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CONTENTS

Vol. 15, No. 9

September 1996

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1l'he .1Jr:~ars" oI Br1ta1n
By Colin Miller
It' s the ultimate in monitoring ! Whe re ver broadcast in formation is to be fo und
you' ll see re ferences to " BBCMS"- the
BBC Monitoring Service. Si milar to the
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
in the U.S. , this service listens to fore ign
broadcasts, then translates, sorts, and
d isseminates text and othe r info rmation
to the BBC, the governme nt, and to the
public. Te levision and sate llite transmissions are now monitored as well.

Cover Story

Shuttle Mission
Monitoring

The Hallowed Halls of NAB96 ... 18

By Bob Rusk
T his fo rmer broadcaster never before
had the opportunity to atte nd the Nationa l
Association of Broadcasters' convention.
Now that he ' s a write r fo r the industry and
the hobby. this kid is loose in the candy
store. MT rides p iggy-back to see who ' s got
the poop and w ho' s got the scoop o n the
broadcast scene.

By Bob Grove

InVol. I No. I of Monitoring Times,

Bob Grove presented the most comprehensi ve list o f NASA frequencies
ever published in the hobby press.
That list has changed very little over
the years, but NASA 's spectrum usage has. Last spring, Bob threw out
the old list and went to the Cape
armed with spectrum analyzer, directional antenna, and an open mind.
He wasn' t di sappointed, and you
won' t be, either. Two packed pages
of frequencies should satisfy the next
generation of shuttle monitors for
years to come. See page 8 for the
story.
[n our cover photo, courtesy of
NASA, Astronauts Da vid Griggs,
right, and Jeffrey Hoffman fasten
snag-dev ic es o n the end o f
Discovery 's remote manipulator system arm. ff you ' d like to have d inner
with an astronaut, you can fi nd out
how on page 16!

How to Survive a Computer Virus

IA/'ithout Ilea/I}' Cr'}'in!J ..... 2'1By John Catalano
Okay, so this story isn' t about radi o.
But if you use a computer on the Inte rnet
or in the shac k, we think you ' ll than k us
anyway. Read it before you weep.

DEPARTMENTS

Reviews:
In his third
scoop tn as
many months.
Larry Magne
reviews the new
Sangean ATS
909 portable shortwave receiver.
The '909 fo llows in the footste ps o f
Sangean 's finer offeri ngs. such as
the '803A, and at a very competiti ve
price.
In Computers & Radi o, John
Catalano takes the first of rwo looks
at WiNRadio. a representative of the
new genre of 'radio on your PC.''
Pa11 one covers hard- and software
installment. Next month we' ll see
how it works.

Letters ................................................ 4
Communications ................................. 6
Grove Expo Update .......................... 18
Beginner's Corner ............................. 28
Radio ain't Television
30

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

NASA Aircraft
Shortwave Broadcasting .................... 38
QSL Report ....................................... 42
English Long SW Guide ..................... 43
Club Circuit ....................................... 63
Propagation Conditions ..................... 64
Below 500 kHz ................................. 66
European Beacon Book
American Band scan .......................... 68
Getting on the Air
Outer Limits ...................................... 70
New Nigerian Changes Schedule
On the Hom Bonds ............................ 72
Low Band Lowdown
DeMow's Workbench ........................ 74
Choosing the Right Capacitor
Plane Talk ........................................ 76

SELCALs for All

MONITORING TIMES (ISSN: 08895341 I is published monthly

by Grove Enterprises, Inc. , Brasstown, North Carolina, USA.
Copyright 1996. Periodicals postage paid at Brosstown, NC, and
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Federal File ....................................... 78

Coast Guard to the Rescue
Satellite TV ....................................... 80
World Viewing
Experimenters Workshop .................. 82
Tone Detector-Decoder
Computers & Radio ........................... 84

WiNRadio: 0.5 to 1300 MHz

Skylink ............................................. 86
Rising Costs on Wireless
What's New ........ ............................. 88

Review: GAP Titan DX antenna

Mogne Tests ..................................... 92
Sangean ATS 909
Scanning Equipment .......................... 94
Electra Corporation Lives!
Antenna Topics ................................. 96
Antenna Tuners: Help or Hindrance?
K.l.S. Radio ...................................... 98

Mobile Installations
Ask Bob .................. ....................... 100
Sony 2010 hints
Stock Exchange ................. ...... .... ... l 02
Closing Comments .......................... 114
What the Heck is PCS?

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Beginner's Corner ...
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Computers and Radio ...
Below 500 kHz ...
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Propagation ...
DeMaw' s Workbench ...
Digital Digest ...
Federal File ...
SW Broadcasting ...
On the Hom Bonds ...
Mogne Tests ...
Communications ...

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David Datko, Loyd Von Horn
Jim Frimmel
T.J. Arey, WB2GHA
Jeon Boker, KIN9DD
Richard Barnett
John Catalano
Kevin Corey, WB2QMY
Bill Cheek
Jacques d' Avignon
Doug DeMow, Wl FB
Bob Evans
John Fulford, WMVPY
Glenn Houser
Ike Kerschner, N31K
Lawrence Mogne
Lorry Miller

What's New? .... Lorry Miller

Skylink ....Wayne Mishler, KG5BI
Scanning Equipment .... Bob Parness, AJ9S
Satellite TV .... Ken Reitz, KS4ZR
Antenna Topics .... W. Clem Small, KR6A
American Bondscon .... Doug Smith, W9WI
SW Broadcast Logs .... Gayle Von Horn
QSL Corner .... Gayle Von Horn
Utility World .... Lorry Von Horn, N5FPW
Outer Limits .... George Zeller

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with an induclor located in my s hack. By
placi ng my AM broadcast band radio near the
inductor. I turn my 6-transistor, 27-year-old
Westinghouse into a pocket rocke t. Works
grea t o n 160 me te rs w ith my S- 120
Hallicrafter, too.
.. , al so read the Ju ly 'Below 500 kHz'
column and finall y identified lhe CW signal I
heard last yearwhil e out in my back yard with
my pocket AM rad io. I was chasing some RFI
from my ne ighbor' s electrifi ed fe nce. when I
heard TVX in CW at the bottom of the dial.
"Wow, whal a great hobby, and what a
greal staff you have. I read MT from cover to
cover and then pass it along to others who arc
interested in the hobby ...
- Tim Wood.1 via emai l

E R

ri gh1 -hand dri ve cars on the 'other' s ide of the

road ..:
we in REACT appreciate the feature
artic le. Herc in Southern Cal ifornia we have
a toll-free info rmatio n number (800) 99REACT. We' re always look ing for new members.''

D1111 Aspinall says. "As well as spe nding a

lot o f time DXing on SW and MW I am a
member o f REACT here in the Williamsburg
area of Virginia. As well as mon itoring 27.065.
I cove r Coast Guard , GMRS. and national
freqs on my scanner. In June I logged some
280 hours. I don't mind the hours r spend. as
it may we ll save a life or e\'en help a mother
give birth, not to mention he lping people
s imply needing road info.
.. How can we stop a ll those inconsiderate
#@ ! from using 27.065? To me it is a major
complaint. especially since I'm volunteering
my time for a community purpose.
.. As I am writing thi ~ email I can hear
several olher stales coming through loud and
clear especiall y south o f the border and a
LOUDmouth in Louis iana who is reading ss
on my meter. Al li mes I feel like just !urning
it o ff and leaving. but there could be someone
who reall y needs lhe help 11m1 1"
Hou aho111 ii. readers? Ca11 you reco111111e11d any 1ac1ics 1/w 1 lu11e worked ?

Correction
Author A. W. Edll'ards corrected a coupl e
of typos in his ani cle ... SWLing in the Early
Forties: found on page I 06 of lhe August
issue. ll should have read 75- and 160-meter
radiolelcphone instead o f 70 and 260-meter.
neither o f which is amateur band.

So Far, the Nays Have It

REACTing to Our Cover Story

In hi s J ul y "C los ing Co mme nt s" Bob

G rove sa id. "CBers have REACT: hams
ha ve ARES and RACES: all S WLs and
scannists have arc rad ios. Bul what if we
banded together. fo rm ing a cadre of trained.
civic minded volunteers who could ass ist law
enfo rce ment agenc ies track down disru pti ve
frequency abusers. assist other li ce nsees in
reso lv in g int e rfe re nce p ro ble ms. he lp
homeowners and utilities co mpan ies cleanse
the airwaves of e lectrica l no ise. and so onT
Reactions lo the idea are mi xed, but strong!

Some folks j us l have no appreciation for

an! /Job Leef of Crest REACT Unit I in
Miss ion Viejo, Cali fo rn ia. writes . ..Curious
cover on Ju ly MT ! Manhattan skyline is recogni1.abl e, but what country is represented
wilh the highway scene? A close look shows

" I think it' s a fantastic idea. In fact. I think

such an organi zati on can also be of ass istance
to AR ES . RACES, and even Skywarn ... says
Ryan McCanhy of North Babylon via email.
McCarthy says he listens lo 2 meters and CB

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

channel 9 in case someone ca lls for help.

He adds ... , think I have come up with a
name: ALA RM. which stands for American
League o f Assistant Radi o Mon itors. I think
the name is perfect because radio monitoring
is exaclly what we would be doing ...
"I do nol approve o f a national corps of
scanner vigilantes. There is ent irely too
much vigilantism already. whether the mil ilias. se lf-appointed public library ce nsors.
etc. We si mply do not need more people
1urncd in to the police for bragging about
smok in g marij uana on their cordless phones!
You need lo get out of Podunk before you
lhi nk up any more ideas that will complicate
Ameri can's lives even more! ..
-Bob Morris. Alexandria. VA

"NO scanner vigil antes! ..

- Darryl Por1er. Wash. DC
.. , understand what you arc trying to do:
stimulate civic thought. I applaud you for
that: goodness knows we need more constructive civic action in the radio hohby ...
However../0'111 Wagnero f Pi ckerington, Ohi o,
suggests we start wi th ill rclalives or friends
in our civ ic mindedness.
"The e nemy of the very iII is not pain. it is
time. Time drags . But. when lhcy pick up a
~trangc radio and hear foreign languages and
long distance programs. !hei r inlerest piques.
So, in order to promote the hobby and to
perform a civic duty. try loaning a simple
portable SW receiver to an ill person ...
Come see us at the Grove Com munications Expo in Atlanta Oclohcr 18-20! And
turn this month and every month 10 Mo11i1ori11g Times. your personal source fo r communications in formation.
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COMMUNICATIONS
Unhappy Cell Phone Customers
How many cellular pho ne call s get cut o ff
every day? Accord ing to indust ry sources cited
by the Wall S1ree1 Jo urnal. o ne mill ion. According to users. that number appears to be an
understate ment. One sign of the di scontent
w ith the quality of cellular service is that 30
percent o f the nation 's 36 mi lli on ce llular customers cancel their service o r sw itch carriers
each year.
That's not all. The 12 year old industry,
though thri vi ng, is beset w ith problems. Thieves
have sto len Debo rah Lawler" s number three
times: Jonathan Feinsod s four times. Now he
has to p unch in 20 num bers. inc lud ing a fo ur
dig it activation code and a fo ur dig it PI N plus
the area code and number, all the while driving
his car one-handed or with his e lbows .
Er, operator, I hate to be a pest,
but do you think you could
give me a connection
that wi ll last for mo re
than 30 seconds?

After a ll that. the call doesn't always go

through. '" I'm not a mechanica l genius." says
Feinsod. ""A m I d oing someth ing wrong'l" Even
ce ll pho ne exec utives are not exempt. Michael
Small , Chief Financial O ffice r fo r Sprint C orp's
cellular spin o ff, brought a long his cell phone
on a trip back East. It was useless. His carrier,
Ameritech. had "browned o ut" several cities to
foil band its. My cell phone," says Small ,
"stayed in the briefcase:
Bill Kalway. engineer w ith the sate ll ite upli nk truck from WXIA, A tlanta, was fo llow ing
the Olympic torch on its run into northern
Georgia. He to ld MT he carries two cell ular
phones for contact with headquarters. Almost
in the shadow o f a cellular phone tower- a
recent addi tio n co these remote cou nt ies-he
still has to resort to the expensive sate ll ite
phone. W hy? It" s the wrong system .
.. , hate my p hone: says Robi n Fisher, a
reporter for the Newark Siar ledKer. "It"s
ex pensive. it doesn ' t wor k half the time, and
the custome r service peop le arc so rude ."
Ifo nly they had been told: They' re not using
a p hone . T hey 're using a rad io. But we know
that. don' t we?

Bargain Broadcast Stations?

Rad io stations that have "gone d ark" had
better get back on the a ir o r lose the ir license
foreve r. Accord ing to Radio World, the Te le-

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

communicatio ns Act of 1996 mandates that any station off the a ir for any
consecut ive 12-month period w ill
lose its license auto maticall y.
Currently, there are 175 AM
s tati o n s and 8 1 F M s ta ti ons
around the country that are li sted
as "silent." Si nce the Te lecom-

A Faraday Cage for Hawaii?

T he state of Hawaii has the cable and suppo11 structures, a ll S 1.9 million worth. Now
o ffi cials arcn"t so sure they want to go through
with the project.
Accord ing to reports . rad io waves from the
nearby Coast Guard Omega Navigation stati on in Haiku Vall ey are electrify ing a onemile secti on o f the H-3 Freeway. So 27 mil es
o f cable were o rdered and plan s drawn up for
a o ne-m ile web of w ires called a Faraday Cage
to be erected over the h ighway.
The problem firs t came tO light when construction workers on H-3 began getting shocked.
T hestate, fearing lawsuits, then became alarmed
th at pass ing mo torists and peopl e with pacemakers might a lso get zapped. Now comes
word that the Coast Guard wants to shut down
the syste m in Septem ber o f 1997 . But peop le
who track weather bal loons say they need the
O mega station, so it can' t be shut down.
Says Marily n Kalim. spokeswoman for the
Hawai i Department of Transportat ion, " W e' re
damned if we do and we' re d amned if wedon' t.
We doing our best to fi nd o ur way o ut of it ,
tho ug h."

was rid ing his bike in Ho pk insvi lle, talki ng o n

the scanner" (actually a Radio Shack HTX202 2-mctertransceivcr), when he was stopped
by some chi ldren who said that their father
wanted to speak w ith him. T he father told
Godsey that he had called the police.
When the an-esting officer. Ernest Tibbetts,
an-ivcd at the scene, Godsey was tal k ing on his
radio "capable o f receiving pol ice frequencies" and "the neighbo rhood children were
very upset." O fficer Tibbetts says that Godsey
told the kids that he was a special investigator
and had tri ed to interrogate someone. Godsey
d eni es this and says he hasn "t had any disputes
with any of the neighborhood children and
doesn ' t know why someone reported hi m to
police. The 2-meter rig was confiscated by
police.
According to ne ighbors, Godsey has never
been in troub le before. "'I can' t imagine him
impersonating a police officer: says Matt
Snorton. a local coordinator for the D isaster
Emergency Serv ice. "He's a fine young fellow."
At his court heari ng on June 4, the judge
dismissed the scanner charge, and Godsey's
H-T was ret urned to hi m, after it was documented that the radio could not operate outside
A mateur Radio frequenc ies. The other charges
were continued unti l June 27. but that court
appearance subsequently was postponed because the arresting officer was out of town.
If you're like us, you' ve cancelled your
p lans to vacation in Hopk insville this year.
However, an A merican Rad io Relay League
(A RRL) b ulletin says that God sey claims his
arrest has had at least o ne positive impacrlocal AR ES (Amateur Rad io Emergency Service) mem bership has been grow ing si nce the
incident.

Abandon all radios, ye who enter

here...
Yes. it" s Kentucky. The state that h ates
radios has been at it again .
Greg Godsey is, by all reports, a serio us,
arti cul ate 17-year o ld. Licensed as ham radi o
operato r KF4BDY, he se rves as Chri sti an
County's emergency services coordinator. a
position that requi res him to carry a rad io . He
works part-ti me at a service station to earn
money for hi s hobby and hopes someday to
become a priest. All of that got turned o n its
head when Godsey was arrested o n charges of
possessing a police scanner.
According to the Ke11111ckv New Era, Godsey

"

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You can come ht, I reekon, but leave your~

fool radio in West Virginy, or somewhere ...

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COMMUNICATIONS
800 MHz Scanning News
The city of Edmonton's 16 channel 800
MHz system went "out to lunch" last ll10nth.
leav ing police. firefighters, and ambul ance
workers without communications. One senior
fire fighter said that he was told to find a pay
phone if assistance was needed during an ell1ergency ca ll. The outages were brief but scary.
'This is a very. very. serious matter." said a
senior firefighter who was on a medical aid call
and then a lire call when the incidents happened.
Police in Los Angeles are complaining that
the batteries on their $ 1.900 hanclhelds go dead
just a few hours into their shifts. Los Angeles
spent more than $ 13 million on some 7.000
Motorola Astro radios. Communications Di vision spokesman Linda Bunker told the police
commission that the technology for batteries
has not kept up with the technology of the
computer-driven 200-channel radios.
Columbus. Ohio. is goi ng to 800 MHz.
Pending funding from city council. the police
department wi11replace their VHF systell1 with
an all-new system that will make scanning
"impossible."
Li vonia. Michigan, is goi ng to digital 800
MHz. According to Police Lt. Tom Yates, all
scanner monitoring stops this month. Privacy
wasn' t the issue. says Yates. "We have had an
aging system for some time for our police, fire.
and publ ic works communications." he said.
"The new digital system will greatly improve
quality and range... Livonia is a large suburb
located just west of Detroit.
Five of 18 State Police posts in Indiana have
sw it ched to an 800 MHz ~ystem. Don
Kott lowski. commander of the communications division of the Indiana State Police. remarked that hcd like 10 see the entire state go
800 MHz. Offo;ialsdaim that privacy is not the
reason for the switch.
Atlanta sw itched over to a Motorola systell1
for the Oly mpics. and it is assumed they won1
be goi ng back to the 460 MHz channels. Where
have they gone? Stay tuned-MT is digging
(but not down") for the answers.

What They'll be Missing

When a 12-year-old Fresno. Cali forn ia.
youth allegedl y ran away to Canada with her
35-year old karate instructor, it was a scanner
listener who brought the adventure to an encl. A
ci ti zen in British Columbi a who had heard the
missi ng pcr~o n s report on hi s scanner noticed
the suspect scar in traffic and called Vancouver
police. Wi thout the alert scanner li>tener. says
Va ncouver PD' s Gary Weishaar. it was a
needle in a haystack ... Rick Couch. the karate
instructor. had already been convicted of hav-

ing sexual intercourse with a 13-year-olcl Fresno

girl in 1990.
An Irish Setter has been awarded a trip to
Disneyland after it reportedly dialed 9 11 and
saved her
owner's So, what w ill I do now that
life. Ac- I saved my owner's life?
cording to I'm going to Disneyland!
Di spatch
\
Mo111/rly. the clog,
Lyri c, had been taught
10 hit th e speed-dial ,
which was programmed
for9 I I. Rescuers arrived
to find theownerhaving a
major asthma attack.
Police in Morro Bay
say that they were able to capture a man accused of robbing a motel at gunpoint with the
hel p of a scanner listener. When the motel was
robbed, the clerk was able to get the license
number and make of the suspect's car. That
infonnation was broadcast over the scanner
and an alert citizen called police when she
noticed the vehicle. Police say that the robber
may be the same man wanted in fou r other local
armed robberies.
David Geary and Louise Armstrong were
working on a business project when they heard
on the scanner that a house clown the street was
on fire. Geary stepped outside the house. saw
black smoke pouring from the building. and
started running. Inside, he could hear- but not
see because of thick smoke- 77 year-old Ruth
Waters. moaning.
Geary entered the bui ld ing three times. wrapping his shirt around his face to ward off the
smoke and flames. He found the elderly woman ,
disoriented. and clutching her wa lker. Geary
was able to coax the woman out the door where
the police whisked hero ff 10 safety. Geary was
awarded the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal for his
etfo11s.
Communications is written by Larry Miller
wi th help from Rachel Baughn and the following members of the Monitoring Tim es Communications Media Monitoring Team. Thanks to
all of the "old hands" as well as the newcomers
this month: Harry Baughn. Brasstown, NC;
Warner Chapman. Lloyd Davenport. Southern
Pines. NC: Bob Fraser. Cohasset. MA: John
Mackey, Beaverton. OR; Paul McDonough,
Somervile. MA; Lewis Miller. Readi ng, PA: Ira
Paul. Royal Oaks. Ml: Jill1 Pelham. Hopkinsville.
KY: Doug Robertson, Oxnard. CA: Harry Shute.
Edmonton. AB: Richard Sklar. Seattle. WA:
Joe Thome. Los Banos, CA: Gary Timm. Mi lwaukee, Susan Wilden. Columbus. IN: WI. and
Phil Yasson. Vancouver. WA. We al so consulted the fo llowing publications and we list
their names in appreciat ion: ARRL B11/leti11.
Dispatch Monthly. Ke11t11cky New Era. National
Sca1111i11g. Radio World. WorldRadio and W5YI
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MONITORING TIMES

For the Next Generation

By Bob Grove

arc h 2 1. 1996. was a crisp spring

day o n Flo ri da s Go ld Coast. The
sun ~ h o n e brilliantl y fro m a blue
sky. a beaco n illuminati ng the sleek spacecraft waiti ng impat ientl y within an ungainl y
hardware assembly on Launc h Complex 39.
site of the hi sto rical Apollo lunar program.
no w ho me to the space shu!tlc .
It had been some 14 years since l published
the first compre he ns ive table o r acti ve Nationa l Aeronaut ics and Space Ad mi nistratio n
(NASA) frequen c ie s in the inaug ural issue of
Mv11i1ori11 g Times - a li st which s till co mpri ses the back ho ne !'or li ste ning by hobbyists
around the globe. It was definite ly time for an
update !
My monito ring positi on in a C ocoa Beach
motel. a few miles d o wnrange . was full y
o uttilted. S ig nal s would be captured by two
ex perimenta l. po rtable ante nnas: the first was
a freq uency-ag ile g round plane . and the sec ond a fou r-c leme nt. 30-2000 MHz, log peri8

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

Early in the moming, as the

nation slept, a stalirnrt conclave
of scientists, technicians, space
buffs, and journalists watched
with awe as thunder erupted
once again from Launch Pad
39B. A sleek spire of space-age
technology rose majestically on a
brilliant tongue of flame which
turned night into daylight,
saluting Man 's dream of
adventure, and honoring the
heroes who wen! b~fore.

od ic V antenna (L PY A) . targeted o n Kenned y

Space C enter ( KSC) and Capc Canavera l A ir
Force Station (CCAFS).
Read y to rece ive thes ig nah were an IC O M
R71 00 receiver - upg raded with a G rove
SD U-100 spectrum d isplay un it. and a Rad io
S hack PR0-2006 - full y loaded w ith 400
pre,iously-rcpon cd disc rete freq ue nc ies. l
wasn' t disap po inted. Upon connecting the
ante nnas, the receivers camc ali ve and. wit hin
minu tes. I had verifi ed dozens o f ac ti ve freque ncies throughout the space compl ex. T he
a nte nnas de fin ite ly worked !
After severa l hou rs of mo ni toring a nd logg ing. l headed !'or the Cape. a Rad io S hac k
PR0-43 handhc ld scanner o n my be lt . to
begin my tour o r the space complex w ith
fe llo\\' j ou rn a l i~ t s of the pr..:ss corps.

I Signs of the Times

T he hal cyon years of' Amc ri ca ' s Man in
Space Program art: past. As l arri ved in the

Public Affairs Office (PAO). a press conference was being conducted by NASA Administrator Daniel Golden : his outl ook wasn't
encouraging.
Funds have been cu t dramaticall y from the
space program: much of the once-glistening
facility is in need of repair. A takeover of the
lau nch op..:rations by commercial imerests
seems almost certain. Even the PAO is augmented by a legion of some I00 volunteers.
reti rees of the legend called NAS A. Though
the vision may be blurred, the deep feelings
shared by these proud veterans arc sti ll very
much alive.
As I climbed i1110 the van. my mind dri fted
back nearly three decades - the date of my
first visit lo the Cape. I was invited lo a special
VIP tour of Launch Complex 39 and the
Vertical (now "Vehicle") Assembly Building
(VAB). then occupied by a giant Apollo spacecraft which was bei ng readied for its historymaking moon mission. Armstrong. Aldrin.
and Collins were being suited up nearby.
adrenalin rushing. as they anticipated the epoch adventure awaiting them.
Memory then called to mind the harsh
image of the Challe11ger disaster. a shallercd
dream in which seven of our finest lost thei r
li ves. It was a setback from wh ich the U.S.
space program never fully recovered.
My daydreaming was interrupted by the
scanner on my bell alerting me to acti vity on
the launch pad. As my van approached the
fixed servi ce structure (FSS ), the giant assem-

An overall view from the rear shows activity in th e new Mission Control Center in
Hou ston.
bly shone in the morning sun. Soon the rotating service structure (RSS) which cradles the
shulllc began its laborious, plodding rol laway.
revealing wit hin the gleaming whi te spaceship - Atlantis.

I Listening In, 1996

Mornings are ideal times fo r monitoring.

Radio maintenance checks keep the airwaves
busy. revealing act ive frequencies and nets.
Most co mmunications arc in the sim plex
modes: repeaters arc rare at the Cape. The
majority of communications arc short range,
most often between a base station and associated mobiles and handie-talkics throughout
the complex. There is some administrati ve
scrambling (Motorola DVP). but most contacts arc in the clear.
The vast majority of communicati ons are high band ( 142- 174 MHz.
narrowband FM mode). with some
UHF (406-420MHz). but virt ually no
low band (30-50 MHz) or 800 MHz
activity was noted. Air-to-ground communications were busy in the usual
I 18- 137 MHz civi lian and 225-400
MH z military aeronaut ical bands (AM
mode).
Communicati ons at the Cape are
somewhat informal, casual but brief.
Protocol is observed. but it isn ' tstuffy.
Status reports arc freque nt. such as
updates of .. phase I" and "phase T
li ghtning alerts during a passing thunderstorm prior to final launch preparati ons.
According to one retired Spcctrum
Manager. the vast majority of communications - and this would presumably include nearly all data transmissions - are now conducted by
fi ber optics. Sti ll. data and telemetry
Some of th e more interesting m onitoring
bursts we re readily detected on a wide
cha/le11ges are th e occasional E VAs
variety of frequencies fro m 72-2000
(extra vehiwlar activities) aboard the shuttle.

MHz by the ICOM/Grove SOU package connected to the experimental rapid-deployment

antennas.
Radi o at the Kenned y Space Center continues to play a vital role in routi ne daily
communicat ions. as well as in launch preparation and ~ upport operations. A scanner
doesn1 remain quiet for very long. During the
mission itself. many local listeners lock in on
146.940 MH z. an amateur radio repealer maintained at Cape Canaveral which rebroadcasts
NASA Select audio. Nati onwide, NASA Select audio can be heard over WA3NAN. the
amateur radio club stati on at the Goddard
Space Flight Center in Maryland. Tune them
in on or near 3860, 7185, 14295. 21395, or
28650 kHz single sideband.
Thirty years have not dimmed our fascinati on with space trave l. as sy mbolized by the
space shuttle. The frequenc ies on the fo llowing pages represent the mo~ l accurate and upto-datc list currently in publication. They offer you an amazing variety of ways to moni tor
shut tle acti vi ties. whethcron launch. in flight.
or at touchdown.
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Space Shuttle Mission Frequency Guide

NOTE: Frequencies marked wllh an asterisk were heard In use preparatory to, or during the
STS76 Shuttle mission on March 21, 1996. Reader comments are welcomed. All
frequencies are In megahertz and FM mode unless otherwise indicated.
Antigua
5060 5436 6810 6919 7313 7332 7605 7765 7860 7919 9115 9138 9170 10310
10327 10475 10949 11407 11414 12160 13495 13943.5 14497 14585 14819 14891
14914 15528 15575 16216 17554 18237 18700 19143 19961 20272 22990 23413
23603 23940 24530 24760 26515 (All kHz. various modes are used)
Contingency - search & rescue:
11440 kHz (USB)
Fire/security police:
163.4875
Space shuttle range support:
264.8/284.1 (AM)
Ascension Island
2622 4500 4992 5775 5822 7313 7354 7605 7765 7804 7910 9043 10230 10780
10850 10880 10949 11407 11634 12107 13468 13878 14432 14497 14585 14615
14896 14914 14921.4 14967 16246 17554 18331 18434 18700 19126 19198 19371
20195 20390 20475 23035 23485 23603 23661 23840 24240 25245 25299 26356
23389 26684.5 27720 27870 27925 (All kHz, various modes are used)
Fire:
173.575
Space shuttle range support:
264.8/284.1/291.8 (AM)
Cape Canaveral Air Force Slation, Florida
Air/ground conlrol:
Air rescue:
Base commanders net:
Cape communications:
Cape lower:
Data links:

Disaster operations (weather alerts, etc):

Disaster preparedness net:
Department ol Energy explosive ordinance
disposal operations:
Eastern Test Range command destruct:

"284.0
138.450 (AM)
149.535/148.065 170.575
"165.1125
'118.625/393.0 118.625 ' 120.950 125.900
'126.650 128.150 "1 33.800 134.275
135.375 135.825 (AM)
403.000 (Pulsed tones) 1030 (Pulse every 14
sec.) 1680 (Pulse every 4, 10 sec.) ' 1749.5
'1750.5 '1757.2 1158.2 1520 (Pulse every
14 sec.)
163.5125 (ETR Net B)
'148.650 (Data bursts)

409.475/412. 700
406.5 ' 41 6.5 (Voice) 421.0 425.0 428.0
\Data)
Eastern Test Range FTS command alert:
168.000 (tones)
Eastern Test Range instrumentation net:
'148.485
Eastern Test Range launch op. support:
163.4375 165.0625 407.450
Eastern Test Range paging channel:
165.0125 (ETR Net S)
Eastern Test Range - test range safety:
46.65 141 .300 '142.125
229.0 253.6 270.0 (AM)
Easlern Test Range - test range support:
FCA net:
163.5875
Federal Highway Admin. construction net:
169.550
Fire:
'163.5625 (ETR Ne1 F)
Flight support:
138.150 139.050 139.250 140.400 141 .300
149.250 (All AM)
Helicopter control:
284.000 (AM)
Maintenance:
149.500 '150.1 50 (ETR Net N) 165.0625
Operations:
413.200/407.250
Operations security:
419.650
Ordnance ControVMissile loading net:
419.150
Public service agencies mutual aid channels: 154.160 (Fire NASA Net 316) 155.370 (Police
NASA Net 303)
Radiation monitoring:
'164.500 (ETR Net Y)
Search and Rescue:
282.8 (AM)
Security:
"163.000 (ETR Net Z) '163.4625 (ETR Net D)
'164.200 (channel 2) '1 65.0875 (Repeater
DVP/clear voice) "170.125 '171.975
Seek Skyhook (Aerostat uplink):
440.0 445.0
Solid rocket booster recovery beacons:
240.0 242.0 (Data)
Space shuttle range support:
264.8 291 .8 294.6 341.6 349.6 350.6
(AM)
Special projects:
413.450
Support services:
'165.0375
Titan Ill operations:
' 148.515 ' 149.150
Transportation/Admin:
407.225 413.075
TV audio:
'1799.75 (Computer lesson; spurious emission
from another service?)
TV op. net lor Eastern Test Range launches: '148.035
U.S. Air Force miscellaneous frequencies:
74.75
U.S. Air Force Off. ol Special Invest. (OSI):
' 138.075/139.675 t 38.175 141.525
U.S. Army explosive ordinance disp.I (EOO): 49.70 49.80 148.700/143.025
U.S. Army research and develop. support:
36.70 40.90
U.S. Coast Guard maritime frequencies:
' 156.600 '156.800 157.050 157.075
' 157.100 157.175
U.S. Navy Aegis project support:
30.29
U.S. Navy FACSFAC Jacksonville warning area
coordination net:
'267.5 ' 284.5 '349.9 369.9 385.1 (AM)
Utilities:
'150.195 (ETR Net C) 150.250 (ETR Net E)
Unknown use:
400.050
Weather Balloons (Rawinsonde):
' 403.0 (Data; pulse tones)
Edwards AFB, California
Air crew alert:
Air rescue:
Air 1raffic control:
Approach/departure control:

10

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413.450
138.450 (AM)
136.1 75 136.425 (AM)
126.1/290.3 133.15/269.2 124.550 132.750/

September 1996

272.0 133.650/348.7 134.050 (AM)

116.41269.9 (AM)
149.275
304.0 311.0 (AM)
120.71236.6/3181 (AM)
163.4125 163.4375
170.350
148.200
173.4375
173.4125 173.5875
149.175 149.250 149.300 234.8 237.0 256. 15
267.8 268.1 275.2 276.6 283.725 288.7
292.3 298.3 300.675 301.7 327.65 347.1
354.4 361.4 38 1.175 (AM)
Flighl test NG:
123.125 123.150 123.175 123.200 123.225
123.250 123.275 123.325 123.350 123.375
(also shuttle training aircraft) 123.400 123.425
123.450 123.475 123.525 123.550 123.575
136.225 (AM)
Flight test HF comm support:
5736.5 kHz
Ground control:
121.8/390.1 (AM)
Guards net:
171.150/166.225
Local control:
257.0 (AM)
Maintenance:
141.725/139.825 148.075 148.100 163.4625
163.5375 284.1 (AM)
Medical net:
173.4875
NASA air-to-ground:
371.1 382.6 395.1 (AM)
NASA facility support:
409.350/415.925
NASA flight test:
135.825 237.0 347.1 373.15 (AM)
NASA management:
409.900/417.250 412.050/417.450
NASA mission audio:
169.400
NASA paging net:
416.350/410.300
NASA shuttle training aircraft-op. control:
134.250 (AM)
NASA traffic control:
413.525
Paging:
413.500
Pilot lo dispatch (PTO}:
372.2 (AM)
Range communications:
170.400/171 .000
Security:
148.225 149.9225/148.675 148.875
Shuttle support:
162.6125 164.100 t65.6125 168.000 169.075
171.2625 173.6875/169.600
SRB operations:
407.225
Supply:
163.5875
Test range control:
3376 4455 4732 6750 6770 7330 8993
13204 18005 (Ali kHz and USB) 229.175 260.7
262.5 264.6 266.3 267.9 275.9 276.65 279.9
280.1 286.25 286.4 286.8 287.2 287.425
291.8 294.6 303.325 308.7 311.2 314.4
3t4.6 315.9 319.6 322.7 325.9 349.3 349.6
351.4 358.4 359.2 378.1 379.7 382.6 383.0
384.8 385.9 389.025 389.1 (Ali AM) 417.750/
412.875
Trunking network:
406.350/415.950 406.750/416. t 50 407.150/
416.750 407.950/416.950 409.350/417.550
U.S.A.F. Military Alli. Radio Sys. (MARS):
143.775/142.275
U.S. Air Force Ollice of Special Investigations: 138.075 138.175 141.525
U.S. Army:
229.6 367.3 367.6 (AM)
Automatic Terminal lnlormation Service:
Civil engineers maintenance:
Command post (call sign-Conform):
Control tower:
Corps of Engineers:
Emergency 91 1 radios:
Explosive ordinance disposal:
Fire net:
Fire/Crash net:
Flight support:

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Administration (loan pool):
Base communications net:
Camera control:
Civil Air Patrol:
Cape Canaveral National Seashore:
Civil Defense:
Civil engineers/maintenance net:
Crane operations:
Crane telecommand:
Crawler transport moves:
Data link:
Oepartmenl of Energy communications.
Fire/rescue:
Ground Control:
Flight Service Slation:
General maintenance net:
Industrial Area Cranes:

Launch support operations:

Launch complex 39 convoy command:
Launch complex 39 VAB crane operations.:
Launch complex 39 convoy purge:
Launch complex 39 operations pool:
Launch complex 39 convoy cooling:
Local Control:

' 173.5375 (NASA Nel 111)

'170.150 (NASA Net 107) ' 173.6375
407.575 412,850 '932.00625 94 1.00625
'148.150 (Repeater output and simplex)
'164.625 ' 163.150 (Department of the Interior)
158.940 (Transmit) 155.715 (Receive) (NASA
Nel 208)
' 171 .000 (NASA Net 101)
407 .100 409.525 409.775
408.49375 408.96875
' 916.0 (Pulses every 3, 3. 8 sec.) 929.0 '932.0
(Pulse every 3.8 sec.) 939.0 1030 (Pulse every
14 sec.) '1104 (Pulse every 14 sec.)
' 409.925
167.850 "168.450 (Tone)
'1 73.5625 (NASA Net 116/channel 1)
'173.7875 (NASA Net 216tac1ical channel 2)
121.750 (AM)
'123.600 (AM)
'171 .150 (NASA Net 201 )
412.825 (UHF1) 412.950 (UHF2) 413.025
(UHF3) 413.150 (UHF-4) ' 413.250 (UHF-5)
413.375 (UHF-6) 413.525 (UHF?) 413.550
(UHF-8)
'1 62.6125 (NASA Net 104)
407.325 (UHF 1)
407.475 (UHF2) 408.175 (UHf.4) 409.050
(UHF6)
408.150 (UHF3)
408.800 (UHF-5) 409.125 (UHF-7)
409.175 (UHF8)
126.650 (AM) Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA)
weather conditions prior launch.

Space Shuttle Mission Frequency Guide

Marine operations:
Measurements/safety:
Medical net:
MSBLS/telemetry:
Orbiter operations:
Paging (voice):
Public Affairs/Hurricane operations:
Public Affairs TV coordination:
Railroad operations:
Safety:
Security:
Shuttle landing facility:
Emergency-civilian
Emergency-military
Ground operations
Air to ground control
Orbiter to ground
Orbiter to ground
Air to ground control
Shuttle TV coordination net:
Supply (digital paging):
TACAN:
Telemetry:
Traveler Information Sservice (TIS):
Transportation:
U.S. Customs Service:
Utilities:
VAB to crawler transport duplex channels:
VAB crane operation:
Weather telemetry:
Wind telemetry:
Wireless mikes:
Malabar. Florida
FAA net:
Harbor common:
Range clearance function:
Space shuttle support:
Solid rocket boosters recovery vessels:
Test range comm. to Ascension/Antigua:

U.S. Air Force Eastern Test Range control:

U.S. Air Force emergency hurricane net:
U.S. Navy to Atlantic aircraft:
U.S. Navy to Atlantic ships:
U.S. Navy Atlantic ships/aircraft:
U.S. Navy surface radar:
Melbourne, Florida (Miscellaneous)
Data:
FAA:

162.0125 (NASA Net 306)

'1 65.1875 (NASA Net 102)
'173.4375 (NASA Net 117) also UHF MED 1-10
channel pairs (463.000/468.000-463.975/
468.975)
'165.6125 (NASA Net 202)
'165.4125(NASANet 110)
'170.350 (NASA Net 308) '171.000
' 163.5375 (NASA Net 108)
"171 .2625 (NASA Net 408)
'170.175 (NASA Net 206) "413.125 413.325
'173.4625 (NASA Net 205) ' 173.6625 (NASA
Net 105)
'1 73.175 (NASA Net 203/Tactical 2) 173.6875
(NASA Net 103) 173.8625
121.5
243.0
121.750
126.3
259.7
296.8
284.0
'128.550/284.0 (AM)
171.2625 (NASA Net 408)
'150.325 (Repeater outpuV173.4875 repeater
input) '170.400 (NASA Net 106)
1104.0 1146.0
'409.925 410.8625 '413.050 ' 1250.0
(erratic pulses) '1441.5 (Pulses every 14 sec.)
"1780.0 (Erratic pulses)
1320 kHz (AM)
162.0125 (NASA Net 306)
' 165.2375 '166.4375 166.4875
'171.000 (NASA Net 101)
407.600 408.025 412.975 413.825
410.1375 410.8625 (Data)
'409.925 "413.050
418.075
169.505 170.245 171.045 171.905
172.850 (repeater outpuV169.250 repeater
input) 166.175 172.175
2716 kHz (USB)
2638 kHz (USB)
5187 kHz (USB)
2356 2622 2639 (lntership ops) 2716 2764
2800 2820 2837 3187 3365 5810 (All kHz)
(plus various VHF marine channels)
6937 7833 9043 9132 10310 11104 11407
11 414 11548 11622 13878.0 13986.1
14559.5 14896 14937 15610 17490 17668
18196 18237 18355 18769 19304 20189
20195 23413 23581 24240 24760 27720
27870 (All kHz)
2622 5810 7765 10780 11615.5 13878
20195 20390 (All kHz)
3365 4900 5350 7412 10305 (All kHz)
3120 4704 5718 6693 6708 6723 9006
11205 11252 13227 13237 15021 15051
15057 15067 18009 (All kHz and USB)
2357.5 2764 2800 3187 4521 4766 4856.5
5180 5190 5246 6897 7461 7676 (All kHz
and USB)
2836.5 kHz (USB)
'1250 MHz

FAA DME.
FBI:
National Weather Service broadcasts:
U.S. Air Force:

'908.000 (Pulse every 1, 3, 5 sec.)

"269.300 "348.700 ' 379.250 '998.000 (Pulse
ever/ 14 sec.)
998.0
'167.7875 (Repeater output)
162.550
141 .850 (Unmodulated carrier)

Merritt Island , Florida

Solid rocket booster maintenance net:

407.225

Patrick AFB, Florida

Administra1ive (U.S. Navy):
Air defense:
Air Force Reserve training:
Air National Guard administration:
Air National Guard maintenance:
Approach control:
Approach/departure control:
Approach radar:
ARIA a1rcralt radar:
Automatic Terminal Information Sservlce:

138.375
148.125 (AM)
138.275 138.475 (AM)
408.000 408.050
141.625
121.050 '1 25.450 '127.850 (AM)
'132.65/340.9 '134.95/358.3 (AM)
'1265.0 1345.0
1441.5
'119.175/273.5 (AM)

Civil engineers:
Clearance delivery:
Command channel:
Commanders net:
Command post:
Communications/navaid repair:
Consolidated comm. post (call sign Mayaap):
Contingency (Eastern Test Range):
Control tower:
ETR test range control:

'171.3"875 173.4125 173.5125

'118.400/289.400 (AM)
407.525 413.225 413.400
'149.535 148.065
311 .0 321.0 (AM)
413.000
138.31383.0 (AM)
141.725
'133. 7501348.400 (AM)
46.850 49.850 324.7 (AM) 340.8 (AM)
407.300 413.100
FAA flight check:
135.850 (AM)
FAA telemetry:
'1265.0 '1345.0 (Wideband swept pulse)
Fire:
172.300 (Tactical 2Simplex) ' 173.5.875
(Tactical 1Dispatch/Explosive Ordinance
Disposal)
Fire alarm:
138.925 (data)
Fuel Farm:
'165.1625
Geodetic survey detachment 4:
141.4751143.075 142.475
Ground control:
'124.3501335.800 (AM)
ILS glide slope:
330.8 (Rwy 20) 331.4 (Rwy 2)
Instructional TV audio link:
t799.75
Launch operations (ETR):
266.2 308.95 320.050 (AM) 413.500
Local control:
126.650 128.150 133.800 (AM)
Marine channels:
156.300 156.575 156.800
Medical:
173.4375
Motor pool/taxi:
'165.1375
Mutual Aid-Fire:
154.130
Mutual Aid-Medical:
154.160 155.160 155.340
Mutual AidPolice:
155.370
Navaid maintenance:
407.375
Paging:
142.675 931.8375 (digital, leased)
Pilot to Dispatcher (PTO):
'122.8501372.200 (AM)
Possible security channels:
407.400 407.425 413.350 413.475
Radar (IFF):
1030.0
Ramp controVBase operations:
'173.125
Regional approach control:
' 290.8 297.2 369.2 372.8 378.8 (AM)
Search and rescue:
236.0 251 .9 252.8 (AM)
Security:
' 163.4875 (Tactical channel 2) '173.025
(Tactical channel 1)
'413.275
Security (AFTAC):
Seek Skyhook surveillance balloon telemetry: 1749.5 1750.5 1757.2 1758.2 1820.0
Special operations:
282.4 (AM)
Supply and transportation:
'149.265
TACCS training:
' 412.875
Training:
138.400 139.650 139.700 141.600 142.300
143.800 148.050
Training Operations:
225.350 316.275 351 .2 '363.9 383.2 385.7
395.1 (All AM)
U.S.A.F. Military Affiliate Radio Sys. (MARS): 142.150 "143.450 (Repeater output)
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations: 138.075 (Repeater output) 138.175 141.525
(Repeater input)
Weather (Metro):
344.6
Weather balloon telemetry:
1680.0
Wireless mike:
170.305
71 st rescue squadron maintenance:
148.095 148.175
30 t st rescue squadron maintenance:
148.100 '149.300 163.5875 164.175
413.300
71sl/301st rescue squadrons:
Unknown use:
'142.400
NASA General Frequencies
NASA HF air-to-ground:
NASA emergency net:
NASA shuttle emergency landing site net:
NASA NCS HF net:

NASA nationwide assignments:

Search and rescue operations:

Solid rocket booster recovery beacons:
Shuttle to ground:
FM voice to Mir
FM voice to Mir
Amateur SAREX downlink
Emergency only
EVA channel
EVA
Sband tracking
Orbiter 01 transmitter: PM TI&C
Orbiter DFI transm.r: voice. data, video
PM primary
Ku-band telemetry

3089.5 6743.5 9003.5 11192.5 15062.5 (All

kHz and USB)
3385 3395 4604.5 6982.5 14455 (All kHz and
USB)
408.150 408.800
2360 3379 3388 5403.5 5821 5961 6106
6108 6809 9462 11801 12129 12219 13633
13744 13780 14836 14989 14908 15464
16201 16430 18744 20063 22983 23390 (All
kHz and USB)
162.1125 162.9875 163.100 166.525
166.8375 167.0125 167.350 167.400 167.775
168.350 168.4125 168.9375 169.2125
171.5125 171.6375 172.0375 172.3375
172.9625 173.425 173.900
282.8 (AM)
240.0 242.0 (Data)
139.300
143.600
145.840 AM
243.0 259.7 (primary UHF) AM
279.0 296.8 (secondary UHF) AM
410.0..420.0
2106.4
2217.5
2250.0
2287.5
t 5003.4 GHz

September 1996

MONITORING TIMES

11

The
''Ears''
of
Britain
You see a reference lo "BBCMS" wherever broadcast infor111atio11 is found. J ust
what is tile IJBC Monitoring Service?

By Colin Miller

ave you ever w ished that you cou ld

have a j ob re lated toourhobbyJ I am
~u re that most of us would jump fo r
joy at such an idea ! Unfortunately,
thi s is rarely poss ible. but during the e arly eig hties. I was
one of those lucky ones. While
li vi ng in South Africa, I was
fo rtun ate to work al the South
Africa Broadcasting Com pany~ (SA BC) Panorama Rece i v in g
Station
near
Johannesburg, where my du..
ties inc luded assisting with freq ue ncy plann ing fo rt he (the n)
Radio So uth Afr ica (RSA). as
well as being in charge o f their
Monito ring Pane l.
On a very small scale. I was performing the
same task as thc impressive monitoring station located near Lorn.Ion and operated by the
BBC. If you' re a regular reader of Mo11iwri11g
Times and youve fo llowed DX shows and

c lub magazines. yuu ve seen many references

to the BBC Monitoring Service and may have
wondered w hat and where it is. Well . read on
for a behind the scenes to ur.
Upon the outbreak of the
Second World War in 1939.
the impact or radio propa~
ganda was becomi ng evident.
Hitlerand Mussolini had made
growi ng use of the new medium fur a number of years.
The need for a fu ll-scale profess io na l watc h o n foreign
1
)
broadcasts became imperative. The refore the Mon itoring Service was set up in Septe mha or that year, at wh ich
ti me it was based in makeshi ft
hut. at Wood Norton Hall. near Evesham in
Worcestershi re . It rapidly expanded . and
withi n the first year was employing 62 monitors worki ng around the clock. The Monitoring Service moved to its present home at

_, \

., I
.

~-

12

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

Cavcrsham in 1942.
The hea11 of the operati on is located at
Caversham Park. a large mid-nineteenth-cenlLiry mansion set amid 90 acres or green fields
and woodland in what used to be rural south
Oxfordshire. bu t i. now the outskirts of the
growi ng town of Reading. This industrial
town, 40 miles west or London. stands Oil the
Rive r Kenne l nea r it s j um:ti on with the
Thames. It is noted for its uni versity as wel l as
its baking industry. He nry I lies buried here in
the remains of a Norman abbey. Trish-born
author Oscar Wi lde wrote his fa mous "De
Profu ndi s" and ''Ballad of Reading Gaol"
duri ng his imprisonmen t in Reading.
The previous buildi ng on the present
Caversham site was built in the 18th century
by Lord Cadogan. Chief or Staff to the first
Du ke of Marlborough. In fact Thomas
Jefferson. then US Minister in Paris. visited
Caversham Park in 1786.
'fhere arc currently two main departments
at BBC Monitoring: the Editorial , which listens to the broadcasts. edits, and publishes
them: and Resources. responsible forthe tec hnical facilities. The Editorial Depa11ment incorporates the fo rmer Reception and News
and Publicati ons Depart ment s.

I Resources Department
The technical facilities include the operation or a separate receiving station at Crowslcy
Park. about four mil es to the nort h. where
broadcast~ arc received and fed to the monitors at Cave rsham. About $4 million has been
spent during the last three years on upgrading
faci lities. and digital technology has been
employed to im prove lin ks with the receiving
station .
The road lo Crows Icy is a typically English
country road bordered by leafy hedgerows.
and ve ry narrow-hardl y wide enough for
two cars to pass . In cont rast tu th1.: manicured
lawns and gardens at Caversham Park, the
settin g at Crowslcy is more informal and
rural. In fact, the land on whi ch the anten nas
arc situated is hired out to farmers as grazing
for catt le and sheep. Bird- life is al so profuse.
inety new Watkins Johnson receivers
have been installed in the old radio room at
Crows Icy. replac ing Racal and Plessey equi pme nt. T hese can be connected to any one of32
ante nn as. Each of the receivers is remotely
tuned from the Listeni ng Room at Caversham
via digi tal connecti ons. The antennas are set
at 20 degree interval!> arou nd the compass.
Before the upgrading. individ ual receivers
could be connected to only one of six antennas.
There arc various types of antennas in use

at Crowsley. A curtain array points in a westerly di rection. Before satellite feeds became
commonplace it was used to pick up VOA
transmissions from the US. which were then
fed by landline to the Woof'fcrton relay station
in Shropshire. There arc al so a number of
be\'erage ante nnas. which arc approx imately
3.300 feet. i.e. about 3/4 of a mile, in length.
A number of rhombics complete the antenna
farm . These are abou t 30 feet high. and each
side of the diamond is 90 feet long.
In the Listening Room at Caversham. operators digitally tune the recc ivers at Crowsley
Park to the required transmissions for the
news monitors. The opaator has a schedule of
the transmissions required, wh ich lists the
best frequencies on which the required transmissions can be heard. The best receiving
antenna is also selected. These transmissions
arc fed through to the news monitors.
Formerly only the HF broadcasts were
monitored: today satellite transmissions are
monitored as well. and broadcasts in approximately 70 languages arc obse rved. The information gathered goes not on ly to the BBC's
newsrooms, bu! also to commercial subscribers. British governme nt departments, the press.
and other bodies concerned with international
affairs.
Television is also im portant as a news
source. and the operation relies on satellite
signals fro m 16 dish ante nnas to recei ve pictures from the Commonwcal!h of Independent States. Europe. the Middle East. and
Africa. As with the ~ho rt wave operation. there
has been a large investment in satellite recei ving equipment. Satcllit1.:s operating on any of

the three freq uency ranges used for satellite

TV can be received from 69 degrees West to
68.5 degrees East. Rad io is also on satellite.
and 32 radio stat ions arc picked up in highquality audio fro m satellites.

I Remote Receiving
Of course. not all broadcasts can be heard
in England. There arc currently three staffed
overseas stations, located at Nai robi, Tashkent,
and Moscow. Increasing use is also made of
unstaffed re mote recei ving sites, wh ich feed
signals back to Caversham for monitoring. In
the past. BBC Monitoring had no option but to
locate staff"on the spot" for monitoring some
parts of the world. However, sending people
overseas to work is expensive and it is now
often much more cost-effective to pay the line
charges to feed the signals back to the UK.
For many years BBC Monitoring has kept
close ties with the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FB IS), their parallel entity in
Washington. T hey operate a full exchange
agreement on a ll the information they monitor between them.

I Editorial Department
The Edi torial Depart ment listens to the
broadcasts and writes down what it hears.
Voice broadca~ts arc listened to either li ve. in
order to provide speedy report ing of important news-breaking events. or recorded. so
that the broadcast can be played back for the
greatest accuracy in translation.
The news monitors are rigorously tested
and are expected to be capable of producing

A mid-19th ce11t11ry mansion at Caversham Park is home to "the Ears" of Britain.

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copy that is of a pub li shable standard. Many

o r the monitors arc multiskillcd and work as
editors producing the final publications as
well as translating the news.
The monitors often have the monotonous
task of listening to the same broadcasts each
day. They can therefore detect any departure
from the normal program pattern, which often indicates that something unusual is about
to happen-for example. a coup. If trouble is
brew ing almost anywhere in the world. the
local radio station is monitored hour by hour
as long as manpower permi ts.
BBC Monitorin g has prov ided man y
scoops for the BBC World Service News
Department and the domestic TV and radio
newsrooms. Full coverage has. for instance,
been given to broadcasts from the countries
involved in all aspects of Middle Eastern
politics.
Monitoring staff were under great pressure in the late seventies and early eighties
wi th great strain being put on their limited
resources by the crises in Iran and Afghanistan. Developments in Africa and Asia have
also required much attention. One of the
major commitments during the Cold War
was the reporting of event s, official statements. commentary. and propaganda from
the former Soviet Union and other communist coUJitrie .
The news moni tors and editors are a ll
housed in an enormous ha ll just off Reception, parti tioned into areas for different language groups.

I Technical Operations
Upsta irs is where the technical monitoring is carried out. This department produces
all the information on spectrum occupancy
which is required by the Frequency Planning
Unit at Bush House in London. In addition to
producing seasonal spectrum occ upancy reports. the fo llow ing tasks arc carried out:
At the beginning of each broadcasting
season. all BBC transmissions are checked to
confirm they arc actually on the air: cochannels are noted. Adjacent channe ls arc
not checked becau se there are so many BBC
broadcasts that thi s would take too long!
All transmi ssions of the High Frequency
Coordinating Conference (HFCC) broadcasters are checked lo ascertain that they are
actu ally using the frequencies notified. The
HFCC isa groupof majorinternat ional broadcasters who get together twice a year to
coord inate freque ncy usage. Among the
members are BBC. Deutsche Wel le. VOA,
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eluding Trans World

Radio.
On request. reception reports arc provid ed for o th e r
HFCC
me mb e r
broadcasters. advising signal strengths
and co-channe l or
other interfcrcncc.
The tec hn ica l
mo nitoring
was
originally done al the
old Tatsfield Receiving Statio n o n the
North Downs, just
Satellite broadcasts are also monitored by the BBCMS, in
south of London. It addition to medium and short wave broadcasts.
was set up in 1929 as
a techn ical moni toring station rather than for Media Unit and avai Iable int wo parts: Broadprogram monitoring. One of its main jobs was casti11g Ne11s (also called World Broadcastto check that BBC and foreign stati ons were ing Information), and Bruadcastillf!, Schedoperating on their correct frequenc ies.
ules.
It also served as the pick-up po int for the
World Media tells you what broadcasters
above -me nti o ned VOA rela y station at around the world are doing. what they arc
Woofferton. The shortwave broadcasts were saying about their competitors. and the broadreceived at Tatsficld and the audio then fed to casting scene in their country. World Media
Woofferlon for rebroadcast. In 1974. Tars field covers cable. satel lite. and terrestrial televiclosed down. and its staff and duties were sion and radio. new and emerging stations.
transferred to Crowsley. Thus. Crows Icy Park changes in broadcasting regulations. statisis doing several d ifferent jobs-the technical tics. program policies. and clandesti ne. unofmonitoring. acting as the VOA's relay. and ficial. and religious broadcasters. News is
picking up the signals for BBC Mon itoring.
reported with relevant bac kground information and editorial ana lysis. so you can bui ld a
clear picture of e merging trends.
I Publications
The Broadcasting Schedules are an inBBC Moni toring is able lo receive and
val uable service, providing schedu les and fresupply to its cus tomers materi al fro m stati ons.
quencies for international. domestic. clandesprincipall y in the Far East and Lati n America,
tine. and rel igious radio and T V stati ons worldwhich are inaud ible in Britain. BBC Moni torwide. Broadcasting Schedules covers an overing produces a number of publications giving
view or the stati on' s setup and affil iations.
news and information regarding current events
times of news and current affairs programs.
and broadcasti ng th roughout the world.
languages and hours of broadcast, and, of
The Summary of World Broadcast.1 is a
course, frequencies.
distinctive pub licati on providing acc urate and
All publications are ava ilable not only in
comprehensive coverage of inte rnat io nal pohard copy. but also by electronic mail. The
litical and economic affai rs. Summaries of
Worldwide Web Homepage is: http://
broadcasts and news bulletins arc published
www.monitor.bbc.co.uk and their regular
together wi th verbati m extracts. or in the case
mai ling add ress is BBC Monitor ing.
of important speec hes and even ts. the comCavcrsham Park, Reading. RG4 8TZ, United
plete text. Reports contain no add itional comKingdom.
ment or interpretation and the origin al source
As you can sec, then. a lot of work goes on
of each item is credited. so you can be sure the
at BBC Monitoring. which can certainly be
information is reli able and impan ial.
considered to be a DXcr's paradise! For me
The SWB covers five geographical regions:
personally. Caversham is a far cry from PanFormer USSR. Central Europe and the Balkans,
orama. and a place I still dream about visiting.
Asia-Pacific. Midd le East, and Africa. Lati n
America and the Caribbean.

I Foreign Media Unit

Of particular interest to the DX er. however.
is World Media. published by the Foreign

I'd like to acknowledge Chris Greemrny

and Stephen Innes of BBC Monitoring, and
Katin Otto of Sentech. Sowh Africa, 1rhv
1isited Ca1ersha111 i11 /9<J5._j(Jr their help in
preparing this article.

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AHobbyist's View of the

National Association of
Broadcasters Convention
in Las Vegas
Story and Photos by Bob Rusk

th exhibi ts tak ing up more space than 14 footba ll fields. lcuing a true lover of
radio into the '.'Jational A ssoc iation of Broadca s t er~ Convention is like lellinga kid
loose in a candy store. NAB 95 was so huge that the April event-bill ed as the
largest gatheri ng of radio and te le vision profess io nal s in the world-filled both the Las Vegas
Convention Center and the nearby Sands Expo Ce nter. More than 1,000 companies displayed
their newest wares.
l worked in radio as a di sc jockey. news directo r. and producer for 15 years. but I never had
the pleasure of atte nding an NAB convem ion during all that timi.:. T his was my first o pportunity.
Now. as a profess io nal writer who covers the indu stry. l had access to all of the booths as well
as the movers and shakers who spoke at the sess ion s.

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The c hanges the broadcasting industry is unde rgoi ng are mind-boggling .

Everything from the Internet and unmanned sta tions to new ways to sell
ad verti sing and the latest FCC changes
were discussed. There was much to interest the DXer.

(whe re I took the test fo r my Th ird Class

Radio Ope rator Permit as a n eager 15year-old).

I Spinning the Web

If it was discouraging li ste ni ng to
what the FCC had to say. some exciti ng
news came out of the " Radi o and The
Inte rnet"' session. Whe n you' re DXing
but aren ' tqu ite sure whic h station you ' ve
just pul led in, it can be fr ustratingespcc ially if you thin k it' s o ne of your
most wanted catches. But modern techno logy may be able to he lp you identify
it.
All you have to do is log onto the
World Wide Web. At the "Rad io and
The Inte rnet" session, it was stated that
more th an 1,200 stati ons now have Web
sites.
So. while w hat you hear on your
radio may be scratc hy and d ifficu lt to
ID. if the statio n has a Web site you can
log on and fi nd out if what they are
programming is what you' re hearing. It
was pointed out that many sponsors are
running advertise me nts on the We b. If you
hear a commerc ial while DX ing but can ' t
quite make it ou t. you may be able to ve1ify
detai ls by looking on the Web.
Thro ugh real ti me audio. the Web is a lso a
fun way to tune in stations that you have no
chance of picking up on your rad io. KLIF-

I "1888-FCCTALK"

It was announced at one o f the sessio ns that the FCC would be install ing
this new to ll -free phone line (whic h. if
you're using numbers. is 1-888-3228255) in order to be more accessible to
the public. If you have questions or complaints, this number con nects you to the
FCC's nationa l call ce nter in Ge11ysburg,
Pennsylvania. However, it was also announced that the FCC would no longer
be acting on compla ints suc h as noise
interference.
Lege ndary med iu m wave DXer
Patrick Martin (who was profi led in the
Decem ber 1990 issue of Monitoring
Times) attended the session a nd later told A booth 0 11 the ex hibit floor.
me he was di sappoin ted by this swi tch in
As if that's not enough, it was announced
po licy.
at
the
same session that the FCC would be
" It was so he lpful when the FCC used to
closing
more than half of it s tield offi ces.
act on complaints." M arti n said. "An in spector would come out w ith direction-finding keeping j ust 16 of 35 open. That change is
eq ui pmen t and track down the cause of the already being imple mented. In my part of the
problem. But now they want the private sector country. for example, the public must now
call Seallle. rather than Port land. O regon.
to hand le di sputes."
I ca lled the national cente r and found
out this is. indeed, the way it works. A
recorded message told me , " If you' re
calling about a problem in volving interfere nce to home entertainme nt equi pment. please press I.' '
I pressed I and the same voice intoned. " Interference problems w ith televis ions, stereos, and telephones arc not
ha ndled by the FCC. T hese calls should
be d irected to the ma nu fac turer of the
e ffec ted equi pme nt."
But nothing was said about radios.
What do you do if e lectric fence noise is
making it difficult to even liste n to your
loca l stations?
I pressed I again and was connected
with an operator who told me, " It 's basica lly the pe rson who's having the interfe rence problem ." I didn ' t quite catch
that. so asked her to expla in furth er.
" If you' re receiving interfere nce on
the rad io." she sa id , "it 's because the
radio itse lf is not fi ltered properly-so
you would have to go back to the manufa cturer of the radio itse lf ...
ABC Radio lntemational booth. The NAB convention also caters to a large international
Yeah. ri ght.

clientele.

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AM (http://www.klif.com) in Dallas.
fo r example, bills itself as "the first
radio stat ion to cybercast li ve on the
Internet 24 hours a day." KI NG FM
(http://www.king.org) in Seattl e is
promoted as the fi rst classical music
station in the world to be heard 2-t hours
a day on the Net.
My list shows there arc jmt fi ve
states without at least one station on the
Web: Idaho , Maine. North Dakota.
South Dakota, and Wyoming. But that
wi II no doubt change as more and more
broadcasters log on.

I Engineering Excellence
One of the highlights of the conve nt ion was attending the engineeri ng
awards luncheon. Engineer s rarely receive enough credit for their important
contributions to broadcasting. so this
was a nice tribute.
Each year the NAB presents an engineering achievement award to one
radio and one television enginccr. The
radio achievement award was given to
Ogden Prestholdt. who began hi s career in the 1930s and later joined the The
CBS network. serving as director of
engineering fro m 196 1- 1969. Prcstholdt retired in 1984 from his position as a partner
with a Washington, DC-based engi neering
firm. Even at the age of 79. thi s engineering
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Charles W. Rhodes, who was chief scienti st
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group, as well as starting the Hearst Washington News Bureau and Hearst Broadcasting
Productions.
This year's conventi on also marked the
50th annual Broadcast Engi neering Conference. To put the conference in to historical
perspecti ve: one of the issues facing the industry fifty years ago included the controversy surrou nding the duplication of AM
programmi ng on FM stations-whic h were
j ust becoming established. RCA was advertising a large scree n TY back then- it measured a whopping 15" x 20" and had a suggested retai l price of a budget-busting$ I. I95!

tion engineers come not only to look,

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Of the fou r days I was at the convention. I spent about half of my ti me
wanderi ng the exhibition floors. The
item I found most interesting was Radio In A Box. a 19-i nch rack mount
product that is bi lled as "the world 's
first plug and play radio station." It
plugs into the transmitter audio chai n
and serves as an ultracompact ai r studio. which means all of the station's
production and programmi ng can be
done from the box.
T he music. commercials. promotional announcements, and disc jockeys are inside a single computer," explained Tom Zarec ki. director of marketing services for Radio Computing
Services. which was scheduled to begi n selling the box this summer.
On another aisle Broadcast Electronics unvei led a I kW transmitter
that is designed to slip into a 19-inch
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If l could have bought just one item it
would have been the helicopter that St. Louisbased Helicopters. Inc .. had on display. They
have sold whirl ybirds to TY stations all over
the country. including WDAF in Kansas City.
and they operated the helicopters used by
NBC Sports during thi s summer"s Olympic
Games in Atlanta.
It was fascinati ng peering into the cockpit
and tak ing a close look at this fully-eq uipped
vehicle. I wasn t prepared for the sticker
price, though: S I .2-mill ion. Now you know
why the re arc so many commercials during
the evening news!
In addi tion. there were several rows of
four-wheel drive vehicles outside the convention center. A van with sold to ABC
Washington News Bureau posted on it was
parked in one spot.
Across the lot were shin y new vans with
channel 5/C leveland and c hannel 2/Anchorage logos. Painted bright as the Arizona sun.
a huge sate llite truck from KPHO. the CBS
affiliate in Phoeni x. was ready fo r anything
with its di sh on top. If a major news story had
broken at the convention. there would have
been no shortage of coverage.

I Celebrity Sightings
As I made my way from truck to truck. I
couldn' t help but th ink what an honor it was
to be at NAB '96 among indust ry leaders
from all corners of the world. Of the 92.333
people registered. more than 20,000 were
from foreign cou ntries.
There were times when it was difficult to
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Vice President Al Gore spoke at the Television Bureau of Advertis ings 42nd Annual
Marketing Conference.
All in all it was an excit ing experience- a
close-up look at the new technology and
people who shape the broadcasting industry.
Perhaps it was NBC President and CEO Bob
Wright who did the best job of putting broadcasting into perspecti ve.
"The current wave of technological change
is greater than we've ever faced before." he
said in a keynote address. "The way our
industry has adapted to new technologies has
always been influenced by economics and by
public policy. which has either delayed or
encouraged innovation. We must as an industry continue to in vest and develop technology th at offers more and better free broadcast service. and policy make rs need to encourage or require th is expansion and improvement.
rf th is happens." Wright concluded. " I am
confident that thi s country wi II carry fo rward
well into the next millenni um with the best
broadcasting system in the world.'"

ing lunch hour. I anticipated the lines, so I had

packed a peanut butter sandwich (forgetting
the jelly in the confusion). Finding a place to Bob Rusk i.1an Oregon-ba.1edjieelance wrill'r
si t was the major challenge: I took a cue from who reports 011 radio. He is a freq11e111 co11 hundreds of others and sat on the floor, using 1rib111or JO Radio World.
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shoes) and vis ited more booths
and chatted with more exh ibitors. Then I stopped and watched
Harry Wong and Steve James do
their morning show for 104 FM
Select in Hong Kong from the
convention floor. With the time
difference. they began broadcasting from Las Vegas in the midafternoon.
Lege ndary radio star Don
Imus. who was this year's inductee into the NAB Hall of
Fame, did hi s show live from the
Mirage Hotel on Monday and
Tuesday. WFAN-AM in New
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is a lso sy ndicated by th e
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How to Survive a Computer

Virus Without Really Crying

y family knows that I only read

non-ficti on. or at le.: ast what people
thin k is non-fic ti on. So in keeping
wi th th is, one of the many books I received
from my wife at Chri stmas was Approaching
Zero.
Thi st:uriously titled hook. by Paul Mungo
and Bryan C lough. details the hi story or t:O lllputer hacking. phone phrcaking. and virus
makers from the late 1960. s to 1992. It takes
its name from the e ffect or so me viru ses on
computer hard drives. Whe n a system is infec ted by some of these creations of misgu ided programmers. the data ~t orcd on the
hard dri ve can be syste mat ically destroyed
until the amount of inform ati on begi ns to
.. approach zero.. hyti.:s.
What happened to mi.: aftcr ret:e iving thi~
gift almost prompted me to wonder: .. Can a
book on co mputer viruses infet: t a computer?""

Whimpering is
nevertheless allowed.
Then, you must exorcize
the beast!

program that instructs the virus program to

destroy specific structu res at specifi t: times.
Pretty mean stuff. Imagi ne al l your work.
ga mes. programs, and files destroyed unexpectedl y by just turning on your computer.

I Happy!#%* New Year

As us ual. life was hectic around the ho lidays. but I did manage to check out my new
CD-ROM software gifts. write a column for
my MT readers. and do some technical work.
By John Catalano
Everything was going fine until January 2.
Then. computer hell hi t!
1 had just turned on my computer when I
not iced that it was taki ng a longer ti me than
normal to boot up. Finally, when it did get the
!>)'Stem up. I ran Lotus 123. only to be greeted
with a red nag indicating 123.EXE file had
been modified. I have been using Lotus for
many years. but have never gotten this message.
I Technology Mimics Biology
Viewing the hard drive file structure with
When biological viruses attack ou r bodies
the DIR (di rectory) command, I discovered in
the result can be anything from a fatal di sease
horror that 80% of all my data on the hard
to the common cold. They arc one of the
dri ve was destroyed, damaged, or just plain
smallest. yet complex. li ving organisms known
e rased, including all my MT Computers &
to man. They ca n rep licati.:. reproduce. or
l?adio fil es. With tears in my eyes, and just
grow at such a high rate. they can consume the
prior to putting a razor to my wrists. I took a
host body in a mattcrof days. Check out
look at my second hard dri ve.
/7D
Whal I foundwasamazingandvery Lroublethe non-licti on book /lot Zone to find
Y~
./
.
~"-..~,,
some. A large nu mber of new files had been
out what the E-Bol i viru s can do to a
human in a few hours. Whole African vii'/~
written to the second drive; and not by me.
//
These new files had names which were either
!ages have been wiped out by thi s bug. No.
computer viruses arc not biological in nature.
/
random groups of letters and symbols or had
Although thei r manner of acting and program
parts of program names originating from my
'
primary hard drive. Was thi s the work of a
size arc sim il ar to that of biological viruses.
the similarities end there.
virus? I wondered nervously.
Computer v i ru !>l!~ arc programs whic h
Running a virus checker program. which I
simulate the wildlirc growth of biological
have u ~ed for almost three years. gave my
viruses and thi.:ir tin y structure. Ohjecti vd y.
system a clean bill of health. "No Virus
the concept is very interesting: the dyna mic
Fou nd ..--0r so it said. I didnt believe it.
computer simulation of a li vi ng organism.
Everything I found pointed to a virus. Worse
However. during their high and uncontrolled
sti ll, I now noticed my second compu ter was
growth they can destroy valuable data stored
takin g a long time to boot up when I turned it
in random access memory (RAM ). -----..1.-----------~~..,;i,~\.--- on. I quickly turned the second comand on ll oppies and hard drives.
puter off in dread. Now what?"
Worse yet. through the mi ~gu i ded efforts
After I called the MT offices and warned
the m that the di sk I sent to them with my
of the authors. they can include n 'payload'.

----S:

lilJii...'

//1.

24

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

UiruSafe(tn) - Uirus Safety Softuare

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column might be infected, I drove 10 a

branch ofa na1ionwide compu1er s1ore.
Th ere I purc hased McAfee s
VirusScan version 2.4, one of the latest anti-virus programs available. Since
I am an eternal optimist. I also pu rchased a disk rescue program. I had
read with skepticis m the claims made
by re~c u e programs such as Norton
Util ities. As I drove home, in a surrealistic calm after losing all my data. I
hoped for a miracle c ure.

I The Diagnosis
Running the new virus program
indicated the presence of al least two
different viruses. Absolute Zero said Typical anti-virus programfu11ctio11s (Virusafe V6.5)
that by 1992 hundreds of new viruses
were being produced each month in Europe enemy. Tomorrow I would in vesti gate the
C learl y. there was a virus whi ch was "hidalone. That should be all I need to say about
possibility of data repair.
ing" in a file and was being acti vated whenever the computer was wrned on.
the importance of having the latest virus protection software re lease.
I Suffering Delusions
The YirusScan program , like many good
I Rooting Out the Source
After three hours sleep I lllrned on my
virus programs, provides three distinct funcAfter many hours o f anal ys is using
computer with smug confidence. on ly to find
tions: finding and ide ntifying a virus on your
many more viruses throughout my system. I VirusScan. I tracked the offender to a file
hard drive. fl oppy, or memory; dest roying the
was almost back where I started the day be- inside a Zip file. (Zip is a compression method
v iru ~; and protect ing your system from future
fore! So. with much cursi ng of technology th at all ows files to occupy a smaller number
virus attacks (Viru sShield). It found twentyand little sleep. I started the whole procedure of bytes.) However. to use files that have been
five occurrences of one virus on my system.
again. After a few hours of analyzing and zipped. they must be unzipped. I had a comFigure I shows what the di splay looks li ke
cleaning. the program indicated no active mand line in my aut oexec ba tc h file
when a virus has been detected u ~ ing YiruSafe
viruses on any of my dri ves ... I deserve lunch (autoexcc.bat runs programs automatically
soft ware. These bugs were then destroyed by
for my efforts: I thought as I turned off my when you boot your computer) that instructed
the virus program.
a fi le cal led Display.Zip to be unzipped. When
computer.
Upon rescanning my system. it fo und seven
After lunc h I turned on the computer to I manu ally unzipped Display.Zip my antiocc urrences of a different type of virus. These
whole colonies of vi rus-infected files. ''A m I virus program went crazy indicating the preswere also di spatched within a few seconds.
crazy?!"" I thought out loud- to the quick ence of a vi rus. After a number of hours
With the sun coming up I went to bed with the
scanning all fi les and instances of the virus,
affim1ation from my fam ily.
knowledge that I had stopped and killed the
the system was pronounced clean ... yeah
we've heard this before. The file was
neutralized of the vi rus and then deleted
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by the anti- virus program.
As al the e nd of the first Terminator
or !1/ie11 movies, I half-expected a piece
of thi s monster to reassemble itself and
attack once more as I turned the computer off and then back on. The antivirus program indicated it was still free
of viruses.
After almost three days and little
sleep, the computer virus battle had been
won.

I Return of FDR (Full Data

Recovery)

Anti-virus program detects a virus.

The virus was dead and gone, but the

damage had been done. My primary
hard drive would not boot up. When
booted from a lloppy the directory of the

September 1996

MONITORING TIMES

25

What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

1"1AY9e- tr ~~T \t.IOttl<. aEtAuse- rr ~ A

\l\"!aJS Wltll.' 'foV w~ ~llt:>ING rr.
11

(I

I. Use a recent anti-virus program such as McAfee' s VirusScan, Parson 's ViruCide, or
ViruSafe to detennine if you already have a virus lurking on your system.
2. Use the ana lyze feature to scan all new programs and fi les that you mig ht access via
floppy di sks or modem connection (yes. including the internet).
3. Virus scan all new floppy disks-this includes shareware, conunerc ialware or
software from a friend.
4. Use your di sk recovery software now! Make an emergency rescue fl oppy with your
important syste m information. For example, the Norton product sa ves your CMOS
parameters, images of all your hard dri ves' fi le allocation tables, other hard drive
operationa l parameters, device drivers, and memory a llocations. Store this floppy in
a safe, but easily remembered location.
5. Once you are sure your system is virus free, make a clean, write-protected boot floppy
with your autocxec.bat and config.sys fiJes.
6. Install the terminate, stay ready (TS R) program into your autoexec.bat file. This is
your " a lways on guard" protection part of your anti-virus program.
Note: Some programs see m to have trouble running with som e virus protection
programs, especially Windows and memory-hungry programs . If a progra m does not
run correctly .first scan all the program files with your anti-virus program. Once your
syste m is proven virus-free, unload the TSR protection program. Check your manual
for the unload command- usually a fU added to the program command line. Your
program s hould work fine. If it doesn ' t, then it may have been damaged by the virus.
See page 27.
7. Mark the fl oppy disks that have been given a clean bill of health. Use the write protect
tabs to insure that no new " friends" can infect the disk. Virus c heck all new software.
from all sources. Don ' t use a floppy from yourown collection umil it has been tested.

26

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

pri mary hard drive was full of garbage. I

suspected that the Ii le al location table (FAT)which tells the disk operati ng sy~tem (DO S)
which programs arc o n the tli~k and in what
sectors-was damaged.
Running the drive resc ue program. Norton
Util ities Disk Doctor. as seen on page 27.
confirmed my fears concern ing FATdamage:
it asked if I w ished to "attempt" repairs.
Without any other alternat ives I held my breath
and hit "Y" for yes . It al so determined that the
type and structu re of the hard drive as indi caced on a section of the boot information. did
not agree w ith the information in the BIOS
(Basic Input/Output Syste m) CMOS (Complementary Meta l-Ox ide Semicond uctor). T his
in formati on. accessed when you first lll rn on
the computer. indicates your exact hardware
(h ard dri ve. monitor type . and memo ry
amount). to the computer s operati ng system.
A fter a disclaimer that indicated that th is
was only an "atte mpt" at repair. the disk
began to spin. Aftt.:r a few min utes the program informed me that it had done a ll it could
do and I s hou Id attempt to boot from the hard
drive. Re movi ng the fl oppy boot disk and
hi tting the reset button I watched as the hard
drive once again brought the co mputer to life.
The boot was su ct.:e~s ful. Run ni ng VirusScan
indicated no vi ru ses were present on the syste m. We were 80 percent home.

I Coming back stronger and wiser

The DOS command C HKDSK (check disk)
eva luates the Ii le s tructure of your disk. Run ning CHK DSK indicated l ot ~ of cross li nked
fi les. T hese arc files which do not have un ique
locations on the hard disk. Whe n you have
crossl inked files the disk di rectory indicates
that two different programs arc resident at the
same physica l location on the d isk-clearly
not possible. and indicati ve of a problem. The
da mage caused by the viru s to the FAT caused
this cross lin king to occur.
C HKDSK fi xed the problem by only allowing one fil e per locacion. The other fil e is
stored in a spec ia l FI LEOOOO.CH K fi le. but ir
is no longer in an exec utable form. Some data
can be manually recovered usi ng the DOS
ed it program. T herefore. it' s not a total loss.
but close to it. In any case. it's a time-consuming and painful process.
In the fi nal ana lysis. two important Lotus
123 fi les were destroyed beyond recovery.
However. s ince I had used the ''backup" function w hene ver I saved a fi le. I was able to fu lly
recover the file. A fter four lost days of work.
no data was lo~t. a nd my system(s) were vi rus
free. T he good g u y~ won thi s ti me. But one
nagging questio n remains to be answered.

What to Do if You Are Attacked by a Computer Virus

l . Do 110 1 attempt to erase, move. or copy the infected program. If
the system will not boot from the hard drive do 110 1 attempt
multiple resets or turning the computer on and off a number of
times. These actions may just spread the virus. causing more
damage.
2. Booting from your virus-free floppy, run the anti-virus program
in the locate, identify, and remove virus mode. Make a note o f
wh ich files have been infected and cleaned (see Figure 1). They
should be tested for possible damage.

3. Run the anti-virus program on all hard drives in your system.

4. Re-run until you are 100 percent certain that you are virus free.
Make sure your protection software opens zipped or compressed files when testing fo r a virus. It takes a bit longer. but
is a real necessity.
5. lf the boot sector of your hard drive has been damaged, boot up
from a clean boot floppy. Run a rescue program such as Norton
Uti lities Disk Doctor or Emergency Recovery and follow
instructions, very carefully (see screen capture above ri ght).
These programs perform many functions. They will analyze, compare, and attempt to correct the setup data stored on
the drive to that stored in the system's CMOS setup. They will

Tr.: t. f. tdt.:. tor Prive l

hr-ll tl o n Tab le
DOS Boot Rec ord

Fl l e Al loco lion To.hie s

Di rectory S t ructure
FI l e St t'u cturc
Los t Clu s t e r s
Surfa ce Tes t

check the ilisk for crosslinked files. bad sectors, and other
format and physical problems. If all else fails, they will use
your previously-made rescue di sk to totally re-write your
hard drive boot sector and FAT data.
6. If there are no booting problems, use DOS CHKDSK /F to
check and fix crosslinking disk problems. For more severe
cases use Norton Disk Doctor or similar program.

7. Ensure lhat all programs on the disk operate. If they do not,

use the DOS edit command and read through all the
Fl LEOOOO.CHK tiles for lost data.
As we said above, some programs do not work well with
the TSR protection program. Unload this and try your
program again.
If all fails, check the original program floppies with
your virus checker. When you are certain that it is virus free,
reinstall the program.

8. Run the DOS command CHKDSK, Norton Disk Doctor, or

a similar di sk analysis program regularl y to determine the
"health" of your hard drives (see screen capture al left).

w hat was the source of the virus?"'

With VirusShicld's protection program.
which is now always on guard on my system.
an auempted virus auack will result in a red
fl ag noti ce and instructions on how to stop the
a!!ack. My December 29 MT column di sk
tested free of viruses when checked by the
Brasstown staff. so what triggered the virus?
Perhaps the calendar reading 0 I /0 I on New
Year s Day. \Ve may never know the answers.
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Babbages. and CompUSA. Prices ran ge from
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able to perform similar tasks. The Norton

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that worked for me. Approaching Zero is
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It is unfortunate that people must channel
their creative efforts to such destructive and
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1 ' =fr y

BEGINNER'S CORNER

Uncle Skip's Guide to Monitoring

Skip Arey, WB2GHA

ljorey@mosquito.com

Radio Ain't Television, Bunl<ey!

eing a certiri ablc radio hobby curmudgeon. I

occasionally mount my soapbox to Id fo lks
know what is bugging me. T wo cu rre nt atti tudes. to which beginners are also suscept ible. gripe
me. First: modern digita l. keyboard-controlled radio
receivers have tended to move fo lks away fro m thc
most basic rad io skill ofspinning the dial.. to sec what
is around. Thi s is coupled directly to my second gripe:
Raw data about radio freq ue ncies is available from so
many sources today (books. maga1.ines. C DROMs. the
Internet. etc.) that many folks simply dec ide what they
want to hear. look up the frcq ucncy in >ome data
resource. and then punch in the bu ttons to 111ake it
happen.
People who c hoose thi s route
~\
\\ ,
to the radio hobby tend to find
H
the ir interest level falli ng off rat her
quickly because they have turned
rad io monitoring into the ' ame
basic process as watching telev ision.
A very com111on letter o r EmaiI message that comes 111y way
reads something li ke th is: Hey
Uncle Skip. I wanted to listen to
the BBC last night. but when I
tuned in the freq uency I saw listed
on my local Computer Bulletin Board l couldn 't hear
it. ..
This is one or the most basic begi nni ng quest ions
and it demonstrates the skewed rea~oning that bug> me
about the above attitudes. Radio monitoring simply is
NOT li ke watching T V. If the pe r~on who wrote that
letter had access to me in .. real time." l would probably
say. "Well. propagation is a li tt le weird righ t now: have
you tuned aro und to see where ebc you can hear the
BBC?'"
In the world of rad io moni toring. fro111 DC to
Daylight, conditions and frequencies change so oft en
that even the best data resources ca n ge t out of sync
with reality in a very short time. Also. the competi tion
among all of these data resources has confused many
hobbyists. mak ing folks begin 10 wonder if they arc
really in the "data acq ui sition and rnanagement .. business instead of the radio hobby.
The real problem is that too many people have
gotten in the habit of using their receiver and rc~ourccs
in a "TV mode.. ... Look up the frequency and punch
it into the receiver. Radio monitoring i~ about tuning
around the bands. seeing what you can hear and 1/ie11

Too many people

have gotten in the
habit of using
their recefrer and
resources in a
"TV mode."

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using the many resources available to help you fig ure

out what you have discovered. Radio monitoring is
more aki n to making a journey to unknown places and
find ing o ut new things about the world arou nd you. It is
an adventu re you participate in acti vely. whereas telev ision is merely a series of passive observations or other
pcoples adventures.
As a beginner. you will want to develop the kind of
operating habits today that wi ll keep the hobhy exci ting
throughou t your lifet ime. Most people who complai n
that the radio hobby is dyi ng really mean that a smal l
number of things they have gotten used to tuning in arc
changing. There's an enormous spectrum out there. my
friends. and there wi ll a l way~ be thousands of things to
listen to--cspeciall y if you break the "T V mode" habi t
early in you r radio moni toring career.

"Primitive" Listening
Okay. let s start out wi th a little experiment. This can
be applied to any aspect of the radio hobby: medi um
wave, shortwave, VH F/U HF. whatever. Basically, what
I want you to do is some good old fas hioned 'dial
spinn ing." T he next ti me you si t down to play radio.
forget about anyth ing you have preprogrammed into
your receiver's memories. Forget about your personal
list of .. favori te" frequencies. We' re going exploring.
T he only .. tools" you will need beyond your receiver
will be a pencil and paper.
Also-very important to the success of this studyput away every radio frequency resource you may have.
Books. magazi nes, lists: stick them all in a drawer so you
won't be tempted by their prese nce. Ab~ol u tc l y . pos iti vely. turn off your computer !
As for the receiver itself. disable or disconnect any
"bells and whistles .. that you can. I want as litt le between
you and the incoming signals as possible. Even better, if
you happen to have a ..classic" receiver from before the
days of t he ''digital" revol ution, du st it off and trot it out.
Thal o ld analog rig you were keeping under the heneh as
a backup is just the ticket for this ki nd of listen ing.

Exploring Medium Waves

If you're a medi um wave monitor. tune you r receiver
down to 530 kHz and slowly start to work your way up
the band. Make a few notes about each sig nal you
d iscover. Sure. some of the sturr you hear wi ll be local
and all too familiar. Still. keep your ears open and keep
track of what is going on. Most of what you hear will
occur at even IO kH z interval s. but don' t forget that

some broadcasts originati ng from o utside the United States maintain

a 9 kHz spac ing . It may be possible to hear signal s between the North
American standard I 0 kHz signals.
Stop at each discovered signal and listen lo ng enough to try to
figure out who and what you are hearing. S1ay mrmfro1111/io.1e huuks.1
Use your own listen ing skill s and not somebody else's for now . Make
notes about the prog ram content, the ca llsign, the statio n' s locati o n. Is
the signal stro ng o r docs it fade? Is the re interference from othe r
station s o n frequency or from strong stations o n adjacent c hannel s':>
Can you tune the interfe re nce out by slightly adjusting the rcceiver s
controls or by changing the orientatio n of the receiver s a111cnna1
Often on medium wave you can log info rmation about more than one
statio n o n the sam e frequency.
Take good notes 011 a ll of thi s informatio n. Also, because o r the
nature or sig nal propagatio n and statio n's o perating prac tices. try th is
"end to end'' band scan at local sunri se. full daylight. local sunset. and
after midnight if it fits into your monitoring schedule.
No matter what you r personal skill leve l goi ng in to thi~ expcri mcnt. I am positi ve you wi ll come away with a much beth.:r understanding ofjust what is going on in the medium wave band. In addition.
you wi ll no doubt have logged a few new s ig nals to add lo your log
book. Most import antl y, you w ill have discovered the adventure that
comes from searching the band on your ow n terms and not based upon
some predetennined li st of what someone else heard at some point in
the past. Practice th is bandscanning technique o n a regular basis and
you will soon know things that even some experts can't te ll you.

I The Shortwave Challenge

Now. if you are a sho11 wave monitor you've got a bigger chunk of
the radio freque ncy spectrum to cover than o ur medium wave brothe rs
and sisters. This mea ns you will probably want to break your examination of the sho rt wave bands down into a number of bite-sized
c hunks. To some degree. th is w ill be determined by the length o f your
li stening sessions, but a good goal to shoot for is between I and 5 MHz
at each session.
Successful shonwave monitoring is also more of a fu nction of
propagatio n. so you wi ll need to keep some basic parameters in mind.
Begin your study by concentrating o n the freque nc ies between 5 a nd
25 M Hz. Also lean toward frequenc ies above 13 MHz during day li ght
hours. You can bring the ou ter band edges in to the study a ft er you have
a good handle o n how the bands are working. based upon current
season. sun spots. a nd o ther vagaries of propagation.
Now I'm sure that some propagatio n pundits o ut there arc screaming for my head right now . Oh. well. it won "t be the first time. You see.
if you fo llowed the stric t school solutions as to when to li sten 11here.
you may miss o ut 011 a good bit of li steni ng that can be fou nd on
al legedly ''dead" ba nd segme nts. Reme mber the words of Robert A.
Heinlei n's c haracte r Lazarus Long. "Always li ste n to expert s. T hey' II
te ll you what can't be done. and why. Then do it."
With the above adjustme nts in place. fo llow the same co ur~c as o ur
medium wave brothers and sisters. Slowly examine each band segment. Stop at each dim.:rned s ig na l and g ive it a bit of your time. Listen
careful ly and note what you hear. Broadcast statio ns wil l give up
information fairly easily. Programs tend to be lo ng enough IO include
several opponunitics for both formal (station ID) and informal (program conte nt based ) identifi cation .
On the o ther hand. non-broadcast o r "utility" signals will take a bit
more work to figure o ut. These transmissions tend to be short and often
full of abbreviations and intentional cod ing. With utility signa ls. sti ck

a round o n a frequency fo r a whi le and see w hat e lse pops up. The
answer to some of the questio ns that arise out of the in itial sig na l may
be made c lear in a few more transmissions.
Do n't Jct a lack of knowledge about the world's languages
convince you to skip O\er a signal just because you think you don't
understand what is be ing said. Stick around fo r a bit. If you listen
c losely, you may pick up a few things. Many modern words, especiall y those that apply to technology and scie nce are used universally
regardl c~s of the native tongue. Th ings such as music and statio n
identifi cati o ns can further help you fig ure out a signal.
Also. don't forge t that man y shortwave broadcasters operate in
several languages. To better understand a station, all you may need to
do is wait out the current broadcast until the top or bottom of the ho ur.
This may bring abou t broadcasting in a mo re recognizable lang uage,
possib ly eve n Engli sh.
Another thing that o ften confuses beginners is the system of
shonwavc broadcast band designations. A few sessions of basic "dial
twisting" w ill show you that more than a few shon wave broadcaste rs
operate outside these establi shed freque ncy ranges-yet another
reason to ignore the gu idebooks on occasio n.
Aga in. take notes of what you hear and what you think it means.
Make small segment sho rtwave broadcasting a regular practice and
you will soon know the bands as well as any expert.

II Scanning = Searching
VHF/U H F scanning was at the forefront of the digital receiver
revolutio n. 11 is a lso the bastio n of ''TV mode" tuning. Most people
who own scanners get a list of their local police, fi re, and EMS
frequencies. plug them in. and never listen to anything e lse. But
remembcr. radio monitors are not 'most people ... We are explo rers of
the radio frequency spectrum . To get the most o ut of mon itoring the
world above 30 MHz requires a good reading of your scanning
receiver's manual. You need to learn how to go beyond just entering
frequenc ies into memory. You must di scover a nd use your scanner's
search modes. T hese usually involve setting upper and lower frequency limit s for your receiver to scan through.
Hi gher end scanners may a lso feature a "store" fun ctio n that
enters whatever is found duri ng a search into the scanner's memories.
Mastering these capab ilit ies as they apply to your particular scanner
w ill a llow you to perform the same sort of band scanning as medium
wave and s hortwave folks.
Remember. slay a1rayjio1111hose frequency lists. Try to see what
you can discover yourse lf. For examp le. if you pick up an unfamiliar
public safety frequen cy. liste n in to sec if you can determine whose
it is. Listen fo r information such as town or street names. the names
o r landmarh o r places such as hospitals. Ir they are using a 'I 0code." try to figure it o ut by listening to the conversations assoc iated
with its use .
Also. don't forget that there are thousands of non-public service
re lated signab to catch in the VHF/UHF bands. many of which do not
appear on any frequency list. Take time to discover the wider world
beyond police and fire call s to max im ize your mon itoring advent ures.
Fi nally. after you have a handle o n thi ngs in your area of interest.
use your various books, magazines, and compu ter resources to fi ll in
the gaps in your inform ation. Hit the books <!fier your mo nitori ng
sessio n instead of before and no one will ever be able to accuse you
of bei ng a TV mode" moni to r. You will also discoverthe full depth
of fun and adventure that radio really offers us . Have fun'

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SCANNiifG"REPORT

The World Above 30 MHz

Richard Barnett
ScanMaster@ool.com, Compuserve at I02354,3643

Tales Out of School

or A Funny Thing Happened on the Search for the School Bus Frequency

chool buses arc among the most prevalent users of two-way

radios in my hometown. Our city uses a contractor. Laidlawa large. national transportation provider- for school bus
services. Recentl y. I began an intensi ve search f'or Laidlaw's
unl icensed rad io chan nel.
School bus freq uencies are often found on the 155 MH z " PS''
channels: for example. 155.160. 155.220, and 155.265. Nonpublic safet y use of these chan nels has always been a bone of
contention among those in the ambulance industry. The 155 MHz
channels are act ually not onl y used by ambulances and school
buses, they're also used by urban and inter-urban
bus companies. 155 MHz rs freq uencies are
trul y jammed with all ki nds of incompatible operators. That" s why so many of the users ha ve abandoned these VHF channels for other bands.
Our local school buses appear to use a 460-465
MHz community repeater. The buses arc equipped
with what look like UHF quarter- wave antennas
(four to fi ve-inch sti cks). Because the buses are privatel y owned.
there are no public safety or even business freq uencies licensed for
bus use in my community. In the books and databases we've
reviewed, there are also no li stings fo r Laidlaw in my home town,
nor in the town where the bus terminal is located (West Roxbury,
a Boston neighborhood). What's going on here?
Laidlaw is apparentl y operating on a two-way firm 's FB6
licen. e. FB6 is an FCC dc~ignat i o n which indicates that the holder
of the license is. generally. a two-way rad io dealer who is responsible for all the users (co mpan ies) that arc act ive on his repeater.
Years ago. all users o n a community repeater system were required
to hold their own licenses. and even hold separate licenses fo r
mobile and other types or operation.
Two-way dealers. we understand. were not very happy wi th
this arrangemen t. Although maintaining licenses for each customcr could be a headache. it could also provide a separate revenue
stream. What reall y irked the dealers mid equipment manufacturers. however, was that competin g radio shops would essentially
have easy access to everyone s customer li st. If you saw that Joe's
Towing had just been licensed for operation on 463.450. for
example. you could easil y match up that frequenc y with your
competitor' s communit y repeater. Then you could go out and try
to convince Joe that your repeater would pro\ide far superior
coverage for his tow trucks.
Not all dealers operated in this man ner. but enough did. as we
understand it. to cause cert ain factions in the industry to lobby the
FCC for the FB6 designation. U ers of 800 MHz trunked systems

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Author e nlist.~ se11eral sca1111ers and a frequency counter to

perform som e " cloak and dagger" surveillance.

are similarly not licensed-although, we believe. for different

reasons.
What docs all th is mean fo r scanner enthusiasts who enjoy
listening to business communications? There are still hundreds of
thousands of businesses which contin ue to license the old-fashioned way. Either their two-way provider has not bothered with
the FB6 designation. or the business operates its own radio
system. Yet. there are thousands of businesses which legall y hold
no license. It makes it very difficul t to figure out. therefore, where
particular busines es are operating. Wi th the proper eq uipment
and knowledge, you can still narrow the list of possibil ities down
to a few distinct frequencies.
At any rate. I wanted to nab that bus frequency. It wasnt that
I would be interested in monitoring it, once I had it. It's the chase
that s fun in these cases. In a couple of years. whe n my son is of
school age. I may want to pay closer attention to the communications on the channel. For now. though, it was enough to see the bus

dri ve down the s treet every day and know that there went a
frequency r did not have ! That irked me. a nd it continues to irk me
to this day.
My q uest to fin d that freque ncy began at the e nd of the school
year. The buses were o nl y going to ro ll a nother few days when I
dug out my Optoelectronics Scout a nd began to acti vely search for
the channe l. After chasing buses fo r about an hour one morning.
I real ized that my firs t hi t o n the Scout might be a trans mission
from a d ri ver as king for the police to c heck o ut a possible s talke r.
At least I would have the freq uency, rig ht ? But, instead . those
dri vers never seemed to use the ir radios.
l immed iate ly put Plan B into e ffect. I decided to foll ow the
buses back to theirterminal in hopes of nabbing someone using his
radio on the way back to the yard. Buses poured o nto a sing le
hig hway as we neared the terminal. Yet no o ne. accord ing to the
Scout as we ll as m y visua l scan of the dri vers. ever used the radio.
I was beg in ning to wonder if these fo lks actually had two-way
equipment in their buses!
All th is time my Bearcat 760. BearTracker BCT -7. a nd a Radio
Shack PR0-43 swept the UHF input and o utput frequenc ies fro m
46 1.0000 throug h 469.975, a s we ll as the 470 throug h 4 86 MHz
ranges that are com mo nly used fo r business repeaters in the
Boston area (excl udi ng the nu merous public safety channels in
this ' T - Band"' range).
Some of the transmiss ions I mo nitored on certa in frequencies
could possibly have been the La idlaw buses. based upo n the
conversat io n and the sig nal strength. but it was never c lear cut.
You mus t wait for so meone to menti on a school or a recog ni zab le
s treet name in your town ; or better yet, a conversati o n such as,
Yo u need to make sure to stop at Ji m my S mith 's house on Pso nby
Britt Road and get hi m over to the Ang ie r School." Wow, would
a trans mi ssion like that have brought clos ure to th is caper! But ...
noth ing even came close.
I kept a running lis t of the possible c hannels, but still waited for
the big break as I drove close r to the bus yard. With no hits o n the
Scout as 1 approached the yard , I was fee li ng kind of down. T hat
is. until I looked up at theroofof the terminal offi ce and saw a UHF
yagi poi nted off in the direction of Bosto n. Eureka! All I had to do
now was sit o utside the terminal fe nce, in line w ith the d irection
of the beam, and I was s ure to have m y cha nne l.
T he freque ncy I expected to receive was, of course, the input
to the re peater. Tht: bus dis patcher would be broadcasting over a
mobile. but in this case a fi xed-inpu t frequency into the re peater.
The transmission wou ld be re-broadcast o n the o utput side of the
pair and heard by everyone wit hin ra nge o f the re peater.
T hen.j ust at the mo me nt of tri um ph whe n I heard the first beep
of a hit on my Scout , 'dow n !Urned to despondency. I glanced
down to see the frequency o n that terrific little near- fi eld recei ver,
convinced I would be seeing some 468 or 469 M Hz input. Yet. to
my d ismay. 454.300 appeared on the screen. And then there was
another hit, and anothe r. and even another. A ll w ithin seco nds o f
one another. It was fully expt:cted, tho ug h. 454 .300 is a pager
freque ncy. The industrial park where the terminal is located is al so
neighbor to a paging transmiss ion tower!
Luck, and my tim e. had run out. A lthough you can buy filters

The school year ended before the

frequency was ascertained, but
author has some new tactics for
the coming year.

D D~O D

QDDDDO.

to elimi nate certain frequencies or frequency ranges fro m being

received by the Scout (or by any receiver), I couldn' t buy an
ex te nsio n to the school year for lo ve nor money.
But, now that it" s Septembe r I have a couple of new tactics I
plan to employ as the kids start back to school. Know ing where
that yag i is po inte d. I sho uld be able to al so pinpoint the possible
FB6 community repeaters located in that general directi on. Using
o ne of the hi gh-end CD-ROM databases of FCC information, it is
possible to look up FB6 licensees and even map the ir transmitter
coordi nates. This wi ll he lp narrow down the frequenc y options
that I' ll need to program into a scanner.
I may not have nailed that freque ncy, but at least I can put my
tactics, and my resources, to the test o nce again now that sc hool' s
back in sessio n.
Give it a try, some time. Whe the r it is a school bus company,
a mal l security force , or any business in your ho metown, see if yo u
can figure o ut their frequency by using a little legwork, a little
Scout-work, a nd a lot of enjoyable scanner-work.

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{continued}
New Hampshire Rumor

Scanners on Cable TV

We have had a lot of very interesting and pos itive response to

our recent article (May '96) on police radi o transmissions being
rebroadcast over the Winston-Salem Cable TY public access
channels. Here's some of the mail:
''I'm writing from a cybcr cafe in Berlin. Connecticut. Your
art icle on the Winston-Salem cable system reminded me of my
days at a tiny newspaper in Stuttgart. Arkansas, in the late 1970s.
The cable system there had a rather unusual way of providing
audio for its Reuters Sports Wire channel - it would simu lcast
CB channel 19! Keep in mind th at this was during the CB boom,
so there were plenty of signals... and plent y of "colorfu l" language ' I wish cahle sys t e m ~ were this inventi ve today: l' w had
enough of Lite FM on the access channel."
Howard Glazer
Meriden. CT
David Levine sent us e-mail wit h the following news:
") was in Wilmington. North Carolina. visiting in - la w~ and
flipped to channel 8 on their Time Warner cable system and heard
police broadcasts. Like Winston-Salem in your May Mo11i1ori11g
Times anicle. Wilmington. North Carolina. enjoys the same
benefit. When the s1ati on is broadcasti ng local government shows.
they show local information with the broadcasts in the background. There arc ti mes when the broadcasts are few and far
betwee n. but on the weeke nd ~. the act i,ity picks up. I enjoy your
column and your posts to the mailing lists and newsgroups."
We also heard fro m one of our readers that the Salem, Massachusetts, cable system also prov ides a similar service. It' s nice to
hear that other police departments and cable television compa nies
have teamed up to provide a valuable community service . This
demonstrates that these po s. at least. appreciate worthi ness of an
informed public.
I Is it the End for the RCMA?

As this article is goi ng to pre~s. the RCMA (Radio Communications Monitori ng Association) is stil l in its last throes, although
some have already reported its demise. The RCMA has been one
of the most venerable radio publications and clubs in history.
Founded some 20 years ago by hobbyists in southern Cali fo rn ia,
the RCMA was instrumental in growing the hobby and spawning
local monitoring organi zations around the nation, such as CARMA.
the Chicago Area Radio Moni toring Associati on.
The end of RCMA and iLs pu blication , the Scanner Journal,
would be a terrible blow to scanning. Because all avenues to save
the club have not been exhausted at the time of this writing. we do
not want to play taps fo r the RCMAj ust yet. Should blowing that
last bugle be necessary, we will take a look back at the RCMA, its
newsletter. and the volunteers who made it all possible. in a futu re
issue. When you read this art icle. the fate of the club will likely
have been decided. For now. thoug h. this editor will keep his
fingers crossed.
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It has been reported that, after years of testing. the New

H amp~h i re State Police will not switch to a digital high-band radi o

system. This is pure speculation at this time. We wi ll keep you

apprised of any further detai ls.
This move would be significant. as the State Police in the
Granite state have been maki ng a very serious effon to try out the
equipment. In talking with local southeastern New Hampshire
officers who could no longer moni tor the transmissions of their
state colleagues. it was qu ite evident that they weren' t the happiest
of cam pers. Local police officers. county sheriffs. and others use
scanners in their patrol cars to monitor the New Hampshire State
Police and to monitor neighboring departments.
While digital communicati ons may prevent a few 1ow-lifes''
from listening, it also prevents hundreds of fellow offi cers and
thousands of concerned citizens from keeping tabs as they should.
What is the response time to calls for assistance from state officers
when the local officers had no idea that an emergency situation
might develop? Sure, state dispatchers can relay emergency traffic
on local channels. but nothing helps clue officers in to potentially
dangerous circumstances belier Lhan having the ability to monitor
an entire event, rather than simpl y a snippet of that event. That's
why so many state, county. and even local police cars use scanners
- to keep an ear o ut for their brethren in neighboring towns or on
adjacent streets. At least that 's how it seems to thi s editor.
I Scanners in Movies Ill

In the new Tom Cruise fi lm , Mission /111possible, a Bearcat

220/230 is used in one of the scenes. Interestingly, the pro p folks
used a custom indiglo display to scroll th rough frequencies.
Perhaps the standard Uniden displ ay does not stand out enough o n
film.
No one got our earlicr movie question we posed some months
ago. We asked which was the fi rst known fi lm to have ever
requested a scanner fo r a prop in a major moti on picture? It was a
bit of an un fair question . in that you would have had to have
worked for the manufacturer when the requisiti on for a scanner
was submitted.
The answer is Do11 't Drink the Water- the Woody Allen play
which was made into a movie back in the late 60's or earl y 70's.
This hysterical movie starred Jackie Gleason and Estelle Parsons.
No one we know has ever seen the scanner in the film (the movie
is usua ll y cut up when iL' s broadcast on TV), but it is assumed Lhat
it was used in the office of the evil commandant Krojac k. played
by Michael Constantine of Roo111 222 fame.
We received thi s interesLing bi1 of trivia from the fam ily of the
founder of the Electra Bearcat Company. We wi ll have more on
these wonderful people. along with info rmation on the history of
scanners, in a later article.
Readers: If we are boring you with our scanners in film
discussion. please write and let us know. We get a ki ck out of this
tri via. because we like to see how scanners are woven into the
fabric of American life. If our readers are not interested, though,
we wi II cut back on the Siske) and Ebert.

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100 baud encrypted RTIY at 2243. RYRY sent at the very beginning of
each transmission. (Metcalfe-KY) I have seen the USCG logged using
RTTY in this area before, might be them-Larry.
USCGC Confidence working USS Taylor at 1120. (James Lumen-Tiffin.
OH)
Group 27 working 271 at 0029. Moved to alternate frequency 5081.5.
(Fowler-MA)
NW net with Kiwi bird (the only other net member) at 0300 moving around
various frequencies including: 7831 (Zulu 170), 6757 (Zulu 165). 5705
(Zulu 145), and 6715 (Zulu 160). (Haverlah-TX)
3SP-Unid station at 1005 repeating "V CO DE 3SP ZCC" in CW. (YamaguchiJapan)
Teal 03 working Andrews at various times with weather related traffic.
(Fowler-MA)
Zero Zulu called Darkstar Tango. Other 2-element callsigns also active.
By 0559, Fox Tango active with single letters calls, trigraphs. and two
letter calls including November Six. Very active alligator playground
coordination net. (Haverlah-TX)
Teal 03 working Andrews for weather related traffic at 0043. (Fowler-MA)
NW or Skywatch requesting next position at 0011. (Fowler-MA)
271 working Group 27 at 0027. Moved to 7800. (Fowler-MA)
USN units setting up data transfer for tracking net. (Fowler-MA)
9HWL2-m/v Puppy Pwith message via Bern Radio using SITOR-A with
selcal 31922 at 1752. (Hood-UK)
F/K/C-Single letter HF CW marker at 1459. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Pyongyang ACC, North Korea, contact Russian aircraft at 0201 in very
distorted USB. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Beijing Volmet. China, with weather report at 0152 in distorted USB.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
Irkutsk Volmet, Russia. with weather report in Russian at 1228.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
1YH working 1YY in non-US English. Position given at sea around Virgin
Islands at 0455. (Haverlah-TX)
India working Sierra in a very informal, back channel type chit chat net.
Presumed USN and they are here often. (Haverlah-TX)
McClellan with numerous 20 characte r EAMs "For Double Bar" and "For
Stub." McClellan at 1350 with 26 character EAM taken from earlier 20/20/
26 character EAM set, at McClellan's H+50 repeat EAM transmission
window. (Haverlah-TX)
NW net active on this frequency at 0500 with Jonathon, Mongoose. and
NW01. Jonathon popped up at 0501 for his regular top of the hour check,
but nothing heard from NW01. Jonathon advises in blind that he was
moving to Zulu 160. Immediately tuning to suspected 6715 within
seconds finds Jonathon calling NW01. Zulu 160=6715 (strong tentative).
Hickam working Andersen at 1202. At 1202 Anttrail working NWOl
dropping in on the Andersen/Hickam comms. A frustrated Anttrail
described the co-channel interference here (and on 9809) using a burst
of GI barracks slang, and requested a frequency change. (Haverlah-TX)
Looks like the operator on Anttrail needs some lessons in manners, net
discipline, and propagation of radio signals-Larry.
Andrews working AF2 at 0556. (Haverlah-TX) SAM 28000 and AF1
working Andy at various times. (Wilczynski-MA)
Gaser 93 working Gaser 92 about Plantation Ops being off SATCOM at
0157. (Haverlah-TX)
Parkhill scram bled communications noted here at 0622 by unid units.
(Haverlah-TX)
NW01 working ? Bug who request secondary frequency at 1505. They
first move to Zulu 190 (10204) then Zulu 170 (7831 ). These were all too
weak for com ms. then all move to Zulu 185. A jump to 9809 finds a NW
net player testing on the frequency. Zulu 185=9809 (strong tentative).
(Haverlal1-TX)
Anttrall working NW01 on Zulu 185 at 1141. (Haverlah-TX)
WAR46 working NWOl at 0519. (Haverlah-TX)
USN/Royal Navy exercise communications noted over 24 hours period.
Have not seen this one in your column or in the CFL. What is this? (Kris
Wolf-Dixon, IL) It is just another of those little used US Navy voice
exercise frequencies in the HF spectrum that pop up from time to time and
exercise to exercise-Larry
KNY90-NCS Arlington. VA, calling WGY904-FEMA Thomasville. GA,
during NTMS/NTCN exercise at 1600. Frequencies in use include 4458,
521 1, 6765, and 10493. KWB406-0ET Ames, IA, checking into FEMA's
NECN exercise at 0007. Lots of MARS stations noted during this
exercise. (Metcalfe-KY)
Cape radio at 1120 conducting a radio check. (Lumen-OH)
Unid station 4XML repeating "V 6FR7 DE 4XML" at 1040 in CW.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
C/S-Single letter HF CW markers at 1520. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
SAM 201 working Andrews at 1950. (Haverlah-TX)
Derby 51 (ex-Galveston) enroute to Howard AFB working MacDill GHFS

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at 1450. (Haverlah-TX) Rockaway requesting working frequencies for

Area 91 . Was given Zulu 190/175. (Rick Roop-Sacramento, CA) Area
91-Larry? 20 character EAM 67RNZ4 from McClellan GHFS at 1939.
(Anonymous) Spirit 25 (USAF B-2) with a phone patch to Andrews AFB
show control. Patch was for coordinating a fly-by for the air show at
1303. (Metcalfe-KY)
Teal 03 moved here from 8968, worked Andrews at 2258. (Haverlah-TX)
Spacecard calling NWOl on Zulu 200 at 1213. (John Cawby-Mountlake
Terrace, WA)
Brownrat calling Topkick at 1733. (Haverlah-TX)
Chalice Bravo working Edmonton military with phone patches to Bigfoot
and Dee rhunte r at 1708. (Haverlah-TX)
SAM 60201 working Andrews at 0230. (Wilczynski-MA)
NW01 working Urgent and seve ral others here on Zulu 210at 1545 after
setting up co mmunications on 11175. (L. Van Horn-Brasstown, NC)
Offutt with 20 character EAM "for Absently" at 1335 and 1343. Andrews
with 26 character EAM string followed by 20 character EAM string "for
Tacamo Pac Primary," at common 1938 transmission ti me. McClellan
with 20 character EAM "forTacamo Lant Secondary" at 0438. (Haverlah
TX)
Brownrat and Topkick in mostly ANDVT. Also on frequency: periodic
one-second ticking with the top of the minute timehacks possible given
using ANDVT. (Haverlah-TX)
NW01 working Deadball here on Zulu 205 at 1616. Moved net to Zulu
225. Within seconds found Deadball and NWOl working each other on
13907. Zulu 225=13907. (Haverlah-TX)
UYJD-TKH Rostov Na Oonu with ETA for Casablanca to Mariupol Radio
in SITOR-A at 0656. (Hood-UK)
TCMC-m/v Pazarwith ETA for Bari from Malaga. SITOR-A with selcal
65724 at 0758. (Hood -UK)
4JDS-TKH Gazanfar Musabekov working UON Baku Radio in CW at
0720. (Hood-UK)
Overslide working Thule at 1522 getting working frequencies for NW01.
(Haverlah-TX)
NW01 , Mercator, Chinaware, and WAR46 noted here from 10204 . At
1744, NWOl moved Mercator to Zulu 230 (not found after checking
some 14 aand low 15 MHz frequencies). (Haverlah-TX) Neon Sign
calling NWOl on Zulu 215 at 2031. (Cawby-WA)
Russian military station copied in Cryllic CW at 1910. This was one end
of a two frequency net. 5-letter and 3-digit groups noted with periodic
BT symbols to separate parts of encoded text. This may be a Russian Air
Force transmitter. Has anyone copied such traffic on 13320 kHz? Any
information or comments are appreciated. (Vladimir)
YZl235-Tanjug Belgrade. Serbia, at 0714 with 50 baud RTIY English
news. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
A9M70-GNA Manama. Bahrain, at 1517 with 75 baud RTIY English
news. 14764 is listed in CFL. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Unid station at 1320 with 100 baud POL-ARO idling. Not listed in CFU
Klingenfuss guides. (Yamaguchi-Japan) Must be new, Takashi. I have
nothing in any of my intercept lists-Larry.
Offutt with 20/20/26 character EAM set over an eight minute period at
1817. (Haverlah-TX) 20 character 67711M EAM from Lajes GHFS for
"Tacamo Lant Primary" at 1140. VLB2- lsraeli Mossad number station in
AM at 1144-11 50. (Anonymous)
Mac Dill GHFS (off frequency) with a 20 character EAM "for Tacamo Pac
Primary" at 1426. (Haverlah-TX)
Topkick working NWOl on 15046 and self IDed the frequency as Zulu
230 at 2118. (Jones-CA)
SAM 974 returning home from Man ila working Andrews on F-300 at
0130. (Jones -CA)
HBD22S-Berne. Switzerland. at 1144 with SITOR-A German message.
Not listed in CFL/Klingenfuss. (Yamaguchi-Japan) I have seen numerous intercepts for the Swiss embassies and Berne between 1610516111.1, but nothing t/1is /1ig/1-Larry.
USDA-TKH Agostino Neto working UUl-Odessa Radio in 50 baud RTIY
at 1000. (Hood-UK)
ESA Tallinn Radio with news in Estonian using SITOR-B at 1125. (HoodUK)
YLQ-Riga Radio with traffic list in CW at 1302. (Hood-UK)
SSE calling And rews Global for radio check. At 1927, Andrews up with
a 67 character EAM: UP6EEK preamble. (Haverlah-TX)
HMF36-KCNA Pyongyang, North Korea, with 50 baud RTIY French
news. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
VRO-Unid station at 0832 with CO marker and 5-letter groups using
hand sent CW. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
9BC33-IRNA Teheran, Iran, at 121 5 with 50 baud RTTY Arabic news.
(Yamaguch i-Japan)
MKK-Royal Air Force. London. UK. at 1200 with a 50 baud RTIY test
tape. (Yamaguchi-Japan)

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Floral designs with "BBC WS R.L P." keep apmor e, sec the web pa ge http ://sa bc.eo .za/
saveca.htm. Write to ''Channel Africa: Feasibility
pearing outside the BBC s Bush House, in response
to the move by BBC management lo restructure the
Study." P.O. Box 913 13. Auckland Park 2006. Rep
BBC World Service into the domestic service. reof South Africa. Fax : (+27 11 ) 7 14 2546: E-mail:
ports Rachel Meyerwood in Radio Four Watch UK,
lacuevae@sabc.co.za. Please state your country and
postal address in your message.
viaDWC. News stories passed on by Arthur Ward in
the World DX Club publication Contact. say that the
R. Oranje. one of South Africa Broadcasting
all-party Public Accounts Select Committee conCompany 's domestic ser vices. has already been sold
by SABC to private interests. Its shortwave future is
cluded that bosses of the BBCWS have been guilty
unknown, according to a press report via Ulis Fleming
of massive overspending: ovcrambition , and a lack
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loss on English lessons. In the report, World Service bosses were
Shortwave broadcast program listeners may also want to write to
WEWN if they agree/disagree wi1h Martin Gall as of Illinois. Martin
rebuked for using improper procedures' when they spent more than
a megapound on new computer equipment. Some language depts are
stated. in effect: R. Australia has been on 9580 for many years. and
now you park yourselves right on top of them. somewhat as you did
over-staffed. They have been told to eliminate waste and curb
excessive spending to help make 8 megapound cut by next year.
on 6000 where you interfere with 5995. You are not making any
Sam Younger. BBC World Service managing director, says via
friends for yourselves on SW this way. Tell your frequency managers
Write On the World Service will still be the commissioner and
to listen to SW channels and not just look at charts and skeds before
specifier of what it wants: even though the news will be part of a
they choose a channel for WEWN.
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single department with domestic. it will still be WS-focused. The
To wh ich Stanley Leinwoll of
WS will not be destroyed by this managerial reorganisati on.
WEWN replied in essence: You
QLOAL CATHOLIC NSTW04HC
If you w ish to state your view of this planned restructuri ng. you
don ' t have a clue about the social.
may write to: Sir Chri stopher Bland. Chairman of the BBC Board of
cultural. religious and political asGovernors. BBC Broadcasting House. L ondon WI A I AA. UK. A
pects of ISWBC... There is no mention in the Regulations of the use
of SW as a toy, for collecting QS Ls and scribbling in li ttle log books.
j oint working group is to report on the proposed changes in October.
For a more thorough discussion of the issues and more addresses to
The primary purpose of SW radio is to inform. educate. and enlighten. not to play games. Radio Australia 9580 is beamed 30
which to wri te or E-mail. check the web page for Save the World
Service Campaign at http://www.longitudeO.co.uk/save-ws/ or
degrees toward Asia.
write them at Room 5 12 NE. Bush House. Strand. London WC2B
Manin s desire was to listen to Radio Australia, not DX it. But
4PH, UK.
W EWN' s rude behavior may turn it into a difficult-to-hear DX catch.
South A frica' s Channel A frica obtained a temporary reprieve
Along with super-transmitting-power comes the super-responsibilfrom its financial cut-off. but solicits support from listeners. The
ity to behave as a good neighbor. in this editor's opinion. (WEWN.
Cabinet has ordered a feasibility study. and input from listeners is
Eternal Word Radio Network. Catholic Radio Service. P.O. Box
needed. This committee is also to make its report in October. For
I 00234. Birmingham. AL 352 10).

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Window via Thurman as are all such items) Also reported from N Am (gh)
ALBANIA R. Tirana first program on 6100 at '0300-2200* ; musical 2nd
AUSTRALIA Australian Defence Forces Radio. 13525-USB. at 0430-0633. with
progam on 6145 at '0900-1400': freqs vary up to 5 kHz; one hour later
after Oct. 27 (BBC Monitoring) Unwanted sideband products of 6100v on
country, pop music. DJ chatter, phone talk, news; very weak (BrianAlexander,
6053. 6147 (Rumen Pankov & lvo Ivanov, Bulgaria, BC-DX via George
PA) Surprising we get as much signal as we do since it's aimed at a ship in
the Persian Gulf! Better here, informal broadcast with news at 0605-0613
Thurman as are all such items)
ANGOLA Another BBCM version of the VORGAN schedule here last month
(gh, OK) For HMAS Melbourne from 40 kW Canberra; fax +61-2-266-6565
shows daytime freq as 9765, not 9775: which is it? (g h) Em. Prov. da
(BBCM) See also TASMANIA
Cabinda reactivated on 4971 at 0410-0415 (Soren Dippel, Denmark.
BENIN At fi rst unlD. 7210.2 at 2100-2300' is ORTB, since 4870 then reactivated
DSWCI SW News) Cabinda is detached from rest of Angola, might be
and closed with same anthem (Bob Hill, MA. HCJB DX Partyline)
BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA R. B-H, 7105, faxed OSL for faxed report to 387-71considered separate radio country (gh)
455-104, one week after follow-up, on letterhead signed by Nermin Podzi ,
ANTARCTICA LRA36, R. Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, 15476, transmitter
test, th en regular M-F until 1950 v. only audible after Gabon 15475 1900
program coordinator (Dan Henderson , MO, NU via HCJB The Latest Catch)
BRAZIL RadioB ras missing from 15445 in mid(Tony Jones, Paraguay. NU via OXW)
July, 1200 English. 1330 Spanish. No spurs
ARGENTINA R. Armonia. Buenos Aires on 3200.35
All times UTC; A ll frequ encies kHz; * before hr =
found. At least it cleared 15445 for V. of Tibet.
=2 x 1600. very good with minute of news, 10
sign 011, * after hr = sign off; II= parallel
and music at 0100
q. v.. before 1200 (gh. OK) Portuguese 1900+
=
continui11g
but
1101111011itored;
programming;
2030
on 17750 wandered 177 46-17753 ( Pankov
~~~m!i~~~ (Jarmo Havukunnas.
2 x freq= 2nd harmonic: Z-96 =Summer season
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glish on 17758.06v //15265 (Nikolay Pashkevich, Russia, ibid.) R. Marum by

on new 11724.9v until covered by Turkey. q.v., at 21oov, additional to
9665 (Finn Krone, Denmark. BC-OX')
CANADA RGI has been pre-empting regular programming one weekend a
month for a "live" broadcast from Rideau Falls Park in Ottawa, Canada and
the World, for greater public exposure to Ottawans, fou nd Sun Ju ly 21 in
the 2000 hour on 11690, 15325; Mon 0100 on 13670, 9755, 601O. Double
Exposure has been getting additional airing thanks to As It Happens ceding
last half hour on Fridays, 2329 on 5960, 9755, 13670. The Chumps was
summer comedy series via CBC North Quebec, 9625. Sais 1505-1533.
CHINA CRl's facilities urgently need updating. High-powered SW and MW
transmitters will be introduced to improve reception in US, Europe, Africa
(CRI Messengervia Gigi Lytle, Bob Thomas) [non] CRI Mali relay including
English 0000 irregularly on 11695 helling VOA, ex-11760 which clashed
with Cuba, ex-11715; also bothers Nederland at 0127 (gh, Alexander.
Thurman)
COLOMBIA CARACOL heard on 1920.05 kHz at 0100-0715+, fad ing in and out.
maybe 2x 960 where CARACOL Cari be is listed, no/ls found on MW or 60m
(Brian Alexander, PA, W.O.R.)
COSTA RICA Expect special programming for RFPl's 9th anniversary Sept 1617 on 15050-USB, 7385, 6205-USB (gh)
DENMARK [non] R. ABC/Denmark, 7570via Kaliningrad, Sun 0800-1200, well
heard in Europe, but not outside; if
previous E-mail doesn't wo rk, try
hartvig@cybernet.dk (Stig Hartvig
Nielsen. DSWCI OX Window) Fax +4586-405522 (BBCM) No longer relayed
by Kaliningrad, since name of that city
has changed to Korolyov! (Karel Honzik, Czech Rep., OX Windovlj Programs done a couple days before, then by courier to site; disadvantage as
wou ld prefer to broadcast directly (Nielsen via S0ndergaard, hard-core dx
via OXW)
GABON Africa Number One reported it had agreed to relay the Gabonese
national radio from Moyabi so it could cover the entire country; has 5 x 500
kW (BBCM) So does RTG 4777 sound like 500 kW now? (gh)
GEORGIA George Jacobs & Associates now represents the SW facility here,
airtime available, especially suitable for Mideast cove rage (via George
Thurman)
GUYANA Reactivated GBC, 3290, verified with freq-only form letter from CE
Shiroxley Goodman; now's thelime to QSL them.Using very simple dipole
to minimize skywave and cover Guyana's interior, but had received no
reports from there, just abroad (David Sharp, FL, DSWCI OX Windov1) Fax
OK: 592-2-587-56 (Sharp, OWC) IDed as Voice of Guyana at 2330, 0934,
time check at UT-4 (Robert Wilkner. FL, Fine Tuning) Upon occasion 02200300+ Namibia heard on 3289.91 instead //3270.05; be carefu l (Alexander)
HONDURAS R. Copan International testing again on 15674.85 in mid-July,
music, and announcements even in French (Ed Ra usch, NJ, W.O.R.)
Peaked here around 2330, but still weak with poor modulation (gh, OK)
HUNGARY To finance satellite service viaWRN R. Budapest had to give up two
of its four SW freqs for English to NAm (R. Budapest DX program)
INDONESIA Kangguru 2 [see July] Tues 1230 on RRI 9680, announced July
23 was its final broadcast of English-learning, but might return if private
funding could be found (gh)
INTERNATIONAL WA TERS [non?] Ship Electra tor Lightwave Mission Broadcasting is smaller than previous ones: hired independent monitoring lab to
keep FCC honest. Construction site secret to prevent curiosity-seekers, but
when ready will visit four or five different ports and broadcast via landbased station. Plans 3 SW, 1 MW, perhaps TV and FM too; one of the SW
= 50 kW. Bill Bragg's Yesterday USA Network will use one of the SW 24
hours for old-time radio. (Scott Becker, LMB, on R. Netherlands Media
Network) Is ocean-going tug, 400' long, renovated ; plan s to start in midautumn (Becker via Chris Lobdell, OWC) Not a pirate, but in compliance
with all laws, 5-50 kW, not near US due to FCC. Gyro-stabilized satellite
receiver and backup equipment aboard. tough, and seaworthy (Allan
Weiner, LMB via ibid.) Will not fly American flag; plans interactive www site
(Becker via Alan Haber. Radio World')
KIRIBATI R. Kiribati, 9825-USB, 0700-0825+ local island music; mixing with

BBC until 0714, then clear but weak (Brian

Alexander. PA, Mundo Radia~
LAOS Xieng Khouang on new 5398.?v around 11451400 (Roland Schulze. Philippines. BC-OX')
LIBERIA New on exactly 5000 July 10 was Liberia
Communication Network testing with music, and
at 2300-2315 English news. good until WWV
overtook at 0055 (Lee Silvi, OH, World of Radio)
By far strongest signal on 60m, 2325-0027 * but LAO NATIONAL RADIO
not heard the next day (Brian Alexander, PA,
W.O.R.. ) 5000 heard as early as 1830, as late as 0540 by many European
Dxers; guess 10-50 kW (OXWindowvia Thurman) Location given as Totota
in central Liberia; hilife and reggae music, news and editorials in English,
French, but no partisan content to the broadcasts I've heard. Asks for
reports to the89.9 FM in Monrovia, which per WRTH95 was ELRL, licensed
to National Patriotic Reconstruction Assembly, i.e. Charles Taylor. Announced phone in Monrovia of 22-69-63. Shortly moved to 5100 at 18000300, 6100 at 0500-1800 per announcements; P.O. Box 1103, Monrovia,
but my local PO confirms mail to Liberia suspended (Ed Rausch, NJ)
Suspect this is a 1OkW transmitter looted from ELWA(Colin Miller, Canada,
OXW)
MEXICO We havetried to contact all inactive Mexican SW stns; these have some
hope of returning: 6045, 6105, 6115, 9600 (JulianSantiago, Encuentro OX')
MOLDOVA [non] R. Moldova lnt'I, 7520 via Romania, English poor at 2200,
2300 with transmitter noise or jammer; 0330 fair, 0430 weak under
Denmark (Brian Alexander. PA)
NETHERLANDS 1330-1625 via Madagascar moved to 9895, 15585 (RNMNvia
BC-DX via Australian DX News) At 1530 on 12090 ex-15585 (RNMNvia RVI
Radio World via Steven Cline. Diane Mauer)
NIGERIA [non] R. Democrat International. clandestine via South Africa, moved
July 14 from 7195 to 6205, still at 2100-2200 but asked listeners to suggest
better timebetween 1800 and 2100 (Ed Rausch, NJ, World of Radio) During
feed losses, announcements heard on SW from World Radio Network, so
WRN must be feeding it from London via line to South Africa (BBCM)

Radio Democrat International Nigeria

QSL - Vnification ofRee~tion
Nigerian government was wasting money trying to unravel the mystery of
our station. It is not clandestine; all info about it is in the public domain with
the London address (RDIN announcement heard by Roger Tidy, UK) But
they're not admitting it's via S. Africa (gh) RDIN E-mailed me pages of info.
Needs contributions to cover up to $1 M annual broadcast costs, cheques
made out to Nalicon Trust Fund, endorsed on the back "Radio," sent to
NALICON USA, P.O. Box 175, Boston, MA02131 ;fax617-364-7362; E-mail
nalicon@nalicon.com (via Larry Shewchuk, Man.) Programming ranges
from non-political to simulated torture sounds (Hans Johnson, DWC)
OMAN BBC is spending $48M on new relay hereon mainland to replace Masi rah
Island by end of century, to improve reception in South Asia, along with new
Thailand relay. q.v. (Robert Wilson, BBC WS, UPI via David Alpert)
PHILIPPINES PBS added more Filipino/English via VOA Poro, 0330-0400 on
15330 at 34, 13770 232, and to WNAm 17730 45 (Dan Ferguson, IBB

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

Review of International Broadcasting

SW Programming , opinion , equipment, satellite monitoring.
Samples $2.50 each (outside North America US $3 or 6 IRCs)
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via Electronic DX Press via Thurman)
RUSSIA VOR went silent on 7240 which had been one of best English freqs to
us at 2030-0300; still 7175 and 7250 until 0100, but hard to hear after that
(Kevin Hecht, PA, W.O.R.)
SAO TOME Another VOA xmtr on line: 0300-0400 UT on 7290 kHz, 0400-0500
7180, 1600-1700 11880. 1700-1800 11890, 1800-2230v 11975 (VOA CW
via Rausch) Music tests with 100 kW on 4750 or 4950 authorized, mainly
0700-1 300 (Bill Matthews, RKI SW Feedback)
SERBIA [non! R. Yugoslavia still announcing but unheard on 9580 at 0000
English, just on 11 870 clashing with Hungary; also 0430? (Daryl Rocker.
NY and Bob Thomas. CT, W.0.R.)
SINGAPORE RSI. English at 1100-1400 on 6015, 6155, includes a mailbag
program, Friends of the Airwaves, Sun 1305-1345 (Arthur Cushen, RNZI
Mailbox. via Gigi Lytle)
SOMALIA Four SW stations active inMogadishu. all in 6500-7000 range: 6545v
or 6655v. Holy Koran Radio. supporting Ahlu Sunnah Waljama; 6711. R.
Mogadishu, V. of Somali Pacification/Peace Processing, supports Osman
Alo; 6800v, R. Mogadishu, V. of the Somali Republic, supports Ali Mahdi
Muhammad; 6990-7000v, R. Mogadishu , V. of the Masses of the Somali
Republic, supports Gen. Muhammad Farah Aydid. All fqs vary (Chris
Greenway, BBCM via DXVv) That IDs the 6999 station heard at 0310 and
better early eves (Finn Krone. ibid.)
SWAZILAND Dr Gene Scott claims to be on SCR 6155 at 0400, but it isn't even
on the air at this time (Hans Johnson, Cumbre DX via DX Ontario)
SYRIA R. Damascus on new 13610 at 2105-2205 English //12085 (Nikolay
Pashkevich, Russia. BC-DX) 13610 also in Arabic at 0630, 1930 (Wolfgang
Biischel. ibid.) Audio quality appalling on 13610 (Noel Green. UK, BC-DX)
TASMANIA R. Tech no-Net is a regular pirate at 0930-1230 on 4795or11700v.
playing techno-pop music; P.O. Box 797, Sandy Bay, Tas. 7006, Australia
(Chris Lobdell. NU via HCJB TLC) 4795 at 1130 as Radio TSW, Box 7976
(Paul Bailey, ARDXC via EDXP)
THAILAND R. Thailand added three more English half-hours via VOA Udorn
July 15: 0530 Eu 15115. 1230 9885, 1400 9830 both to As/Pac (Dan
Ferguson, IBB via DXVv) Worth checking for the last two in NAm, tho
beamed SE from Thailand: I could hear9885 poorly (gh) New BBC relay here
will cost $56M: only 23 percent of S. Asian population curently receives
acceptable BBC signal; see OMAN (UPI via Alpert)
TIBET [non! Beijing station ~
c-,,
c-,,
Easy FM in English is used qr::~
~c::: ~ z:.t M
to jam V. of Tibet 15445
\
\
-:::! -,
11 45-1200 via Seychelles,
completely obliterating VOT. went off at 1200 (BBCM) Switched to 15480
escaping jamming (Victor Goontilleke, Sri Lanka) VOT URL is: http://
www.twics.com/-tsgjp/tibrad.hlml (Kuhl, Keeney, Cumbre via DXVv)
TIN/AN Asia Pacific Network plans to broadcast from here in two years (Richard
Richter. APN on VOA CVv) II mothballed RFE/RL Maxoqueira. Portugal, site
is permanently closed, the 6 x 50 kW SW transmitters could go to
Philippines or the proposed. if not shelved site on Tinian Island , north of
Saipan (Robert Jones, Australian DX News) We have unconfirmed reports
that SW transmitters are already built here, source of funding secret (gh)
TURKEY TRT on mixing product 9265 at 1530-1600 from 9655 Arabic and 9460
Turkish (Pankov & Ivanov, Bulgaria, BC-DX) Have noticed TRT missing
from 9445 (gh) Heard at 0300 in Turkish on 8445 (Chuck Rippel. VA. DXW')
Punch-up error? Stil l heard two weeks later, mixing with KFS V-marker.
Also, 11 725 has some great Turkish music, such as Sun 2105-2200 (gl1.
OK)
UKOGBANI R. Japan and RCI assume that all their UK relays are via Skelton.
but both have used Woofferton regularly for a few years. and it makes you
wonder if the stations themselves know this' (Tony Rogers. BDXC Communication via BC-DX)
UKRAINE RUI has new wee kly DX show with clips of unusual stations. UT Fri
0045 on 7150. 9550 (Ben McNimley, Dxing with Cumbre) Started a bit
earlier. and over in time for Media Network at 0053; heavy accent including
SW station news we've already heard elsewhere; should also be at Thu
2140, Fri 0340 (gh)
URUGUAY IBRA sked last month was outdated, mixed up. Formerly used R.

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Fenix on 6170, not 6370; no longer on SW (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, DSWCI

DX Window) Emisora Ciudad de Montevideo. testing 9650 irregularly
between 1100 and 0300; building 19mb transmitter to be tested on 15230
with 5 kW. hoping to have yagi for 125 kW ERP toward NAm (Nigro, ibid. ,
via Fine Tuning)
US A Forme r bureau ch ief of VOA Moscow was dismissed from his post for
refusing to employ Russian workers with ties to the KGB. Peter Collins has
filed complaints seeking Whistleblower protection. Collins said, "What
we're dealing with is as much acase of bureaucratic arrogance as a security
lapse." (John Pulley, Federal Times) Voice of America added Ethiopian
languages to Amharic 1800-1 830 daily: M-F 1830-1845 Tigrigna, 18451900 Oromiffa (USIA via Kevin Hecht, Aaron Pilchick) No freqs given. but
Z-96 sked showed Amharic on 7170 & 11740 Kavala, 7330 Botswana
(Pilchick) Also added Kinyarwanda and Kirund i 0400-0430 M-F on 6145,
7415, 7290 (VOA CVv) No accident 6145 is next to Burundi's own 6140!too close for comfort? (gh) VOA started new European Edition at 19061930, bumping Dateline Bosnia to 1930-2000 (VOA Communications
World) Archive shows of late Willis Conover's Music USA-Jazz reduced
to Sat only at 2010 on 9760, 9770, 10454-LSB, etc; weekdays hour
occupied by news and variety of music (David Boddington. VOA via DWC)
New sked from late July includes American Gold with Ray Freeman, Mon
1110-1200 to As/Pac. shorter versions at 1530, 2200, 2430 (VOA CVv)
Asia-Pacific Network is pressuring Philippines, Thailand, to carry th is
new service over existing VOA transmitters, even though not cove red in
existing agreements: they would rather not. since APN could cause bilateral
problems with target countries. interfering in their internal affairs. After
cosmetic name-change from R. Free Asia. APN actually applied to Vietnam
to set up a bureau in Hanoi. See also TINIAN ( W.D.R.)
On WWCR. The Coming of
,.. ....,,.., "' ...
the A11ti-Cl1rist pu rports to sup,:"':. :::. :: "'::'" "::"
port and be in contact with this
::""!!:: ..:: :: :: ""'
individual, in obviously scripted
" " " "' " """
"interviews" with disciples, Sun
.,"":. :: :: ::"'!, "::'' .,""' '"::-'"
2100 on 9475, UT Mon 0000 on
':! .. ::"'!:
5065. Promotes His website =>
'"" " "" "'"'" ...... "
http://Www.antichrist.comorP.O. L - ' ' s ' a
Box 8055, Des Moines. IA 50301-8055: voicemail 24h 1-800-693-8717
(gh) A blast to listen to-a put-on? (Gigi Lytle, TX) WWCR is making
tentative frequency plans fora fifth transmitter. 17/9/7 MHzbands (gh) Now
has two computer programs back-to-back on 9475: Sun 1700 Cybernet
News. 1800 Net Connection. Part of WWCR-1 schedule changed to: 3215
until 0405 (Sun/Mon 0400), then 3210 (Adam Lock, WWCR)
WORLD OF RADIO on WWCR as of late July: Thu 2030 15685, Fri 2115

::n:: :: "'':, ::

1 5685,F~22159475, S~1 1 309475, Sun08003210 , Sun09005065,Sun

190012160, Sun 21309475, Mon 203015685. Tue 123015685, Wed 1130

15685 (gh)
KVOH alternate 5085 reinstated on Jacobs' schedule. available 00001400; check if they've started using it now during part of that span (via
George Thurman)
WGTG note to MT states, "We are testing #2 transmitter on 5065,
7380, 3210, 2390 kHz day and night. QSL card for reception report." (David
Frantz, WGTG) Hmm, WWCR's nite-time freqs (gh) "Meltdown tests."
David Frantz cal led them. daylime only in July (Ulis Fleming, DWC)
UZBEKISTAN R. Vatandosh at 0230-0330 with jamming or interference on
9715, 9540, 9530, best on 7190, language uncertain; called MinCom and
secretary didn't know about it but said name means Compatriot. so may be
a division of R. Tashkent for Uzbeks abroad, something like the former
Radiostantsiya Rodina from Moscow (Vladimir Titarev, Russia, DX Window)
VATICAN From Sept 1, VR English at 0250-0310 plans 6095 ex-9605 //7305
(VR sked)
VENEZUELA YVTO timesignals on 5000 put spurs on 4900. 5100-USB at 021 O;
new transmitter? (Rich McVicar. Quito, HCJB The Latest Catch)
ZAMBIA ZNBC Radio 1 at 0245-0530 on 4910, 0500-1430 7220, 1430-2205
4910. Radio 2, 0250-2210 on 6165 (BBCM)
Until t/1e Next, Best of DX and 73 de Glenn!

Gayl_Bn_~-van-~-~:-s_t_Log_g_in_g_s___________,fa,J:lmfttmfoilCJ-0000 UTC on 7325

IRELAND: Midwest Radio. Dublin greetings from call-in listeners. Excellent propagation for this one hour transmission. (Edouard S. Provencher,
Biddeford, ME)
0023 UTC on 5050.42
PERU: Radio Municipal. Spanish. Talk by male/female duo with many time
checks. Low modulation with possible ID to music pause. Signal covered
at 0037. (Giovanni Serra, Rome, Italy) Peru's Radio Cora heard on 4914.4
at 0450 with regional music to "Cora" ID at 0500. (Jerry Witham, Keaau,
HI)
0045 UTC on 9540
SPAIN: Radio Exterior de Espana. Entertainment in Spain at tune-in
featuring spanish performers and Spanish language lessons. (Jim Moats,
Ravenna, OH) Station noted on 9540 at 0519. (Serra, Italy)
0100 UTC on 7300
SLOVAKIA: Radio Slovakia International. Station ID, frequency quote and
program preview into news bulletin. Noted on II 5930, 9440. Fair quality.
(Moats. OH)
0117 UTC on 5620.91
PERU: Radio llucan (tent) Spanish. Andean music tunes and announcer's
talk to 0124. Peru's Radio Satellte noted in Spanish on 6725.52 at 0301 .
ID as "RRRRRadio Satelite ... ". Time checks and "pore! segundo domingo
de mayo ... por el dia de la madre ... ," abrupt end of program and 0452.
(Serra, Italy)
0130 UTC on 9655
AUSTRIA: Discussion on child labor laws. and the increase of drug use
and violence. (Elmer W. Wallesen, La Grange Park, IL) Station heard at
0230 on 9655//9870 with IDs, news bulletins, and current affairs update.
(Moats, OH)
01 40 UTC on 7540
GREECE: Voice of Greece. News at tune-in with items on Israel and
United States. Musical interlude at 0145 to "this is Athens." SINP0=34533.
(George Knight, Garfield, NJ)
0201 UTC on 4824.4
PERU: La Voz de la Selva. Spanish. Fine "lite" music to female's ID.
Continued music program, audible only in LSB to avoid signal splash.
(Serra, Italy)
0220 UTC on 6203
PERU: Radio Cusco. Spanish. Chatter from DJ to regional music. Time
check and local ads. More talk, phone calls, and public service announcement. Station sign-off at 0300. (Tom Banks, Dallas, TX)
0310 UTC on 4895
COLOMBIA: La Voz del Rio Arauca. Spanish . Station ID/promo and
national news briefs. Two Colombians noted as: Radio Nacional heard on
4955.8 at 0330. (Witham, HI) Ecos de Orinico heard on 4905.3 at 0355
with "Ecos Ecos" echo ID. (Witham, HI)
0630 UTC on 7280
KAZAKHSTAN : Radio Almaty. Russian. Talk to lady announcer's newscast. (Witham, HI)
0850 UTC on 21725
AUSTRALIA: Radio Australia. Music pause to interval signal. ID and
preview for upcoming newscast. ID/time pips to world and national news
with correspondents reports. (Serra, Italy)
1035 UTC on 11715
CANADA: Radio Korea International relay. Poor signal for English Mailbag
program. (Bob Fraser, Cohasset. MA)
1130 UTC on 5965
CANADA: BBC WS relay. One Foot in the Grave comedy series. (Fraser,
MA)
1145 UTC on 6120
CANADA: Radio Japan relay. News item on wild monkey park to closethey got too tame and people lost interest! (Fraser, MA)
1215 UTC on 13625
FRENCH GUIANA: Radio France relay. Interview on the Berlin meeting on
the future of NATO, heard on // 15530. (Fraser, MA)
1315 UTC on 15430
NORWAY: Radio Norway International. Feature on 4-nation Sea Launch,
Norway to convert oil rig into rocket platform in South Pacific. (Fraser, MA)
1450 UTC on 15520.27
BANGLADESH: Radio Bangladesh. Bengali. Local chants alternating with
male talk. Time pips at 1500 to station ID and news. (Serra, Italy; Witham,
HI)
1458 UTC on 15120
NIGER IA: (Clandestine) Radio Democrat International. Drum music interval signal, ID and program information to regional music. (Larry Shewchuk.
Seven Sisters Falls, BC, Canada/via email)
1525 UTC on 11580
GUAM: Trans World Radio-KTWR. Religious programming to station ID,
address and Christian vocals. (Frank Hillton, Charleston, SC)
1623 UTC on 7345
SLOVAKIA: Radio Slovakia International. Male frequency quote to brief
interval signal. Programming preview to Slovakia Today and mailbag
program. Pop song to talk about pop music in the Czech Republic and

Slovakia with interviews. Station ID/ address and interval signal. Heard I
/ 6055, 5915. (Serra, Italy)
1655 UTC on 6140
SEYCHELLES: FEBA Radio. Children's choir with religious music sung
in unid language. Mentions of Madagascar and FEBA IDs at 1700.
Programming in presumed Farsi at 1840 on 9455. Text to interval signal
and 1850'. (Jerry Witham, Keaau, HI)
1705 UTC on 4880
INDIA: All India Radio. Half-hour of sitar music to station ID and national
newscast. (Witham, HI)
1715 UTC on 17840
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES: BBC WS via Antigua. Composer of the
Month featuring the music of Anton Dvorak. (Fraser, MA)
1730 UTC on 7255
NIGERIA: Voice of Nigeria. Arabic. Mineral price quotes to children's
choir and ethnic instrumental music to 1000. (Witham, HI)
1740 UTC on 6150
JAPAN: Radio Japan. Media Roundup hosted by Ian McFarland featuring
Larry Magne's receiver review. (Witham, HI) Japan's Sackville, Canada,
relay heard on 5960 at 0101. (Sue Wilden, IN/via email)
1832 UTC on 7270
ALBANIA: Radio Tirana. News to 1835, music pause and commentary
about political situation in Kossovo to 1838. ID/ music pauses to talk about
Albanian University including interview with Minister of Department of
Education. (Serra. Italy)
1850 UTC on 17605
NETHERLANDS ANTI LLES: Radio Netherlands-Bonaire. Siren Song
program of Yehudi Menuhin's music for peace. (Fraser, MA)
1900 UTC on 9440
CH INA: China Radio International. World news to station ID. Regional
news and special program commemorating the Chinese Lunar New Year
as the Year of the Rat. (Witham. HI)
1900 UTC on 15540
ECUADOR: HCJB. Studio 9 program on colonial schools. (Fraser, MA)
1924 UTC on 15009
VIETNAM: Voice of Vietnam. Fair signal quality for national political text
to ID beak. Regional instrumental program and travelogue feature on
remote villages. (Loyd Van Horn, Brasstown, NC)
1925 UTC on 11603
ISRAEL: Kol Israel. Report on economic aims of the new government.
(Fraser, MA; Banks. TX; Hillton. SC)
1935 UTC on 9670
ITALY: RAI. Italy celebrates the 50th anniversary of the republic. (Fraser,
MA; Sam Wright, Biloxi, MS)
2000 UTC on 12160
USA: Radio Telefis Eireann via WWCR Nashville, TN. News of Irish
interest and sports results. (Provencher, ME) RTE can also be heard via
satellite on World Radio Network 1, C-band satellite service-domestic
satellite Galaxy 5/transponder 6, audio subcarrier 6.80 MHz at 2100-2130
UTC with excellent programming! -ed.
2015 UTC on 12080
AUSTRALIA: Radio Australia. To the Editor program featuring selected
letters to the editor from many of Australia's newspapers. (Witham , HI)
Asia Focus heard on 9580 at 0 105 . (Fraser, MA)
2015 UTC on 11750
ASCENSION ISLAND: BBC WS relay. Seeing Stars featuring Norman
Locklear Observatory and their work. (Fraser, MA)
2025 UTC on 13785
NORTH KOREA: Radio Pyongyang. Spanish . Female announcer running the usual blend of nationalistic music and comments. Station ID at
2030. Arabic programming noted on 11 905 at 1840. (Witham. HI)
2145 UTC on 17750
BRAZIL: Radio Nacional. Portuguese. Bombastic announcer with a
sporting event wrap-up. ID at 2152 to phone interview, all the time
pumping the echo machine at full tilt. (Witham, HI) Brazil's Radio
Naclonal do Brazil heard on 15445 at 1235. Report on animal breeding
to Brazilian music bridges. (Fraser, MA)
2133 UTC on 5003.71
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Radio Nacional. Spanish. Poor modulation for
news from female/male with music pauses. Frequency quote, ID at 2 142
and political text from male. (Serra, Italy)
2145 UTC on 7240
RUSSIA: Voice of Russia. This is Russia-featuring the ancient city of
Suzdel. (Fraser. MA; Wilden, IN; Hillton, SC; Wright, MS)
2235 UTC on 5047
TOGO: Rome Lome. French. Regional updates to music program.
Phone-in from listeners with ID break at 2245. (Wright, MS)
2236 UTC on 17750
USA: Voice of Free China via Okeechobee, FL. Interesting story on
bungee jumping. (Wilden, IN)

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For more info m1ation and a copy of the club's FAQs (Frequently Asked
BELGIUM
Radio Vlaanderen lntcma1ional, 13670 kHz. run
data color Kanaal Ge11r-Teme11~en card unsigned.
Received in I 19 days for a casscnc of programming
and :m English reccp1ion repon. Station address:
P.O. Box 26. B-1000 Brussels. Belgium. (George
KJ1igh1. Garfied. NJ)
BRAZIL
Radio Bandciranlcs, 6090 kHz. Confinna1ion feller
signed by Joao Jorge Saas, plus souvenir station Tshin and slickers. Received in 33 days for a Portuguese report and one IRC. Station address: Rua
Radianlcs. 13-Sao Paulo. SP 05699-900. (Jose
Mour:1. Washington. DC)
Radio f)ifusorado Amazonas. 4805 kHz. Partial
data vcrificalion on a "3-D" pos1card, signed by
Joaquim Marinho. Received in 136 days for a
Portuguese report and one U.S. dollar. Verification
signer says he collects lopical stamps of cinema.
music and canoons. Slation address: Caixa Postal
3 11 . 69011 -970. Manaus. AM Brazil. (Darren R.
White. l lat1iesburg. MS)
CHILE
Radio Esperanza. 6090 kHz. Full data Cenijicado
de Si111011ia QSLcard signed by Eleaz.1r H. Jara. and
stamped wilh slation seal. Received in 60 days for
a Spanish report and two rRCs. Station address:
Casilla !DO. Temuco, Chile. (While, MS)
CUBA
CLA-Habana Radio. 8496.0 kHz USB. Full darn
prepared QSL card signed and stamped with stalion
seal. Received in 151 days foran English repon and
one U.S. dollar. Station address: Boca De Jaruco.
La Habana. Cuba. (Dr. Selsyn)

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for an English repon. Station address: Donnyhrook.

Dublin 4, lreland. (Patrick Barry. Mission Viejo. CA)
Midwest Radio, 7325 kHz. Parlial dnta QSLcard signed
by Michael Commins-Program Producer. plus two verification leners. slickers. poslcards and st:llion m:wslellcr. Recehed in I0 I days for an English report. three
IRCs and two souvenir postcards. Station address: Abbey St.. Ballyhaunis. Counly Mayo. lrdand. (S1even
Cline, lndianapolis. IN. via e-mail: While. MS)
.JAPAN
JFM-Muroto Fisheries Radio. 8508 H IL USB. Full data
prepared QSLcard signed and stamped with station seal.
Received in 38 days for a utility report of CW 1raffic.
Station address: 231 R Furushiro Murotsu Muroto-City.
Kochi-Prefecturc, Jnpan. (Steve M c Donald, Port
CoquiUam. BC, Canada)
JFG-Shizuokaken Fisheries Radio. 128 t 1.5 kHz USB.
Full dala prepared QSL card signed and stamped with
station seal. plus color pho10 of station. Received in 20
days for an English u1ili1y repon of CW traffic. Station
address: Shizuokaken Musen (Gyokyo), 1991-1 Tajiri.
Yaizu-shi. Shizuokaken-ken, -125, Japan. (McDonald.
CAN)
!\'IEDIUMW AVE
WVBS. 1470 AM kHz. Full data prepared QSL card
signed by Pastor Carl Gibbs. Recei ved in 207 days total.
four days after second follow-up report. Verification
signer reques1ed fulure correspondence be direcled to:
Bible Baptist Church, P.O. Box 9 14, Uurgaw, NC28425.
(Mike Hardester, Jacksonville, NC)
KBGO, 1140 AM kHz(ex 840 kHL). Personal letleron
Cmi110 Radio let1erhead, signed by Rick Pil L~-Accounl
Executive. No data verification lct1cr signed by Lance
Alexander. Station address: t t 30 E. Desert Inn Rd., Las
Vegas, NV 89109-2812. (Paul Gager. Deu1schkreutz,
Austria)
WPEN, 950 AM kHz. Full data verification on station
lenerhead. signed by Larry Paulausky-Chief Engineer.
Received in 16 days for a cassetlc of progr:tmming and
:111 English AM repon. Station address: One Bala Pla1,a,
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. Phone 215-667-8500. FAX
2 15-664-96 10. (Knigh1. NJ)

IRELAND
Radio Tclcfis Eireann via WWCR-Nashville. TN.
12160 kHl. Full data D11b/i11 City lre/a11d color
postcard verified wiU1illegible signature. Received

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NETHERLANDS ANTlLLES
PJC-Curacao Radio. 8694 kHz USU. Full data color
glossy QSL card signed by R. Sprock. slampcd with
station seal. Received in 33 days for an English u1ili1y

repon and one U.S. dollar. Sw1ion address:

Postbus I03, Willcmslad. Curacao. N~lherlands
Amilles. (Bill X)
NIGERIA
FRCN-Kaduna. 4770 kHz. Full data verification letlcr ; igncd hy Ahmed U. Abdullahi. Received in 78 days for an English rcpon. Stalion
address: P.O.Oox 250. Kaduna. Nigeria. (Don
Aspinall. VJ\ via ~mail )
SHIP TRAFFIC
KXCH-SS Jeremiali 0 'Brien. 8384.5 S itorA.(WWI I Libcny >hip). On~ of two remaining
WWU Liberty ships. Full da1a prepared QSL
verified. plus full dala commcmora1ivc QSL
card for 1994/50 year memorial cn1isc lo 1hc
beaches of Normandy. France. Received in 683
days for an English u1ili1y report and :111 SASE.
Ship's localion noted as Cherbourg Harbor.
France. al lime of log. Ship address: Building A.
Fon Mason Ccnlcr. San Francisco. CA 94123.
(Rich Baker. OH. via email)

KHJL-Juhn IV. Brown. 500 kHl. (WWII Liheny ship). run darn QSL card verified. plus
folder on vcs'>CI. Received in 16 day> for a test
transmission. Bc1wccn 19-l l-19-15 over 2700
Libcny ships were built. and only lhe Joli11 IV.
Brown survives on the cast coa~t . Ship address;
Project Li berty Ship. P.O . Box 25846.
High.lanchown S1a1ion. Baltimore. MD 212240846. (Hank Holbrook, Dunkirk. MD) 7111111ks,
Rich u11d Hank - great QSUGayle.
VENEZUELA
YVTO-Timc/Frcquency Station.. 6100 kHi..
Full data QSL c:ird verified. plus station form
letter and folder. Received in 45 days for an
English repon. Srntion address: Obscrvatorio
Cagigal. Apl. 6745. Armada 84-Dhn. Caracas
103, Venezuela. (R.W. Parker. Amhcrst.1\-Y)
YUGOSLAVIA
Radio Yugoslavia. 9580 kHz. Full data QSL
card depic1ing 17th century Belgrade. unsigned.
Frequency schedule and sticker enclosed. Received in 15 days for an English follow-up
rcpon and one U.S. dollar. Slation address:
Hi landar~ka 2. P.O. Box 200. 11 000 Beogrnd.
Serbia. Federal Republic of Yugo~lavi a . (Randy
Stewan. Springfield. MO)

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which might air at 0030 UTC Sunday will be heard on Saturday evening in
America (8:30 pm Eastern, 5:30 pm Pacific).
Choose a program or station you want to h ear.
Some selected programs appear on the lower half of the page for
prime listening hours-space does not permit 24-hour listings except for
the "Newsline" listing, which begins on the next page.
Occasionally program listings will be followed by "See X 0000." This
information indicates that the program is a rerun, and refers to a previous
summary of the program's content. The letter stands for a day of the week,
as indicated below, and the four digits represent a time in UTC.
T: Tuesday
H: Thursday A: Saturday
S: Sunday
M: Monday
W: Wednesday F: Friday
2:

3:
Find the frequencies for the program or station you
want to hear.
Look at the page which corresponds to the time you will be listening.
Comprehensive frequency information for English broadcasts can be found
at the top half of the page. All frequencies are in kHz.
The frequency listing uses the same day codes as the program list
ings; if a broadcast is not daily, those day codes will appear before the

Hor NEws.
VOICE OF AMERICA UPDATE
Inner/Outer Space: VOA
has introduced a new program in
spec ial Eng lish ca lled Explorarion in its Wednesday broadcasts.
Hosted by Steve Em ber and
Shirley Griffith. early editio ns of
the 15-m inutc program foc used
o n space news. T he tirst
broadcast at 0045 (am/as) is
re peated at 0345 (al) . 1115 (as),
1345 (as). 16 15 (af). 1645 (as/
me). and 1845 ( me). Explorarion
replaces the prog ram Space and
Man. The new name wi ll permit
VOA to venture back to Earth to
examine o ther avenues of
ex plo rat ion.
VOA Teach es E nglish : The
VOA has inaug urated an
English-teac hing program called
All Abour Enxlislt (M -F) at 13 10
(as). 161 U (as/me). and 18 10
(me). The new prog ram is an
ex panded (20-minutc) version o f
the previo usly di scontinued

Tu11ing in the USA. All Abour

replaces Sporligltr on
B11si11e.u and Finance (Mon).
!11side USA (Tue). /111em a1ional
Forns (Wed ). Re11orte1"s
Nore/JOok (Thu). and
Engli.~lt

station name. Irregular broadcasts are indicated "tent" and programming

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

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

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

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.

PROGRAMMING TIPS BY JIM fRIMMEL

Perspecril'ies (Fri).
E urope Editio n: The VO A
has slipped the starting time o f
Dareli11e Bos11ia from.1906 to
1930 (M-F). in orde r to ma ke
way for Europe Edirion. a new
background c urre nt affairs
offering . Prog ram content is not
limited to European news. as one
mig ht expect, but appears to be
ta ilored to provide informatio n
of interest to European listeners.

THE NEW BBC ON AIR

BBC On Air magaz ine is the
replacement fo r BBC World11ide. expected to resemble the
o ld London Calling. My
archived copy of Londo11
Calling. last printed in O cto be r
1992. was 28 pages (and 1 pe r
issue) com pared to the 48 pages
o f BBC On Air (and 2 pe r
issue). It was im med ia te ly
obvio us that six of those ex tra
pages are occu pied by the
listings of the BBC's inte rnatio na l T V c hannels . That service
did not ex ist in 1992. Nor was
the beeb se nd ing o ut its
prog rams into li ve ..stre ams ..
back in 19 92.

listed in li,e vertica l columns

across a two-page spread fo r
each day. It's now a breeze to
com pare what 's o n the se parate
streams by scanning acro~s the
columns for any parti cula r ti me .
Guide ro Programmes is
virtua lly the same, and is
indi spensable to the reader/
liste ne r. being a descriptio n o f
a ll programs plus the d ays.
ti mes, and streams w here all the
repeat programs m ay be fou nd.
B/JC On Air still devotes space
to columns a nd short fea tures .
Vic ky Payne . BBC On Air's new
editor. has done a great job in
2. Local ti mes in one of the
the remaki ng o f a publication
c ities in the reg io n of the
that is so essential to the avid
inte nded target aud ience is
BBC World Service listener.
now displ ayed at the top of
T he subscription rate o f $30
each c hart . UTC times re ma in
(US) ( 18) pe r year makes this
at the bo tto m of the charts.
The most dramatic.: c ha nge is pu bli catio n an attractive o ffe r
and BBC shoul d inc rease its
the way that programs a rc listed
subscriber base accord ingly. To
by day-o f-the -week. BBC
subscri be. write to BBC O n Air.
Worldwide listed the m li rst by
PO Box 76S, B ush Ho use.
" stream" and the n by day.
Strand . London WC2B 4 PH .
m aking program compari son a
You shou ld also be able to find it
tedio us task. The li stings arc
on
the magaz ine rac ks of
now o rga ni zed by weekday wi th
A merica 's larger bookstores
the prog rams fo r eac h stream
such as Barnes and Noble .
The three pages of frcq uc111.:y
li stings in chart fo m1 that had
been carried over fro m London
Calling to BBC Worldwide a rc
changed dra m atically in the new
BBC On Air. Inste ad of full page
tables to the fi ve " streams: the
charts are compressed into 18
separate bar charts. eac h
describing frequenc ies in use to
differe nt target areas. Two new
features are:
I . Each freq uency s " bar" is
labeled with a letter code to
describe the trans mitter's
country locati o n.

September 1996

MONITORING TIMES

43

. SHORTWAVE GUIDE

0000 UTC

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FREQUENCIES .

0000-0030
00000100
OOOOOtOO
OOOOOtOO
0000-0t OO
OOOOOtOO
0000-0050
00000100
OOOOOt 00 vi
OOOOOtOO
00000100

KaLakhstan. R Alma Ata

Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuchmg
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea, R Pyongyang
Palau. KHBNNoice ol Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Phihppines. FEBCIR lnll
Russia.Vorce ol Russia WS

00000030 mlwhla
00000100
00000030

Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia

Spain. R Exterior Espana
Thailand. Radio

SELECTED PROGRAMS .

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4910do
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9625do
6005do
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6030do
6t30do
6t60do
6t60do
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i375am
5930na
9900na
3366do
7155as
11660as
6230eu
6280eu
7295do
7t60do
6020na
15115pa
1t335na
9965as
9675do
15450as
7070na
9620na
9580na
9540na
9690as

13505pa

t t655na
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7345na
4915do
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0000
0000
0010
0015
0025
0030
0030

0030
0045

0008
0012
0016
0030
003 t
0037

44

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15460am

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13760na

15130na

7125na
9665na
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,.,~n- .~.-

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'!:i

00000100
0000-0100

Ukraine. R Ukraine Intl

United Kingdom. BBCWS

00000030
OOOOOtOO
0000-0100
OOOOOtOO
0000-0tOO
OOOOOtOO

United Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Vorce or America

00000030
00000100
0000-0100
00000100
0000-0100
00000100
00000100
00000100

USA. Voice ol America

USA. WEWN Birmingltam AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesv1lle IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R M1am1 Intl
USA. WRNO Nm Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN

00000045
000300t0
00300t00

USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL

Croatia. Croatian Radio
Australia. Radio

00300100
00300t00
00300056
00300100
00300100
00300100
00350040
00380055 1&3rd m
00500t00

Ecuador. HCJB
Iran. VOIRI
Lithuania. Radio Vilnius
Sn Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Sweden. Radio
Thailand, Radio
India, All India Radio
Denmark. R Denmark lnll
Italy. RAJ Intl

7240na

7250na

7150na
596Sas
6t95as
9590va
7t t0as
58t0am
15590am
175t0au
7535am
599Sam
9455am
13740am
6873va
5825eu
9400am
5745am
7490na
9955am
7355am
3215am
13845am
6085na
5895eu
13605as
t5510as
9745am
6050na
9560na
15425as
6065am
t 5370na
7110do
7275na
6005na

9550na
5970sa
7265as
99t5sa
9580as

9550na
5975va
7325va
t t750sa
t t945as

9430ca
6t30am
9770va
t 7735va

72t5va
9775am
17820va

7425na

t 5375sa

6t 75na
9410as
1t955as
t5280as

7405am
11695am

13595na

5065am

7435am

9475am

t t855ca
7165eu
t 3755pa
17795pa

t 5240pa
t 7860pa

15365pa

9022na

9685na

1t 830do
7455ca
9675na

t t 870do
9560sa
1t800na

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

India, All India Radio: Press Review. Review ol tile Indian

press.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. News lrom New
Zealand's National Radio.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac): Newsdesk Wo~d nws and
dispatches lrom overseas and UK correspondents.
UK, BBC London (south as): World News. Broadcas1on lhc
hour ol 5. 10. or I 5 minutes in length
USA. WRMllR Miami Intl. FL Church ol Christ Rel1g1ous
program.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl Focus on Poht1cs Developments on
the New Zealand pohtcal scene.
USA. WRMl/R M1am1lnJI. FL: Truth !or the World. Chmches
ol Christ spokesman Jim Dearman exarrnnes Scrrpture.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: NZ Long Range W~ather Forecast
Five-day weather lorecast ~.1th warnings lor mariners
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. lnternauonal
news and background reports.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Insight '96. New Zealand's
relationships with other countries of the Asia/Pac1lic region
(Nan Radio).
USA. WRMllR M1am1Intl, FL: Wavescan Adventist World
Radio's DX/Media program 11ith Jeff White ol WRMI.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/south as): Bntarn Today flews
about Brrtain.
India, All India Radio Press Review. See S0000
IJew Zealand. R NZ Intl RIJZ News See S 0000
UK. BBC London (am/as pac): Newsdesk. See S 0000
UK. BBC London (south as): World News. See S0000.
USA. WRMl/A Miami Intl. FL: Herald ol Truth. B1blebascd
solulions to personal and national problems
New Zealand. R NZ Intl. Midday Report. See S 2300
Serbia, R. Yugoslavia: Political Review. Acommentary on
current political activities in the region
Serbia. R Yugoslavia: Weekly Concert. A classical nws1c
progrnm featuring Yugoslav composers and musicians.
India, All India Radio News and Commentary. See S0030
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: NZ Long Range Weather Forecast
See S 0025.

MONITORING TIMES

13745as

6t65na

Mondays
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000

~-

9960cu

Sundays

0000

;:~~ ;: :~~

.... ..

Australia. Radio
Australia. VL8A Alice Spg
Austraha. VL8K Katherine
Australta. VL8T Tent Crk
Cambodia. Natl Vorce ol
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halilax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Chma. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica. Adv World R
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Egypt. Radio Ca\fO
Ghana. Ghana Broodc Corp
India. All Indra Radio

0000

..fF.

....

00000030
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00000 I 00 vi
00000 t 00 vi
0000-00tS
OOOOOtOO
00000100
00000100
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00000100
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OOOOOtOO
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OOOOOl30
00000015 vl
00000045

0000

September 1996

004 t
0055

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Rural Report See S 2340.

New Zealand. R ~JZ Intl: International Business News. See S
2355

Tuesdays
0000
0000
0000
0000
0008
00t2
0015
0020

0025
0030
003 t
0037
004 t
0055

India All Indra Radio: Press Rev1e11. See S 0000.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: ANZ News. Sec S 0000
UK. BBC Lendon (am/as pac) Newsdcsk. Sec S 0000.
UK. BBC London (soulh as): Wo1ld News See S 0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl Midday Report See S 2300.
Serbia. R Yugoslavia: Press Review Summary ol news
items m the Yugoslav press
Serbia. R Yugoslavia: Economic Review Internal Yugoslav
hnancial rna;ters and EEC relations.
Serbia. R Yugoslavia: Sports Roundup A summary ol
domestic sports results and Yugoslavia's part1cipat1on in
international events.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Music. The pop music of Yugosla a.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. Sec S 0000.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: NZ Long Range Weather Forecast.
See S0025.
New Zealand, R flZ Intl: Rural Report Sec S2340.
New Zealano. R flZ Intl: lnternauonal Business News. See S
2355

Wednesdays
0000
0000
0000
0000
0008
0030
003 t
0037
0041
0055

Indra. All Indra Radio Press Review See S 0000

New Zealana R IJZ Intl RNZ ne."s See S 0000
UK BBC Locdon (amlas pac): Nev:sdesk. Sec S 0000
UK BBC Lor.don (south as) World Nel'ls See S 0000.
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl. Midday Report See S 2300.
Indra. All Indra Radio: News and Commentary. Sec S 0030.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl RNZ News. Sec S 0000.
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl NZ Long Range Weather Forecast
See S 0025.
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Ir.ti: Rural Report. Sec S 2340.
New Zealand, A NZ Intl: lntcrnat1onal Business News. See S
2355

Thursdays
0000
0000

Indra All India Radio: Press Review Sec S 0000

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000

0000
0000
0008
0019
0030
0031
0037
0041
0054
0054
0054
0054
0055

UK, BBC London (am/as pac). Newsdesk. See S 0000.

UK, BBC London (south as): Worlcf News. Sec S 0000.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Midday Report. See S 2300.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: People and Events. Background to
current aflai1s.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RfJZ News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. A NZ Intl: NZ Long Range Weather Forecast. See
s 0025.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl. Rural Report See S 2340.
Radio Netherlands. Documentary. From Belore the Cradle
{12th). See A 2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. I want to play lor Ajax, dad!
(19th). See F 1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Peter The Great (Part 1)
(26th). See F2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Stichting Noordlerland
(5th). See w 1154.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: International Business News. See S
2355.

Fridays
0000
0000
0000
0000
0008
0030
003t
0037
0041
0055

Indra. All India Radio: Press Review See S 0000.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RIJZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac): Newsdesk. See S0000.
UK. BBC London (south as): Wo1Jd News. See S0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: M dday Rcpol1. See S 2300.
India, All Indra Radio. News and Commentary. See S 0030.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl. Rriz News See S 0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: NZ Long Range Weather Forecast. See
s 0025.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Rural Repon. See S 2340.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: lnternahonal Business News. See S
2355.

Saturdays
0000
0000
0000
0007
0030

India. All Indra Radio: Press Review. See S 0000.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/south as): Newsdosk. See S 0000.
Nm Zealand. R NZ Intl: Saturday Alternoon Variety or Spon.
See S 0107.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.

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FREQUENCIES .

Ausuaha. Radio

0100-0200 VI
0100-0200 vi
0100-0200 vi
0I 00-0200 vi
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0159

..~

- .

Auslraha. VL8A Alice Spg

Auslralia, VL8K Katherine
Auslralia, VL8T Tent Crk
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronlo
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halitax
Canada. CKZN St John"s
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0127
0100-0200
0100-0150

Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl

Cuba. Radio Havana
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

0100-0115
01000130
0100-0200
0100-0128
0100-0110
0100-0200

Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Hungary, Radio Budapest
Indonesia Voice ot
Iran. VOIRI
Italy. RAI Intl
Japan. NHK/Radio

0100-0200
O100-0200 smlwh
0100-0125
0100-0200
0100-0130 m
0100-0200vl
0100-0200
0100-0200

Lebanon. Voice ot Hope

Malaysia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand, A NZ Intl
Norway, Radio Norway lnll
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Phihppmes FEBC/R Intl
Russia.Voice or Russia WS

0100-0130

Slovakia. A Slovakia lnll

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13605pa
15510as
2310do
5025do
4910do
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6005do
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6030do
6130do
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6160do
6120am
13670am
6205am
6000na
6200na
9745am
6040na
11740na
3366do
9840na
9525na
6050na
6005na
5960na
11885as
9960eu
7295do
6020na
15115pa
9560na
9675do
15450as
7070na
12050na
5930na

o1oo UTC

SHORTWAVE GUIDE

....

0100-0200

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17795pa

95353~1

7385a11
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7345n3
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15365pa

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15415as

117153111

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9640na

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9675na
11 790as
11890as

11800na
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6165nJ

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9440na

1 ssoas
11s1oas

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....... .. . .

. . . ..

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200

Spain. R Exterior Espana

Sn Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Sl'l1tzerland Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200 ll'lhlas
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KTBN Sall Lk C11y UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Mornlor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of Amr.rica

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200
0100-0200 mtwhl
0100-0200

USA. WEWN Birmingham ~L

USA. \VGTG McCaysville Gl1
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA ~WHA Greenbush ME
USA WWCR Nashville TN

0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200
0103-01 10
01 15-0130 I
0130-0155
0130-0150
0130-0200
0130-0200
0138-0155 1&31d 111
0140-0200
0145-0200

USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL

Uzbekislan. A Tashkent
Vielnam. Voice ol
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Greece. Voice ol
Auslna. R Aus111a Intl
Greece. Voice ol
Ne1he1lands Radio
Sweden. Radio
Denmark. A Denmark Intl
Vatican State. Vallcan R
Albania. R Tirana Intl

9830na

4915do
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7240ni
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7300na

9540na
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7265as
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5810am
7510am
9975am
17510au
7535na
5995am
7405am
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15205as
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9400am
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9955am
7355am
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3215am
13845am
6065na
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7465am
5980as
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9885na
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9915va

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6195as
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71l Sas
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17740as

7205as
9775am
15170as
17820as

5065am

5935am

7435am

9505na
971 Sas
7250na
7165eu
9420na

9935na

9815am

9430am
6130am
9455am
11725as
15250as
7425na

13595na

9420na
7305as
9435am
9560am
7335as
7160na

9935na
9860as

11655as

SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0100
0100
0100

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. fllteen minutes ol world

news.
New Zealand. A NZ lnll ANZ Nel'ls. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/south as) Newsdesk. See S

0000.
0107
01 10
011 1
0121
0125
0130
0130
0137
0146
01 55

New Zealand. A NZ Intl: Future lndicalive or Sport. National

Radio.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asia Weekly. A magazine or news from
other Asian broadcasters. enlertainmenl update and music.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asian News Summary. This ten-minute
wrap-up or regional events is heard as a segmen1 ot 1he
program Asia Weekly.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Business Report. A summary of
regional tinancial news heard as part ol tile program Asia
Weekly.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Emertaming m Asia. NEW' A segmenl ot
Asian Report" which focuses on an aspect ol
enlertainmenl in the region.
Austria. A Auslria Intl: Report lrom Austria. A magazine
program covering all aspects ot Austrian lilo and events in
the news and opening with the latest news bulletin
UK. BBC London (as pac/south as) World News. See S
OlOO.
Austria. R Austria Intl: Postbox. Radio Austrias mailbag
pogram.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Asia Kaleidoscope. NEW! A segment ot
the program "Asian Report" devoted to Ille in Japan and the
region.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. A sample ot the Japanese
music scene.

Mondays

0100
0100
0100
0100
0100
0108
0110
0125
0130
0130

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (am/as pac/south as): Newsdesk. See S
0000.
UK. BBC London (south as): Newsdesk. Seo S 0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: ScriplUres tor America. Peter
J Peters exposes lhe 11orld's evils.
New Zealand. A NZ Intl: Correspondence Sch~ol. Listeners
learn by way ot inlerviews with experts and m1eres1ing
presentations aboul a variely ot subjects
Japan, NHK/A.ldio: Let's Learn Japanese See S 0510.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Media Roundup. See S 0525
Auslria. A Auslria Intl: Report trom Austria See S 0130.
New Zealand, A NZ lnll. Cadenza. National Radio's classical

0130
0150
0155

music program.
UK. BBC London (as pac/soutll as): World News. See S0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio Viewpoint. See S 0550.
Japan. NHK/Radio. Tokyo Pop-In. See S Ot55

Tuesdays

0100
0100
0100
0100
0108
0115
0125
0130
0130
0130
0155

Japan, NHK!Rad10 NHK llews. See S 0100.

New Zealand. RNZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/south as): Newsdesk. See S
0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll. FL: Scriptures tor America. See M
0100.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl. Correspondence School See M 0108.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Today's Top News Asia See M 1515.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Prolile. See M 1525.
Austria. A Austria 1n11 Report lrom Austria See S 0130.
New Zeaiand. A NZ Intl: Cadenu . See M 0130
UK, BBC London (as pac/soulh as): Wo1ld News See S 0000.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

0130
0130
0155

New Zealand, R NZ lnll: Cadenza. See M 0130.

UK, BBC London (as pac/south as): World News. See S
0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Fridays

0100
0100
0100
0100
0108

01 15
0120
0130
0130
0130

Japan. NHK/Rad10: NHK News. Sees 0100.

New Zealand. A NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/soulh as): Newsdesk. See S
0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Scriptures tor America. See M
0100.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Correspondence School. See M
0108
Japan. NHK/Radio: Current Views. A Radio Japan edilorial.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Enjoy Japanese. See T 1525.
Austria, RAustria lml: Report trom Austria. See S 0130.
New Zealand. RNZ Intl: Cadenza. See M 0130.
UK, BBC London (as pac/soulh as): Wortd News. See S
0000.
Germany. Deutsche Welle (am): Arts on 1he Air. The
Bayreuth Festival (Aug 30111). The 120th year of this
Wagnerian opera leslival from Bavaria.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Wednesdavs

0133

0100

Saturdays

0100
0100
0100

0108
0115
0125
0130
0130
0130
0133
0155

Japan. NHR!Radio: NHK Nel'IS. Sees 0100.

Ne\'/ Zealand. A NZ Intl ANZ Nel'IS. See S 0000
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/south as): Newsdesk See S
0000.
USA. WRMl/R 1~ 1am1 Intl. FL. Scnptures for America See M
0100.
New Zealand, R NZ lnll: Correspondence School. See M 0108.
Japan, NllK/Radio: Today's Top Nevis Asia. Seo M 1515.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Enjoy Japanese See T 1525
Austria. RAustria lnll: Report from Austria See S 0130.
New Zealand A NZ Intl: Cadenu See M 0130
UK. BBC London (as pac/south as): Ylortd tle1<s See S 0000.
Germany, Deulsche Welle (am): Come 10 Germany. The Green
Roots of Europe (25th). See T 2035.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Thursdays

0100
0100
0100

0100
0108
0115
0125
0130

Japan. NHK/Rad10: NHK News. See S0100

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/south as) Ncwsdesk See S
0000.
USA. WAMl/R Miami Intl. FL. Scriptures tor America. See M
0100.
New Zealand. A NZ Intl Correspondeqce School See M 0108.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Todays Top Ne\'lsAsia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: History and Classcs. See W 1525.
Aus1ria, A Auslria Intl: Report from Austria. See S Ot30

0155
0100
0100
0100
Ot07
011 5
0125
0130
0130
0154
0154
0154
0154
0155

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (am/as pac/south as): Newsdcsk. See S
0000.
New Zealand, A 'IZ lnll: Salurday Afternoon Variely or
Sport. See S 0107
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Today's Top tl ews Asia. See M 1515.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Music and Book Beat. See F 1525
Austria, RAuslria Intl: Report from Austria. See S0130.
UK, BBC London (as pac/soulh as): Wortd News. See S
0000.
Radio Nethe1lands: Documentary. From Belore the Cradle
(141h). Mindy Ran examines Holland's Nalional Health Care
system's spiraling costs.
Radio Netherlands Documen1ary. I want to play for Ajax,
dad' (21st). See F 1454.
Radio Nelherlands Documentary. Peter The Greal (Part 1)
(28th). See F2354.
A.ldio Nelherlands: Documentary. Stichting Noord-lertand
(7th). See W 1154
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

September I 996

MONITORING TIMES

45

FREQUENCIES .
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02000300

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Argentina. RAE
Australia. Radio

02000300 vi
02000300 vi
02000300 vi
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300
02000259

Austrolia. VL8A Allee Spg

Australia. VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tenl Crk
Canada. CBC N Oucbec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronlo
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl

0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000250

Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl

Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Germany. Deutsche Welle

02000300 vi
02000300 srntl'lh
02000300
0200-0225
0200-0300
0200-0300 vi
0200-0300

Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp

Malaysia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
Nethelands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romania. R Romania Intl

0200-0300

Russia.Voice ot Russia WS

0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300

SHORTWAVE GUIDE

0200 UTC

Slova~1a. Adv World Radio

South Korea. R Korea Intl
Srr Lanka. Sn Lanka BC

11710am
13755pa
17750as
2310do
5025do
49t0do
962Sdo
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6120ca
1367oam
6205am
6000na
9745am
9475na
7285as
11945as
4885do
7295do
5905as
9860na
15115pa
9675do
5990na
9570na
7070na
12050na
15580na
1161oas
7275am
15425as

15240pa
17795pa

15365pa

9535ca

9755na

7385am
9820na
21455va

9830na

9640as
11965as
4935do

9690as
12045as
6150do

11545as

7305as
11655na

6155na
11940na
7240na
t3645na

11725am

7105na

9510na

9620na
13665na

1201ona
15180na

11810am

... .

. ..... ..

0200-0300

Taiwan. VO Free China

02000300

United Kingdom. BBC WS

0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

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

0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300
02030210
02150225
0230-0300
0230-0259
0230-0300
0230-0255
0230-0245

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville llJ
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voice of
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Nepal. Radio
Albania. R Tirana Intl
Austria. R Austria Intl
Hungary, Radio Budapest
Moldova. R Moldova Intl
Pakistan. Radio

0230-0300 vi
0230-0300
0238-0255 1&3rd rn
0245-0300

Philippines, R Pilipinas
Sweden. Radio
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
India. Alf India Radio

0250-0300
0250-0300

Vatu:an State. Vatican R

Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2

177 15as

11715am

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15575arn

5950na
11825as
5970sa
9410na
9915sa
5810am
7510am
997Sam
17510au
5850na
7115as
11705as
1114oas
5825eu
9400am
5745am
7490na
7355am
2390am
6065na
5940na
5895eu
7165do
6140na
9655na
9840na
7520na
7290as
17725as
17760rne
6090na
7465am
3945do
15135do
6095na
6165do

7130as

9680na

11740ca

6175va
9590na

7235va
9605as

7651as
15170as

9635as
15250as

153~5as

5975va
9560na
t 5360as
9815am

9430am
7205as
11725as
17820as
7425na

11775na

7315am
13595na
3215am
9505na
7250as
7165eu
7160na
9870ca
11870na

5065am

5935am

13730sa

15120as
21730as
17865rnc

15485as
21580rne

9560arn
60-l5do

7110do

7305na

9605na

17705as

11830do

SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0200
0200
0200

0203
0215
0230
0235
0237
0247

0236

Nw Zealand. R tlZ Intl. Nallonal Radio or Sporl. Regular

programmrng is preempted lor sporls events
Taiwan, V of Free China: Frequency Announcements/Anthem.
Opening three minutes of each transmission.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Nel'lsday. Coverage of the
breaking stories and a background briefing on the main news
issues ol the day
Tai\'lan, Vol Free China: News. Tl'lefve minutes of world
news.
Tai\'lan. V of Free China: The Adventures or Taiwan. A young
couple's escapades in Tail'lan.
Austria. R Austna Intl: Reporl from Austna. See S Ot30.
Ta1l'lan. V of Free China: Mailbag Time. Letters from hsteners
and music requests.
Austria, R Austria lnll: Postbox. See S 0137.
Taiwan. V of f ree China: Let's Learn Chinese. Chinese
lessons with commentary and translation in English.

Mondays
0200
0200
0200
0203
0206
0215
0230
0249

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.

Taiwan, Vol Free China: Frequency Announcements/Anthem
See S 0200.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
Taiwan. V of free China: Ncl'ls. See S 0203.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Cadenza. See M 0130.
Taiwan. V of Free China Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes.
Cl1inese folk and temple music.
Austria. R Austria Intl: Reporl from Austria. See S 0130.
Taiwan, V of free China Let's Learn Chinese. See S 0247

0200
0200
0200
0203
0206
02 t 5

tlew Zealand. R tJZ Intl. RNZ News. See S 0000

Taiwan. V ol Free China: Frequency Announcements/Anlhcm.
See S 0200.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Ncwsday. See S 0200.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: News. Sec S 0203
New Zealand. R NZ lnll: Cadenza. See M 0130.
Taiwan. V of Free China: Kaleidoscope Spotlight on Irle m
Taiwan

0230

46

Austria. R Auslrra Intl. Reporl from Ausma. See S 0130

MONITORING TIMES

Wednesdays
0200
0200
0200
0203
0206
0215
0230
0251

September 1996

New Zealand. R NZ lnll: RNZ NeVIS. Sees 0000.

Taiwan. Vol Free China: Frequency Announcements/
Anthem. Seo S 0200.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
Taiwan, V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Cadenza. See M 0130.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: Music Box. Some of 1he popular
music or Taiwan.
Austria, R Austria lnll: Report from Austria See S 0130.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: Let's Learn Chinese. See S 0247.

Thursdays
0200
0200
0200
0203
0206
0215
0230
0232
0252
0254
0254

Tuesdays

Taiwan. Vol Free China: Main Roads and Byways. Hop a

tour bus to a Taiwan attraction.

0254
0254

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: ANZ News. Sec S 0000.

Taiwan, Vol Free China: Frequency Announcements/
Anthem. See S 0200.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
Taiwan, Vol Free China: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand, R NZ lnll: Gadenza. See M 0130.
Ta1V1an, Vol Free China: Perspectives. Issues racing the
lives and conversations ol Taiwanese people.
Austria, RAustria Intl: Reporl from Ausma. See S 0130.
Tail'lan. Vol Free China: Journey into Chinese Culture.
Conversation about a parlicular cultural activity In Taiwan.
TaiV1an. V or Free China: Let's learn Chinese. See S 0247.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. From Before the Cradle
(12th). Sec A 2354.
Radio Netherlands. Documentary. I want to play for Ajax.
dad' (19th]. See F 1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary Peter The Great (Part 1)
(26th). See F2354.
Radio Netllerlands: Documentary. St1ch1lng Noordlerland
(5th). Sec W 1t 54.

Fridays
0200
0200

Ne.-1Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News See S 0000.

Tama". vol Free China: Frequency Announcements/
Anlhem See S 0200.

0200
0203
0206
0215
0230
0232
0247

UK. BBC London (all Slreams): Newsday. See S0200.

Taiwan. V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Cadenza. Sec M 0130.
Taiwan, V of Free China: Confrontation. Two points of view
on a controversial topic.
Austria. RAustria Intl: Report from Auslria. See S0130.
Taiwan. V of Free China: New Record Time. The latest
releases of the popular music ol Taiwan
Taiwan. V of Free China: Let's Learn Chinese. See S 0247.

Saturdays
0200
0200
0200
0203
0205
0215
0230
0249

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ NeVIS. See s 0000.

Tal'llan. V of Free China: Frequency Announcements/Anthem.
See S 0200.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S0200.
Tahvan, Vol Free China: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Saturday Attcrnoon Variety or Sporl.
See S 0107.
Taiwan. Vof Free China: Reflections. See S 0315.
Austria, RAustria Intl: Reporl from Auslria. See S 0130.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: Let's Learn Chinese. See S 0247.

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FREQUENCIES . . . .
0300-0400

Austraha. Radio

0300-0400 vi
03000400 vi
03000400 vi
03000400 vi
03000400
0300-0400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400 vi
03000400
0300040)
03000327
0300040)
0300033)
03000350

Austraha, VLBA Alice Spg

Aust1aha. VLBK Kathenne
Austraha. VLBT Tent Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Cluna. China Radio Intl
Cosla Rica.Faro def Carib
Cos1a Rica.RF Peace lnll
Cuba. Radio Havana
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Germany. Deutsche Welle

03000400
0300040)
030004()) vi
0300-0330
03000325
0300-0400
03000400 vi
03000330 vi
03000400

Guatema a. Radio Cultural

Japan. NHK/Radio
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Mexico, Radio Mexico lnll
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Ph11ipp111es. R Pilipinas
Russia. Voice of Russia ws

03000400
03000400
03000400

S Afnca. Channel Africa

Sn Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Taiwan. VO Free China

03000330
03000350
0300-0315 mtwhf
03000400
0300-0330

Thailand, Radio
Turkey. Voice of
Uganda. Radio
Ukraine. R Ukraine lnll
Unrled K11gdom. BBC WS

t3605pa
t5415as
2310do
5025do
4910do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6t30do
6160do
6t60do
9690na
5055do
6205am
6000na
5930na
9745am
9475na
6085na
9640na
3300do
1t790na
4885do
9705na
5905as
15115pa
9675do
17760me
7230na
13645na
3220af
15425as
5950na
15345as
15370na
9655na
3340do
7150na
5970sa

13755pa
1551Das

9710na
7385am
9820na
7345na
21455va

15240pa
17750pa

t 5365pa
7795pa

United Kingdom. BBC WS

0300-0400
03000400
0300-0400
03000400
03000400
03000400

USA, KAIJ Dallas TX

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

03000400
03000400
03000400
0300-0400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000315
03000400 mtl'lhfa
03000400 vi
03030310
03150330 s
03200350
03300357
03300355 mtwhf
03300400 vi
03300400 twhf
0330-0400
03300400
0330-0353
03300400
03350355 vi
033B0355 1&3rd m
03400350
03450400 irreg
03450400 as

USA. WEWN Bi1mingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. IVRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican State. Vatican R
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Greece. Voice of
Vatican State. Vatican R
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Moldova. R Moldova Intl
Philippines. R Pilipinas
Portugal. R Portugal Intl
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Sweden. Radio
UAE. Radio Dubai
United Kingdom, BBC WS
India, All India Radio
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Greece. Voice of
Burundi. Radio Nationale
Uganda. Radio

11760na

9830na

6185na

9535na

9615na

11840as
4935do

15230na
6150do

17810as

7305as

986Das

1t655as

17865me
9620na
13665na
5955af

21580me
12010na
15180na

t2050na
15580na

9680na

11745as

11825as

9685eu
9550na
6135af

03000400

7235va

7325sa

1536Das
3255af
6175va
9600af
15310as
5810am
7510am
9975am
17510au
5850na
6035af
7280af
9575af
5825eu
9400am
5745am
7490na
9465eu
7395am
2390am
6065na
6095na
6165do
3396do
5895eu
7448na
7360af
9480as
7520na
13770as
6095am
9465af
7t 15na
13675na
9610af
7110do
7165am
7448na
6140do
3340do

3955eu
6190af
9605as

5975va
6195eu
9895va

6005af
9410na
12095af

61 t5af
7405af

7105af
7415af

5065am

5935am

9815am

7535af
6080af
7340af
9885af
7425na
7315am
13595na

3215am
9505na
7305na

7165eu
9420na
9660af

9605na

9935na

15330na
9570am

17730as

15395eu
1173Qaf
11830do
7465am
9420na

21605na
11955as
15135do
9565am
9935na

15280as

SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays

0315

0300
0300

0315

0300
0303
0310
0315
0330
0355

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

N1w Zealand. R NZ Intl: National Radio or Sport. See S
0200.
U{. BBC London (all streams): Wortd News. See S 0000.
Taiwan, V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Hello from Tokyo. The weekend magazine
program.
Taiwan, Vof Free China: Reflections. The best of Chinese
literature.
U~. BBC London (al): Alrican News. News bulletins with lhe
latest reports from across the continent.
Japan. NHK/Radio News Summary. A five-minute news
wrap-up.

Mondays
0300
0300
0300
0303
0306
0315
0315
0316
0325
0330
0335
0347

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Taiwan. V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl. tn Touch with New Zealand. See M
0230.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. The
weekday magazine program.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: The Adventures of Taiwan. See S
0215.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Spans Spotlight. Focus on a current
sporting event in the region.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. Life in Japan as seen
through the eyes of a foreign resident in Japan.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Close Up. Featuring a Japanese person of
note.
Taiwan, v of Free China: Mailbag Time. See S 0235.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Commentary. An ed1to11al opinion
on the current news.

Tuesdays
0300
0300
0300
0303
0306

Japan, NHK/Radio. NHK News. See S OtOO.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Taiwan, V of Free Cluna: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: In Touch with New Zealand. See M
0230.

0320
0330
0330
0345
0348
0350

Japan. NHK/Radlo: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. Seo M

0315.
Taiwan. Vof Free China: Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes. See
M0215.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Close Up. See M 0330.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japanese Culture Today. Comparing
modem-day Japan with the customs of old.
Portugal: News. See Day M 1430.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Portugal: Visitors' Notebook. See Day M 1446.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.

Wednesdays

0300
0300
0300
0303
0306
0315
0315
0320
0330
0330
0336
0341
0345
0347

Japan. NHK/Radlo: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ fnll: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Taiwan, V of Free China: News. See S0203.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: In Touch with New Zealand. See M
0230.
Japan. NHK/Rattlo: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
03t5.
Taiwan. Vof Free China: Kaleidoscope. See T 0215.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Asian Report. NEW! Current events in the
Asia-Pacific region.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Portugal: News. See Day M t 430.
Taiwan, V of Free China: Main Roads and Byways. See T
0236.
Japan. NHK/Radlo: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Portugal: Musical Kaleidoscope. See Day T 1445.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: News Commentary. See M 0347.

Thursdays

0300
0300
0300
0303
0306
0315
0315
0330

Japan. NHK!Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Taiwan. V of Free China: News. See S0203.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: In Touch w;111 New Zealand. See M
0230.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
Taiwan. Vof Free China: Music Box. See W 0215.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Crosscurrents. Radio Japan's mailbag

0330
0342
0344
0348

program.
Portugal: News. See Day M 1430.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Portugal: Challenge of the '90s. See Day w 1449.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.

Fridays
0300
0300
0300
0303
0306
0315
0315
0316
0321
0330
0330
0332
0345
0346

Japan. NHK/Radlo: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Wortd News. See S 0000.
Taiwan. V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: In Touch with New Zealand. See M
0230.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M 0315.
Taiwan. Vof Free China: Perspectives. See H 0215.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Business Focus. A segment of the
Magazine Hour which spollights an aspect of business in
Japan.
Portugal: News. See Day M 1430.
Taiwan. V of Free China: Journey into Chinese Culture. See H
0232.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Portugal: Spotlight on Portugal. See Day H 1446.

Saturdays
0300
0300
0300

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (at/am/as pac/south as): World News. See S
0000
0300 USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: Viva Miami (1). See M 1330.
0303 Tah'lan. V of Free China: News. See S0203.
031 O Japan. NHK/Radio: This Week. A weekly variety show.
0315 Taiwan, V of Free China: Confrontation. See F0215.
0330 Portugal: News. See Day M 1430.
0330 UK. BBC London (af): African News. See S 0330.
0330 UK. BBC London (eu): World News. See S0000.
0332 Taiwan. V of Free China: New Record Time. See F0232.
0346 Portugal: Collector's Comer (triweekly). See Day F 1446.
0346 Portugal: Listeners Mailbag (triweekly). See Day F 1446.
0346 Portugal: Radio Portugal DX (triweekly). See Day F t446.

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0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0430
0400-0500
0400-0500
0-100-0500
0400-0500
0400-0450

Auslraha. VL8A Allee Spg

Australia. VL8K Katherrne
Australia. VL8T Tenl Crk
Bulgarra. Radio
Canada. CBC N Oueber. Svc
Canada. CFCX Monlreal
Canada. CFRX Toronlo
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN SI John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada lnll
China. China Radio lnll
Cos1a Arca.Rf Peace lnll
Cuba. Radro Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany, Deulsche Welle

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0400-0500
0400-0430 vVm-a
0400-0458
0400-0450
04000430 m
0400-0500 vi
0400-0430

Gua1emala. Radio Cullural

Israel. Kol Israel
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon. Vorce of Hope
Mcxrco. Radio Mexico lnll
Nel'1 Zealand. R NZ lnll
North Korea. R f'\longyang
Norway. Radio Norway lnll
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romania. R Romania lnll

0400-0500

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

O-I000-155
0400-0-127
0400-0430
0400-0430
0400-0430

S Afrrca. Channel Afrrca

S Af11ca. Trans World R
Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Sri Lanka . Sri Lanka BC
Swilzerland. Swiss R lnll

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15240pa
17795pa

15365pa

0400-0430
0400-041 5
0400-0500

Tanzania. Radio
Uganda. Radio
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
040().0500
0400-0500

USA, KAIJ Dallas TX

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

0400-0430
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500 sm1whl
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0445
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USA. WHRI Noblesvtlle IN
USA, WJCR Uplon KY
USA, WMLK Belhel PA
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee f l
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Cl10s11an Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croalia. Croahan Radio
llaly. RA! Intl
Nigeria. FRCNIRad10
Australra, Radio
Aus;ralia,Delenseforces R
Netherlands. Radio
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavia
Swaziland. Trans World R
Swrtzerland. Sl'lrss R Intl
Uniled Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. Voice ol America
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
New Zealand. R NZ Intl

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SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0400
0400
0400
0430
0430
0437
0444

Gualemala: Moody Presenls. Chrislian messages from lhe

Moody Bible 1ns111u1e
New Zealand. R NZ lnll: Nalional Radio or Sport. See S 0200.
UK. BBC London (all slreams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (al): African News. See S 0330.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: News. World and Yugoslav news.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia Cunenl Affairs An indeplh look al lhe
1a1es1 news.
Serbia, R. Yugosla11a: Cullural Panorama. A summary of
actrvrlies dealing wilh the arts.

Mondays
0400
0400
0400
0405
0430
0430
0430
0439
0442
0446

New Zealand. R NZ !nil: Pacifrc Regional News. News aboul

lhe Pacific Islands.
UK. BBC London (all slreams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
USA. Monrlor Radro Intl: Sunday from lhe Mother Church
Sees 2300.
New Zealand, R NZ lnll: Calling Cook Islands. Birthday Calls.
dedicalions. and requests for Cook Islands listeners.
New Zealand, R NZ lnll: Mailbox (biweekly). Transmission
developmenls. letters from 1rs1eners. and DX news from
Arthur Cushen
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Travel Pacrhc (br\\eekly). A
comprehensive look a1 lourism in lhe South Pacific from Air
New Zealand and RNZI.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavra: News. See S 0430.
Serbia, R. Yugoslavia: Current Affairs. See S 0437.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia Domeslic Chronicle. Current affairs rn
lhc Yugoslav republics.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Weekly Concert. See M 0016.

Tuesdays

0400
0400
0400
0400
0405
0406
0430
043 t

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Gualemala: lnsrghl for Living. Chuck Swindoll applies lhe

Brble to hie loday
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Pacific Regional News. See M 0400.
UK. BBC London (all slreams): Newsdcsk. See S 0000.
USA, Monilor Radio Intl: Monitor Radio News. See M 1100.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Calling Tonga. Regional news and
topical programming for Tonga.
USA. Mom1or Radio Intl: Monrtor Radio ln1ernat1onal See M
1106.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia News. See S 0430
Nevi Zealand. R NZ Intl: The World in Sport. A review of lhe
week's sports devclopmenls.

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0442
0445
0449
0450
0452

Serbia, R. Yugoslavia: Press Review. See T 0012.

Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Economic Review. See T 0015.
USA, Monitor Radio Intl: Letterbox. See M 1149.
Serbra. R. Yugoslavia: Sports Roundup. See T 0020.
USA. Monitor Radio Intl: Religious Artrcte from lhe CSM. See
M 1152.

Wednesdays

0400
0400
0400
0400
0406
0430
0442
0449
0452

Gualcmala: Insight for Living. See Day T 0400.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Pacific Regional News. See M 0400.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
USA. Monilor Radio Intl: Monitor Radio News. Sec M 1100.
USA. Monilor Radio Intl: Monitor Radio lnlemalional. See M
1106.
Serbia. R Yugoslavia: News. See S 0430.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Press Review. See T 0012.
USA. Monitor Radio Intl: Letterbox. See M 1149.
USA, Monitor Radio Intl: Religious Article from lhe CSM. See
M 1152.

Thursdays

0-100
0400
0400
0400
0405
0405
0406

0430
0442
0449
0449
0452
0454

Gualemala: Insight for Living. See Day T 0400.

New Zealand, R NZ lnll: Pacttic Regional News. See M 0400.
UK. BBC London (all slreams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
USA. Monitor Radio Intl: Monitor Radio News. See M 1100.
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl: Calling lhe Solomon Islands
(biweekly). A program for the Solomon Islands.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Spectrum (biweekly). Focus on an
aspecl of hie in New Zealand with the sounds of onlocalion
in1erv1ews.
USA. Mon~or Radio Intl: Monilor Radio lnlernatronal. See M
1106.
Serbra. R. Yugoslavia: Nel'IS. See S0430
Serbia. R Yugoslavia: Press Reviel'I See T 0012.
USA, Moni1or Radro Intl: Letterbox. See M 1149.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: People and Evenls. See H 0019.
USA. Moni1or Radio lnll: Religious Article from the CSM. See
M 1152.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. (191h) from Before the
Cradle (12th). See A 2354. {191hl I wanl 10 play for A1ax. dad!
. See F 1454 (261h). Pe1er The Great (Part I ) See F 2354.
(5th) S11chtmg Noord-le~and . See W 1154.

Fridays
0400

Gualemala: Insight for Livrng. See Day T 0400.

0400
0400
0400
0405
0406
0430
0430
0430
0430
0430
0439
0444
0449
0452

New Zealand. R NZ lnll: Pacific Regional News. See M 0400.

UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
USA. Monitor Radio Intl: Momlor Radio News. See M 1100.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Calling Nuie. Regional news and
topical programming for Nuie.
USA, Monitor Radio Intl: Monilor Radio lnlernalional. See M
11 06.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Around lhe World 111l h Rudr Hill (in
rotation). lnlernalional broadcaster Rudi Hr!! provrdes topical
comment and a Pacific viewpoint.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Calling Pitcairn and Norlolk (in
rotation). A program for Pilcaim and Norfolk Islands
listeners.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl. Calling Tokelau (in rota~on). A
program for Tokelau hsleners.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Feature (rn rotation). Variable feature
program.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: News. See S 0430.
Serbia, R. Yugoslavia: Press Review. See T 0012.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Polrtical Commentaries. The official
posrtion of the Yugoslav Government on malters of current
affairs.
USA, Monilor Radio Intl: Letterbox. See M 1149.
USA. Momlor Radio lnll: Relrgious Article from the CSM. See
M 1152.

Saturdays
0400
0400
0400

Guatemala: lnsighl for L110ng. See Day T 0400.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000
UK. BBC London (al/am/as pac/south as): Newsdesk. See S

0400
0400

USA. Momlor Radio Intl: Mom1or Radio News. See M 1100.

USA. WRMIJR Miami lnll. fl: Radro Porkopohs (I ). No
informal1on available.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl Tagata Atu Motu. No details avaiable.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Change of Pace. A lrghl mrxlure of
jazz, polka. and olher musical forms.
UK. BBC London (al ): African News. See S 0330.
UK. BBC London (eu): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: News. See S0430.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Commentary. Official s1a1e opinions
about current events.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Press Review. See T 0012.
Serbia. R. Yugoslavia: Curren! Affairs. See S0437.

0000.

0406
0430
0430
0430
0430
0440
0444
0450

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Australia. Radio

05000600 vi
05000600 vi
05000600 vi
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000529 mtwhfa
05000600
0500-0600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000550
05000600 vi
05000600

Aus tralia. VLSA Alice Spg

Au stralia, VL8K Katherine
Au stralia. VL8T Ten1 Crk
Ausllalia.DefenseForces R
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hatlfax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada lnll
Gilma. China Radio Intl
Cosla Rica. Adv World R
Cos1a Rica.RF Peace ln11
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle
Italy, IRRS
Japan. NHK/Radio

05000530
05000600 vi
05000600
05000510 mtwhl
05000525
0500-0600
05000505
0500-0600 vi
05000600

Japan. NHK/Radio
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon, Voice ot Hope
Mala\'11, M3C
Nelherlanos. Radio
New Zeala1d. R NZ ln11
N1gena. FRCN/Rad10
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

05000555
05000600
05000556
05000600
05000515
05000600

S Alroca. Channel Africa

Slovakia. Adv World Radio
Spatn. R Exterior Espana
Swaziland. Trans World R
Uganda, Radio
United Kingdom, BBC WS

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6160do
6050eu
9560na
5030ca
6205am
9820na
9745am
5960na
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11920na
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05000600
05000600
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05000600
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USA, KAIJ Dallas TX

USA, KTBN Sall Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA, KWHR Naalchu HI
USA. Won11or Radio lnll
USA. Voice ot Amenca

05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600 mtwhfa
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000530
0500-0520
05000600
0500-051 0
05000510
0500-0530 vi
05030510
05050600
05150530
05250600
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05300600
05300556

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. V/WCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican Slate. Vatican R
Vatican State, Vatican R
Zambia. Chrislian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 1
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Zimbabwe. Zrmbabl'le BC
Croa11;;, Croatian Radio
Swaziland. Trans World R
Switzerland. Swiss R lnll
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
Austria. R Austria Intl
Kazakhstan, R Alma Ala
Romama. R Romania ln11

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Slovakia. Adv World Radio
05300500 vi
Z1mbat>we. Zimbabwe BC
05380555 1&3rd s Denmark, R Denmark Intl
05550600
Malaysia, Voice ol

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SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays
0500
0500
0500
0510
0525
0530
0530
0530
0537
0550
0555

Japan, NHK/Ratlio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. Sec S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Let's Learn Japanese. A course in 1he
Japanese language.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Media Roundup Reception reports, DX/
media news. and equipment reviel'ls.
Austria, RAustria Intl. Report from Austria. See S0130.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Te Reo o Tc Piplwllarauroa. A
program lor Maori listeners.
UK, BBC London (af): African News. See S 0330.
Auslroa, RAustria Intl: Postbox. See S 0137.
Japan, NHK/Rad10. Viewpotnt. Opinions of a guest
personal tty.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Tckyo Pop-In. See S0155.

Mondays
0500
0500
0500
0507

0515
0516
0525
0530
0530
0547
0555

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. Sec S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ ln11: ANZ News. Sec S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. Sec S 0200.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. Ninety minutes of NZ
current attairs, sports news, business news, news about
Australia. and English language Maori news from National
Radio.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magaztne Hour. See M 0315.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Soorts Spotlight. See M 03 16.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Austria, R Austria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Japan, NHK/Radio News Commentary See M 034i.
Japan. NHK/Rad10 Tokyo Popln See S 0155

Tuesdays

0500
0500
0500
0507
0515
0520
0530
0530
0545
0555

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ ln11: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. Sec M 0507.
Japan, NHK/Rad10. Radio Japan Magaztne Hour. See M 03 15.
Japan, NHK/Rad10 Close Up. See M 0330
Austna, R Austna Intl: Report from Austria See S 0130.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Japanese Culture Today See T 0330.
Japan, NHK/Rad10. Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S Ot55.

Wednesdavs

0500
0500
0500
0507
05t5
0520
0520
0530
0539
0541
0547
0555

Japan, NHKtRadio: NHK News. See S0100.

New Zealand. R NZ ln11: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. Seo S 0200.
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. See M 0507.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asian Report. See W 0320.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Austria, RAustria ln11: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
Germany, Deutsche Welle (am): Come 10 Germany. The
Green Roots of Europe (251h). See T 2035.
Japan, NHK/Radlo: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Radio News Commenlary. See M 0347.
Japan. NHK/Rad10. Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Thursdays
0500
0500
0500
0507
0515
0530
0530
0542
0548
0555

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK Nel'/s. See S0100.

New Zealand, R NZ ln11: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
New Zealand, R NZ ln11: Checkpoint. See M 0507.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
Austria. RAustna Intl: Report from Austna. See S 0130.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Crosscurrents. See H 0330.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Fridays
0500
0500
0500
0507
0515
05 16
052t
0530
0533
0542
0548
0555

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ lnU: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsday. See S 0200.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. See M 0507.
Japan, NHK/Radlo: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
03t5.
Japan, NHK/Radlo: Japan Diary. Sec M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Austria, RAustria ln11: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
Germany, Deutsche Welle (am): Ans on the Au. The
Bayreuth Fesltval (Aug 30th). See F 0133
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Saturdays
0500
0500
0510
0512
0530
0530
0545
0555

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsday. Sec S 0200.
Japan, NHK/Radio: This Week. See A 0310.
New Zealand, R NZ ln11: Pacific Requests. Music 1eQuest
and dedialtons
Austria, RAustria Intl. Report from Austria. See S0130.
UK. BBC London (af). Afncan News. See S 0330.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Story nme. See S 0645.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S 0355.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS
SW Radio Switzerland relays
legal European free radio
programmes via IRRS Italy:
Su n
1500- 1700 3985
Fri
2000
3955 (repeat)
Also 011 WRM I:
Su n 2000-2 100

9955

More info for return post to

P.O. Box 510. C H-40 I0 Basel.

Switzerland
(DJ Stevie. Int! Re lat ions)
Notes:
O nl y Viva Miami was heard at
2035 check, not thi s (gh) Try Mon
at 0000 (SWRS via R. Japan
Media Roundup) ls that UT Mon ?

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0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0630
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0650

Australia. VL8A Alice Spg

Australia. VL8K Katherine
Austra'ia. VL8T Tent Crk
Austra 1a.DefenseForces R
Canada. CBC N Duebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hahfax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace lnll
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany, Deutsche Welle

0600-0615
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0700
0600-0630 s
0600-0700vt
0600-0640 vi
0600-0700

Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp

Italy. IRAS
Japan. NHK/Rad10
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Ktr1bat1 Radio
Lebanon. Voice ot Hope
Malaysia. Voice ot
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Radro
Nonh Korea. R Pyongyang
Nor\'lay. Radro Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romania. A Romania Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0600-0700
0600-0610
06000630
0600-0700
0600-0630 vi
06000700
0600-0630

S Af11ca. Trans World R

Sierra Leone. SLBS
Slovakia, Adv World Radio
Slovakia, Adv Wo1lcl Radio
Solomon Islands. SIBC
Swaziland, Trans World R
Switzerland. Swrss R Intl

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6160do
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Un ted Kingdom. BBC WS

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

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

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

0600-0630
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700 smtwhf
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0645 vvm-f

USA. Voice of America

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican State. Vatican R

0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0605 mtwhta
0600-0630
0600-0700 vi
06030610
0605-0700
06 150630
0630-0655
06300700
0630-0700 as
0630-0700
06380655 1&3rd s
06450655 as
06450700

Yemen. Yemeni Rep Radio

Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 1
Zarrbia. ZNBC Radro 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatta. Croatian Radio
Swaziland. Trans World A
Switzerland. Swiss R lrlll
Austria, A Austria Intl
Belgium. A Vlaanderen Int
USA. Voice ot Ame11ca
Vatican State. Vatican R
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Romania, R Romania Intl

06550700 mtwhl

Monaco, Trans World Raclio

9545do
t 1860af

0600
0600
0600
0610
0630
0630
0630
0640
0645
0655

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News See S 0100.

New Zealand. A NZ Intl: National Radio Programming trom
New Zealand's domestic radio.
UK, BBC London (al/as pac/eu/south as): World News. See s
0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Hello from Tokyo. See S 0310.
Austria. R Austrra Intl: Repon from Austria. See S 0130.
tJew Zealand. R NZ Intl: Pacilika Style Interview program in
Maori.
UK, BBC London (af): African News. See S 0330.
Austria. R Austria Intl: Postbox. See S0137.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Story Time. Stories from around the
world for children.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S 0355.

Mondays
0600
0600
0600
0607
0615

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. A NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): World News. See S0000.
Ne\'/ Zealand. R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. See M 0507.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M

0315.
0616
0625
0630
0630
0630
0647
0655

Japan, NHK/Radlo: Spons Spotlight. See M 0316.

Japan. NHK/Radlo: Japan Diary. See M 0325
Austrra, R Austria Intl: Repon lrom Austria. See S 0130.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl. Ears. Children's stories.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Nel'ls Summary See S 0355.

Tuesdays
0600
0600
0600
0607
0615
0620
0630

so

Japan, NHK/Radro: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ lnlt ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (alt streams): World News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. A tlZ Intl: Checkpoint See M 0507.
Japan. t1HK/Rad10: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Austria. R Auslria Intl: Repon from Austria. See S 0130.

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0630
0630
0645
0650

Japan. NHK/Radio: Japanese Culture Today. See T 0330.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Ears. See M 0630.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: News Commentary. See M 0347.

Wednesdays
0600
0600
0600
0607
0615
0620
0630
0630
0630
0641
0647
0655

Japan. IJHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. See M 0507.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asian Repon. See W 0320.
Austria, A Austria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
New Zealand. A NZ Intl: Ears. See M 0630.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S 0355.

Thursdays
0600
0600
0600
0607
0615
0630
0630
0630
0642
0648
0655

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK Nel'IS. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all slreams): World News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. A NZ Intl: Checkpoint. See M 0507.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315
Austna, A Austna Intl: Repon from Austria. See S0130
Japan. NHK/Radio: Crosscurrents. See H 0330.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Ears. See M 0630.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Japan. NHK/Radio. News Summary. See S 0355.

Fridays
0600
0600
0600
0607

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, A NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Checkpoint. See M 0507.

0615
0630
0630
0630
0642
0648
0655

Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M

0315.
Austria, A Austria Intl Repon from Austria. See S 0130.
Japan, NHK/Radio. Close Up. See M 0330.
New Zealand. A NZ Intl Ears See M 0630.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S 0355.

Saturdays
0600
0600
0600
0602
0610
0630
0630
0655

Japan. NHK/Rad10: NHK News See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ lnll. RflZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Saturday Night. Either Veronica
Alum or Peter Sledrnere hos1s this four-hour variety
program.
Japan. NHK/Radio: nus Week. S~e A 0310.
Austria. A Austria Intl: Repon from Austria. See S0130.
UK, BBC London (at): Atncan News. See S 0330.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S0355.

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Australia. Radio

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0700-0800
07000800
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07000800
07000800 as
07000800 mtwhf
07000715
07000730 vi
07000800

Australia. Radio
Australia. V.BA Alice Spg
Australia. VL8K KAthenne
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Praoue
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Africa
Eqt Guinea. Radio Al11ca
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Italy. IRRS
Japan. NHK/Rad10

0700-0800 vi
07000800 ti
07000800
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07000800
07000710
07000800
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07000758 as
0700-0750
07000800 vi
0700-0745

Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp

Kiribati. Radio
Lebanon, Voice of Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia, Voice of
Malaysia. Voice of
Monaco. Trans World Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Palau. KHBNN01ce of Hope
Romania. R Romania Intl

07000800
07000710
07000800 vi
07000800
07000800

Russia.Voice ol Russia WS
Sierra Leone. SLBS
Solomon Islands. SIBC
Taiwan. VO Free Clllna
United Kingdom. BBC WS

07000730
07000715
07000800
07000800
07000800
07000800
07000800
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USA, KVOH Los Anoeles CA
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio 11111
USA, WEWN B11mingham AL
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR OkeechObee FL
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vanuatu, Radio
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Swaziland. Trans World R
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl
Australia. Radio
Austria, RAust11a Intl
Greece. Voice ol
India. All India Radio
Italy, IRRS
Netherlands. Radio
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Greece. Voice of
Guam. AWR/KTWR
New Zealand, R NZ Intl

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Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc

Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Chile. Radio Esperanza
Costa qica.RF Peace lnll
Denmark. Radio ABC
Ecuador. HCJB
Ecuador. HCJB
Eql Guinea, R East Africa
Eqt Guinea, Radio Africa
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam, TWR/KTWR
Indonesia. Voice of
Italy. IRRS
Italy. IRAS
Kiribati. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. Voice of
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
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Pakistan. Radio
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USA. WE\VN Birmingham AL
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
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Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
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Croatia. Croatian Radio
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0800 UTC
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08000900
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09001000

Aus1ralia. Radio

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0900 1000 vi
0900 1000 vi
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0900 1000
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09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
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09001000
0900 1000 as
0900 I 000 mlwhf
0900-0950

Ausl ralia. VLBA Alice Spg

Auslralia. VLBK Kal herine
Australia. VLBT Tenl Crk
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Canada. CFCX Monlreal
Canada. CFRX Toronlo
Canada CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Denmark. Radio ABC
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Gumea. R East Alnca
EQI Gumea. Radio Alnca
Germany. Deutsche Welle

09000915 mtw\I
09000915
09001000
0900 1000 vi/as
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09001000
0900-0930 vi
0900-1000
0900 1000
0900-0925
09001000
0900 1000 vi
09001000

Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Guam. TWR/KTWR
Guam. TWR/KTWR
Italy. IRRS
Italy. IRAS
Japan. NHK/Rad10
Kiribati, Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua Ne.-1 Guinea. NBC
Russ1a.Vcice of Russia WS

09000930
0900-tOOO

Switzerland. Swiss R Intl

Umted Kingdom. BBC WS

090009t5

United Kingdom. BBC WS

0900 1000
0900-1000
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0900 1000
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0900 t 000 smtwh1
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USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA, KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, Monitor Radio Intl
USA WEWN Birmmgham AL
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA WMLK Belhel PA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia. Croahan Radio
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Aus1na. R Auswa Intl
Canada. CKZN St Johns
Mongolia. R Ulan Bator
Netherlands. Radio
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Denmark. ~ Denmark Intl

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t000-1025
1000 1100
1000t100vl
1000 1100
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Eqt Guinea. R East Africa

EQt Guinea. Radio Africa
Guam. AWRIKSDA
India. All India Radio
Iraq, Radio Iraq Intl
Italy. IRRS
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuchmg
Malaysia.ATM KotaKmabatu
Netherlands Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philippines. FEBCIR Intl
Russia.Voice or Russia WS

1000- tl OO
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Smgapore. SBC Radio One

Switzerland. Sv11ss R Intl
Umted Kingdom. BBC WS

1000-1100
10001100
10001100
10001 tOO
t000-1100

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

1000-1 tOO
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1000-tlOO
10001100
1000t100 as
10001100
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1000 1100 vVmI
1000 1030
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USA. WEWN Birmmgham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee 'L
Vaucan State. Vatican R
Vietnam. Voice of
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Austria. R Austria Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Finland. YLE/R Finland
Guam. AWRIKSDA
lle\herlands. Radio
South Korea. R Korea Intl
UAE. Radio Dubai
Denmark. R Denmark Intl

21455au

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Australia. VL8A Alice Spg

Australia. VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hahlax
Canada. CKZN St Johns
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Denmark. Radio ABC
Ecuador. HCJB

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FREQUENCIES ...
Aus1raha. Radio

11001200vl
t1001200vl
1100 1200 vi
11001200
11001200
11001200
11001 200
11001200
1100 1200
11001200
1100 1200
11001200s
1100 1130
11001200 as
11001200
11001150

Australia, VLBA Ailee Spg

Australia. VLBK Kalhenne
Auslralia. VLBT Ten! Crk
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toron10
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN Sl John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Cos1a Rica. Adv World R
Cosl a Rica.RF Peace Intl
Denmark, Radio ABC
Ecuador, HCJB
Eql Guinea. R East Africa
EQt Guinea. Radio Africa
Germany, Deulsche Welle

1100 1200
11001200 vVas
11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200vl
11001200 vi
11001125
11001200
11001 150
11001200 vi
1100120Q vl
11001200

Iraq. Radio Iraq lnll

Italy. IRAS
Japan. NHK/Radro
Jordan. Radio
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia, ATM Kuching
Malaysia.ATM KolaKinabalu
Nelherlands. Radio
Nel'I Zealand, R NZ Intl
Nonh Korea. R Pyongyang
Palau. KHBNNorce of Hope
Papua Ne\'/ Guinea. NBC
Russia.Vorce ol Russia WS

1100 1200
11001200
11001130
11001200

Singapore. SBC Radio One

Singapore.A Singapore lnl
Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
Taivian, Voice ot Asia

5995as
9615as
15530as
2310do
2485do
4910do
6005do
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6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
7375am
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15186af
9530as
15370af
17860af
13680eu
7125va
6120na
11970eu
7295do
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1100 1200

Umlcd Kingdom. BBC WS

11 001130
11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200

21660af
U1111ed Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monilor Radio lnll
USA, Voice of Amcnca

11001200
11001200
11001200
11001200
1100-1200 as
11001200
11001200
11001200
11051120
11151127
11151200
11 301155
11 301200
11301200 vi
11301200
11301200
11301200
11301200a
1130 1155 s
11301200
11301200
11301200
11301200 f
11351140
113811551&3rds

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA IVJCR Upton KY
USA. IWHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. IVYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Christian Vorce
Pakistan. Radio
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 1
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Auslria. R Austria Intl
Bulgaria. Radio
China. China Radio lnll
Ecuador, HCJB
Finland. YLE/R Finland
Iran. VOIRI
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Myanmar, Voice ol
Nel herlands. Radio
Sl'leden. Radio
Val1can Slate. Vatican R
India, All India Radio
Denmark, R Denmark Intl

13750am

15410af
21600af

17715af

9610as

15350as

9650as

12065as

9975na
9985as

I 1335na
15140as

11655as
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15460as
17755as

6155as
15415as

17515as

17800af

13705as

15520as
17775as

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9700au
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9400am
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Japan, NHK/Rad10. NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Newsdesk. Rebroadcast of the BBC
World Service's quality nel'ls program.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. Singapore, regional and
inlernalional news.
UK. BBC London (all streams) Newsdesk. See S0000.
Singapore. R Singapore lnU The Week Ahead. A diary of
major events in Singapore in the coming week.
Germany. Deutsche Welle (al). Ans on the Air. The Bayreuth
Festival (1st). See F0133.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Hello from Tokyo. See S 0310.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Asean Notes. A montage of
cultural and social events in the Asean region.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Prairie. A personality profile of
p10'1linent Singaporeans and foreigners who have made their
mark in their chosen fields.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Singapore, R Singapore lnll: Regional Press Review. A review
ol l he major issues discussed 111 theeditorials of the regional
papers during the week.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Business World The latest
business and linancial trends 1n Singapore and Asia. or
Specials. An in depth look at a topical issue concerning
Singapore. the region and the world.

Mondays

9510pa
13605as

12005am

Sundays

1100
1105

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SELECTED PROGRAMS. .

1100

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11001 20J

1100
1100

11 oo UTC

SHORTWAVE GUIDE

Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan News Round. Thirty minules

ol world, regional. and Japanese news.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Newsdesk. See S 1100.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsdesk. See S0000.
Singapore, R Singapore lnll: Business and Market Repon. A
roundup of financial and business news.
Singapore. A Singapore lnll: Frontiers. See S 1215.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Radio Japan Magazine Hour See M 0315.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Fai1h and Works. News about 1he
Church and religion.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Nel'ls. See S 1100.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Sports Spo1hght See M 0316.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl. The Front Page. Headlines from
the front pages of Singaporean and regional dai'ies
Singapore, R Singapore ln11: Take Five. See S 1255.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Nel'ISline. An analysis of the
nev~ making headlines in Singapore. the region. and the

Tuesdays
1100 Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan flews Round. See M 1100.
1100
1100
1100
1105
1115
1130
130
1130
1131
1135
1141
1145

New Zealand. R NZ lnll: Nel'lsdesk. See S 1100.

Singapore. A Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK, BBC London (all slreams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Business and Markel Report.
SeeM 1109.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Kaleidoscope. See S 1240.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: On the March. Recordings ol march
music from New Zealand ano the l'IOrld.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: News. See S 1100.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japanese Culture Today. See T 0330.
Singapore.RS ngapore Intl: The Front Page. See M 1135.
Japan, NHK/Ra1io: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Singapore. R Sngapore lnll. Newsline. See M 1145.

~~d~a~~~N~l~adio: Radio Japan News Round. See M 1100.

1100
1100
1100
1109
1115
1130
1130
1130
1138
1141
1145
1154
1154
1154
1154

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Nel'lsdesk. See S t 100.

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK, BBC London (all streams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Business and Market Report.
See M 1109.
Singapore. R Singapore lnU Star Trax A shol'lcase of
events on the pop. movie. and en1enainment beats.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Orienl Express. Live music requesl
program for Chinese listeners. Recommended.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Nws. See S 11 00.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: The Front Page. See M 1135.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: Newsline. Sec M 1145.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. From Belore lhe Cradle
(l 11h). See A 2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. I want 10 play for A1ax.
dad! (18th). See F 1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Peter The Great (Pan 1)
(251h). See F 2354.
Radio IJetherlards: Documentary Sticht1ng Noordlerland
(4th). Maggie A/re looks into the work ol the exchange
program 1ha1brings Irish children 10 Holland.

Thursdays
11 oo
11 00
1tOO
1100
1105

Japan, NHK/Radio: Radio Japan News Round. See M 1100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Newsdesk. See S 1100.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: News. See S 1100.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsdesk. Sec S 0000.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Business and Market Repon. See
M 1109.
1130 Japan, NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M 03 15.
1130 New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Trading Posl. Report on NZ's
overseas lrade with uptodate comment on trends. issues.
and products.
1130 Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Nel'ls. See S 1100.
1131 Japan. NHK/Radio: Crosscurrents. See H 0330.
1138 Singapore. R Singapore Intl: The Front Page. See M 1135.
1144 Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
1145 Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Nel'lshne. See M 1145.

Fridays

1100
1100
1100
1100
1109
1115
1130
1130

1130
1131
1135
1144
1145

Japan, NHK/Radio: Radio Japan News Round. See M 1100.

New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Newsdesk. See S 1100.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsdcsk. See S 0000.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: Business and Markel Repon. See
M 1109.
Singapore, R Singapore lnll: The Writlen Word. See M 1240.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M 0315.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: Dateline Pac11ic. Background current
alfairs in l he Pacific region.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Business Focus. See F0330.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: The Front Page. See M 1135.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Newsline. See M 1145.

Saturdays
1100
1100
1100
1100
1110
1110
1115
1130
1135
1150

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: Newsdesk. See S 1100.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Newsdesk. See S 0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio: This Week. See A 0310.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Catch ol the Week. See H 1240.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Star Trax. See W 1115.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Singapore. A Singapore lnll: Regional Press Review. See S 1135.
Singapore. RSingapore lnll: Business World, or Specials. See S
1140.

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1200-1300

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1200-1300 mtwhf
1200-1300
1200-1 230
1200-1215
1200- 1300 vi
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1259
1200-1300

Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int

Brazil. Radio Bras
Bulgaria. Radio
Cambodia, Natl Voice of
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFR X Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St Johns
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl
China. China Radio Intl

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

China, China Radio Intl

Costa Rica. Adv World R
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Africa
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
France. Radio France Intl

1200-1230
1200-1300
1200-1300 vi/as
1200-1300
1200 1300 vi
1200-1250
1200-1300
1200-1206
12001 230 s
12001300 vl

Iran. VOIRI
Iraq. Radio Iraq Intl
Italy, IRRS
Malaysia. Radio
Malays1a.RTM KotaKinabalu
Myanmar. Voice of
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Palau. KHBNN01ce of Hope

1200-1255

Poland. Polish R Warsaw

12001300

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

1200-1300
1200-1300

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SHORTWAVE GUIDE

1200 UTC

Singapore SBC Radio One

Singapore.A Singapore lnl

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9560as
11800pa
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11940as
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6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
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6160do
9640am
7385na
11660as
8660as
5030am
6205am
12005am
15186at
9530as
9805eu
15155eu
11875me
13680eu
7125va
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6100pa
9590eu
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15140as
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15520as
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6015as

6060pa
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6080pa
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11855am
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11445as
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15115am

13650am
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. .. ....

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300

South Korea. R Korea Intl

Sl'litzerland. Swiss R Intl
Taiwan. VO Free China
United Kingdom. BBC WS

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1 300
1200-1300

21660af
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of America

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300 s
t 200-1300 as
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1230
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1200-1300 mtwht
1206-1300 occsnal
1215-1300
1230-1300
1230-1255 s
1230-1300
1230-1259
1230-1300 mtv1hf
1230-1235
1230-1300 w
1230-1300
1230-1300
1220-1300 mll'lhf
mo-1300
1220-1300
1230-1300
1238-1255 1&3rd s
1240-1250

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMll R M1arn1 lnll
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeec11obee FL
Uzbekistan, R Tashkent
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Bangladesh, Radio
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Bulgaria. Radio
Canada. R Canada Intl
Finland. YLEIR Finland
India. All India Radio
Indonesia. RRI Sarong
Mongolia, R Ulan Bator
South Korea, R Korea Intl
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Sweden. Radio
Turkey, Voice of
Vietnam. Voice of
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Greece, Voice ol

7285va
6165eu
7130au
5965na
9410eu
1t 760as
15070va
17640va
5810am
7510am
9930as
6095na
61l Ova
15160va
7425na
9400am
9400am
6040am
7490na
9955am
13825va
5935am
5950na
7285as
6065af
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6100pa
17595as
7185as
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6150as
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11645af

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6195va
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6185arn
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15400na
6185do

17865do

12085as
9640as

13670as

15240pa
9630na
12010as
13800va

15305va

15480va

SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays

1200
1200
1200
1200
1203
1205
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1235
1240
1245
1255

New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S0000.

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK. BBC London (am/eulsouth as): World News. See S
0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Abundan1 Ufe Broadcast. Tony
Abrams evangelizes from Alabama.
Taiwan, Vol Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: E-Z Beat. Adult conlemporary
music program.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Frontiers. ii magazine program
leaturing developments in the fie lds of health. science.
information lechnology, education and the environment.
Taiwan. Vof Free China: The Adventures of Taiwan. See S
0215.
UK. BBC London (eu): Britain Today. See S 0045.
USA, WRMllR Miami Intl, FL: Failh and Trulh. Ken
Megilligan
Singapore, R Singapore ln11: News. See S 1100.
USA. WRMllR Miami Intl, FL: The Scriplure Hour. Evangelist
Paul Fleming spreads the gospel from South Carolina.
Taiwan. V of Free China: Mailbag Time. See S 0235.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Kaleidoscope. A lifestyle
magazine that looks at leisure, food. culture. heritage.
fashion. travel, and consumer trends.
USA. WRMl /R Miami Intl. FL: Deliverance Ministries. See S
0000.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Take Five. Pop music program.

Mondavs
1200
1200
1200
1203
1205
1215
1215
1220
1230
1240
1255

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NewLealand. R NZ ln11: RNZ News. See S0000.

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000
Taiwan. V ol Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: E-Z Beat. See S 1205.
Taiwan, Vol Free China: Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes. See
M0215.
UK, BBC London (al/as paCJeu/south as): Britain Today. See
s 0045.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl. Business and Market Report.
SeeM11 09
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Singapore, RSingapore ln11: The Wrinen Word. Interviews.
reviews. comments and analysis from the world of print.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl. Take Five. See S 1255.

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Tuesdavs
1200
1200
1200
1203
1205
1215
1215

New~ealand . R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK, BBC London (all slreams): Vlortd News. See S 00-00.
Taiwan, V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: E-Z Beat. See S 1205.
Taiwan, V of Free China: Kaleidoscope. See T 0215.
~~.i~BC London (al/as pac/eu/soulh as): Britain Today. See S

1220

Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Business and Market Report.

See M 1109.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Taiwan. V of Free China: Main Roads and Byways. See T
0236.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Reflections. See S 1345.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Take Five. See S 1255.

1230
1236
1240
1255

Wednesdavs
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.

1200
1200
1203
1205
1215
1215
1220
1230
1240
1255

UK, BBC London (all sl reams): World News. See S 0000.

Taiwan. V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: E-Z Beat. See S 1205.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: Music Box. See W 0215.
~~ BBC London (alias pac/eu/south as): Britain Today. See s

45

Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Business and Markel Report.

SeeM1109.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S t 100.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Frontiers. See S 1215.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Take Five. See S 1255.

i~o
~! Ja~and. RNZ Intl: RNZ News. Sees 0000.
1200 Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 11 00.
1200
1203
1205
121 5
1215
1220
1230
1232

1240
1245

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Calch of the Week. A look at

interesting thoughts and exchanges tor internet surfers.
Singapore. RSingapore Intl: Classic Gold. A golden-oldies
music program.

Fridavs
1200
1200
1200
1203
1205
1215
1215
1220
1230
1232
1240
1254
1254
1254
1254
1255

~w Zealand, R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.

Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
UK. BBC London (all streams): Wortd News. See S 0000.
Tait1an, V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore. R Smgapore Intl. E-Z Beat. See S 1205.
Taiwan. V of Free China: Confrontation. See F 0215.
UK. BBC London (at/as pac/eu/south as): Britain Today. See S
0045.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Business and Market Report. See
M 1109.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Taiwan. V of Free China: New Record Time. See F 0232.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl Profile. Sees 1120.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. From Before the Cradle
(13th). See A 2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. I want to play for Ajax. dad'
(20th). See F 1454.
Aadio Netherlands: Documentary. Peter The Great (Part 1)
(27th). See F2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Stichting Noord-lerland
(6th). See w 1154.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Take Five. See S 1255.

Saturdavs
1200
1200
1200
1203
1205
1205

UK, BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.

Taiwan, V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: E-2 Beat. See S 1205.
Taiwan. Vol Free China: Perspectives. See H 0215.
UK. BBC London (atlas pac/eu/south as) Britain Today. See S 1215
1215
0045
1225
Singapore. R Singapore Intl. Business and Market Report.
1230
See M 1109.
1240
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Nmvs. See S 1100.
Taiwan. V of Free China: Journey into Chinese Culture See H 1245
0232.

New fealan d, R NZ ln11: RNZ News. See S0000.

Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 11 00.
UK, BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Taiwan. V of Free China: News. See S 0203.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: E-Z Beat. See S 1205.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: The Last Radio Show. An
imaginary journey into the year 2020 and what Singaporean
personalities would like to hear in the final radio broadcast.
Taiwan, Vol Free China: Reflections. See S 0315.
UK. BBC London (afl eulsouth as): Britain Today. See S 0045.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Asean Notes. See S 11 10.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Asean Notes. See S 11 10.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Arts Arena. A program devoted to
the visual and performing arts.

FREQUENCIES .

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13001400

Auslralia. Radio

13001330
13001355mlVlhfa
13001320
13001330
1300 1400 vi
t300t400
13001400
1300 1400
13001400
13001400
1300 1400
1300 I 359 mhvhfa
13001400
1300 1330
13001400
13001330
13001400
13001330
1300-1400 as
13001400
13001400
1300 1330 vVas
13001400
1300 1400 vi
1300 1400vl
1300-1325
1300 1400 occsnaf
1300-1350

Auslralia. Radio
Belgium. A Vlaanderen Int
Brazil. Radio Bras
Bulgaria. Radio
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Mon1real
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN SI John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada ln11
China. China Radio lnll
China. China Radio lnll
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cairo
EQI Guinea, R East Afnca
EQI Guinea. Radio Africa
Iraq, Radio Iraq lnll
Italy. IRAS
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuching
Malaysia.ATM KotaKinabalu
Ne1herlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ lnll
North Korea. R Pyongyang

1300-1330;
1300 1400 vi

Normy. Radio Norway lnll

Palau. KHBNN01ce of Hope

1300 1400
13001356
13001400
1300-1400
13001400
1300 1400 'lllwh f
13001330

Philippines. FEBC/R lnll

Romania. R Romania Intl
Russia. Voice ol Russia ws
Singapore. SBC Radio One
Singapore.A Singapore Int
Sn Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
SwiUerland. Sl'/1Ss R Intl

.....
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9610as
6060pa
13610na
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15620as
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6070do
6030do
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6160do
6160do
9640am
7385na
74 10as
6205am
11660eu
12005am
17595as
15186af
9530as
13680as
7125va
7295do
7160do
5980do
6045eu
6100pa
9345as
15430as
13800as
9730as
15140as
11995as
9690cu
15340as
6155do
6015as
15425as
7230as

7240as
11800pa
6080as
15540as

11 855am
9715as
7385am
17845af
151 15am

9560pa

9580pa

13001400

United Kingdom. BBC WS

1300 1400
1300 1400
13001400
13001400
13001400
13001400

17885af
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KJES Mesquite NM
USA. KNLS Anchor Point AK
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. Monitor Radio lnll
USA. Voice of America

1300 1330
1300 1400
1300 1400
13001400
1300 1400
13001400 s
13001400
13001400as
13001400
13001400
13001400
1300 1330 mtwhf
13031310
13301355
13301359 s
13301359 mtwhfa
13301359
13301400
13301400
1330 1400v1
13301400
1330 1400
13301355
1330 1400
1330-1400
13351345
13381355 1&3rd s
13451400

USA. Voice of America

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia, ZNBC Radio 2
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Aus1ria. R Aus1ria lnll
Canada. R Canada ln11
Canada. R Canada lnll
Canada. R Canada lnll
Guam. AWR/KSOA
India. All India Radio
Italy. IRRS
Netherlands. Radio
Sweden. Radio
UAE. Radio Dubai
Uzbekistan. R Tashkent
Vietnam. Voice of
Greece. Voice of
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Valican Slate. Vatican R

9510pa

13650am
11660pa
15050am
21455am

7190eu
9640eu

11 740as

15230as

15340na
9955as

9965as

9985as

11940eu
15460as

15365eu
15560as

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13635as

15240as

6155as
7480as

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11750as
15070va
15575va
21470af
5810am
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61 lOva
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11715va
9580na
9400am
6040am
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9955am
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9475am
5950na
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11855am
17820va
9535as
9650as
11620as
3985va
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6090na
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7285as
9840as
15180na
9590va
9500as

5990as
9515va
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15220am
17640va
21660af
15725am

6190af
9590va
11940af
15310as
17705va

6195va
9740as
12095eu
15420af
17830af

9355as
9645va

9455na
9760va

13840as
15160va

11875na

15665eu

15105am
13595na

12160am
11830na

13845am
13695na

7165eu
13730eu
11935eu

13830am

15685am
17750na

15325va

21455va

15150as
13740na
17825eu
15295as

15240na
21605me

11795as
13750as
13700as
9835as
15395eu
9715as
1201oas
15630na
13800va
11625as

15305va
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15340va

SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1300
1300
1300
1305
1315
1330
1330
1330
1345
1345
1346
1355

Singapore, R Singapore lnU: News. See S 1100.

UK BBC London (all streams): Nel'lshour. A comprehensive
loo< at the major topics of 1he day, plus uptotlleminute
1ntemational and British news.
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll. FL: Search for Truth. Greg Neely
evangelizes from Ontario. Canada.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Friends of theAirwaves.
Conservations with studio guests and lis1eners. letter reading
and regional lifesytle (simulcast from Singapore's One FM).
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnU, FL: Prophecy Talk. See S 0000.
Austria. RAustria lnll: Report from Aus1ria. See S 0130.
India. Ali India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.
USA. WRM VR Miami lnll, FL: Batlle Cry Sounding. Deborah
Green evangelizes.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview. A look at 1oday's
program lineup.
Singapore. R Singapore lnU: Reflections. Vignettes of life in
Singapore and the region.
India. All India Radio: Musical Interlude. A musical filler
program.
Singapore, R Singapore lnll: News. See S 1100.

Mondays
1300
1300
1300
1305
1315
1330
1330
1330
1330

t345
t355

Singapore. R Singapore lnll: News. See S 1100.

UK. BBC London (all streams): Newshour. See S 1300.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Church of Christ See S 0000.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: SingaPop. A showcase of
homegro1m Singaporean talents and local songs.
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll. FL: Christ Gospel Broadcast BR
Hicks wi1h a bible lesson.
Austria. R Austria lnll: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. Alf India Radio. News and Commentary. See S0030.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll. Newsline. See M 1145.
USA, WRMVR Miami lnll FL: Viva Miami!. A magazine
program hosted by Jell While from and abou1Miami and
Florida. that includes OX and inlerna1ional 1ravel fea1ures and
seasonal 1ropical weather updales.
Indra. All India Radio: Program Preview. Sec S 1345.
Singapore. R Smgapore ln11: News. See S 1100.

Tuesdays
1300
1300
1300
1305

1315
1330
1330
1330
1330
1340
1345
1355

Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.

UK. BBC London (all streams): Nel'lshour. See S 1300.
USA. WRMl/R Miami ln11, FL: Prophecy Talk. See S 0000.
Singapore. R Singapore ln11: To Each His Dwn. A weekly
program featuring listeners' dedications and song requests.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Deliverance Ministries. See S
0000.
Au stria. RAustna Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. Ali India Radio: Nel'ls and Commentary. See S 0030.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Nel'ls. See S 1100.
USA. WRMl/R Miami ln11, FL: Viva Miami!. See M 1330.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Ncl'lsline. See M 1145.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
Singapore, R Singapore lnU: News. Sec S 1100.

Wednesdays

1300
1300
1300
1305
1315
1330
1330
1330
1330
1340
1345
1346
1354

1355

Singapore, R Singapore ln11: News. Sec S 1100.

UK. BBC London (all streams): Nowshour. Sec S 1300.
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll. FL: Word of Truth. See S 0000.
Singapore. R Singapore Intl: Hol Trax. Information about
new music releases in Singapore.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Faith and Truth. See S 1215.
Austria. R Austria Intl: Report from Aus1na. See S 0130.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: Nel'IS. See S 1100.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Viva Miami!. See M 1330.
Singapore. R Singapore fn11: Newsline. See M 1145.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
India. All India Radio: Indian Music. Traditional indian music
played wi1h orfgnal ins1ruments.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. From Before 1he Cradle.
See A 2354.(1 ltll)I want to play tor Ajax, dad! See F 1454.
(181h) Peter The Great (Part 1) See F 2354.(25th). Stich1ing
Noordlerfand. See W 1154 (4th)
Singapore. R Singapore lnU: News See S 11 00.

Thursdays
1300
1300
1300

Singapore, R Singapore ln11: News. See S 11 00.

UK, BBC London (all streams): Nowshour. Sec S 1300.
USA. WAMl/R Miami lnll. FL: Word for 1he World. See S
0000.

1305
1315
t330
1330
1330
1330
1340
1345
1346
1355

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: SlngaPop. See M 1305.

USA. YIRMVR Miami Intl. FL: Wavescan. See S 0030.
Austria. RAus1na Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.
Singapore. R Singapore ln11: News. See S 1100.
USA. VIRMVR Miami Intl. FL: Viva Miami!. See M 1330.
Singapore. R Singapore lnU: Ncwsline. See M 1145.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
India, All India Radio: Listeners' Choice. Indian music
requests from listeners.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: News. See S 1100.

Fridays
1300
1300
1300

1305
1315
1330
1330
1330
1330
1340
1345
1346
1355

Singapore. R Singapore Intl: News. See S 11 00.

UK. BBC London (all streams): Nemhour. See s 1300.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: Voice of Deliveran ce and
Power. See S 0000.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: Hot Trax. See W1305.
USA, WRMVR Miami Intl. FL: Wavescan. See S 0030.
Austria, R Austria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.
Singapore. R Singapore lnll: News. See S 1100.
USA. V/RMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Viva Miami!. See M 1330.
Singapore, R Singapore Ind: flewsline. See M 1145.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
India, All India Radio: Indian Music. See W 1346.
Singapore, R Singapore Intl: News. See S 1100.

Saturdays
1300
1300
1305

1330
1330
1330
1340
1345
1346
1355

Singapore, RSingapore lnll: News. See S 1100.

UK. BBCLondon (all streams) Newshour. See S 1300.
Singapore. RSingapore lnll: Chartbeal A coun1down of chan
toppers on Singapore's Perfect 10. Red1ffusion and Bill 0
magazines.
Austria, RAus1ria lnH: Report from Austria. See S0130.
India. All India Radio: Nem and Commentary. See S0030.
Singapore, RSingapore Intl: News. See S 1100.
Singapore. ASingapore lnll: Regional Press Review. See S 11 35.
India. All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
India, All India Radio: UN News Magazine. The Uni1ed Nations
daily news program.
Singapore. RSingapore lnll: News. See S 1100.

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Canada CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada CFCX Montreal
Canada CFRX Toronlo
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Canada . R Canada Intl
China. Chma Radio Intl
Cos1a Rica.RF Peace lnll
Ecuador. HCJB
Ecuador. HCJB
Eql Guinea. R East Africa
France. Radio France lnll
Indra, All India Radio
Israel Kol Israel
Italy. IRRS
Japan NHK/Radro
Jordan. Radio
Malaysia Radio
Malaysia RTM Kuchrng
Malaysra.RTM KolaKinabalu
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
Ncl hcilancls. Radio
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl
Palau. KHBNNorce of Hope

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Russ1a.V01ce of Russia WS

1400-1500
1400 1500
14001500

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Singapore. SBC Radio One

Srr Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Unrl ed Kingdom. SBC WS

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USA, KJES Mesqui1e NM
USA. KTBN Sall Lk City UT
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice ot America

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USA. WEWN Brrmrngham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican Stale. Va tican R
Zambia. Ch11st1an Vorce
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Bhulan. Bhulan BC Service
Nepal. Radio
Auslraha. Radio

1430 1500 vi
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1430 1500 mlwhf
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1430 1500
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1440 1500
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Indra. All India Radio
Indonesia. RRI U1 Pandang
Portugal. R Portugal lnll
Romania. R Romania lnll
Uniled Kingdom. BBC WS
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Myanmar. Voice or
Seychelles. FEBA Radio

11a1sas

151 15am
15405as
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14001500
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SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1400
1400
1400
1410
1420
1425
1445
1450
1453
1455

India. All India Radio: Fealure Program. A variable fealure

produced by AIR.
Japan. NHK/Rad10. NHK News. See S 0100.
UK. BBC London (all slreams) News Summary. One minu1e
news upda1e
Japan. NHK/Rad10. Lei's Learn Japanese. See S 0510.
Indra. All Indra Radro: Press Review. See S 0000.
Japan, NHK/Radro Media Roundup. See S0525.
India. All Indra Radro News. lnlernallonal news and reports.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: Viewpoint See S 0550.
India, All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
Japan. NHK/Radro: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Mondays
1400
1400
1400
1400
141 5
1420
1420
1430
1430
1440
1445
1446
1446
1453
1455

Japan. NHK/Radro NHK News. See S 0100.

UK. BBC London (af): News Summary. See S 1400.
UK, BBC London (am/as paeleu/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami lnll, FL: The Overcomer Broadcast
Brolher R. G. Slalr preaches aboul lhe las1 days.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M 0315.
India. All Indra Radio: Press Review. See S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio Close Up. See M 0330.
Japan. NHK/Radio Sports Spotlight See M 0316.
Portugal: News. A quarterhour of inlernalional and nalional
news.
Japan. NHK/Rad10. Japan Diary. See M 0325.
India. All lndla Radio: News. See S 1445.
Japan. NHK/Radro. News Commentary. See M 0347.
Portugal: V1s11ors' llotebook. Tou11s1artraclions and evenls in
Portugal.
Indra. All Indra Rado Program Preview. See S 1345
Japan, llHK/Radro Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Tuesdays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1415
1420
1420

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1450
1453
1455

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Japan. NHK/Radio: Japanese Cullurc Today. See T 0330.

Portugal: News. See Day M 1430.
Indra. All India Radio: News. See S 1445.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Portugal: Musical Kaleidoscope. A varieP/ of music for
hstening.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Corrmentary. See M 0347.
Indra. All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop In. See S0155.

Wednesdavs
1400
1400
1400
1400
1415
1420
1420
1430
1430
1441
1445
1447
1449
1453
1455

Japan. NHKlRadro: NHK News See S 0100.

UK. BBC London (al ). News Summary. See S 1400.
UK. BBC London (am/as paeleu/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA. WRMl/R M1am1 Intl, FL. The Overcomer Broadcast See
M 1400.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M 03 15.
India, All India Radio: Press Review. See S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asian Report. See W 0320.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Close Up. See M 0330.
Portugal: News. See Day M 1430.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. Sec M 0325.
India, All India Radio: News. See S 1445.
Japan. NHK/Radio: News Commenlary. See M 0347.
Portugal: Challenge of lhe '90s. The pasl, present. and fulure
of Portugal.
Indra. All India Radio. Program Preview. See S 1345.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

1448
1453
1455

1400
1400
1400

1415
1420
1430
1430
1442
1445
1446

Japan. rJHK/Radlo: NHK News. See S0100.

UK. BBC London (al): News Summary. See S 1400.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/eu/sou1h as): World News See S
0000
USA. WRMl/R Mramr Intl. FL The Overcomer Broadcasl See
M 1400
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazme Hour. See M 0315
India. All India Radio: Press Review. See S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Crosscurrenls. See H 0330.
Portugal: Nel'ls. See Day M 1430.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Indra. All India Radio: News. See S 1445.
Po11uga1: Spolligh1 on Portugal Focus on the cities. towns.
and regions of Portugal.

Japan. NHK/Rad10: News Commenlary. See M 0347.

India. All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln See S 0155.

Fridays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1415
1420
1430
1430
1442
1442
1445
1446
1446
1446
1448
1453
1454

Thursdays

1400

Japan, NHK/Radro NHK News. See S 0100.

UK. BBC London (al): News Summary. See S 1400.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/eu/sou1h as): World News. See S
0000.
USA. WRMVR M1am1 Intl. FL: The Overcomer Broadcast See
M 1400.
Japan. NHK/Radro Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M 0315.
India. All Indra Rado Press Review. Sec S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio. Close Up. See M 0330.

MONITORING TIMES

1430
1430
1445
1445
1445

1455

Japan. NHK/Radro. NHK News See S 0100.

UK. BBC London (af): Nel'IS Summary See S 1400.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/eu/soulh as): Wo~d News.
See S 0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll, FL: The Overcomer
Broadcast See M 1400.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour. See M
0315.
India. All India Rado: Press Review. See S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Close Up. See M 0330.
Ponugal: News. See Day M 1430.
Japan. NHK/Rad10: Japan Diary. See M 0325.
Ponugal: V1s11ors' Notebook. See Day M 1446.
India, All India Radio: News. See S 1445.
Portugal: Colloc1or's Corner (trlwcekly). Al look al
slamps. coins and olhcr colleclibles.
Portugal: lisleners Mailbag (triweekly). lis1ener letters
arc read and Queslions answered.
Portugal: Radio Portugal DX (t11weekly). Shonwave
radio hstenrng tips.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Commentary. See M 0347.
Indra. All Indra Rado: Program Preview. See S 1345.
Radio Nelherlands: Documentary. From Before the
Cradle. See A 2354.(13th} I wan1 to play for Ajax. dad!
Howard Shannon inves1iga1es what makes this one of
Europe's mosl allraclive clubs for your players (201h).
Peter The Greal (Part 1} See F2354 (27lh). Sllchling
Noordlerland. See W 1154 (6lh).
Japan, NHK/Radro: Tokyo Popln See S 0155.

Saturdays
1400
1400
1400
1410
1420
1445
1453
1455

Indra. All Indra Rado: Feature. See S 1400.

Japan. NHK/Rad10: NHK News. See S 0100.
UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S
0000.
Japan, NHK/Rad10: This Week. See A 0310.
India. All lndla Radio: Press Review. See S 0000.
India. All India Radio: News. See S 1445.
Indra. All India Radio: Program Preview. See S 1345.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S 0355.

FREQUENCIES . ...
1500-1600

Australia. Radio

1500- t 600 vi
1500-1600
15001600
1500-t600
1500t600
t5001600
1500-t600
15001559 s
1500-t600
15001600
1500-1600
1500 1600 as
1500-1600
15001600
1500 1600 vi
15001600
t5001600
15001600
15001600
1500-1600 vi
1500-1600 vi
1500 1530
15001530
15001515 s
1500 1525
1500 1600 occsnal
15001550
15001600 vi
1500-1600
1500-1526
1500 1600

Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc

Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP ca1gar1
Canada. CHNX Hah1ax
Canada. CKZN S1 John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Africa
Guam. TWR'KTWR
Italy. Adv World Radio
Italy. IRRS
Japan. NHK/Radio
Jordan. Radio
Lebanon. Voice o1 Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuching
Malaysia.ATM KotaKinabalu
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
Mongolia. R Ulan Bator
Myanmar. Voice of
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Palau, KHBNNoice of Hope
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Romania. R Romania Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

5995pa
7260as
11660as
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
t1855am
7405na
6205am
15115sa
15186af
t 1580as
7230eu
3985va
9535na
11970eu
6280eu
7295do
7160do
5980do
9705na
9745as
5990do
9895as
6100pa
9325eu
9955as
11995as
11775as
4740va
9595me
11775va
12035va
15540me

6060pa
9580pa
11695pa

1500
1500
15 t O
1530
1530
1555

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. Sec S 0100.

UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Hello from Tokyo. See S 0310.
Austria, R Auslria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. All India Radio: National News. News from around
India.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Mondays
1500
1500
1500
1515

1525
t530
t 530
1555

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

UK. BBC London (allam/eu/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Overcomer Broadcast.
See M 1400.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. The most
important stories from other Asian media organizations
are summarized in a new t Ominute format.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Profile. An in-depth interview with a
Japanese personality.
Austria, R Auslria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India, All India Radio: National News. See S 1530.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Tuesdays
1500
1500
1500
1515
1525
1530
1530
t 555

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

UK. BBC London (af/am/eu/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Overcomer Broadcast.
See M 1400.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Enjoy Japanese. Learn and practice the
Japanese language.
Austria. R Austria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. All India Radio: National News. See S 1530.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Wednesdays
1500

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S O100.

6090as
971 Opa
12080pa

13650am
9535na
7385am
21455va

9785as
15050am

11815as

11915as

11930me

15355af

12085as
13700as

15150as

9640eu
9965as

9975na
9985as

13785me
15140as

4975va
9955af
11945va
15340va
1775Daf

7305me
9975at
12025af
15350va

15335as
4940va

9830va
11835va
15320me
15560af

15001600
1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600 mtwhf
1500 1530
15001600

S Africa, Channel Africa

Seychelles. FEBA Radio
Singapore. SBC Radio One
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Switzertand. Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

15001530

United Kingdom. BBC WS

15001600
t5001600
15001600
15001600
t5001600

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

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

15001600
t5001600
1500-1600
1500 1600
1500-1600
15001600 as
1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600
1520 1530 mtwhf
1530 1555
1530 1545

USA, WEWN Birmingham Al

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Christian Voice
Es1onia. Radio
Austria. R Austria Intl
India. All India Radio

1530-1600
Iran. VOIRI
15301600
Netherlands. Radio
United King1fom. BBC WS
1530t600
15381555 1&3rd s Oenma1k. R Denmark Intl
Vatican State. Vatican R
1545-1600 a

3220at
9810as
6155do
9720as
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9410eu
11 865am
15400as
21660af
11860af
21490af
13815am
15590am
9930as
9355as
7125as
9760as
9580na
9400am
13760am
7490na
15420am
15745eu
9475am
11830na
6065af
5925eu
11780as
3945do
9530do
11740do
7290as
9890as
7180as
11840va
9940as

7155af
11870as
15425as
13635as
6190af
9515na
12095as
17705va

15530as
6195va
9740va
t5070as
17830at

7205as
t 1750as
15220am
I 7840af

1t940at

15420af

17880af

9645as
15255va
15665eu

9700va
15395as

12160am
17750na

13845am

15685am

6185do
9565do

7140do
9685do

7410do
9910do

t5725am

7215as
t5205as
11875na
15105am
13595na

9635as
15150as
11720as
13805va
11640as

15230va

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SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays

6080pa
9615as
11800pa

1500
1500
1515
1525
1530
t 530
1554
t 554
1554
1554
1555

UK. BBC London (af/am/eu/south as): World News. See S

0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Overcomer Broadcast.
See M 1400.
Japan. NHKiRadio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: History and Classics. NEW! A look at
Japanese historical figures and art forms.
Austria, R Austria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. All India Radio: National News. See S 1530.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. From Before the Cradle
(11th). See A 2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. I want to play for Ajax,
dad' (18th). See F 1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Peter The Great (Part 1)
(25th). See F2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Stichting Noordlertand
(4th). SeeW 11 54.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

1530
1530
1555

people in Japan are listening to and reading.

Austria, R Austria Intl: Report from Ausl ria. See S 0130.
India, All lndla Radio: National News. See S 1530.
Jap<in. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Saturdays
1500
1500
1510
1511
1521
1525
1530
t530
1546
t 555

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S0100.

UK. BBC London (all streams): World News. See S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asia Weekly. See S011 O.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Asian News Summary. See S 0111 .
Japan. NHK/Radio: Business Report. See S 0121.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Entertaining in Asia. See S 0125.
Austria. RAustria Intl: Report from Austria. See S0130.
India, All India Radio: Nati-Onal News. See S 1530.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asia Kaleidoscope. See S 0146.
Japan, NHK/Radio: News Summary. See S 0355.

Thursdays
t500
1500
1500
1515
1525
1530
t530
t555

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S0100.

UK. BBC London (af/am/eu/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: The Overcomer Broadcast.
See M 1400.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Enjoy Japanese. See T 1525.
Austria, R Austria Intl: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
India. All India Radio: National News. See S 1530.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Fridays
1500
1500
1500
1515
1525

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.

UK, BBC London (af/anveu/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Overcomer Broadcast.
See M 1400.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Music and Book Beat. NEW! What

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1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
160017DO
1600-1627
1600-1630
1600-1700

Belarus Radiosta Belarus

Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halrtax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep. Radro Prague
Ethiopra. Radro
France. Radro France Intl

1600-1650
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1615 mt
1600-1630 whfas
1600-163D
1600-170D vi
16DD-163D
160D-170D
16DD1625
160D 165D occsnal
16D01630 s
16DD-163D

Germany. Deutsche Welle

Germany. Deutsche Welle
Guam. AWR/KSDA
Guam. TWR/KlWR
Guam. TWR/KTWR
Iran. VOIRI
Italy. IRAS
Jordan. Radio
Malaysia. Radio
Ne1herlands. Radro
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nomay. Radro Norway Intl
Pakislan. Radro

16DD 170D vi
t6DD 17DD

Palau. KHBNNorce of Hope

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

160D 1655
160D 170D
1600170D
16D01700

S Afrrca. Channel Afrrca

S Africa. Trans World R
Singapore. SBC Radro One
Slovakia, Adv World Radio

5995pa
7260as
11695pa
4880eu
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
4130af
6205am
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15110af

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1600

16D9
1619
1629
1633
1634
1645

13700as

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9965as
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11630eu
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9985as
7350eu
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15350va

Germany, Deutsche Welle: OW World News. Eight minutes

of world news from Deutsche Welle.
UK, BBC London (al/am/as pac/south as): World News. See
0000.
USA. WANO.: The Overcomer Broadcast. Brother R. G. Stair
preaches about the last days.
Germany, Deutsche Welle (as): Arts on the Air. Reports and
interviews on major cultural events and developments. The
Bayreuth Feslival (1st). See F 0133.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Tho Week in Germany. A
summary of the week's events in Germany by Deutsche
Welle's Bonn correspondents.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Religion and Society. News and
developments concerning the world's major religions.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Through German Eyes. In-depth
rnterviews with prominent German 1ournalrsts.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: German by Radio. An advanced
German language course for English speakers.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Hits in Germany. The German pop
scene for listeners in Africa.
UK, BBC London (am): Britain Today. See S0045.

1600
t 60D

Germany, Deutsche Welle: OW World News. See S 1600.

UK, BBC London (al/am/as pac/south as): World News. See

1600
1600

USA, Monitor Radio News. See M 11DO.

USA. WANO,: USA Radro News. Five minutes of news from
lhe USA Radio Network.
USA.:. See M 1106.
USA, WANO.: Rush Limbaugh Program. Political talk on the
conservative side.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Newsline Cologne. Worldwide
current affairs program with a review of the press.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: African News. News about and
for African countries
Germany, Deutsche \Velie: Science and Technology.
Magazine program presenting new developments in science
and technology.
UK, BBC London (am/as pac/eu): Britain Today. See S 0045.
USA,: Letterbox. See M 1149.

16D9
1633
1633
1645
1649

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Tuesdays
160D
1600

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Germany. Deutsche Welle: OW World News. See S 1600.

UK, BBC London (al/am/as paclsouth as): World News. See
0000.

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16G0- 1700
1600-1630 mtwhf
1600-1700
16C01640
1600-1700

South Korea, R Korea Intl

Sn Lanka, Sri Lanka BC
Swaziland, Trans World R
UAE. Radio Dubai
United Kingdom, BBC WS

1600-1615
1600 17DO
1600-17DO
160D-17DD
1600-17DD
160017DD

Unitecf Kingdom. BBC WS

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

1600-1630 as
1600-1700
1600-1700
16DD-l 7DD
16DD1700
16D0-1700
16DD-17DO as
1600-1700
1600-1700

USA. Voice of America

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL

1600-1620 a
1600-1700
16D0-1610 mtwhfa
1615-1630
1615-1700
16t5-1630 a
1630-1659
1630-1700
1630-17DD
163D17DO
163D-170D
1638-1655 1&3rd s
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1650-170D
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Vatrcan State, Vatican R

Zambia, Chris1ian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Albanra, R Tirana Intl
United Krngdom. BBC WS
Vatican State. Vatican R
Canada. R Canada Intl
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Slovakia, Adv World Radio
Slovakia. R Slovak:a Intl
USA. Vorce of America
Denmark, R Denmark Intl
Canada. R Canada Intl
Eqt Guinea, Radio Africa
New Zealand. R NZ Intl

12015af

17800af

1515Das

1380Deu
9515af

Mondays

1606
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1609

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1600
160D
1606
1606
1609
1633
1638
1644
1645
1649

USA: Monrtor Radio News. See M 1100.

USA. WANO: USA Radio News. See M 1600.
US,:. See M 1106.
US, WANO: Rush Limbaugh Program. See M 1606.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Newsline Cologne. Sec M 16D9.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Man and Environment. Variou s
topics relating lo the environment in industrial and
developing countries.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: African News. See M 1633.
Germany: Man and Environment. See T 1633.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/eu): Britain Today. See S 0045.
USA.: Letterbox. See M 1149.

Fridavs
1600
16DO

16DD
16DD
16D6
t 606
16D9
1633

Germany, Deutsche Welle: DW World News. See S 160D.

UK, BBC London (al/am/as pac/south as): World News. See
s 0000.
USA: Monitor Radio News. See M 1100.
USA. WRNO: USA Radio News. See M 16DO.
USA:. SeeM 1106.
USA. WANO: Rush Limbaugh Program. See M 1606.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Newsline Cologne. Sec M 16D9.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Spotlight on Sport. weekly
magazine program with background stories and coverage of
importan1 events.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Alrican News. See M 1633.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Spollight on Sport. See F 1633.
UK, BBC London (am/as pac/eu): Britain Today. See S 0045.
USA: Letterbox. See M 1149.

Wednesdavs

1638
1643
1645
1649

1600
1600
1606
1606
1609
1633

Saturdays

1600
1600

1638
t 643
1645
1649

Germany, ~eutsche Welle: OW Wortd News. See S 1600.

UK, BBC London (aflam/as pac/south as): Wortd News. See S
DODD.
USA,: Monitor Radio News. See M 1100.
USA, WANO: USA Radio News. See M 160D.
USA:. See M 1106.
USA, WANO,: Rush Limbaugh Program. See M 1606.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Ncwsline Cologne. See M 1609.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Insight. A weekly analysis of major
developments on the international scene.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: African News. See M 1633.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Insight. See W 1633.
UK, BBC London (arl\/as pac/eu) Britain Today. See S 0045.
US.: Letterbox. See M 1t49.

Thursdays
1600
1600

16DD
160D
16D6
1606
1609
1633
1638
1643
1645
1649

Germany. Deutsche Welle: OW World News. See S 1600.

UK. BBC London (al/am/as pac/south as): World News. See S
0000.
USA: Monitor Radio News. See M 1100.
USA, WANO: USA Radio News. See M 160D.
USA,: See M 1106.
USA. WANO: Rush Umbaugh Program. See M 16D6.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Newstine Cologne. See M t 609.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Living in Germany. A weekly look
a11he social and political issues in the 1990s.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: African News. See M 1633.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Living in Germany. See H 1633.
UK. BBC London (am/as pac/eu): Britain Today. See S OD45.
USA,: Letterbox. See M 1149.

160D
160D
16DD
160D
16D6
1609

1609
161B
1618
1623
1630
1633
1640
1648

Germany, Deutsche Welle: DW Wortd News. See S 1600.

UK, BBC London (all streams): World News. See S OODD.
USA: Monitor Radio News. See M 1100.
USA. WANO: The Overcomer Broadcast. See S 16DO.
USA: Christian Science Sentinel Radio Edition. See S 1129.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Feature of the Month (1st Sat). A
special feature on important developmental issues of our
time. Africa in the German Press. What the German
newspapers and weeklies have 10 say about Africa.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: lnterna1ional Talking Point.
Journalrs1s drscuss major trends and events.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Focus on Development
{biweekly). Reports and interviews on projects and
progress in Africa and Asia.
Germany, Deutsche.Welle: Women on the Move (biweekly).
A magazine promoting intercultural understanding and
portraying the role of women in society.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Developmen1 Forum. Reports
and interviews on projects and progress in Africa and Asia.
USA. WRNO: American Dissident Voices. The facist point of
view is expounded.
Germany. Deutsche Welle: Economic Nolebook. The
economic scene rn Germany and around the world.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: Religion and Society. See S
1619.
Germany, Deutsche Welle: The Jazz Corner. A musical
change-of-pace from the world of jazz.

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Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China. China Radio Intl

1700 1800 as
1700-1800
1700-1727
17001800
17001800
17001800
1700-1 730

Costa Rica, Adv World R

Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
France. Radio France Intl

1700 1800 vi
17001800
17001800
1700 1800 mn1hf
1700 1750
1700 1750
17001800 vi
17001755
1700 1800

Italy. IRAS
Japan. NHK/Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Pakistan, Radio
Palau. KHBNNoice of Hope
Poland. Polish RWarsaw
Russia.Voice of Russia ws

1700-1755
17001730
1700 1800
17001730

S Africa. Channel Africa

Sn Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Swaziland, Trans World R
Switzerland, Swiss R Intl

17001800

United Kingdom. BBC WS

1700 1745
17001715
1700 1800
17001800
1700 1800
17001800
17001800

United Kingdom. BBC WS

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

1700 t 800 mtwhf

USA. Voice of America

17001800
1700-1800
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1700-1800
1700 1800 srntwhf
17001800
1700 1800
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1730-1800
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1730 1756
17301800
17301800
1738 1755 1&3rd s
17451800 rnMhf
17451800
17451800

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA, WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia, ZNBC Radio 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Austria. R Au stria Intl
Guam. AWR/KSDA
Netherlands. Radio
Philippines. R Pilipinas
Romania, R Romania Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Vatican Stat:. Vatican R
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Armenia. Voice of
Bangladesh. Radio
India. All India Radio

17451800 rntwhf

Swaziland. Trans World R

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6205am
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15540eu
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15186af
6175eu
15210af
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6035na
6280eu
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9325eu
9400eu
9955as
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7150af
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1800-1900

Algeria. R Algiers Intl

Australia. Radio

9535as

1800- 1900
1800 1825
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
1800-1900
18001900
18001830
18001900
18001900

Bangladesh. Radio
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Brazil. Radio Bras
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZN Sl John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
India. All India Radio

18001900vl
18001900
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18001900
18001900 s
18001825
18001900 mtwhf
1800 1830s
1800 1900 vi
18001900

11aly. IRRS
Kuwait. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of
Lebanon, Voice of Hope
Morocco. RTVM Marocaine
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Philippines. R Pilipinas
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

1800 1900
18001830
18001900
1800 1900

Sudan. Radio Omdurman

Swaziland, Trans World R
Swaziland. Trans World R
United Kingdom. BBC WS

18001 830
18001900
1800-1900
1800-1900
18001900
1800 1900
18001900

United Kingdom, BBC WS

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

18001830
18001 900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
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18001900
18001900 mnvhl
18001900
1800 1900
18001900
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18031 810
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USA. Voice of America

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA, WRNO New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Greenbush ME
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 1
Zambia. ZNBC Radio 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Albania, R nrana Intl
Netherlands. Radio

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11615me
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Serbia, Radio Yugoslavia
Slovakia. R Slovakia Intl
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18301900
South Korea. R Korea Intl
18301900
Sweden. Radio
18301900
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18301900
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18301900
USA. Voice of America
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18401850
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Armenra. Voice of
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15095na
17750eu
9655va
9695na
5905as
9590va
11955as

9770na
5975va
9915va
12095eu

6175va
11750sa

13840as
9705va
15290va

15405as
9770va
15305va

15665sa
11 76Dva
17735va

7415af
11820eu

12080af
13615na

13710af

9475am
21525eu

121 60am

13845am

7165eu

1383Dam

6155eu
11600af

9880eu

15725am

13595na

1184Qau
4915do
9705as

9950as

9600as

11 830au

11620as

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2300-0000
23000000
2300-0000
2300-0000
23000000
23000000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-2359

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

2300-0000

Costa Rica, Adv World R

2300-0000
2300-0000
23002350
23000000
2300-0000

Costa Rica. RF Peace Intl

Egypt, Radio Cairo
Germany. Deutsche Welle
Guatemala. Adv World R
India, All India Radio

2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-2306
2300-2315
2300-2350
2300-0000 vi
2300-0000 vi
2300-2356
23000000
2300-0000
23000000

Japan, NHK/Radio
Malaysia, Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria, FRCN/Rad10
North Korea, R Pyongyang
Palau. KHBNNoice of Hope
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Romania. R Romania Intl
Russia, Voice of Russia WS
UAE, Radio Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom, BBC WS

9610as
11695as
15365pa
7480na
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5960am
15305am
5030am
13750am
6205am
9900na
7235as
11775am
9705as
15145as
5965eu
7295do
11735pa
3326do
11700na
9985as
9675do
7105na
7125na
9605na
3955eu

9660pa
11855as
17795pa
9700na

11645as
13745pa
17860pa

11660pa
13755as

9755am

11940am

13670am

6150am
15460am
7385am

7375am

9725am

9690as

12045as

9950as

11620as

13700as

9535eu

9560as

11850pa

4990do
13650na
11735as

13615as

9570na
7240na
9695na
5975va

9625na
9665na
9770na
6175va

11940na
11750na

2300-2330
2300-2315
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

United Kingdom. BBC WS

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

2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000 vi
2300-0000
2300-0000 twhfa
2300-0000
2300-0000 s
2300-0000
2300-2315
23032310
2307-0000
2310-2315
2325-2336 mtwhfa
2330-0000
2330-2355
2330-2359
2330-0000
23352345
23382355 1&3rd s
23550000

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
Vatican State, Vatican R
Croatia, Croatian Radio
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
Kyrgystan. Kygyz Radio
Lebanon. Voice of
Australia, Radio
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Netherlands, Radio
Vietnam, Voice of
Greece, Voice of
Denmark. R Denmark Intl
Japan, NHK/Radio

7295as
11750sa
3915as
11835va
13740am
15590am
17510as
13625as
7215va
15185va
17820va
7425na
9400am
5745am
7490na
9955am
7355am
5850eu
5065am
7305as
5895eu
15115pa
40t0eu
6550eu
9645as
9925na
6020na
9840eu
9395sa
7275va
9570as

9580as
11945as

9590na
11955as

991 Sva

13770af
9705va
15290va

15405as
9770va
15305va

15665sa
11760Va
17735va

11820eu

13615na

13815am

9495am
13595na

7435am
9600as
7165eu

9475am
11830na

13845am

9850as
11690sa
6165na
12010eu
9425sa
7490va
11685au

13605as

15240pa

9845na
11595sa
9485va

6195va

SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
2300
2300
2300
2310
2325
2330
2350
2355

2300

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.
UK, BBC London (aflanvas pac): World News. See S 0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Lers Learn Japanese. See S 0510.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Media Roundup. See S 0525.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Viewpoint. See S 0550.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop In. See S 0155.

Mondays
2300
2300
2300
2300
2315
2325
2330
2355

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.
UK, BBC London (aflanvas pac): World News. See S 0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: The Intelligence Report. A patriot
radio program.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Profile. See M 1525.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

2315
2325
2330
2355

2315
2325
2330
2340
2355

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.

Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.
UK, BBC London (aflanvas pac): World News. See S 0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Intelligence Report. See M
2300.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Enjoy Japanese. See T 1525.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S0000.
India, All India Radio: DXers Comer (214). India's bimonthly
program for shortwave listeners.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Wednesdays

2300
2300
2300
2300
2315
2325
2330
2355

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S0100.
UK. BBC London (aflanvas pac): World News. See S 0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Intelligence Report. See M
2300.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: History and Classics. See W 1525.
New Zealand. R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S0000.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Thursdays
2300
2300
2300

62

India. All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S 0030.

Japan, NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S0100.
UK, BBC London (aflam/as pac): World News. See S 0000.

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

2330
2345
2346
2355

USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: Wavescan (415). See S

0030
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Wavescan. See s 0030.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asia Kaleidoscope. See S 0146.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

Fridays
2300
2300
2300
2300
2300
2315
2325
2354

Tuesdays
2300
2300
2300
2300

USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The Intelligence Report.

See M 2300.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Enjoy Japanese. See T 1525.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Tokyo Popln. See S 0155.

2354
2355

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S

0030.
Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: RNZ News. See S 0000.
UK, BBC London (aftanvas pac): World News. See S
0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: The lnlelligence Report.
See M 2300.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Today's Top News Asia. See M 1515.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Music and Book Beat See F 1525.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. From Before tile
Cradle. See A 2354. (13th) I want to play for Ajax, dad!
See F1454. (20th). Peter The Great (Part 1) Dheera
Sujan in this 3part series examines how the monarch
opened Russia to the world and his fascination with
Dutch technology. (27th).
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Stichting Noord
ferlano (6th). See W 1154.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Tokyo Pop-In. See S 0155.

Saturdays
2300
2300
2300
2300
2300
2300
2300
2310
2311
2321
2325
2330
2330

India, All India Radio: News and Commentary. See S

0030.
Japan. NHK/Radio: NHK News. See S 0100.
New Zealand, R NZ Intl: ANZ News. See S 0000.
UK. BBC London (as pac): World News. See S 0000.
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl. FL: Radio Modern Rock ( 113).
See A 0400.
USA. WRMllR Miami Intl, FL: Tne Praise Repun (2/4).
See S 0000.
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl, FL: Viva Miami! (5). See M
1330.
Japan. NHK/Radio: Asia Weekly. See S0110.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Asian News Summary. See S 0111 .
Japan, NHK/Radio: Business Report. See S 0121.
Japan, NHK/Radio: Entertaining in Asia. See S 0125.
USA, WRMllR Miami Intl, FL: A Texas Shootout (113).
See A 0400.
USA, WRMllR Miami Intl. FL: I Believe God (2). See S
0000.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS
BANGLADESH:

R. BANGLADESH

Extern al English:
1230-1 300 9548, 7 185
1745-1 815 Vof Islam
9568 7 190
18 15- 1900 9568 7 190

(BB CMS)
HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS

uAE: DUBAI

New 1763 0 kHz

1330-13 55
English
(Notes: Only announcing
2 1605 , 17825?, 15395,
13675
Nikolay Pashkevich,
R uss ia, BC-DX)

SPECIAL EVENT CALENDAR

Aug. 31-Sept. 1 Shelby, NC
Sep 7

Rolling Meadows, IL

Sep 7

Fort Wayne, IN

Sep 7

Spencer, IN

Sep 7

Topeka, KS

Sep 7

Walker. MN

Sep 7

Erie, PA

Sep 7

Uniontown, PA

Sep 7-8

Louisville, KY

Sep 8

Dubuque, IA

Sep 8

Joliet. IL

Sep 8

So Dartmouth, MA

Sep 8

Gaithersburg, MO

Sep 8

Brel'lster, NY

Sep 8

Findlay. OH

Sep 8

Butler. PA

Sep t3-15

Peoria, IL

Sep 4

Prairieville, LA

Sep 14
Sep t4-15

Ballston Spa, NY
Melbourne, FL

Sep t5

Newtol'ln, CT

Sep t5

Cambridge, MA

Sep 15

Mt. Clemens, Ml

Sep t5

Omaha, NE

Sep t5

Hamilton Tl'lp, NJ

Sep 15

Cincinnati, OH

Sep 15

Wheeling, WV

Sep 20-22

Seattle, WA

Sep 21-22

Anchorage, AK

Sep 21

Mt Home, AR

Sep 21

Sebastopol, CA

Sep 21

Lexington. NE

Sep 21
Sep 2t

Altus, OK
Seal Beach, CA

Sep 21

Lincoln, ME

Sep 21

Hamburg, NY

Sep 21

Randolph Ctr. VT

Sep 21-22

Grayslake, IL

Shelby ARC I June Melvin, WA4JNJ, 902 Henry St., Kings Mountain, NC 28086,
704-739-2583 (704-480-6928 after Aug 25). Location: Cleveland Co Fairgrounds.
Talk-in t 46.28/88. SS gen adm.
N IL OX Assoc I Phil Camera, KB9CRY, 806 Portsmouth Ave., Westchester, IL
60t 54. 708-343-1696, Fax: 708-343-4394.
Ft Wayne RC I Bill (KF2BS); Becky (N2XUW) Stockslager. 480t Honey Oak Run,
Fort Wayne, IN 46845. 219-471-5657
Owen Co ARA I Kathryn Smith. KB91NU, Rt. 1, Box 3680, Poland, IN 47868, 812829-2140
NE Kansas ARC I Robert Nall, WI/OS. 4316 SE Oakview Ln., Topeka, KS 666091638, 913-267-9399
Cass-Hubbard ARC I Bill Beebe. NOSFJ. HCR 84. Box 1423. Walker. MN 56484.
218-547-3147
Radio Assoc of Erie I Chris Robson, KB3A, 5560 Bear Creek Rd., Fairview. PA
16415, 814-474-1211
Uniontown ARC I Carl Chuprinko, WA3HQK, Rt. 6, Box 231-CC, Morgantown, WV
26505, 304-594-3779
KY State Conv I Herbert Rowe, W4WOD, 56t2 Highway 160, Charlestown. IN
47111 . 812-294-4905
Great River ARC I Jerry Lange. 2191 Graham Circle. Dubuque, IA 52002. 319-5563050
Bolingbrook ARS I Ed Weinstein, WD9AYR, 7511 Walnut Ave., Woodridge, IL
60517' 708-759-7005
SE Mass ARA I William Miller, K1 IBR. 49 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA
02747, 508-996-2969
Found for Amateur Radio I Al Brown, WA3FYZ, 8645 Tower Or.. Laurel. MO 20723,
301 -490-3188
Putnam Emergency; Rptr League I Shirley Dahlgren, N2SKP. Box 677, 152
Broadway, Verplanck, NY 10596, 914-736-0717
Findlay RC I John Stultz, AABIS, 523 Charles Ave., Findlay, OH 45840-4550, 419425-2402
Buller Co ARA I Gerald H. Wetzel. W3DMB, 784 Mercer Rd., Butler, PA 16001 , 412282-6777
ARRL Nat'I Conv. / Ron Morg~n. KB9NW, PO Box 3508. Peoria, IL 61612-3508,
309694-2649. Location: Peoria Civic Center
Ascension ARC I Shane Dugas, KKSLC, 37150 Swamp Rd., Prairieville, LA 70769,
504-673-8396
Saratoga County RACES I Lenny Leger, N2KKP, 518-885-4933
Platinum Coast ARS I Allen Hudson, N4PTM. 575 Norwood Ct., Satellite Beach, FL
32937, 407-773-9658
Candlewood ARA I John Ahle, N2DVX, Box 3441. Danbury, CT 06813-344 t, 203438-6782. Talk in 147.12/.72. 9am-2pm. Adm $4.
MIT RS: Harvard Wireless Club I Steve Fineberg. W1 GSL, PO Box 397082. MIT
Branch. Cambridge, MA 02139, Nick Alternburnd, KAtMOX, 61 7-253-3776
L'Anse Creuse ARC I Ralph Irish. WABGDT, PO Box 180122, Utica, Ml 48318-0122,
810-731 -6760
AK-SAR-BEN ARC I Dave Kline, WJOZ, 5055 South 87th St., Omaha, NE 68t27,
402-592-4930
DE Valley RA / Info call 609-882-2240. Location: Tall Cedars of Lebanon picnic
grove, Sal'lmill Rd (1295 to 1-195 Exit 1, S Broad St. bear right at Yardville Bank,
past "Barrel" to yield. first right past yield to Sawmill Rd. 1.1 miles on right), Talkin 146.670-. Adm: SS
Gtr Cincinnati ARA I Joseph Phillips, K8QOE. 2800 Jupiter Dr .. Fairfield, OH 45014,
513-874-0006
Triple States RAC I Ralph McDonough. K8AN, Box 240, RR 1. Adena, OH 43901 ,
614-546-3930
Digital Corns Cont I Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, 8987-309 E. Tanquc Verde Rd
#337. Tucson, AZ 85749-9399, 817-383-0000, internet tapr@lapr.org. Location:
Quality Inn Seattle Airport.
Anchorage ARC I Lillian Marvin, 1030 Denali, Anchorage , AK 99501. 907-2776741. Location: Kincaid Park Outdoor Center.
Twin Lakes ARC I Phil Waters. AB5ZU. 711 East 8th St.. Mountain Home, AR
72653. 501-425-7406
Sonoma County RA I Rick Reiner. K6ZWB, 2120 Slater St., Santa Rosa, CA 95404.
707-575-4455
Heartland ARA; Mid-Nebraska Antique RC I Randy Gigliotti, WBOSAO. PO Box 231 ,
Area Ct. 19, Overton, NE 68863, 308-987-23t2
Altus Area ARA I Mart Dennis, KC5NAX, PO Box 73, Altus, OK 73521
SCADS I Gene Hughes guest speaker. Location: Farmers & Mechants Bank, 12535
Seal Beach Blvd. at 1300 hrs. Limited seating, call 714-522-6434
Bagley ARC I Don Benson. N1JNK, 67 State St.. Millinocket, ME 04462-t405, 207723-4205
W New York Conv I Harold Smith. K2HC. 300 White Spruce Blvd., Rochester, NY
14623, 716-424-7184
Central Vermont ARC I Tom Girardi. WA1YNU, PO Box 261 , Waterbury, VT 05676,
802-244-7836
Chicago FM Club I Phil Amato, N91PI, 6330 North Oketo Ave., Chicago, IL

Send anouncements of events or cl ub information to: Editor, Monitoring Times, P.O. Box 98,
Brasstown, NC 28902-0098. Fax 704-837-2216: e-ma il mteditor@grove.net. See MT's homepage
on www.grove .net for complete listin gs .

CLUB CIRCUIT
North American Club Listings 0-Z
Ontario DX Association: Harold Sellers. General Mgr..
P.O. Box 161, Station A, Willowdale, Ontario M2N 5S8.
Canada: Internet 73737.3453@compuserve.com; (905)
853-3169 voice & fax. (416) 444-3526 DX-Change
information svce; (905) 841-6490 BBS. Predominantly
Province of Ontario: All bands. DX Ontario. Meet 3rd
Wednesdays, Toronto
Pacific NW/BC DX Club: Bruce Portzer, 6546 19th Ave
NE. Seattle. WA 9811 5. Pacific NW and BC Canada.
DXing all bands. $9 US, $10 Canada. PNBCDXC
Newsletter. Irregular meetings.
Pitt Co SW/Scanner Listeners Club: L. Neal Sumrell,
P.O. Box 1818. Winterville, NC 28590-1818. Eastern NC;
All band s. Tl1e DX Listener. Irregular meetings.
Puna OX Club : Jerry Witham, P.O. Box 596. Keaau, HI
96749, (808) 982-9444: Puna, HI; SW and MW. Meet 1st
Tuesdays. No dues.
Radio Monitors of Maryland: Ron Bruckman, P.O. Box
394. Hampstead, MO 21074. Maryland, (410) 239-7366;
VHF/UHF/HF utilities. Radio Monitors Newsletter of MD.
Meet irregularly.
Regional Communications Network (RCN): Jay Delgado
or Public Information Unit, Box 83-M. Carlstadt, NJ
07072-0083. 50 mile radius of NY City: 2-way Radio
Public safety notification group.#10 SASE for info.
Rocky Mountain Radio Listeners: Mike Curta, P.O. Box
470776, Aurora, CO 80047-0776. Metro Denver,
Colorado. All bands. Meets monthly 2nd or 3rd Sundays
1-4pm. Aurora Central Library.
Sandy River SW Rad io DXers Assoc: Duncan or Brenda
Steele. R.R. 1. P.O. Box 1560, Norridgewock. ME 04957.
Worldwide. The OSL - irregular. No dues.
Scann ing Wisconsin: Ken Bitter, Dept. MT, S. 67 W.
17912 Pearl Dr.. Muskego, WI 53150-9608, (414) 6799442. Wisconsin . VHF/UHF. Scanning Wisconsin ($2 for
sample)
Signal Surfer DX Club : Darcy Jabs, RR2 . Burns Lake,
BC, Canada. VOJ 1EO; (604) 694-3760. Canada and
worldwide. MW and SW DXing .
Southern California Area OXers (S .C.A.D .S): Don R.
Schmidt, 3809 Rose Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807-4334.
(310) 424-4634. California area; AM, FM, TV, scanner
and shortwave broadcasting.
Susquehanna Co Scanner Club: Alan D. Grick. P.O. Box
23. Prospect St., Montrose. PA t 8801-0023. PA area;
Scanning. Meets irregularly.
Toledo Area Radio Enthusiasts: Ernie Dellinger. N8PFA,
6629 Sue Lane. Maumee. OH 43537. NW Ohio and SE
Michigan: Shortwave, scanning. amateur. Meets 3rd
Thursdays 7pm Holland Big Boy.
Triangle Area Scanner/SW Listening Group: Curt
Phillips, K04YU. P.O. Box 28587. Raleigh, NC 27611.
Central NC.
Vancouver Shortwave Association (previously British
Columbia Shortwave Listening Club): Box 500, 2245
Eton St., Vancouver, BC Canada V5L 1C9. (604) 2558987 fax. Shortwave. LOGJAM. Meets 3rd Thurs. ?pm at
920 Davie St.
World DX Club: Arthur Ward. 17 Motspur Drive.
Northampton. England NN2 6LY (in USA-Richard
O'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610).
Worldwide. All bands with emphasis on SW. Contact.
S22 overseas airmail. Meets every 6 v1eeks in Reading.
UK.
Worldwide TV/FM DXers Association (WTFDA): P.O.
Box 514 , Buffalo. NY 14205-0514. Worldwide
membership; TV DX, FM BC, VHF utilities. VHFUHF
Digest. Annual convention. $24 annual in U.S. S2 for
sample.
Worldwide Ute News: Rick Baker, ae411@yfn.ysu.edu
for info - worldwide membership: non-broadcast under
30 MHz. Free electronic newsletter WUNNEWS, join by
sending e-mail to majordomo@grove.net with following
in e-mail message: subscribe wun." Through World
Wide Web: http://www.leonardo.net/berri/wun. For paper
version: $18/yr to Tim Braun, PO Box 16533, Washington. D.C. 20041-6533. Sample $1.50.

September 1996

MONITORIN G TIMES

63

Propagation Conditions: Eastern United States

How to use the propagation charts: Propagation charts can be an invaluable aid to the DXer in determining
which frequencies are likely to be open at a given time . To use the propagation charts, choose those for you r location. Then look
for the one most closely describing the geographic location of the station you wont to hea r. The Sun Spot Number used this month
for forecasting purposes is 6.

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Propagation Conditions: Western United States

Once you've loca ted the correct charts, look a long the horizontal axis of the graph for the time you are listen ing. The top line
of the graph shows the maximum usable frequency (MUF), the heavy middle line is the frequency for best reception, or optimum
worki ng frequency (OWF), and finally, the bottom line i s th e lowest usable frequ ency (LUF) . You w ill find the best reception along
the heavy middle line. Circuits labeled (P) cross the polar auroral zone. Expect poor reception on the se circuits during ionospheric
disturbances.
CENTRAL AMERICA

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MONITORING TIMES

65

BELOW
soo KHZ
DXING THE BASEMENT BAND

Kevin Care, WB2QMY

kevinc@mdsroc.com

European Beacon Bool<

is very helpfu l when you want

Ad ak. Alaska. The text of the bulleti n fo lto know what beacons are aslows:
s ig ned to a certain frequency .
As a remit of the planned closing of the US
o r group of frequencies. The
Narnl Air Station in Adak Almka. located in
g uide conc ludes wit h a "Stop
the Aleutian Islands. the Coast Guard will he
Press" sectio n that contain s
forced
to terminate NA VTEX broadcastsjiwn
last minute info rmati on and
there on appro.rimarelr I December. 1996.
COITCCtions.
The JOO foot w1ten11a used to broadcast
A comb bind ing allows
NA
VTEX 11ill soo11 be tom dmrn. On 30 May.
the book to lay fl at when
Coast Guard began using a new a11/en11a
the
opened-very handy when
to t1w1.rn1it NA VTEX iitfon11atio11 using a
you're busy tun ing the d ial.
11e1r i111erted .. L .. <111te111w. As a result. the
About the o nly negative thi ng
Adak NA VTEX .1e1Tice range ll'as red uced by
I can say (and it reall y o nly
approximately 50Clr. The Coast Guard Paapplies to U .S. readers) has to
Connelly's publication, Non Non Directio nal Beacons of
cijic Area command is re1ie11i11g options to
Direction al Beacons of 11do w ith the book's physica l
Europc is a fin e addition to
determ ine ifa11dll'lw11 NA V!EX cm1 be broadd imensio ns. It's in an "A4''
rope (A rctic to N o rth Africa). any long wave library.
cast from another s ite in !hat area.
A ft er reviewing the text I fel t
me tric size which is someit deserved special menti on here-not o nly
what taller than the U.S. standard of 8.5'' x
That' s it for t hi ~ month. See you in Atlanta'
for European liste ne rs. but a lso for those in
11".For this reason. it may not fit into
searc h o f that super catc h" across the pond
some bookcases-a small nui sance
during the upcomi ng DX season.
fo r such a use fu l book. Perhaps someLOGGINGS
The g uide start s o ut wi th a li st of beacon
day the U.S. wi ll join the rest of the
terms and ab breviations . fo ll owed by a hel pworld a nd adopt the metric standard 1
This month's loggings are courtesy of Bob Hamilton
ful sect io n explaining how the g uide is arNo n D irection a l B earn11s of Eu (NY), A l Marcie (FL), Joseph Fahrenho ltz (OH) and A l
Hemmalin (RI). Two of the logs came to me via the
ranged . Next. j ust before the start of the
rope may be purc hased fro m the auInternet. If you are active on the 'net, feel free to use
beacon listi ngs. the re is a techn ical sectio n o n
thor. Robert Conno lly. for 6 includthat medium to send in your reports or other comments.
beacon modes and a Morse code chart fo r the
ing shippi ng by a irma il for EEC cou nM y Internet address is: kevinc@mdsroc.com. W hether
beginne r.
tries , 6.50 for no n-EEC countries.
yo u use ema il or conventio nal mail, I'd enjoy hea ring
The beacon listi ngs are di vided in to two
from you!
(Checks must be d rawn o n a London
main sections-Aero and Marine. In to tal.
clearing bank. o r local currency no tes
FREQ
ID
LOCATION
BY
the re are about 2 100 entri es, covering the
to an equi vale nt value plus 10 % to
198
Diw
Dixon, NC
J.F. [OH}
area fro m Greenland to Arc tic Russia in the
cover bank ing costs.) A lso. U.S. lis206
GLS
Galveston, TX
A.H. (RI)
YSK
A.H. (RI)
208
Sonikilouq, NWT
north . to the Azores and North Africa in the
teners can obtain the g uide for $ 12
212
PMX
Palmer, MA
A.H. (RI)
south. the Atla ntic coast of Ire land in the
U .S. d o llars sent by registered ma il.
257
PLO
Portland, IN
J.F. (OH)
263
YGK
Kingston, Ont.
A.H. [RI}
west, and the Black Sea in the east.
T he address for orders or inquiries
270
EZM
Eastman, GA
B.H. (NY)
The back sectio n of the guide cont a in s a
is: 2 1 Eleastan Park, Ki lkeel. Co.
A.M. (FL}
275
FPR
Fort Pierce, FL
reverse li sting of stat ions by freque ncy. This
Down. N. Ireland . BT34 4 DA. The
300
UGT
Guontonomo, Cuba
B.H. (NY)
321
UR
Covington, KY
J.F. [OH)
a uthor can al so he reached by
David's Head, Bermuda
323
BSD
A.H. (RI}
Inte rnet ema ilat 10 1477.3577
PKZ
Pensacola, FL
J.F. (OH)
326
@com puserve .com.
329
CH
Charleston, SC
A.H. (RI)
335
LUK
Cincinnati, OH
J.F. (OH)
335
LEE
Leesburg, FL
A.M. [FL)
II NAVTEX Cutback
AYN
344
Avon, NY
B.H. (NY)
Dinns, FL
344
JA
A.M. (FL)
TheS 18 kH z NA VTEX sys346
YXL
Sioux Lookout, Ont.
B.H. (NY}
353
FOA
Floro, IL
J.F [OH)
tem (S ITO R 8) has been a
PB
W. Palm Beach, FL
A.M. (Fl )
356
huge success since its intro360
LYS
Lyndon, NY
B.H. (NY}
362
LYL
Lima, OH
d ucti o n by the U.S. Coa st
J.F (OH)
373
JF
New York City, NY [JFK) A.H. (RI)
G uard . While use of the sys388
AM
Tampa, FL
A.M. [Fl}
tem is ex panding worldwi de.
Vero Beach, FL
392
YEP
A.M. (Fl}
San Juan, PR
DDP
A.M. (Fl }
392
a rece nt Coast G uard bulleti n
B.H. (NY}
404
IUB
Baltimore, MD
an nou nced the c utback a nd
406
FLR
Fall River, MA
B.H. (NYI
event ua l shutdown o f o ne
512
HMY
Lexington, OK
"Graffiti B eacon " PIC, 339 k H z (Calverton, N Y).
J.F. (OH)
ZLS
Stello Maris, Bahamas
526
A.M. [FL)
Submitted by Charles Bem th (NY) .
NA YT EX station located in
veryo ne agrees : fo r
lo ngwavc DXin g in
No rth A merica. it's
to ug h to beat the Aero/Marine Beacon Gu ide by Ken
S tryke r. desc ribed man y
times in thi s column . In E urope and othe r pa rts of the
world . however. a comprehensive be acon guide has no t
always been easy to come
by.
For that reason. I was excited to le arn of Robert

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Getting on the Air

Ha 11e you ever fwd a project totallyplm111ed
and ready to execllle - then found a critical
part missing ? That happened to this mo111h .1
col1111111. The original concept ll"as Jo explain
1he p11rpo.1e 1~(1h e various 1e.11pall ems used b_v
TV .11a1i11ns. U1ifor1111wtely. 11he11 I fri ed 10
display the computeri:ed images of 1he pa11ems. my PC decided ii didn '11111ders1a11d !he
flle formal.
Yo11111ayflnd plan IJ to he even heller. since
I 11011 hme 1he opport1111ity 10 touch 011 a
\'(/rie1r of shorJ s11bject.1 J'ie been
meaning 111 me111io11.

Donald l'ipa of New

York sent copies of h is
DX verifica tions. RVC535 i11 !he Turks and
Caicos Islands (a British
possession near the
Bahamas) has been heard
throug hout eastern North
A merica. Ile careful when
looking for ll VC; their
frequency varies between
530 and 535 kHz.

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Radio Vision Cristiana lnt'I. cg] 535 A.H./ RVC INrL.

Radio Vlslon Cristiana n1330 A.H. WWff:o/
Acknowted2es your ~rt of Reception of our t.-:.:1::;mlssion on:

..l!'.lflt5.C.H t1.t"l9b AI '1101t 5-ST

This

reception hu been cormnned in the Station log for

the date mentioned above and Is duly wrlfied. Thank you.

n Ju ly. I ex plained the rather

difficult process fo r starting a
new radio station. T he article
also touched on an easier. and legal. way of getting on the air wit h
carrier-c urrent AM. Now, a firm
called 'Playfone" thin ks it's found
yet anothe r route.
The FCC offe r~ experimental
licenses. These licenses may be
issued when the Commission feels
the broadcasts would improve scie ntific understanding. In Novernberof 1993. the call KF2XFB was
issued to Playfone. The license allowed broadcasts on any AM. FM.
or VHF-TV frequency at powers as
hi gh as 40 watts. Such broadcasts
were intended to test the feasibility
of broadcasting to the audi ence at
sporting eve nts.
By t hi s sprin g. however.
KF2XFB' s broadcasts had taken
on a rather di ffere nt tone. A report
in Radio World notes a station was
operating on 88.5 MHz at the Avis
Rent-A-Car locat ion at Logan Airport in Bo ~ t u n . DXers in New Jer~ey report one at the Av is location
at Newark Airport. on 105.7 MHz
- a very poor choice of freq uency.
as WHBl-FM . a li cen ~ed station in
Newark. operates on I05.9 MHz.
And an artic le in the Oklahoma
Ciry Jounwl-Re('()rd noted the introduction of an Avis radio service.
with five-mile coverage. at fi ve
major airport s.

1330 AM I WWJCV
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The WBT QSL at left is also Donald Pipa 's.

This card shows clearly the station 's
directional a11te1111a pattern, and explains
why WBT is much harder to hear here in
Tennessee than it is in Ne w York.

Radio

LA)~T

acknowledging

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September 1996

WILLIAM R. WHITE

This service was certainl y not experimental. On February 28. the i:cc ordered the
shutdown of the stations. Playfo ne is allowed
to continue broackasts from sporting events
until their li cense ex pi res in Ju ly of 1997.
Alan Weiner is well known to DXcrs as
another person who s fo und \\ ays to work
around the Ii ce n ~ in g n.:quiremcnt. He was one
of those involved in the brief (but widely
heard) operation of Radio Newyork Internati onal. from a ship ju ~t outside U.S. territorial
waters near New York City.
He"s now working on another radio shi p.
The l: Jectra is being outfilled with AM and
shortwave transmitters. Most radio ships have
bee n designed to operate on Iy at anchor. It's
difficult to sail a ~ hip with a large and fragile
radio tower on board. The Electra. however,
is designed to sail to wherever its owners fee l
a free radio vo ice is needed. The stati on' s
own programs will be largely environmental
in natu re. but time wi ll also be leased to third
parties.
In another part of the Radio \\'orld anicle.
it is ~ u gge s t e d that the FCC is considering
Ii ce n ~ i ng temporary low-power broadcast stations at special eve nt s. A FCC o fficial told the
magazine they receive approximately 50 requ ..:~ t s a year for such Iicenses. most of which
must be denied under current ru les.
Temporary stations are common in Canada.
They genera lly operate with approximately

I 0 watts on unused FM frequenc ies, and are

licensed for terms of up to 28 days. Stations
have been authori zed to commemorate the
e nd of World War2, toeovcrGrand Prix auto
races. in connection w ith annual re lig ious
rallies. and for local festi vals. DXers in the
Toronto area should pay special attention to
99. 1 M Hz. wh ich sees frequ ent use by temporary broadcasters.

I Staying on the Air

Some licensed broadcaste rs may be more
.. te mporary" than they think. Th e new
Te lecom Act requires the FCC to revoke the
lice nse of a ny station which remains off the
air fo r more than a year. As the act became
law on February 8, it won't affect any of the
200-plus sil ent stations unt il February of 1997 .
But the Commission has been busily revoking the licensees of silent stations for other
reasons.
It might seem that the answer for an econom icall y-strapped station is to just broadcast a few hours of programming every few
months. But FCC regulation #73.1740 sets
minimum sched ules for commerc ial broadcast stations. For most radi o stations. the
minimum is e ight hours between 6 a. m. and
6.p.m., and four hours between 6 p.m. and
midnight. every day except Sunday. For AM
statio ns which broadcast only during the day.
or wi th very low power at night, the requirement is for 2/3 of the hours between sunrise
a nd sunset.
The regulation is less stric t fo r TV; stati ons more than three years old must broadcast at least two hours a day and at least 28
hours a week. Newer stat io ns may broadcast
as little as 12 hours a week. Test patterns
don't count.

six mo nths, which would be late May of thi s

year. Gary asks, " Has WOWO dropped power
yet?" I don't know . but don' t think so.
The FCC has issued the construction permit for the power decrease. but I haven't seen
an applicat ion for a permanent license to
cover the change. r would guess wowos
owners have not yet completed the new 30
kW ni ght fac ilities for their other station on
11 90, WLIB in New York. WOWO 's reason
fo r decreasing power is to accommodate
W LI B. and I don't thin k they wan t to make
the c hange until W LIB is ready to go .
There hasn' t bee n muc h other FCC activity affect ing the AM band. Two statio ns in the
Dallas. Texas. area had applied to swap frequenc ies and increase powe r: the applications were returned. Herc in Nashville, longsile nt WCKD- 1430 has returned to the air,
but only for brief tests with easy- li stening
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any lega l challe nges, so the FCC may yet be
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Jesse Rose of Vi rginia has joined the list of
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A new version of the MW Dmabase Vie ll'er
is now available in the DL2 l secti on of
Co mpu se r ve's Ham ne t forum , as
AMOS .EXE. Th is program. a publ ic-domain
effort by Neil S. Adams, is a m ust for the
computerized AM DXer with Interne t access. This program provides an easy way to
search the database and di splay power. coordinates. etc .. But it also pl ots the pattern of
a ny directional ante nna used. and shows the
arrangement of the towers.
Gary T imm in Milwaukee forwarded an
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THE CLANDESTINE, THE UNUSUAL, THE UNLICENSED

George Zeller
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New Nigerian Clandestine Changes Schedule

n Eng l.i s.h lang uage stati on (that

claims 11 ts 1101aclandes\111e) 1s producing good sig nals for DXers in
North America and creating some exc ite me nt
am ong DXers thi s s umme r. Radio Democrat
International made its first test broadcast on
June 11 , and has been heard on an almost
dail y bas is since then. Originally the statio n
trans mitted two half hour shows at 0600 UTC
on I 1900 kHz and at 1500 UTC on 15 120
kHz. But. the c landestine moved during July
to a schedule or 2100-2200 UTC on 7195
kH z. Most recentl y it moved to 6205 kHz at
the same hour, and said nothing about furth er
changes.
The anti-Nigerian government station is
ope rated by NADECO. the National Democratic Coaliti on. T hi s pol itical oppositi o n
group includes forme r government o ffic ia ls.
ex-m ili tary officers. and vario us professionals. NA DECO says that the shortwave service is an exte ns ion o r Radio Freedom, an
FM c landestine that has prev io us ly operated
cn-atically in the country. Nigeria n state radio
quick ly criticized the clandestine broadcasts.
BBC Mon itoring Service (BBCMS) re port s tha t the Ni gerian Defence Intelligence
Agency was 'locat ing the source of the radio." Radio De mocrat Internatio nal says that
al I o f the ir information is public, and that they
therefore are not a c la ndestine . However.
they do not anno unce their transmitter s ite.
DXer speculation , so far unconfirmed, suggests that the transmitter is probably located
in o r near South Africa.
The station is alread y respond ing to DX
repo rts . us in g a n address c/o Nali<.:an UK. PO
Box 9663, Lo ndon SE I 3LZ. Un ited Kingdo m. They also have a USA contact point at
PO Box 175. Boston. MA 02 13 I. The QSL
that we piclltre here anived in my mailbox in
only 19 da ys' The st ati on's nalicon
@ postlin.dcmon.co.uk e-ma il address also
works.

Ill Costa Rican Clandestine Arrests

O n June I 0 a new clandestine temporari ly
replaced two Sa n Jose, Costa Rica. FM statio ns wi th ' ' in sult s against the c hi ef executi ve
(Costa Rican President Jose Maria Fig ueres)."
During a power o utage that briefly knocked
Radio Sensac i6 n and Radio Alajuc la off th e
air. the clandestine 1hrcatened to explode a
bomb at the Pres ident' s office bu ilding in
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I What We Are Hearing

TO biotGE ZISllE/?.

DATE Al'Ktl- 7, tqft,,

TIME .133S- 00'!3

FREQ "9%.11,~/$ .

cm:. .

GNED~

Watch the wavy fines ... queasy yet ?

Zapo te. The statio n also threate ned Costa
Rican Minister of Public Security. Juan Diego
Castro.
Authoriti es quickly arrested rwo suspected
stati on o perato rs: Ivan Va lverde and Andres
Brenes of Sa n Jose . Va lverde is !he son of the
late Bosco Valverde o r thew Noci6n newspaper, and has been active ly invo lved in Costa
Rican rad io com muni cat io ns for many years .
Bo th Valverde and Bre nes have claimed innoce nce. a nd were released pe nding legal
proceedings. Thank s go to MT reader Ulis
Fleming of G len Burnie, Maryland. for articles on this inc ident from La Nacion and The

Tien Times.

I New Tasmanian Pirate?

A press release fro m TSW, Tech no Shortwave, Radio TechnoNct says that this new
stat io n has beg un regular pirate tran smi ss ions
fro m Tasman ia in A ustrali a . The schedule is
between 0930- 1230 UT C on 4795 and 11 700
kH z. I' ve seen no logs of them. so ii' s not yet
clear if thi s o ne w ill be able to reac h North
America. They list an ad d ress of PO Box 797 .
Sandy Bay, Tasmania Island. Australia 7006.
We thank MT readers Rob Keeney of Kansas
and John C ruzan of M issouri for copies of this
in fo.

Your pirate logs are welcome via PO Box

98. Brasstow n. NC 28902. o r via the e-mail
address at the top of the column. All freq uencies are in kHz. with times in UTC.
The all-time record 50 pirate statio ns li sted
here use the fo llow ing addresses: PO Box
452. Wellsvi lle. NY 14895; PO Box 109,
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 172 14: PO Box
28413. Providence. R I 02908: PO Box 146,
Stoneham. MA 02 180: PO Box 605. Huntsvi ll e, Alabama 35804: PO Box 17534, A tlanta. GA 30316: PO Box 88. Moline, MI
49335: 770 Sycamore Avenue #J 193, Vista.
CA 92083; PO Box 293. Merlin , Ontario
NOP I WO: a nd Postfac h 220342, D-42 373
Wuppertal , Germany. For return postage.
enc lose three 32 stamps in the envelo pe to
USA addresses. $2 US o r two International
Reply Coupo ns go to fore ig n mai ldrops.
6YCAT- 6955 at 2115. Kittycat Morley's new
station, the Voice of the Cot, is dominated by feline
themes. Both 6Y "Jama ican" pirates soy that the new
operation has no relationship with the Voice of
Smoke. Addr: Providence. (Poul Demsky, South
Portland, ME; Bill McClintock, Minneapolis, MN;
Mike Prindle, New Suffolk, NY; Rich a nd Taleo
Jurrens, Katy, TX; John Mello; Scitua te, RI; direct
from the stations)
6YVOS- 6955 ot 2300. Pigpen Marley at the Voice
of Smoke quickl)I reminded listeners that he has a
different station from the new one above. Addr:
Wellsville. (Jurrens)
Alternate Pirate Radio Station 6955 ot 0300. This
new station ploys novelty music, but we don' t know
much obout it. Addr: None. (Jerry Coatsworth,
Merlin, O ntario)
Anarchy One- 6956 at 0400. Captain Anarchy hos
reappeared with reggae music and drug advocacy.
His station should not be confused with others using
the word "Anarchy" in their identification. Addr:
Vista. (Rondy Ruger, North Hollywood, CA)
Conine Kitty Radio 13900 ot 2000. Few heard thi s
unusual combination of Radio Animal's dogs and the
cats at 6YCAT, but it must have been interesting. This
frequ ency is worth o check during daylight hours.
Addr: Wellsville. (Ne il Wolfish, Toronto, Ontario)
Cat in the Hat Radio 6958 at 0000. This new
station blends Dr. Seuss Broadway musicals, Calypso
music, and pirate songs. Addr: Providence. (Barry
Williams, Enterprise, AL; Howord E. Lyon, O z; Pat
Murphy, Chesapeake, VA; Coatsworth; Jurrens;
Wollish;)
CEU, Cell Phone Radio- 6955 ot 2345. The ECPA
moy hove mode it illegal to listen to 800 MHz
cellular phone calls, but it didn' t anticipate the
recordings of them heord on this pirate. Addr:
Wellsville. (Mello; Prindle; Murphy; Coatsworth;
Wolfish)
CSHT 6955 a t 2330. Here's a nother new one with
an extremely funny mix of DX parodies ond jokes
about chickens. A message Fram Dr. Dumbo
Lowblow said that contrary lo rumor, the,Y do not yet
hove a maildrop. Addr: None; may verity logs in

Radio Democrat International Nigeria

QSL- Vtrifi":tion of!Unp1ion

Voice of Indigestion- 6955 at 2330. QSL's

Pirate Pages via Blue Ridge Summit. !John
Thisiito confirmth~t C\W!if.
2..t.L L~ rcccivrdhA1 Dmwn1/t11rmari.Ntlhi,prU on,
from "Horse at this station hove been
Fisher; Brights Grove, Ontario; Prind e;
arriving, noting that the station is located in
O ;atc : ),,y.;.
Q1. !""] ..)(.,
Wolfish; Jurrens; Williams; Coatsworth; direct
Gos, Kansas. Addr: None, but as we see
from the station)
Tim~ _ ry. n - 1-;"' '- riii/u :-c..
here, hos verified logs in The ACE. \Robert
Free Hope Experience- 6955 al 0400. Major
Frc-qucncy ~~Power --=---- <W
Ross, London, Ontario; Prindle; Wil ioms)
Spook's signal hos a nationwide reach. Some
_ __ _ _ _ _ __
Voice of Juliet- 6955 at 2045. The femofe
broadcasts use AM modulation, while others
announcer on this station hos begun to jibe
are in sideband modes. Addr: Blue Ridge
OFFIClALSfAL, _ _ __ __
SIGNATUKF..: ft /\. i: >--1lj --back and forth with the sexist He Mon from
Summit. (Jesse Rose, Hampton, VA; Jurrens;
He Mon Radio. Addr: Merlin. (Chopchuk;
Williams; Prindle; Love)
Friday Radio- 6955 at 0015. If it's Friday
The new Nigerian clandestine is verifying.
Willia ms)
Voice of the Runaway Maharishi- 6951 at
you may hear them with a celebration of the
0200. The Maharishi promises that his pro-drug
weekend. Addr: Providence. (Kenny Love, Columbia,
of the Runaway Maharishi, their format is mainly
programming will include a new character in the
SC; Williams; Lyon; Murphy; Wolfish; Jurrens)
drug advocacy. Addr: Wellsville. (Lyon)
future: The Gatekeeper. Addr: Wellsville. !Prindle)
FUCC- B9.1 MHz. This local micropirole is the
Radio Free Speech- 6955 at 0000. I ployed o lope
(unidentified!- 16 10 at 1BOO. Terry soys that amid
renamed Monkey Wrench Radio, according to the
of Bill 0 . Rights' hilarious parody of Rush Limbaugh
the various Tourist Information Stations on Interstate
Seattle Weekly. Addr: Unknown. (Mark Redfox,
during a speech to the Lake Erie Amateur Radio
77 in the Canton, Ohio, a rea, he hears a pirate
Seattle, WA)
Association in Parma, OH, and the hams seemed to
ploying contemporary Christion music . Hos anybody
KAOS- 6955 al 0230. Joe Momma reports that he
like it. Bill is among the pirates whose signals hove
else noticed this? Addr: None. (Terry Provance,
will be sending out QSL's via his new moildrop.
made it to Europe on multiple occasions. Addr:
Zanesville, OHi
Some earlier QSL's, apparently from logs in
Wellsville. (Scott Krauss, Cleveland, OH; Brandt;
WARR- 6955 at 2330. This new rock station
bulletins, may not have been genuine. Dennis soys
Fisher; Pearce; Murphy; Prindle; Coatsworth;
broadcasts from a "little island in the West Indies"
that his congregation recently bought a Zenith Trans
Wolfish; Lyon; Mello; Lovel
using on "Arrgh Radio" slogan. Addr: None. (Fisher;
Oceanic G-500 for him; congratulations! Addr:
Radio Rehoboth- 1705 at 0500. Bob's log reminds
Coatsworth; Jurrens; Williams; Wolfish; Lyon; Jesse
Wellsville. (Dennis Myhand, Mercedes, TX; Fisher;
us that some pirates still inhabit the medium wove
Rosel
Love; Jurrens; Williams; Wolfish; Demsky; Lyon;
band. This one ployed Grateful Dead music. Addr:
WCTU- 6955 at 0300. Normally active during the
direct from the station)
None. (Bob Bailey, Annapolis, MD)
Morch Winter SWLFestival in Kulpsville, PA, this one
Radio One- 6950at 0 100. This is the original slick
KOLO- 6956 at 0100. They ploy bi!;J bond music
mode a summer appearance with a parody of the
from the 1940's, with host Aldo Batista. Addr:
rock oldies station with Bobaloo. Addr: Wellsville.
rock oldies on WSKY. Addr: Blue Ridge Summit.
Stoneham. (William Hassig, Mt. Prospect, IL; Mello;
(Jesse Rose; Pearce!
(Lyon I
Wolfish; Jurrens; Williams)
Radio Two- 6955 al 0200. Yobbo Dobbo Do is still
WEED- 6955 at 0315. This may be the slickest of the
Monday Radio- 6955 at 0245. This Friday Radio
ploying rock oldies in a light-hearted imitation of the
pro-marijuana stations. It always programs a fast
parody ployed Monday, Monday by the Mamas and
slick Radio One. Addr: Providence. (Cathy Zylka,
paced mix of rock music and drug skits. Addr:
the Papas. Guess which day of the week they
North Tonawanda, NY; Fronk Corson; Joel Rose;
Huntsville. (Prindle; Ruger)
operate on? Addr: None. (Jurrens)
Williams; Wolfish; Coatsworth; Prindle; Fisher; Lyon;
WHOA- 6955 at 0430. The "We Hate Dead Air"
Montana Audio Reier Service- 6955 at 1330.
Murphy; Jurrens)
motto at this pirate means that they go on the air to
Despite the capture o the Freemen and the
Radio Three- 6955 at 1830. It was inevitable; ofter
fi ll empty frequen cies when ther find them. Addr:
Unobamber1 the station is still transmitting. Addr:
Radio One and Radio Two, we now get Radio Three
Blue Ridge Summit. (W illiams yon)
Merlin. (Dick Pearce, Brattleboro, VT; Wolfish;
with rock music from announcer Sol Ammoniac.
WPN, World Parody Network- 6955 at 2330. As
Prindle; Fisher; Jesse Rose)
Addr: None, said would verify logs in The ACE.
you would expect, parody and satire dominate their
Mystery Radio- 6955 at 0200. This pirate often
(Murphy; Wolfish; Lyon)
transmissions. Addr: Huntsville. (Lyon; Jurrens;
programs instrumental new age music, a lthough rock
Radio Zebulon- 6950 at 2330. Initial reviews of the
Williams; Coatsworth)
sucfi as Pink Floyd makes the ploylist. Addr:
amusing DX parody programming on this new one
WREC- 6955 at 0115. P. J. Sporx's rock music and
Stoneham. (Ranier Brandt, Germany(!); Joel Rose,
hove been excellent. Addr: Atlanta . (Murphy;
comedy is a frequent visitor to the pirate bands.
Williams; Lyon; Prindle; Wolfish; Jesse Rose; Jurrens;
Cleveland, OH; David Chopchuk, Scranton, PA;
During North American relay show, Weekend Music
Jesse Rose; Prindle; Wolfish; Murphy; Jurrens)
Coatsworth)
Radio said that the Radio Free East Coast signal hos
Omega Radio- 6955 at 0215. Dick Tator is back
Razorback Radio- 6955 at 0330. Announced as
been heard in Scotland. Addr: Wellsville. (Jurrens;
with Christion heavy metal rock, including interviews
"comin' to yew" from Arkansas, this one mixes local
Wolfish; Murphy; Jesse Roser Williams; Joel Rose;
with musicians in the bonds that perform on the air.
country music with Fig co ils by the announcer. Addr:
Prindle; Jurrens; Hassig; Mel ol
Addr: Moline. (Prindle; f isher; Jurrens; Wolfish)
Stoneham. (Jurrens
WRRN- 6955 at 0000. Senator Watts, realizing that
One Voice Radio- 6956 at 0000. Joe, their mild
RFM- 6955 at 0245 . H. V. (as in Victor) Short, the
it is on election year, hos been sending out QSL's
mannered announcer, calmly reads newsworthy
operator at Radio Free Massachusetts, is now a
rapidly from the World Republican Roaio Network.
veteran pirate. His station features rock music and
items from medical journals that hove practical
Addr: Wellsville. (Ruger; Jesse Rose)
some original dry comedy. Addr: Wellsville.
applications for improving our health. Blues music
WRV- 6955 at 2330. Pele the Pirate at The Radio
(Wolfish)
hos been heard lately between the health tips. Addr:
Virus hos been among those stations who sometimes
Wellsville. (Williams; Wolfish)
Tangerine Radio- 6955 at 2330. Raunchy Rick's
return to 41 meters, particularly in the afternoon
anarchist station, which was much more active
Partial India Radio- 6955 al 0000. My vote for the
before the multi-kilowatt international broadcasters
during the 19BO's, hos returned with some repeats of
funniest pira te of the year goes to this parody of All
sign on. Addr: Wellsville. (Wolfish)
Indio Radio, the international broadcaster from
his old shows. Addr: Wellsville. (Joel Rose; Jurrensl
Indio. One skit where CPRV operator Jerry Berg's
The Alon Mosyga Project- 6955 at 0400. Their
QSL's were stolen, was resolved when veteran DXer
forma t is rock music by the Alon Parsons Pro ject, but
Chuck Rippel threatened to become a hostage. You
they make fun of the penmanship of veteran DXer
and MT contributor Alon Mosygo of Minnesota.
hod to be there. Addr: Stoneham. (Brandt; Murphy;
Addr: Providence. (Wolfish)
Prindle; Mello; Hassig; Wolfish)
FREE
Radio Azteco- 6955 al 2230. Brom Stoker's DX
The fox- 6955 at 0315. Normally this one ploys
rock music, broadcasts comedy, and discusses pi rote
parodies ore lost paced, with music from the Rocky
SAMPLE
affairs, but it coordinates a network of stations such
and Bullwinkle cartoon between sketches. Addr:
as the Voice of Helium. Addr: Blue Ridge Summit.
Wellsville. (Prindle; Mello; Murphy; Wolfish)
Radio Communication International- 6955 al 0030.
(Wolfish; Lyon; Williams; Coatsworth)
This Germon pirate now programs shows specifically
Up Against the Woll Radio- 6957 at 0145. A replay
for North American relay in English. Addr:
of on old show of 60's and 70's rock music
announced their old Wellsville address, but this hos
Wuppertol. (Williams; Prindle; Fisher; Wolfish)
Antique Radio's Largest-Circulation
changed. Addr: Providence. (Murphy; Jurrens;
Rodiodiffusion Television Quebec- 7 465 at 22 15.
Monthly Magazine
Wolfish; Lyon; Love; Williams; Pearce; Coatsworth)
Most North American pirates use English, but this
Up Your Radio Shortwave- 6955 at 1700. With
Articles - Classifieds - Ads for Parts & Services
French pirate is on exception. Pr~romming includes
Also: Early TV, Ham Equip., Books,
country music French ads, and a 'Buffalo Gals"
very high quality production standards, the rock,
Telegraph, 40's & 50's Radios & more ...
interval signo( The full station name appears to be
comedy, and political parody on this station is
ORTQ, with "Office" preceding the ID. Addr:
Free 20-word ad each month. Don't miss aut!
announced as on alternative to right wing P?litics on
Providence. (Brandt; Jurrens; Fisher; Wolfish)
radio nowadays. Addr: None; says will verify logs in
~ 1-Year: 536.95 (553.95 by1st Class) (fi)
The ACE. (Coatsworth; Prindle; Murphy; Lyon)
Radio Dr. Tim- 6955 at 2330. Even with a decent
~ 6-Month Trial - 51 B.95. Foreign - Write.
Voice of Idiot Drivel- 6955 a t 0130. The announcer
signal via a North American relay transmitter, it's
A.R.C., P.O. Box 802-P1 1, Carlisle, MA 01741
on this rock music station soys that he's "from
hard lo pull out the correct identification on this rock
Phone: (508) 371-0512; Fax: (508) 371-7129
beyond your planet." Addr: Merlin . (Prindle;
music Europirote because of the announcer's heavy
Web: www.antiqueradio.com
Murphy)
Germon accent. Addr: Wuppertol. (Wolfish)
Radio Free Euphoria- 6950 at 0200. Like the Voice
Tr~rum11ttr locacion :_.=

September 1996

MONITORING TIMES

71

ON THE HAM BANDS

Ike Kerschner, N3/K

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AMATEUR RADIO

Low Band Lowdown

eah, sunspots are down, and DX on 20

and higher is tough to come by. So
what are you gonna do? Sit it out for a
fe w more years until the spots reappear on the
face o f old Sol, or turn your sights to chasing
DX on the low bands instead?
If you have been paying atte ntion to40 and
80 meters, you are aware that there is plenty of
DX to be had there-Oh, it may often be a bit
difficult to work , but it is workable.
The comments 1 get about DXing on the
lower frequencies wou ld lead one to believe
you need a kilowatt and 300 foot tower with a
full size beam on it to work DX on 40. 80. and
160. That's noc really so. Plenty of DX is
avai lable to the guy with a hundred watts and
modest antenna.
As we have me ntioned previously. many
DX countries are not allowed the entire 40,
80, and 160 bands. That means you must go
where they are. An Extra class Iice nse wi II put
you into the DX portion of these bands, and
the Advanced allows operati on on a large part
of the DX portion of the phone bands. If you
have a General class or lower. the opportunities wi ll be more limited for you to work DX
on the lower bands. There is DX in the General bands: jusc not as much of it.

I Equipment
A hundred watts is plenty of power fo r
either phone or CW. if you choose your equipme nt well and mount it correctl y. First. be
sure your receiver has the best (i.e .. sharpest)
possible filter for CW and phone. If at all
possible use a vert ical ante nn a. You don' t
need a full size antenna: a 25 to 40 foot
antenn a wi ll do fine. Just be sure to tune it
properl y, and get the best possible ground
plane you can.
My own favorite antenna for the low bands
is the HF2V by Butternut. My HF2V is
mounted 25 feel above ground and has three
rad ials on 80, four on 40. and two on 160. I
have worked about 135 countries on 80 with
this antenna and I 00 watts.
You can work DX with a dipole antenna,
but in general the vertical will give you a
lower angle of radiat ion, making it a bit easier
to work long di stance stations. On che other
hand, one drawback of vertical ante nnas is
noise. If you live in a noisy locati on, the
vertical will pick up more noise than a hori-

72

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

zontal wire. Many hams solve thi s problem by

using a horizontal antenna for receiving and
vertical fo r transm itti ng.
Another choice for antenna is the loop.
either full size or reduced size. They seem to
work very we!I even ir on Iy a foo t or so above
ground.
Should you choose to go wit h a vertical. get
the best ground possible. Generally speak ing.
a ground-mounted vertical requires more radials than an antenna mounted ~ome distance
above ground. The reason can he a bit difficult
to understand, but basicall y. if you have extremely lossy earth beneath the vertical. the
efficie ncy of the antenna will suffer greatly.
By raising the antenna a fe w feet above grou nd
and also keeping the radials above ground.
you provide a degree of isolation and allow
the vertical to become more efficient.
Here's a case in point: A friend of mine
purchased an HF2V on my recommendation
and complained when it did not work as we ll
as mine did. His was mounted at ground level
with a half dozen very short radials buried an
inch of so under ground. We moved the antenna to his garage roof and used four radials
on 40 and two on 80 ( 1/4 wavelength long).
The roof of the garage was onl y about 12 feet
above ground. but the first att empc netted
several DX stat ions on 80. True. some hams
report excellent resu Its using a vertical at
ground level and only a simple ground rod or
two. All I can say is, try it.
Perhaps the greatest problem hams have
working DX on the lower bands is local noise.
If you li ve in a noisy locacion , try one of the
speciali zed receiving antennas such as the

snake (coax buried underground). beverage,

or tuned loop.
The thing to remember is that you can
work DX on the low bands, and that it does not
req uire any more gear th an the average acti ve
HF ham has or can easily acquire. Also bear in
mind that the low bands arc nighttime bands
and be ~t results will be obtained fro m the
hours j ust before night falls to the hour or two
after sunrise.

I Mystery Solved
In the May issue I featured a photo of one
of my Vibroplex bugs and asked if anyone
coul d identi fy it. I received more letters on
this request than I ever expected. The bug has
been identified by John Elwood. WW7P. It is
the Vibroplex model Martin Jr. and it was
built about 1924.
The route used to identi fy my Vibroplex
was very interesting. Ed Von Nordeck. a
member of the Morse Telegraph club, fo rwarded my articl e to John Elwood and asked
him 10 help. He did indeed help. sending me
fairly detai led information about the bug.
The most surprising aspect of all this is all
the letters that poured in. Most writers told me
where I could obtai n information on keys and
key collecti ng, and indica ted a lot of enthusiasm fo r this hobby wi thin a hobby. I am
prese ntly gatheri ng information on this fascinating face t of amateur radio and hope to
provide more information on where and how
you can join with others to build your own key
collections.
T:\ de Ike N31K

Followi11g my request in the May MT, this bug has been identified by Jolin Elwood,.
WW7P. It is the. Vibroplex model Martin Jr. and it was built about 1924. ;

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Choosing the Right Capacitor

e experimen ters must dec ide

whic h typeoffi xed-valuecapaci tor is best fo r new designs or whe n repairing a piccc of rad io
equipment. The wrong capac itor can
spoil c ircuit performance, or it mi ght
not survive in the circuit environment
we expose it to. Capacitor selecti on is
far from casual. even if we understand
the in trin sic nature or this rathcr ordinary component. l will explain the
characteri stics of some common capac itors and offer some advice concerning their use.

I Silver-Mica and Polystyrene

Capacitors

In the order of temperatu re stabi Iity

and min imum intern al inductance are
polystyrene and sil ver-mica capaci tors.
Generall y. polystyrenecapacitorsclosely
FIGURE 1
follow the traits of NPOceramic capac itors. T hey are uscf'ul up to approx imately
15 MHz. A third choice fo r te mperatu re
stability is the sil ver-mica, or clipped
sil ver-mica capaci tor. These capac itors
have very close tolerances respective to
011tli11 es, L to R top row, are for disc ceramic, square
thei r marked values. The D type made
ceramic, SMD ceramic and transmitting ceramic.
by COE is rated al 0.5 pF of the marked
Shown in the bottom row, L to R, are silver-mica,
value. Type J is withi n 5% of the
polystyrene and polyester capacitors.
Ceramic Capacitors
marked value . These capacitors have a
Ceramic capacitors come in many shapes
high resistance to the e ffects of humidit y and
and sizes. T he mos t com mon J'orrn is the disc older tubul ar (clog bone) NPO ceramic camoisture. T hey arc excell ent fo r use in RF
ceramic un it with pigtails. These capacitors pacitors. They arc ideal fo r use in the aforefi lters. low- and med ium-frequency oscillamentioned critical applications. An NPO caarc used principally fo r bypass ing and coutors and tuned circuits. See Figure 2 for
pling (blocki ng) from audio through VHF. pacitor is rated fo r a 5% change over the
circui t examples. Polystyrene capacitors are
An important trait they exhibit is low internal temperature range li sted above fo r generalsimilarly tight wi th respect to their marked
inductance. An ideal capac ito r. no matter purpose capacitors. NPOcapacitors are widely
val ues and arc resistant to moisture.
what style it might be. would have no internal used in oscillator circuit s to minimi ze longinductance (X 1) , resistance. or loss. It would term frequency clrift.
II Capacitor 0 is Important
General-purpose and temperature-stabl e
present a pure capacitance. However. the
The term ''Q" stands for quality fac tor. It is
manufacture of an iclcal capacitor remains to ceramic capacitors are ava ilable in other fora
measure
of how lossy or AC-resistive a
mats
too.
Some
are
square
or
rectangular.
be accompl ished.
capacitor
or
coil may be. In tuned circuits the
arc
ultra
stabl
e
and
arc
The
CN
series
devices
Excessive inductance spoils the ability of
selectivity
Phillips
Corp.
The
"CW"
prefi
x
improves
with inc reased loaded
made
by
the capacitor to func ti on as a bypass element.
Q. A 'loaded" circuit is one that is connected
especially as the operating freq uency is raised. indicates temperat ure stability on par with
NPO units. Ge neral -purpose capacitors of
to its related c ircuit components, such as an
At VHF, for exampl e. it may act more like an
"CZ."
this
species
are
marked
ante
nna and an RF-amplifier in a reccivcr
RF choke than a capacitor. Fortunately. di sc
Surface-mount
(SM
DJ
monolithic
ceramic
fro
nt
encl. The unloaded Q is always higher
ceramic capacitors have mini mal internal inthan the loaded Q.
ductance. Hence. they are suitable fo r most capac itors or "chips" arc available also. They
The capacitors we choose for critical ci rRF applications through 60 MHz. Their pig- are tiny and rectangular in shape. There are
no
pigtails.
These
dev
ices
have
a
metal
coatcuits
of this type must have a high Qin order
tails introduce un wanted inductance at the
to
avoid
degrading the overall c ircuit Q. This
ing
at
each
encl
so
that
they
can
be
soldered
higher frequencies. Therefore. those leads
direc
tly
to
the
PC-board
conductors.
This
importan t in YFOs. fixed-freis
especially
must be kept as short as practicable. The disc
quency oscillators. RF fi lters and tuned circapacitor illustrated in Figure I isavail ableas virtually eliminates unwanted inductance.
cuits. NPO cera mic, polystyre ne and silvera general-purpose (7.5 U) type that is useful These capacitors are wide ly used at VHF and
able
as
NPO
and
mica capac itors all have high Q fac tors. A
above.
T
hey
are
a
lso
avail
fo r ci rcuit bypassing and for coupling begenera
l-purpose
units.
polystyrene capacitor, for example. may have
tween circu its. Its actual capac itance may be
a Q as high as I 000. The Q of tu ned circuits
Still another ceramic capacitor style is
c lose to the marked value at +25"C, but it can
in most eq uipment is seldom greater than
change 20% from -55" C to +85" C. There- manufac tured for high-power. hi gh-voltage
in
transmiue
rs.
T
hese
have
bee
n
300.
However. extremely high Q ( I 000 or
use.
s
uch
as
fo re. the general purpo'c disc capacitor should
"barrel
capac
itors"
for
many
years.
called
greater)
is possible with carefull y des igned
not be used in critical c ircuits such as filters,
They arc rated as hi gh as 15.000 vo lts. Type
helical resonators and resonant cavities.
tuned circuits. oscillators and VFOs.
Special te mperature-stable disc ceramic 8585 has a temperature tolerance of 20%,
I Other Capacitor Types
capac itors arc available. They are ide ntified whereas types 8505 and 857 have a 10%
te
mperatu
re
tolerance.
Types
8540
and
8550
as NPO(NP zero) units. These usual ly have a
Mylar. polypropy lene. polyester, tamablack dot on the body. Li kew ise wit h the are NPO uni ts.
lum. and electrolytic capacitors are common-

74

MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

FIGURE 2

capacitors should be okay.

I use 0.01-lF. 1000-volt
ceramic capacitors for bypassing the 120-volt AC
line inside my eq uipment
cabinets. Capacitors with
a 600-volt rating may also
be used, but 1 am a coward : 1 detest blown fu ses
and the odor of charred
components!

VFO

15-pF rather than a l 50-pF capacitor. On the

other hand. a 20 lJ is a 200-pF capacitor.
Confusing., e h''

AMPLIFILTER "'

CRITICAL CAPACITOR

I Closing Remarks

------I~

TUNED
CIRCUIT

OUT

ANT

FILTER
IN

0---) 1---1----.-

-1

t--*---------1 t--o

OUT

*
*

c
Examples of circuits that require capacitors with close-value
tolerances, temperature stability and high Q. A VFO is
shown at A. At Bis a parallel tuned resonant circuit. The
filter at C uses silver-mica or polystyrene capacitors.
place in the equ ipment we buy . Most of the
foregoing varieties are used for audio, VLF,
LF, and MF applications. Therefore, I won ' t
dwell on their traits.
Electrolytic capacitors are used primarily
in power-supply fi lter circuit s and fo r bypassing and coupling in audi o c ircuits.
High-capacitance tantalum capacitors have
low internal inductance and they are small in
size. This makes them useful in RF bypass
and coupli ng circuits below approximately 1
MHz.

I Voltage Ratings
Capacitor longevity is dependent upon it
having a maximum voltage rating greater
than the highest voltage in the circui t where it
is used. It is prudent to allow plenty of safety
factor. For examp le. I use 50-volt ceramic
capacitors in my 12-VDC circui ts. I prefer 35volt dectrolytic and tan talum capacitors for
12-volt circuits. even though 16- or 25- volt

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PiLANE TALK
MAKING SENSE OF CIVILIAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Jean Baker, KJN9DD

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There' s a lot of d ata contained in th is book
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second and fourth lette rs of a SELCAL Code
must a lways be furth er into the alphabet than
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Company Station Frequencies:

American Airlines
129.200
FedEx
131.825 131.925
Northwest
129.950
Delta
129.550 129.500 129.600
(used by Delta's radio network to and from Atlanta)
The closest Flight Service Station is located at Cincinnati
Municipal Airport (mostly used by general aviation
aircraft): 122.200 122.400 255.00 335.000
Louisville
Louisville's ma1or commercial Airport is Standiford Field ;
Bowman Field handles general aviation aircraft:
Approach/Departure
Ground
Clearance Delivery
ATIS
Tower
Flight Service Station
(Bowman Field)
Airline Ground Support.
Delta
Northwest
USAir
United
TWA

123.700 124.500 126.550

121.700
126.100
118.150
120.300
114.800 122.100 122.200
122.600
460 .875
460.750
460.700
460.725
460.850

Company Station Freque11cies:

Delta
129.550
Southwest
130.125
Northwest
129.950
USAir
130.100

three d igit s that represent hundreds o f feet.

For example. fli g ht level 250 represent s a
barometric alt imeter indication of25 .000 feet;
fligh t level 255. an ind ication of 25.500 feet.
etc.
Emergency Locator Transmitte r (ELT )
- A radio 1ransmit1er attached to the aircraft
structure which operates from it s own power
source on 121.500 MHz(VHF), and 243 M Hz
(U HF). It aids in locat ing d owned aircraft by
rad iating a dow nward sweeping audio tone, 2
- 4 times per second. and is des igned to
functi o n without human act ion after an accident.
Let us know if there a re other term s you'd
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I Say Again?
Frequencies
As promised , here are airport freqs for
Cincinnati and Lou isv ille. We'll start with
C inc innati . In case you didn't realize it.
C incinnati 's majo r airport for commerc ial
traffic is in Covington. Kentucky. This airport
is sometimes refen-ed to as "Northern Ke ntucky Internationa l":
Cincinnati (Covington, KY)
Approach
119. 70
Departure
121.100
Ground
121 .300
Clearance Delivery
127.175
Automatic Terminal
Info. Service (ATIS)
135.300
Tower
118.300

123.875 128.700
126.650 128.700
121.700

118.975

Airline Ground Support (Ramp Control):

American Airlines
460.775
Delta
460.650 460.750 460.825
Northwest
United
TWA

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460 850
460.700
460.650
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weights of 3 00,000 pounds or more, whether
or no t they are operating al this weight during
a particular phase o f fli g ht. Aircraft types we
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such as O'Hare, becomes saturated and can 't
take any more arrival s fo r a while. a ll fli g hts
tha t arc headed for o Hare are kept on the
ground at their airports of origin until the
grou nd stop is lifted. (S ure beats tl yingaround
in a ho lding pattern and usin g up fue l.)
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A GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS

Coast Guard to the Rescue

!just so happened that the very night

l decide to try out the nl.!w Microsoft/
NBC nctwmk. MSNBC apparentl y
srnoped CNN wi th the unfolding story
of the tragedy of TWA Flight 800. Foras
much as twl.!nly minutes. l cou ld find no
other network. including CNN. carryi ng
the breaking news of thi s disaster. Questioning whethe rt he story was really valid
nr not, I went in and turned on my
sho rt \\ave radi o. Coast Guard
rescue traffic ~t a rt ed appearing
on 5696 kHL. and it wa~ immediate ly apparent that the radio traffic did indeed pertain to the disaster.
Soon ot her shortwave frequencies came alive. al l in the 5. 6. and
8 MHz bands. As the sto ry unfolded. l decided it was a good
time for Fed File to review the
structure of Coa~ t Guard commun ications.
The fi rst frcquc ncil.!s to moni tor during an emergency in volv ing Coast
Guard personnel arc the ai r ~ta li o n frequen cies. The air ~ t ation (lo a land lubber like me)
is the Coast Guard installation from which
search and re~c u e ain.:raft arc launched. Air
stations can he found on the following short wave frequencies:
2141
226 t
5693
5696
t 1199 11202

3053
5699
15082

3056
8980
15085

31 19
8983
15088

3122
11196

Oftentimes th!.! mi litary wil l become involved in joint military/Coast Guard operations. In thi s case. Global HF system (GHFS )
wil l be used. They im:ludc:
4724
67 12
11244 13200

6739
15016

8968
17976

8992

111 75

Some of the fn:qucncics th al could be used

during a rl.!scue Sl.!lling incl ude:
2182 kHz
3023 kHz
4125 kHz
5680 kHz
6215 kHz
8291 kHz
8364 kHz
12290 kHz
16420 kHz

78

Distress and calling

Search and rescue (SAR)
Distress and safety calling
Search and rescue
Distress and safety
Distress and safety
Morse Code international lifeboat. life
raft, and survival craft
Distress and safety
Distress and safety

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these miss ions. the Coast Guard wi ll be

found on a variety of other government
HF freq uencies. This is a sampli ng:
34285571 8912

When the Coast

Guard aircraft are not
using short wave, they
can be found communicati ng on e ither VHF
or UHF channels. The
air stati on groups use
th e following VHF/
UHF frequencies:
Joint military common emergency
channel:
40.500 MHz (FM)
VHF-AM aeronautical distress and
emergency locator transmitters
(ELT) class A and B:
121 .500 MHz
National VHF-AM SAR training
channel:
122.900 MHz
International VHF-AM SAR freq.y- 123.100 MHz
on-scene SAR VHF-FM:
156.300 MHz
International Digital Selective
Calling (DSC) :
156.525 MHz (FM)
Emergency locator transmitters,
class C:
156.750 MHz (FM)
International distress. safety. and
calling (marine channel 16): 156.800 MHz (FM)
SAR datum marker beacons:
156.750
229 325
229.335
240.600
242.650 242.6625
275.100
Aircraft homing and comm.:
237.900 MHz (AM)
International UHF-AM survival
crafUmilltary common emergency: 243.000 MHz (AM)
JoinUcombincd military on-scene
SAR/UHF OF:
282.800 MHz (AM)
Nationwide Coast Guard SAR
air to ground:
381. 700
381.800
383.900 MHz (all are
AM)
COSPAS-SARSAT satellite EPIRB
frequency:
406.025 MHz (Data
burst)
l n crea~ in g l y. the Coa-;t Guard is assisting
th..: Customs S!.!rvice and the Drug Enforcement Administration in their hunt for smugglers of both drug and human cargo. During

11 288

13312 17952 kHz

The United States is broken down

into several Coast Guard Districts. I live
in South Florida. so I am in District 7.
Starting at the Ytex ican border and going up the California coast to the Canadian border. you pass through Districts
11 and 13. The foll owi ng frequencies
are designed for specific districts, but
since there is a finite numberoffrequencies. I would monitor them all . not just those
for my district.

I Coast Guard
Comma11d, Control, and Com111u11icatio11s
(C3) Radio Systems
kb.an
lJ.s.e.
Eceaueo~y
01

C3 Repeater

02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11

163.175
C3 Simplex
163.175
Tac1/helo Primary162.125
Tac2/helo Sec
162.325
Marine 21a
157.050
Marine 23a
157.150
Marine 81a
157.075
Marine 83a
157.175
Marine 16
156.800
Marine 13
156.650
Marine 22a
157.100

162.050

control!
mobile
rptr out
simplex
simplex
simplex
simplex
simplex
simplex
simplex
distress
simplex
simplex

Office of Law Enforcement (OLE)

C.l!.ru!
lJ.s.e.
Eceauem
01

OLE Rptr

167.900
162.325

02
03

OLE Simplex
OLE Rptr

167.900
163.175
162.050

04
05
06
07

OLE Simplex
OLE Tac1
OLE Tac2
OLE Rptr

163.175
162.125
162.325
165.3125
164.400

08

OLE Simplex

165.3125

rptr out
control/
mobile
simplex
rptr out
control/
mobile
simplex
simplex
simplex
rptr out
control/
mobile
simplex

National Marine Environmental Response

Group
The Coast Guard operates this group designed for large-scale marine di saste rs.
Qian
lJ.s.e.
Frequency
01
02

Simplex
Rptr

168.500
168.500
165.3125

rptr out
control/
mobile

03

Rptr

168 500
163.5125

04

Rptr

168.500
164 .9125

05

Rptr

165.31 25
164.3000

06
07

Simplex
Rptr

165.3125
168.500
164.300

08

Rptr

168.500
165 0375

09

Rptr

168.500
164 .875

10
11

Customs Liaison 165.2375

Rptr
163.175
162.050

12

Simplex

rptr out
control/
mobile
rptr out
control/
mobile
rptr out
control/
mobile
rptr out
control/
mobile
rptr out
control/
mobile
rptr out
control/
mobile
simplex
rptr out
control/
mobile

163.175

Coast Guard A ux iliary

Ug
llin
ill.all.!!.!fil
01

Rptr

148.825
143.800

02

Simplex

148.825

rptr out
control/
mobile

Coast Guard Security Group

QJrul

Etea ~ e o cy

01
02
03
04
05
06
07

415.9250
416.8500
417.1250
419.9250
415.6250
409.8250
419.1250

Dow n in South M iami is the home of

Miam i Coast Guard. T hi s is the corrnnuni cations stati on with the callsig n of NMA . T he
tran sm itters and recc ive rs arc controlled from
Portsmo uth. Virg in ia . T his is al so the location
of the C ustoms/Coast Guard/DEA (and who
knows what e lse?) C31 drug inte rdictio n contro l center. It is no t in the same: building as the
Coast Guard, but it is on the same prope rty .
T he sec urity personne l g uarding this mass ive
complex use the radi o freq uenc ies of 17 1.2375
and 17 1.3625 MHz for security.
W hi le going throug h some o ld notes fro m
a federa l database I started approximately ten
years ago, I came across some frequenc ies
that we re in use back in the m iddle 1980"s for
the Coast Guard . They may still be val id .
164.3000 165.2125 165 .2625
171.2375 171 .3625
164.3000
AirFM:
Coast Guard Intelligence: 165.3125 165.3375 171.31 25
171.3375 172.3000
Security (Los Angeles): 171.3375//171.3625
407.9750 409.8250415.7750
Security:
41 5.9250 416.850041 7.0000
419.1250
Security:

Les Butler was al so listening to 5696 o n

July 17th from his locat ion in Michigan . He

says. " I was stunned when I heard Coast

Guard rescue 600 I te lli ng CAM SLANT he
was enrou te to an airline explos io n off Long
Island. I cranked up the volu me and put the
headphones o n.
"T he condi tio ns were s uch in Mich igan
that night that I cou ld copy the airc raft that no
cast coast CG station cou ld. San Franc isco
e ven covered some east coast stations at times.
I then heard all the cast coast statio ns trying to
get th rough to 600 1 a nd 60 17. Both a ircraft
answered them several times, but no bod y
heard them.'"
Les told MT that, inspired in part by John
Seibels' Ju ly featu re on he lping the CG DFan
interfering signal. he summo ned the courage
to ca ll the on ly CG phone number he had.
fro m a QS L le tter fro m COMSTA Boston .
He says, 'The Petty Officer asked if I
copied the ir positio ns. 1 to ld her. no, she kept
stepping o n the m every time they tried. She
took my name, number, and call sig n and said
CAM SLANT may ca ll back. A sho rt time
later CAMS LANT co pied 6001 ' s pos ition
but no t 60 IT s. I called aga in and told the m
that 60 17 said his positio n was pre tty much
the same as 6001."
The pho ne calls co ntinued to go back and
fo rth. as Les kept hearing w hat the CG could
no t. HI was so busy I was getting annoyed at
how we ll my antenna was performing. I had
just made another 80 foot dipole and stre tched
it out in the attic the best I could the nig ht
before and a lo ng came these outstanding at mospheric conditio ns. You never know what
you" II find on the radio."
A truer word was never s poken. I' II add a
word to the w ise, tho ugh. For mo nit ors who
may be tempted to do w hat Les did. be cautio us what you say until you discove r whether
the agency you call is inte rested in your
in formati o n. If no t. you may fi nd yourse lf in
tro uble w here you r o nly intent was to he lp.

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Incidentally. the McDonald ' s restaurant
chain has a lso licensed the above freq uencies
for use in the ir drive-throughs. Coul d be some
interesti ng interference o n those channe ls .
T hat' s it fo r th is month. I ex pect to see you
in Atlanta O cto ber 18th, scanner in hand and
ready to snoop our the hidden "bug" ' If you
don' t know how. we'll be offering some instruction this year o n direction fin ding techniq ues. Come j oin the fu n!

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8 Sale on Surveillance
Your local Rad io Shack is having a summer sa le o n electronic surveil lance eq uipment. T hey arc offering wireless m icrophones
in the 170 MHz band at 37% off their regul ar
price . T he go ing price is $49.95. T hese are
three-channe l un its o perating in the new low
power business channels, which arc as fo llows:
169.445 169.505 170.240 170.300 171.050
171 .11 0 171.845 171. 905

In the "standby mode"' the un its transm it a

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PR0-2026 Mobile $199

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SATELLITE TV
ADVENTURES IN THE CLARKE BELT

Ken Reitz KS4ZR

World Viewing

rom its inceptio n satel lite technology

promi sed to open wide television s window on the world. Today. satel lite television remains the best showcase fo r viewing
any nations cultural identi ty. their entert ainment. news. sports. and even weather. The
chart below shows the programmin g and locations available. Note that all channe ls li sted
are unencrypted. Very few cable companies
carTy any of these channels, and onl y a few
channels are carried on the new generation of
direct broadcast satellites (DBS).
Throughout the course of the broadcast
day a nu mber of these c hanne ls will feature
English prog rams or oiler Engli sh subtitles:
the value of these c hannels to student.s, sc holars, immigran ts or fore ign nationals is obv ious. What bett er way to keep up wi th news
from home or study the language and culture
of other countriesJ However. if you're not a
nati ve speaker. the maj ority of the prog ramming will be of little use. Would n"t it be nice
if there was a way to tran slate or somehow
understand what is being sen t? There is.

I Receiving the International Channel

Egyptian Satellite TV 011 Te/star T401

clta1111e/ 17

I The International Channel

Launched in Jul y of 1990. the International Chan nel seeks to bring fore ign language programming to new Americans. those
engaged in international business. students.
educators. and all Americans wi th ethni c or
foreign backgrounds. T ransmitting on Galaxy 7 channel 24, the YC2+ encrypted channel offers 24 hour/day programming in 24
langu ages from Asi a. Europe. and the Middle
East. And the best pan is. some of the pro-

Emirates Dubai TV (EIJTV) transmits a

variety of programming in Arabic. Radio
Maria from Italy transmits 011 a 5.80 M 1-/z
subcarrier.

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Arabic Network America billboard 011

Galaxy 6 clta1111el JO. Arabic Radio is heard
011 5. 80 M/-/z subcarrier.

gramm ing fea tures English subtitles .

The daily schedule for the Internati onal
Channel is a broadcast parade of nat ions. The
day starts out wi th programmin g from France.
the Philippines and Israel, fo llowed by broadcasts from Korea. Arab news from London.
the Asian Markel Digest fro m Singapore.
news fro m Ta iwan, and Fugisankei Ne1rs
from Tokyo-and that only takes us to noon.
The afternoon starts out wit h several hours of
Indian program ming in Hindi , fo ll owed by
German Nell".\" Jo11mal and Vremn1 Nell".~
from Moscow. An hour of TV Pol~n ia from
Poland i~ fo llowed by more programm ing
from France. and that wraps up the afternoon.
Programming from Korea. Manil a. Greece.
Rome. and Hong Kong rounds out the prime
time sc hedu le.
Most of the programmin g is not li ve: it is
recorded from sate ll ite transmi ss ions and rebroadcast wi thi n the same day in the dai ly
sc hed ul e.

T he Internati onal Channel is available on

cable systems throughout the U.S. In addition. it is available to full-v iew satell ite subscribers from its G7 location. C-band subscription rate is around $33 per year. As of
this writi ng it is not avai lable on any of the
DBS satell ites.
Currently. the da ily sc hedule. as outl ined
above. is availab le on C-band and to cable
viewers. However. a much more expanded
schedule is planned for the fu ture. International Channe l plans call fo r the creation of
single language premium channels. As stated
in a recent press release:
...These single language premium channels will be provided by ln1crna tional
Channel" s newly refurbished International
Production Center in Los Angeles. in conju nction wi th leading networks from around
the world. T he global partnership channels
will be rol led out with digita l compression ..."
Look for si ngle language channels in Arabic. Cantonese/Mandari n Chinese. French.
German. Polish. Greek. Italian. Korean. Vietnamese. Asian In dian, and Tagalog(Fil ipino).

I International News Monitoring

If your need for internationa l news requi res mo re than the passing reference usually given on night ly network news shows. or
strained th rough the filter of CNN In te rnational. the International Channel is fo r you.
During the recent uncertainties of the Russ ian
general elections this summer, Internat ional
Chan nel viewers cou Id sec what Russian viewers were watching. and non- Russian speakers

Russian news report during presidential

election. Note English tramlation a bo/10111
of screen.

could follow along with the subtitl es provided. Following the acti vities of another country on a
day by day basis brin g~ us closer
to an understanding of the special
problems others might have and it
allows the viewer to appreciate
how much ali ke we all arc.
There is al ways something to
be gained by watching the news
of an other country. Last year sate llite viewers all over Ameri ca
were watching CBC-TV during
the Quebec referendum. This summer it was the Russian clc<.:ti ons.
Ten months from now the British Experimental i11flatable satellite dish set loose by space
Crown Colony of Hong Kong re- shuttle crew 0 11 recent flight.
verts to China. The months leading up to the in the clear. and the rest arc a vailable by
change-over wi ll be increasingly tense. How subscripti on. Of special interest are the Comwill China treat this former province. now a puterTV Network and the Sundance Channel
free-wheeli ng de moc rac y with a robust (featuring independent films).
economy? How wi ll Hong Kong citize ns re- If all goes well later thi ~ month , General
act? Questions such as these wi II mount as the Electric s GE l satellite will make its debut in
ti me draws near and you can have a front row the Clarke Belt at I03 degrees West. GE I is
seat with the Internat ional Channel. For more the first of a new breed of hybrid (C- and Kuin formation on the International Channel call
band) sate llites built by Martin Marietta Astro
them at 310-826-4777 or Fax them at 310- Space. GE I has 24 C-band tran sponders with
447-7906. For schedule updates visit their variable output between 12 and 18 watts and
Website: http://www.l-channcl.com/.
24 Ku-band transponders with up to 60 watts
each and has a des ign lifetime of I5 years.
Ju ly I was the official launch date of the
I Transponder Notes
latest e ntrant in the DB S sweepstakes.
Hughes Comm unications Galaxy 9 (G9) AlphaStar offers its 100 dig ital channels for
satell ite began distributing programm ing June reception on its own 24 inch dishes fro m its
I5 from its location at 123 degrees West. G9 location on Telstar 402 Ku . Channel line-up
replaces Telstar 303 wh ic h was moved East to includes the usual cable fare. sports. news,
120 degrees where it continues in limited superstations. pay-per-view. and di gital mu service. G9 becomes the latest in a "neighbor- sic channels. AlphaStar offers programming
hood" of cable birds which stretch uninter- packages and allows a-la-carte programming
rupted from 123 to 137 degrees and incl ude purchases. This service hopes to expand to
six satellites transmitt ing 144 channels. Of 200channe ls nex t year when it shi fts to Tclstar
these, only 17 arc digital transmissions. 26 arc 5 which is scheduled for launch in 1997. To
find out more about
AlphaSta r cal l 800TABLE 1: Window on the World
983-3266.
According to indusC-band
try reports there are 5
Arab Network of America (ANA)
Galaxy 6 channel 10
Portuguese Television Service (RTP)
Galaxy 6 channel 13
million subscribingsatDubai TV
Galaxy 7 channel 1O
ellite viewers. Of these
Italian Television Service (RAI)
Galaxy 3 channel 12
DSS (DirecTV and
Deutsche Welle German Television Service
Satcom C4 channel 5
Korean Broadcasting (Part Time)
Telstar T 401 channel 18
USSB) have 1.5 milBBC World/Domestic (Part Time)
Galaxy 4 channels 5. 9, or 11
lion; Primestar has I. I
Canada Domestic Services (French and English) Anik E2
million and there arc
Mexico Domestic Service (Spanish)
Morelos 2
2.3 million "full view..
Ku-band
subsc ri be rs. Expec t
Russian-American Network
SBS 5 channel 14
DISH and Alphastar to
Chinese (Hong Kong) Television Network (CTN) Galaxy 4 channel 7
start racking up addiJade Satellite (Hong Kong): Cantonese
Galaxy 4 channel 18
Asian American TV (MTV):
ti onal numbers for the
variety of Asian programming
Galaxy 4 channel 21
DBS crowd. C-band
Egyptian Satellite Channel
Telstar T401channel 17
sales
seem to have levThe Asian Network (TAN) (South Korea)
Galaxy 7 channel 19

elcd off at an average of 10.000 systems per

mont h. There are said to be 95 million television households.
DirecTV has hit back at what they termed
an ... international satellite piracy ring ..." by
filing a civil suit against 22 defendants, including some authorized DirecTV dealers,
fo r allegedly bei ng involved " ... in efforts to
compromise the DSS encryption system."
Charging violations of state and Federal law,
DirecTV means business. Guilty parties can
be assessed statutory damages up to $ 100,000
fo r each device and still be held liable for
cri min al penalties under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known
popularly as RICO.
In other DirecTV related info rmation, I
asked a DirecTV spokesperson what the process was for determining what new channels
DirecTV would add in the future. I was told
that discussion about new channels happens
on a daily basis and that they are particularly
keen to hear from regular subscribers. Obviously, populari ty and channel availability will
also determine what gets added. To find out
more. you can check out the Websites of the
main DBS players:
AlphaStarhttp://www.alphastar-tv.com;
DirecTV http://www.directv.com;
DISH http://dishnetwork.com;
USSB http://www.ussbtv.com.
And, finally, satellite enthusiasts watching
ASA Select TV enjoyed the sight of the
in tlatable sate Ilite antenna experiment released
by a recent Space Shuttle mission. Like some
kind of bizarre party favor, the di sh started out
as sma ll pac kage and, with the help of onboard gas, slowly expanded to its full glory.
The shallow parabolic dish measured SO feet
in diameter when full y inflated and, at the end
of the experiment, drifted to a fiery end into
the Earth 's atmosphere.

~~

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EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
Bill Cheek

TWEAK, TUNE, AND MODIFY!

Internet: bcheek@cts.com

Precision Tone Detector-Decoder

ere is an intri g uing circu it that is

simple . fun , and utilitarian. The
Tone Detecto r-Decoder (I' II call
it TDD) is a low cos!, single chip, adjustable circuit which detects a tone from most
any source and te lls you when that lone is
present. Inc reasingly, to nes are used lo
"wake up" equipme nt (e.g .. Emergency
Broadcast System) or sque lch ii until activity appears (Toronto, ON. scannisls who
use "metro mod" 10 squelch an " anti-scanne r" to ne).

FIG-2: COMPONENT SIDE

3
4

5
6
7
8

9
10

About the Circuit

The TDD e mploys an LM-567 Tone
Decoder chip and a handful of parts to
detect a sing le tone of the user's choice.
between .01 Hz and 500 kHz. Output is
logic hig h as lo ng as the selec ted tone is
not prese nt. (We' II call thi s type I. ) The
output goes log ic-low whe n the tone is
detected. The TDD is sensitive o nl y to the
c hosen tone. It ignores all other s ignals .
The change o r o utput log ic can be used to lllrn
things o n and off, as desired. The tone to be
detected is se lected by adjus tme nt of a potentiometer, YR 1, and by choice of timing capacitor, C4. (Figs 1-3)
Oppos ite log ic ( type 2)-with a logic-low
for no tone and a log ic high for when the

LEGEND {Component side of Board):

0 = Unused Perfbo ard holes: 0.042" dia: 0.1" spacing

tk

= Traces. holes. parts /l. lett enng for Type 1 TDD

Traces, holes, parts & lettering to be added

for Type 2 TDD (No t required for Type 1)

tones like those generated in a dual-to ne multifrequency (DTMF) system. Each TD D o utput
sho uld be connected to an input of a d ual
AND or NAN O gale for the desired resultant
output action.
If you want to detect a cont ino us tone
controlled sque lch system (CTCSS) a nd other
tones with a scanner. ii is probably best to use
the baseband aud io o utput from the scanner's
d iscrim inator. T o ne detection from o ther rad ios o r s ig na l sources shoul d be tapped at a
poi nt in the preamplifi e r stage. perhaps a tape
record jack. or e ven the "'high" lug of a volume control. T he TD D' s in pu t o n pin 3 should
not exceed 200 milli volts (0.2v ) RMS . If you
need discriminator pi n information for your
scanner. contact me by e-mail, o r in the public
network scanner forums.
The TDD uses +5 V o r +8 V logic . Five
volt logic is 4.5-5.5 volts while e ig ht vol t
logic is 7-9 vo lts. T he max imum log ic and
power su pply voltage of the TD D is nine
volts. M ini mum is 4 .5 volts .

selected tone is present- is possibl e. This

variety is not discussed in detail. but the slight
II Build the TDD
extra circuitry fo r it is depicted in Figures 2The TDD is eas ily assembl ed o n pe rf board
3, as R3, R4. QI. with the associated lig hterabout
an inch square ( 11 complete ho les wide
shaded traces.
10
complete ho les long .) Layout is not
by
Pin 6 of the LM -567 is the inte rnal VCO
Use 22-30 gauge so lid wire for the
critical.
output. It can be measured wit h a freque ncy counter 10 dete rmine the
exact tone-set po int. When the inFIG-3: SOLDER & WIRING SIDE
coming tone matches the YCO freK J
H G F E D C B A
'v' -...
quency, detectio n occurs I Most any
(~~c~) <Cl~
vc~
c~~..-~~~~~~~~~
J
0 ~. 1
counter
is
ample
for
this
meafreq
()Ground ~rxt
surement. inc luding Rad io S hack s
2
.J_ R1
#22-305.
The
ir
#22168
digital
3
""
multimeter has a built-in frequency
4
counter.
5
One TDD is good fo r one es8
7
6
6
6
PARTS UST
senti ally pure and steady lone at a
Out Grx1
Ct
U-1
7
time. Used with a radi o (audible
C2
LM567
CJ
8
In Vee
tones), the frequency range should
C4
1
2
3
4
C5
be ro ug hl y 200 Hz-6 kHz, altho ug h
C6
VR1.
with
a change or compone nt s yo u
R1
can set the TDD for anyw he re betwee n 0.0 1 Hz and 500 kH z. ac cording lo the LM-567 data sheet.
= Unused Perfboard holes: 0.042" dia: 0.1" spacing
A single des ign d ocs not yield the
entire range of detect io n.
= Traces. holes. parts & lettering for Type 1 TDD
(Tone)
1
Where: VR1 resistance. ohms
The TDD may no l respo nd we ll
C4 capacitance, Farads
,t;~ (1.1){VR1)(C4)
to warb les. staccato. or data tones
V1 Input volts (Rf/IS).~ 200 mv
andwidth)
Cl :a Capacitance, uF
Traces, holes, par ts & lettering to be added
like FSK. Fax, and compute rs. T wo
BW
"'1070 ,_ _ __ SeJecr C2 lex de5Jred ban<:Nnaw as a
for Type 2 TOO (Not required for Type 1)
(II of Foj
percen1 OT the desl(ed rone (Fo)
TD Os can work together to detect

FIG-1: TDD SCHEMATIC

1:1

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point-to-point wiring on the bottom side of

the board. Don"t use Q I. R3. and R4 if you
dont need a type 2 TDD.
Solder a bare copper wire ( # 18 gauge) to
the ground trace of the board. Loop it through
the two ground holes in the pcrfboard for
rigidity. Leave about 1-112 inches of thi s bare
wire free to simplify installation in the intended equipment. Solder wires 8- 10 inches
long to the audio-in. +Vee. and logic-out
points on the board . Clip to ideal length later.

I Install the TDD

Install the tone decoder/rejector board in a
handy spot in a radio. scanner, audio amplifier, or even in a stand-alone metal box. If you
anticipate the need to adjust fo r different
tones, then consider a regul ar potentiometer
with an external shaft for VR-1. Another good
idea is to drill a hole in the front panel of the
equipment and super-glue a trim pot behind
the hole for a convenient but unobtrusive
screwdriver adjustment. Otherwise. VR-1 can

FIG-4: PC PATTERNS

you'll have to provide external power.

Switching is desirable.
3. Baseband Audio: An easy connection to
make. It need not be switched. Connect a
wire from R2 on the TDD to the baseband
audio pin on a scanner's NFM discriminator chi p or to another audio source to
sample for the presence of a certain tone. A
typi cal scanner connecti on is shown in
Figure S.
4. Logic-Out Point: Connect a wire from the
TDD board. U I pin 8 (TP4) to whatever
needs to be cont rolled by the TDD . A
typical connection to use the TDD as a
countermeasure to anti-scanner tones 1s
shown in Figure S.

Pos1trve Image for

Photores1st

Prvb/Jly 1cl le "''8 prcpcrfic11 '1'8 cl.

be a trimpot on the pc rf board of the TDD.

You should also incorporate a double-pole
double-throw (DPDT) swi tch to simultaneously switch the +Vee and logic-out lines if
the TDD is not to run full time.
The bare ground wi re off the TDD can be
soldered or bolted to a chassis or to a printed
circuit board ground trace. to simplify the
mount. Once soldered or bolted. the stiff wire
makes the board relatively immobile and
stable. You can wrap the board with clear
plastic tape if there is a chance of any thing
shorting to it. Make VR I and any switch
accessible fo r conve nient adju~tme nt.

I Connect the TDD

1. Grou nd: The ground trace of the board
must be connected to system ground. This
is usually an y part of a metal c hassis. but
can also be a ground trace on a PCB. You
may have already made this connection via
the sti ff bare ground wire.
2 DC Power: The TDD must be powered by
a source of DC of the same level as the
desired logic-out. 1f the target equipment
doesn' t have a +SV or a +8V source, then

Scan Control
Pin ""'

,......;..(S_w_
:it_ch_ed...:..)_t> TDD Logic-Out

NFM

Discriminator

Chip

CONNECTIONS FOR:
PR 0 - 2002/3/4/5/6; PR 0-203 512042
PRO 2020/202112022
PR 0-43/37/36/34/32/31

TDD (Type 2)

Connections for a type 2 TDD are the same

as for type I. The differences are certain
points on the TDD board shown in Figures 23. Use the above instruction s. but make su re
you have the proper input/ou tput points noted
on your TDD board. Install QI . R3. and R4 on
your TDD only if you need a type 2 board:
otherwise. leave them off for a type I.

I Setup and Adjustment

Mirror Image for

Toner-Transfer

FIG-5: TYPICAL SCANNER

CONNECTIONS

Preset VR-1 to one end of its rotati on.

Attach a volt meter between ground and the
TDD output point. Feed a desired tone to the
TDD (via scanner. signal ge nerator, or 49
MHz handi-talkie-press the Call button to
hear the tone, typically about 900 Hz.).
The voltage at the type I TDD output
should be about equal to the supply voltages or 8 volts. For type 2 TDD" s, the voltage
will be about zero.
With the tone feeding the TDD. slowly
adjust VR-1 through its range. At some point,
that voltage wi ll suddenly change: For type I
it will drop to nearl y zero volts and for type 2
it will ri se to+ Vee. Continue adjusting YR- I
and the voltage should change back to where
it was before. The dropout point (type I) or
peak point (type 2) is the tone-detect point of
the TDD. Tweak YR- I back and forth to
determine the middle of the dropout (or peak)
zone and set it there.

I Bandwidth
The detection bandwidth of the TDD is
"adjustable" by C2 as a percent of the desi red
tone. Fo. The wider the bandwidth (BW ). the
more tones will be detected other than the
desired one. The narrower the BW. the more
critical the adjustment. C2 in this design yields
a 16% bandwidth, or about 72 Hz at Fo=9UU
Hz. The formula is shown in Figure- I if you
want to experiment.

Conclusion

There are several other things you need to

know about the LM-S67 chip and circ uit as
follows:
I. VR 1 should be set to not less than 1-k ohm,
nor greater than 20-k ohm. The max value
of VR I is 20-k ohm. but 20-k pots are
har<ler to find than the specified 10-k ohm.
If you can find a 20-k ohm pot or trim mer,
use it.
2. C4 can be any practical val ue that results in
Fo between 0 .0 I-Hz and SOO-kHz, per the
fo rmula in Figu re- I.
3. Pin 2 of the LM-S67 has an undocumented
featu re where the offset error (Hz) from an
incoming tone and its VCO frequency can
be measured with a frequency counter. The
offset has to be within a few hundred Hz.
e lse there is nothing to measure. If you can
measure thi s offset frequency, it wi ll guide
you to precise settings of YR 1.
4. The optimum value of R2 may not be 47-k
oh m as specified. I chose R2 to fi t a wide
variety of sit uations, but you can change it
to an ideal val ue by measuri ng the AC
value of the tone voltage from the audio-in
and multiplying that voltage by I00,000 to
get the ohms value of the ideal resistor fo r
R2. Suppose you measure 2-volts: the ideal
R2 wou ld be 200-k ohms. The TDD functions best when the tone voltage at pin 3 of
U I is between . I2S and .200 volts. RMS.
S. The output capacitor CS should be about
twice the value of the bandwidth capacitor.
C2 (in case you want to experiment).
6. For an all-purpose. wide range TDD. add a
switch to select values of C4.
7. Uses fo r the TDD and the LM-S67 chip
may be limi ted mostly by your imagination . It might offer possibilities for low cost
CTCSS tone detection. Choose an Fo to
equal a desi red CTCSS tone; ex periment
with C2 to narrow the bandwidth.
September 1996

MONITORING TIMES

83

(OMPUTERS & RADIO

RADIORELATED SOFTWARE REVIEWS

John Catalano, PhD

i_ catalano@conknet.com

WiNRADIO: 0.5 to 1300 MHz on your PC!

ud day. Mate' This month we will

take a first look at a fu turistic offering from Australia. for which I must
thank Internet. which just e ntcn:d the wilds of
this part of rural Ame rica a few weeks ago. I
was the second person to s ig n up! Thanks to a
s mall local te lephone company. who beat the
big boys into the area by providing local dialup of the World Wide Web. wc arc isolated no
mo re. The ve ry first nig ht I c hecked the Grove
Web s ite and the n browsed o n the top ic o f
radio.

WWW:WOW
l immediate ly was able to li stcn in realtime-via the Real A udio player program
downl oa ded
from
th e
ne t
at
www.prognet.com/- to sho rt wave and med ium stations a ll over the world. A net search
revealed dozens of rad io-re latcd web s ites.
I had recently spoken to the U K radio
company. Lowe. concerni ng a new ly an nounced. vcry wide range receiver. to tall y
contained o n a plug- in card for IBM com patible com puter~. I to ld you in past mon th s that
thi s was coming. We ll. via the In ternet I found
out it was here.
The Lowe web page give me a link to the
manufacturer in Melbourne. Australia. Rosetta
La boratories. Within minutes of being o n the
web I was dow nloading the ir .. fu nctiona l..
demo from A ustra li a. T he co mpany al so has
operations in Germany. As I watched the file
download from Australi a I recalled my Physics professor' s sarcastic words when his th ick
students finall y g rasped a co ncept: .. lsn ' t tec hno logy wonderful ?!..
You can be li cve I was exc ite d ; I left an
email for the people at Rosetta requesting
price and a vai labi lity. The nex t evening I had
an e mail reply from Rose tta with the details I
asked for a nd requesting my te lepho ne num be r so we could arrange del ivery. Pretty good 1
The Net had reduced what used to take weeks
to a matter of ho urs.
Rosetta s WiNRADIO should no t be confused with a n FM broadcast radio (88- 108
M Hz) PC carc.I of the same name. We looked
at the FM rad io a few years ago and were
impressed "ith its concept. o perati o n. and
price. At that time I remember thinking that
thi s was the fu tu re of recc ivers.
The Rosetta product promises to cover 0.5
to 1300 MHz in AM. SS B. FM -N and FM -W

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September 1996

mode-a very ta ll o rder. So let s o pen

the nicely packaged box. install the
WiN RADlO hardware and start up the
soft ware.

I Hardware choices

i=-1

General Options

Erequenc}' displajl offset 0 kHz

Squelch J!elay (seconds):

IX
Rosetta s produc t comes o n a 3/4
fo rm facto r expans io n plug-in card that
requires a 16 bit ex pansion socket. In
its basic form it can be operated by line
fX
(text) commands from the d is k o pe rating system ( DOS ) prompt. For this
(X
basic o perati on it o nly requires a 80286
processor, 640K randon access memory
(RAM). I 2K hard disk space, an y text
di splay, and DOS 3.0 o r later.
Thi s basic tex t screen di splay is a
possible optio n. but o ne I do not reco mmend. Thi s does not allow the use o f any of
the very useful g raphical inte rface (GUI)
menus. scree ns or buttons. After all . how can
a WiNRADIO really work well without Windows? lt can. but the o perating diffe re nces arc
dramatic. we ll use W indows operation,
w hi ch requires a 386 or belier processor. I
mcg RAM . I mcg hard di sk space. a VGA
monitor. and Windows 3. 1. It will work wi th
W indows 95. but the n requi res a 486. 4 mcg
RAM and an SVGA mon ito r. We w ill look at
Wi NRAD IO installed in a486 DX2 33 M Hz.
8 meg RAM. Windows 3.1 and a VGA mo ni tor.
The on ly hardware/software installation
setting is the UO (input/output) address. This
is fi rst do ne w ith a jumper o n the board and
the n set in the installation so ftwa re. For o ur
system the jumper was left in the fac tory-set
position. The installation process is easy a nd
we ll documented in the professio nal 151 page
instruction manua l. Don t let the number of
pages scare you. The total installation (hardware/software) takes less than 15 minutes a nd
two pages of instruction. The rest of the manual
gives exce lle nt instruc tions o n the use of all
the varied WiNRADIO software functions:
thi s thing does quite a bit.
In fact. the WiNRADIO manual is an excellent introductio n to a ll facets of mo nito ring. The majority of the manual is devoted to
expl aining the radio spectrum between 0.5
a nd 1300 MHz. the tunin g ran ge of
WiNRADlO. (ln the US . d i ~allowcd frequen cies such as cellul ar te lepho ne arc not access ible.) Covering thi s w ide range. in the manua l

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~witch ON on start-up
S.!titch OFF on exit

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Show M.Hz only

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Show _!tontrol hints

Swap ft.FO +/- ke}'s

Show !itle screen at startup

Ok

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Cancel

FIGURE 1
and in operatio n, is no sma ll task.
Connections to the o utside world are only
the antenna and a speaker.

A tour of WiNRADIO's software

Using the WiN RADIO in Windows is a
commo nsense exercise. The software has been
made extremel y user fri endly. The w hole
soft ware package is o n par w ith the best I have
see n fo r compute r control of receivers.
Granted. some very advanced functio ns are
no t incl uded. but all the monitoring features I
commonl y use were a vail able.
We sho uld start o ur tour by pulling down
the configuration menu at the to p left of the
screen and the n cl icking o n 'General." The
Genera l optio ns box. Fig ure I, appears. Frequency o ffset, squelch de lay, and pa nel size
arc just the beginning of the many user-controllable o ptions. T he ni ce thing is that Rosetta
has alread y e ntered default va lues for all optio ns. So we lazy fo lks can run Wi NRADIO
rig ht ou t of the box without any decisio ns
required.
T he basic contro l screen is shown in Figure
2. Starting at the top left we have the sensitivity cont rols whic h arc straight forward. as are
the mode control s be low them .
Moving to the ri g ht we come upo n the
fre quency di splay. We can manually set frequencies in a num ber o f ways. Pressing number keys o n the key board. fo llowed by Kor M.
w ill enter that frequency in e ithe r MHz o r
kH7.. To the rig ht of the di splay are up/down
arrow key s w hich can also set the frequency

.......
when cl ic ked. The step inc rement
is user-set in the box to the right of
the arrows labe led, " Fi xed Step ...
Thi s box does lots more whic h we
wi ll get to later.
The big round graphic under the
frequem:y di splay is a ni fty tun ing
'"knob... Placing the c ursor over th is
knob makes a double sided arrowhead arc pop up. Pressing the le ft
mouse button fin e tu nes the rece iver
by reduc ing the most-right digit by
one . The right mouse button increases the freque ncy in the same
manne r.
Now. rm sure many of you noticed that whe n we looked quic kly
at the mode control there was only one single
sideband (SSB) mode. W hat happened to
upper and lower s ideband? Good questi on,
and one that had me concerned until I learned
about the function of the beat freq uency osc i1lator BFO) offset in the top right corne r. Here
we can monitor both upper and lower s idebands by setting the BFO to + or - freque ncies. Thi s is done by e ither cl ick ing on the
BFO display box and the n e nte ring the desired offset frequency via the keyboard. or by
clicking o n the up/down arrows . The volume
and sque lch controls are operated in the same
manner.

_...,...J, .. _.._

us two ot he r poss ibilities: auto-step and

memory step. Pulling down the Configure
menu at the top of the screen the user can
program step frequencies for eac h freque ncy
range. It s a convenient way to start a searc h.
Memory step now a ll ows you to step
through your memory channels via the up/
down arrows at the right side of the frequency
display. The tuning "dial" can then be used to
tune around the memory frequency-a unique
and useful feature. When scanning me mory
channels, the data saved in the callsign box is
displayed above the Select button.

I Can you hear anything with it??

FIGURE 2
in in the proper mode. De leting, adding, and
editin o of stations arc also done in thi s me nu .
T he s:arch operation is quite easy to use and
fast.

I Open "scanner" box!

Click the Setup button fi rst to set such
receiver functions as the level o f the signal
which stops the scanning, and whether the
stop is a pause or a full stop. C li ck ing the
Range button allows the operator to scan a
use r-ente red range o f frequencies by userdefined step increments. Any stations found
du ring a scan can be automatically stored via
this menu .
Scanning of the memory channels is perfo rmed by the Memory button. The c hanne l
scan can be c ustomized using me mory numbe r ra nge. group. and signal mode.
T he butt on labeled Select is used to access
three diffe re nt operations. We already know
that we can e nterour desired tuning step from
thi s box. But c licking the Select button gives

I If memory serves me correctly ....

Take a look at the box labe led ''Memory"
in the upper right of Fi gure 2. C lic king on the
"S" fo r store brin gs up the menu in Figure 3.
If you cli ck '"O K" the frequency w ill be stored
in the next available memory c hanne l numbe r. You can also save the mode. along w ith
the station s callsign and your comments. if
the box at the bottom is checked.
The me nu also gives you the abi lity to
place the memory e ntry into any one of
sixteen groups. For example, group one
may be shortwave broadcast stations, while
group two may be fo r V HF/U HF police
frequencies.
The he lp feature, which appears on every me nu. is nicely imple me nted. Operational deta ils and instructions for each section o f the menu in question are di splayed
by pointi ng and cl icking on the section o f
interest. Very nice, quick. and easy.
O nce you have entered a number of
freque nc ies they can be reca lled by cl icking the 'R., button. Thi s provides the user
wi th a typical database searc h screen. The
user enters e ither the frequency, eallsign
(name ). or comments of a previously stored
inte rcept. Clic k on ''Find,.. and the reeeiver recall s the desired e ntry and tunes it

.J

Store Frequency into Memory

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Set g1oup(s).:

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Well. I hope you'll give me a break here. I

have not had much time to operate
WiNRADIO. and the freque ncy coverage is
so w ide. A ll seems to operate as advertised.
and my fi rst impressions are good after monitoring VHF aircraft frequ encies for a few
days. However. both you readers and the
manufacturer deserve a better bas is for my
operationa l comments. Meanwhile, while
you rc wai ting you can download the software demo from th e Inte rn et at
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Now , where do I start mon itoring with
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September 1996

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85

SKYLINK

EXPLORING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

Wayne Mishler, KGSBI

e-mail: mishfer@ool.com

Watch for rising costs of wireless phone services

pur~es.

rab your wallets and

The government ha~ been helping us again.
The Federal Communi cations Commission is still grinning over its recent windfall in auctioning off frequencies for wireless
telephones. The Chirn~o Trih1111e reports that
commercial bidders paid$ I0.2 bi ll ion for the
right to operate on those frequencies. That" s
twice what the FCC expected to get from the
bidders. You and I might sh rug off their
ex travagance if it were not fo r one minor
deta il. The cost ult imately will be passed on to
us. pushing the price of a wireless phone call
beyond the reach of many non-commercial
users. The industry needs thi s like it needs a
ball and chain.
fn case you keep track of such things. the
amount bid is $3 .2 billion more than was bid
last year for Iiccnses 10 operate Personal Communications Services . Not a promising trend.
Many of the smaller companies attempting to bid in the auction complained of being
shut out by the bigger companies with deeper
pockets. This cuts out competition, which, of
course. would have the power to lower prices.
The smaller companies who were able to bid
can' t compete by culling prices: they have too
much in vested. They can onl y compete by
offering more services and filling special
niches. This may bring us improved services.
but at a higher cost.

I The high cost of convenience

Not that the prices arc all that cheap now.
True, you can get a cellular phone free or for
a few dollars. But just wait until you use it.
There are acti vation charges and roaming
charges and time charges. And ha ve you ever
used one of those neat Jillie phones mounted
on the seats or airliners? We ve talked about
them previously in this column. I know of one
business man who spe nt $500 trying to make
a call during a flight- and he never even got
through! He was charged $20 for eve ry atte mpt that he made. He complained and the
phone company ultimatel y canceled the
charges. But the point remains: most of us
wont be using those phones lo tell Aunt
Maud we 're on the way.
At thi s writing. a three-minute local phone
from an airliner call costs about $ 10. Phone
companies say they have to charge high prices
because the techn ology costs so much to
provide. No kidding. Maybe they should avoid

86

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September 1996

scratchi11g their cars at auctions.

And what do we get forour money on those
i11-tlight call s? Users complain of getting cut
off in a middl e of a co11versati o11. getting
bi lied for calls that don t go through. and
having their credit cards refused for no apparent reason. Those arc the major gripes expressed by consumers.

I Consumers will have their say

Don t let me give you the wrong idea.
Certainl y J"m not belittling the value ofwi rcless phone services. including those on airliners. Wireless is here to stay. It is the wave or
the future. One a irline removed phones from
their aircraft because passengers complained
about the service. and then passengers complained even more about having no phone
servi ces at al l. Thcres nothing more nervcstrctc hing than gell ing an urgent page from a
famil y member or importa11t business client
and not being abl e to answer it fo r lack of a
phone.
While airborne on many airliners these
days. you can use the onboard wireless phones
to send and receive faxes. get on the Internet
and chec k your email. check on Wall Street.
do some last minute shopping, and enjoy a
number of other conve niences that are very
much in demand.
Notwithstanding a few humps. the wireless industry re mains poised for ex plosive
growth . Nothin g significant has changed.

Jl

.JI -

There's no question that wi reless-especially

in the field of personal communications-is
going to be a leading industry well into the
nex t century. Along the way we can ex pect
some bumps and growing pains. Like bouncing prices. for example.

I A matter of supply and demand

The wirelc~s industry is no different from
any other business. It i ~ subject to suppl y and
demand. Right now companies are scrambling to get footho l d~ in the market. They
cannot operate wi thout access to the airways.
If the companies get a bi t eager and overspend. well. the cost of business gets passed
on to us consumers. But then the demand
factor kicks in. and if fewer of us pay those
hi gh pri ces. those pri ces eventually will have
to come down.
In fact the phone companies arc telli ng us
that in the next fi ve years we will see prices
decrease and technology significantly improve. One company says it will begin offering PCS services in Chicago as early as next
year. offering advanced features and simplified pricing to ;ippeal to people who've never
u ~ed wireless phones.
So. expect 10 ~cc a short-term price increase in wireless phone service. But then
look for wireless phone rates to fall by as
much as 50'ff by the end of the century. And,
as competition increases, watch fo r greater
innovations and improved services.

I1 -

"Keep <111 eye ofpanenger 28. He just called the Psychic /-Jot/i11e with th e 011/ward plume."

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WHAT'S NEW?

by Larry Miller

PRODUCTS AND BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE RADIO HOBBYIST

G11n 1 rel'ie11er.c Bob Grove. Rachel /Jauglm

Digital Cyberscan
Revolution #2

We get lots of informatio n on

AOR receivers. T he odd thing is
th at we get some good stuff o ut of
the US distributor and then we get
o ther fl yers that leave a lot to the
imagination.
Take, for in stance, the fl yer we
rece ived on the new A R7000
CyberScan. According to AOR
Ltd .. this new receiver is " the digi tal revolution \Vi th true IF digital
sig na l processing. The A R7000 is
ano ther break-through of the AOR
receiver des ig n. It is the rirst RF
DS P receiver for futu re listeners.

S igna l demodulation and fi lte ring arc performed hi gh speed 16bit DSP and digital down converter that digitize the signals w ith
I0.7M Hz IF."
I' m sure that somewhere there
is someo ne who knows what that
111eans, and what makes it different fro m the other "scanner of the
fu ture, " th e AR5000 w it h
CyberScan, o n which we repo rted
in Marc h (and which is just now
scheduled for deli very).
Here' s what e lse I can glean
o ut of the fl yer and its low resoluti o n pic ture. Freque ncy coverage
is I 00 kH z to 2 GHz in selectable
I 0 Hz- I000 kH z steps! Reception is in AM/NFM/WFM/SS B
and CW. There is a 1500 channe l
memory bank set up in 100 fifteen channel banks. T he 3.5" color
LCD not o nly reads out pe rtinent
informat io n o n the receiver' s sta-

tus but a lso acts as a Spectrum

Display Unit.
How m uc h is th e Di gita l
Cy berScan Revoluti o n'l Don' t
know. Where can you get one?
Do n' t know. Who wrote the press
release? I wish 1 knew.

Radio Shack HTX242

Transceiver
Radio Shack has been treading further in to amate ur radio,
GMRS, and even the ir own
Fa111il y Radio Service. The ir
newest ham re lease, the
HTX242 two-meter FM rig,
is a fin e exampl e. Featuring
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the HTX242 also offers 136-1 74
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O nl y 1- 1/2" high, the s111all
foo tprint is ideal for under-dash
mounting, and the multi function
microphone convenientl y controls
the most important o peratio nal
commands of the radio. inc luding
YFO selecti o n, frequency stepping , memory c hannels. and
DTM F code entry.
This mobi le rig is o ne o r the
most feat ure-packed we've seen;
space does n' t permit a listing of all
the perks on thi s radio. The sharp
selecti vity and powerful audio are just two reasons why
hams may wish to stop by
Radio Shack and see thi s impressive rig for themselves.
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to fi les while scanning.

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Weather Radio
A139 WEATHER FAX RfC[IVtA

I have to admit that the annoum;cme nt for th e new Hamt ro ni cs

Weather Alert Receiver caught my
attenti on. Honestly, I' vc been thinking of getting a dedi cated weather
radio- it just seems that the weather
is gelling weirder all the ti me. Although the weather servi<.:e channe ls
are included on my scanners. I could
really use a rad io with one of those
automati c turn-on functions when
there's a severe storm warni ng.
Hamtronics says that the ir RWX
receiver is very sensitive and very
selecti ve. The manufacturer clai ms
that you can get reception "even a l
di stances of 70 miles or more with a
suitable antenna but then goes on 10
claim that "there is no compari son

, ..

with ordinary consumer radios

or scanners.
My curiosity immedi ately rose
to the challenge. My scanner already gets weather radio reception of JOO miles or more with a
sui tab le an te nn a. Automati c
mode on the Hamtronics RWX
does keep your rad io quiet until
an alert .one is broadcast by the
weather service. The receiver is
then unmuted. There's also an
output to trip re mote equipment,
like an audible alarm device (not
included). You can override the
automatic mode any time to listen.
The RW X is c rystal -controlled and all seven weather
channels arc prov ided, including

mi ght well
fill an audio
void in your
mobile radio line-up.
First, if
yo u ha ve
one of those mini-portables-the
k ind with the mi c ro sco pi c
speaker-you may want to check
out the SPK 6 Noise Cancelling
Mobile Speaker. While the SPK
6 would be a we lcome additi on
to any CB or scanner set up. this
particul ar un it has an added bonu s-a pushbu tton, hi gh-frequency rolloffswitch that reduces
crackling and pulse noise. Measuri ng approximatel y 4 inches
square, th is compact unit is rated
at I 0 watts and comes with 10
feet of cable ending in a I/8 inch
(3.5 mm) miniplug. A hinged
mounting bracket is included. The
price is an affordable $ 16.95 plus
$5.50 UPS.
Also new to the Grove speaker

the new split channels. You have

go inside the unit to se lect the
right c hannel.
The price is whe re th e
Hamtroni cs RWX Weather Rad io lost my atlenti on. Even
though ham radio operators who
purchase Hamtronics amateur
products vouch for their quality.
assembled. the RWX costs $ I 39
plus shippi ng- the cost of some
mul!iband scanners. You can
also buy it as a kit (receiver PCB
mod ule only. no case or power
su ppl y) fo r $79.00 p l u ~
shi ppping.
To get more information on
the Hamtronics RW X Weather
Receiver and other Hamtronics
products, call 7 16-:192-9430.
You <.:an alsowrite to 65-M Moul
Rd. Hilton, NY 14468.
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Scanner Reference
Manual
The Scanner Listener 's Reference Manual is about as lacking
line-up is the new Sun Visor
MobileSpeaker (SPK 15).Clcvcr
and convenient, it's barely 1-1/4
inches thin. You simpl y slide thi s
li ttle 3 inch dual speaker onto
your vehicle's sun visor for hi gh
quality, concentrated sound in
your face. The SPK 15 is also
$ 16.95 plus $5.50 UPS. Both
speakers arc ideal for noisy environments. To get yours. cal1Grove
at 800-438-8 155 or visit thcircamlog on the web at www .grove.net.

Auto Audio
Many
s ho rt wave
enthusiasts.
es pec ia ll y
..
,0 ,:
pirate radio
fans, wi ll
.......""
r ecog nize
-...,
the name of
And r ew
Yoder who. for years. wrote pirate radio articles and books for
the hobby magazines. Now Yoder
has embarked on a new specialty,
autosound , with this publication.
Apt ly subtitled Choosing, In -

~n
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stalling & Maintaining Ca r Stereo System s. Yoder's 300+ page

book is an illustrated gui de to

making the appropriate selection
of an automoti ve stereo system
and making sure as well that it is
operating properly.
Complete chapters are provided covering such major topics
as ampliFiers. speakers and enclosures, tilters and crossovers, antennas, wiring and connectors. and
maintenance and repair. Yoder' s
incl usion of a troubleshooting
chart is a nice touch for quickly
nai li ng down the source of various types of electrical interference. A glossary of terms and a
large list of suppl iers wi ll also be
of assistance to the mobile audiophile.
Auro Audio is $24.95 from
McGraw-Hill. Inc., 122 1 Avenue
of the Americas, NY , NY I0020.

in charm as a book can get. Then

again. it's not designed to be light
reading fora day at the beach. The
Scann er Listen er's Reference
Manual is a

98 page book rn&

packed with SCANNER
data, incl ud- LISTF.NR'S
ing an FCC
A ll ocation REFERENCE
Table. service MAM.'AL
.,-c.-.-pool. emission symbols,
non-federa l
service category codes. digitally
coded squelch. GMRS, VHF marine channels, Civil Air Patrol.
pagi ng frequencies, TV audio frequencies. cordless telephones,
railroad channels. federal allocations, itinerants. CB, U.S. military, and much more.
This is the closest you' re going to get to an encyclopedia for
scanning. There' s no text to read,
just tables. But it's helpful information that every scanner listener
should have.
The spiral -bound book is
$ 17 .95 plus $3 .00 shipping from
Tiare Publications, P.O. Box 493.
Lake Geneva. WI 53 147. The
author is John C. McColman.

Internet Radio Guide

Joerg Klingenfuss is a German
publisher who puts out one of the
most impressive util ity monitoring guides in the world. His books,
some say. arc to publishing what
Swiss watc hes once were to precision.
Now, sensing a trend but staying eve r c lose to radi o.
Klingenfu ss has introduced a
brand new book: the /111em e1 Radio Guide. The book basically
consists in its entirety of screen
captures of radio-related sites such
as amateur. av iation. companies.
dealers. OX clubs, equipment. geography. inte lligence. manu facturers, marin e. meteo rology.
propagati on. publications. satel-

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MONITORING TIMES

September 1996

lites. shortwave. weather. and

more.
MT editor. Rachel Baughn. in
assess ing the book, questio ns
whether the directory fo rmal.
which has served Klingenfuss so
well in past endeavors. is appropriate to a field as volati le as the
Internet. The printed medium just
can't keep up with the changes in
the co nstantly-fluid arena of
Internet addresses. whereas sevend Internet sites maintain more
easily managed directories of radio-related web sites. On the positi ve side. she says. unlike onscreen directories the book can
save you some time by giving you
a thumbnail view of the site without havi ng lo go there. However,
direc tories on the internet are free.
Klingenfuss' books arc not
only expensive (50 DEM for /RC)
but currency exchange rates constantly nuctuate. For U.S. c u ~
tomers, we suggest you call Uni versal Rad io at 800--+31-3939.
which sells
the book for
INTERNET RAOIO GUIDE
$24.95, or
contact Mr.
Klingenfuss
by mail and
ask for his
free catalog . It' s
Klingenfuss
Publicati ons, Hagenloher Str. 14.
0- 72070 Tuebingen. Germany.
He can be reached by phone at
+49 7071 62830 or by e-mail at
I0 l 550.5 l-l@compuserve.com.
There's also a web site at http://
ourworld.compuserve.com /
homepagcs/Klingenfuss
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Radio Manager for

Windows
Radio Manager is a radio control program for computer-contro l led scann ing radios. Ben
Saladino, its creator, has introduced a new version for Window.
The new version features a ne w
and improved user interface.
UFOBFfile impo11capabili1y,and
the ability to restore full frequency
coverage (i.e. cellular) to the

AR8000. the OptoScan 456 and

the OptoScan535. Radio Manager
also has a band plan editor as well
as upload/downloading for the
AR8000.
There's much more to Radio
Manager. Since it's sharewa re.
you can try it before you buy it
so ... why not try it? To find out
more, or to down load. visit http:/
/www. intcrplaza.com/
benswarc/ You can also write to
Ben at660WcstOakStrect. Hurst.
TX 76053-5526.

More Morse Fun

1ts going to be fun."
lfl had a dollar for ~ve ry Morse
Code disk. CO. tape. or book that
I' vc reviewed or announced that
says it's going to be fun. I' d be
able tu retire.
Advanced Electronics Applications, Inc. is now offering Morse
Uni versity II (Oh. 110; collet:elerel Morse?). the Windowsbased CW training so ftware.
Morse Un ive rs it y- (/1ere it
comes)- "makes learning Morse
code fun !''
Well. AEA is trying to make it
fun, anyhow. Morse Uni versity II
is a multimedia product. You start
with lessons to learn the characters. num bers. and punctuati on.
Then you start practicing real
world QSO' s using the exercise
feature. There's even a Morsebased game in c lu de d ca ll ed
Pen tode. 'O nce yo u pla y
Pcntode: claims the manufaclllrer. you won1be able lo stop!"
(Hide and 11m ch me.)

Let me know if you were able

to stop. Call AEA and order the
Morse University II. It' s just $39
fro m your favori te radio
eq uipm e nt
d eale r. For
more information. call AEA
o n the ir 24 hour
auto mated litera ~.. ~
ture reques t
line: 1-800-432-8872. You can
also visit the AEA web page at
http:// www.aeainc.com.

Solar Charging

The Return of 2MP4

Jade Products has introduced

a m:w lead/acid gcll-cell battery
controller. Cal led the SC06. thi s
6 amp controller offers fast recovery and is applicable to deep
cyc le. high-power usage. It i ~
designed to be used in co mbination with a solar panel of at least
4 vo lts more than the bauery voltage needed.
The SC06 is designed to sense
the condition of the battery and
cont rol the charging accordingl y.
It can be left connected inde finitely. prolonging the life of the
battery by protec ti ng it from under/overcharge damage.
The SC06 is a ki t for which
you 11 need a screwdriver. pliers.
and soldering equipment.
The price for the SC06 Controller is S 185 plus $7.25 shipping. You can get more information by call ling Jade Prod ucts at
603-329-6995 or by writing P.O.
Box 368. East Hampstead. NH
03826. Their web site is at http:/
/www.ha mpst ead.k1 2.nh.us/
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The Fircstik Antenna company

has recent ly re introduced thei r 2mcter ( 144-148 MH z) mobi le antenna. This is the second go-round
fo r the Firestik 2-mcter mobile.
abo du bbed the 2MP--I. It originall y went on the market in 1979.
but was inexplicabl y dropped from
the line th ree years late r during a
product restructuring at the company.
Even though the 2MP-4 went
out of production 13 years ago (it
continued to appear under other
company names). the antenna contin ued to li ve on as a kind of legend. Now. it's back. Says a company spokesman simply, "We decided to give it a go again."
The 2MP-4 is made from a
3/8 inch fiberglass core and is 48
inches long. Retail priceis$ l 6.99.
For more information on price and
availability you can call 602-2737I5 I or e- ma il them at
fi restik I @aol.com. Mail address:
26 14 E. Adams St., Phoenix, AZ
85034.

Rocky Mountain
Hams
Wayne Heine n has been a
friend for many years. He s
helped out with Muniroring Times
and later wi th National SrnnninM
as its projects editor. If you' re an
AM DXer. you're probably familiar with his work with the
Nati onal Radi o Club.
Now Wayne and his wife Joan
are striking out on thei r own with
a publication designed for Rocky
Mountain ham radio operators.
Called Rockv Mo11111ain VHF+.
i1 s a professional 12-page newsle tter with articles. acti vity reports. want ads, a mai lbag. and
contest calendar.
Everyth ing Wayne and Joa n
arc in volved in is first class: Rocky
Mo11111ai11 VHF+ is no exception.
You can get a sample copy of
Rocky Mo11ntai11 VHF+ from
Wayne and Joan Heinen. P.O.
Box 473411. Aurora, CO 800473411. The cost is$ I .00. Tell them
that Mo11i111ri11g Times sent you.

Two New Tucker Amps

tion, call 800-559-7388 or write

17 17 Reserve Street, Garland ,
Texas 75042.

Inductor Introduction
ft s probably not going to make
the New York Times best seller
list but wirehcads may fi nd it helpful. It scalled The Inductor Handbook.
Of all passive components. inductors are probably the most di fficult to specify because of the
many parameters that must be considered. This 170
TilE
page reference
INDUCTOR
HANDBOOK
combi nes inductor
and transfo rmer
th eo ry and consttuction with practical circuit application infonnation.
There are also glossaries. symbol and equ atio n conve rsion
tables, a ferri te material constant
chart, ferrite selection guidelines.
and a comprehensive index.
The cost for The Inductor
Handbook is $ 15.95 plus $4.00
UPS and it' s available from CJ
Publishing. 285 1 West 127th
Street, Olathe. KS 6606 1.

TechniTool Catalog
The company's name is pretty
self-explanatory. Techni-Tool ofTucker Electroni cs has an - fers a big, 250 page catalog packed
nounced a new line of 2 meter fu ll of tools. tool ki ts, test instruVHF amplifiers. The first two are mentation. ESD. soldering and
the V-35Wandthe Y- IOOW. Both desoldering products, and more.
amps arc designed to be used with Need a pairof strippers? Got 'em.
2 meter hand he ld transcci vers and How about a big chest to store
low wattage 2 meter desktop trans- your tools? Right here, right now.
ceivers. such as the ICOM IC- In fact. Techni-Tools seems to
have everything from telco butt
706.
The V-35 will accept a 0.5 to 8 sets to ESD wrist and heel straps.
watts of input power and produces to e lectrical
up lo 35 watts of output. It features tapes. testers.
a built-in RF power meter and and probes.
operates on both FM and SSB/
Need
a
CW.
catalog? The
The I00-W also accepts 0.5 to address is 5
8 watts of input power and pro- Apol lo Rd ,
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Business Briefs
Worldradio has reported that
it has recei ved a letter fro m a law
firm indicati ng that Atlas Rad io
has closed and that it "had no
prospects to reactivate: According to the report . the remaining
assets of the company were of
little value. Company bank accounts have been closed . Onl y a
year ago, MT columnist Ike
Ke rschner lauded the At las 400X
transceiver as one of ham radio's
best buys.
This pas t summer. Wayne
Green, Inc., owned by the sclfproclaimed "El Supremo" of 73
Amateur Radio Today magazine,
filed for bankruptcy. According
to the W5YI Report, 73 magazine
had sales of $422,342 in 1994.
Current liabilities exceed one million dollars. What impact this will
have on the publ ication of 73.
now technically owned by his
wi fe. is not yet known. It is presumed the publ ication will continue unti Icourt ru Ii ngs determi ne
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MAGNE TESTS
Lawrence Magne
Editor-in-Chief, Passport to World Band Radio

SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW

Sangeans Latest: The ATS 909

ac k around the time of the last

lee Age, I reached deep into my
Levis and purchased a spankingncw Pl ymouth Val iant. Consumer Repo r1.1 and variou s car magazi ncs had
hailed it as a breakth roug h in performance and styling. which it was. and o ne
test drive got me hooked.
Alas, what none of thi ~ tipped me off
to was that it wa~ put together ... well.
awfu ll y. From day o ne. things fai ledscriou~ things. lik e the elec tri cal system.
transmi ss ion. and rear a xle. In rainy
Florida. where l li ved. all it took was
passing through one good puddle and the
igniti o n system would die. l finally got
rid of the thing . and s11ore f 'd never. ever
again lay hands on another Chrys le r product.
But. here we arc. years later. wheeling
around Buc ks County in a C hrysler-made
.Jeep Grand C herokee- the bes t vehic le I' ve
ever owned. Whateve r C hrysler was back
then. it ce11ai nl y isn ' t anymore.

serious de ficiencies. And unlike in the old

days. when they would react to criticism by
taking corrective actio n, Sangcan re treated
into a defensive posture towards those who
were pointi ng ou t shortco mings and embraced
those whose vision appeared to be mo re o ptimistic.

I Sangean Grew from Original ATS-803

So it is wi th the rece iver we' re looking at
thi s month. the Sa ngean ATS-909 . Sangean
started getting seri o us in shortwave whe n it
reportedly obtained right s to the o ld Son y
ICF-200 I design. They cleaned it up. then
issued the resu It as the Sangean A TS-803.
wh ich remained virtua ll y an i111erna1iona l secret until my wife and I happened to stumble
upo n it at a ~ma ll Asian-owned ~ t o re alo ng the
banks of the Seine in Pa r i~. A ltho ugh it had a
couple of ~ign ifi ca nt sho rtcom in gs. in many
respects it was a very good receiver for its
ti me. and it 11as al~o rea~onab l y priced.
I wrote up my findings. and the rest is
hi sto ry. Sangean and ~ome of it s prospecti ve
dealers. s uch as EE B and Eska. took no te of
those findings. the n made a number of improve me nt s. eventually culminati ng in the
AT S-803A. Unde r tha t name and othe rs. includi ng the Reali stic DX-440. it we nt o n to
become o ne of the world s most popular shortwave recci ve rs.
S angean issued some o the r worthy models
in due course. bu t a cou ple of years ago things
took a tu rn for 1he worse. They not only
d iscontinued the '803A- thcn still the pride
of the ir fleet-th ey abo began com ing o ut
w ith models that eit her were mediocre or had

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September 1996

B ATS 909 Encouraging Step Forward

Fortunate ly. there seems to be a new wi nd
blowing throug h Sangean, as the ir latest offering. the ATS-909. is the sort of product we
would have ex pected from the 'old Sangean."
W hile it' s no t the best sho rtwave portable o n
the market. it' s as good an offering as has ever
come o ut of Sangean. and it is competiti vely
pri ced-under $300. stree t- for what it does.
The Sangcan A TS -909 is a large compact
po rtable using four "AA., batteries. It covers
FM. in stereo throu gh earpieces (included ).
and the full spec trnm from longwave 153 kHz
through the u pper reaches of the s ho rtwave
band at 30 MHz. Wi th batteri es. it weighs in at
ju ~ 1 under two po und ~ . well under a kilogram.
and comes with a ree l-in ex ternal wire a nten na.

I Many Features, Including Superior AC

Adaptor
Even be tter. it comes wi1h something we ve
been harping on for years: a 110-230 V AC. 5060 Hz. power supply that auto matically figures o ut the line voltage. In fac t. it e ven comes
wi th European and North American plugs .
While thi s AC adaptor is beefier than mos t and

has no UL seal of approva l, it is a defin ite

plu s for g lobetrotters.
Operatio n is en tire ly by keys and
kno bs -thankfully. no sliders-and the
kno bs are knurled and have concentric
goose pimples" fo r an improved g rip.
The tuning k nob, wh ic h turns less freel y
than it could. also h a~ tactile detellls to
give you a feel of how fast you are tuning.
And to make o peratio n more agreeable.
there s a well-desig ned e levation panel
and self-extinguishing li quid crysta l d isplay ( LC D) ill uminatio n. For DXers and
station mo nitors. there s a 1- 10 digital
signal-strength indicator.
For trave lers. there s a power lock to
keep batteries fro m running down in transit. plu s an indicator to let you know when the
batteries are low. There's a lso a soft carrying
pouch, but no carry ing hand le o r strap whatsoever.
A 24-ho ur clock d isp lays at a ll times, and
there is a fe ature 10 d isplay the local ti me in 42
ci ties of the world. although the re is no means
to adjust properly for summer time s hift ~ .
whic h diffe r from country-to-country. There
is a lso what amounts to a clock-radio func tion
which allows three on-times and frequencies
to be specified .

Numerous Tuning Techniques

There's j ust about every kind of tuning
tech nique you could wish for. There's a tuning
knob w ith two user-selectable speeds that
vary according to mode. There' s also a keypad
in the fam ili ar te lephone- like fo rmat. up/down
slew ing buttons . si g nal -seek scann ing, fully
306 presets (some are pre-programmed at the
fac tory) using handy Sony-li ke " pages; and
buttons to se lect meter-bands. There s also a
button to bring up a ny o ne favori te c hannel
w ith a sing le push. As if that were n '1 e nough.
you ca n program in a lphanumeric statio ns
descripto rs to allow. say. the BBC on 5975
kHz to be described as ''BBC WS ...
A s urpris ing characteristic is that the alphanumeric ID can keep d isplayi ng even when
you su bsequently tune in o ther cha nne ls. So. if
you punch in for Taiwan on 5950 kHz. then
tune to 5955 kHz and beyond, TAIWAN"
remains o n the display-freqency after freq uency throughout the spectrum.
To get around this, dia l to page 29 ("op-

tional"). which defeats the alpha-numeric display. Trouble is. if you punch up a freq uency
that' s stored in a page with an alphan umeric
descriptor. page 29 disappears. being replaced
by the page where that frequency is stored.
The problem thu s recurs until you once again
reset the rdio to page 29.
After that. of course, it rec urs whenever
you key in a frequency that's stored on any of
the radio's 306 presets. We notified Sangean
of the problem, so conceivably a fi x is in the
offing.

I Superior Selectable Sideband

Reception
The '909 tuncs not only in the AM and FM
modes. but also LSB and USB in precise -W
Hz increments. Indeed. sideband (LSB/USB)
operation is good enough that the rad io works
exceptionally wel l. by portable standards. for
manual tuning of a broadcaster" s individual
sidebands (nonsynchronous selectabl e sidebands}. That's also a plus for uti lity DXers
and hams, who need superior SSB recepti on.
However. there is no synchronous detection,
and frequency readout is only to the nearest
kil ohertz.
Although most portables have only one
band width. for pleasant shortwave reception
a receiver should have two or more bandwidths. On the 909 there are cwo voice bandwidths. and they arc both well-c hosen.

I Performance Nearly Tops

Wi th all these features. we expected topnotch shortwave performance. and in many
respects that 'sjust what we fo und. Sensitivity
to weak signals is a bit above average. selecti vity commendab le in both bandwidtl1s, and
dynamic range superior by portable standards.
To combat any ove rloadin g th at might be
encountered. there's an RF-gain control. such
as you mi ght find on a serious tabletop model.
On FM , the audio lacks low-e nd response,
and there's only a three-level tone switch-a
far 1.: ry from the separate and <:ontinuously
tunable tone controls found on the now-disconti nued Sangcan ATS-803A. On shortwave.
though, the audio quality is better. even though
it doesn' t have quite the audio power its size
might seem to suggest.
Whe n put against a couple of our best
reference port ables- Sony's ICF-20 10 and
the di scontinued Philips D2999-the 909
acq uits itself well. but only to a point. The
relati vely hefty D2999, with its excellent audio section. sounds much more pleasant than
either alternati ve. and the Sony and Philips
models both do sli ghtl y better than the Sangean
in mak ing DX sig nals readable. Yet, the over-

all result is that the '909. which is smaller and

lighter than the other two. comes out only one
notch below th e~e ..best of the best" portables.

I RDS Feature Requires Powerful Signal

The 909s FM performance is good, and
includes ROS. where part icipati ng FM stations can di splay thei r station ID and keep the
receiver"sclock ..spot on.'' However. the '909"s
RDS works only with a strong signal.

I Lacks Synchronous Selectable

Sideband
Deficiencies. all told , amount more to nui sances than problems. with two exceptions.
Fora new model going for nearly $300, the
lack of synchronous selectable sideband is
both surpri sing and disappoint ing. Sony has a
model. the ICF-SW7600G. wit h sy nchronous
detecti on that sells fo r under $200. and the ..El
Supremo.. Sony ICF-20 I0 offers it for under
$400. Not every liste ner is enamored with
synchronous selectable sideband, if only be<:ause it can complicate operation. But it does
help reduce adjacent -c hanne l interfere nce in
numerou s cases. and al so pretty much e liminates selec tive-fading distortion.

I Mutes During Bandscanning

Anot her diffic ulty with the '909 is in
bands<:anning. Popul ar wisdom suggests that
nearly all tuning is done direct: that is. people
use presets or direct freque ncy entry to get to
desired stations. However. at Passport to
World Band Radio we have found that even
<:asual listeners like to bandscan to a greater or
lesser ex tent.
Alas. the 909s tuning knob tends to mute
out al l tra<:es of stati ons when it is turned at
anything but a snail 's pace. There have been
reports ci rculating that Sangean plans to issue
a revised version of the '909 that corrects thi s,
but the manu factu rer' s North Amcri<:an offi <:e told us it was unaware of any planned
changes. although it nonetheless agreed it
would look into the question. However. should
this muting be a b01hcr, you can contact the C.
Crane Company (800/522-8863). which offers a modifi<:at ion to re lieve the proble m.
Otherwise. the on Iy demcri ts we unearthed
were pretty small potatoes. The scanner stops
on relatively few acti ve shortwave signals.
and it scans out-of-band for only one pass
before restricti ng continuat ion of the scan to
default (i n-band) limits. The clock is set up to
display .. home time- not World Time-if
you want the international cities feature lO
work properly. We got around this by setting
the "home" time to World Time. and forge tting the ''cities" feature and RDS ti c- in to set

the clock to the exact local time.

Also. there's a two-se<:0nd lag from when
you key in a preset until you can hear the
station; the alphanumeric ID always shows on
a frequency. regardl ess of the time of day or
how you are tuning: and with various fu nctions there is a tendency for the '909 to return
to the defau lt setting at inappropriate times.

I Bottom Line: Fine Offering

Overall, the ATS 909 is a big step forward
for Sangean, and a welcomed offering for
shortwave liste ners. Indeed, for hams and
utility DXers. as well as broadcast DXers
wedded to manual selection of sidebands. the
'909 is arguably the best offering among portables in thi s regard. Although none.! of our
panelists con ~ i d e r it the full equal of the Sony
ICF-20 10, the Sangean ATS 909 is a lravelfriendly runner-up, and usually sells for around
$50 to $75 less.

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in accordance with the policies and procedures ofInternational Broadcasting Services,
Ltd. It is completely independent of the policies and procedure.1 of Grove 111erprises,
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SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST

Bob Parnass AJ95

I

Electra Corporation Lives!

I Love ll fo und e d
CONNECT TO
FIGURE 1
Electra Corporatio n in
PIN 3 OF ICS , MC7805
Flashing signal Lamp
1964 and deve loped
circuit for the PR0-2022.
the original Bearcat li ne o f scanner rad ios. T he rights were sold
+
to Uniden in the m id 1980s. and
DS1
we heard no thing abo ut Electra
thereafter. Readers will be interested to hear that Al Love ll 's
son, Dav id. re-incorporated
Electra in 1991.
He wrote to us fro m Indianapolis, .. Our ma in emphasis is
in new design/deve lop m e nt
work. T o that end. we are enQ1
gaged in assisti ng local e ngiCONNECT TO
neering concern s... We also are
PIN 13 OF
making prototype PC boards
IC1, MC3361
with our new mechanica l etching mill. I have a full y eq ui pped
RF L ab wi th cons ide ra bl e
compleme nt of parts and referDS1 - GREEN FLASHING LI GHT EMITTING DIODE (RS 276-030)
e nce materia ls, as well as the
Q1 - 2N2222 OR SIMILAR GENERAL PURPOSE NPN SILICON TRANSISTOR
usual test gear-ana lyzers. serR1 - 10,000 OHM, 1/8W or 1/4W RESISTOR (RS 271-1335)
vice monito rs . etc.
David conti nued. "S ince o ur
vated lamp, whic h lig hts when a signal is LCD display and above the 200 C H AN re-incorporatio n in late 199 1. we have been
detected. is usefu l fo r draw ing your attention NEL'' lettering. Glue the green flas hing LED
able to survive o n s mall projects a nd service
to the active scanner. We built a !lashing lamp (RS 276-030) into the hole.
fo r existing RF product-however. in the
activi
ty la mp into the Shack PR0-2022, and T he PR0-2022' s LC D display is back lit by
fu ture we inte nd to retu rn to manu facturi ng as
an EL (elec troluminescent) panel. sim ilar to
you
can,
too.
our primary business."
The !lasher requires about -W mA at about the type found in the PR0-2006. EL lights
He re's the good news for scanner collec5 YDC. The voltage on pin 13 of ICI inside grow dimmer with age unti l they become
to rs: In its c urre nt config uration, Electra Corthe PR0-2022 c hanges from 0 to 5 VDC whe n useless. Since our PR0-2022 stays on 24
poratio n is able to effect repai rs on some
a
statio n is de tected . Why not connect the hours a day. we added a switch to disable the
older. pre-Uniden Bearcat scanners. Electra
!lasher directl y to this pin ? The 40 mA re- back ligh t. The s imple SPST toggle switc h is
se ll s crysta ls. antennas. powe r cords, and
q uired might be more than TC I can furni sh. mounted on a hole dri lled through the back
owner's manu als . We suggested they conInstead of risking damage to the IC. bui ld a metal pane l. a lthough it could ha ve been los ide r selling service manua ls. as we ll.
cated o n the front panel instead. We inserted
sing
le transistor a mpli fie r (Fig ure I ).
You may contact Electra Corporati o n by
the sw itch in series w ith R 145, a 56 ohm
O
ne
side
of
the
!lashe
r
is
connected
to
a
telepho ne at (3 17) 326-44 19, or at either of
source of approximately 5 volt s. The o ther 1/8 W carbon res istor.
two
e lec tro ni c
m ai l
a ddresses:
side is connected to trans istor Q I, which we
E lec tra @trader.com or 7 I 722.40 @Compuuse as an amplifier (or sw itch). W hen the Baseband Audio Tap for PR0-2042
serve.corn.
PR0-2022 hears a station . pin 13 of IC 1
The June 1996 column showed how tu
becomes 5 V DC forc in g curre nt to now
I Modify Your PR0-2022
co nnect a CTCSS reader. which requires
th rough current-li miting res istor RI into the
ba se ba n d audio . to a Un idcn/ Bearcat
It's been w idely reported that removi ng
base of transistor Q I. This ca uses QI to conBC9000XLT. Joh nny Knight. of Monroe. NC.
diode D44 restores fu ll 800 M Hz band coverd uct. pu ll ing one side of the lamp near ground.
wrote that a tone reader can he con nect ed tu
age in the older Radio Shac k PR0 -2022 in 30
causing it to Oash unti l the station stops transthe
Rad io Shack P R0-2042 at pin 9 of IC2.
kH z steps. We will describe two other modimitti ng .
which
connects to test point T P2. We no
fications to the PR0-2022 whi ch you can
Constructio n is s imple. Mou nt a term ina l
longer have a PR0-2042 to try thi s. but
adapt to o ther mode ls .
strip (RS 274-688) insi de the PR0-2022 and
Johnny s colleague tied a Connect Systems
W hi le li steni ng to many scanners at the
solder Q 1 a nd R 1 to it. Drill a hole in the
CDI to his PR0-2042 at T P2 and it fu ncsame ti me. it's ofte n difficult to tell wh ich
scan ner's fron t panel. located j us t below the
tioned
we ll.
scan ner is hearing acti vity. A canier-acti -

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I How Hot is Your Transformer?

While troubl es hoo t ing hi s Unidcn
BC800X LT scanner. Jeff Herman noticed the
power transformer was hot and asked if this is
cause for alarm.
Overheating can be caused by a defecti ve
component drawing too much current or even
shorted windings. Another way 10 overheat
the tran ~ former is to power 100 many currenthungry accessories or circuit add-ons by tapping into your scanner' s power supply. The
heat generated from an abnormally hot tran sformer ca n shorten the life of surrounding
components. and the transformer can fail if
the rnndi tion goes unchecked.
Don't be alarmed-a hot transformer
docsn ' t necessarily mean trouble. The power
transformers in man y scanners run hot. and
without measuring the temperature, it' s difficult to !..now whether your transformer is
abnormal ly hot. After running 24 hours a day.
the power transformer in our BC800XLT
measured 121 degrees Fahrenheit immediately after we removed the cabinet. The temperature dropped to I08 degrees after operating the BC800XLT without its cabinet for an
hour. The 121 degree temperature is uncomfortable 10 the touch, but doesn't signify
troub le. Our BC800X LT has been operating
24 hours a day for the last three years. backed
up with a UPS (un interruptahle power source).

bank of I 00 chan nels and fi ve search banks.

You can program separate transmit and receive freque ncies in each of the memories and
can monitor a repeater input at the press of
one key.
The FTSOR comes equipped wi th a digital
sq uelch encoder and decoder (digital PL for
Motorola aficionados). and a CTCSS encoder.
An analog CTCSS decoder is ava ilable as
option FTT- 12. The FT50R stone scan feature cycles through all the different CTCSS or
DCS codes until it finds the proper lone which
matches the station to which you are listening. No portable scanner has this featurcyet.
We programmed the first 23 channels in
our Fr SOR. with fi ve channels locked out of
the scan list. About a third of the remaini ng I 8
c hannels were programmed with CTCSS or
DCS codes. With that mix, our FTSOR scans
at abou t I 0 channels per second, much slower
than a modern scanner.
Frequencies and operating parameters can
be bulk downloaded from, or uploaded to. a
personal compu ter usi ng the optional Yaesu
ADMS- 1C Windows-based soft ware and interface cable. Street price for the basic Ff50R
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ANTENNA TOPICS
BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS

Clem Small, KR6A, CET

Antenna Tuners: HF Help or Hindrance?

e all want to get the best possible

pe rformance from our antenna
when we arc working weak signals. If a source of RF signals. such as the
ante nn a, is <.:0nnected to a circuit (load) which
is to accept those signals. then the source and
load ~ h o uld each have about the same impedance value (i.e .. be matched to one another).
The load can be the antenna s lead-in cable
wh ich routes the signals on to the antenna
input-circuit of the receiver. or. if there is no
lead-in. the load will be the receiver antennainput circuit itself.
An antenna tuner is a circ uit which can
improve a poor match between an antenna
system and receiver input or lead-in. (Doug
DeMaw had an excellent article on building
an antenna tuner in the June issue of Mo11itori11g Times.) When an antenna tuner improves
the match. then signals received by the antenna pass to the receiver at a greater amplitude. This would seem like ly to improve
reception, but, as is often the case. "it ain't
necessari ly so." If the signals received by the
antenna include significant received noise at
the sa me frequency as the desired signal, then
the improved match increases them both to an
equal ex tent.
As you might g u es~. it' s the relative level
of the noise accompanying the desired signal
as compan:d to the level of the signal itself.
that is a basic determiner of how well you can
understand ("copy" or "read"J that signal.
Thi s compari son of signal to noise is called
the signal-to-noise rati o" or '"SIN."'
On shortwave (HF) the level of noise received along with the signal is generally
much greater than the noise that is generated
in the first st age~ of the receiver. Therefore,
received noise generally accounts for the
noise factor in the SIN of the received signal.
Since the S/N is not im proved by increasing
the signal le ve l when received noise is 'si milarl y increased, th is means that an HF antenna
!liner is often oflinle u ~c in improving reception. When received noise is high. then improving ante nn a-system signal output level
has an effect similar to ~ i mpl y turning up the
vo lume comrol on 1he receiver- it makes
both signals and noise louder. but doesn' t
improve the quality of reception much.
ls an antenna tunerthc n of novalueon HF?

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Sometimes yes. sometimes no. Let s now

discuss what causes thi s ambivalence.

Noise and HF Reception:

Contro versy so m e tim e~ arises between
operators as to the value of u ~ in g an antenna
tuner for HF recepti on. Some operators feel
that tuners hel p. and ~omc say they gi\'e no
benefit. As just explained, the received-noise
level on the HF band is generall y greater than

FIGURE 1

the noise generated in the receiver itself. When

this is true then the use of an antenna tun er is
not usually of value.
One exception to this could be if the ante nna is not outputing enough signal for che
receiverto detect any signals at all. In this case
improved output level may sometimes be
gained by use of an antenna tuner. or by
lengthenin g the antenna if it is a simple random -length wire. or by chan ging the antenna

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frequency of operat ion.
How do you know if amplification would
be of benefit? As a test of HF antenna outputlevel you can briclly connect your receiving
antenna lead-i n to the receiver's antenna input
terminal, and then remove it. If you hear an
increase in noi se in the receiver' s audio output
whe;;n the anten na is connected then you will
probably have enough signal output from the
antenna to receive any signals that arc copyable
above the received noise. (If your noise level
is really high you still may not hear any
signals!) If you hear no increase in noise in
this test your antenna may not have sufficient
outpu t for you r receiver's sensitivity level.
On the other hand. when you hear no noise
it can mean that the received-noise level is
quite low. Received noise tends to be lower in
remote or rural areas. at latitudes far from the
equator, and in the winter. It can also vary
with the frequency being utilized.
At frequencies above HF, received noise
levels usuall y decrease as freq uency increases.
For thi s reason matching an antenna to its
feedline, and matc hi ng the feedl inc to the
receive r' s antenna input circui t at these frequenc ies can be very important in the reception of weak signa ls.
Coming down in frequency from the VHF
band we find that the lowest frequency at
which received noise is no longer a serious
problem for weak-signal work is variable
with both time and locat ion. At times this
fre;;quenc y can be wel l down into the HF band:
at other ti mes it is up into the lower end of the
VHF band. If the antenna is located near a
noise source, such as house electrical wiring,
noise wi ll be hi gh.
This means that whether or not an antenna
tuner will help your HF reception may change
from time to time and wi th different locations
of your antenna. Whe never you not ice that the
HF frequency on which you are liste ni ng is
qu iet in terms of received noise. then you
might try a tuner to c heck whether it wi ll help
your weak signal work on that frequency at
that particular time and location. When conditions are such that a tuner doesn' t help. then it
is a waste of time. effort, and money to include
one in your receiving syste m. On the HF band
this latter case is very common.

antenna tuner will be located between the

antenna and the feed line (fig. 2). Matching at
this latter location is particularly valuable for
receiv ing antennas, because a significant portion of received signal energy not entering the
feedlinc from the antenna is re-radiated and
lost.
Unfo rtunately it is a problem to support a
device as large and heavy as eve n a simple
antenna tu ner at this location, and even more
difficult to adjust it. It is much more common
to use non-tunable (fixed tuned) matching
devices such as stubs and baluns in thi s location. Whatever the case. for maximum transfer of signal to receiver there should be good
matchi ng at both tuner locat ions shown in fig.
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KIS RADIO

SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE FRUGAL MONITOR

Rich Arland, K7YHA

P.O. Box 1782, Shavertown, PA 18708; email address: k7yha@epix.net

Mobile Installations

e prepared- when you first get

negati ve battery terminal w ith an o hm
the desire to pack the family
meter. There should be zero ohms reautomobil e full of radio gear,
s istance.
you may e ncounter some unexpected
In order to get a good e lec trical
resistance from your spouse. kids. and ,
connec ti o n. you w ill probably have to
yes. even the local authorities . The
scrape away some of the undercoating
local/state autho rit ies can present qui te
(an o utst anding insulator. by the way)
an intimidating hurdle. Many municio n the frame. You may have to resort to
palities. along wi th some state legislausing some small coaxia l braid straps
tures. seem to fe e l that placi ng certain
to bond the hood. tru nk. doo rs. etc . to
ty pes of radio equipment in side a vethe frame to insure that a good ground
hicle is ominous eno ugh to justify makdevelops throughout the vehicle. Th is
ing it a vio lati on of the law. These
w ill also reduce much of the noise
o rdinances are primarily foc used on
assoc iated wi th mo bi le instal latio ns ,
scanner receivers. but an y radio that
where doors. hoods . and trunks vican be made to rece ive police/EMS/ Now you see it ... now you don't: Th e cupholder completely
brate . caus ing irritat ing stat ic .
public service frequencies (like many covers the PR0-2026 while the /COM IC-24A T HT is safe
One trick ! use when mounting more
of the newer 2 meter and dual band in the glove box.
than o ne rad io in a veh icl e is to bui ld up
VHF/UHF ham rigs) can possibly land
a power buss usi ng mult iple power
vehicle's warranty is voided by installing
you in hot water with the authoriti es.
connecto rs. Thi s a llows o nl y o ne se t of hem',\'
Therefore. I begin wit h thi s word of cau- radio gear. The n inquire if they have any
wires to connect to the batte ry. bu t offe rs
tio n: research the /all's in .1our slate before recommendation s o r service data availabl e
mul ti ple distri bution o f DC power ins ide the
inslalling ANY type of equip111en1 1ha1 ll'ill that w ill help you w ith the installation.
vehicle . I'm current ly us ing the Radio Sh ack
Connect the DC power fo r the radio eq uipreceil'e law e11J<ncemen1/EMS or public ser276-222 Molcxn 1 connectors . By para lle ling
ment directly to the vehicle batte ry. DO NOT,
1ice fi'eq11e11cies in vour l'ehicle.
several of the connectors o n o ne power cab le .
under any circumstances, use a c igarette lighter
I can connect multiple radios to o ne power
pl ug or fu se box adaptor to power the radio
I Surmountable Installations
source w ith less hassle while reduci ng the
gear. RF can eas ily find its way onto DC
normal rat' s nest of wires.
One of the first proble ms you wi ll ha ve to
wiring con nected in thi s fashio n and get into
contend with is the total lack of suitable mount- ot her systems inside the vehicle. Run the DC
I Antenna Answers
ing space for radio equi pment in vehicles power cable direct ly to the vehic le battery.
manufactured over the last five years. Today' s
We could spe nd a couple of columns on
fu se both the negative and pos iti ve leads at the
c rop of new cars feawre plastic . padded dash- battery tenninals . and you wil l have a head
this subject a lo ne' G enerally. all antennas
boards. s lo ping surfaces with gracefu l arcs- start on e liminating RFI/EMI , inc luding a nsho uld be mounted on a large meta l surface
nonc of whic h arc suited to mounti ng equ ip- noying a lternato r whine . Shou ld yo u encounli ke the rear deck or roof of the vehicle. T his
ment. One item th at is quite use ful is the extra ter a stubborn case of a lternator whine . Radi o
provides a decent RF grou nclplane and instrong velcron1 strip sold by Radio Shack. Shack sells several sizes and styles of hash
creases th e rad iation effic iency of the
Any relatively flat surface can be made to
filters that can be placed in seri es with the DC
antenna(s). However. times change . In order
support radio gear using these strips.
power cables to eliminate the problem.
of descending priority. plan your antennas
Add to the phys ical obstacles the presence
Locate the antcnna(s) as physicall y close
of multiple o n-board computer systems in the as possible to the associated radi o gear. Avoid
newer cars ( my Subaru has four compute rs). lo ng coax ial runs inside a veh icle. Fi nd o ut
and the poss ibility of Radio Frequency Inter- where the various computer modules a rc
fere nce ( RFI ) or Electro M ag net ic Interfe rphysicall y located in your vehicle a nd do not
e nce (EMI) becoming a factor arc quite high . route the coax anywhere near these areas.
Most automobi le manufacwrcrs wi 11 not warLine isolators (avai lable from The Radi o
ranty any computer modules if RF transmit- Works') can be in serted at the output of the rig
ting devices arc installed in the ir vehicles.
and at the base of the antenna to reduce any
RFI/EM I are very real problems th at have
unwanted R F radiation by the coaxial cable.
to be addressed w hen installing any type of
Ground is hard to find on newer car bodradio equipment in a vehic le. First, get the 800 ies. The trend toward lexann 1 and polycarTwo small Radio Shack speakers 011 the
number of your veh icle manufacture r' s cusbonate body panels in today's vehic les create
ceiling
fed with RG-174 submi11iature coax
tomer service center. Call the m and explai n some interesting grou nding anti bond ing probpro11ide full sound for the scanner and CB
your situati o n. Ask them up front if the
lems. Check continuity from the car fram e to
rigs.

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September 1996

around the lowest profile. most efficient. and

highest gain. Why do I list low profile ante nnas at the top of the list?The less aucntion you
attract with your mobile set-up the longer you
will keep your gear. [f a thief spots your
antennas it is a sure bet he will case your
vehicle for a fu ture heist.
" But Rich. I have an ant i-theft alarm system in my vehic le ... you say. Yeah. so? How
many times have we heard the " WHOOP.
HONK. BEEP'" of car alarms in parking lots,
only to witness people walking all around, not
giv ing a second look to the vehicle mak ing all
the noise? In short, car alarms are 99.99%
hype and .0 I% effecti ve in deterring theft.
Any know ledgeable th ief can disable your car
al arm within seconds. It ' s better to lower the
profile or your mobi le installation.
Low profile antennas are admittedly a tradeoff : they arc not necessarily eflicicnt nor do
they pro vide maxi mum gai n. That' s the price
of going mobile today. I have used several of
the Lakeview Company's~ antennas over the
last several years. They offer quality antenna
produc t ~ at reasonable prices. and I am very
impressed with the overall performance.
The Lakeview HF HamsticksTM are second to none for mobile HF. I currently use a40
and 20 meter 1-lamstick with my NorCal Sierra CW transceiver and manage lo have lots
of fun runn ing HF from the car. I also use
Lakev i ew~ on-glass VHF/U HF dual band
cellular look-alike antenna on my Subaru .
While not the most efficient, this low profile
black antenna works quite well. My mobi le
VHF/U HF ham station consists of an ICOM
IC-24AT du al band handheld in a cellular
mount on the passenger's side of the console
(sec Fig # Ia).
The Lakeview Company dual band antenna serves double duty since I also use it for
my Radio Shack PR0-2026 I 00 channel scanner. A mini ature A/B switch (also available at
Radi o Shack) is used to switch the on-glass
antenna between the ICOM HT and the scanner. Since I cannot transmi t on the handheld
while the scanner is running (near fie ld RF
will incinerate the scanner fron t end device).
the A-8 switch is a necessary ev il. It also
lowers my antenna count. since I can use one
antenna for two separate radio systems.
An additional Lakeview on-glass CB antenn a sih on my left rear side window. This
antenna offers a low profile design (short
whip. black in color) and wi ll not anract
undue allention. This antenna provides me
with what I believe a CB should be used foro n
the road ... listening. Outside of an emergency, I am not very interested in talking to
anyone on I I meters. I am, however, intensely in terested in the location of speed
traps. who has spotted Smokey rolli ng down

the road, and where any traffic ti e-ups might

be.
Occasionally I like to run HF mobile equipment in the car. Unforlllnately. Butch Shira,
N4WHB , at Lakeview has yet to design and
market a stealth version of his Hamstick HF
antennas. So. a rear antenna mount (a steel
bracket that is level with the top of the rear
bumpe r) accomm odate s a s in gle band
Hamstick.
I have used the massive tri-magnet mount
th at Lakev iew sells fo r mounting their HF
Hamsticks on the roof or rear deck of a vehicle. While this is an ideal mounting method.
yie lding an ex tremely good ground plane and
increasing HF antenna efficiency dramatically. my spouse has drawn the line, so I' m
re legated to mounting the HF antenna(s) on
the homebrew mount on the rear of the car.
While this keeps the HF antenna quite low to
the ground, it still al lows HF operation. When
I have no HF gear in the Subaru , there is no
antenna mounted to thi s point, thereby reducing the overall visual profile or the car.
For the finale: I'll give you a tour of the
cockpit of my Subaru lmpreza wagon. St.arting at the left of the steering wheel , mounted
against the lower porti on of the padded dashboard with ve lcro strips is a Cobra CB. This
rig is mounted so it is difficult to see from the
outside. In the center console, j ust below the
pull out coffee cup holder. is the Radio Shack
PR0-2026 scan ner. This is an almost perfect
fit into the hole meant fo r the cassette player.
With the cup holder in the ex tended position,
the face of the scanner is completely covered
(see Fig # I b).
To the right, and down, is the cellular
phone mount which holds my !COM IC24AT dual band handheld. I re move the HT
and lock it in the glove box when out of the car.
The coaxial cable with connector drapes over
the mount giving an impression that the radio
has been removed.
In the "normal'' operating mode, the exte-

rior of the Subaru has only two antennas (not

counting the AM/FM radio antenna) and both
of those are low profile, on-glass antennas,
black in color. The Lakeview Hamstick is
only added when operating HF mobile. From
a short distance, it is difficult to tell that the
vehicle has any extra radio gear installed.
l hope some of my mobile installation ti ps
will help you design your own mobile radio
shack. Until next time, have fun and Keep It
Simple.
FOOTNOTES
' The Radio Works, P.O. Box 6159, Portsmouth. VA
23703 TEL: (804)484-0140
2
Lakeview Company, 3620-9A Whitehall Road,
Anderson, SC 29624 TEL: (864) 226-6990 FAX:
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ASK BOB

ANSWERS TO YOUR RADIO QUESTIONS

Bob Grove, WA4PYQ

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Our Readers Answer:

I.I- there a 1ray to a111011u11ically detect and

mure a 7V commercial? Probably not. at least
not dependably. There is no electronic cue.
only 'timing sheets sent by the producers.
allowing the control room personnel to follow the format of a program log to manually
cut to a local spot. While the video will "dip
to black" before and after a commercial, and
a give n commercial break may be the same
le ngth of time fo r a given prog ram week after
week. there is no sure-fi re way to automaticall y detect the commercial break itself.
There arc many other data cues. however.
which ride along on the ve11ical interval signal which can be seen j ust above the picture.
If you slightly misadjust your vert ical hold
cont rol so the picture rolls slowly. you will
see white dashes which correspond to closed
captioning. data, network-to-afliliatetext. and
even some encrypted closed ci rcuit audiobut no commercial cues !
Wi th radio. it"s much ca~ic r. Ever si nce the
earl y days of network radio. there have been
analog. and now digital , cues for logging and
commercial breaks.

Last month I po ed several questi ons to our

readers for their assistance: I wasn't disappo inted. Special th anks to Doug Smith.
Radcliffe Cutshaw. Grant Poner. Karl Zuk.
and Robert Smathers for their knowledgeable
replies, edited for space b..:low.
Is a prea111plijier 1ra11si.1tor more likely to
Imm 0111 fro111 overload \\'hen the radio is 011
or r1f? Probably when it" s on, but by an
insignificant margin. When on. there is already some current flowing whic h heats the
microscopic se miconductor material. giving
it a head start toward burnout when additional
current flows. But signal overl oad conditions
that would burn out a transistor are so great
that the on-or-off argument is immaterial.

Is there a unilersal code for entertainment

center remme co111rol/ers? No. The chip sets
in the remote cont ro llers have th e manufacture rs mutuall y in co mpat ibl e codes
preprogrammed, requiring the user to select
wh ich manufacturer he is using. Worse, there
arc many formats which differ by their encoding scheme: space, pulse. shift, and even frequency modulation. which could be 40 or 50
MHz. These options require a very fl exible
un iversal remote!

Al l this brings us to the question for this

month: Is there a simple. lmr \'oltage. solid
stare eq11il'lllenr 10 the old high w1lrage Geiger cm111ter 111be that can he 11.ved for an
i11expe11sfre. pocket radiation detector?

Bob's Tip of
the Month
Norris Howard of New Lebanon,
New York, discovered a fix fo r a common problem experienced by owners of
the popular Sony ICF-2010 portable
shortwave receiver which he would like
to share with fellow MT readers.
When the radio is jostled or twisted,
its batteries may briefly break contact
with their compartment, causing loss of
preset frequencies and even clock settings, as well as interrupting reception.
Years ago, Norris suggested to our readers that a quarter coin slid between the
D cells improved the intermittent re-

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Q. I often

listen to air-to-air refueling operations. Why does the radio

become quiet when the refueling
starts? I hear them again afterward.
{James Ashe, Weymouth, MA)
A. Afte r the boom operator connects. the
crew uses a hard-wired intercom system to
avoid any possibi lity of explosion from a
spark from a radio transmission igniting the
volatile fuel vapors. After the refueling. the
snorkel is re moved and radio ops arc resumed.
Q . What are the satellite signals I
hear on 150 MHz? (Louis Johnson,
Doraville, GA)

A.

You arc hearing the Russian Cosmos

series navigational satellites. They arc in a
polar orbit. so they come and go several times
a day. receivab le for a few minutes each pass.
The Cosmos satellites have been in orbit for
several decades now. and used by both military and civi lian ground and maritime interests. The data transmission is in a simple
RTTY style. but non-standard. so there is no
readily avai lable program to let you use it.

Helpful Hints for a Balky Sony 2010

ception problem, but not the clock or memory

presets whi ch are supported by two separate
AA cells.

September 1996

Norris removed the radio 's back cover

panel a nd observed two things: a crack in
the thin, positi ve e nd of the AA cell compartment, a nd a sharp burr on the D cell
contact spring which was rubbing on a
solder spot on the circ uit board where it
connects.
Norris j ammed some soft gum rubber
between the cracked end of the AA holder
and a nearby molding fillet; that shored
up the memory cells. He then burnished
the burr with some emery cloth. Reassembl ing the radio, he found the interm ittent proble ms gone for good.

Q. What is the National Weather

Service alarm tone which activates

suitably equipped weather alert
receivers? {Rob Martens,
Cinnaminson, NJ)

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By Bob Grove,
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What the Heel< is PCS?

Several months ago in our sister magazine. Satellite Times, I presented an editorial in whic h I
challenged readers to list as many devices as they could which would legitimately belong to the emerging
PCS ind ustry. Not only did I not receive any accommodati ng lists, I didn t receive a single reply! With
thousands of ST readers exposed to the challenge, the lack of reponse was startl ing.
There are several reasons that I fo und the lack of replies disturbing. First. most of the proposed
systems use satellites, so ST was a logical platform to pose the question; second ly, un told billions of
doll ars are being expended by the aerospace and telecommunications industries to satisfy a market that
apparentl y doesn' t even know it exists; and thirdly. traditional radio systems have been losing enormous
chunks of spectrum to an immature. speculative technology.
Even the abbreviation .. PCS'' is only vaguely understood. interpreted di ffere ntl y among different
interests. Personal Communication(s) System(s)? Personal Communication(s) Satellite(s)? Personal
Communication(s) Service(s)? Let's at least get tha1 right: It 's Personal Communications Services. as
originally detined by the Federa l Communicati ons Commission (FCC). The Commission conti nues to
define PCS as "rad io communications that encompass mobile and ancillary fi xed communication that
prov ide services to indi viduals and businesses with a variety of competi ng networks."
But don' t we already have personal communications? How about CB. ham radio. GM RS, low power
walkie-talkies. and the new Family Radio Service? Certainly. but these are more incidental, discretionary
for ms of communications. PCS is nearly exclusively digi tal. handles massive amounts of data exchange,
operates at microwave frequencies (typically 900 and 1900 MHz). is relayed by satellites. time-shares
frequencies with multiple users, may be networked, and is a primary fac ility, not a hobby.
Wi th range-extending satell ites, PCS will allow worldwide telephone access. Internet by wire less
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business telecommuting, small office/home office (SOHO) interconect, and tiny wireless handsets at
lower cost than cell ular services.
But the satellites are only starting to be placed ; the imposing Iridium program intends ultimately to
have a constellation of several dozen low-earth-orbiti ng (LEO) satellites enabling personal communicat ions worldwide.
Wi th PCS. you will be able to sit on a sun ny beach and use your voice/keyboard un it to talk to the
office. answer correspondence. access files. cru ise the In ternet. check your phone messages at home or
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voice messages at the touch of a button. Medical patien ts and supervised felons alike wearing rad io
devices may be monitored continuously, regardless where they go--the same technology providing
solutions in radically different situations.
Ut ility and convenience are the watchwords for PCS; I' m sure that you can think of many more
applications we haven t touched on here. and many more will become evident as we watch this amazing
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