RadiO: RA rJe',,-s SeeS OO.

Israel. Kol Israel: News. See S 0500.
Nigel ia. Voiceof: Pesoecevee (biv:eekIYlGlobal issues
iron Ihe Nigerian andAlncanpOint of view.
Nioe1la. Voice of: Reaching Out (biweekly). A revewof
boIhgovernmentand prlVale projects 01a humanitarian
nature.
USA. KAU (DallasTX): World UniverSity Network (Dr.
G~ne Scott)

1505
1516

1528
1530

ALstralla, RJdlo: Other Woods {Part 2). aent CIoUOh pIay5

!ale nigtlli oungemusic (2ndlKIur).
Israel. KOI lsrael:You're on the Au (live). In thIS phone-in
program. lrsteners ouesaoo a prominent guest in the
stJ<ltO on matters 01current affairs
Israel. Kat Israel: Top Stones. News neenres at theendof
thebroadcasl
fl pgena. VOICe 01: In the Ne-.vs. Prtteen msunes 01the news
behindtile oews.

Mondays

AuSlraha. Radio: RA Ne-NS SeeS OO .

Israel. KoI lsrael: tlews. SeeS0500
Voice ct Hu llh Corner lbrweekly). Health-related
e-cmems and medlC.3l,ese:rrch and innovatIons
1500 NigerL3. VOICe01:Towards a Common Oesliny (biweekly).
Analyses of theeconomic andpolitical issueswhich link
A1ncan couotnes III the,rdevelopment.
1500 USA. KAU(DallaSTX): World University Network (Dr.
Gene SCom
1505 Auslralia.Ra diO: ASL3 Pacmc. See S 2310
1523 ISlael. Kol Israel: Business News
1530 Australia. RadiO: The Health Report. SeeM 0030.
1530 Nigeria.VOIce of:Si;cty Minll1es, AneVIS magazine
ptoqtam 01world andNigerian news. correspondent
reports. press review. andsports.
1500
1500
1500

t~igcria .

Tuesdays
1500
1500
1500

54

Austrnlra. Haoro: RA News. See S0000

Israel. Koustaet News, See S 0500
rllgerla. VOice of: Budlle Across Time(biweekly). Focus on

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1500
1500

theslruggle10f reparate ns tor harmdone to Africans through

slave trace andcolonialism.
Nigeria. Voice of: StridingAhead(biweekly). The contributions
01Nigerian womenin particularand Ahican women in general
10national development
USA.KAU (Dallas TX): WorldUmversltyNetwork (Or. Gene
SCott).

1505
1528
15JJ
1530

see
see
see

Australia. Radio: Asia PacifIC.

S2310.
Israel. Kat Israel: Top $Iories.
S 1528
Australia. Radio: The Law Report. see T0030.
Nigeria. VOice oj: SixtyMlnlJles.
M 1530.

~d~~a~iaaeio: RA News. see S OO.

see

1500
1500
1500

Israel. Kat Israel: News.

S 0500.
Nigena.. veee 01: fligenaandPOlI1ICS, SeeM 0615.
USA. KAIJ(Dallas TX): WorldUniv!rsity Network (Or. Gene

1505
1515
1519
1530
1530

Australia.Radio: AsIa P3Clhc. See S2310.

Nigeria.Voice of: World 01theArts. Set S 0220
Israel.Kat Israel: SCience Watch
Australia. Radio: The ReligionReport See W0030.
'l lgena. VOice 01 SixtyMinutes. See fI. 1530.

SCott).

Thursdays
1500
1500
1500
1500
1500
1505
1530
1530

AustralIa. Radio: RA News. See S OO.

Israel, KoIl srael' News. See S0500.
Nloeria. voce 01: TalkingAgriculture(biweekly). seeS0220
Nigeria. Voice01: Theatreon the Air(blweekly). A radio drama
whichreuects lherit h SOCIal and cultural value of thesociety.
USA,KAfJ (OalL'l s TX): World Umversity Network (Or. Gene
Scon).
Australia. Radio Asia Pacnc. See S 2310
Australia. Radio Money, Markels. and Ihe Economy
Nigeria. Voiceo!: SixtyMinules SeeM 1530

Fridays
1500
1500
1500

Australia. Radio: Radio National News. See F 1400.

Israel, 1(01Israel: News. See S0500.
Nigeria. Voiceof: The Developing World. Global developments
from theperspective01thedevelopin9countriesof the wOIKl.

1500
1505
1513
1528
1530
1530

USA. KAU (Dallas TX): World Univel"Sity Network (Dr.

Gene Scali).
Australia. Radio: Asia Pacific. See S2310
Israel, Kol lsrael: Current CulturafEvents in Israel. News
Iromtheworld 01the arts.
Israel. KoI lsrael: TopStories. SeeS 1528.
Austra!ia. Radio: TheSports Factor. AmandaSmith hosts
theprogram that debates Australia's Sportingculture.
Nigeria. Voice 01: Sixty Minutes. See M 1530.

Saturdays
AustralL3_Radio: RadiO Natl()na/ Ntws. See F1400.
Israel, KoIl sraet: N!WS. SeeS0500.
Nigeria, VOice 01: The Young World (biweekly). The
activities. experiences. hopes. andaspirations01Nigerian
yOUth are highlignled.
1500 Nloelia.. Voice of: Who are the NIgerians(biweekly). A
progrml that
to trace ethnic divt f5i1y 01 NiQeria..
1500 USA. KAU (DallasTX); World Unrve f511y Network {Dr.
Gene SCott).
1505 Australia. RadiO: MellSma(Part I ). Musicalrevetaj()ns
(1st hOur).
1510 Israel. KoIlsrael: TheWeek in Review Asummaryand
updale01 theweeks mostimportant news.
1530 Nigeria. Voiceof: AlricaHour. A news magazine devoled
e.:d usivtly to African esces.

1500
1500
1500

sees

oj., tH.,.j Ifi f"14 ,.

FREQUENCIES .
1600-1700
1600,]00
16001700

Algeria, R Algiers inti

Angullla,Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio

1600-1700
1500-1700
1500-1 700
1600-1700
1600-1 700
1500-' 700
1500-1700 as
1500-1527
1600-1 700
1600-1700

Australia,VLBA Alice Spg

Australia, VL8K Katherine
Australia, VL8T Tent Erk
Canada.
N Quebec Svc
Canada , CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVPCalgary
Canada, CHtlX Halitax
Canada,CKZNSt John's
Canada, CKlU Vancouver
China,China Radio Inti
Costa Rica, sov World R
Czech acp. Radio Prague
Ethiopia. Radio
France, Radio FranceInti

1600-1650

Germany, Deutsche Welle

1600-1700
1600-1700 a
1500-1700
1600-1700
1600-1630
1600-1630
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-17)0
1500-1 630srntwia
1600-1700 vi
1600-1650 occsnal
1600-1700
1600-1630

Germany.Sunrise Radio
Germany,Good News World R
aermans.overccmer MiniSlr
Guam. AWRIKSOA
Guam. TWAIKTWR
Iran, VOIAI
Ireland, UntChristian BC
Jordan. Radio
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
le banon, Voice01Hope
Malaysia, Radio
Mexico. Paoo Mexico tnn
Namibia, NBC
New Zealand, R NZInn
Nigeria. Voice 01
Pakistan, Radio

1500-1700 vi
1600-1700

Papua New Guinea, NBC

Russia.Voice01 Russia WS

16001625
16001700
16001630
1600-1700
16001615
16001700vl

S Africa. Channel Africa

South Korea, R Korea Inti
Sri l anka, Sri la nka BC
Swaziland. Trans World R
Switzerland, Swiss AinU
Tanzania Radm

1600-1700 vi
1600-1700'11
1600-1700yl

1600-1700 vi

esc

11715.11
11775am

15160me

5995pa

6020pa
9660pa

9580pa
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2485do
2325do
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613Odo
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516Odo
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.
1600-1645
1600-1700

UAE. Radio Dubai

UK, BBC Atflcarl Service

13630eu
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17830.11

6190.11
21470.11

1600-1606

UK, BBC Asian Service

16001700

UK, BBC World Service

3915.15
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9515na

15395eu
15400.11
21660.11
5990as
11750as
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15575eu

lEOO-1700

17840am
6458am

12689am

1600-1700
1500-1700
1500-1700

USA. Armed Forces Networi<.

USA, KAIJ Dallas TX
USA, KTBN Salllk CityUT
USA, Voice01America

6110as
9645as
13710al
15395as

5160as
9700me
15205va
1541 031

1600 1700
15001700 mtwbta
1600-1700
1600-1700
1500-1700as
1600-1700 a
1600-1 700
1600-1700

USA. WEWN Birmingham Al

USA, WGTGMcCaysville GA
USA, WHR I Noblesville IN
USA, WJCRUptonKY
USA, WRMI/R Miami Inti
USA, WSHB Cypress
SC
USA, WWCRNashvilleTN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee Fl

11875na

1 574 5~ u

1600-16 10a
1600-1630
1500-1700
16CO-17OO
1600-1630vi
1606-1 615

Vatican State. VaticanA

vemam. VOic e 01
Zambia,ChristianVoice
Zambia. Natl BC Corp
Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe BC
UK, BBC Asian Service

1606-1615mtwht
1615-1 645 as
1615-1 645
16151700

UK.
Asian Service
UK. BBC Atrfcan Service
UK. BBC Atrfcan Service
UK.BBC AsianService

161:>-1700 as
1630-1700
1630-1657
16301700
16301700 a
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16501700 mtwn!

UK, BBCWorld Service

Austria. R Alistria Inti
Canada, R Canada Inti
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Germany, Universal Lite
Zimbabwe,Zimbabwe
Albania. A Tirana tnt!
Israel, Kcl Israel
Tajikistan,Radio
UK.BBC AfricanService
EQt Guinea, Radio Africa
New Zealand, R NZ Inti

9500as

11660.15

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7130af
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1381 0me

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aac

ac

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13730va

4828do
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15685am
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71 50as

974Das

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SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1600
1600
1600
1605
1610
1636
1645

Australia, Radio: RANews. See S 0000.

Nigeria. Voice 01: VONReporter's Diary. Reporters recount
impressions and observations 01 events in an inlonnal
presentation .
Soulh Korea, A Korea Inti: News. See S 0200
Australia, saoo: The National lnleresl. Terry l anetakesan
mcetve look at theweek's major events.
South Korea, R Korea Inti: Echoesof Korean Music. A
weekly selectionof Korean music and the storybehind it.
South Korea. RKorea Inti: Mulflwave Feecbacx. A listenercontact show with alternating OXReportand Technical
Comer.
Nigeria, Voice 01: Images01 Nigena. rcunst attractions in
Nigeria such as thecoun try'snatural beauty,thewildlile
parks, and cullural tesuvats.

M~n~~Xa~a,
Radio: AANews. SeeS 0000.
Nigeria, Voice 01: Si,ty MlOutes nrcm 1530), See S0220.

1500
1500
1505
1615
1515

South Korea, RKorea Inti: News, See S 0200.

Australia, Radio: Music Deli. Paul Petran present music
from a variety 01cuuwes.
South Korea, RKorea Inll: News Commentary,See S0215
South Korea, RKorea Inll: Seoul Callina. Amagazine
r~~~~~I~e~j. leatu res and short interviewswith popsongs

Nigeria, Voice ot: African wnters. Thecoming 01age01

African writers andtheir works is thefocus of this
program.
1640 South Korea, RKorea Inll: Economic News Briefs. Five
minutes of financial news andimpurtrexportinformation.
1545 Nigeria, Voicect Nigerian Scene, A livelylifteen minute
news program about Nigeria
1645 SouthKorea, RKorea tntl: Notes of Nostalgia. Discover the
richheritage of musicthat is distinctly xoreas andthe
peoplewho created it
1630

Tuesdays
1600

Australia, Radio: RANews. See S0000.

1600
1600
1605
1615
1620
1530
1640
1845

Nigeria,Voice ot SiKtyMinutes (Irom1530).SeeS 0220.

South Korea, RKorea Inll: News. See S0200.
Australia, Radio: The ComfortZone ArChitectureandoescn.
gardens, rood andtravel withAtan Saunders.
Scum Korea, R Korea 11'111: News Commentary. See S021 5.
South Korea, RKorea Inti: Seoul Galling.See M 1615.
Nigena, VOice01: Roundtable. Discussion01 theeconomic,
social,andpoliticalchani es in different parts of thecontinen t
South Korea, RKorea Int : EconomicNewsBriefs. See M
1640.
Scuff Korea. RKorea Inti: Cultural Promenade. A look at
Koreancultural andartistictraditions and highlights ot
activities taking place in Korea.

~~d~~a~a~1a~i
o : RANews. SeeS 0000
1600 Nigeria, Voice of: SixtyMinutes(from 1530). See S0220
1600
1605
1615
1620
1630
1640
1645
1645

SouthKorea, RKorea Inti: News. See S0200.

Australia, Radio: Women Out l oud!. Aweekly radio program
documenting, exploringandchallenging the conditions01
women 's lives
South Korea, RKorea Inti: News Commentary See S0215.
South Korea, RKoreaInll: Seoul Calling. See M 1515
Nigeria, Voice01: Musical Herrtage. ThepUle music 01Alrica
(deVOid 01lowg n influences) ISteaturee.
South Korea, RKorea tnt!: Economic News Briefs. See M
1640.
Nigeria, Voic,e of: ECOWAS Today. A programthatanalyzesthe
aimsandobjectives 01the ECOWAS orqanizatum
South Korea, RKorea Inti: ReachlOg Forward, A lOOk at Soulh
Korea'sadvancements 10 technology andhowIt is copingWith
the!inancialcrisis.

JJ1oU~~f~
Radio: RANews. See S0000
1600 Nigeria, Voice of: SixtyMinutes (from 1530), See S0220
1600
1605
1610

South Korea, RKorea InU: News, See S 0200,

Australia, Radio:Hindsight.MichelleRayner presents current
eventsIrom an hIstoriCal perspecnve
soumKorea, RKorea Inti: News Commentary See S0215

16t5
1630
1640
1545

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Nigeria, Voice of: VON l ink-Up. can-in request and
dedication mUSIc program.
SouthKorea, RKorea Int!: Economic News Briefs. See M
1640.
South Korea, RKoreaInU: Tales IromKorea's Past. The
history01Korea

Fridays
1500
1600
1600
1605
1515
1620
1630
1630
1645
1545

A:ustrafia.. Radio: Radio National News. See F1400

Nigeria. Voice 01: Sixty Minutes(from 15301. seeS 0220.
South Korea,RKorea Inll: News. See S0200
AU slralia. Radio: Awaye. SellM OllO.
South Korea.RKorea Inti: NewsCommenlary. See S
0215
South Korea, RKorea lntt; Sites andSounds. Alookat
Korea's tourist attractions andindustry.
Nigeria, Voice of: Top Stars. The Nigerianpopmusic
scene.irs hi! tunes and top music stars.
souin Korea,RKorea Inti: Let's learn xcreant. Korean
languagelessons lor native English speakers
Nigeria. voice ot: Issuesof the Moment A documentary
01 evolVing political events in Nigeria.
soour Korea, RKorea Inti: Globalizing Korea. How today's
ordinary Koreans Irom different walksof litedeal and
cope With their lives.

~~otUt~s~f
Radio: Radio National News. See F 1400.
1600 tligeria. Voice 01: AlricaHour (110m 1530). See S0220.
1600
1605
161 5
1620
1630
1640
1645

South Korea, A KoreaInti:News. See S0200.

Australia, Aadio: Melisma(Part2). Musicalrevelations
(2nd hour).
South Korea.R Korea lntl: News Commentary. See S
0215.
South Korea, RKorea Int!:Music Trap: SeeS 0220.
Nigerra. VOice ot: Nigerian MOsaiC, A lighl magazine
program With potpcuri ot etervews. music,and gossip.
Soulh Korea, RKorea Inll: From Usto You.See S0240.
Nigeria. Voice 01: To beannounced. See S0220.

November 1998

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Cuba, RadiOHavana
Egypt, RanmCairo
Germany, Deutsche Welle
Germany.GocdNews World R
Germany,Overcomer Mlfllstr
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam. AWRlKSQA
Guam, AWRIKSOA
India.All India Radio
Ireland, Unt Chnsllan BC
liberia,lCNm Libeua tnt
Malaysia. Radio
~jamlbia , flBe
New Zealand, R NZ Inll
Nigeria. FRCNlRadio
North Korea. R Pyongyano
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Romania. RRomania InU
Smgapore.RCorpSingapore

5025do

2300OO

49Hldo

UK. BBC WOlld Service

9625do
607Odo

2300 -oo >II

UK. Merlin Network One

603Od,

2300-0ooo

613Odo
61 6Odo
616Odo
5960am
15305arn
1505Dam
9550am
9900am
597535

230lHIOOO
2300-0000

USA. ArmedForces Network

USA, KAIJ Dallas TX

6090a,

96"",
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7235as

96"""

95103s

11625sa

12050sa

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117753s
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33"'"
11335am
9675do
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615Odo

2300 -OO

9755am

11 895am

13670am

21460am

USA. waco Monticello ME

USA, WEWN Birmingham Al
2300-0000 mtwhta USA, WGTG McCaysville GA
2300-0000
USA, WHRA Greenbush ME
2300-OO
USA. WHRt NobleSVille IN
2300-0000
USA. WINB Redl ion PA
2300-oo
USA. WJCR Upton KY
2300-oo 5
USA. WRMliR Miami Inll
2300-0000w
USA. WSHBCypress Cr. SC
2300-0ooo m
USA. WSHB Cypress Cr. SC
USA. .....W CR ~las hvi lle TN
2300-000O
2300 -oo
USA. WYFR Okeechobee Fl
23002315
vaucan State, varcan R
23292359 as
Canada. R canada Inti
canada. R canada Inti
2329-2359
2331>000O
Netherlands. Radio
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23352345
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Sundays

Australia. Radio: RANews. SeeS OO.

2300 GlJ.1m, AWMCSDA: wavescan A prooram for OXers and
shOrtwave listenersproduced atAWR's British studio.
2300 US.\, KAU (Dallas TX): World Universily Network (Or.
Gene Scott).
2310 Au!.tralia, Radio: Asia PacifIC. News and anatysiS trom
across thePacific and As-.a withOi Martin.
2320 GlJ.1m. AWRlKSDA: Pacffic: Island Journal. News and
stories aboutthePaCIfic ISlands
2330 Australia. Radio: Correspond\lnlS' Report
S 0030,
2300

see

Mondays

Australia, Radio: RANews. See S OO.

GlNm, AWMCSDA: Sounds ol lnspiraOOn. An~ult
cnrenan music program.
2300 USA. KAU (DallasTX): WorldUniY!rsily Network (Or.
Gene Scott).
2310 Australia. Radio: Asia Pacific. SeeS 2310.
2315 Guam, AWRlKSDA: DiscoveringtheBible. Recitation of
scripture In storyterm.
2330 Australia,RadiO: lnncvauens. See S0230.
2330 Guam, AWRI1<SOA: The Bible in living Sound. A dramatic
lookat thebible.
2345 Guam, AWR/KSDA: Voiceof PlOphecy. Writelor an adult
bible study program.
2300

2300

Tuesdays
2300
2300
2300

Aus:ralia. RadIO: RA flews. See S OO.

Guam, AWRIKSOA: Sounds ol lnspiration. SeeIA2300.
USA, KAlJ (DallasTXI: World Urliversily Network(Or.

2310
231 5
2330

suan AWRlKSOA:DiscoveringtheBible. SeeM 2315.

~n~SCott ).

Australia,RadiO: Asia Patilic.

see S2310.

2330

Australia. Radio: ArtsAustralia. lisa aamspresents

revltws andcomment oncurrentevents WIlhin the
Australiarl artsscene.
Guam, AWRIJ(SOA: The Bible in livingSound.SeeM

2345

Guam, AWMCSDA: VOiCe 01Prophecy. Se1! M 2345.

2330

~d~~a~a
~l~o: RANews, See S OO.
Guam, AWRiKSOA: Sounds ol lnspiration. See M 2300.

2300
2300

23to
2315

USA. KAtJ (Dallas TX): World Universily Network (Or.

GeneScott).
AUSlralia. Radio:AsiaPacific. See S2310.
Guam, AWRIKSOA: OiSCO';ering theBible See M2315.

2330 Australia, Radio: Rural gecerter. No mtcmaucn available.

2330 Guam, AWR/KSDA: The Biblein Uvino Sound. See M 2330.
2345 Guam, AWRlKSDA: voce 01 Prophecy. See M 2345.

~U~~~
Radio: FANews. See S OO.
Guam, AWR/KSDA:Sounds01 Inspiration. SeeM2300.

230D

2300

USA. KAU (Dallas TX): Wortd UniversityNetworll (Dr. Gene

Scott).
Austratia,Radio: Asia Pacife . Set S 2310.
Guam, AWR/KSOA:Oisco\l!rino the Bible. see M 2315.
2J3O Austrafli, Rad"1O: MedIa Report See H0030.
2330 Guam,AWRlKSOA: TheBiblein LMno Sound. See M2330.
2345 Guam, AWRIl<SDA: Voial ol Prophecy, see M 2345.
2310
231 5

Fridays

2300 Australia, Radio:RA News. See S OO.

2300 Guam, AWRIKSOA: Sounds ollnspirabon. See M2300.

Gay le Van Horn

Frequ ency Manager
Kayle@ g rt'H'e.ll et

2300
2305
2315
2330
2330
2345

USA, KAIJ (Dallas TX): World UniY!rsily Network (Dr. Gene

Scott).
Australia, Radio: BookReading. Serialized readingscunebest
Australian novels.
Guam, AWRlKSDk Oiscoverilg theBibte. See M 2315.
Austratia. Radio: Pacific Revitw. see S 0530.
Guam, AWRlKSDk The Bibtein Uving Sound. See M 2330.
Guam, AWRlKSDA: Voice ol Prophecy. see M 2345.

Saturdays
2300

2300
2300
2310
2315

Australia. Radio: RANews. see S OO.

Guam, AWRI\(SOA:W3vescan. SeeS 2300.
USA. KAU (Dallas TX): WorldUnlveflity Network (Dr. Gene

- I.

Australia. Radio: Australia AD OYer. Joinle llers across the

island conbnent as Lan McNamara throwsthespotlight on life
in Australia.
Guam, AWRlKSDA: Pacilic ISland Journal. See S2320.

MT MONITORINGTEAM
Ji m Frlmmcl
Program Manager
fri mmr tcosmr-telegram.com

Jacqu es d' Avignon

Prop agation For ecasts
Ontario.Canada
monitorte rac.ca

Dave Dutko , California

Mark Fine. VA

THANKYOU
ADDITIONAL CONTRIB UTORS TO THIS MOHTH' S SHORTWAVEGUIDE:
Joe Brashier/W HR I; Glenn Hauser. Enid. OKll\h rld oj Radio & DX Report ; AI
Quaglieri , Albany, NY; Adrian Sa insbury. R NZ Inti; /George Wood/Media
ScalllB BCMSlWorld Media ; Cumbre DX ; NAS IVA }ollm aIILN ; Usenet
new sgro ups .

November 1998

MONITOR ING TIMES

S9

Where To listen On The Bands

As the DX co nditions are g reat ly impro vin g
with a marked increase in the MUF (Max imum
Usab le Frequency) and in parallel the OWF
(O ptimum Working Freq ue ncy), the various
S W broa dca ste rs will now have a greater number o f freq uencies to use for their tran sm issions.
O ne direc t co nsequence of this situation is that
the broadcasters will now migrate from the
low er frequ encies - the 49 and 4 1 me ter bands
where they were all piling up - 10 higher
frequ encies, especiall y at night.
We ha ve 10 reme mber tha t there are man y
frequency bands that are available to the broadcasters. Depending o n the time o f day at the
transmitter and at the target area. what time of
the year and other factors. broadcasters may
choos e from a numbe r of frequ en cies to carry
their sig nals. You will find be low a listin g of
these frequ enci es and wha t is the best time of the
day to liste n to if you live in North Ame rica.
Even if the propagatio n forecasts do not seem to
ind icate tha t the upper frequ en cies will be open ,
give th em a try; you never know what is really up
there !
Experime nt and goo d DX!
METER

FREQUENCY

BAND

MHz

120

2.300-2.495

90

75

60

3.200-3.400

3.9004.000

4.750-5.060

49

5.900-6.200

41

7.100-7.350

31

60

9.400-9.900

WHAT CAN BE HEARD

INNDRTH AMERICA
Tropical domestic. Some
Australian stancns can be
heard at times in North
America if youarelocated
in a veryRF quiet
environment.
Tropical domeslic. African
stations can also beheard
lateafternoon whenthe
noise level is low. WWCR
can be heard on 3.215
MHz, this is an unusual
frequency allocationlor a
station broadcasting from
North America.
Used for Ndomeslic
broadcast in Europeand
thePaclfiClAsia. SSG and
otherstations transmitting
to and Within Europecan
beheard laleat night or
earty morning in North
America
Tropical domestic. South
and Cenltal Americacanbe
heard at nightand early
morning . Very goodsignal
in NorthAmerica in early
morn ing.
Good international evening
band. Heavy use ol lhis
band whensolar flux is
low. major congestion
Very good evening band.
This band nol normally
used to transmit from
North America. It is used
extensively in Europe for
transmission to North and
SouthAmericaspecially
lateafternoon and at night.
Good all around-the-clock
band. Depending of the

MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

OPTIMUM WORKING FREQUENCIES (MHz)

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13

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SOUTH AMERICA

13

EASTERN EUROPE

MED ITE RRA NEAN

15 l4

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16

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13

l4

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l4

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20

23

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22

13.570-13.870

15.100-15.800

17.480-17.900

15

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12 12

13

13

13

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13

13

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timeof day, you can hear

signals from Europe and/or
Asia.
Excellent band for mid-day
listen ing.
This band hasnot yet aeen
approved "olhcially" lor
broadcasting. but many
countriesareusing it
extensively. Gooddaytime
band
Goodold daytime reliable
band . Most SWLs havehad
their li rst experiencein
listening 10 foreign stations
in this band . SignalS01
good quality can at limes
be heard al night
This also a good daytime

21 23 23 23

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17 15 13

15 12

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22

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15

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12

26

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29

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27 30

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fAR EAST

MIDDLE EAST (P)

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12

22

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15

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13

21.450-21.780

11

25.670-26.100

23 12

25

15 15

l4

22

13

27

17

21

band, but not used as much

as the 19 meter band
Good morning and early
daytime band. One of the
new band for the broadcasters. Not much used at
present.
Good morning and early
daytime band. alsosignal
Irom Austral ~ and area
heard around 0500UTe,
when thesolar flux is mid
10 high.
Early daytimeband when
thepropagation conditions
arevery good. Le., when
thesunspot numbers are
high_ Has a very limited use
at otherlimes

~ROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT

John Fig/iozzi
i(ig/io l@nycop.rr.com

GOOD USTENING FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE

Tracking the Global Economy

ith the recent turmoil in global financialmarkcts. thc world' s attention is

stream S 0915.1 105; Asia/Pacific stream S 0330.

monwcalth of Independent States. (M 1711: T

1830 )

focused on busi ness and econom ics

like never be fore . No t all that long ago , such

Marks und Markets (Deutsche Welle - DW)A magazine examining global business de velopments from a German and European perspective.

15 11. 2011 : 1V03 11. 07 11. 20 11: H 05 11. 0911 .

17 11: F 15 11. 20 II : A m i l . 07 11. 16 11. 2 111)

information was deemed

(0 0

technical for the

main stream and con signed to the business pages

of llcwspapcr s and specialized publicati on s with
names like Harm" 's. But. over lime. both the

public' " appetite andacumen have grown with the

realization that till' markets arc a major factor in
de termining ho w people live their lives.
Indeed. the eme rgence of new ma rket CC0 I10 mil's in Aviu.centru l Europe and the former states

of the Soviet Union - combined with the growing interdependence of what historically had be-en
primarily " national" economics - have made
business <I ll "a round the cloc k" global phenomenon.
There arc numerous well-produced programs
0 11 shortwave focusing on business. finance and
economic dev elopmen t from a range of perspectives. This month's colum n offers a snapshot of
these. Please note that every statio n almost without exception includes some degree of business
and financial news within its regular newscasts.
[Ccn sulr AlT s "Shortwave Guid e" section for
frequencie s and abb revia tions. ]

Daily Synopses
\rorld Business Report (S BC, - Analyzes the
days main financial and economic news in a nononsense format. t Amcricavfiuropc stream ~1-F
1205.1 630. 2105: T-A 0305. 0l,)Q5: Africa stream
t\1-F UlJ05. 1205. 2105: T-A (H05: Asia/Pacific
..trcam 0905. 1105. 1705. 1 105. 11] 0 )
Bus iness and Econom ic S t'll'S (Voice of
America ) - An hourly three-minute check of glohal business. (4lJ minutes past most hours seven
days a week on VOA News Now.)
/'(j<'!/ic MOlley Updale (Radio New Ze aland
International - RNZI) - A report on currency
trading ill the Asia -Paci fic region. (5-11 !lJ59 )
l'acUic Business Report (RNZI) - Axiu- Pacific
region business news. (S-II j<H 5. 2055)
U"...il/ e .\\ S ' l n (Rt\ ZI) Daily report Oil New
Zealand markets anti business developments (fl.1F (~} 1 5 )
ltusiness m ill Morkrt Rt'/JOrl(Radio Singapore
International - RSI) - Business and financial news
focll :.ic tl ()n S i n gaporcandA s i a . ( ~ I .r 1109. 1230)

Weekly Magazines and Reviews

G/oha l IJllsi nes.\' mB O - A top-notch halfhour with interviews. fe,t[ures anti discu:.isions
ahollt (he international business cOllllllunity.
(Amcricas/Europe stream S 0-l30.10jO: Africa

(A 09 15: S 05 15: ~1 021 5. 0415. 0( 15)

World IJIHi ,U'SS Review mBC) - The globnl

business week inreview.(Americas/Europestream

and Africa stream A 0905. 1205. 1 105. S 0305:
Avia/Pacific stream A 1205. ) 705. 1 1( 5)

MOllcy A111!tN .\" (Radio Sweden) - Examines

the Nordic econom ics . ( \V 15 minutes into all
transmissions. except H in the (lUll. 0130 and
O.U O tranvmi..vions)
/Jottom l.ine (Radio France lmcrnatio nal) Fren ch busine ss and its relationships with Europe. ( IV IMO: 11 12.' 4. 1434. I n o )

Economk-s (Radio Vlaandcreu lntcmationaal)

Around the World

Mollt,y Focus (BBC) - Magazine on African
bus!ness matters. (T 1615)
ECOWAS Today( Vuiccof Nigeria- VON)- A
weekly usscssmcm of West African economic
coope ratio n. (W 1645: A 1015)
Tradin g Post fRNZI)- :-':Z' s over..cas trade. (T
21 15)
Trud e Willd ,\' (R NZI) - Co mme rce between

New Zealand and the Pacifi c nations. (1-1 1735)

Oil/hi' Export From (All India Radio - AIR) Reports on Indian international trade. (A 1030.
1425. 1910.22 15: M (){X)5)
Open windows (China Radio International CRJ, - Reports on foreign investment in China
(approximately 30 past the hour in all transmissions beginning with M I ~ I K) broadcast and the
0 3(){). oioo. 0500. 0900 and IlXK) broadca sts)
Vit' tIla11/\ Ecomnnv (Voice of Vietnam ! Reports o n Vie tna me se busine ss. inve stm ent and
development. {H 15 minutes into all transmissions exce pt on F in the 0100. DUO and 013()
tranmi ssjon s )
K (l/"( 'lIIIJ at Work (Radio Ko rea Inte rnatio nal I
-( M 1145. 1245. IM 5. 1945. 2145. 22 15 : T 0245.
( 845)
Currencies (RS II - A wee kly report on regional currency movements. (A 1125. 5 1155)
Business lVorid(RSI)- Business und financial
trends in Singa pore and Asia. (A 1145. S 11 15. M
1245 )
Studio 9 Report 0 11 /J1I,..iness in Lat in America
and the Cu ribhean IHCJBI - 11-1 0710. Ot)IO.
19 10: FO lIO . lJ.l1O)
Vn lture Canada (Radio Canada lntem atio nal l

- A weekly bri ef on Belgian and European busi-

ness. industry and markets. {H ) 643. 1743.1243:

F 074 3 }

Economic Development Mailers

This is a topic which clear ly belongs within the
realm of'busincss and financial matters. but is not
usually placed there.The problems of poverty and
econom ic underdevelopment in our world arc
intertwined with the workings of the global economic system and should be seen in that context.
t\ Good LUt' (Radio Netherlands) - The best
and most encompassing program about economic
developm ent bar no ne. A Goo d Life makes no
assumptions about economi c development efforts. It examines the motives. methods und consequences of development effo rts. for better and
for worse. on both socie ties and on individuals.
This program really puts a human face on a topic
that is usually drowned by statistics into meaningIc s ~ n l s s . (T OX5 ] . 1053. ' ....53. 1853. 2353: W
0153 : F 0753. 09 53 . 115J . 1.'53 . 1753 . 1953 : A
(J{}53 . 025J . (J.l53 )
Other notable programs on this aspect ofb usi-

ness and fi nance include:

/) l ' \ 'l'!0 f/ 1II1' f11 F 01"ll11l

(D\V) - (M 0930. 2130.

23 30 )

Report fro m Devcloning Countries (CR!) (approximately 15 minutes into ull transmissions
beginning S 1100 continuing through M at (HOD.
().lOO. 0500 . (N(){!. IlX)(J )
Until December. good listening!

- Canadian business magazine. IA 1335. 1-l35.

1635. 21 10 : S ll205. 0-1(5)
!J1l...incss Wel'/.: (Polish Radio Warsaw1 - A
report on Pokm ds economy.tf 131(1. 1820. 1050)
Eco nomic Repo rt (Radio Prague )- Czech busi-

ness and finance. 1H len minutes into ulltruncmi..

sions e xcept on F in the 0000. ()JOO uud 0300
IranslllissiollS)
N t' l r 11la r/.:er (Voicc of Russia) ~ A look at
busines:.i and investment in Rus..ia a nd the Com-

A -must" reterence lor every shortwave

program listener!
$8.99 at all Radio Shack stores.
CalalogNo. 62-1335

Novembe r 1998

MONITORING TIMES

61

AUDIO SUBCARRIERS

By Robert Smathers

An audio sub-carrier requires the presence of a video carrier to exist. If you

take away thevideo carrier, theau dio sub -carrier disappears as well. Most
TYR Osatellite receivers can tune in audio subcarriers and they can be found in
Ihe range from S.Oto 9.0MHz in the video carrier.
Audio frequencies in MHz. all satellites/transpondercoordinates areC-band
unless otherwise noted. DS=Oiscrete Stereo. N=Narrowband, W=Wideband
Classical Music
SuperAudio-ClasslcalCollections
WFMT-FM(98.7) Chicago. Il -fine Arts
WaXR-FM (96.3) New York, NY

G5.2 1
G5.7
54. 14

6301648 (OS)
63 01648 (OS)
6.20/680 (OS)

SatelliteComputer Services
Superguide

G5. 7

5.48

KHCB-FM (105.7) Houston. TX

LOS Radio Network
Salem Radio Network
Trinity Broadcasting radio service
WHME-FM(103,1) SouthBend. IN. ID-HaMst FM
WROL-AM(950) Boston. MA (occasional Spanish)

Cl . 10

7.28

Cl ,6
GE3. 17
G5.3
G6.15
GE3.3

5.58
50 1.5.20
5.581;'78 IDS)
5 5815.78 IDS)
62 0

G5.2 1
G5. 21
E2,5

8.1018 30( OS)

5.221540 (OS)
6 20

C-SPAN Audio 1: Variousshortwave broadcasters

C-SPAN Audio 2: British Broadcas ting Corp.(BBC)
Deutsche Welle

C3.7

5.20

C3,7
GE 1,2 2

5.41
7.38, 7.56. 7.74.

Radio Oubai UnitedArab Emirates (Arabic)

RAt sarerano Italy (Italian)
WEWrl-Worldwide Catholic naco. vandiver. AL

G7 . 10

7.48
7.38
5,40(English).
5.58(Spanish)

Rock Music
SuperAudio- CIaSSiCHlts-oldies
SuperAudio-Pflme Dema-mellow rock
WOKI-FM(100.31 Oak Ridge-Knoxville. m

Shortwave Broadcasters via Satellite

792

Contemporary Music
KOCY-fM (105.3) Hoxie. Arkansas
Radio Desjardins 1
Radio Desjardins 2
SuperAudio- Ught andLively Rack
WBESfM (94.5)Charleston. lIN
WPHZ-FM (96.9) Bremen. IN lSouth Bend market)

G6.6

8 50

T5.14
T5. 14

6.80

GEL 12
G6. 15

620
596 .6 .12 IDS)
5.85
648 . 7 30 (OS)

G5. 21

5 04,774 IDS)

C4. 24

7.38. 7.56

G5. 21

Country Music
SuperAudio-Amefican Country isvomes
WSM-AM(650) Nashville, TN

WHRA AlntalMlddle East-World Harvest Radio.

South Bend. Ir,
WHRI Americas- World Harvest RadIO. SouthBend. IN
WHR I Europe -World Harvest RadiO. South Bene. IN
KWHR Asia-World Harvest Radio. South Bend. IN
KWHR SouthPaCific-World Harvest Badro.
South Bend. IN
World Radio Network: WRN l Nortll America
World Radio Network: WRN2 North America

G7. 14
G1R. 11

G6.15

78 2

G6.15
G6.15
G6. 15

7.46

G6. 15
G5.6
G5, 6

7.73
680

C4.6

6.20

C4.10
C1.3
G6.6

7.87
560
7.96
5.5815.76 (OS)
7.78
7.10
6.80
7.38

7.55
7.64

6,20(Multi-lingual)

EasyListening Music
lAM Radio-easy listening music
SuperAudio-Sofr Sounds
FCC mandated safe-harbor program audioeasylistening music
United Video-easy hstening music

G6.6

769

Sports

G5.2 1

5.5815.76 IDS)

Madison SquareGarden Network \MSG)

Spanish La nguag~ SAP . (occ)

G3R. 9

68 0

G5. 2
C4.8

6 80
58 951N)

54.14
GEl . 16

7.38

GE2, 22

580

G5. 17

7.56

ForeignLanguageProgramming
Antenna Radio (Greek)
Apna Sangeet Radio India
Arab Network 01AmericaradIo network
LaCadena CN N Radio Nonctas
(CN N Radio News in Spanish)
KAZN- AM (1300) Pasadena, CA-Radio Chinese (Ch ,j
Radio Maryja-r eligious programming (Pol:lnd)
Radio Maria - religious programmmg (Italian)
Radio Tropical
SRC AM Networ1<.
SRCFM Nelwor\l:
Unidentified Los Angelesarea ethnic radio staten
WCRP-FM(88,1) Guyama. Pa-reuqous (Sp.l
XEX-Ar,t (101.7)"VoxFt.t" Meltico City. Mexico (Sp,)

7.80

GEl , 22(Kubandl 5.80

G7. 10
8,00
G7. 10
5.80
GE1 .4
7.60
7.38
E2, 1
E2.1
5.4115.58 (OS)
GE-l . 22 (Ku-band)7.78

G6.6

6 53

S02.7

7.38

Jazz Music
KLON-FM (88.1) Long Beach. CA.. JD-Jazz-88

Sunerauoro-vew Ageof lsn

G5. 2
G5. 21

5.5815.76(OSI
7.38,7.56IDS)

News and Information Programming

Broadcast News
Busi ness News Network
Cable Radio Network
CNN Headline News
CNN Radio News

E2. 1
C4. 10

5.78
8.06 (II)

G5. 2

7,24 (11)

Cl . 21

7,30
7.58

G5. 22

USA Radio Network- news. talk and mtcrmauon

WCBSAM (880) New York. NY-news
WCCOAM (830) Mlnneaoolis. MN

GE3.9
G5. 5

5.62

G5.22
GE3.1 3

630

7,58

G7. 19

5.01 . 5.20
7.38

GE3. 6

6.20

GE3.15
G5. 6

5.96.6.48
6.48

Religious Programming
Ambassasor Inspirational Radio
Brother StalreRadio

62

MONITORING TIMES

Novemb., / 998

Speciality Formats
AriesIn Touch R eadlrl~ Service
ColoradoTalking Book Network
Ozarkana Satellite Network
SU:lerAudio-Big Bands (Sun 0200-0600 UTC)
Weather Channel-background music
Wisdom Radio Network
Yesterday USA- nostalgia radio

G5. 21

C3. 13
GE1 , 12
G5.7
G9, l

Talk Programming
AmericanFreedom radio network
Amennet Broadcasting
For the People radio network
Friday Nighl Live(Friday 9-10 p.m.ET)
(Friday3 p.m. - midnight ET)
Omega RadiONel\'Jork
Orbit 7 Radio Network
Radio AmericaNetwork
RepubliCRadio International
Talk America Radio Network #1-1alk programs
Talk America Radio Network #2- talk programs
Truth Radio
TVRQ ,NET (featuring xeitn Larnomca)
United Broadcasting Network
WOKIENetwork- techtalk

S4. 19
G1R. 17
Cl.6

580
5.58

7.50

SBS6.3 Upper (Ku-band)

54, 16
GE 1.6
Cl , 14
Cl .2
G7. 14

6.20
5.80
7.56
7.48
5.58

GE3 ,9

7.70
6 80

GE3 .9

541

S4. 19

756

S4, 16

5,80

C1,2

750

SBS6. 3 Upper (Ku-band)

620
(network active whenMegabingo IS transmitting Monaay-Friday 9-10 p.m. El )
WWTNFM (99,7) Manchester, Ttl-n ews andtalk
G5.18
7.38. 7.56

Variety Programming
AmericanUrban Radio Network
GE3. 9
E2. 1
CBM-AM (940) Montreal. PO Canada"""'l3o.:-r,'fi:le ats
KBVA-FM (1065) Bella Vista. AR. . IO Vareo/ 1Ck5.5
G6.6
WCBS-FM (101.1) New York. NY
S4. 16
(when TYRO.NET is not onthe air with technical programming)
GE 1, 12
west Virginia Public Radio
WNMX-FM (106,1) Waxhaw, NC
G1R.17
C4, 10
WUSF-FM (89.7) Tampa-St. Petersburg,FlIPIJti:fl.a,jio\

6.30.6.48 (OS)
6.12

5.581576(OS)
5.80
7.74

7.92
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scrc SERVICES

FM SQUARED /FM'I AUDIO GUIDE

Another type of satellite audio carrieris known asFM
Squared. FM Squared signals donot requirea video
carrierto exist. These signals aresimilar to audio
subcarriers as weknow it except that they are
normally located below the 5.00MHz audiosuocamer

freq uency that a normal satellite receivercantune to.

The Universal SC-SO can tune these frequencies and
was used to update tt us section.

GE3 Transponder 13 ICband)

Ambassador Inspirational Radio
Blank aumc carriers
Focus on the Family
Information Radio Network
Inn Broadcasting Network (IBN)
USA Radio Network
Various Religious Programs
(nocommon rninislry)
VCY/Amenca(cnanner t]
VCY/America (channel 2,

141 , 4 47and 465 MHz

105 and 3 57MHz
1.23 MHz
339 MHz
4.83 MHz
50 1and 5.20 MHz
.33and 3.75 MHz
51 MHz
.78 MHz

SRNNews

1,28.1 .77 and 3,57MHz

80.1 .21 . and 2.06MHz
1.05 and 1.40 MHz
-1-1 7 MHz
4 65, 4 84, 5.01 . and 5,20
MHz
33MHz

Galaxy 3R Transpond er 3I Ku-band)

Blank Audio Oamers
Data transmissions
AP Network News
In-Store eucre network ads
(variouscompanies)
Muzak Services

An sepe transmitted signal is transmitted \'lith its

own carrier. thus eliminating the need for avideo
carrier to be present. Dozens of sepe signals can
betransmitted ona single transponder. In addition
10a standard TYROsatemte system, an additional
receive r is required to receive sepe signals.
The frequency in thefirst colu mn is tile t st IF
(typ ical LNBIrequency) and tile second column
frequency (in parentheses) is the2nd IF(comrnercial receiver readout) for tile sepe listing. 80111
frequencies are in MHz.

105.206. 3.25.362.
and -1 20 MHz
~. 2.93, 307and 31i MHz
3.53 MHz
.71, .81..91, 115. 1.26,
3 -1-1.370.3 .8').388 and
3.97 MHz
.15, 27.. 39. .51, ,98,
1.36, 1.-18.1.60.1.72.
1,84, 1,96.2 .19,2 ,31,
2 4-1 ,2 56, 2.68.2.80.
3,34,4 ,08,4 ,34, and 4.45
MHz

GE2 TransponderHorizonlal12 (Cband)

1204.90 (75.1) Radio h,fJrt1-U.S. Information Ag en~
Spanish language raoo service to Cuba

GE2 Transponder-Vertical 13 (Cband)

11 78.70 (81.3)

ln-Store auc.o networks

GE-3 TransponderHorizonl aI 13 IC-bandl

Wisconsin Voiceof ChristianYouth
(VCY) America Radio Networkreligious programming
120445 (55.55) KJAV-FM (104,9) Alamo. Iex-Spanisn
language religious proqramrrunq/
Nuevo R,1dio Christian,1 Network
1207.90 (52.1)

06. .15. 25, .30. .35. -17.

.51. .57.65, .71. .14. 76.
8-1 . .89. 93,96 1,05
1.1 2.1.22 ana 2.08 MHz

06.. 15. 23. .30.. 35.38

-17. .57.65. .71. 74. .76.
.84. 89.. 93..96. 1,05.
1.12, and 1 22 ',.,Hz

Anik E1 Transponder 6IKuband)

1443.60156.4)

Voice of FreeChina (International

Shortwave Broacaster) Taipei, Taiwan
K8l A-AM1' 580) Santa Monica. CA-

Radio Korea
1~4 3 ,~ 0

(56.6)

1438.30 (617)

Voice of Free China(International

Shortwave Broadcaster) Taipei.Taiwan
WWRV-AM 1'330) New York. NYSpanish religious programming and
music. ID- Radio Vision Christiana de

IlItem,1cional
1436.50 (63.5)

West Virginia Metro News- network

news feeds

Galaxy6 Transponder 3Horizontal (Cband)

1404.80 (552)

KOA-AM(8501/KTl K-AM (7601

Denver. Colo-newsand talk radial

SCPC AUDIO RECEIVER

FULL COMMERCIAL FEATURES

.64. 1.95. 2.18. 2 40.

252.273.2.82.2 .92.
3.20. 3.2-1 , 3.26. 3 n.
3.73.3 .97.4 .03. and 4.1-1
MHz
.15 .27. .39. .75. .87. .99,
1,11 .1 .23 1.35.1 47.
1.59. 1.71 1.83and 2.07
MHz

Telstar 5 Transponder 6 (Kuoban d)

Data Iransmesions

Galaxy 6 Transponder 1-HorizonlaI ICband)

DIRECT FREQ U ENC Y READ OUT

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SSS 6 Transponder 13(Ku-band)

DataTransmissions

120425 15575 ) Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth

(VCY) America Radio Net\'/orkreligious programming
120400 156 01 SRN (Salem RadiONetwork) News
1201.50 158.51 Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth
(VCY) America Radio Networkreligious programming
120130 (58.7) Wisconsin Voice of ChristianYouth
(VCY) America Radio Networkreligious programmmg

NASAspace shuttleaudio

Galaxy 3R Transponder 16(Ku-ban d)

Data transmissions

By Robert Smathers

1-143.80 (56.2)

GE3 Transpond er H IC-band)

Blank audio earners
Data Transrnssion
Focus onthe Family
In-Touch M:nistries
Salem Satellite Network

Single Channel Per Carrier

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63

SINGLE CHANNEL PER CARRIER (SCPC) SERVICES

140460 (55.4)

14044 0 (55.6)

1404.20(55.8)
1402.70 (57.3)

1402.20 (57.8)
1402.00 (58.0)
1399.60 (60.4)
1399.20 (60.8)
1399.00 (61.0)
1398.50 (61.5)
1398.30 (61.7)
1398.00 (62.0)
1397.80 (62.2)
1397.50 (62.5)
1397.10 (62.9)

1396.90 (63.1)
1396.70 (63.3)
1396.40(63.4)
1396.00 (64.0)

1395.80 (64.2)

1395.60 (644 )

1395.40 (646)
1395.00 (65.0)
1394.70 (65 3)
1394.50(65.5)
1394.30 (65.7)
1385.40 (74 6)
1385.00 (75.0)
138460 (754)
13844 0 (756)

64

Denver Broncos NFL radio network!

Colorado college sports
WGN-AM (720) Chicago. it-new s and
talk radio/Northwestern college sports/
ChicagoBears NFL radio network
IllinoisNews Network-n etworknews
feedsIWMVP-AM (1000) Chicago.ILtalk/Chicago Blacktrawks rJH L radio
network
Tribune Radio Networks/wisconsin
Radio Network
WLAC-AM (1510) Nashville, TN- news
and talk/Road G.m gt rucker program
(overnightlfTennessee collegesports
NorthWest Ag News Network - Ag info
for the Pacific Northwest
Occasional audi01Clemsoncollege
sports
Occasional audio
Occasional audio
Sports BylineUSAISports Byline
Weekend/On Computers radio show
Occasional audio
WSB-AM (750) Atlanta . GA-newsltalkJ
Georgia college sports
Occasional audio
Occasional audio/Colorado Avalanche
NHl radio network
Minnesota Talking Book Radio
Network-r eading service for the blind
Wisconsin Radio Network/Green Bay
Packers Nfl radio networklWisconsin
college sports
Occasional audio
Radio AmericaNetwork
Georgia News Network (GNN)-net\'lork
news feeds
WHO-AM (1040) DesMoines, lA-talk
radiollowa News Network-n etwork
news feeds/Iowa collegesports
WTMJ-AM(620) MilwaUkee, WI- talk
radio/Green Bay Packers Nfl radio
networkIWisconsin COllege sports
WGST-AMIfM (640/105.7) Atlanta, GA
ID PlanetRadio-news andtalkradial
Atlanta FalconsNFL radio network
Michigan News Network-networknews
leeds/Michigan college sports
Occasionalaudio
WJR-AM(760)Detroit, Ml- news and
talk radiO/Michigan News NetvJOrk
XEPRS-AM (1090) Tijuana. MexicoSpanishlanguage programming
Michigan News Netl'lork.'Michigan
State COllegesports
WOUQ-f M (90.5) Pittsburgh, PA - Jazz
format
Washington college sports
WOUO-fM (90.5) Pittsburgh, PA- Jazz
format
KOA-AM (850)/KTlK -AM (760)
Denver, CO-news and talk radiol
ColoradoCOllege sports/Denver
Broncos NFLradio network

MONITORING TIMES

Novembe, /998

1384.20 (75.8)
1383.70(76.3)
1383.10(76.9)

1382.90(77.1)
1382.60 (774)

1382.00 (78.0)
1381.60 (784 )
138140 (78.6)
1381.20 (78.8)
1377.10 (82.9)
1376.00 (840)
137540 (84.6)

WSB-AM (750)Atlanta. GA - news/

talk/Georgiacollege sports
Motor Racing Network (occasional
audio) NASCAR racing
KIRO-AM(710) Seattle. WA-n ews and
talk radio/Seattle Seahawks NFL radio
network
MiChigan News Network-n etwork news
feeds
Soldiers Radm Satellite (SRSj
network-Il.S . Army information and
entertainment radio/Army college
sports
w estwood One College Sportsfeeds!
Occasionalaudio
KEX-AM(1190) Portland. OR-news
and talk radio
Occasional audio
KJ R-AM (950) Seattle, WA- sports talk
radioM'ashingtonState college sports
In-Touch- reading service
Kansas Audio Reader Network- reading
service
USA Radio NetworklAgrinet Agricultu re
news service

Galaxy 6 Transponder 4-Vertical IC-band)

1376.00 (64.0)

1005.50 (54.5)

Anik 1 Transponder 21 -Hori,onlal IC-band)

1036.70(63.3)
1037.00 (63.0)
1037.50 (62.5)

1013.60 (80.4)
1013.20(80.8)
1012.80 (81.2)
1004.50(89.5)
1004.00 (90.0)
1003.60(90.4)
1003.20 (90.8)

1095.00 (91.0)

1404.80(552 )
1404.60 (55.4)

1347.00 (53.0)

1400.40 (59.6)

Canadian Broadcasling Corporation

(CBC) Radio-North (Ouebec) service

Anik 2Transponder 7-Horizonlal (C-band)

1326.00 (54.0)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

(CBC) Radio-North (EasternArctic)
service

Anik 2 Transponder 13-Horizontal IC-band)

1206.00 (54.0)

1205.00 (54.5)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

(CBC) Radio-North (Macxenzle)
service
CanadianBroadcasting Corporation
(CBS) Radio-Occasional feeds/events

Anik 2 Transponder n -Ho.i,ontal IC-band)

1126.00(54.0)

1125.50 (54.5)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

(CBC)Radio- North (Western Arctic)
service
CanadianBroaccasunu Corporation
(CBC)Radio-North (Newfoundlandand
labrador)service

Anik 2Transponder 23-Ho.i,ontal IC-band)

1006.00 (54.0)

Societe Radio-Canada (SRC) Radio-

Russian-American Radio Network

RCA C5 Transponder 3-Vertical (C-band)

1400.60 (59.4)

1446.00 (54.0)

Wal-Mart in-store network

Wal-Mart in-store network
Sam's WholesaleClub in-store network
Wal-Mart in-store network
Wal-Martin-storenetwork
Sam's WholesaleClub in-store
network
Wal-Martin-store network

SUSS Transponder 12-Vertical (Ku-band)

Galaxy 6 Transponder 6-Vertical (C-band)

Anik E2 Transponder l-Hori,onlal IC-band)

In-store music
In-store music
In-store music

SUSS Transponder 2-Horizontal IKu-band)

Data Transmissions

WCRP-FM (88.1) Guayama. PRSpanish language religious programming

AMNel\'/ork
Canadian BroadcasnneCorporation
(CBC) Radio-North (Yukon) service

RFD Rad io Service

Wyoming News Network-network
news feeds/Northern Sports Network!
WyomingCOllege sports
leartield Communications/Indiana
college sports
l eartield Communications!
MissouriNeVSI. l ouis Rams Nfl radio

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1400.20 (59 8)
1400.00 (60.0)
1396.60(63.4)

1396.20(63 8)
'1396 10 (63.9)
1395.90 (64.1)

1395.70 (64.3)
1386.40 (73.6)
1386.20 (73.8)
1386 00 (74.0)
138460 (754)

1384.00(76.0)
1383.80 (76.2)
1383.40 (76.6)
1382.90 (77.1 )
1382.50 (77.5)
1382.1 0 (77.9)

Occasional audiolOala transmissions

Learteld CommunicationslPurdue
collegesports
Kansas Information NetworklKansas
Agnet--network news feeds/Kansas
State collegesports
MissouriNet
Occasional aUdiol lllinois conecesports
WesternMontana Radio Nel\'/orkJRed
River Farm NetworkJM ontana COllege
sports
MissouriNet
le artield Communications/Kansas City
Chiefs Nfl radio network
Rad io Iowa/Iowa collegesports
Unitedbroadcasting Network-t alk radio
Capitol Radio NetworkfTennessee
Oilers NFLradio nelwork/North
Carolina State collegesports
Occasional audiO/ABC Direction
Network-n etwork news feeds
Occasional audiolSyracusecollege
sports
Capitol Radio Nel\'IorkINorth Carolina
collegesports
MissouriNetJMissouri ccnece sports
VirginiaNews Network- network news
feeds
Learffeld Commu nicationsl
MissouriNeVlllinois collegesports

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THELAUNCHING
PAD
GETTING STARTED IN SATELLITE RECEPTION

Ken Reitz, KS4ZR

l earning to l ove Satellites

I ' S a fu nny sort o f s ilico n wo rld o ut there

and. u nles s yo u 've be en hu nk er ing d o wn
in a bunke r somew he re in Montana. yo ur
el ectron s .
wo rld is hu zzi ng w ith streams
Just try to get through the day without using

or

your com pute r. cell phone. VC R. SC' Il1JlCr.

telev ision. radio. or micro wa ve. Heck. e ven
your watch is crys ta l contro lled !
What we used to con side r a conve nience
has become a necessity. How ma ll)' of us
wou ld e ve n consi der do in g w itho ut a ny o ft he

above men tio ned items? Ye t. all this

l'O IlV C -

ni cn cc has led to a ce rta in amount of fr us tra tion a nd int imi dation on a d a ily ba sis. A ny one
wh o ' s ever tried to prog ra m a new VC R.
foun d th emsel ve s o ut o f ran ge w ith their ce ll
phon e. o r gotten a n erro r m essag e fro m a
reca lcit rant computer kno ws all a bo ut it.

Men tion the \v'ord "sate ll ite" an d fo lks

tend to ro ll the ir eye s up in to the ir sockets j ust
th inkin g a bo ut ho w co m p lica ted it all is . No
wo nder 65 m ill io n ho mes arc wi red for cab le
in this co untry! Fe w el ectron ic ga dgets seem
so hard to put together an d o pera te. A nd. ye t,
o nce yo u get ove r -t his critical stumbling b lock
a ve ry bi g u niver se of mon ito r ing o pportu nity
ope ns up for yo u .

Your cheerf ul "Launch ing Pad" editor toiling ill th e dish fa rm, happy mi ce again to be
inf esting th e pages at JUT. (Photo by Jensen Reitz Montambault}
o ld new spa per. ca rs were th e s ize an d sha pe of
fig h ter aircr a ft and vac uum tub es ru led the
wor ld of ele ct ron ics. W el l, it' s un thi nk abl e !

The Ubiquitou s Sate llite

Among the most sophistica ted electro nic
creat ions o f 20 lh Ce nt ury people has bee n the
com mu uicutions sa tel lite . But. w ha t' s not to
lo ve ? Th ey ' re qu iet. Yo u can't sec the m (us ually). Th ey' re so lar po wered ' Why . they ' re
pra ctica lly warm and fuzzy! A nd. they ' re the
workhorse o f the mode rn age . Bi llions o r
do llars in comme rce ar c moved eve ry day v ia
sate llite. New s ga thering , b roa dcastin g , ente rtain me n t, and spor ts arc a ll de pe nd ing 011
tho se lill ie m eta l moo ns 10 do the ir j o b.
T he lo ss o f G a laxy ..J. th is past su m mer wa s
a sobering rem inde r u f j ust ho w m uch we've
co me to de pen d Oil them . N ine ty pe rcent or
N0I1h A me rica's page r tra ffic was unccrcrnonious ly c ut o ff. Ten s of tho us ands ofMuzukrgr
subscribers ' speake rs su dde n ly went si lent .
Na tio na l radi o ne tworks di sa ppear ed trout
the d ial s o f te ns o f m illion s o r rad ios a ll acros s
A merica in a n in stant. T han k God , ES PN an d
the Horne S hop ping Network we re unaffected'
Yes, str ip a way th e ubiq uit ou s sat el lite
from oureveryday lite an d we ' re back in the
d ark ag es whe re the late st ne ws was in a d ay

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A Satellite-Delivered Future
')'he ge n ie is out o ft he luu t Ie ; ylltl can 't tum
the tid e- add yo ur o w n cl ich e if yo u like. bu t
the ta ct is that sate ll ite s ar e the fut ure of
com m u nica tions. Docs this m ean tradi tio nal
o ve r-til e-air mod es arc doo m ed ? Not a b it. If
yo u d u sted o ff yo ur g re at grunduds crys tal
rad io se t it wou ld still p ick up th e AM ha nd
ton iglujust as it d id 77 ye ars ago w ith the firs t
radi o b roadcas t of the World Series in 1\)21 .

m uc h antici pated. lo ng de layed laun ch o f

A M SA T's Ph ase 3D b ird . to the ne w and
burgeo ning wo rld o f d ig ita lly de livered broadc ast sate llites , Lo th e see m ing ly e nd less stre am
of tiny tel epho ne sa te llite s, 10 the intriguing
ncar future o f 100 chann e l sa te llite rad io for
your car. W hew ! So . stra p yo ursel f to all old
Ru ss ian IC BM booster. ge t so meo ne to light
the fuse and lift olf to it futu re world o f
satellites eve ry month rig ht he re at M T s
La unch ing Pad .

Mailbag
I kno w . yo u're th ink ing . " Hey , this is the
first colu mn. ho w can yo u have a mailbag ?"

\Vh ile yo u can tunc in the BB C Wo rld

Service via sate llite an d the Internet. it' s also
ava ila b le 2..J. hours a day o n sho rt w ave . Good
o ld de pe nda b le ('/). a na log. Ai\'1 modulated
s ho rt wave . It' s sti ll the cheapes t way to rece ive the wor ld in yo ur ho m e nnd w ill rem ain
so for many years to come. Intern atio na l broadcaste rs arc sav vy e no ug h to hedge th ei r bets
an d you may be ass ured tha t w he n the going
ge ts tou g h fi nan c iall y. shortwave delivery
wil l be the last to go. So , kee p you r shortw av e
rece iver o perational and 0 11 sta ndby!

sate llite w itho ut hav ing a big C cban d d ish , an

ou tdoor insta llatio n, and ru nni ng ca ble s int o
the ho use .

Me anw h ile. the re arc e xciti ng thi ngs ha ppe ning in the world o f sate ll ites. From the

T he s ho rt a nswer is "no." Sma ll d ish DBS

services suc h as Dircc'I'V . Pri m estar and D IS H

Tb urs easy : a ll the o lt..! .\'Tsuhscr ihl:rs are now

AIT readers and <J number
th em se nt in
questio ns w hic h dese rve Lo be ans we re d. A nd .
bes ides. it gi vcs me a cha nce to to uch o n a
co uple oftypica l bcginu erqucsuon s to ge l th e
ba ll rol lin g .

or

M ary W ilson fro m Ill ino is wa nts to kn o w

ifit "s pos sible to get sho rtwave broadca st s vi a

have all igno red th e po te ntial of sirnulcast ing

the po pular shortwave serv ices. On ly C -ba nd
o ffe rs these broadcasters. Inciden tall y, if yo u
wait until ne xt year. C D Rad io - the sate llitedel iver ed ca r audio service - wi ll o ffe r at
least B HC Wo rld Se rv ice among its c ha nne l
selec tio ns .
- Steve Si mo n o f O hio wa n ts addresses and
phon e num bers o f co mpa nies ma king Digit a l
Vi de o B ro ad c a s t re c e i ver s , a nd J ohn
Stankovitz from New Jersey read my revie w
of the Pnnsat 100A DV B rece iver and wants
10 k now if an y ot her co m pan ies mak e DYB
rece ivers. You ca n bot h use the list o f DVB
make rs bel o w .
- T o m Marongclfi. return ing to the States
from active d uty in Korea, wants to kn o w if
there will be Korea n pro g ram min g av ai la ble
via sate llite o n his retu rn.
Yes . Th ere is a chan ne l o f pro gr amm ing
from Kore a avai lab le in the DVB (Dig ital
Video Broadcast ) sta nda rd o n Tclstar 5 Kuhand , cha nne l 77 12. vertica l po larity. It' s
ca lled Th e As ian Ne tw or k (TAN) and is broa dcast fro m Los Ange les with a regul ar da ily
sc hed ule. b ut not 24 hours a day .
Nic ho las Murza from Arizona wou ld like
receive Russian an d Ukrai nian pro gra mming via sate llite. Th ere are pla ns for some o f
the sm all d ish serv ices to o ffer suc h p rog ra mming. b ut. as o f this writing . whic h services
and \.. . hat pr ices have no t been d isclosed .

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Mean wh ile . WM NB -TV from New Jersey

still bro adc as ts the ir ana lo g se rv ice of Russian prog ram ming o n 5 BS- 5 trans po nder 5.
T he vid eo is trans mitte d invert ed . so to view
it simp ly press the video invert switc h on yo ur
receiver. If yo u hav e no such switch. ru n the
Ku-band fee d lin e into the C- ba nd LNB con nccto r. T his wi ll ca use a ll no rmal Ku-band
tra nsmi ssi ons to app ear in ver ted, bu t in ver ted
Ku -band transm issions to ap pear norm al, Go t
it'?
- An u nnamed re ader ask s via e -mail: " 0 0 I
need so-called 'd ig ita l-read y ' LNB to rece ive
Ku -band MP EG-2 prog ra ms suc h as TAN
nnd T hal-Tvv O r willmy cu rrent L NB. which
I have been usin g to watc h non -d ig ita l pro gra ms. work?"
It a ll de pe nd s on the co nd itio n o f yo ur
c urrent L NB. If yo u are ex per ie nci ng pro blems wi th it. yo u' ll likel y need a new LNB .
Howeve r. I' ve bee n using a 40 degree C -band
L NB whic h is at least 12 ye ars o ld a nd a .9 d B
Ku-b and LN B wh ich is probahly 5 o r (} years
old (ne ither o f whic h is " d igita l ready" ) a nd
both d o an excel le nt j ob . M y mott o is: Neve r
s pend more tha n yo u ha ve to o n yo ur sa te llite
hobby.
- Monny Gilano of' C alifo rnia wants to kno w
abou t rec e iving Euro pean a nd R ussia n sate llites fro m his locati o n. A g lance at the foo t
print charts in the ' 98/0 0 World Sate llite Yearly
indicates that there are no Europe an or Ru ssian sate llites recei vable di rec tly from yo ur
locatio n. Even the old Molni ya sate llites . with
their high ly elliptical o rbit which mi gh t have
hel ped . are no longer se nd ing video. Intelsat
5 1I at 180 deg rees E has an eas tern C-band
s po t beam which co ve rs Ca lifo rn ia, b ut ca rries mostly Jap anese programm ing. Yo u r best
be t for R ussian prog ramm ing is the afo rementio ned WM NB -TV .
- Jo hn Grow , VE2EQ L from Qu eb ec. is new
to C-ba nd and has been g iven a 10 foo t d ish
whic h he is rebu ild ing . He ' s look ing fo r used
fee ds, recei vers and v C II module s a nd wa nts
to know if any of the 70 M Hz recei ver s. ofte n
seen at hamfcsrs. are wo rth buying.
First. tod ay ' s mark et in ne w Ccban d eq uipm ent is so o ver stocked that it' s to ugh to pass
u p new receivers wit h a wa rra nty whic h often
se ll for u nd er $200. Ho wever. so me used
eq uip ment in e xce llent shape can be had at
half that pri ce o r eve n free . Check with local
de aler s. but do n't pay over $200 unl e ss the
pr ice incl ud e s a VC II. I'd stay away from the
70 MH z systems bec au se it is har der to find
repa ir part s fo r the m a nd re p laceme n t
downco nverter s ten d to be ex pe ns ive.
You can se nd yo ur q uesti on s to me in care
of this m ag azin e or via e-mail at the abov e
add ress. If you' re se nd ing via sna il mai l.

please incl ud e a se lf-addressed stamped en ve lope .

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Ye s. sate llite fan s. here ' s a q ues tion whic h
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B EGINNER.S CORNER
Skip Are , N2EI
t;arey@home.com

UNCLE SKIP'S GUIDE TO MONITORING

Understanding Radio Waves

ache l Baughnreminded me recentl y

that I ha ve been writing for Monitoring Times for ju st a little ove rte n
years now. Hard to beli e ve I' ve go ne from
bein g the new kid on the radio writing bloc k
to being o ne of MT s " Institutions." Frankl y,
the fact that I ha ve, as Lord Buckley used to
put it, "s tomped o n the T err a" for as lo ng as
I have w itho ut being actually placed in an
institution is probabl y a bigger mar vel than
ge nerating a monthl y column.
Any way, this humbling tho ught first led
me up in the att ic to the box that co nta ins all
tho se back issues of MT. Th is trip do wn
memory lane further led me to rea lize that
there arc quite a few topi cs I have covered
in that tim e that , for beginn ers and eve n
so me old tim ers, bear repeating. Fro m tim e
to time I intend to re-approac h so me of

these subjects. This is not meant to be

"Uncle Skip's G reates t Hits," but rath er a
fres h look at the kind of import ant material
that all beginn ers need to get the most out of
our hobby.
Most peo ple who first ente r the radi o
hobby start o ut wit h only the most bas ic
exposure to radio 's va rio us "modes .' Those
who have never serio usly tried to hear any thing beyond thei r car radios are essentia lly
o nly fa miliar with two of radio 's modes.
those being amplitude modula tio n (A M)
and frequency modulation (FM). Most
folks ge t thro ugh life witho ut knowi ng anythin g more than that abo ut radio. But. as
heginnin gradia monitors you not only wa nt
to kno w mo re about this su bjec t, you need
to know more about it. T his is main ly because, as a radi o mo nitor , yo u have likel y
purchased a rece iver that has severa l more
mo des ofoperatio n beyo nd the more familiar AM and FM mo des. What do they all
mean ?
AM , FM, and othe r modes like CW, SSB
are all just a jumble of letters circl ing a
recei ver co ntro l kno b to most beg inners.
Th e prob lem has always bee n o ne of tryin g
to co me up w ith a non techni cal way to te ll
folks abo ut these very tec hnical basics of
radi o. Th e so lution I have used in articl es ,
books and speaking engagements over more
than ten yea rs of ex per ience com es out of
my misspent yo uth at the Jersey Shore . I
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spent many summe rs at

the beach working on
tu rni ng m y s kin into
so me thing tha t is putti ng
m y d erm a to lo gi s t ' s
d au ght er th roug h law
school. Su rfing ha s remai ned fo r me the best
the way to expla in all
th o se po si tion s on a
recei ver' s mod e sw itch.
Bac k in the citizen's
band (CB ) boom yea rs of
the early se ve nties, so me
people used to enjoy making hor se s' patoots of
th em sel ve s by key ing
down thei r microphone s
witho ut saying anyt hing.
Sad ly, you can sti ll hear
thi s mo roni c behavior on so me seg me nts of
the 75 me ter amateu r radi o band s. Th is
crude form of jamming is know n as "throwing a carrier," T he carr ier is j ust what its
name implies. It is the signa l tha t serves to
carry the infor mation to your receive r.
Just like those red hot day s of the CB
craze, a stead y, un broke n ca rrier is little
mo re tha n a waste of e lectricity. It communicates not hin g at all by itself T he ca rrier
sig nal becom es the radio sig na l that we all
kn ow and love onl y when it is mod ulated in
some way . I\lo d ulatio n is the proc ess of
ma nipu lating the ca rrier signal in so me wa y
to allow it to convey inform ation . T his
mod ulated sig nal is then de mod ula ted by
the circuits in your recei ver al lo wing yo u to
hear the audio.
Clear as mu d, huh? Now yo u see why I
have leaned so hea vily on the s urfing analogy all these yea rs.
Think of the oc ea n. If you are a life-lon g,
landlocked residen t of the Midwest, head to
yo ur video store and ren t The Endless Summer or any ot her surfing mov ie that has
more boards than bikini s in it. Yo u' ll get the
idea.
If the s urf is down and there are no waves
to speak of. that wou ld repre sent a n
unmodulated carrie r.
Okay, now let' s all vis ua lize that the
s urf is up. Th e waves arc brea king on the

be ach a t d iffere nt
hei gh ts or speeds. T hese
wav es of varyi ng size
and s pacing co uld be
tho ught of as rep resen ting modu lation of the
ocea n/carrier. Bu t of
course. as any surfer w ill
tell you , not all waves
are created equa l. T hese
different wave s/modulat ion s arc go ing to react d if f eren tl y an d
(dropping the ana logy
fo r a second) wi ll requ ire differe nt recei vin g
eq uipment (demod ulation eq uip ment) to be
heard and understood .

Continuous Waves
While continuou s waves wo uld represe nt every s urfer's dream, to rad io folks
co ntinuous wav e sig nals arc best known as
"CW:' C W is the sim plest form of transmissio n - a plain un modulated ca rrier
simply switched on and off in a uniq ue
pattern . Th e dots and das hes of the Internatio nal Morse code arc for med by so meo ne
hitting a key to turn the ca rrier on and off.
T hink o r these do ts and dash es as waves of
eq ual heigh t and spee d was hing up on the
bea ch, Imagine the y start co ming in sets of
three and se ts of five with a lull in between
eac h set. Th e durat ion of the sets and the
spaces in betwee n are like dots and das he s.
Since an unmo du lated ca rrier has no
"s o und" to it, your rece iver has to j ump
thro ugh a few hoo ps to give you so mething
yo u can hear. Mo st modern rece ivers have
a CW position 011 their mode sw itch. O lder
receiver s wi ll often have a BFa sw itch.
BFa stands for Bea t Freq uen cy Oscillator.
In eith er ca se, the sw itch serves to turn the
"s o undless" CW sig na l into a recognizab le
series of aud io tones. T he "demod ulation"
happens in the listener' s head whe n they
translate the patte rn of dots and dashes into
letters and num bers.
Lea rning to cop y C\V signals can be a lot
of fun. Man y amate ur radio o perators still

enjoy using thi s mode . Pick up a code

practi ce tape from one of the advertise rs in
MT and j o in in the fu n.

im po rta nt whe n se tt ing th e cont rol s o n your

sca nner.
Single Sideband

Am plitud e Mo dula tio n

No w imagine that th e wa ves arc co m ing
to ward the bea ch spaced exa ct ly 20 feet
apart and that they hit the beach every five
seconds. The on ly "change" yo u can sec
occ urring is that a ll these o the rwis e equa l
waves are differen t height s. Gelli ng back to
rad io. thi s cha nge in a mp litude (a fancy
word for hei gh t) can be inte rpreted as a
change in vo ltage at the rec eiver that ca n
then be tra nslated into an audi o s ig nal.
Eur eka. vo ice s tha t co me out of the air!
Fre qu e ncy Mo d ula tion
lfy o u ha ve spe nt an y time tuning around
with an AM radio or have done so me listen ing 0 11 the shor twave broadca st bands. you
ha ve probably noticed that there is a lot o f
noi se out the re. Atmo sp he ric an d peo plemad e no ise can get in the way o f your
liste ning pleasure . Radi o pio neer Edwin
Ar mstro ng go t peeved eno ug h at all th is
back ground noi se tha t he set to work to
devel op a d ifferent fo rm o f modul at ion :
o ne that wou ld give a very dear sig nal th at
was esentiall y free o f static.
Thus. Fr\'t was hom . Armstrong fig ured
that yo u could keep the amplitude cons tant
and then de viate o r cha nge th e freque ncy
hack and forth off of the center freque ncy .
Back to the bench! Imag ine the waves coming tow ard the beac h arc all the same height .
T he d ifferen ce no",' is th at the waves no
longer hit the bea ch spaced unifo rm ly apart.
Now they arc hitting the beach faste r or
s low er. that space between each success ive
wave is cha ng ing in stead o f its he ight.
Doi ng th is gave a c lear. stati c- free signal. Th e trad e -off was a red ucti on in the
di stance the sig nalco uld be practically used.
Ho wever. most rad io se rvices are n' t interes ted in send ing a s ig na l all the way aro und
the wo rld. For thi s rea so n. mo st loca l co mm unic ation is do ne these days in the Fi\l
mod e. Poli ce . fire. business. amat e ur radio
o perators a nd othe rs mak e wid e und va ried
use (If FM in the VHF and UHF freq uency
ra nges. (Thu s g iv ing rise to the monit orin g
hob by o f scan ning. )
S ince most modern scanne rs co ver suc h
a wide ran ge o f freq uencie s. the begi nner
ca n gct reall y co nfused abo ut the two pri mar y typ es o f Frvf sig na ls out ther e in scanner lan d. Kno win g the di fferen ce ca n be

If yo u have been tuning across the shortwave freque ncies for any length o f time.
yo u have no do ub t run across so me s ig nals
that so und like a d uc k q uac king in a tunn e l.
These are singl e s id eba nd (SS B) s ignals.
Fro m the ea rl iest days of rad io. folk s were
alway s tryi ng to d o two th ings: cra m more
sig na ls into less space and get more s igna l
fro m a g iven am o unt of power. SSB doe s
ha th job s re ma rkab ly.
To explain th is we will nee d to stretch
the limit s o f our s urfi ng ana logy. Imagin e
that yo u arc see ing the wav e pattern we
dreamed up for AM - wavesequal ly spaced
but with va rying heights. Now ima gi ne that
the waves arc generating an eq ual. mirror
image of th em se lves underneath the wa ves .
Th e way yo u generate SSB is to start with a
low- po wered AM sig na l (o ne with waves
o n the top an d underneath ). C ircuit s in the
tran smi tter se rve to remove o ne o f the s ide
ha nd s (the lowe r wa ve or the uppe r wave)
({ml the carrier Ii .e .. rem ove the ocean, Se e.
I tol d yo u thi s was going to ge t wcird .)
Now the tran smitter amplifie s the remainin g s id eband (the oceanless waves
beco me tida l wav es). This prod uces a signul that is abo ut fo ur tim es as effic ie nt as a
reg ular A M s ig na l w ith the same amo u nt of
power be hind it. It also on ly occupies half
the space of a standard AM sig na l. Almo st
like gett ing so mething for nothing. but not
qu ite : On the receiving e nd. all yo u hear is
that du ck so und .
Un less. of cou rse , your recei ver is designed to accept thi s form of mod ulat ion .
Remember when we ta lked about the Bea t
Frequen cy O scillat or ( UFO) in rel at ion to
C\V sig nals'! The BF O sig nal serves as a
s ubs titute fo r the mi ssing sideband. gi vin g
yo u a normal vo ice instead of duc k noises.
Most mo de rn rece iver s ha ve done away
with the BFO in favor o f a mode switch tha t
w ill include CVi' (as previ ou sly d iscu ssed )
as well as (U S B) upper s ideba nd (tha t' s
for the wave s on top ) and (LS B) lower
side band (for tho se m irro r im ag e wav es
he neath the sea). Both mod es are used. so if
you hear a d uck voice and sw itc hing to o ne
po sitio n d oc s not do the tric k. Iry the sec o nd. lf yo u arc using a rece iver with a BFO
yo u s im ply adju st the BFO Pitch co ntrol to
ge t the same effect.
Hang ten!

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V IEW FROM ABOVE

la wrence Harris
fawrenceh@pevere/l.demon.co.uk
http:/ /www.peverell.demon.co.uk/

WATCHING THE WEATHER SATEUITES

Keeping an Eye on the Weather

wro te my first art icle on weather satelli tes

for the United Kingdom ' s Remote Imaging
Group (R IG) , hack in the 19XOs. At that
tim e. I was ne w In wea ther sate llites . though
sc icntifie sa te llite operations had previously been
my pro fession . A couple of years later. the U K's
Shorr \Yar t' MflKll : ;IIt' invited me to write a
mon thly co lum n. which has now bee n running
for ten yea rs . I abo write a co lum n on as tro no my
for our local ev eni ng pa per and have been a
read er o f Monitoring Times for we ll over a year.
A n inv itation 10 write u co lumn (replac ing the
o ne previou sly w ritten for siste r magazi ne~StJI
eltite Times ) wa s therefore most we lcome.
Here in Britain. I am one of those peopl e th at
cou ld be de sc ribed as an " Ame ricun-ophilc."
beca use havi ng work ed profes siona lly with
Ameri can space sc ientists o n co mbined UKBritish-Ncdcrlunds satellite proj ects du ring the
1970 -HOs , I am often see n or hear d writing or
talking positively about the A merica n space
program. I ha ve ye t to visit the United Stu tes. but
perhaps on e da y ... ?

Weather sate llites: the background

As a lad of 11 whe n Sputnik- I first hit th c
headlines. I bec a me fusci nnted with the idea of
sate llites and their a pp lications. History records
thai the first televi sio n pic ture " from space" was
from the Am eri can sa telli te T IROS-) . tra nsmit led o n April J, 1960 sec figure I. Ju st three
years la ter . TIR O S g tran smitted the fi rst
"weather satellite" sig na l in December 1963.
co nfirm ing the American lead in weathe r satellite tech no logy. It ca rried a vidicon T V camera

f tflS T TELEVISION PICTlJRE f ROM sPAC E

TIROS t SATE LLITE
APAll r. 1900

for Automatic Pict ure Transmi ssio n (A PT) . Th is

syste m involved the direct transmission of a n
analog signal in rea l-time th at co uld he decoded
to show lund -sea- c loud pic tures. These signals
co uld he rece ived by suitably eq uipped ground
sta tions a ro und the world . Th e AJYf serv ice has
remained available since 1963. with ne w satellit es being la unc hed eve ry [ C\\. years .
In December 197 1. the Meteor sate llites of
the forme r USS R s ta rted ;'1 co mpatible APT

service. Information from Grant Zeh rf published

in the book Communication Satell ites by Larry
Van Hom ) ind icate s that prior to 1977 . most
Ru ssian Meteor satelli te tra nsm iss ions we re only
m ade over Russia . T he usual frequ en cy was
137.3(X) MHz, thou gh Meteor I -J O(w hic h I W ;'IS
monitoring until it was fina lly switched off
se veral yea rs ago) used a num be r of freque ncies
in the 137 Mll z ha nd . Later (class 2) Meteor
sa tellites regu larly tran smit ted im ages o ver the
U.S. on eithe r 137.3(Xlo r 137.400 MHz.
I co llected sev e ral Me teor images in the
IYROs, hu t in a non-PC com pa tible format that I
co uld not display wh e n I upgraded . I do have the
o riginal cas settc tap e recordi ngs so me whe re whic h ca n still he decod ed!
The-usc o f geos tationary sate llites for weathe r
moni tor ing follo wed a fe w yea rs after the start of
the polar satell ites ' APT se rvice. In 1974 . the
A merica n geo stationary SMS- I sa te llite start ed
the weath er facsim ile (W EFAX) se rvice. beco m ing the first geostatio nary me teo rological
sa telli te. Becau se it wa s practical a nd efficien t.
WE FA X used a co mpatible a nalog signal. so
that simi lar equipme nt cou ld be used fo r bo th

AI'Tand WEFAX .

FIGURE 2 Ibelowl: Early NIM BUS

MONITORING TIMES

November 1998

Image ge nera lion by weather satel lites invol ves usi ng a telescope (radiometer) a nd pro
du cin g an im age line co m parable to a telev ision
picture line - but m uch mor e slow ly. Thi s lin e
co mp rises the brightness var iati on s o f the sce ne
bel ow : d ark sea und bri ght clouds . These variation s are im pressed o nto a 2,4kHz sub-carri e r by
the process o f amp litude modulati on (AM) . Th e
resulting AM sig nal is then used to frequ ency
modu late the main radio frequ ency ca rrie r (in
the 1371 38 MHz ba nd for the polar orbite rs, or
the 1675 1698 M Hz band for geos tationa ry satellites) . T he final signal can therefore be deco de d by the sa me equipment (tho ugh an add itio nal down-converte r is requi red for WEFAX
decodi ng ).
Th e next developme nt wi th weather sate llite
techn ology invol ved the move to a high er reso lutio n, d igita l data tra nsm issio n fo rmat in 1977
with the NO AA 2 sa telli te. Digita l tran smi ssions we re consolidated as high resol ution pic.
ture tra nsm issio n (HRPT ) tele met ry from the
ad vanced ve ry hi gh re solut ion rad iomete r
(AY HRR) in 197 8. whe n the T IROS -N series
sa te llites we re launched. Th is se rvice has bee n
pro vided co nt inuously (wi th APT) e ve r s ince.
and ther e are no w more than 2.700 APT user
stations wo rldw ide . The im age format has remained the sa me.
America' s GOES (Geostationary Operati onal
En vironment al Sate llite ) co nste llation transmits
WEFA X fro m at leas t two pos itions ; GOESEast (c urre nt ly GOES8 ) is at about 74 degrees
wes t long itude . a nd GO ES west (now GOES 10 ) is mane uve rin g further west.

Equipment needed

FIGURE I (Ieftl: Early TlROS picture

picture.

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Picture production

Yo u can. of co urse. rec ei ve wea ther satellite

s ignals from the pola r o rbite rs witho ut de coding
the m. and yo u ca n do th is at lillie cost. For
monit oring. yo u need an external ant enn a anti a
rec ei ve r ca pa ble o f tun ing tothe 137 M Hz ban d :
C heck the freq ue ncies g iven at the end of this
col umn.
NO AA sate llites tran smi t con tinuou s ly. so
yo u ca n hear the m whe nev e r they are above you r
horizon . Gene ral pu rpose rece ive rs are normally
un su itable for pro vid ing a quality signal for
decodi ng, he-cau se of the unu sual charac te ristics
of weather sa telli te (W XSAT ) signals. Howev e r. yo u ca n still receive a stro ng signal for
moni toring .
Most V I IF ante nnas , e ve n a 2 meter a nte nna,

T ho ma s C. Johnsons PC -T rack ve rs io n 3. 1
written in May 1995 (the a uth or bei ng apparcu rly Il O longer contnctabl e) . an d S'Tfi-O rbit
Pl us. written by Dav id H. Ran som . O ther prog ra ms are a lso a vail able fro m th is site .
W ith a pred ictions program . ,y o u ne ed to
en sure that th e so ftw are produces acc u ra te da ta :
th is m enu s upd ating the Kep ler cl ements fi le
every few weeks . Kepler c lem ents a re ge nera ted
from me asurements made by radar a na lysi s of
the veloc ity of satelli te s. Sate llite orbits a rc
mod ified by a number o f factor s. inclu d ing re sid ua l at mo spheric fric tio n (mo st sa te llites arc
th e a tmosp he re) .
ab o ve the den se st parts
Earth' s g ra vita tiona l anomalie s (c a lled m asco ns - m ass con ccntru tio ns ) al so c ha nge the
orbits. and tile M oon' s var iable relat ive d istan ce
has an effect . Th e combined result o f the se
factors is that we usu all y need to update Ke ple r
cle m ents at le ast once each mo nth. I updat e ut
least o nce eac h w eek usin g a large dat abase o f
c le me n ts i s s uc d 011 t he ft p s i t e : ftp ://

or

FIGURE 3: N OAA image S ept ember 2 at

1750UTC.
sho uld recei ve e no ug h sig na l fro m a NOA A
WXSAT to let yo u co nfi rm rhut you have hear d
th em . T he optimum a ntenna has lon g bee n co nsidered to he a righ t-circ ular ly- po larized c rossed d ipo le , but some e xpe riment e rs have resear ch ed
alt erna ti ve d esig ns and come lip with the
q uad rifilar helix (Q f' H) . For purel y rest pu rpo ses . e ve n a random leng th o f wi re con nec ted
to yo ur receive r", in put wil l " he a r" a NO A A or
a Met eor - as I have o fle n con fi rmed! Just
don't expect to de code th e te le metry.

Signal characteristics
Th e so u nd o f a n A PT s ig na l is e asily recog nizcd. Th e . . ignnl co nta ins a d ata lin e length o f
half-a-seco nd . T he ex tracte d audio s ig nal th e re for e has a re pe titio n ra te o f two "c lic ks" per
seco nd. each d id: c ontainin g im ag e informntio n. Meteor A PT so u nds lik e " croa k-croak "
e very seco nd. NOA A \v X SATS encode tw o
di f feren t im age s in e ach line . so this sig na l
so unds like "t ick-toc k. fick-tock " every second .
In the ~()A;\ picture , th e intr a- red image i ~
co nt inuou s. but the o the r chan ne l varie s. In
d ayl ig ht tran sm issi on s. an im age from th e \'isiblc -Iiglu se nsors for ms the seco nd c han ne l. At
ni gh t. a ncar-i nfra- red im age form s th e second
c ha nne l. Th e satellit es cro ss th e te rm ina tor twice
e ac h orbit. so for mu ch {)fthe ye a r \\"~ ca n <;~ e tIH.'
cha n nel swi tc h ha p pe n - an d hear it cl earl y
fro m th e rec e in :r' s spe a ke r.

Prediction software and "elements"

Th e li rsl item in a llY sa te llite monil or ' s ar mory is sure ly a sa te lli le p redi c tio ns prog ram "
Th ere a re sc ve ra l free\v :ln~ progra ms a vailab lc
fro m va riou s so urccs o n th e Intc lll L'l . in d ud ing
AMSA T"s wc b page : http://www ,amsat.org
Thi s ha s lin ks tn se vera l pro gr a m <; . incl uding

oc eanograph ic sate llites SICH - 1 or O KEAN --l-.

but such tra nsmi ss ion s a re only for a few mi nurcs at a time .

D E-mail
Reade rs ca n e -mail m e at :

ne w s abo ut C IS WXSAT o pe ratio ns an d read ers' WXSA T w eb page s.

FREOUENCIES:
Polar orbiting WXSA T S :
NOAA-14 tran smi ts A PT on 137.620 M IfJ.
NOAA - l La nd - l S tran smit A t'T'on l J 7.500
M H/,
NOA As tra nsm it beacon dat a on 136.770 or
137.770 MHz
METEO R 35 transmits A PT on 137.850
Mi ll. whe n in sunlight
Rcsurs 1-4 may transmi t APTon IJ 7.J <X)o r
13HOO MH z
O KEA N-4 and S IC H-l so metimes trunsmi t
briefl y o n 137.400 MHz

12K.149.63.21 pub /spacc/elcmen ts/sntele m/

T he d irec tor y show n is usua lly upd ated o n
Su nday evenings . Data is al so issued by the
Orbi ta l In form a tio n Grou p (O l(l): http: //

/(/\ \...(.llc(.lI(o.)

pcvcrell.dernon.cn.ul: Future ed ition s w ill inel ude i ntonuuti on o n {he move 10 di g ital sig na ls .

Ge ostationary WXSATS:

oi~s)'S()p.'ltsc.Hllied .c()m

GOES-S and GO ES- IO use 169 1 MH z for

WEFA X

C urrent or b ital clemen ts for the weather satcllitc s a rc carried o n th e Cel cs'I'rak sire at: http:/
Icclt'st rak.to m/~ 0 I{AIl/ elt,me nts/wea th cr. tx t
f't P :l lft p .ccl es t r ak . com /pu h/e lc men ts l
weather. txt and ar c usu a lly u pdated d a ily"

Current WXSAT st at us
W ith the equi pmen t list ed . yo u ca n ex pec t to
hl.:"arNOA A s- 12.I-l- a nd 15. trun smiuin g on the
frequenc ie s lis ted at the e nd of th e co lu m n.
Me teor WX S AT s usu a lly transmit in d aylight
o nly. so a re no t nor ma lly heard du ring th e ni g ht.
Meteor 3- 5 is c urre ntly the opera tiona l CIS
t C omm on wcalrh of l nd c pcn dc n t S ta te s)
W X SA T.
/\ ne w Rc surs 1- (nurubcr-l l satellite is being
tested. a nd ma y he heard so me times . Th e latest
inf ormatio n from the Rcsurs satellite op erators
is that th e onboard sys te ms hav e chec ked n ut
satis fac to rily. Tran sm issions hav e ap parently
been mo stly on X19 2 Ml iz. On rare oc cas io ns.
sign a ls m ay he heard o n LnAO .\ H II: fro m the

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MILCOM

A GUIDE TO MIUTARY COMMUNICATIONS

lar

Van Horn, N5FPW

email: lar ry@grove.net

New U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Opens

he U.S. Co ast Guard o pened a new

air statio n at Atla ntic C ity . New Je rsey. o n June 8. 199X. Co ast G uard

Gro up Atlantic City and Air Station Atlantic C ity are located at the At lantic C ity
Internati onal Airport. T he USS I2.J millio n
project took 19 mo nths 10 co mplete. Coast
Guard a ircraft 650 I. 65 11. 65 13. 6522.
6529 . 65 39. and 6580 (H H-65A Dolphin
heli cop ter s) have been o perat ing from the
station since May 18.
Air Station At lant ic Ci ty will pro vide
searc h and rescu e serv ice to the At lantic
coasta l regio ns from Co nnecticut to Virginia. A ir Sta tion Ca pe May' s and A ir Sta tion Brook lyn's o perationa l respon sihilitics ov erlapped in that regio n. and the Co ast
G uard decided the same le vel of cove rage
co uld be ma intai ned by co nsolida ting the
two air statio ns into on e fac ility, accord ing
to Kathy Scott, aviati o n shore fac ilities
man ager , Office of Aviatio n Manage me nt
at Coast Gu ard headq uarters in Wa sh ing ton , D.C . Bot h air stat ions ut Cape May and
Brook lyn will be decomm issioned .
O ne of A irS tation Atlantic Ci tys seve n
HH -65s will ma intain a Coast G uard presence in the Brooklyn area. o perating o ut of
A ir Facili ty Long Island. N.Y..at the Frances
S. Gabreski Airport , fro m Ju ne Hto Octob er
15, according to Lt. Cd r. Brad Bean. Ai r
Station At lantic City a viat io n eng inee ring
officer.
A ircrew s w ill rotate between Atlantic
City and Lo ng Island du ring search and
resc ue seaso n and will use Air Nat iona l
G uard facil ities. Bean said.
Thos e o f yo u in the At lant ic City area
sho uld tunc in 011 freq uenc ies in Table o ne
for Coa st G uard ac tivity . T hank s to J.D.
Ersk ine. World Maritime News. and Coast
G uard Atlantic Area Public Affairs for the
news.

Navy Fleet Wa rninglTact ica'

T hose of yo u who live nca r a U.S. Navy
ship ho meport or Coas t Gu ard cutte r base
sho uld incl ude 277.ROOM Hz in yo ur sca nner loado ut. Thi s freq uency is gua rded CO l}tin uo usly hy all U.S. Navy ships (exce pt
submarines) when under way. Coa st G uard
c utters may usc this freq uency to com muni cate w ith Navy ships whe n requ ired . It is

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Novembe, 1998

TABLE ONE: ATLANTIC CITY

AREA CG ACTIVITY
W i MHz

Ug

108.6000

Automatic Terminal Information

Service (AllS)
120.3000

Atlantic City International Tower

121.9000

AtlanticCity International Ground

(paired with 239.0)

Control (paired with 284.6)
122.9500
124.6000

Unicorn
Approach/DepartureControl (paired

with 263.6)
127.8500

Atlantic City International Clearance

134.2500

Approach/Depa rture Control (paired

156.6000

VH Fmarine cllannel 12 (Nationwide)

VHF marine channelt s- Dtstress.
safety and calling (Nationwide)
VHF marine channel 21 (Nation-

Delivery (paired with 396.0)

with 385.5)
156.8000
157.0500

wide)
157.1 000
157.1 500

VHF marine channel 22(Nation wide)

VHFmarine chan nel 23 (Nation-

wide)
157.1750

II 1I ~ 6 5A Dolphi n heli cop ter ho ven durin g a

rescue. Photo courtesy of the Un ited States
Coast Gua rd

__

This HIl65 Dolphin

helicopter and six
II!~~
others now catt
~ At/antic Citv hom e,
;;l Photo co urtesy of the
United States Coast
Guard

165.2625
2293250
229.3350
237.9000
239.0000

(paired with 120.3)

240.6000
242.6500

also used for na vigat iona l purposes d uring

perio ds of redu ced visibility wh en en teri ng
or leaving port . It is used by the Navy as
\\/(:11 for local ship- sbo rc harhor com municat io ns 0 11 a seco ndary basis to its intership
usc.

VHF marine channel 83 (Nationwide)

Atlantic City Coast Guard Station
Law Enforcement (Simplex)
Search and Rescue Datum Marker
Beacon (Nationwide)
Search and Rescue Datum Marke r
Beacon (Nationwide)
Rescue Coordination/Aircraft
Homing (Nationwide)
Atlantic City International Tower

242.6625
243.0000
263.6000

Search and Rescue Datum Marker

Beacon(Nationwide)
Searc h and Rescue Datum Marke r
Beacon (Nationwide)
Search and Rescue natum Marker
Beacon(Nationwide)
Military UHF Calling/Em ergency
frequency
Approach/Departu re Control (paired

with 124.6)
275.1 000

U.S. Navy on Inma rsat

282.8000

Tab le tw o is a list of the kno wn U.S.

Navy ship tactical ca llsigns that have bee n
monit ored un lnm arsat sate llite frcq ucn cies. We would like to thank John Wilso n
for supplying us w ith this exce lle nt list.
If you have a milcom freq uency or
cullsig u list. we wan t to hear from yo u.
Sen d it to o ur Brassto wn maiIing add ress or
e ma il me at the add ress in the masthead .
Sec yo u ill two mon ths and good hun ting .

284.6000
381.7000
3818000
383.9000
385.5000

Search and Rescue Datum Marker

Beacon (Nationwid e)
Sea rch and RescueNet (Nationwide)
Atlantic City International Ground
Control (paired with 284.6)
Search and Rescue/Law Enlorcement Operations (Nationwide)
Searchan d Rescue/Law Enforcement Operations (Nationwide)
Search and Rescue/LawEnforcement Operations (Nationwide)
Approach/Departure Control (paired

with 134.250)
396.0000

Atlantic City International Clearance

Delivery (paired with 127.85)

TABLE TWO: U.S. NAVY INMARSAT CALLSIGNS

CilllWI

Admiral's Elite
Authentic
Aviation Specialist
Bartman

Beach
Bellafonte
Big Ben
Big Name
Big Sky
Big Tree
Border Peak
Briar Patch
Brillance
Bristle
Bull Winkle
Carlos
Chairman
Cheers
Cherry Tree
Cocktail Onion
Colorful
Cue Ball
Eagle
Ecilpse
Ecilpse II
Ecilpse III
Ecilpse IV
Empire
Father Navy
Fire Storm
Fi rm Grip
Five Flags
Four Score
Friar
Frontiersman
Garden Staff
Governor
Hammering Hank
Handy
Hauler
Hebrew
Hinge
Historian
Hope Foundation
Hospital
Intrepid
Ireland's Own
IronClad
Iron Grip
Jelly
Joker
Keelboat
l en
l eprechaun
Magnolia

Hull Number

FFG50
FFG-45
00G57
FFG56
CG60
00989
FFG42
00981
TAE27
AOE3
TAE34
FFG36
CG56
FFG49
00 9BO
FFG52
00968
00 969
CVN73
009B7
CG-66
00970
AOE6
CVN72
CVN72
CVN72
CVN72
CG-47
OOG52
l SO48
ARS-53
l SO38
CG64
TAFS6
FFG-28
l PO14
00979
FFG55
MCM13
l ST1194
FFG5B
CG51
FFG13
l SO-50
TAH20
CG61
FFG-B
AO179
ARS51
TAFS5
00982
lPO13
FFG53
AGF3
l SO12

Shin Name
USS Taylor
USS De Wert
USS Mitscner
USSSimpson
USS Normandy
USS Deyo
USS Klakring
USSJohn Hancock
USSButte
USSSeattle
USS Mount Baker
USS Underwood
USSSan Jacinto
USS RobertG. Bradley
USSMoosbrugger
USSCarr
USS ArthurW. Radford
USSPeterson
USSGeorgeWaShington
USSO'Bannon
USS HueCity
USSCaron
USS Supply
USSAbraham Lincoln
USS Abraham linc oln
USSAbraham lincoln
USS Abraham Lincoln
USS Ticonderoga
USS Barry
USS Ashland
USS Grapple
USS Pensacola
USS Gettysburg
USS San Diego
USS Boone
USS Trenton
USS Conolly
USS Elrod
USS Dexterous
USS La Moure County
USS Samuel B. Roberts
USS Thomas S.Gales
USS Samuel E. Morison
USS Carter Hall
USS Comfort
USS Monterey
USS Mcinerney
USSMerrimack
USS Grasp
USS Concord
USS Nicholson
USS Nashville
USS Hawes
USS tasaue
USS Shreveport

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Mayport. FL
Mayport. Fl
Nortolk. VA
Nortolk. VA
Nortolk. VA
Norlolk. VA
Norlolk. VA
Mayport. Fl
No Hcmepcrt

Earle, NJ
Charleston. SC
Mayport. Fl
Norlolk. VA
Mayport. Fl
Mayport. Fl
Norlolk. VA
Norlolk. VA
Norfolk, VA
Norlolk. VA
Mayport. Fl
Mayport. Fl
Norlolk. VA
Earle, NJ
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Pascagoula, MS
Norlolk, VA
little Creek, VA
litlle Creek, VA
l ittle Creek, VA
Mayport. Fl
No Homeport
Mayport, Fl
Norlolk. VA
Mayport. Fl
Norfolk. VA
Ingleside, TX
little Creek, VA
Nortolk. VA
Pascagoula, MS
Mayport. Fl
little Creek, VA
No Homeport
Nortolk. VA
Mayport. FL
Nortolk. VA
little Creek, VA
No Homeport
Norlolk. VA
Nortolk. VA
Norlolk. VA
G aeta. lIa ~

Nortolk. VA

CilllWI

Marylou

McIntosh
Mick

Monty's Deal
Motorman
Mountaineer
Musclemen
Northwest

OregonTrail
Passion
Peninsula
Pierside
Pineapple
Pirates
Plateau
PolarBear
Puzzle
Quiet Warrior
Resort
River Siege
Rose Festival
Satcom III
Seaport
Semaphore
Seminole
Serein I
Serein II
Soaring Hero
Solomon Hero
Steel Halo
Stinger
Slinger II
Strong Man
Sunrise
Sunrise II
Sunrise III
Super Natant
Super Natant 11
Swimming Pool
Swords Edge
TarHeel
Terrier
Texan
Thicket
Three Rivers
Timer Stand
Tower
Twilight I
Twilight II
Velarium
WarHero
Whetstone
White Knuckle
White Sand
WhiteWol1

Yuletide

Hyll Number
AE-28
FFG-59
DOG-54
FFG32
AOE-4
l HO-3
lSO44
lSO-41

FFO-ll
MCM-12
CG71
lCC20
FFG-39
lSO46
AO 186
AOE-8
00978
00963
l HA4
CG69
l SO-37
lCC20
l PO15
00-997
CG58
CV-67
CV-67
00G-61
00G55
DOG-58
lH O l
lH Ol
FFG-31
CVN-70
CVN-70
CVN70
CVN-71
CVN 71
CG55
FFG-15
FFG40
00G995
l PO4
00-988
AO- 178
FFG29
CG-68
CVN-68
CVN6B
CG72
00G51
00-977
CG-48
lHA-2
CVN-69
FFG47

Ship Name
USS Santa Barbara
USS Kauffman
USS Carney
USSJohn L. Hall
USS Detroit

USSKearsarge

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Charleston. SC
Nortolk. VA

Mayport. Fl
Pascagoula, MS
Earle. NJ
Norlolk. VA

USS Gunston Hall

littleCreek.VA
USS Whidbey Island
Uttle Creek, VA
USS Clarl<
Norloll<, VA
USS Ardent
Ingleside. 1>::
USS Cape SI. George
Norlolk. VA
USS MountWMney
Norfolk VA
USS Doyle
Mayport. Fl
USS Tortuga
Little Creek, VA
USS Plane
Norlolk.VA
USS Arctic
Earle, NJ
USS Stump
Norlolk. VA
USSSpruance
Mayport. Fl
Norfolk, VA
USS Nassau
USS Gettysburg
Mayport. Fl
USS Portland
litlle Creek, VA
USSMountWhitney Stat! Norlolk. VA
USS Ponce
Norlolk. VA
USS Hayler
Norlolk. VA
USS Philippine Sea
Mayport, Fl
USSJohn F. Kennedy
Mayport, Fl
USSJohn F. Kennedy
Mayport, Fl
USS Ramage
Norfolk. VA
USS Stoul
Nortolk. VA
USS l aboon
Norlolk. VA
USSWasp
Norlolk. VA
USSWasp
Norlolk. VA
Mayport. Fl
USS Stark
USS Carl Vinson
Bremerton, WA
USS Carl Vinson
Bremerton, WA
USS Carl Vinson
Bremerton, WA
USSTheodore Rooseve ll Nortolk. VA
USS Theodore Roosevelt Nortolk. VA
USS leyteGulf
Nortolk, VA
USS Estocin
Norfolk. VA
USS Haleyburton
Norlolk. VA
USS Scott
Mayport. Fl
USS Austin
Nortolk. VA
USS Thorn
Ncrlclk. VA
USS Monongahela
Norlolk.VA
USS Stephen W. Groves Pascagoula, MS
USSAnzio
Nortcfk. VA
USSNimitz
Norlolk.VA
USSNimitz
Norlolk. VA
USSVella Gull
Norfolk, VA
USSArteigh Burl<e
Norfolk, VA
USSBriscoe
Norlolk. VA
USS Yorktown
Pascagoula, MS
Norfolk. VA
USSSalpan
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Norfolk, VA
USSNicholas
Norlolk. VA

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Coming to Terms with Radar - 2

e lcome aboard. eve ryone ! In this

issue. we present part 2 orour look

at air tra ffic con tro l (ATC) rad ar.

an d continue ou r lengthy listi ng of air line

cnllsigns.
Unlike th e Ai r Rou te Surve illance Radar
(A RS R) me nt ion ed last month . A ir po r t S u r -

veilluuce Radar (ASR ) is designed [ 0 provide

short-range (50 mile ) cove rage in the genera l
vicinity of an airpo rt. and it e nab les the ex peditiou s ha ndli ng of te rmi nal urea traffic by show ing prec ise aircraft locations on a rada rscope .
~ 1ust me d ium-to-large rada r facilities a t U .S.

airports utilize some form of auto mated rada r

terminal syste m (A RTS) . T his is the generic
term for the function a l capabili ty affo rded hy
se ve ral automa ted sy ste ms. Each diff ers in
fun ctional purpose and eq uipme nt . ARTS. p lus

a suffix Ro man num er al . den o tes a specific

system: a following lcuc r indicates a major
mo di ficat ion to tha i partic ula r sys te m.
In ge ne ral. an A RTS di splay sho ws the
terminal controller an a ircra ft' s ident ificat ion .

n ight plan da ta, a nd o ther fli ght -associ ated

informa tion in conjunction with his other radar
pr esent ati on . Nor mal radar co -e xists with the
a lpha -nu me ric d ispl ay . In addition to en ha ncing visua liza tio n of the air traffic s itua tio n.
ARTS facilitat es the transfer and coordi nation
of'ff ight information . Each ARTS le vel has the
abi lity to co mm unicate with other ARTS types,
<IS we ll as w ith air traffi c contro l ce nte rs
(A RTCCs). Th e sys te ms in ascc nding order of
sophisticatio n arc A RTS II. A RT S lI A a nd E.
AR T S III . a nd AR TS ili A and E.
Air Route Su rve illa nce Radar (A RSR)
ge ne rical ly refer s to ARTCe radar use d pr im uril y to det ect und d isp la y an aircraft ' s position
while en ro ute betwee n termin a l arcas.t n so me
instan ces. A RSR may e nable ' Ill A RTCC 10
prov ide terminal rad ar se rvic es sim ila r to tho se
p ro vid ed by a ra da r appro ach cont rol.
EI1f<H1t e rada r coverag e cun e xte nd up to40()
miles: howev er. 200 miles is the normal wor king runge in an A RTCC.
Natio nal Airspace Sy stc m St <lgc A com-

regula~
!

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prises the c nromc ai r tr uffl e co ntro l sys te m"s

radar. co mpute rs and computer pro grams. contro ller plan view d isp lay s (P V Ds/ R'lda rscopes }, inpu t/o utput devices . a nd the relat ed
co m m unications equip me nt wh ic h arc intcgrated 10 form the heart of the automated
Inst rum ent Flight R ules ( IFR ) air traffic co ntrol syste m. Th is equi pme nt pe rforms !light
d ata proc essi ng (F OPI and Rad ar Oata Pro ccvsing ( RD P). It interface s with auto mated
te rm ina l syste ms an d is used in the co ntro l of
c nro utc aircraft.
Both airport surve iIIanee radar <Inti air route
surveillance radar use rad ar d ata processed

(dig itizcd l displays atl cast 7SfJr: of' thc time c-referred to <IS be ing in the narrowband mode .
Durin g the re maining time . the hac kupt broadhand ) sys te m is p UI into use. so that the mai n
syste ms can undergo preven tive main tenance .
Each rada r system has se veral back ups.
AU ARTCC radar s in the conterminous
United Stutes a nd mo st ai rport survei lla nce
radars ha ve the ab ility to inte rrogate Mode C

(sec last month ) and d isp lay altitude infor mation to th e co n tro ller fr o m ap pro priat ely
equ ippe d ai rcra ft. Howe ve r. the re arc a small
numbe r o f airport surveillance radars that arc
still twndimcnviunal Irunge andazimuth o nlyl ;
conseq uen tly. al titude infor mation must he
obtained from the pilot.
AI some locution s wit hin the ATe enroute
enviro nment. seconda ry radar only (no p rima ry radar ) ga p filler radar sys te ms arc used to
g ive lowe r a ltitude rada r co verage be tween two
larger radar systems. eac h of wh ich prov ides
bo th primary and seconda ry radar co vcrugc. fn
the geographica l arcu s serviced by secondary
radar on ly. ai rcraft lIitlllllltlr.mspondcrs cal/ Il ot be prov ided wi th radar ser vice. Add ition ally . transponder-equi ppe d ai rc raft can no t he
pro vided with radar ad visorie s co ncerning primary targets and weather.
Th ere is one more type of radar that we wi ll
brief ly examine : Precision Approach Radar
(PAR). In the United States. it is mo stly utilized
by the military. although there is SOOle ci vilian
usage .
Rada r equipment in so me ATe faci lit ies
operated by the Federal Av iat ion Ad ministration (fAA )and/or the military se rvice s at jo intusc c ivil/military location s and separate militar y insta llations arc used to det ect and di spl ay
azimu th. elevation. and range o f aircra ft o n the
fina l approach co urse to a flll1\\ay . Thi s eq uip-

mcru ma y be used to monitor ce rtai n no n-rada r

approaches. bU I it i.. primarily used 10 co nduc t
a precision instru ment approach . In this r ase
the co niro ller i...sues guidance instruc tio n.. to
the pilot based 0 11 the aircnuts position in
relat ion 10 the final app roac h course tazinunlu.
the g fidcpath Iclc vaunnl. and tilt: di stan ce
(range) fro m the: tou chdown point on the run way as d isplayed on the radarscopec.
Each PAR sco pe is divided into two pans :
the upper hal f presen ts alt itude .I1lJ d istance
information . and the: low e r hal f presents azimuth and dis ta nce . Runge is limited to lumucs.
azi mu th to :!O degree s. and clcv..n ion to 7 degre cs . Conseq uently. o nly the final approac h
area is covered.
We ' vc really come a long ",.1)' from the day s
whe n <I II radarsco pes were mounted ho ri zon tally and little pla stic marker .. called "shrimp
boats" (re prese nti ng flight s wor ked in a particul ur sec tor) were pushed aro und on the scope
to hel p controllers identify an aircraft' s position. Unfortu na tely . w he n these shrimp boats
were in usc. nil it too k was o nc explo xive s nee ze
fro m a cont rollerto wi pe awa y a who le sec tor's
port ion of th e sky!

More Airline Callsigns

ODYSSEY - Odyssey international
OLYMPIC Olympic Airways S.A
OSCAR NOVEMBER - Air Nau ru

PARAGUYA Lineas Aereas Paraguayas

PARCEL EXPRESS - Apex Air Ca rgo
PERU - Aeronaves Del Peru S. A.
PH ILIPPINE, Philippine Air Lines. Inc.
POLISH AIRFORCE 1 Presidential Flight
PROMPTAIR - Air Cargo Carriers. Inc.
OANTAS OANTAS Airways Limited
RAINBIRD - Island Air Express
RED CR OSS - InternationalRedCross
REEVE Reeve Aleutian Airways. Inc.
REGAL- Crownair
RELIANT- ReliantAirlines. Inc.
RICHAIR Rich International Airways. Inc.
ROMEO NOVEMBER Royal Air Inter
ROYAL JET 8200- Krng's Flight VIPAircraft(Jordan)
ROYAL NEPAL Royal Nepal Airlines Corp.
RYAN AIR Ryan Air Services. Inc.
SABENA - Sabena World Airlines
SAUDIA Saudia Arabian Airlines
SAUDIA GREEN flIGHT VIPGovernment Flight
SCANDINAVIAN (SAS) - Scandinavian AirlinesSystem
SEYCHELLES Air Seychelles
SFACT - (France) Director of Civil Aviation
SHADOW - Air Exel Belgique
SHAMROCK - Aer lingus - Teoranta
SHARJAH Sharjah Ruler's Right
SHEPHERD 1 Papal Flighl
SIERRA HOTEL - HondurasAir Service
SIERRA UNifORM Aeroflol
SINBAD Arab Air Cargo
SINGA - Republic of Singapore Air Force
SISAL - Seychelles International Safari Air. ltd .
SKYWALKER General Aerospace. Inc.
SPAR , U.S. Air Force VI P aircraft training flight
SPECIAL- Metropolitan Police Air SupportUnit (UK)
SPEED BIAO- British Airways
SPRINGBO K South AfricanAirways
STAR CHECK U.S. Check Airlines
SUDANAIR - Sudan Airways

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Beverage questions

a nte Carro ll wrote bv email with a

few co mme nts
qtiestions about
the " Coo l Beverage" l described in
the January issue of AfT. " Mi ne is about 400
fee t lon g a nd 8 feel high . \ Vire is ind ividual 22
gauge te leph one wire I pulled out and separated . It start s ut the shac k's seco nd story
wi ndow , runs out abou t 200 feet to a vo lley ba ll pole. the n to a hom e-ma de ma st another
200 feet furt her. Th e gro und rod with 470
ohm resistor is ne xt to a cree k on the edge o f
the prop erty. It works qu ite well. a imed almost nort hwest like yours."
" W hat is the purpose of the coax le ad- in?
I have the wire com ing in d irectly to the radio
and il see ms to wor k alright Admi ttedl y. I
suspec t the co ax wo uld prob ably shie ld it
from the RF of the co mp ute r here;"
Yes. that' s the ma in reason for the coax; to
shie ld aga inst spurio us signa ls. hl Monte' s
case, the nea r end of the ante nna co mes direc tly into the radio roo m. so there isn' t as
much spurious pick up as there might be:But
I would still reco mmen d using coax for the
last 30-50 feet unless you live in anu nus ual fy
I
quiet ho use .
" For gro unding on this' end, wo uld co nnecting it to the scre w o~ the AC dullet wo rk
as we ll as an ac tua l gro und rod '!" :
Prob ab ly not. I will admi t I haven' t tried it
-even if I had, the resu lts in my house could
be very di ffe re nt fro m those in Monte' s, or
yours .Th e center screw in a n AC outle(sho uld
be connected throu gh a ground wire to a
gro und co nductor in yo ur fusebox, and then
from there to a grou nd rod . But. I have seen
outlets where it isn 't co nnected at all! Even if
it is wired propcrly. fhewire take s the "l ong
way aro und" to ge t to gr~u rid . Al w ire going to
a gro und rod by the shortest route possi ble is
sti ll a better idea . So me ha ms even' lay down
gro und "rad ials" (wires b id on. or e ve n buried in the gro und) .
I;.
Mont e has used the Beverage w ith a Rad io
Sh ack DX-394 and a GE Su peradio. He j us t
wraps the insulated wire 'around the Whip
I ,.
antenna of the DX- 394 , or co nnec ts it dir ec tly
to the termina l of the Supc rad io, T he " balun"
is prob abl y not necessary with these sets, but
you' re likely to need it with it low-impedance
U
recei ve r like a ham rig.
The " home made mas(,; is a n 8- 10 foot

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sec tion of the smalles t alumi num co nduit

a vai lable at Home Depot. Monte' s mast is
transpo rtable - he stuck the co ndu it in a 5gallon restaura nt pic kle bucket lined with
vegeta ble oil . the n filled the bucket wi th con cre te . After allowing ab out 36 hours for the
concrete todry. he removed the bucket (linin g
it wit h o il made it easier to ge t it of0 and had
a tra nsportable ma st. Standoff insulators for
the old " tw in-lead" T V antenn a cable were
use d to ho ld the w ire <It the top of (he pole .

Bits and Pieces from Canada

In March . I repo rted the filin g of applications for digita l audio broadcasting (DA B)
statio ns in T oro nto. Now , d igi ta l rad io is
coming to a nother o f Canada's la rgest cities .
In ea rly August, applica tions we re ti led for
dig ital stations in Mo nt rea l. T he Canadia;l
Bro adca sting Co rporatio n's (C BC) four station s wi ll sha re a trans mitte r on 1458.04 8
M Hz. while private statio ns C KGrvI9tJO,
C KAC-730 , C HO M-97 .7. and C ITE- J0 7.3
1
will share one on 14 52.816 M Hz. Bot h trans mitters will ope rat e at 11.724 kW of powe r.
U nfort~nately fo r the DXer inter ested in
~'"

I ~ ste n ~ng to Canad i~n radio, C BC 's AM,st~lions IIl.Montreal will p.robably be off the au
hy the u me yo u read this, CB L-7 40 Torom~
W i ll probably be off soo n, too , If It rsn t
already . Larry Van Hom reports no signals
fro m thi s nonnally do mina nt station.
FM DXers should no te tha t the C BC see ms
to have swapped the frequ en cie s of their
Montreal Fre nch-language FM sta tions. Th e
" AM net work" station that used to occ upy
690 kHz will take ove r the ex isting transmi tter used by the class ical-music serv ice on
100 .7 MH z. T he class ical music will ap pear
on the new transmitter on 95 . I M Hz . T he ca ll
lett ers CBFX-F1\1 hav e bee n ass igned to the
100.7 MH z transmi tter. wi th the old ca lls
CBF-F M mov ing to 95 . 1. A similar sw ap
appears to ha ve happen ed bet ween the two
Fre nch stations in Qu eb ec C ity on 95.3 and
106.3.
By the way, don' t ex pec t 690, 740. or 940
kH z to stay silent for long. App licat ions ha ve
a lready bee n rec eiv ed for both Montrea l station s, a nd the e BC has placed ads offering to
lease the 740 transm itter. T her e arc rum ors

that the Fre nc h-la nguage sta tio n in Toronto

on 860 may a lso he moving to FM (90.3);
Canadians have to ld me the Fren ch-language
classica l music station currently usin g this
FM frequency showed literally :.ero listeners
in the ratings .
One might expect a "domi no effect" here .
E xisti ng A M stations with lower-power faci lities arc e xpected to receive these ch annels :
for e xample. e FR B 10 I0 is considered oneof
the strongest ca ndid ates for 740. If CFRS
le aves 10 IO. expec ta nother Toro nto-area AM
station to bid for the 10 10 spot. Th ree or four
A M freq ue ncies uHI go sile nt in the T oronto
and Montrea l areas. but they prob ably wo n' t
be the big cle ar cha nne ls,
Returning to the States ... Anot he r expanded-band stat ion has appea red. KBG GI700replacesK KSO- I390 Des Moin es. Iowa:
1390 is now sile nt. KBGG carries programming fro m the Business News Ne two rk. Martin Ga llas nea r Spring fie ld. Illinois, a nd Pat
Griffith in suburban Denver have both report ed this station (as have a nu mbe r of Na
tiona l Radio Club me m be rs - an d yours
truly ).
I know other read ers hav e been expe ri-. me nting w ith Beverage a nte nnas - hav e you
haa succes s with yours? W rite me at Box 98.
Brasstown NC 289 02- 0098. or by e ma il at
w9u';@!Jelliowh .llel .

CANADIAN TARGETS
TheseCanadianstations should have the strongest
signals in theChicago area. and should begood
targets in the rest of the Midwest. Stations marked
with anasterisk (.) are moving to FM; you may hear
somethingelsefromthat city ontheir frequency!
frequency' ~
540
CSK (CBCRadio 1)

690

990

CBF(Radio canada)
CBl (cec Radio 1)
CKlW
CJBC(Radio Canada)
CHMl
CBM (CBC Radio 1)
CBW (CBC Radio 1)

1010

Cf RB

1050
1S50
15BO'

CBE(CSC Radio 1)
CBJ (Radio Canada)

740'

BOO
B60'
900
940'

CHUM

CiJl!;
Regina.
saskatchewan
Montreal, Quebec
Toronto, Ontario
Windsor. Ontario
Toronto. Ontario
Hamilton. Ontario
Montreal, Quebec
Winnipeg,
Manitoba
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
Chicoutimi,
Quebec

OUTER LIMITS
THE CLANDESTINE, THE UNUSUAL, THE UNUCENSED

George Ze er
George.Zeller@acclink.com

waco; Pirate Station Goes legit

Ch~ran

pirate radio legend Allan H.

Weiner has commenced broadcasting
from \ V8CQ . a new lice nsed USA
shortwa ve statio n. Using the former ly traditional pirate freq uency of74 15 kl-lz,the statio n
has been widely heard with its new 50 kW
transmitter. This station is an o utlet for the
formerly p iT' IIC Radi o Free New York , but
other paid prog ramming rou nds out the sche dule.
Te sting starte d 0 11 August 20. with reg ular
programming since September. WB CQ ' s slogan . "T he Planet: ' is evide nt in its QSL card.
Reports with return pos tage are be ing verified
via 97 High Stree t. Kenn ebunk. Maine 04043.

FM Pirate Busts
Th e FCC co ntinued its polic y of act ive FM
micr opi ratc statio n busts l ute i n the summer.
Severa l Florida pi rates and fou r Cleveland
micr opir atcs were shut down . hut many dozens
of stations remain act i ve acro ss the country .
Th is crack down has not been ev ident on the
short wave pira te band s. where act ivity remain s
at a br isk level. Mean while. dozens of new
right wi ng Orthodox pirates remain activ e i n
Israel. despite a Supreme Co urt ru l in g that they
should be l icensed or cl osed.

Europirate Season
W ith wi nter propaga tion return in g. it' s time
to target Europirute transm itters that can be
heard in North America. European D X perts
Ranier Brandt and Stefa n Prinz note that 3900 -

3950.62 10-6290. a nd 11470 kHz have recent ly been the most active freq uency ranges in
usc. SRS Report Service at http ://www.lI s.sel
-jatrnews.ht m t i s a good web vite for recent
loggin g updates. For those with an intere st i n
clande stin e radio statio ns. Cland estine Radio
l ntrl at http: //www .(l sl.n et /)hOrmi /
c1and.h tml rema in s a tre mendo us resource.

Shortwave Pirate Activity

Pirates heard hy our readers last month all
used frequencies wi thi n 500 kH z of 6955 kH z.
typicall y from two hours before sunset to at
least 0500 UTe. M orn in g and afte rnoo n broad casts increase on the weekends. Progr ammi ng
formats and contact maild rops ( when k now n)
are l isted here.
Betty Boop Radio- Old 1940's Betty Baop and Papeye
music is an unusual format.(Provide nce )

Try J J.J70 near sunset f or Hums like SWRS

Blind Faith Radio- Anewone. witha rock oldies lormat
(Stoneham)
Diana Is Dead Radio- Tasteis not a strong point on this
Princess Diana memorial station. (none, verifies bulletin

logs)
He Man Rad io- He Man's parody 01the battle of the
sexes is a favorite of many. (Blue RidgeSumm it)
Jerry Rigg ed Radio- like most pirates, rock music is
their staple . (Providence)
KCFL- Pat Griffith heard this 1970's WCFL-Ch icago
memo rial station on 1630 kHz. (none)
Lounge Lizard Radio- No other shortwave station
programs cocktail loungevocalmusic. (Providence)
Mystery Radio- A distinctive instrumental music style
conlinu es here. (Stoneham)
Rad io Amazoni a- This Europirate rockerhas regular
North American relays. (Wuppertal)
Radio Azte ca- Bram Stoker's long-running OX parody
station is always hilarious. (Belfast)
Radio caueme- Normally a South American music
station, they now have a NorthAmerican relay. (Merlin)
Radio Eclipse- A "Don't Worry, Be Happy" interval
signal leads to rock and comedy fromSteve Mann.
[Providence!
Radio Freed om- Their powerful Sig nal during tests
promised l abor Day shows . but holiday activity was
sparse. (Unknown)
Radio Garbanzo- Fearless Fred's original gut-splitting
humor is highly entertaining. (Belfast)
Ra dio Inca- This new parody shows promise. with
South American andCentral American music.
(Providence)
Radio Metallica- Or. romano's 10kW powerhouse
frequently comments on President Clinton's sexual
behavior. (Blue RidgeSummit)
Radio Nonsense- Joe Mama's rock is spiced with
comedy sketches. (Bellast)
Radio TornadoWorldwide - This parOdy station plays
actual voice clipsIrom Radio u etanca. (none)
Radio xanar- Science fictiondrama and related music
come fromthis unusual one. (Stoneham)
RFM H. V. Short's veteran rock and comedy sketch
station is active again. (Bellast)
SWRS- Their 11470 kHzsignal is thebest heard
Eu ropnate in NorthAmerica. (Wuppertat)
Tang erine Radio- RaunchyRick's anarchist station,
originally from the 1980's, is making acomeback.
(Belfast)

Voice of Laryn gitis- Veteran 1980's pirates Genghis and

Stanley Huxley (With Arty the barking seal) areback with
newcomedy! (Belfast)

Vo ice of the Pig's Ear- An activenew onewith rock and

"radical" rightwingadvocacy. (none)
Voice of theRaving Lunatic- With only oneshow so far,
we await further developments. (none. but verifies
bulletin logs)
Voice of the Rock- They use a lowpower "Grenade"
transmitter froman island all Boston, (Providence)
WARR - Captain Nobeard's snows are similar to the
WEED format. (none active)
WBIG-BigMike specializes in hard rock tunes. (Beltast)
WEED- JohnnySmoke's marijuana advocacyis always a
slick production . (Huntsville)
WHYP- A memorial to local upstate New York
broadcaster James Brownyard. (e-mail via
whyp1530@yahoo.com)
WLlS- Jack Boggan's interval signals regularly appear in
the pirate band. (Blue Ridge Summit)
WM Fa- Thisone promotes the aSL process in a profane
way. (Providence)
WRYT- Rock and easy listeningmusic plus TV theme
songs areheard here . (Be lfast)
WS RR- Dr. love normally broadca stsa soulmusic
play'ist. (Bellast)
WUNH Rockabitly and Do-Wop oldies have been
recently featured . (Providence)
Reception report s to pi rate stations require
three first class stamps for USA muildrops or
$2 U S to foreign add resses. Se nd your letters to

PO Box I. Bell" ' I. NY 147 t I. 1'0 Bo x 2~4 13.

Provid ence. RI 029()H; PO Box 109. Blu e Ridge
Summit. PA 17114 : PO 130.'\ 146. Stoneham.
MA 021 80; PO 130'\ 11512. H untsvi ll e. AL
351-: 14: PO Box 1lJ3. M erl i n. Ontario NOP I \YO:
and PO Box 220J42. Wuppcrtal . Germany.

Thanks!
You r input i s al way s welcome via PO
Box 9X. Brasstown . N C 2XtJ02. or Viii the email add ress atop the column . We appreciate
material sent in this month fr om: John T.
Arthur, Belfast, NY; Shown Axelrod, Wi nnipeg,
Manitoba ; Ranier Brandt, Hoefer, Germany; Ross
Comeau, Andover, fAA; Joe Filipkowski,
Providence, RI; Herold Frodge, Midland, MI; Poul
Griffin, Son Francisco, CA; PotGriffith, Federal
Heights, CO; Rich and Iclec Jurrens, Koty, TX;
Kevin Klein, WI; Michoellehane, lakela nd, Fl ;
Zacharios Licnqcs, Itoly; Chris Lobdell. Stoneham,
1v\A; Greg Maiewski, O akdale, CT; Dove
Maxwell, Toronto, Ontario ; Bill McClintock,
Minneapolis, MN ; Gory Neal, Sugar l and, TX;
Pot Nobel, Toledo, OH; Dick Pearce, Brattlebora,
VT; Stefan Printz, Ytterby, Sweden; AI Quaglieri,
Albany, NY; Jesse Rose, Hamplon, VA; Randy
Ruger, West Hollywood, CA; Martin Schoech,
Merseburg, Germany; Ed Schwartz, Chicago, Il ;
Dick Seggelin, Whitman, f'I\A; H. V. Short, ~M;
le e Silvi, Mentor, OH; DJ Stevie, Basel, Switzerland; Allen H. Weiner, Kennebunk, ME; Jeff
W hite, Miami , Fl; Niel Wo lfish, Toronto, O ntorio;
and David Zantow, Jonesville, W I.
November 1998

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77

BELOW
SOO KHZ
DXING THE BASEMENT BAND

Kevin Core , WB2QMY

lowbond@gotewoy.net

Tips from Our Readers

his month weI t share an assortment of

lips and reader loggings, man y of wh ich
we ren' t incl uded recent co lu mns be cause of spac e limitat ion s. In the pro cess,
yo u' ll hope full y be inspired to tunc into the
low bands du rin g this season of rapidly improving cond itio ns. Nove mber. ill fact. oft en
mark s the beginn ing of the year' s best DX
rece ption .
Speaking o f Dx . rhis a goo d time to revie w
the basics for hea ring Euro pea n low Ir equc ncy ( LF) broad casters in No rth Ameri ca.
The first ru le for success is to ha ve a pa th of
darkness bctvvccn yo u anti the transmitting
station. Th is mean s tu ning from du sk unt il
ahOUI I a.m.
If yo u live ncar the East Coast, yo u have
the best chuucc at hea ring these stations . but
they have a lso been co pied from listen er s
much farther inland . Eve n ifa station is not
strong enough to hear clea rly, you ma y be
able to de tect its presence by turnin g on yo ur
receiver' s s ingle sideband/beat freque ncy
osci llaotr (SSB/ BFO ) switc h. and listening
for the tellt a le whistle of its ca rrie r.
An e xce llen t tip for DXing these statio ns
was giv en by Paul Orm and )' o f the New
Zea land Radio DX League via the Internet.
He s ug ge s ts prog rammi ng the s ta ndard
lo ngwa vc (L\V) broad cast freque nc ies into
yo ur rece ive r' s memory ch a nne ls to sim plify
tu ning. Wi th this met hod )-'011 ca n do a complc te check of the hand in a ve ry shor t time.
T he standard freq ue ncy assignme nts nrc: 15J ,

162.1 64. 17 1. 177. 180. 183. 189. 198. 207.

2 16, 225 , 2 27, 2 J~ , 2-B . 25 2, 26 1 and 270
kl l z. Keep an ear on 25 2
k l-l z for one o f the more
co lorful sta tions on the
ba nd - Atlantic 252 of
Irel an d .

We have numero us l o g,~j ll g,s this mo nth

from IW O lo ng time MT co ntributo rs- D id
Pearce (VT) and A llen Ren ner (PA ). Several
o r the beacons listed a re outside the U.S . md
Canada. and woul d mak e exc e llent DXing
target s as the cool er wea ther sets in. Let me
know what you're hea ring ! Se mi your favorite leg gings (and photoco pies of QSLs ) to :
Belo w SOD kHz, P.O. Box 9X Brasstow n, NC
2X902. Be sure to take so me tim e out fro m
monitoring to e nj oy the Th an ksgiving season
with famiI)" a nd friends .
hut I a lso men tioned that locat ing thi s w ire
could he a real chal lenge.
\Ve now have ur leas t one supplier 10 a nnou ncc. New England Electric W ire Corpo rati on. located in Lisbon . i':cw Hampshi re.
o ffe rs se ve ral ty pes o f Litz w ire .1I1d o ffers <l
lin e col or ca ta log de sc ribing their wares. Espc..: ia lly interesting is a w rite -up describing
ho w Lit z w ire ge ts its na me and how it wo rks
Lo maximi ze e ffi cie ncy in ind uctors . An inde pth tech nica l bro chu re is also incl uded Ihat
lists the physica l pa ram eters o fL itz wire ami
shows the reco m men ded freq ue ncy range for
all types. T o get u copy o f the ca ta log. call the
facto ry .u (60 3) X3X-6625 or e -mail them at
.'ia /(}.\" (g~ 11("(' 1"( ' . ('( 1m .

l.itz wire is a natural choice 1i.)1" I.F loadin g cells. Above is a high Q coil built by Bill
Bow e rs (OK) for usc 0 11 the licen se-free
Lowfc r ba nd ( 160- 190 k l-lz). Th e coil form is
made fro m the base of an old sprayer bottle
measuring a bout 19 inc hes in diam eter.

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sulated strands. allows yo u
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SELECTED BEACON LOGGINGS

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216
224
224
230
232
238
250
251
257
258
254
260
266
268
300
323
330
338
353
353
353
353
354
360
362
365
369
369
374
379
380
382
388
391
392
401
402
404
404
412
415
415
417
423
426
428
450
450
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CLB
MD
VW D
DB
GP
MMK

Carolina Beach. NC
Moosonee. ONT
West Dover. VT
Sle. Fay. OUE
Gaspe. DU E
Meriden, CT
Terrace Bay. ONT
Machias, ME
Waterbury. CT
Sandy Lake. ONT
Summerside. PEl
Attawaprskat. ONT
Greenwood, NS
Mt.Mansfield. VT
Barahona. DOM
SI. David's Head, BEA
Bar Harbor. ME
Rayville. LA
McKinnon. GA
Hluuerote. VEN
Higuarole. VEN
LittleRock, AR
S1. Pierre Island. SP
Kingston. JAM
Lima.OH
Dozumel. MEX
SI. Johns, ANT
St. Johns, ANT
Sable Island. NS
BroadRiver, NC
Cayojabo. CUBA
Unidentified
Washington, NC
Sa n Juan. PR
Ve ra Beach, FL
Pea'lla nuck. ONT
Sa n Josedel Guavia re. COL
North Bay. ONT
Baltimore. MD
Clinton. NC
Ahoskie. NC
Bonham, TX
Huntington. IN
Cherokee . Iowa
Fort Payne. Al
Orange City. VA
Puerto Plata, DOM
Puerto Plata, DOM
Rock Rapids. IA
Chatham. NB

(D.P.-VT)
(D P.-VT)
(A.A.-PA)
(D.P.-VT)
(D P-VT)
(D P.VT)
(D.P.VT)
(D P -VT)
(D.P.-VT)
(D. P.VT)
(D.P -VT)
(A.A.-PA)
(D.P. VT)
(D P.-VT)
(A.R.-PA)
(A.A.PA)
(AR.-PA)
(A R- PA)
(D. P.-VT)
(D P.-VT)
(A.R. -PA)
(A.R. -PA)
(D.P.-VT)
(A R -PA)
(D.P.-VT)
(A.R.-PA)
(D.P.-VT)
(A.R.-PA)
(D.P.VT)
(D.P.VT)
(A.R.-PA)
(D.P.VT)
(D. P. -VT)
(D.P.-VT)
(A.R.PA)
(A.R. -PA)
(A.R.PA)
(D. P.-VT)
(D.P.VT)
(D P.VT)
(D.P.VT)
(A R -PA)
(D. P.-VT)
(A.R .-PA)
(D.P.VT)
(D.P.-VT)
(DP.-VT)
(A.R.PA)
(A.R. -PA)
(A.R.-PA)

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SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE FRUGAL MONITOR

An affordable restoration: Heathkits GR-64

fte r se ve ral years of restoring olde r.

T he o bjec t is to remo ve e xce ss so lder from the

PC hoard which wi ll e limi nate an y co ld so lde r
joints ca used hy poo r so lde ring techniqu e: the
lea di ng pro blem with Heath kit and Knightkit
radi os.

tub e -t yp e radi o gear. ca lle d

Boatanchors or " BA s" by those in

the craft. one thi ng has become o bvious:

prices on lube gear have risen to astronomical

heights. Collins, Drakeand select Hallicrutrers
sets now brin g top dollar. with prices occa-

Alignment techniques

sionally becom ing so o utra geous tha t many

o f us wonder how anyo ne can afford to participate in thi s facet of the radi o hob by .

Take heart ! All is not lost. Every hamfest

wi ll tum up a few entry lev e l sho rtwa ve (S \ V)

sets of the '5 0s and ' 60s that make great

restoration project s for the neophyte. Ab ou t
two yea rs ago , I was prowling a fleam ark et
and fo und a Heathkit GR -64 SW rec eiver for
$20. Shades of the past ! I built a GR -64 in Ill y
college days and used it in my dorm room for
several years . I decided that this rece iver
wo uld m ake a g reat restora tio n projec t
The G R-64 is Heathki t' s lo w-end e ntry
into the ge ne ral cov e rage SW field fro m the
mid-' 60s. T he four lube design . featu ring a
12B E6 m i xer/l ocal osci llator (LO). 12B A 6

intermediate frequency (IF)amplifier/beat Irequ cncy osci llato r ( BFO) . 12A V6 detecto r/
audio amp. and a 12AQ5 audio output. is
straightfo rward und is ea sy to trouble shoot.
A tho rou gh visua l inspec tion of th e recei ver. co nce ntra ting on burned. cha rred. or

missing components. modifications. blown

fu ses o r obv iou s sig ns o f ta mpcring is a m ust.

Don't let your desire to apply power overshado w a good technical approac h to m aking
sure your rece ive r is tree from obvious problems. Be very o bservant an d look fo r " mo ds ."
extra switches, pan s a nd wiring. as these sets
were e xce llent ca nd ida tes for ex pe riment ation by those ofq uestion able electroni cs back ground .

Go by the book
A manual is a necessity at this poi nt.
Heat hkit has recently started furni shin g photoc opi es of their ma nua ls fo r a no m ina l cost.
Ot her so urce s o f manua ls arc ham fest Ilea
ma rkets. Heat h collec tors on the Heath kit
refl ecto r (helllhkit @q lh.11l'1) o n the intern et .
A.G . Ta nnenbau m ' s in Ambler. Pcun sylv a nia , o r \V7 FG Ma nu als u.
M y uni t played from the start but the 1\C
hum from a bad filter cap a ll hu t ma sk cd the
receiver audio . A qu ick trip 10 the junq ue bo x
yielded a re placement and the hum di sap 80

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pcnred .
A ltho ug h Illy G R-64 work ed . it did not
wor k we ll. T he rece ive r tCIH.led to sque al
w he n tuned 10 a stro ng: sig nal and the BFO
was non func tio nal. First o rdcroltroublc shoo ting: tukc a d ose loo k ut the circ uit board a nd
switc h wiri ng. and com pare it 10 the picto rial
d iag rams and sc he ma tic in the GR -64 ma nual .
Bov, di d I find so me d ifferen ces!
R-5. the 12k o hm sc ree n re sist or for V I.
the 12B E6 oscill ator/mixer. had burned ope n.
A previ ou s ow ner
the radi o d id no t bo the r
10 fi nd out the pro pe r val ue of R-5 and slappe d
.1 I k ohm rc-istor from the sc ree n of VI to B+
line . placin g almost 120 Vdc o n the sc ree n of
V I whic h was o nly supposed 10 have 90 Vdc!
NOI o nly did th e poor recei ver osci llate inte rmi tte ntly. the audio so unded ho rrible.
R-5 wa s repl ac ed w ith a 11k oh m. 1/2 \\' ~1 1t
resistor and the osci llatio n pro blem d isa ppeared . Vo ltage measu re ments o n each tub e
soc ket were co mp leted and co mpared 10 the
sc he ma tic. If the proper vol tages (+/. 1O% )
arc no t present o n the vario us tu be pin s. then
the SCi wi ll not wor k pro pe rly .
In Illy instance. R-2 1. a 3..1 ~'I cg resistor in
the automatic gui n co ntro l (A GCI line. wa s
fo und to be grossly O UI of tolerance a nd was
replaced . (N o te : it is not at all uncommo n 10
find c arbo n rcvistorx in older se ts as muc h us
300% ou t o f tole rance ! I f yo ur voltage mensure me nts a rc o ff. st art ch ecki ng the ca rbo n
resistors .)
After replacing se ve ra l caps and resisto rs.
it was 011 to cl ean ing up the me ssy so lder
conn ec tion s on the printed circ uit (P C ) hoa rd .
T his req uires a 10 1o f pat ience and so lder wid .

or

Once the bo ard is c lea ned up and th e set is

chec ked for pro pe r operatio n. yOll will need to
a lig n the radi o freq ue ncy (RF). IF a nd LO
stages 10 ge l the recei ver up 10 speed. An IF
a lign me nt is simple: no t so fo r the RF a nd LO
sectio ns of the rece iver.
It is possib le to do a n IF alignment wit ho ut
a signa l ge nerator. T his procedure inv olves
lun ing th e se t 10 a we a k signal a nd then
peak ing the IF c ans (normally these calls ha ve
a lo p .IIU.I bott om slug adj ustm ent) for peak
AC voltmeter indi catio n. (T he 1\C vo ltmeter
is co nnec ted across the speake r o utput.) T his
is not (he be st method, but it will suffice in a
pinch. On ce the IF is peak ed. il is o n to the RF
a nd LO alig nment.
A word o f ca ution . If yo u do no! hav e the
necessary equipmen t or ex pe rie nce 10 properly alig n sho rtwave rece ive r (go od q ua lity
RF ge ne rato r. Ircquc ncy cou nrcr.A'C voltmctcr or osc illoscope). then please do not try .
Find so me ha m radio o pe rator o r ad roit S W
liste ner in yo ur area 10 he lp yo u wi th the
al ig mnc nt. Yo u c an rea lly do more harm tha n
good at thi s po int. if yo u do no t ha ve the
necessar y experience and too ls 10 do the job
correct ly.
If you arc still game. then lcts continue
with the rest of the rece ive r a lignme nt. Hoo k
the RF ge ne rator [0 the ante nna input o n the

,I

This shill)' int erior looks re ry clean, b UI it

sure did" 't start mit th at way ! 1.01.\ oJ elbow
gr ease and liquid bra ss polish cleane d up
the PC board better than ne wt

rece iver (o r fo llo w whatever hook up proccdure yo ur ma nua l calls for ). Use the freq ue ncy c ounte r to accurately se t the RF
ge nerator ' s frequ en cy as ca lled for in the
a lig nment instr uct ions.
In orde r to get the stati o ns to appear at the
pro per frequenci es on the receiver d ia l. yo u
first start at the 10\1/ end of the d ial on eac h
ha nd and set the LO coil fo r ze ro beat w ith the
RF generator, which is also tuned to the lo w
end oft he di al. Nex t mo ve the dial and ge nerator to the upper end ofthe band a nd adj ust the
LO capacitor for zero beat. Repea t the proccd ure se vera l times to get the LO trac king in a
linear man ner ac ross the e nt ire ba nd (th is sets
w he re the statio ns appear o n the d ial in rel ation ship wi th th e dia l mar kings ). LO align men t is requ ired o n each band o f a multi -ban d
rece iver. Note : so me simple SW receivers
ha ve o nly one LO adjustme nt for the to p e nd
of eac h band .
O nce the LO is trad ing properly , the n
adj ust the rece iver R F and ante nna coi ls o n
each band for maxi m um sig na l o n the sco pe
(w hich is placed across the a udio output tra nsform er ). In all in stan ce s, yo u " HIS! keep the
out put of the RF generator as low as po ssi ble
in order to avo id ov erload ing the recei ver and
ca using m isal ignm e nt prob lem s. A fter com-

pl eting the alig nme nt yo u sho uld fi nd yo ur

ne wl y re fur bis hed rece iver will play qui te
wel l.

Final touches
Cosme tic cleanup ca n he do ne in stage s.
Do he mindfu l not to use agg ress ive chemical
clea ners o n front pa ne ls with silkscrccncd
lett er ing or o n g las s di a ls th at have pa inted
le ttering. M ur phy ' s O il Soap or regu lar d ish
dete rge nt, diluted 1:4 wit h water, w ill clean
up the maj ority of stains, g rime an d grung e
yo u e nco unte r. If yo u m ust use somethi ng
more aggress ive, like Sim ple Gree n o r 409 ,
try it o n a porti o n of the cha ss is o r ca se th at
won't norm all y be visib le to the casua l ey e ,
just to make sure that it do cs not attack the
pai nt or cri nkle finish. Do n' t forge t [0 rins e
thorough ly in c lean wa ter to rem o ve an y
chem ica l res id ue from th e c lea ning so lutio ns.
C lea n knohs using a very weak so lutio n of
di sh de ter gen t and a toothbrush . Don 't soak
the knobs in (he so lut io n, as so me times thi s
wi ll dis co lor the kno b inse rts. Use the toothbrush to get the gr it and g rime ou t of the
splines on the knobs. Rin se in cl ea r water.
If yo u ta ke yo ur time, yo u can take a neil
market find and tu rn it into a vintage rad io

treasure . By concentrating on the lo w end SW

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Joe Carr , Fixin g Up Nice Old Radios by Ed
Ro mney, Heath kit - A Guide to the Amateur
Radio Prod ucts by C huc k Pe nso n, TIl(' Zenith
Trans-Oceanic by Bryan t & Cones (a lso ava ilab le fro m Grove) . And rem em ber : Keep It
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EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
Bill Cheek

TWEAK, TUNE, AND MODIFY!

email: bcheek@cts. com

Automatic NiCd Cell Recharger

cam somclhi.n g new. and you ju st never

knuw what will co me next Last mont h.

Jud y ~ l a y a..ked abo ut a desig n for an

a uto matic d isc ha rge rci rcuit for Ni'Cd a ud Ni f\1H
cel ls. A sim plc o p-a mp voltage co mpa ra to r
worked wel l for the jo b. The other day . when
wo nde ring wh at the hcck tu wri te about thi s
month. I sudde nly realized - thai same ci rcuit.

slight!) revised. coul d beco me an automa tic

RECIfA RG/:R . Compnrurors urc ve rsatile . T he y
a lways intr igue d me. eve n back in the olden da ys
whe n the tran sistor versio n was the size o f a
cigar box. Now they co me o n tiny c hips. Gee! ...

NiCdlNiMH Cell Basics

A N i(, d/N i~vll l cel l is c o ns ide red full y d isc harged whe n its te rm ina l voltage d ro ps to 1.0
V. A newcell is full y c harged when the termin al
vo ltag e re ach es 1.40 1.44 vo lts. Halfw ay between at 1.2 V is co ns ide red the " no mina l"
vo ltage rat ing .
As a ce ll a g e ~ . i t ~ ful l recharge le ve l declines .
W hcn a <.: e1 1 can't recharge above 1.2 V. it's
co ns ide red to be " use d up" for a ll practical
purp os es. So lon g as a cc ll c un re ach a te rmi na l
vo ltage o f 13 5 VOl' gre ate r. ir'x in great sha pe .
Wh e n it can't rec harge above 1.30 V. be tter jot
it on your sho pping list.
Recharge able ce lls co me in a va rie ty o f sizes
a nd ra tin gs. from T yp e Nand AA A to D and
la rge r. Po rtable radi os usua lly lak e the AA size,
for whic h several ca pacit ies arc ava ilable. T he
che apes t AA cel ls com e in at abou t 4 50 -mAth ,
wit h the med ia n at 600-mAth (" mAth " stand..
for mi lliamper e -hours: how ma ny m illiamps a
cel l ca n be e xpected to ge ne rate for a pe riod o f
on e hour) . He a vy-d uty AA cells sta rt at XOOmA th with IOOO- 12(X)-mAIh at the top. 000
mA th cel ls offer about 33t;f more tim e bet ween
rech arg es.
Th e life of a (:e11 is gen er all y proportional to
the numbe r of ti mes it is re ch arged , so it mak es
se nse 10 bu y higher ca pacity cel ls, so long us the
percentage of e xtra " life" is greater tha n the
percentag e of e xtra cost. U..ually it is.
A 600-mA/h ccl l sho uld pro d uc:e600 -rn A fo r
o ne hou r befo re it fully di sc:ha rges to 1.0 V. If a
ce ll is c ither di ~dmrged o r rech arge d ut the
ac tual mA /h rating., ib lifc will be sig nific antly
..ho rle ned d uc 10 :Icc um ulalcd heul wi thin the
cel l.
"mAnl" is al so c a lle d "c." The maximum
sa fe rate of di sc harge (a nd rech arge ) is co ns iden::d to bc o ne -th ird the rnAIh rat ing , ca lled the
"CIT ra te . T h u ~ , the C/3 o f a 600-mAlh cc ll is
2(){) mA/ h. A 60 0-mA/h ce ll c a n be ex pected to
ge ne rat e 200 -mA fo r a period of thr ee ho ur s ;
1DO-rn A for six hou rs; and 50 -mA for 12 hours,

82

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November 1998

ctc .. witho ut undu ly jeopardizing the life expectanc y.

C learl y ..Ie.... is more " with rechargeable cel ls.
They last long er whe n slow ly di scharged and
rec harged . Troub le i.., we want our rechargeable
cel ls to la..t for day s . and 10 recharge in a minute .
No w;IY" Bunky! Be lee ry of " fa st recharges ."
Sure. yo u ca n re c harge a cell in less time. the
more current you pump through it: hut i fi t ge ts
even warm to the touch.t he damage i..done. And
it will get wa rm w ith dis charges o r recharges
high e r tha n the CO ra ting, so beware!
NiCd a nd :-':i M H c e lls C'Ul he rec ha rged inde finitely at a nuc of ou c- tc nth the mAIh rating
(i .e .. CliO) , without appreciably jeopard izi ng
the life e xpec tancy. T hus. a 600 -m A/h ce ll ca n
be left on rec harge at 6()-mA or less with o ut
co nce rn.

Recharging Basics
Real -wo rld efficie ncy is never IOWif . so if it
tak es 10 ho ur.. to di sch arg e a (e ll a t i t~ CliO rate ,
it will take appreciably longera t (hat ra te to fully
recharge. ty pica lly about l-l ho urs. (Now yo u
know why ther e is a market fo r " fas t rechargers"~ ) Fourteen ho urs i..an aw fully lo ng time to
twid d le yo ur thu mb...
W hile it is best 10 rec ha rge NiCd and Ni M H
cells a t the e l l 0 ra te, y(llIc a n " fast c harge" them
a t the C/3 nn e in about li ve o r six hours witho ut
too m uch co ncer n. C aution is advi sed. beca use
the re is little difference bet ween 190 -m A a nd
210-mA . It' s best to recharge at we ll unde r the

CI3 rate .
Eve n if the rutc of recharge is under C/J. yo u
will have a problem if the l.eU"s terminal voltage
is allowed to ex ceed the ma ximum of I.M V. At
the CliO ra te. thi s isn 't likely. hu t it co uld ea sily
happen at
Voltage lim iting is required whe n
the ce ll"s terminal vo ltage rea ch es 1.44 V. That.
or the charge curr ent must be sw itched o ff altoge ther. Fo re warned is forearmed.

en.

The Automatic Recharger

Th is cxpcrimcntcrs design is for recharge " hie bnu cr y packs that c on tai n o ne to six cel ls,
We ' ll apply the hu lk o flas t mo nth' s project 10 an
aut omatic rec harge r that won ' t overcharge vatu able i' iCd or N i~ l H ce lls . Figure 1 sho ws the
..chcr natic d iag ram with Rad io Shack part numbers. Yo u ca ll "brcudboard't thi s ci rcu it in a few
minutes o r build it o n a piece of perfb oard in
a bo ut a ll hour.
Ve ry little is c ritica l ab out the c irc uit. but a ll
le ad s sho uld be short a nd the pi n2 o utput side o f
the ci rcuit mu st he phys ica lly isol ated fro m the
pins -l and 5 input side, T he 22 (H1F/ 16 V cupncil or c an be large r (u p to I OOOj..1F ); but mu st not
bc u les ser va lue .
Th is c ircuit requires re g ula ted 12 vo lts : a
circ uit for which is giv e n in Figure 2. Yo u ca n
usc any reg u lated 12 V or g reat er so long us the
c ur re nt rating is a bo ut 300-111;\ or mo re . If the
regulated vo ltag e e xceeds 12.0 V, yo u' ll haw to
inc rea se the va lues of the 22-011111 and 6S-oh m
res istor s. Sec "c alc ula tio ns" ahe ad.

FIG-1: AUTOMATIC RECHARGE LIMITER

See Flgur;;. '2 +1 2v <)--_~

22Q R L

#,,2,,7.;.
1"-'.;.
1.:03,-,_V \

reg

see text and b elow

#275-243
SYlow
current relay

33-k
#271-1328

10-k

2N)9Q 4
2N 2222A
(Most any NPN)

#276-2016
220-uF/16v
#272-956

Ground

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'-= _ /

Two ormot e
ce/fsmust be
conn<:~cted In
senes

FIG-2: EASY +12v SUPPLY

Circuit Discuss ion

T he heart o f the a ut omat ic rec harger is th e
1.\1 -3 39 com parat or (sec pinout in Fig ure J a nd
last mo nth for mort: iu form at ionl . T he bus inesse nd of the recharge r is the I O-kn potentiometer
tha t se ts the drop -o ut voltage . T o set it correc tly.
fir st det ermi ne the nu m be r of ce lls in yo ur rc ch argcuhlc pad. Mu ltipl y 1...1.0 hy the numberof
cells. For six eel]:". it' s l AO x 6 = HAO V.
Connect a voltme te r be twe en groun d a nd pin 5
of the Uvl- 3 39 . and SCI the pot en tiom et er for a
rea ding o f S.-to V. You ca n a lso usc I ...w. V x 6
= X.64 V . for a range of S A - X.64 V . A nyw here
within tha i range will he fine.

The terminal voltage of the pack is fed bad

In pin 4 o ft he c om par at o r. Wh en th is le vel rise s
10 the reference selling al pin 5. the comparator"s
o utp ut goe s lo w. and turn s th e tra ns istor off.
Thi s de -energizes th e relay and stops c ha rgi ng
th e pac k.

ag e d ivid ed by resis tance ( I ::: Ii/R):

0.200 = 11 2.0 - ~.r,4 ) /R
R = (1 2.0 - R.I,41/0.200
I{ ::: 3.36/0.200 :::: 16.8 o h ms
Yo u coul d u-,c tw o ha lf-wall 3 3-o h m res istor s in pa ral lel for l 6. 5 -llhm s. But that' s p us h ing
it . I chose 22 -o h l1l s becau se: I :::: El l{ ::: .1 36/22 :::
ISO-m A . a much sa fe r va lue . yo u sec . because
it' s le ss th an the C 3 rate .
Consid er a di scharged pac k at 1.0 V per ce ll
x (, cc lls e 6 V . That re si stor w ill drop the e xcess
6 vo lts . Aga in. OIUll... La w : I ::: E/R ::: 6/22 :::
272 -I1lA. the in itia l c harg ing rate , \vhich even
th ou gh 22 -oh ms, ex ceeds the C ~ rat e. ;\ 0 1 to
worry: as th e pack b uilds a charge. th e excess
vo lta ge drop s w hich ca uses the curre nt to d rop .
A safe lev el is quic k ly reached. well he for e hcut
b uilds up in sid e the ce lls. 2 2 o h ms is ab out right
for a (lOO-m A/h (i-ccll pad .
Se e last mo n th' s c ol u m n fo r ho w to calcula te
va lue s of rcxistuncc in parallel (th e y ' re di rectl y
add itive w hen in se ries) . Yo u have to acc o un t fo r
the po wer that' s co nsu med hy the res isto r. Assu me 250-m A throu gh 22 -ol1ms. an d lise Oluu'.s
Po wer Law : p ::: (I!)(R l.lo fin d p ::: C25() 1) x 22
::: 1.375 wnux!
If yo u use a half-wa tt 22- o hm re sistor. it
mi ght burn up be for e the c u rre nt drops ! A on ewa lt re sistor m ight be o kay . h ut le t' s make a 2w att 22 -o h m re sistor wit h fo u r ha l I-watt 22 -o h m
resistors. w ired as tw o in se rie s. paralleled w ith
an idcmica l serie s pair . See th e lo we r left c o rne r
o f Figu re I. Three X2-oh m rcxistors and one 1()( )o h m res istor . all fo ur wired ill pa rallel. w ill yield

abo ut 22 +oh ms. too .

l ncrcusc the va lue o f the 6X ohm resi stor to
tun-oh ms for a lJ.X V re gulated sup ply. a nd a
I Utl-ohm res istor in series with a IS-ohm resist or
(liS -oh ms ) for a 15 V re g ulate d sup ply.

Oddity and Caveal

I di d n't haw the lime to in vest ig at e. h ut my
test circuit s lo w ly p ulse s (turn s o n and o f 0 as the
battery pad re ac he s the drop-out poill!. 1d idn ' t
swea t it beca use thi s pu lsi ng is okay ill the se nse
tha i it safely keep s th e pack full y charged until
yo u remove it. Kind of co o l. ac tua lly. bu t i f a ny
of you o p-amp w izards know abo ut th e phcnom cnon culled " h ystere sis" (w h ic h is what I th in k
thi s is), due rnc in so I ca n pa ss it O il.
T h is is an cx pcn mcmcr' s circ uit . It is no t
int e nded . 110 1' sho uld it be trusted as an o ptim um
recharge r for T\iCd a nd T\ i ~ I H ce lls. Its pr imary
purpo se is as a learning aid for o p-a m ps and

co mparators .

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Ca lcul atio ns
T he I O- kU po te nti omet er sets the m a ximum
voltag e to which the pad can he recharged. T he
22 -o h m res istor is the c urre nt lim iter. a nd is
gi ven so lely as typ ical. You should c alc ul at e the
precise value for th at re sistor. ba sed o n yo ur
power sup ply; the mA/h rating : and the numbe r
o f ce lls ill th e pack. Let ' s assume 12 vo lts a nd a
o-cc ll. 600 -mA/h pac k.
Fir st. we k no w that 1,44 V per (e ll is ma xi murn. so n x I A4 :::R.64 V. W c ul xok u owth at th c
rnaximum c urre nt is 200 -mA/h ((' 3) . So we
wa nt that resi stor to drop the exce ss vo ltag e
a bo ve R.o4 V and lim it th e c u rre nt to ( C:~ ) 20 0 m A , m a x. Ohm ' s La w says current eq ua ls volt -

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A NTENNA TOPICS
BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS

Clem Small, KR6A

Why All the Noise about Noise?

f yo u d o much read ing about radio operations you often come upon the topic of
noise. A great deal of time and effort is
expended by rad io operators and radi o de sign
eng ineers working 10 red uce noise in radi o
reception . Un fortu nately there is no way at
present [ 0 entirely preven t no ise from entering
ou r receiv ing sys tems: so me is generated within
the receiver itsel f. and so me is rece ived via the
ante nna .
T his mo nth we take a look at noise and so me
th ings we can do to minim ize its effect o n o ur
com mun ication s.

The Masking Bandit

Perh ap s you have been in a situatio n w here
the sound level was so high tha t you co uld not
hear a person talk ing 10 yo u e ve n tho ug h they
we re stand ing rig ht beside yo u. O ne suc h cxperience that co mes to mind is stand ing besid e
Niagara Falls with its thunderous bedl am of
so und.
Whcn a high er-intensity so und ren ders ano ther so und inaud ible we say that the higher inte nsity so und has maske d the less intense
so und. Elec trica l no ise o f sufficie nt stre ngth
ca n mask rec eived signals o fle sser strengthjust
as Niagara' s roa r can mask the sound o f a
person' s voice,

Exte rnal Noise

Extern al no ise ( EN) is no ise w hich enters
the recei ver from the anten na sys tem. Source s
wh ich se nd electrica l no ise as rad io wave s to
you r ant enna inc lude ele ctrical mach inery. aut o
ignition sys te ms . lightning bolt s from near or
afar. and extra-terrestrial sources such as the
sun. other so urce s in our o w n ga lax y. and
beyond. T he effe ct o f EN on reception var ies
fro m no effe ct ;'11 all ( for strong recei ved-signals
with little EN pre sent) to re nde ring co mmunicatio ns co mpletely impos sible (for weak rad io
signals compe ting with strong EN levels).
EN W<l S even mo re of a probl e m in the ea rly
days of rad io when rece ive r passbands were
wider. and effe ctive ts ometirncs ) no ise-reduc tion c irc uits we re not ye t developed . Lee
Def orest. the sel f-sty led " Father of American
Radio." was so frustrated hy EN at time s that he
termed it that "godaw ful" noise. Wh atever we
call it. EN call be tota lly d isru pti ve to radio
co mmunications . It tim es.

Internal Noise vs. External Noise

On the HF band and 100....e r in freque ncy . EN
is usual ly the limiting factor in com muni cation s (see fig. I ). T he strength o f EN on these
lo wer bands is high e nough that radio design ers
are not usually co ncerned wit h de sign ing the
lo west-no ise fro nt end prac tical . As long as the
IN is lo wer than the EN the noise with w hic h the
receiv ed signal co mpetes is the EN. In this case.
the lo wer strength IN has essentially no effect
on the ratio of signal to no ise in rece ption.
On the VHF band and higher (above 30
MH z ) EN is gene rally so lo w (fig. I ) in stre ngth
that IN assumes great impo rtance . At these

HF High Frequency (330MHz)

VHF Very High Frequency (30-300 MHz)
UHF Ultra High Frequency (300MHz-3 GHz)
high er frequ enci es IN is usually the limiting
factor in receiver se nsitivity . and so receivers
arc designe d with the low est IN practi cal.
T ry the foll owing test. T um o n both yo ur HF
recei ver and VH F (or UHF. ultra high frequ ency ) recei ver with go od anten nas attached.
Tu ne eac h receiver to a freq uency with no
signals present. Turn off any sq uelch co ntro ls
and set .my rad io frequ ency (RF) ga in co ntro ls
to maximum. Adj ust the vo lume contro ls such
that yo u hear II moderate le ve l o f noise from
eac h rece ive r. Now connect and disco nnect the
ante nna to each set.
For the HF recei ver. no ise will genera lly
signific antly increas e <.IS yo u co nnec t the ante nna. but for the VHI:reee iver ,connec ting and
d isco nnecti ng the antenna should make esse ntially no diffe ren ce in the noise level yo u hear
from the rec ei ver. Th e no ise yo u hear fro m the
HF rece iver obviousl y co mes mainly from the
..m tcnna. No ise heard on the VH F set is obviously IN.

So What Do We Do?

We co mbat no ise in va rious \\ays . T he most

simplistic so lutio n is to listen only to stro ng
Internal Noise
signa ls w here no ise is nOIs uch a problem. But
we ofte n want to hear w hat that weak DX
In a recei ver. the ci rcuit which is co nnected
sta tio n is saying . and so we do OUT best to redu ce
to the antenna is called the "fi rst stage : ' Th is
the effects of no ise o n o ur rece ption .
first stage almost alwa ys co nta ins an amplifyFor VHF and abo ve . our sq uelch co ntro l is
ing de vice such as an integrated c ircuit ( fC ).
one me ans of avoi d ing the nuisance ofl isten ing
transistor or vacuum tube . These devices (lC ,
to IN. At these freq uencie s using a recei ver with
transisto r, tube ) ge nerate el ect rica l noise as
a very -le w no ise fron t en d is
they o perate. This internallygenerat ed no ise is capa ble o f Figure J. Received noise generally decreases with increasing frequency.
also usua lly desirable.
interfering with. o rco rnplctcly
For HF. som e o f the relamask ing ;'1 weak sig nal.
tive ly co mmon technique s are
Beca use the noise fro m the
the use o f noise limiters. noi se
first sta ge is amp lified by all
bla nket s. and also no ise refo llo wing stages it beco mes
d uctio n units wh ich use a
so strong that it esse ntia lly
se parate ante nna . Limit e rs.
w
determines the overall le ve l
blankcrs and reduct ion units
00
6
o f intern al no ise (I N ) ge nerarc qu ite helpfu l wi th certai n
z
6
ated by the recei ver. Stages
kinds o f noise, particularly
~
foll owi ng the first stage w
im pul se noi se such as auto
o
w
becau se the y ..Ire fo llowed by
ign ition inter ference. Unfor~
fewer stages 10 amplify thei r
tunately non e of these denoise out put th.. rn is the first
vices will really qui et all types
stage - do not usuall y conof
no ise .
100 KHZ
1 M HZ
10 MHZ
100 MHZ
tribute sig nific antly to the
Ano ther app roach is to find
FREQ UENCY
o verall IN le vel.
the source o f no ise and get it

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November 1998

slopped . Fo r loc all y-generated noi se thi s is

so metimes possible w ith a direc tion- findi ng
recei ver. If the ..ourcc is, a leaky insula tor o n a
power pole. the utility cOlnpany is often helpful
in ... lcuring it up. If it ori g ina tes in so me fa ulty
appliance in the nei ghborhood that neigh bo r
ma y he ope n to s ugg c ~ tio n s fo r red uci ng the
no ise by mel ho d s suc h as th ose sugges ted in th e
ARR/. Handb ook. or ARRL tntrrferm cr Handbook (bo th available from G ro ve Ente rp rises].
Yet anothe r a pproac h is to utili ze antenn as
whi ch o ffe r slime am oun t of noise rej ecti on .
Most man-made noi se seems to he ve rtically
polarized...u usin g a hori zon tally oriente d antcnna is o fte n helpfu l. Loop ante nn as. q uad
antennas. a nd unde rg ro und ante nna s (yes . the y
wo rk 10 a limited e xte nt) arc kn own for the ir
quiet. so me what noise-free operation. l' vc a l..o
read sugge stio ns thai it metal shiel d ( Faraday
Glge) he p UI around ..mall antennas 10 el im ina te
the electrica l co mponent of the s ig nal. Th is
leaves the s ig nal' s magn etic co mp onent. wh ich
is us ually Jess noi sy tha n the electr ica l co mponcn l.
Hearn ante nn as al so an: he lpf ul in reducing
no ise du e to thei r increase d respons ive nes s in
ju st o ne or two direction s and red uce d responsiveness in ot he r directions. W hen the beam is
directed to wa rd th e s ig nal of interest th at s ignal

is e mp ha sized ; No ise and interfe ren ce from

o the r di rection s arc mi nimized . A s long as the
di rection of the de sired station doesn ' t incl ude
excessive noise. thcn the ove ra ll rc sponsl:' is a
reduction in received noi se a.. wel l as an increas e in the strength of the de..ired sig nal.

This Month :
W ha l is a sferic" It is re futed to what we
di sc ussed above.
You' H fi nd all answer fur th ismonth' s ridd le.
and much mo re. in next month ' .. i.... uc of M ot1i-

lori ng Times , "li l rbcn. Pc-oKC. DX. 73

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of co urse . the meaning ofthc tcnn "ae rial." But
as technology developed. rece ivers became
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with tin y antennas w h ich mi ght he o n yo ur dexk
top ruth er than high in the air. T here fore. a term
whic h wa s more de sc riptive ,vus de sirabl e .
"Antenna" (t he organ thro ugh w hich insects
re ce ive info rm at io n fr ut u the e nvi ron men t
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ON THE HAM BANDS ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AMATEUR RADIO

Ike Kerschner, N31K

Wish list for a Hams Christmas

antenna. T his

w a ve ov er 5/ R
wa ve ant en na pro I,
vld c s s ix d li o f
omn id i rect ion u l
ga in. An d for the
price. it is rbc be st
built busc statio n
ant e nna 1 have
I
ever seen. T he un it
is fully fiber gla ss
e nclosed and use s
all sta in less stee l
ha rdwa re . loo ks
g rea t. and is rea lly
built to la-a.I n fa ct
most of us wo uld
call this untcnna a work of art.
Th e Hozak a nte nna is uvuilahlc in two
conti gunu ions Th e 6 dB unit we j ust d iscus sed. and a 5/8t h wave ~ dB un it. T he
Bozuk antenna G Ul be had for 2 mete rs. 121.
a nd 446. A six meter SIXth wave unit is a lso
ava ilable. (I do no t han: <I price on the six
meter antenna at thi s time).
Full info rm ation and prici ng for all Bozuk
a ntennas ca n he had by calling S teve Buzak at
.3-R06lJ or se mi a fax to him at 5 1SSI
37.3-070 1. His add ress is Ste ve S ozak . 100
C h urch Hill. Waterford . NY 12 18S.

rea lly worth whil e!

W ish nu m be r o ne is a ne w ho ok by Da ve
Ingr a m. K4T WJ called 33 Simple Weekend
Projects . A ll of the proj ect s desc ribed arc
rea lly simple and wo rthwh ile for the average
ham .
I part icul arl y like the sec tio n o n HF a me nnus: Dav e sho ws ho w to build five simple and
effective ante nnas. One, " the mod ified Bo btail" is reall y a su per OX an ten na : I built o ne
fo r 30 me ters, and it co ns istently outperforms
my loop o n DX by a Wille: marg in. An oth cr Ia
Bruce Array ) look s like u w inner and sho uld
be on the air fro m this loc ati on on 17 me ter s
by the lime this is in pr int.
T he c hapter 011 theory is nic e ly la id o ut and
all o ws the no vice to g ras p the ge neral idea o f
ho w e lec tronics work s and just exac tly what
th e various co mpone nts arc and ho w they arc
used.
O the r chap te rs cove r VII F. Mobile. and
Ho me S tation. Som e o ft he projects described
in these c hapters are: using yo ur VHF HT to
wo rk C W throug h the sate llites. bui lding a nd
usin g two QRP tran smi nc rs. U cla ssic radio
tran smi tter. proper ground ing of your statio n.
rest or ing old rece ive rs and tra nsm itter s. tele g raph sys te ms . bu ilding a so il tes ter and . be st
of a ll. an electric wiener roaster !
I a m havin g a lot offu n w ith th is bo ok and
am sure you w ill. too . Price is S15.95 fro m CQ
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How to Use Th e li matellr Radio Sate llites

by Kei th Baker . KB I SF. is the most co mpre hen sive and easy to und e rstand ma nual o n
using the various satel lites I have e ver seen . If
yo u have any interest in sate llite co rnm unic alions thi s is the first boo k yO lI sho uld ob tai n.
Co m ple te inform ation o n each usa ble amateur sa te llite is incl uded . Derails o n work ing
the shutt le and Mir arc a lso in this nifty littl e
32 page manua l.
Howto V.H' 'he A mart'ur RudioSutcliitcs is
ava ilable from AM SAT. 850 Sligo Aven ue.
S ui'e 600. Silver S pring . MI) 209 10-470 3 for
a do nation o f 55 .00 .
T h e Boza k A n te n na - Wh ile a t the
Bo xbo ro. M ussac huscns. ham fe st I ca me
ucro ss a great buy on a two rueter base stat ion

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ve ry Novembe r I co mpile a list o f 1lL'<l1

gift ideas fo r ham s. T his yea r' s list

include s a fe w slee per items thai arc

MONITORING TIMES

No vember 19 98

Il

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AI the sa me ham fcst , I wa s introduced to

the Hex-Beam . Th e He x- Beam is a hexagon.1I antenna tha i per forms like a two clement
yagi. T he antenna i!'> built of spec ia l PV c.
fi be rglass. and machined al umin um .
T his is o ne co mpac t lig htwe ig ht antenn a
a nd uppcurs to be very rugged. It is beaut ifully
built ~IIlJ pro vid es an e xtre mely low pro file .
Th e manufact ure r cla ims exce llent re su lts
with the antenna at low he ig hts and a 6 to 8uB
gain.

T h e H e x - Be a m i s a va i lab le a s a
monobandcr on 6 to 40 meter s. or a multi
band er o n se ve ra l differe nt co mbinatio ns of
hands. Pri ce s vary from SX9.00 fo r a six me ter
mo del til $84lJ.OO for the 40- 17- 11 meter
m ultiban d unit.
T his an te nna is a lso ava ilabl e us a portable
unit that fits into a very co mpac t hack pac k
and co ve rs 6 to 20 me ters; price of the po rtabl e unit is S.38lJ.OO.
For full in fo and spec sheets co ntac t the
manufacturer at Truffl e Te ch nology , 42 1Jon es
Hill Rd . Ashby. Ma 0 1431- 1801. (NOlC: A
complete re vie w of this ante nna is planned for
the ncar future ).

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of: It is QRZ. a ca llsig n data bas e that ineludes over I million ha m list ings wor ld wide.
pl us 1400 prog rams for electronics. 113.000
E-ma il add resses. a nd 1700 d igita l images.
FC C exa m tra ining, Mor se code prog ra m:-and com puter co ntro l pro gm ms arc like wise
incl uded o n this low-p riced C D ROM . Ca ll
sig ns in many co untries arc inc lude d (23 countr ies c urre nt ly) .
As a cal l book. you ca n sort by ca ll sig n.
name. or zip co de. And any of the pro g rams
can he run d irec tly from the C D.
Us ua l stree t pr ice fo r Q RZ is about S I4 .00 :
the C D can be purchased a t most ham rad io
stores o r yo ur loca l ham fcst. If yo u c annot
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a nd Motor ola e nj oy the biggest shares of
th e mushro om ing Fam ily Radio Ser vic e
(FRS) mar ke t. Thn isn 'I surprising: Moto rol a
has certainly (he most aggre ssive mark et ing
ca mp a ig n for its FRS o ffer ings . an d Radio
S hac k o utlet s a rc sim ply everyw he re. It see ms
that a lmo st every v illage in America has a
Rad io S hac k sto re in w hic h yo u can shop for
electron ic good ies.
As if to d rive home the poi nt. o ne mo rni ng
not lo ng ago I was sitti ng at the co mputer
w hen a co uple o f voices b ro ke through o n
FRS cha nnel I. It was a hu sband and wife
travelin g from Ver mont to Co lora do in two
separate ca rs and using FRS to st..ty in tou ch
between ve h icles. They we re using the Radi o
S hac k 21- 1H02 sing le -cha n ne l FRS rad ios .
w hic h co st $59.95 eac h. "It w as the cheape st
way to get th e j o b d on e: ' the hu sban d sa id.
The sing le-c ha nnel Rad io S hac k FRS transce ive r is the so ul o f simplicity. It op erates 0 11
FRS c ha nne l I (461.56 25 M Hz) . uses fo ur
AA A butter ies (a lkalincs pro vide abou t 24
ho urs o f life ). and has an automa tic p{wver
sa ve mode that ac tivates w he n yu u d o not
tran smit for over 8 seconds . T he owner' s
m anu al for th is rad io states that the tra nsm it
po wer is o nly 100 milli watt s. That' s on ly on e-

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T hi s rad io measur es about 4- 1/4 " x 1" x 13/16" (less a nte nna). Th e re is no belt cl ip. bu t
there is a faste ne r for a wrist strap. A singl e
knob o n the top o f the rad io turn s it on and
adj us ts the vo l ume. On the le n h and side o f
the ca se are a pu sh -to -ta lk b utto n and a b utto n
for turn ing o ff the a uto-s que lc h. O n the bac k
of the c ase is a removable pan el for insert ing
the batt eries.
On the fro nt ofth e 2 1- 1802. ther e is a g rill
for the spe ake r/micropho ne a nd a red light
that ac tivate s when tran s mitt ing o r w hen the
batteries need to he re placed. A lso 0 11 the
front, a Call b utto n w hich , whe n p ressed .
cause s a pag ing to ne to so und on all FRS
radios tuned 10 cha nnel I .
Als o avai lab le fro m Ra d io S hack is the 21IX07 l d -c ha nnc l FRS tran sce iver w hic h cost s
5 119.99. T h is rad io measure s 1-1/5"W x 3
7/H" H (ex cl ud ing a nte nna) x 1-1/8"D (excl uding belt cli p). The 1 J -I X07 offers 3X
CTCSS (Cont in uo us T o ne Co de d Sq uelch
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m illiwa tt ou tput po we r. a back li t d isp lay. a
con nec tio n for an o ptio na l spea ke r/mic rophone orearphone . and last channe lmemory.
O n the fro nt of th is FR S rad io ar c the
di sp lay. tw o bu ttons fo r c ha ng ing c ha nne ls.
and a Q uiet b utton th at a llows CTCSS to nes to
be selec ted and ac tiva ted. A ny toile. o nce
se lec ted an d act ivat ed. ap plie s to a ll 14 c han nels. Rad io Shack neatly get s aro und thi s by
a llowin g thc Q u iet funct io n to be turn ed off
for all ch an ne ls wi th a sing le pu sh o f the
b utton .
C ur io us ly. the ow ne r' s ma nual sa ys: " Wc
reco mm e nd that yo u se lect a qu ie t code fro m
the range 7-30. If yo u select <.I code bel o w or
above tha t range. yo u must wait 110 2 seconds
afte r ho lding do w n Pu sh -T o -T alk be fore yo u
start ta lk ing:' Rad io S hac k tell s the re aso n is
to nes a rc imp le me nted in the
th at the
mic roprc ssor, and it take s lo nger for the pro ce ssor to lock onto those up per a nd lo wer
codes.
You G ill lock all hut the tra nsmit func tion s
of th is rad io by pressing the CA LL and M O N
butt on s at the same time . A s mall key icon
appe ars ill the d ispla y. In ad d ition . a s hut-o ff
timer au toma tically turn s off the rad io if it is

c rcss

id le for two ho urs. T h is feature can he turned

or offby p ressing the C ha nne l dow n but ton
wh ile tu rn ing the rad io OIL
In the fie ld . these t\VO radios off er v irtually
identical performance. Both o ffer crisp. clear
audio, prov ided you keep at least a han d ' s
b rea d th bcrvvccn the speaker/microphone gri ll
a nd yo ur mo uth (o the rwise you r vo ice may
so u nd muffled or d istorted). As m igh t be
ex pected. range of these rad io s W;'I S less tha n
other FR S tran sce iver s that offer a full ha lfwa ll o f tran sm it po we r. Sti ll. bo th off ered
approximately the same range as the Kenwood
FRS rad io. w h ich had 33 0 mitli wuu s of trans mi t power.
T he bo ttom lin e : if yn u wan t the u ltim ate in
ra nge fro m yo ur FRS radio s. yo u' ll probably
want to loo k e lse w here . Hut if yo u pla n usage
ove r s ho rte r ra nges (say. up 10 a m ile ). e ither
of these Rad io Shack offerings wor ks well.
and the Ca ll b utton is a neat featu re that mak es
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ASK BOB

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ANSWERS TO YOUR RADIO QUESTIONS .

More on those Patrolman Portables

In our Au gust issue . we refe rred to the lin e
line o f portable r nultiband radi os o ffe red by
Radi o S hac k a nu mber of ye ars ago . Reader
Doug Robertso n reach ed ha ck in time fo r a
lill ie more info r mation .
Th e uni t in q uest ion . the Patro lman SW ~60 .
was first listed in th e 19S4 R'IJ io Shack cata log

and continued through 19YO, priced regularly

at $99.95 and on sale for $69 .95. Previous
model s included the Pat rol man C B-6 ( my fa-

vorite) and its follow-on. the CB6 0. which

ina ugurated the 19 805.
T hanks. Dou g . for the nostalg ic visi t.

More on Lightning
In our Se ptember co lum n. we disc usse d th e

paths o f light ning. Ri.IY Hodgkiss.

,I facully

member o f th e Depart ment o f Compute r Sci-

cncc. Ind ian a Unive rsity, Bloo ming to n, has

much more to o ffe r. Let' s listen to so me o f his
comments:
" Yo u arc co rrect in assumin g th at a bou t
2W'/(' of allli gh tni ng flashes arc cloud-to-ground.
( Kess le r. Thunderstorm Morphology an d f)ynamics. Un ivers ity o r O k luhomu Press. co pyrig ht 1986 . pa ge 28 3 .) Howe ve r. o ne typ e o f

Bob's Tip of
the Month

any readers have brou gh t 10 our attention uds c irculated by mail ord er
co mpan ies for the " Powe r T ip." al so
called thc " Su per Sign al Booster," an inverted teardrop-shaped plastic contri vance ad vcrti sed
to " improve rec epti on on yo ur rad io or co rdless
pho ne instantly." T he ad usuall y co ntinues.
"Origi nally developed by military co mm unication s experts for Operat ion Desert Storm ."
S uper Si gn al Boo ster' s imaginative ad
wri ters te ll us tha t it doe sn't even have to be
co nnec ted to the affec ted rad io : " If the antenn a is o f the thick , rub beri zed sort, place the
Su per Signal Booster o n a nearby an tenna. For
exam ple ... (w )he n using yo ur ce llular phon e
in the ca r, place the S upc r Signal Booster o n
the car ' s o utside rad io antenna." (! )
Th e facts . however . arc much d ifferent
fro m the dece ptive hyp e. T he plastic glob is

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cloud -to -g rou nd lightn ing do es occur mo re Irequ cml y than ano ther. Th e fi rst type o f CG
" us ually depo sits a negat ive ch arge." ( Kess ler.
2<) 1) T he o ther typ e. +CG. "de posits a positive
charge ." ( Kess ler. 2<) 1).
" W hile I was wo rking on my MS in Meteo rology. we had a lightning de tecto rt hat allo we d
us to o bserve the "s trength" of CGs (i ll amp s)
and a lso w hethe r th ey we re " pos itive strokes "
(+CG s) . lnot iccd that les s th;ln25 % o f all C Gs
we re posi tive stro kes . ( It may be as low : IS 10 ,/{-)
" Positive s tro kes tend 10 he M UC H more
powe rful and lo nger in duration (so thaI) one
can ob serve a positive st roke in the fiel d. hecau se the stro kes last i\'1UCH lo nger than most
other on es. which appear nearly insta ntaneous."
Fa sc inat ing, R:'I Y. and tha nks fo r sharing this
in fo rm at io n wit h our read er s.

Q, Would yo u ben efit from better

lightning protection by putting two
or more surge protectors in series?
Does switching o ff 0 power strip
ochieve the same protection a s
p ulling the plug in a ligh tning
storm? (Vincent Murphy, A lbany,

NYj

A. No to bo th question s, If Yl1U put two o r mo re

s urge protect or s in se r ies (ac tu all y parallel be cause the ga s di sc harge tubes w ill all be ac ross
the line. no t in series with il). the fir st o ne 10
conduct w ill do al l the wo rk. A nd \..-hilc sw itc hing o ff'thc powe r strip an d pulling the plug both
prevent AC from reach ing the equipment. :'1
direct strike is more likel y to j ump across the
o pen co ntacts ofa switch than fro m the wa ll to
a d isconnec ted plug.
Q , W ill a better shortwa ve radio
allow me to hear more shortwave

signals, and should I listen in the

daytime or evening? (William
Waros, N. Vandergrift, PAj
A. Yo u may no t hear mo re s ig nals, but yo u w ill
hear them be tte r. A qualit y co m municatio ns
receive r hel ps se parate clos el y-crowded signals so they ca use less interference to each
ot her .
A gene ra l ru le of thumb is tha t yo u should
listen bel ow 10 MHI al nig ht. and ab o ve it
duri ng the daytime . T her e is so me crossover ill
that range , butlowe r freque ncy s ignals arc best
heard at n ight. w ith the highe r bes t heard duri ng
d ay lig ht hou rs,

The "Pow er Tip" Scam

actu all y an eye protec to r, designed to red uce the
risk. associ ated with wa lking aro und milita ry
ve h icles equipped w ith w hip an tennas. T he
bu bble is abso lutely ho llow exc e pt for a small,
toothed washer which g rips after the unit is
slipped o ver the (OP of th e whip.
1\-1'1' readers James Pe ters of Sco ttsda le. AZ,
and Mich ael T umm ar o of Cranbury, Nl .disco vered th at theirs did n't see m to do anything at all.
Unda unted, and with tongue in che ek. Michael
suggested several possible uses for the qu ack
device :
( I) Place it o n yo ur car ante nna so you ca n
lind it easi er in a cro wded parki ng lot:
( :::!) Sew it into your paj ama s hirt to pre ve nt
yo u from snori ng;
(3) Tell yo ung children it is a cybo rg's eyeball- and it's watchin g them;
(4) SCi it o n yo ur-coffee tab le 10 tempt friends

to ask, "W hat the heck is that '!"

Now , after we di sm iss the
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kin (e lectric barbecu e ign itors
bei ng s o ld as acu p un c ture
therapy) and the "M ineral Ma gnet" (small
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Perhaps. in an age where technology surges
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SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW

Germanys Kneisner + Doering KWZ 30

ea rs ago . whe n my wi fe's beloved

Volk swagen Beetl e wa s uncerem onious ly ripped off. it was difficult to find
all affordable re place men t with decent gas mileage . ln the en d . ! sprung for an inexpe nsive , o ld .
low-mil eage Mer ced es that needed its share of
mec hanic a l work.
I q uick ly learned ho w Me rce des ga ined its
re putatio n. Even thou gh thi s model was s ingularly ungfamourous. it was buill like a rolling
fortress. These da ys. however. eve n Mercedes
isn' t made the W:'IY Mercedes was made just a
co uple of decades ago . Indeed . what is? Th e
pre mium is on ad vanced en g inee ring and lower
prices. so what has bee n sacrificed-s-e ven in
mig hty Deutschl and- is bulletproof cons truction .

key s would certainly hel p.

Th e recei ver tunes and d isplay s in on e Hert z incre ments
fro m 6 kHz through 30 MHz,
w ith reduced sensitivity below

~.,

SOkHz. Its large backlit LCD

Wel l. alm os t: because a ne w Germ an man ufactu rer, Kucisncr + Doering , has co me up w ith
the KWZ 30, a DM3,OOS (roughly USSI.8(0)
DS? tabletop rece ive r built to panze r-tough
professiona l standards. Its case is made ofblackpai nted sta inless steel. wh ile the fro nt panel is
full y two-m ill imet ers th ick . T he operating circ uitry uses two DSP ch ips. rath er than the so lo
c hip used by the new Japan Radio N RD-545
we ' ve been report ing on in recent mon ths.
Th e KW Z 30 is clea rly a lab or o f love. the
result of yea rs of effort by a team of German
amate ur radi o oper ator s who are also electri ca l
en gineers. Unsurp risi ng ly. it was intended to be
the 1/(' plus ultra of ham rec eiv e rs. But as ham s
now usc tran sceiv ers almost exclu si vely, the
manufacturer qu ick ly fou nd that the rea l inter est was co ming from a mar ket they scarcely
rea lized ex isted : shortwave listeners and DXers.

is highl y v isib le at variou s

angles and different am bient lig hting condi tion s. Th e large. flywheel -effect tunin g knob
has s uperior "feel " and grip. with lots of tuning-speed choices . The all-i mportant an d hopefull y robu st keys are plast ic tabs that click
dec isively when pu shed . like an IBM key board .
Po wer is from an ou tboa rd "wall wa rt" AC
adapto r instead of a multi voltage inboard power
supply. The manufacturer doesn 't as yet offer
a 120 Vac ad apto r. but Ohi o' s Univers al Rad io
is co ns ide ring importing the receiver for distribu tion and sale with in North A mer ica . If it
doc s. it wo uld of co urse provide a su itab le
adaptor .
T hose who choo se to act as their o wn importers ca n use the S40 Radi o Shac k #22-504
po wer s upply. w hich works prope rly but run s
hot . Its banan a plugs wo n' t fit into the receiver' s
input soc ket. so a sho rt length o f ca b le or wir e
and so me basic so lde ring. as well as atte ntio n
to po larity, are needed to mak e this work.
Th e KW Z 30 has no c lock . but it docs have
an autom at ic notch filt er whic h doe sn ' t pe rform as well as it could. Th ere is also passband
s hift, although it is o f limited use because it
doe sn 't functi on in the AM mode . The DSP d ig ita l sig na l proc essin g- system is also used
for noi se red uct ion: when carefully adjusted . it
can be helpful in increasing intell ig ib ility. Th e
250 pre set s sto re ma ny useful parameters, although not alpha numeric statio n names.

Few controls, but clever operating

system

Novel detector reduces fading

distortion

Th e receiver has fewv di screte controls . Instead . operation is by so ftware co mmand . as

with the AOR AR 7030. But, unlike the -7030_
it is va stly mo re intu iti ve to ope rate. thank s to a
larger di splay. four functio n keys and better
so ftware . Whil e those who prefe r a pa nel full of
discrete co ntrols are still not brimming with
e nthusi asm ov er the KW Z 30 's ope rating
sc heme. it is noneth ele ss the firs t such recei ver
that ge ts their nod o f approval. Th e Eng lish
o pera ting manu al helps and is we ll w ritte n. But
even without a manu al. op erat ion can be figured out ove r time-altho ugh more func tion

Th er e is no synchro no us se lectab le side hand . but the re is an ingeni ou s type of AM

d etect ion in w hich the decoder samp les both
s idebands to ca lcu late preci sely the envelope
cu rve o f the audio . The the or y is that the
de tec tor should n ' t need a carrier. and th us the
rece iver should be immune to se lective fadin g
d isto rtio n; i.e.. when a fade selectively attenu ates the ca rrier mor e than the sidebands.
Th is no vel detection sys tem assu mes bot h
s ideb ands arc at an equal level . Unfortunatel y.
wit h shortw ave and ot her s kyw ave sig nals.
mosr fade s pa ss through the sig nal bit by bit .

$1,800 receiver tough as a tank

90

MON ITORING TIMES

November 1998

fir st attenu ati ng one sid eband .

then the carrier. and u ltimately
th e sec o nd s id e b and. T h is
.-~
means that in prac tice the two
~ .:'..:
s idebands 'Ire often at unequal
leve ls. so thc detector pe rform s
less we ll tha n true sync hro nou s det ect ion . Nev ertheles s. it co mes across
be tter than conve ntio nal diode detection.

Astonishing AGe improves OX and

audio
On mo st tablet op mod el s. ther e are two o r
three automatic gain co ntro l (AG C ) decay rates.
O n the new N RD-545 DSP recei ver. o ne of our
stronges t criticis ms is tha t there is on ly one
AGC setting for the AM mode . Howe ver , o n
the KW Z 30 the AGC time co nstants can be
co ntro lled to an ustoni shi ng dc grec in all modes.
Here' s how it work s. As you wou ld ex pect .
the decay rate ca n be vari ed. ju st like on most
other tabl etop models. bu t w ith the KW Z 30 .
tha t' s ju st thc beginni ng . The att ack and han g
times. alo ng w ith d igi tal gain. ca n a lso be
regulated ind ividually-four ope rato r-adj ustabl e va riab les in all ! Think about w he n yo u
have hea rd abo ut some th ing like this before .
and the answe r is sim ple: yo u haven 't. It is
nothing shon of incr edible.
Th is is no ge wgaw. Seri ou s OXe rs will find
these prec ision adj ustme nts to be we ll worth
taking the time to master to enhance the intelli gibility o f ex tre me OX sig nals. Too. because
the KW Z 30 is a DSP rece iver. prec ise AGC
ti ming ca n make an audi b le d ifferen ce in reducing the slig htly artifici al sound charac te ristic of
any OS? gear.
If the A GC co ntro ls arc set properl y and you
usc a good outboard speaker. the res ult ing
audio q ua lity is powerful. p lea sant and highl y
intell igi ble. T his is despite a pedes trian level of
ov era ll distortion . w hich we measur ed at vario us audio freque ncies as bei ng fro m thr ee [ 0 ten
percent.
Profe ssion al receivers. at leas..a those inten ded
for the United States govern ment. are invariably eq uipped with a 455 kH z IF outp ut. For
now. at any rat e. the KW Z 30 has no IF outp ut
and one can ' t be retrofitted . so it ca n't use a
Sherwood SE-3 outboard sy nchrono us detector. Presum ab ly this w ill be an optio n so meday.
if on ly bec ause at lea st o ne offici al American
agen cy has a lready ind icated it w ish es to pla ce
a quant ity ord er if the rece ive r can be ti tled with
an IF ou tp ut.

 Laboratory test result s run the gamut

As usu al, we do o ur own laboratory testin g.
wh ich we hav e ta ilor ed over the years to re flec t
the spec ific need s of shortwave liste ning and
DXi ng . Wi th the KW Z 30 this turned out to be
es pec ia lly ill u r nina ti ng . a s so me of th e
manu facturer' s pub lished mea surem ent s o f
pe rform ance turned o ut to be far gran der than
what we fou nd.
For e xample. phase noise and the impac t of
blocking makes measu reme nt of ultima te rej ection d ubiou s be low 50 d B o n the KWZ 30.
Ditto the shape fac tors. whic h require a mini mum of 60 d B ultimat e rej ecti on for measure ment . O U f adj usted measureme nt nor m 10 allow
shape factor s to be measured (so rt of) for the
nine ava ilab le vo ice bandwidths show it range
fro m I : 1.3 to I : I .R. Th ese arc supe rb numbers.
but we kno w that in real ity they arc eve n bett er
than this- we j ust ca n' t measure more pre cisely becau se of the recei ver ' s pha se noise anti
bloc king c harac teris tics.
At 20 kl- lzsrgnal se paration po ints. d ynamic
runge is su perb. 100 dB . as is the third -o rder
intercept point. +20 d llm. But bec au se world
band broadcast ch annel s arc 5 kH z, not 20 kHz .
apart . we also measure using 5 kHz separation
poi nts. Here. dyn amic range nosed ives to a
d isma l 60 dB . and th ird order to -40 dgm-c-a

shortco ming we rarel y find in mod em rece iver s. Th is is especially surpris ing. inas much as
the KWZ 30 wa s de signed o rig ina lly ( 0 be a
ham rece iver. Ham band s. espec ially undcr Cw
contes t cond itions, ca n be far more co nge sted
with met er-bendin g signa ls than the sho rtwave
broadcasting bands (of course. on 40 meters in
the Americas yo u get bo th).
Our o ther lab measurement s ran ge from
go od to supe rb. and yo u ca n hear it with you r
cars. Far o ne th ing. the KWZ 30 is aud ibly very
q uiet. and wh ile we d idn 't get to test it on a
winter DXpediti on th is co uld well he an exceptional rig for hearing super-weak signals In
areas free fro m local electrical noise.

Impressive listening results

Pro gram listenin g. wo rld band DXi ng and
util ity DX ing also fared well du ring o ur listen ing test s. Even the d ig ital signal-strength indi cator turn s o ut to be not o nly hig hly readable.
but also has unsu rpassed acc uracy-a plus for
station moni tors and field engineers . ( How eve r. since our test" we re co mpleted. I rece ived
a letter from reader John Wag ner o f Oh io about
a local AM-band signa l on 1460 kHz popping
up arou nd 18.1 MH z o n the KWZ 30.)
The Kneisncr + Doering KWZ 30 is an
eye brow -rai ser . Its buil d q ua lity is the stuff of

legend. and audio is surprisingly good by any

ya rds tick. but especially for a DS P receiver.
Yet. there are kinks. like poor close-in dynami c
range and ultimate rejectio n i h,u is sharp ly
limited by phase no ise and block ing. It is not yet
the co in of the realm .
Appare ntly o nly two hundred KWZ 30s
ha ve been manu factu red to da te . Dur ing and
a fter o ur tests. we were in co nsiderable contact
with the manufactu re r. which has been unu sually receptive to criti ca l observations and sug ge stio ns fro m us and others. Clearl y. there is no
sho rtage of expe rt ise or wi ll <It thc Ge rma n
headquarters to imp ro ve upon the KWZ 30 in
due co urse. Whether the requ isite manpowe r
and capita le xists for a redesig n anyt ime soon of
a recei ver which has onl y ju st barel y gott en off
the gro und cou ld wel l be another matter.
But even as is. the KWZ 30 is a HUlk toug h.
serious mach ine priced we ll under any other
rece ive r with this level of build qual ity.

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SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST

BobPornoss, AJ95

Alinco OJ-Xl or Scanner

he Alinco DJ-X IOT is a han d held. wide

coverage rece iverm ade in Jap an fo r the
US market by a company already known
for its ha m radio eq uipmen t.
M ult intode frequ en cy co verage: exte nds

fro m u. t (0 2000 MHz (min us cellular bands)

in 20 se lectable step sizes fro m 0.05 10 500
kH z . A kn o b atop the rad io cl ick s wh en ro tated a nd se rves as a va riab le freq ue ncy oscillato r ( VFO ) kno b. c han ne l se lector. and men u
nav igat ion co nt ro l.
Our OJ )OXT came furnished with an EBP37N 4 .8 V. 700 m M h Ni C d pack and a sturd y.
ll -hou r dro p- in cha rg ing stand. Interest ing
o ptions include it so ft carrying cascoan EOe36 automobile DC power co rd . an EPB -34N
12lXl mA /h ba tte ry pack . and an ED C- 59
q uick cha rger. Th e manu al men tio ns a " dry
ce ll case' hu t ci tes no mode l nu mber.
T he DJ- X 1 call he clon ed to an oth er OJ XI
or co nnec ted to a personal co mpute r,
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te st. A " light" version o f the: so ftware Illay be

or

or

MEASUREMENTS
OJXIOT PORTABLE SCANNER
SIN T000618
Frequency covera ge (MHzl:

0.1 - 1999 .9999 MHz,

except 824 . 850 and 869 - 895 MHz
Step sizes (kHz):
0 .05,0. 1, 1,2, 5, 6 .25, 9, 10, 12.5, 15,
20 , 25,30 , 50 , 100,1 25 ,1 50 ,200,
250, 500
Modes: AM, WFM, NFM, USB, LSB, CW
Sensitivity: see g raphs
MOS (minimum discernible signa l!:
0.18 ~V @ 15 MHz, AM mode
FM mod ulati o n a ccepta nce: 8.9 kHz
Audio output (measured at earphone

jack):
125 mW @ 7% d istortion
15 1 mW @ 15% distortion
Practica l memory scan speed:

6 cha nne ls/sec.

Search speed : 22 stepsl sec.
Current consumption a t 4.8 VOC:
afl - 0.45 mA
man ua l 13 2 rnA
sca n - 139 mA
full volume - 195 mA
lamp - 66 mA odditicnc l
Battery saver: afte r 2 sec. Ma nua l mode
Low ba He ry wa rning at 4 .38 VDC o r less
Shutdown at 4.04 VDC or less

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download ed from http://www.tllin co.

com .
Lik e the AO R A RX200. the DJ -

X I0'1' is load ed with firmware features

a nd is co mplica ted to use , Th e DJ X IOT instruc tion manual isn't <Is he lpful <Is the AR8 200 manual and see ms
cho pp y, For instance. the purpose o f
the Pro g rammed Scan Ra nge mode
(P MS) is ex plained o n page 26 . hut the
P ~ lS key stroke s arc p rese nted starti ng
on page -12 . T he man ua l shows a compurer/clone jack bu t provide s no e xp lanation of co mputer co ntro l and doesn ' t
list a co mputer cab le as an o ptio n.

sea rch bet we en the frequ e ncie s in both YFOs.

Up 10 50 freq ue nc ies per sear ch han k can be
locked o ut usin g the Pass faci lit y.
A pri ority feature le ts yo u de si g nate on e
c ha nnel to be c heck ed fo r ac tivity e ve ry 5
seconds while sc anning me mory channels or
searchi ng. Th e period ic sam pling int errupts
activity on a n active frequ e ncy . acco mpanied
by a not iceab le noise burst.

Other Features
111e DJ -X lu'Fcontains orbcrfealur es \vhic h set it apart fro m si mpler
sc anners :
I. a d ig ita l d ock with on/o ff tim er
2. a batte ry save r ci rc uit which c an
be dis abled
3. the ability to scan o r sea rch for
sig na ls abo ve a se lec table th resho ld
4. th e ability to sea rch o nly c hann els
w ith a speci fic mode
5. the ability to d ea r the co me ill S o f
a ll me mor y channels in a bank
6. a ha nd sco pe whic h g rap hica lly
portrays activ ity wi th in a ba nd o f
freq ue nci e s 7 o r -10 steps wide

Memory
Th e DJ-X lOT su pports two vari ab le freq uency oscill ator s (YFOs ) an d
120{) chan nels in 30 hank s o f 40 channe ls each. Memory ha nks arc c ry ptica lly de sig nat ed AO-A9. BO-B9 . and
CO-C9 . T he DJ -X l OT wo uld he eas ier
to usc ifit simply had 26 bank s. la be led

A-Z.
Each memory c hanne l ca n he pro grammed with the freq uency , an e ightcharacter label. utte nuat or , a ski p ( lock out )
flag. and mod e (W FM . NFM , A M . US B.
LSR . C W. A UTO ).

Scanning and Searching

Co m par iso n wi th the IC OM Ie - R IO is
inevi table . Unlike the Ie -I{ 10. the DJ -X I OT
call sc an mor e than O IlC bank at a lime . Both
mo del s scan slo wly thr ou g h an assor tmen t of
YHI;/U HF Frequen cies at o nly 6 channe ls per
sec on d (sec co m pariso n chart ), T he DJ- X lOT
re scnn del ay is about I seco nd and we canno t
d isab le o r lengt hen it.
T he Aut o Memo ry Write fac ility permi ts
you 10 searc h betwee n up per and lowe r fre qu enc y limits and store ac tive freq ue nc ies
o nly in bank C9 . On ly -10 freque ncie s ma y be
stored, and th e DJ- X lOT xtu res the sa me ac tive frequenci es o ve r and over ruth er than
checking for d u plicat ion.
T here are 20 searc h ba nks. desi gn ated POIX) und pO-p9. which yo u ca n pro gra m with
freq uen cy lim its a nd labe ls. Sea rc h banks G ill
be linked toge ther , perm itt ing yo u to se arc h
d isj ointed paft s o f the spectrum. c .g.. 146 14 X Mll z and 4 40 - 44 5 Mllz . You can als o

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sca nners since the o ld Regency HX - 1500.
With its Ille lal hack and snap-o n hatt ery pack
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the OJ-X lOT looks and feels like a 2 meter

walk ie talkie.The supplied metal belt cli p that
hold s this hefty rad io un yo ur belt is faste ned
to the hack wit h two machin e screws.
Th e single. multi function knob is con ical
and difficult to grasp without your fingers
slipping off. The co ntrol uses a II4-inch fluted
shaft so yo u ca n ea sily repl ace the knob .
Squelc h and vol ume arc set by a pair of
mom entary contact rocker switches instead of
simpler knob s. and we find (his unhandy as
we ll as time consuming .
The Fu nction, Searc h. Mo nitor, and La mp
keys are mou nted unde r a black rubber boot
on the side of the rad io. T he labels arc not
pa inted . making them difficult to read. The
remaining keys are well labeled and widely
spaced.
Kcyp resses are confirmed by a beep tone
which ca n be disabled. The dot matri x LCD
sc reen features adj ustable contrast via a keypad sequence . though it' s not quit e as clear as
the AR8200 di splay. Th e disp lay co ntains a 7
bar S-met er and a sepurute green LED light s
when a the squelch is ope n - a nice touch .
Both the display and numeric keypad are
backlit in green whe n the Lamp key is pressed .
Th e lamps can he latched on by pressing a two
key combination.

VHFIUHF Performance
Th e stock anten na supplied with our OJX lOT looks like a 146/440 MH z base loaded
rubbe r whip. Our ICOM FA- I443B dua l band
rubher antenna prov ides bette r VHF-high and
UHF recept ion .
In short. 30- 1000 MHz sensitiv ity is goo d.
and we heard few birdies and little intennod.
WFM broadcast recept ion is head and shoulders above the table radio inside our stee l and
concrete o ffice.
Th e DJ-X I 01' squelch can be set to one o f
10 levels. labeled SQO . SQ9. SQO disable s
the squelch so white noise is heard in between
tran smi ssions. We keep the squelch set to SQ3
or higher. otherwi se it opens at inappropriate
times, especia lly when the battery save r is
active.

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FREQUENCY (MHZ)

The DJ-X I01' instruction man ual does not

specify the IF ( inte rmediate freq ue ncy)
scheme. and this information is omitted from
the AR 8200 man ual as well. Filter s insid e the
DJ-X lOT imply OASS. 10 .7. and 4S MH zI Fs.
Our tests indicate a first IF of736.25 or 275.4 5
MHz. dependin g on the frequency to which
the DJ XI OT is tuned. Our DJ-X IOT hears
images of cellular phone signals clearly in the
1419.9 - 1444.9 MHzrange. S50.9 MH zabove
their ac tual frequency . We measured a scnsitivity of OAI - 0 .56 J.IV ( 12 dll SINAD) to
these ce ll images.

Shortwave Reception
None of the handheld wide spec trum sca n-

ncrs we' ve tested provides good shortwave

reception with the supplied antenna, and their
tiny knob s make band surfing difficult. Th e
o lder. larger shortwave po rtabl es. like the
Sony ZOIOand Magnavox D2935. run circles
around them .
OUf DJ-X JOT hears bette r o n shortwav e
than the AOR AR 8200 we rested. Passab le
sho rtwave recept ion requi res the DJ-X lOT be
used with a longer antenna, but no t too long .
A 132 foot dipo le overloads our DJ-X lOT.
necessitating use of the built-in attcnuator,

Overall
With a street price under SolOO. the Alinco
DJ-X IOTisrugged ly built and sizcdjusl righ t.
It ca n he po wered by a variety of battery
packs. in probably the best arr angem ent of
any scanner. \ Ve like the solid VHFIUHF
perfo rmance. wide freq uency co verage . and
memory hank flexibility.
Like the IC-R lO we tested . our DJX lOT s
main dra wback is that it scans too slo wly. The
bank naming co nvention is ob scu re and complicates program min g. Th e Auto Memory
Wr ite operation should not store dup licate
frequenci es. and the user should be able to
assign a 2 10 3 seco nd rescan dela y on a perchan nel basis.

Alinco DJ-XIOT
Co vering IOU kH z2Q()(} MH z (less cellular ). the triple-co nversio n
Alinco DJ XI OT monitors AM . NFM. W FM . US B. LSB . and C Wo A
C ha nne l Scope pro vi sion vis ually di spl ays 40 channe ls sim ultaneous ly so
you c an qu ickly tun e to a nearby sig nal as soo n as it appe ars o n the screen.
Hel p messa ges assi st you c hoose yo ur level of operation from
be gi nner th rou gh expert' The alphanumer ic d isplay allows you to
name-tag eac h channe l's contents for insta nt ID. Auto-memo ry wri te
a utomat ically sto re s frequen ci es d isco vered d urin g u nattended
searching-vup 10 120 0 chan ne ls in 30 banks.
Hi gl y ve rsatile sca nn ing mo des incl ude IO-g rou p program,
programm ed m emory, selected mod e. dua l-Vf'O i linked -ran ge, and
p riority. Up to 1000 undesire d freq uencies may be loc ked o ut fro m
th e scan/se arc h seq ue nce.
Add itional features include auto -timer. clock. cloni ng. dem o
mode , key lock, pri o rity. di splay contrast. lo w ba uery a la rm .
VFO>memory entry. selectable uttenu ator. and bac klight.

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COMPUTERS &RADIO
John Cotaiono. PhD

RADIORElATED SOFTWARE REVIEWS

L catalano@conknet.com

DC-to-light Communications

hen you hear the word " wirel ess:"

what do you think of! Mo st of us
would probabl y a ns wer. " radio
waves." Ho we ver . in IOt.I;'I y' S de ve loping perso nal co mputer market. anot he r wireless technology is bei ng develo ped for short dista nce
data co mm unications: (rDA is the acron ym
a nd light is the media.
But first. le t me give you some of my
impress ions after using Win Radio.s new. deto-li ght . ex terna l computer receiver - the
WR 1500 e - for a few weeks.
Last time. we loaded the WR 1500e soft wa re and hook ed up the " box" to a lapt op.
Since then. we have tried both the serial co nnection a nd the PC~I C I A card rad io/compurer connect ion . Th e latter ap pea red to be
taster. But in e ither case the pro cedure co uld
not ha ve be en simple r or easier. As we S<.l W
last time. the software for the WI{ 1000a nd the
WR 1500 0 a ppea r to be ex ac tly the same. Th e
o nly diffe rence is the al low able freq uen c ies
whic h the user ca n ente r. Th e WR 1000 sto ps
at 1.3 G Hz. while the ISOOl' goes up to 1.5
G Hz. On the lo w e nd. the WR 1000 stops nt 0.5
MHz and the WRISOOc goe s down to 0 . 15
MHz. co vering the aer o/ mari ne beacon s and
longw avc broadcast sta tions.
T he ins ta llation prog ram had us up and
ru nning in a matter of minutes. We started our
mon itori ng in the sho rtwave ha nd around 6
MH 1.. Th e \VR1500e co me s with a wi re an ten na that ha s shielded ca ble o n the first few
feet. cl ose to the receiver/computer. T his is an
attempt to minimi ze co mpute r no ise . Ho weve r. as we ha ve previo usly su gge ste d. and is
re iterated by WinRadi o in the ir " Read Me
Plea se " e ncl os ure . a tuned a nte nna o r
preselector is advi sed fo r more tha n ca sual
mo ni torin g when using an y w ide- band rece iver.
Not heed ing o ur own ad vice. I ju st gave a
qu ick tunc to the 6 MH z sho rtwave broad cast
band using the wire an tenna , On this Se pterhe r e vening you ca n se c from Figure I. the
Spec tru m Scope. th at the ba nd was q uite
cro wde d . Yet \1,'C wer e ab le to dearly listen to
se ve n sta tio ns. Fi ve o ther sta tions we re abo ut
HOCk in the clear. An add itional five stations
varied from listenable 10 impo ssi ble . No t bad
for crowded. hig h p()\l,.. crcd. broad ca st listen ing . But what about my first mo nitorin g lo ve .
util ities? Using an MT co lum n. w e (my wife
readi ng and me typi ng ) e ntered a hat ch of
USA F HF freq ue ncies.

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Sin ce the \ VR150 0e has

se p a ra te U S B a nd L SB
modes. tu ning utility and ham
statio ns is easy. As we used
the c ha nnel sc a n fe at ure .
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Agai n. no t bad . Bu t now . I
wa nted to use the W R 1500e
side com par iso n. the WR 1500 e proved to be
whe re I be lieved it wo uld o uts hine all co rnmore se nsitive than my PRO-2 006 on the
peti to rs : VHF. UHF and S HF .
UHF mil freq uen cies.
Up at -lS I MH z live s o ur departm ent of
Up, Up and Away
public works (D PW) an d sma lllocal business
Even on the wire an tenna . I was able to comm unica tio ns . Wh en the WC::Ith N is had .
monitor lots of uni comm s at small unco n- this is the plac e to he. as th e DPW mo ve s into
ac tio n. Th e WR 1500c pu lled in DPW statio ns
tro lled airpo rts lip to 60 m ile s aw ay. Us ing
from -U> mil e s away. abo ut twic e th e pcrfcrWi N RADiO ' s e xce llent Digi tal Sui te Software , ACARS messag es we re non -stop the mance otmy sca nner. Lot s of ta xis. plumbers.
bui ldin g co ntracto rs and heat ing: co mpan ies
ne xt mo rn ing . T he WR 1500c made scanning
the civi l aircr a ft han d a thrill o nce again. we re heard from up In 60 mil es aw ay . Us ing
Digital Suite is a W iNR ADi O pro g ram , so ld the Digit al S uite ' s Signa l C lass ifie r Mod ule
se paratel y. whic h reall y pro vides exce llent made sc anning much more rel iable. minirnizing the annoyin g false sto ps thai occ ur on
sca n ning and decodin g features (See Ma y ' 98
most sc anners.
Co mputers & Radio co lum n for a more detailed di scu ssio n of Di gital Sui tc.)
Th e WRI500e specs say that the receiver Enough already
has better th an :..I 25% increase in sensitivity
By now yo u mu st know that I think the
over th e WR IOOOin the 30 to IOOOMH zrnnge
WR15<X>C. together wit h the Digital Su ite.
us ing the: FM narr ow mode: a nd yo u ca n reall y
rnakc u useful sho rt wa ve recei ver and a very
hear it !
powerful VHF/ UHF receive r: perh ap s o ne of
With a whip ante nna repl acin g the w ire. I
the best I have ever used . However, no Ca taluno
tuned 10 the 150 MH z se rvice band . Th e
co lum n wo uld be complete wi tho ut a "chan ges
WR I50Ue did no t di sappoint me as it pu lled in
I'd like to sec" sec tio n.
pag ing stat io ns fro m o ver 70 m iles away a nd
On e c hange I'd like to sec is tha: the audio
police. fire and med ical se rv ices from up to 60
output pow er be increased . It' s line for mo st
mil es awa y. Th e Di gital Su ite' s Packet Delisten ing. But at 100 milli watts it' s not muc h
code r wo rked we ll o n a pa ir oft wo me ter( 144
more powerf ul tha n a tra nsistor ra d io. and ca n
M Hz) pac ket station s about 50+ m iles. as the
be a prob lem in a hig h a mbient noi se e nviro ncrow flies. fro m my shac k. Ham repeat er
me nt . On e simple so lutio n is to use a po wer ed
stations were heard all over the han d.
speaker. Grove se lls a number of powered
speaker prod ucts that wou ld he go od ca nd i It Gets Even Better
dates.
The WR 1500e ' s sc anning speed is ma xed
J usually look with envy 0 11 report s o f
military UHF airbund (200 to-+OO MH z ) inte r- n ul ut 50 channels per second . It' s not bad . It' s
not the fastest thing on the scan ner bloc k. But
cepts. A few years ago. whi le living ncar-Cape
Kenned y. I had no sho rtage of milai r tra ffic . overall. the WR 1500 e . as a VHF/ UHF/SH F
But from my c urre nt loc ation. I usuall y canno t recei ver. ra ted an exce llent in my hook .
T he co mpu ter and mo nitor you use affec t
hear any m ilitary aircraft. Thai is. unt il 1tun ed
the WR 1500c to a list ofU I IF: m id air re fue l- the a mou nt of digi tal noi se . Rut using the
WR 1500e with a Fujitsu 735 DX Lifcbook
ing. night se rvice statio ns a nd tower/a pproach
mi l freq uencies at ci vi l a irports. I do n' t kn o w res ulted in a prett y "qu ie t" mon itoring se tup.
At $S49. 95 the W R lS(Xk is a rea l value. Th e
whether it wa s luck. propagat io n. tim ing or
j ust a vcry ho t radio . But the WR 1500e crack- W R ISOOe is avai lab le from selec ted dealers.
In the USA. yo u ca ll check Grove for latest
led wi th mi lair act ivity a ll da y. In a side- by-

98 . See Fig ure 2.

Inside the Alrljata Mou se is a co mplete
IrDA tran sceiver . Se lectech patented lhc " IrDA
in a mou se co nce pt" in 1997. So now any Wi n

95/98 PC (laptop or desktop) can tra nsmit and

rec eive infrared data fro m any IrDA device:
even another Ai rData Mou se. For exa mple.
the AirData Mouse provides wi re les s connec-

tions to IrOA capab le laptops from IBM.

Compaq, Fuj itsu and lots of other laptop manufaeturers. Exist ing IrD A product s include:

Canon' s BJC- 80 color printer, HP's IrOA

printers, IBM laptops. lrOA co mpatible electroni c ca mera s and lots of soo n-ro-be released
IrOA periph erals. Even Hand PCs like the
Cassiopeia ha ve a built- in IrDA Port,

FIGURE 2. Airlsara Mouse - Th e al/ly desk

mOllse with a light communications
tran sceiver inside
prici ng a nd a vaila bil ity . C hec k out the
WinRadio website at www.wmradle.comfor
dealers. software upgrades and more.

The Other Wireless

If you own a laptop , palmtop, hand PC

(perish the thought) or a personal data assistant (P DA) suc h as the Palm Pilot. take a look
aro und the case . Did yo u find a da rk (redl
black) w indow? If so , you already ha ve 50 %

of a wireless data communications network.

No . no t wire less like in rad io. Wire less, like in
light beam co mmunicati ons. Thi s dark red
le ns may be your e ntry to the future of per-

sonal wireless da ta communications.

Welco me to the IrDA pon. (rDA. Infrared
Data Associ at ion . is a g roup of 120+ major
co mputer companies who have form ed a consort ium and produced a wireless data tran sm issi on standa rd using infrar ed bea ms . The
first standard. IrDA ver sion 1.0. ha s a range of
3 meters and a data rate of up to I 17 kb s. Th e
wh ol e con cept is very user frie ndly a nd has
been aro und for a number of years. Even my

vintage 1995 IBM 70 lC Th inkPad has an

IrDA port. IrDA mak es sharing files bet ween
you r portabl e co mputer a nd your de sktop computer/scanner/printer sys tem sim ple. ea sy and
convenient.

What! No Desktop IrDA Port?

Yo u say yo ur desktop docs not have a n
IrD A port? Neithe r do over 90 9'r, of all the
desktop s mudc to date . We ll. no w th at ' s no
prob lem. A co mpany in Vcrmont, Selcctee h
Ltd . make s a fully func tiona l de sk mo use .
AirDa la Mou se. fo r usc with any compute r
with a serial por t a nd running Wi ndo ws 95 or

To use A irData Mouse I went to the IrDA

icon on the Co ntrol Pan el. Clicking the " new
driver" menu. I loaded the included Ai rData
Mo use dri ver d isk . Next. you' Il be prompted
to re-boot yo ur mach ine. C hoo se the " Shut
Do wn" option . if yo u arc give n achoice. After
yo u shut yo ur co mp uter off. disco nnect yo ur
ex isting de sk mou se.T hen install yo ur AirData
Mo use in your se rial po rt and co nnect it into
yo ur keyb oard port fo r power. No ex ternal
" wa ll wa rt" is needed, When yo u tum yo ur
co mp uter o n. W ind ow s w ill ide ntify the
AirData mou se as a " new de vice."

graphical user interface (GU t) . Th e old Atari

ST sys te m a nd the MAC used GU ls. So why
did Microsoft sec fit to na me a ll the ir GUl s
"Windows"? If the y ' vere a ll downward com pati ble. as 3. 1, 95 and 98 arc. the n there may
hav e bee n a logica l reason . But if C E is not at
all co mpatible. wh y use a misleading na me'?
T ime will be the j udg e. J did sec a sha reware
websi te with a Wi ndow s CE section. (f it-s of
any usc we' Il take a quick look at it. Till next
time .

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Kiwa Earth Monitor

By Ke vi n Ca rey

lthough Kiwa Electron ics is best

know n for their line of receiving

accessories, the addition of the

Earth Monitor" now put s a rece iving device in their prod uct lineup. T he Earth
Monitor is ca pable of tuning into the fasciDating realm of" natural radio" -the study
of signals from planet Earth. These signa ls
include "sferics.' "tweeks," " whistlers,"
"dawn choru s," and other phenomena occuni ng in the Extremely Low Frequency
(ELF) and Very Low Freq uenc y (VLF)
radio spe ctrum. Th e unit detects a broad
band of signals fro m 10 Hz to 15 kHz.
Not 100 many years ago , the only pructical way to hear nat ural radio was to bu ild

your own detector. or adapt some other

piece of equipment such as anaudio amplifier or selective voltmeter. Even today.
there are few co mme rcia l units availab le,
so it' s refreshing to see a new e ntry to the
field from a respected finn. It con firm s my
be lief that we are en tering the "golden age "
of natural radio.

level and doe s not vary with the setting of the

unit' s volume con tro l.

Product Overview
Th e Earth Mon itor is a compact, portable unit measuri ng 3" (76 mm) x 4 .5"
(1 14 mm) x 2.25" (57 mm). It is design ed
to run from six inte rna l AAA batte ries or
fro m an external source of 6 to 15 Vdc . Th e
un it draws onl y 22 millia mperes. so battery
life sho uld not be a majorconcern . Fo r long
trips. however. the external power feat ure
allows ope ration of the se t fro m a car
battery or other high capacity source .
The Earth Mon itor shipme nt includes
the detector itse lf, ante nna (more on this
later). and an instru ction man ual. All you
need to supply are batteries (or external
power) and a pair of headph one s. Kiwa
recomme nds using 30 to 600 ohm headphon es such as those incl uded with personal stereos.
Th e rear panel of the de vice inclu des
connec tions for signal input, headphon es.
external power. and reco rd output. I especia lly like the prov isio n for record ing; it
provides an easy way to capture tho se
moments when natural radio signals are at
their best. Th e record output is at a cons tant

96

MONITORING TIMES

The Kiwa Earth Mon itor includes everything

y ou need to getstarted in th e world of
natural radio. (A nten na pictu red was first
design as tested by this autho r.)

No vember 1998

Reception
II is well known that yo u should be far
away from power lines and elec trical equipment whe n you liste n for natural radiosignals;
ifyou're not. 60 Hz hum ca n wipe out all but
the strongest signals. Desp ite this , I deci ded to
begin by testing the receiver in a "w orst case"
environmen t-my rad io room . To my surpri se, some "s woos hy" whistle rs and pings
were heard right away . and the 60 Hz hum was
not near ly as bad as I had expected . The credit
for this goes to the filters bu ilt into the Earth
Monitor.
Another surpri se came whe n I was able to
hear the weak but distingu ish able beeps from
the Russian Alpha system on 14 kHz. Although my interest was in hearing natu ral
radio signals. it wa s reassuring to hear these
VLF rad io bee ps.
Encoura ged by these initial tests. I drove a
few miles into the co untry to get away from
high voltage power line s. Wh en I reached a
point abou t a half-m ile fro m the nearest line.
I turn ed the set bac k on and was gree ted by

plenty of clearly audib le whistlers a nd virtually no hum. A bee flying near the antenna was also cl early heard! Insects ge nerate electros tatic energy as their wings beat
throu gh the air, and this ca n oflen be hear d
on ELF rece ivers.
I had excellent res ults by just holdin g
the a ntenna base in my hand, though the
manual recommended it be mounted 10
feet above the gro und . How ever, to reduce
interfere nce pro blem s Kiwa is now redesigning the entire ante nna to incorp ora te a
gro unding stake and a 20-foo t spoo l of
ante nna wi re instead of the 33-inch telescoping antenna.
Th e antenna is j ust one type o f inp ut
se nso r planned for the signal detector. Accor ding to the manual, Kiw a intends to
make other types of sensors a vailable , such
as a parabolic microphone for listening to
birds, and a hyd roph on e for listening 10
dol phin s a nd whales. Th ese will certai nly
add versatility to the unit!
Th e manu al for the Earth Moni tor is
brief but complete; its shirt pock e t size
makes it ideal for use in the fie ld. Besides
cov ering the operatio n of the un it, the
manual describes the type s of signals yo u
ca n hear and sets reason able ex pectations
for listen ing success. My only co mplaint is
that the type size pro ved a challenge even
for my nearly 20120 vision.

The Boltom Une

The Kiwa Earth Monitor has a sturdy.
substantial fee l, and its on-air perform ance
exceeded my ex pectation s. If you ' ve been
hearin g about natural radio for yea rs. but
have never act ually tuned in, this un it will
bring the signals to life with min imal fuss.
At S I45 it' s priced a bit high er than some
othe r VLF receivi ng devices, bu t, in my
opinion, this is ju stified by the quality of
the unit a nd its ea se of operation.
For more information contact Kiwa Electronics. 6 12 So uth 14th Avenue. Yakima,
WA 98902, or visit their web site at h tt p :!
/kiwa .com. The Kiwa web site also contains a link to Stephen P. McGreevy' s exce lle nt tutorial on natural radio (hig hly
reco mmend ed) .

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Eve ry year new technolog y

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As co mputer c hips become in -

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changing the nature of children's

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with their environm ent. In te rac t ive
dolls are be ing introduced by a number of co mpanies:
co mp uter chips a llow the do lls react
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with associat ed television pro-

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Detecting signals in the 10 Hz- IS kH z
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Air Navigation in the UK

In the Augu st " Le tters:' Albert Lozano
menti on ed the firs t hybcrbolic naviga tio n
sy stem - whic h ins pired respo nse s from two
ho bby ists:
Mike Powe ll wrot e. 'This sys tem, invent ed
duri ng the war by Dr Dipp y. wa s kn own as
"Gcc" (for Grid). It was still in usc in 1956
w he n J did my Natio na l Service in the RAF
(Sig na ls) but it went ou t of usc sho rtly afte r-

wards.'
Jacq ues d'A vig non , JUT s propagatio n
co lumnist. adds: "T he Gee Sy stem is a hyper boli c sys tem operating on direc t wave s in the
frequency hands between 25 and 85 mes
(M Hz) . It was developed as an aircraft nav igati on sys tem a nd is sa id to provide co ve rage
for any number of craft with an acc urac y of
fro m one fourth to one third of a mile up to
distanc es o f 250 to 300 mile s depending o n
the altitude of the craft. Gee is a British
de velopment and at present quite complete
coverage of the Brit ish Isles is in ex istence.
T he eq uip men t has pro ven to he reliable a nd
simple to operate and mai ntain ."
Hrn-m-m. is it be ing maint ained as a backup. then'!

The Great NieD Debate

Dan Hamilto n of Cape Cod. Ma ssachu setts. wrote regarding Werner Helm ' s articl e
on NiCd cells in the March 98 Mr. but he
says he was " ve ry di sapp ointed to see it
pe rpetuate the false myth abo ut ' me mo ry ' in
rec hargcablcs and the atte nda nt ' need' to
discharge be fore rec hargin g."
.., wo uld invite MT readers to che ck out a
superb we b site. put toget her by a co mpete nt
a nd arti cul ate eng inee r. on this topic: h ttp://
gnv.fd t.net/-rcdscho/
"O n that site you wi ll fi nd facts abou t
preci se behavior ofN iCds und er vario us cond itio ns of c harge and discharge. The botto m
line is that there is almost no rational reason
fordi scha rging mult i-cell pack s ... a nd in fact
some discharging schemes _" can permanently
damage individual ce lls and therefore the
whole pack: '
For more discu ssion on rechargeab le cells.
be sure 10 check out Bill Cheek' s October uno
No ve mbe r Expe rimenters w or kshop co lum ns. Also. as an aside. Dan also reco mme nded Ben Sa ladino ' s Rudie Man ager for
Win dows prog ram . "w hic h is a ve ry nicel y
do ne compute r contro l inte rface fo r the
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Rachel Bau hn Editar

abo ut 6() fee t wide at thc basc.Th is isn't

much . The New Jerse y Turnpike. or
lntcrxtatc 95 is much wider.
..~ . Th ink o f the pho tos you have
see n in National Gl'ograp!J ic ant! elsewh ere o f the ea rth taken fro m space.
T hose taken from the 11100n merel y
show a big blue ball with lots of while
stuff ob scuring most of the feature s.
Th ose taken fro m the space shuttle may
show some vag ue outl ines of continent s. hut eve n when yo u can make o ut
Au..truli a . you still ca n' t se c New
~l " te",w e at / O.J50feet: Greg Feis of Potomac,
Zea land. And be lieve me , New Zea land
M ary /alid. took this pict u re of "q u ite a nice asso rt ment of radio ontennoe rfmm th e top of Rendez vous is f\.I UC H bigger than the wa ll.
M ountaill ill th e U):mlliIlK Tetnns.
" I don't know how this ca nard got
star ted. hut it is wide sprea d . When I
For those for hard -to-fin d NiCd ce ll rc- was in China in Mar c h. my guide and the
placements. Bob Earl KD6UIH had this ad- tou rist lite rat ure continue to espo use this non vice : " In the Augu st issue of A-fT'.\' Ask Bob '
sen se. It is simply 11 0t true - Ask yo ur local
column Ve rn BUll asked abo ut re place me nt high schoo l ph ysics teac her to work out the
nicad s for a 19 77 lVe portable TV . I get my math. and youl l sec what I mea n. Th is could
batt eries fo r any thing fro m the NiCad Lad y.
be an inte resting class proj ec t. (I f the 'g reat
Grace N6W PA ; she is great.
pyra mid s' or Egypt can' t he see n from space ,
" If G race doesn't have the buttery pack the wall hasn' t a c hancc.)
you need she C' 1I1 put ne w cells in the batte ry
"T here are man -made con struc tions which
pac k you have. She is reason ab le in her prices can be see n fro m space (but not from the
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It
Van ul-,o put it anothe r way : ca n you sec a
In line with our gues t ed itorial this mo nth hum an hair on the floor from the top o f a llight
rega rding Freque ncy lists thai get passed fro m of stairs'!
hand to hand as gospel withou t bein g qu csWe' re apprecia tive of the rem inder to stop
tion ed or tested . Van R. H. Stcr nbc rgh otCos and thi nk. And you reader s, he re' s a reminde r
Cob. Co nnectic ut. has a similar beef with
10 kee p yo ur brains and finge rs invo lved in
other " modern myths" that ha ve no basis in your hobb y: Tak e nothing for grant cd fac t. For exa mple . the state ment that the G reat chec k it out for yourse lves.
Wall of China ca n be seen fro m the Moo n
Ma ybe we should ado pt a new sloga n:
(Se pt. issue . p.16). Here a rc some issues he ' d "MT - it 'sa real Mind Trip! "
like us to conside r:
- Roc!Je/ Baug hn. editor
" 1. T he wa ll is in d isrepair - only short
sec tions have been ' restored ' tor-the beneli t of

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"2 . Eve n if the wa ll were co ntin uo us for its

origi nal 2.600 mile length. it follows the ridges
of the foo thills. a nd is al most neve r straight.
T here <Ire fe w. if any. straight lines in nat ure.
which is wh y airpo rt runw ays and oth er large
straig ht things (lik e inter stat e high way s.
br idges. e tc.) can be so ea sily see n fro m airplanes.
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Future Scanning System,

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35

Grove Enterprises

5, 11, 25, 39, 81,

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storeho use of knowled ge in the wo rld. I' m goi ng to ya nk my mod em p lug
o ut of the wa ll.
Now d on ' t ge t me wro ng . I like the Internet as a whole , I rea lly do . J
greatly e njoy se vera l ema il news groups s uc h <:IS milco m. fcd com . and
amfmtvdx . But when it co mes 10 accurate freq ue ncy info rmation. I take
it all with a huge grain of sail. Co nsider the fo llowin g rece nt exam ple .
During the latter part of August Hurri can e Bonni e thr eatened the U.S .
co astline . Onjust ab out ev er y radi o-re lated ne ws g roup the call wen t out
for hurricane- assoc iated frequen cies that co uld be heard 0 11 shortwave
radi o.
Wi thin minut es so meo ne wo uld post his co mprehe nsive list of
frequencies into the waiting ha nds of the an x ious hobb y ist who made the
o rigi nal request (and , of course, ev eryo ne el se in tha t new s g roup ). O ver
a 24 hour period I saw do zens of hurricane freque ncy lists (,:Ol11e out of
e very nook and crannyof the ne t. Do zen s more gave add resses to Internet
websites whe re eve n more o f these wo nde rfulli sts co u ld he fou nd .
So I did a littl e wa lkabout o n the wo rldw ide web in searc h of th is great
storeho use o f hurrican e frequ ency info rm ation . W hat I found was a huge
disa ppo in tment. No t o ne s ing le list - whether po sted to the news g roups
or found o n the we b - had accurate and up -to-date informatio n. Most
o f the lists were ju st p lai n wrung all the way through .
Wh en I asked so me o f these list ow ne rs if an y of them had actuall y
turn ed on a radi o to ve rify the ir pat ent ed freq uency list, the an swe r was
alwa ys the sa me - no ! No o ne seems to take the ti me to update
informa tion be fore pos ting it - we ll-meaning responde nts j ust pass it
along ind iscri minately as fact.
T his doe sn ' t j ust ap ply to the aforemention ed hurricane relat ed
frequ encies; some o f the rec en r lists ofa ir show frequ en cies border on the
ridic ulo us. A nd let' s not even di sc uss the folks in Mon tan a pas sing along
scanner freq uency lists for mo nito rs in New Yor k Cit y !
So me lists have c irc ulated on the net for so long now the y have
beco me gospel . and Heave n help the person that attack s their accuracy !
You w ill hear fo lks say. " I go t th is list from inside so urces:' or (the o ne
I love to hear), " it ca me from the pag es of Mo" itori"g Tinws or
P0I'C omm " - w ith no attrib utio n to ei ther so urce o n the pO'ited list . of
cou rse .
Som eon e recen tly se nt me a suppos ed ly up-to-date utility military
freque ncy list. I thou ght it looked fa mili ar. so I we nt hac k into Illy Utility
World arc hives and sure enough . it wa s one I run in 1()90 in MT. typ ing
mista kes and .11 1. It was forwa rded to me by this pe rso n w ho sa id he had
perso nally devel oped the list o ve r man y ye ars of mo nitorin g. Ha ving let
his MT s ubscriptio n e xpire in 19 9 1, thi s pe rson wa s unawa re o f all the
maj or cha nges that had occurred to th is part icu lar rudio netwo rk since his
subscriptio n ran out - or of the fact that he wa s feedi ng a freque ncy list
back to its o rigi nal author !

111e integ rity that ori gi na lly built these freque ncy lists through actua l
rad io monitori ng has been thrown out the window by those w ho wa nt to
he the first to post something. Also the hick o f prope r attributio n to the
source is not only pla g mrism . hut ig nores the basic ru les o f proper
research tech niq ues. Of course . in the end . so meo ne may act ua lly hear
so methin g o n freq ue ncy fro m o ne of these lists. hut docs that validat e the
entire list'! C lea rly not.

I Something for Nothing?

Ther e is a who le ge neratio n o r new rad io listen ers out ther e w ith the
min dset that they do n ' t need to buya hook or maga zine for thei r rad io
informat ion . They are go ing to save mo ney and get it from the 'net. The
be st e xam ple of thi s wa s the gent who was tak ing a trip from the We st
Coast to the East Coas t, He posted his co m plete rout e cross country in an
emai l message and wa nte d scanne r buff's to provide him wit h e very
freque ncy he wo uld hear o n his tri p ! T his fe llow d idn 't need hel p fro m
the list. he need ed to qu it being so darn ch ea p and buy the Moni to r
Amaiul hoo k by Scann er Master !
T o hob byi sts w ith this mindscr. I say you 'Ire ge tting exactly wha t yo u
dese rve : yo u pa y nothing and , L' h'II1(." es are , that' s abo ut what the
infor mation is worth. As you get your free Internet frequ en cy list. ask
yo ursel f. "W ho is mi nd ing th is store and making sure that what yo u gut
was right?" If we in the mag azine busi ness perform badl y. the consumer
votes with his pocketbook . If a we bsite doc s badl y. the wor st tha t can
ha ppe n is they get few e r hits and the rec ipients ge t had inform ation.

I The Moral to This Story

So wh at is the so lution'! First. never pos t to the ne t a list tha t you
hav en ' t pe rsonally ve rified or that doc s no t ack nowl edge the origina l
source of informa tio n. At least wit h so nic so n of attribu tion . co nsume rs
can judge the accura cy o f the ne w posnngs based upo n the past performan ce o f of that co mp iler.
Se cond. rathe r than se nd ing ou t ;1 list of o ld d iscrete freq ue nc ies that
ar c 110 longer vali d. it wou ld he more useful if experie nced mo nitors
wo uld recommen d to newcomers the freque ncy ra nge s in wh ich to tun e
aro und for a partic ula r liste ning target. Listeners ca n then report back
what they actua lly heard . Thi s approac h builds a viable list. helps
ne wcom e rs gain mo nito ring experience. and ca n he do wnr ig ht exciting !
On the o ther hand . if fol ks can' t find signals o n the list they we re giv e n.
they llIay get discouraged an d g ive up 011 the hobb y alto gether.
So the ne xt tim e you hear that hel pless cry of, .., need frequ encies for
..: . please P ;ISS along those freq ue ncies with a grai n of salt ... and with
appropriate cred it. And yo u o n (he receiving end . verify the list yo u
receive before you pass it o n. lt mi ght he a p ig you gOI in that po ke, or it
mig ht be a deli ber ate rin ger to thwart plag iarism -c- Jikc the Flccrxan.om
Delt a band plan freque ncy list !

M104

MONITORING TIMES

N ovember / 998

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