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VoI.17, No.ll
November1998
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
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By Rimanta s Pleikys
COl'er StolT
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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:
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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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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
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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
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Prcpcqcticn Conditions
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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
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Outer limits
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WBCO: Pirate Slolion Goes Legil
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Tips From our Readers
KIS Radio
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Heathki/ GR-64 Res/oro/ion
Experimenters Workshop
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Automolic NiCd Cell Discharger
Antenna Topics
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Why all the Noise abaul Noise?
On the Hom Bonds
86
Wish lisl for a Hom's Chrislrnas
And More!
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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
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Kiwa Eorth Monitor
What's New"." " ". ,." " """".."
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Letters
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Stock Exchange "",
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Advertisers Index
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Closing Comments
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Antenna Topics
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Compulers a nd Ra dio
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Exper imente r' s wkshp
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Mogn e Tests
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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
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
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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
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We st Texas ARC hamfest; Contact Robe rt
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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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 ,
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.
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.
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Foiling
Interference
The more distance you
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appliances the better, but if
space is at a premium. try
shielding both your equip-
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
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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.
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Acknowledgements
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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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November 1998
5236.0
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6
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Vo ice Primary I
Voice Prima ry 2
. Future ALE ~ystem
Future ALE ~ysl em
Future ALE system
Future ALE system
Future ALE system
Future ALE system
Digital Channell
Digita l Cha nnel 2
Confirmed
Confirmed
wc s 7632
wa s 1748 7
wa s 20 107
was 268 12
BB5/NBDP
BBS/NBDP
AARIDO
ArmyMARS
We~t
Ha rt-
ford, CT
SCS Centrol
AFMors
Shawnee,KS
AFA3HY
SCS Southeast WPEH72B AT&T
Conyer~,GA
SCS Scosh
AAA6USA Army MARS FtSom Hou slon, TX
(Stat ion qu it fu1ttime cperctions Aug 98 )
Ba llwin, MO
SCS Midwest WNIM867 NTA
SCS Mounta in KCP63
FAA
Lo n g mo n t,
CO
Utility Loggings
Hugh Stegman
5091.0
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
5574.0
5598.0
5696.0
5715.0
5717.0
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.
R E C EIVE ALL F M2 AND AUDIO
on primary frequency for large search with
SUBCARRI ERS -100 kHz to 9 MH z
Hahtax RCC, Rescue 115 (search coordi nator). and many aircraft, givi ng alternate freFull featured audio services, music, all sports, talk shows, news, religious programming, major
quency as5717.for two daysstartingat 021 5.
UNIVERSAL SC50
4660.0
4724.0
4739.0
(Perron-Mll)
4742.0
4905.0
radio stations . variety. public radio plus many oth er services. no lees. The SC50 audiosubcarrier
receiver will work with all home satellite systems, a-rntnute hookup. simple and quick to tune. 16
character display, so-chann el memory bank, direct frequency readout, covers all FM2 and audio
subcarrier channels, hund reds of free programmingchannels.
No vembe, 1998
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8971.0
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8983.0
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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,
a landing craft) and ADMG also heard at various times. Turkish Air
MONITORING TIMES
November' 998
11214.0
11232.0
11 244.0
11 247.0
11271 .0
11440.0
12212.5
12380.3
13077.0
1311 3.0
13200.0
13267.0
14000.0
14405.0
146B6.0
16086.0
17147.0
17204. 0
17428.9
18000.0
20699.0
2099B.0
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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Shortwave Broadcasting
Glenn Hauser, P.O.Box 16841011, Enid, OK 73702
E-IOOi/:<ghouset@hotIOOil.rom>;Fox: (5BO)233-2948, ArT: Houser
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 -
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thanks t o Harry
Helms at:
SWR
>
3355.3
3976.1
4000.0
4606.4
4753.3
4766.0
4845.2
5040.0
7 173.2
9552.6
974 1.6
/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
November 1998
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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)
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)
Send to Gayle Van Hom, c/o Mon itoring Times (or e-mail Kayle@gro\e.nel)
Englis h broadcast unless otherw ise noted.
37
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)
38
MONITORING TIMES
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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1430
Un ~nown '
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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
MONITORING TIMES
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.
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
Mondays
0000
0106
0130
0131
0230
0305
0401
0700
1040
1615
1730
1840
2130
2135
2200
Tuesdays
0030
Novembe r 1998
Wednesdays
0140
0146
0246
0300
0335
0346
0535
0730
0730
0930
1000
13 f5
1735
1820
1820
1900
1930
2000
2206
Thursdays
0130
0239
0345
0430
0545
0730
0754
0800
0953
1153
1320
1352
1700
\ 753
1954
2115
2130
Fridays
0053
0253
0345
0453
0915
1030
1930
1930
1930
2000
2047
2100
2105
2338
Saturdays
0005
0044
0136
0330
0330
0336
0400
0400
0438
0530
0536
0600
0605
0630
0700
(Continued onpage 45 )
FREQUENCIES .
O!JOO.0100
00(1)-0100
. . .
Al19uilla.Carlbbean Beacon
Australia. Ra dio
609lbm
9660pa
17795pa
OOOH)lOO vl
0000-0100 vi
0000-0100
0000-0015
O!JOO.O' OO
0000-0100
O!JOO.0100
O!JOO.0100
O!JOO.O'OO
0000-0100
[XXXHI100
O!JOO.0100
OOOO.()()27
OOOO-Dl00
OOOO{)()JIJ
OOOO-Dl00
(J()()(}0015 vi
0000-0100
000l) {1015
OOOO-DIOO
O!JOO.0100
0000-0100 vi
0000-0(3)
00000100
00000100
00000100 vi
0(01).0100
00000100
0000-0100
00000100
. . .
.. .
O!JOO.0100
12080as
21740pa
1524(}pa
3915.15
61953$
7 11035
119453$
11955as
1528035
15360as
17790as
5975am
12095sa
6175na
1771 5pa
502500
OOOG-0100
49tOdo
9485"
11940as
5910sa
9915sa
()()()().()l00t
9645"
11985na
0000-0100
0000-0100
4278am
13815,lm
S45&m
0000-0100
O!JOO.0100
6<J3O<lo
613Odo
616Odo
00000030 twIlla
751 0arn
721 5as
1529Oa5
S995"m
9775am
11720na
9625do
607Odo
61 _
seaeam
9725am
6975am
593003
9745na
7345na
12015na
15050am
15460am
21460am
O!JOO.0100
O!JOO.0100
21455am
OOOO-Dl00 stwhfa
()()()).()100
99O(}"m
3975eu
3366<10
74103s
6200do
6155eu
11815as
5100do
729Sdo
327031
6020na
17675pa
11845am
967Sdo
1545Das
6150do
6055am
9655as
0000-0100
0010-0020
0015-0100
0030-0100
003(}0100
00300100
USA, WBCaMonticello ME
USA, WfWN Birmingham Al
USA, WGTG McCaysville Gil.
USA, WHRA Greenbush ME
USA, WHRI tl obles'{ille IN
USA. WlN6 Red lion PA
USA. WRMIIR MiamiInti
USA.WRNONewOr1eans LA
USA, WSHBCypress CrkSC
USA.WSHB CypressCrkSC
USA WWBS MaconGA
USA, WWCR Nash'lille TN
USA_WYFR Okeechobee FL
Kyrgyzstan, KyrgyzRadio
Japan, RJapanINHK World
Austria, R Austria InU
Iran. VOIRI
Nel ~ e rta nds, Radio
00300100
00300100
0045-0100
00500100
SriLanka. SriLanka BC
UK, BBC AsianService
Albania. RTIrana Inti
Italy. RAI Inti
0!J00.01 00
9500.>,
4915do
9705as
6180eu
1365Das
0000-0100
O!JOO.O'OO
99503s
116203s
9665a1
11705na
0000-0100s
0000-0100wtas
0000-0100wI
0000-0100
()()()O-Ol00
3289al
6165na
9845na
136SOam
15230am
11905as
15395na
977035
1773535
6130ta
7415na
582503
94'''''
1531Das
9590am
13690113
12689am
15185as
11695ca
11760as
17820as
7405am
1374Dam
9975eu
13615na
7435am
6085na
9475am
9505na
13845am
6t80eu
966501
I 1705na
9022eu
616503
12090as
97303s
11955as
7160na
9675na
9685eu
9845na
9855as
945500
S0850m
1546031
5745am
13790am
99551
7355am
7535am
152B5am
11910na
5070am
5950na
4010clo
61SSeu
9655na
6OS5eu
602003
11655as
600Sas
94103s
6115na
6010na
' OSOdo
15425as
11800na
SELECTED PROGRAMS.
Sundays
Mondays
see
see
Tuesdays
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
0000
0000
0000
Fridays
0000
0000
0000
0010
0015
0017
0030
D034
0047
Saturdays
0000
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
17885. 15505. 15495.
15 1101-(930). 13620.
6055
178851- 15( 5). 15505.
15 110. 13620. 98 80
155051-1740).1 511011730). 11990(\ 6 15-). 9880
15505. 15495. 988012 130 ). 9855 : 2300-241XI
15495. 9855
09(J()- 1305
1305- 1605
1605- 181J()
1800 -231Xl
in English:
I8lX)-21lJ()
11 990
(BBC Monitoring)
November 1998
MONITORING TIMES
41
FREQUENCIES .
01lXl-0200
01ClO-Q200
. .
Anguilla.Carlbbean Beacon
AustralJa, gado
..
-"
6lJ9O,m
1208035
177SDas
li71 5pa
01()(H)200 vi
01DO-0200vl
0100-0200
01{)1}0200
0100-0200
17T95pa
21740pa
49tOdo
9625do
6D70Clo
603Odo
613Odo
616Odo
616Odo
5960am
136703m
6975am
9925am
0101H)129
01CJ0.0200
OHM)Ol05
0100-0200
0100-0127
O1 oo.Q200
01000150
0100-0200s
0100-0200
0100-0115
0100-0200vi
0100-0200
01000125
0100-0200
01000110
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100,0200
0100-0200 ~ I
0100-0125
01000200
0100-0200 ~I
0100-0200
0100-0130 mtwnta
NewZealand, R NZ inn
Papua New Bumea, NBC
Philippines, FEBC/R Inll
Serbia.Radio Yugoslavia
0100-0200
154153s
5D25do
Auslral.a. Vl8TTent el k
Canada. cae NQuebecSvc
Canada. CFRX TOlOnlO
Canada. CFVP Cal\1ary
Canada. CHNXHalifax
Canada. CKZrj 51 John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada. Rcanada InU
0100-0200
0101)-{1200
15240pa
6000<"
6200na
9745na
6Q.lOna
11810am
9855eu
3975eu
3366do
3301ldo
95253s
7260Cu
6200do
6010na
6150al
15590as
21670pa
5100do
7295do
3270al
6020na
11655as
17675pa
9675do
15450as
9580fla
9535am
9755am
1505Dam
21460am
,."""
13605na
7345na
12015na
6085'"
21455am
6145na
117t5am
155103s
9685"
9675na
11860as
178103S
11800n3
I1Boome
17835sa
3289al
6165na
12090as
9845na
11870na
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200
SlOgapOfe,RCorp Singapore
Slovakia, R Slovakia Inti
Spain, RExterior Espana
Sri la nka. Sri lanka Be
SWitzerland. swss RInti
UK. BBCAsian service
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
615Odo
593003
6055am
6005<>,
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SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
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
MONITORING TIMES
No vember 1998
seem.
0100
0110
OilS
0117
0134
0147
0152
0100
Thursdays
0100
0100
0100
OHIO
0110
0115
0117
0134
0147
0152
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
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
02l)(}C300twhla
0200-t300
0200-0300vi
0200-0300....
0200-0300
0200-0300
021lO-{}300
O2OO{))OO
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0200-0300
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Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Argentina. RAE
Australia, Radio
0200-0250
02000300
020lHI230
02000300
02000300
0200-0230
020003)0
02000250
02000300 vi
02000225
02000300
02000300 vi
02000300
02000300
GermanY,(NelcomerMlnistr
Hungary, RadiOBudapest
neuno. Unl cnnsten BC
Kenya. KenyaBroadc Corp
utneana. RadiOVilniUS
MalaYSia, RadIO
Myanmar, Radio
Narmbe. NBC
Netherlands, Rar nc
New Zealand . R NZInll
Papua tiel'! GUinea, NBC
Philippines, FEBC/R Inti
gomama . R Romania lnll
02000300
02000300
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aussa.voceof RussiaWS
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South Korea, R Korea mn
Sri l anka, Sri lanka BC
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6150do
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0200-0300
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0200-0300
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0230-0300
0230-0257
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178203s
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13670am
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SELECTED PROGRAMS.
Sundays
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.
see
0245
Saturdays
1640.
0245 South Korea. RKorea Inti: Cuttural Promenade. SeeT 1645
0236
seem
pefSP8Clive.
South Korea, RKOieaInU; GlobaliziOO Korea. See F 1645.
Thursdays
0200
PROPAGATION FORECASTI:"G
Fridays
P ETERBOROUGH,
ON K9H 7N1
CANADA
D ls rR IBV TOR
ASAP S
P RO PAGATlOIi S OFTWA RE
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MONITORING TIMES
43
FREQUENCIES .
.. .
6090am
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radii)
0300-0400
0300-0400
96600'
15510pa
0300-0400 vi
03(l(}0400 vi
AUSlralia.OelenseForces R
8elalUs. R BelarusInll
72lOeu
Bulgana. RadIo
9485113
9625<10
0300-0400
Canada, CfRXToronlO
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
607Odo
6030<10
613Odo
616Odo
616Odo
96go,m
6975.101
OJOO{).lOO
0300-0400
0300-0305
0300-0400
0300-0327
0300-0"00
0300-0330
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9145na
9475am
&1lI5na
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
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0300-0400
0300-0400 asl\ol
0300-0400
030D-0400
0300-Q31 5 Ihlalvl
0300-0400vi
0300-0400
0300-0325
0300-0400vI
03000325
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0300-0330vi
0300-0400
0300-0330
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
Germany.Overcomer Mlnistr
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
Sing,1pore,RC orp Singapore
Sri l anka. Sli l anka Be
Taiwan, garno Taipei Inll
03oo.Q4oo vi
0300-0330
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Thailand. Radio
aussra.vcce
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1775035
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"''''''
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3300do
11785eu
6200do
7120va
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4885do
4010do
4800do
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9855as
17675pa
9675do
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5955,1t
6150do
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5050do
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03000315 mlwhl
0300-0400
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Uganda. Radio
UK. aBC AlriCJn Service
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9605as
21660as
21725pa
5025do
491Odo
14790as
0300-0400
0301Hl330 smw1a
0300-G400
0300-0400 vi
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1771 5pa
0300-0400
0300-0330
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t 1720na
OJOO..ro:H
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12015na
136050a
21455<101
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6185na
9535na
9500as
17825ca
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11905am
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15425na
15425as
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03000330 smtwh
0300{).l00
0300-0400
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0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-Q4oo
0300-0400
0301H14oo twntas
03OO.Q400
0300-0400
0300-Q4oo
0300-(1310
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0310-0340
0330-0351
0330-04LlO
0330-0400
0330-0400vi
03300400
0330-0355
0330-0400
03300400
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17790as
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99155.1
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59754m
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6458am
4278am
58laam
0300-Q4oo
0300-Q4oo
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.. .. .. .. . . . . ... .
12689am
i275al
7105al
9575.11
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5070.101
9505na
9605am
6265do
4828do
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11600as
11900am
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15330as
l1 G55am
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5935am
7-'35<101
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9895am
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72EOam
9375na
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6115.11
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3215am
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7305ca
6165(\0
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13170as
9475am
1200511a
9GHJal
11955as
5975am
t 2095me
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5905am
7450na
7245as
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t7730as
15400na
9420na
116203s
11760me
11645na
6065al
SmaEO PROGRAMS
Sundays
Mondays
44
MONITORING TIMES
November 1998
Tuesdays
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
Fridays
seem
see
Saturdays
0300
0300
0300
FREQUENCIES
0400-()5()()
0400-0500
0400-0500vi
OoIOO-OSOO vi
04lJ().0500
0400<J500
041)().()500
041JO.0500
041JO.0500
0400<J500
041lO-O5OO
O4llO-O429
041lO-O5OO
041lO-O5OO
O4llO-O405
041lO-O5OO
041lO-O5OO
04(1).045D
.. . .
Anguilla,Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio
Ausfralla. Vl8K Katherine
Australia. Vl 8T Tent e,k
AU$tralia.DelenseForcesR
0400-OS00 vi
04004110wm-t
0400-0500
O4QO.OSOO vi
0400-0430mtwhla
0400.c425
04oo.c458
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500
0400-0500
Germany.Overcomer Ministr
Gualemala. Radio Cuhural
lfelarHl. Unt ChrislianBe
llaly.IRRS
Ken~'3.. Kenya 810adcCorp
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
0400-0430
04000500
04000430
04000430
O4QO.0500 vi
04D0-0500
04000415
O4IXHISOO
0400-0500 vi
0400<J500
O4QO.OSOO aslv1
0400<J500
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120BOas
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1524Qpa
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5025do
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616Odo
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9715me
9560am
11835me
973Qam
11975me
6975am
150500m
21460am
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12015na
6015011
13605na
21455am
7225;11
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9745na
5_ '
11765al
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3300<10
6200do
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5993do
7295do
716Odo
5985na
7520na
17675pa
9675do
9570na
9825na
13790na
5955al
615Odo
6005as
584Qeu
50SQdo
727Das
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4935do
9705na
1I940na
12DOOna
15425na
15325as
12050na
15455na
9730as
9885am
15425as
9905am
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17720as
13640na
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325531
0400-0500
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04Il0-0500
0400<J500
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0400-0500 m
0400-0500 mw
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500vi
0425-0440 vi
0425-0500
04300500
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
04300500
0430-0500as
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
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11910as
9600a1
0400<J500
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17705as
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4828do
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6175am
5935am
9985va
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11760me
15575a5
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6195eu
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581Qam
7510am
9975am
6080a1
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15205va
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11950am
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7315am
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3215am
606503
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6165na
3200af
9885na
5975am
17640me
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7255al
11905pa
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SELEaEO PROGRAMS.
Sundays
0400
0400
l)4{l5
0430
0455
6455
G455
0400
0400
0410
0455
0455
see
0455.
Tuesdays
0400
0400
0410
0430
0455
0455
see
~:d~~a~~l~i
o: RANews. See S0000.
USA, KAIJ (Dallas TXt: World University Network (Or.
0400
0410
0455
0455
Gene SCOII).
Australia, Radio: TheWorld TodJy (repeat). See M0210.
Malaysia, Voice01: Voice01Islam.
voee
Fridays
0400
0400
Mondays
SWl Programs
0709
0830
0900
0910
0940
1015
1030
1100
1136
1247
1305
1336
1342
1345
1455
1530
1536
1730
see
0455.
Saturdays
0400
0400
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0600 USA, KAlJ (Dallas TXj: WorldUniverSityNetwor\( (Or.
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0615 Nigeria, Voiceof: Issues01Ihe Moment. See F 1645
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Liberia, Radio Veritas
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Namibia, NBC
Netherlancls. Radio
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Papua NewGuinea. NBC
Russia.Voice 01RussiaWS
09001000
0900-1000 vi
0900- 1000 vi
0900-1000
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Solomon lsJands, SIBC
Tanzania, Radio
UK. BBCAfrican Service
0900-0915
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
09001000
0900-1000 mtwhl
090lHOOO Ih
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0900-1000
0900-1000
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Canada. CFRXToronto
0920-09301
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09JQ.1000mtwhfa Austna. RAustria Inll
0930-1000
Canada. CKZNSIJohn's
09301000
Georgia, Radio
0930 1000
Guam. TWR:KTWR
0930- 1000
Ilaly, AWR Europe
0930 1000
Netherlands. Radio
09301000
Philippines. FEBCIR Inll
0935-0950 s
Monaco, Trans World Radio
0945-1000
UK, BBCAsian Service
0945-1000 a
0945-1000smtwnt
951lOpa
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11880..5
177Soas
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2325do
1000-1 100
1000-11 00
l000 1100 vl
1000-1100 vi
1000.1100 vi
5OJOdo
lOOOl l00vl
607Odo
1000-1100
6OJOdo
l00(H l00
1000-1 100
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616Odo
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15050am
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17485a1
9640,'
1000-1100
9890pa
21460am
9830"
21745as
21 4S5am
11755pa
138203u
1518631
1518631
6l 6Opa
1541031
21680as
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15200as
329Odo
6200do
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5100do
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9600eu
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9755eu
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97001'3
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1000-1100
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1000-1 100
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1000-1030 s
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1000-1 100 vi
1000-1 100
10001030
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10001100 vi
1000-11 00
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1000-1 100as
10001100
1000-1 100
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1000-11 00
USA, WHRI NobleSVIlle IN
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1000-11 00
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1000-11 00
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1000-11 00mlYihla USA. WYFROkeechobee FL
1000-1030
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10001100
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1000-1100
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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"",
2310<10
9580pa
11880as
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17750as
2485do
2325do
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137103s
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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
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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
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North Korea, R Pyongyang
1100-1200
11001200
1100-1200
1100-1200as
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11001150
1100-1200
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11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200
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110012oo vl
1100-1 200
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11 15
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1100
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1130
11 30
11 35
1135
11 50
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1100
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11 10
111 0
1115
1125
1130
1130
1135
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1100
1100
1109
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1115
1130
1130
1135
11 35
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11 00
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1120
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1135
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Angullla,Caribbean Beacon
Auslralia. RadIo
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1200-1300 vi
1200-1225
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1200-1300 vl
1200-1300
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12095eu
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12001300
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12001300
12001300
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12061300 occsnal
12091215 mtwhl
1209-1215as
12101240
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1229,1259
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
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15530am
15540al
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962Deu
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17575,am
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4965al
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6150as
9610au
11940al
17830011
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Mondays
1235
11760me
15565eu
1200-1300
1205
1220
1230
15310.15
6195am
154.l5am
Sundays
1200
1200
1205
152803S
596503
2325do
695lJP'
6195a5
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....5.1,
12001230vl
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6195ca
619S.am
120853U
175953s
9505eu
9640am
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13720as
7230Js
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9655as
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980lDas
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9505eu
7140me
15555me
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15220am
9620eu
11855am
13730na
955Das
11720as
13650am
9570as
15425as
15240au
9885015
9640am
12020as
15010as
962Deu
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117203s
13660011
13670as
11905as
15180al
. .. . . ..
Fridays
1200
1200
1205
1205
1220
1225
1230
1235
1245
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1200
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1220
1230
1230
1235
1245
1250
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FREQUENCIES .
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1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400
AngUllla,Carlbbean Beacon
Australia, RadiO
Auslralla. RadiO
13001400 vt
13(X)-14(l(Jvt
1300-1400 vi
1300-1320
13()(}-1400 vt
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6020pa
""""
" 'llO"
9580pa
2325do
15445am
9625do
607Odo
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
1300-1400 occsnal
13001400
1300-1400vi
1300-1355
1300-1400
13001400 as
1300-1400
1300-1400
Costa Rlca,RFPeaceInti
CzechRep. Radio Prague
Et uadol, HCJB
Egypt Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. REast Alrica
Eqt Guinea. Radio Alnca
f rance, RadiOFrance inn
Germany, Sunrise Radio
Germany, unversanne
Germany,Good News World R
Germany,Overcomer Mmistr
Ireland, Unl Omsuan BC
Jordan, Radio
Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp
lib eria.LCNfRlibe ria Int
Malaysia, Radio
Malaysia,RTM KotaKinabalu
N Mariana Is, KHBI saoan
Namibia, NBC
NewZealand, R NZ Inti
Palau, KHBNN oice 01 Hope
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Poland, PousnR Warsaw
Romania, R Romania Inti
S Africa, Channel Alrita
Singapore,R Singapore tnt
Sri lan ka. Sn lanka BC
"''''m
7385pa
I 1675pa
15050am
13580as
12005am
17595as
f 5186al
95303s
9805eu
5850va
120253s
153B5eu
15625pa
6200do
1169Deu
4935do
51OOdo
7295do
5980do
9355as
4930af
6100pa
9985as
4B90do
6095eu
15250na
9445af
6015as
973035
1300-1330
1300-1400 vl
1300-1400
12303S
9535eu
S05Odo
74803s
Talilania. Radio
UK. BBC African Service
619Oa1
11940a1
2166Oa1
619535
178SSaI
2310<10
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1300-1400
1300-1400
130(H 400
11175am
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1300-1400
131XH 400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
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15180as
21745al
15115am
21455am
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15195eu
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13001400 mrenta
1300-1400
1300 1400
1300 1400
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13001400
13001400
1300-1400
13001400
1300-1400 vl
13021400
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1330 1400
1330, 1400
1330-1400
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1330-1400
1330-1400
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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).
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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.
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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
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1335
1340
1355
1315
1330
1335
1340
1355
saturdays
1300
1300
1305
1305
1330
1335
1340
1355
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
Tlan lVei
hosts HVoices
from Oth er
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CRJ 's
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Sundays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1405
1410
Mondays
Tuesdays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1405
1415
1417
1434
1447
1452
seem.
~:d~~a~a~1a~i
o: RANews, SeeS oo.
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1400
1400
1405
1415
1411
1434
1447
1452
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see
SCon).
1400
1405
1415
1417
1434
1447
1452
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1400
1400
1400
1405
1415
1417
1434
1447
1452
1400
1400
1405
1410
seem
Saturdays
1400
1400
1400
Hello, Writers...
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Angtlllla ,CaribbeanBeacon
Austlalia. Radio
1500-1600
1500-1600
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1500-1600
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Canada. CFVP calgary
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Guam. TWR:KTWR
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Malaysia.RrM KOlaKmabJlu
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1500-1600 vi
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1500
1500
1500
1500
1500
1505
1516
1528
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1500
1500
1500
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see
see
see
1500
1500
1500
1505
1515
1519
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1500
1500
1500
1500
1500
1505
1530
1530
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1500
1500
1500
1500
1505
1513
1528
1530
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
FREQUENCIES .
1600-1700
1600,]00
16001700
1600-1700
1500-1700
1500-1 700
1600-1700
1600-1 700
1500-' 700
1500-1700 as
1500-1527
1600-1 700
1600-1700
1600-1650
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
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1600-1630
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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
16001625
16001700
16001630
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esc
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1600-1645
1600-1700
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6190.11
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lEOO-1700
17840am
6458am
12689am
1600-1700
1500-1700
1500-1700
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1541 031
1600 1700
15001700 mtwbta
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1600-1700 a
1600-1 700
1600-1700
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1 574 5~ u
1600-16 10a
1600-1630
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1600-1630vi
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1615-1 645
16151700
UK.
Asian Service
UK. BBC Atrfcan Service
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UK.BBC AsianService
161:>-1700 as
1630-1700
1630-1657
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13845am
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Sundays
1600
1600
1600
1605
1610
1636
1645
M~n~~Xa~a,
Radio: AANews. SeeS 0000.
Nigeria, Voice 01: Si,ty MlOutes nrcm 1530), See S0220.
1500
1500
1505
1615
1515
Tuesdays
1600
1600
1600
1605
1615
1620
1530
1640
1845
~~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
JJ1oU~~f~
Radio: RANews. See S0000
1600 Nigeria, Voice of: SixtyMinutes (from 1530), See S0220
1600
1605
1610
16t5
1630
1640
1545
Fridays
1500
1600
1600
1605
1515
1620
1630
1630
1645
1545
~~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
November 1998
MONITORING TIMES
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1100-1800
1700-1800
..
. ..
fREQUENCIES .
Anguilla,Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radi o
1700-1800 vi
17001800 vi
17001800 III
1700-1800 vi
1700-1800
1700-1800
17001800
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1727
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1730
1700-1800
1700-1800a
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
cac
Canada,CFRXToronto
170)-173(1
170)-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1751 mtwhl
1700-1715 vi
1700-1800 vi
1700-1800
1700-1 600
Jordan, Radio
Kenya, Kenya Bruad c Corp
Lebanon, Voice 01 Hope
liberia , Star RadIO
Malaysia, Radio
New Zealand, RNZInll
Palau. KHBNlVoice01 Hope
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Romania, R Romania Inti
Bussia.vcice 01 Russia WS
1700-1730
1700-1600 .1
1700-1715mtwh
1700-1600
1700-16oovl
17001600
1100-1745
1700-1600
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1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
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11775am
S995pa
1100-1800
1100-1600mtwhla
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1600
1700-1800 mtwhl
1100-18001ha
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800vi
1715-1745\1
1715-1800
1715-1730
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6160do
6160do
5220.11
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1730-1800
1745-1800
1745-1800
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1745-1800
1752-1800smtwh
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11910.11
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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 !
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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 .
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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
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
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AI'Tand WEFAX .
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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
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Picture production
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 ://
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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.
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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
/(/\ \...(.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
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
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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.
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Service (AllS)
120.3000
121.9000
Unicorn
Approach/DepartureControl (paired
with 263.6)
127.8500
134.2500
156.6000
wide)
157.1 000
157.1 500
wide)
157.1750
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165.2625
2293250
229.3350
237.9000
239.0000
242.6625
243.0000
263.6000
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275.1 000
282.8000
284.6000
381.7000
3818000
383.9000
385.5000
with 134.250)
396.0000
Admiral's Elite
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Bartman
Beach
Bellafonte
Big Ben
Big Name
Big Sky
Big Tree
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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
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TAH20
CG61
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FFG53
AGF3
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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
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USS Concord
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Thicket
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Twilight II
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WhiteWol1
Yuletide
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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
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00963
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CG69
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lCC20
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00-997
CG58
CV-67
CV-67
00G-61
00G55
DOG-58
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lH Ol
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CVN-70
CVN-70
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CVN-71
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FFG-15
FFG40
00G995
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00-988
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TALK
MAKING SENSE OFCIVIUAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
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 -
regula~
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(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-
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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
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
Ch~ran
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.
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)
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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Huntington. IN
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COMMUNICATIONS
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CHAPTER ONE
The Need for Surviva l Comm unications
Accurate Information Vi tal in Situatio n s o f Urgency
CHAPTER lWQ
Traditional SOllce! 01New s an:llnlormation
Rediscovering AM (Standa rcl Broadcast) Radio
Allemate New s SoUIUl S
Alle malive Talk Shows
CHAPTER SIX
Citizens Band Radio
Notes and Tips on Using CB
Tuning in CB on Shortwave Receivers
CB Antemas
Powe r Sources fOl' CB Gear
CHAPTER THREE
The International Shortwave Broadcast Bands
The Marin e Bands and The Aircraft Band s
The Amat eur Radio Bards
How Shortwave Signal s Skip Worldwide
Shortwave Receivers
Antenna s lor Shortwave Recep tion
Power Sources lo r Shortwave Receivers
CHAPTER SEVEN
Personal Communications Systems
Handheld Business Band FM Transceivers
Marine Band FM Talkies
GM RS and FRS Units
Field Phones
CHAPTER FOUR
The HF World 01Amateur Radio
The VHF/UHF World o f Amateu r Radio
Eqlipment lo r listening on me Amateur Rad io Bards
Becoming a Lc ensed Ama teur Radio Ope rator
Amateur Hadie An tennas
CHA PTER FIVE
Sca nning and Sca nners
Finding the Action
How to Select Sca nning Geat
Please send
Name
CHAPTER EIGHT
G PS Receivers: Persona l Pathlinders
How GPS Works
GPS Maps and Mapping
Prevewing GPS Receivers
-sateune
20 00
Address
City
o MasterCard
CH APTE R ELEVEN
Emergency and Alterna te Power Sources
Recharge able CeUsand Battenes
Heavy Duty Ball erles
Porta ble Energy Item s
Converter s and Inverters
Motor Driven Generators
Fuel lo r Altemate Power Sourc es
Gasoline vs. Diesel Fuel
Wind and Waler Powered Genera tors
Solar Energy Panel s
CHAPTER TWElVE
Satellite: YOl.l' link 10Alterna tive TV
and Audo News ard Programming
How 10Set Up an InexpenSIVeSatelille System
10 Receive Alterna tive Programming
Run Your Own Radio Station
Fully Utilizing Your Satelli te Sy stem
lor Mote Altem ative News and Programm ing
The Basic Sa tellite Formats
Radio Guide"'" lists All Satellite Radio Channel s
Tune 10 Satellite Radio on Your Satellite System
CHAPTER NINE
Free-Playing Radios
Shortwave Reception with a Crystal Set
Aircralt Ba nd Reception
Field-Assembled Crystal Sets
Wind-Up Radio
**
CHAPTER TEN
Wealher Information Sou rces and Resou rces
The NOAA Weather Rad io Sys1em
Aircralt and Mar ine Weather Sia lions
Weather Fax: Weather Pictures and Maps
Antennas lor NOAA Wea ther Radio Receivers
State
Visa
Discover Number
Zip
Exp. Date
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K.S RADIO
Alignment techniques
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
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
,I
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-
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
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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.
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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
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A NTENNA TOPICS
BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS
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.
So What Do We Do?
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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-
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Last Month:
I asked "W he re d id we get the nam e 'an-
tcnnu?"
In the early days o f wirel ess o ur skywircs
we re culled "ae rials." T h is wa s approp riate
becau se the y had 10 be hi gh in the nir whi ch is.
of co urse . the meaning ofthc tcnn "ae rial." But
as technology developed. rece ivers became
mo re se nsitive. and it wa s poss ible 10 receive
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
arou nd them ) "'<IS chos en as a mor e appropr iate
nam e for the de vic e thro ugh ' vhich a radio
receives information from the: environme nt
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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.
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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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ASK BOB
More on Lightning
In our Se ptember co lum n. we disc usse d th e
,I facully
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.
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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.
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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.
Th is equ ipment review is performed indepen dcntlv hy l.awrrnce Magll('(lt/(Ihis colira gues ill
accordance with 111(' policies am i procedures oj
lnternat iona! Broadvusting Services . Ltd. II is
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prod ucing the JAV-n:! it is now co mpatible wuh the
ARS:!OO. rc.mu & other lcom equipm ent. Alinco OJX l 0 end the Op toel cct ronics Scou t together w ith any
other receiver requiring 3 ITt. interface. Whe n used
with the AR IlOOO the JAV- :!J2 is un ique in that it no t
on l~ provide s RS:!32 computer ccpabihnes but also
squelch activated tape reco rding and when used w ith
the ARS!Il O a N FM discrim inator output.
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Fully co mpauhle with many receiv ers
Origin al Surnitomo Flat Flexible C able t FFC)
supplied for usc with ARIl OUlJ
Robu st, Co mpact Meta l Die Ca st Case
I.Orn h igh qual ilY Muhic ore Cable
Well produced Insuu cncn Manua l
fl.pin Din output provides Audio and Squelc h
Activa ted Rem ote Tape Record ing for
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SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST
BobPornoss, AJ95
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OJXIOT PORTABLE SCANNER
SIN T000618
Frequency covera ge (MHzl:
jack):
125 mW @ 7% d istortion
15 1 mW @ 15% distortion
Practica l memory scan speed:
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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 ).
Rugged Construction
This is one o f the must ruggedly bu ilt
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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1. Mea surements made on one scrople 01eac h model.
2. Measur ed with memories programmed with unsorted
freq uencies in va rious bonds a nd ANIa nd NFM detection
modes
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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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None of the handheld wide spec trum sca n-
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
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DC-to-light Communications
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Now double cl ick the IrD A sho rtcut whic h
appears o n yo ur desktop. Click "Enable" and
the tran sceiver will be activated. If anot he r
IrDA devi ce is in range. the two will automat ica lly make a wire less connec tion a nd tell you
whoi s "t alking" to yo u.lfth e "li nk" is broken.
yo ur computer will co ntinue sea rching for
another IrDA tran smi ssion.
AirData Mouse. incl udi ng all cables a nd
adapters . is $49 .95 and is av ail ab le fro m
Windows CE Feedback
\ Vow ! ( th ink I stirred up a horn et' s nest
with this one . I felt I was d uped by the name
a nd the marke ting hype. since WinCE is no t
compatib le w ith W in 3.1. 95 _NT or 98 . Howeve r, hal f of the Emails and letters I rec eived
held a very positive o pinion uf \Vindows CE o
Th e rest of the rea ders think I hi t the na il o n the
head .
T he co mputer retail ers I' ve spoke n w ith at
a rece nt trade sho w expect Wi ndow s CE Hand
PC to be the " rea l big" se lle rs of the 199 8
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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
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
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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
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gro unding stake and a 20-foo t spoo l of
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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
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birds, and a hyd roph on e for listening 10
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Th e manu al for the Earth Moni tor is
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cov ering the operatio n of the un it, the
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AOR . man ufuct urer ofthe AR se ries wide-ran ge receive rs. has
established AOR U.S.A.. Inc. a
sales and suppo rt center serving
No rth America. Vice President in
charge o f AOR US A is T akashi
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w .uc h th ei r w eb site a t
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several new products in the planning stages.
Dr. Paul Shue h 01" The SETI
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tha t th e quart erly ma ga z i ne
SE T/QtIC'H. ed ited b y Ca rl
He lme rs. ceased pub licat ion one
mont h fo llow ing a similar annou ncem ent by Satellite Times.
"T hese arc indeed hard times fo r
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the Searchl.Ites bulle tin fo r SE T I
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Books and
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Press releases may
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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
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A1inco
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95
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17
Austin Antenna
85
Barry Electronics
73
Boger Electronic,
73
Cabinet Communications
83
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71
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DX Compufing
47
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Glenn Houser
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FOR SA LE: Watk in..-Johu-on HF-1000 rece iver. Latest softwa re ve rsio n , manual.
ori gin al bo x. C:'III Dean . 5 I ~ -g3 4-7 64 0 .
John Figliozzi
61
Kevin Corey
87
KIWA Electronic,
Lentini Communications
Monitoring Ti me'
OptoElectronics
19, 67
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65
Skyvision
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Sony
Strid,berg Engineering
Th e Voice of Ameri ca 's Connnunirutions World progra m. hosted 011 Dr. Kim Andre w
El liott. will he aired us a full one-half-h our radi o program . Follow ing Or. Elli ott ' s program
will be thc half-hour World of Radio with Gle nn Hauser.
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LOSING
OMMENTS
By Boh Grove,
Publisher
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.
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UR 82000Wide
Range Receiver
The AR 8200B isan all-new
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500 KHz- 2040 MHz 'coverage
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Computer control and programming.
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Download free control software from
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Detachable MW antenna with
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