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November 1990

Tuning in to Woods Hole

by Everett stosman

Nestled in Vineyard Sound on Cape Cod is a world-renowned

research organization -- the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute -whose activities range from underwater exploration of historic shipwrecks
like the Bismarck and Titanic to maritime research and scientific
expeditions. Tuning in to private station KXC-713 communications with
the lnstitute's several research ships on expedition can be fascinating
and educational.

The Terrible Twenty

by Charles Sorrell

10

Sure, there are many, many stations which will always be impossible to DX in North America.
Our Terrible Twenty, however, are picked from those stations for which there is just a shadow of
a chance of reception. Don 't forget these long shots as you twirl around the dial; one night the
propagation might be ju-u-ust right for that once-in-a-lifetime DX!

Playing the Name Game

by Don Moore

14

Do the Latin American stations al l sound alike to you? How will

you ever be able to sort them out so you can count a station as a
positive catch?
If identifying these Spanish-speaking stations has discouraged
you from listening, Don Moore's article will give you some
gu id elines to fo llow to help pick out the station ID fro m the
background chatte r. Even commercials and local news can be clues
in the Name Game.

Hunting Quayle on AF2

by Sue Kennedy

18

A close-up look at Air Force 2 was Sue's assignment. As she

requested her press pass as a writer for Monitoring Times the Vice
Preside nt's secretary said, "You know you can't bring any scanning
radios with you, don't you?" This was only a minor setback for our
resourceful reporter who listened in to Secret Service and Air Force 2
frequenci es anyway. Can you guess how?
COVER: Karl Zuk and Alan Weiner set up the transmitter for convention
station 530 kHz; Inset: Guests got their first welcome by MT staff at the
registration desk. Photos by Harry Baughn.

Pictures at a (Successful) Convention!

21

The MT convention was an

overwhelming success. We can't
begin to share with you the
excitement of putting faces and
personalities to the names and
voices we've e ncountered over the
years, of sitting in a room full of
people who share the same
e nthusiasm for radio mon ito ri ng.
But , we ll, we d..o. happen to have a
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We'd like to welcome Rob Gerardi to the MT staff as a
regular contributor to the Ham column. Well-known and
respected by those in the ham community who monitor rare
amateur DX transm issions , Rob's work has appeared in C/OX
Messenger for many years.
Glenn Hauser reports on the serendipitous reception of a
special just-for-the-Convention broadcast from Radio Saint
Hele na (p.24). As prom ised, Larry Van Horn comes through with
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(Israel's CIA--p. 28). Bob Kay answers the most commonly-asked
questio ns about scanning on page 32.
If you'd like to mo nitor CW and RTIY only occasionally,
check out th e review of t he affordable Microdec decoder on
page 39. Also included in MT this month is a revi ew of the
Realistic DX-370 (or Phi lips/Magnavox AE 3805, or Sangean ATS
800 -- page 88), and a side-by-side comparison of the AOR
AR3000 vs. the ICOM R7000 (pag e 90).
Got the bug to build during the winter months? How about
an indoor antenna for shortwave listening (page 92) or a
groundplane to take you from mediumwave through UHF (page
96)? And while you're building , don't forget Safety First, says
Uncle Skip (page 40).
Listening targets th is month might include the Naval Air
Station in Dallas, Texas (page 42) , or maritime frequencies in
the Mediterranean Sea (page 44), or special interest ham nets
(page 46). That should keep you busy 'til next month brings
another bonanza of feat ures, reviews, projects, and tips.

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confirrriati~ns to those who are able to log

them.
Here, courtesy of Wayne, the Colorado
CPC Machine aJ:ld The National Radio
Club
(P.O. Box . 116, Poquonock,
Connecticut 06065) are some DX tests
scheduled for November. Give 'em a try.
This can be real fun!

Everyone at Monitoiing Times had

. w()rked very hard on the convention. Still, it
was our first attempt at such an event.
Would we succeed?
By midday Friday, the answer was clear.
Not only was the convention a success -- if
the comments of the attendees are any
indication, we succeeded beyond our wildest
dreams!
Hundreds of people - some from as far
away as Singapore, Australia and England -and dozens of exhibitors - r anging from
Radio Shack to Radio Canada International, to name but two - converged on
Knoxville for three days of radio fun.
It was great. But don'ttake our word for
it. Check out the photos on pages 21
through 23. Or ask someone who was there.
But for goodness sake, don't miss out on
next year's Monitoring Times convention.
More informat ion will be forthcoming soon!
Thanks to everyone who helped to make
the convention such a great time. See you in
11 months!

Wayne Heinen of the Colorado CPC

Machine writes in with a special two-day
DX challenge for Monitoring Times
readers. As an arm of the National Radio
Club, Wayne; together with Jeff Tynan, gets
into\1ch with various radio stations around
the country and arranges for them to go on
the air with test broadcasts.
What makes these broadcasts special is
not only the sometimes distinctive
programming but often the hours of
operation. For example, a station normally
restricted to daytime broadcasting might go
on the air at . midnight, using test tones
interspersed with station IDs.
As you might imagine, such distinctive
programming -- not to mention the fact that
the .station otherwise might have absolutely
no opportunity to be heard at night - helps
to cut through the static and make these
some real DX gems. In addition, those
stations that agree to conduct special DX
tests also agree to issue QSLs or

Nove!lllier: 1380-WSYB in Rutland,

Verinont, will conduct a special DX test
from 5:30 amto 6:00 am EST. This test will
consist of mu!)ic interspersed with voice and
Morse code identifications. Reception
reports go to Mr. Toin Elmore at P.O. Box
249, Rutland, VT 05701.
12 November: 1600-WARU in Peru,
Indiana, will be on the air from 2:00 am to
2:30 am. It should be easy to pick out
because Chief Engineer James L.
S\Vearingen' will be playing march music
along with voice and Mo.rse code stations
IDs. Reception reports on this test go to
Mr. Swearingen at P.O . Box A, Peru, IN
46970.
12 November: 1600-KRXY in Denver,
Colorado, will go off the. air from 2:00 am
the air
until 2:30 am but then will come
With its 5,000 watt non-directional signal,
broadcasting both Morse code and voice
IDs from 2:30 to 3:00 am EST. Your
reception report for KRXY goes to Chief
Engineer Girard M. Westerberg, 7075 W.
H ampden Ave., Denver, CO 80227.

on

Ladies and gentlemen, fire up those

radios! Many thanks to Wayne for setting
these up.
Nigel Reid of L ondon writes to
Monitoling Times with an interesting
proposal Says Nigel, "One of the spin~o(fs
of the outbreak of democracy ill Eastern
Europe is the freedom of DXers there to
pursue their hobby free of government
repression.
"One group of dedicated Bulgarians are
trying to form a DX club and I am trying to
assist them.
'Their main problem is a lack of hard
currency and I have suggested to them that
they might obtain some by the sale of
R ussian language reception report forms
and recordings of local radio stations.
"l am meeting one of the Blgarians in
London this month and r should be most
grateful if any MT readers interested

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November 1990

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Goodbye AM, Goodbye FM

Today's radios and the thousands of stations across the country
that broadcast to them could soon
become as outdated as 45 rpm records
because of advancing technology.
The emerging technology, called
digital audio broadcasting, is capable
of providing high quality sound that is
vastly superior to standard radio
broadcasts. If it delivers as promised,
DAB could provide virtually flawless
reception, even underground in tun
nels, provide huge savings in transmit
ter siting and electricity costs, and
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Even so, once it is introduced, as Hicks
believes is now inevitable, the superior
quality of DAB could quickly conquer
a new generation of radio listeners.

VOA Takes Heat in Gulf

Syndicated columnist William
Safire has implicated the Voice of
America in the Persian Gulf crisis,
saying that an official with the State
Department routinely "killed" one
story and ordered other officials . to

apologize for edi

torials on the
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AFRTS Sun Valley, CA, site, courtesy Richard Lane
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friends in the Since AFRTS shortwave service was discontinued the
President's pep speech was not heard by servicemen fn the
Persian Gulf."'
Middle East.
Later,
continues Safire,
Kelly instructed the U.S. ambassador Anthem over the Voice of America?
to Iraq "to apologize for a strong The Soviet Union has "turned down
the volume" on Radio Vilnius in
Voice of America editorial on human
recent months by dropping or cutting
rights."
back the power of its in-Soviet relay
transmitters, making it difficult, if not
VOA to Rebroadcast Radio impossible, to hear in many parts of
the world.
Vilnius (USSR)?
According to a report on the
station, the U.S. government operated
international shortwave service "is
willing to assist Radio Vilnius in its
effort to find a source of transmission
outside of the Soviet Union."
No further details were given but
could this mean that you'll soon be
able to hear the Lithuanian National

We Hear You (Now)

A few months ago, President
George Bush gave a radio pep talk to
U.S. Forces stations .in the Persian
Gulf over A rmed Forces Radio and
Television (AFRTS). Unfortunately,
because AFRTS was removed from

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the shortwave bands several years ago

and because there were no med iumwave transmitters in the area, the very
people to whom the address was
directed were unable to hear it.
Instead, the speech was disseminated
by way of printed flyers.
Now comes word that AFRTS will
begin reaching members of Operation
Desert Shield via six small transmitters
that have now been placed in Saudi
territory. The transmi tters will receive .
programming transmitted via satelkte
from Los Angeles and rebroadcast it
with a range of 20 miles. The army
declined to provide the frequencies of
the transm itters.
Meanwhile, the American radio
inclust1y has launched a campaign to
buy some 25,000 rad ios and batteries
to be sent into the region.

Unless someone else beats them to

it, this will be the first time that the
service will be available globally.

Ducking for the President

Monitoring for Quakes

A number of rad io monitors claim
that they can predict earthquakes by
listening to the radio. According to
reports, radio stations "drift" off
frequency in the days or hours
preced ing a quake.
Another man who predicts quakes
(and who allegedly predicted the San
Francisco quake earlier this year), has
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3rd of December. lf you find your
favo rite stations "drifting" off frequency on the 2nd, let us know! Stay
by your radios!

Secret Service agents and local

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Mark Widerst rom, Houston, Texas; Karl
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From recovering sunken ships to

exploring the mysteries of the deep;
these are some of the adventures to
be had

Tuning 1n to Woods Hole

Story and photos
by Everett Slosman
The marine bands produce a variety of
catches; high-seas rescues, ships' chatter, ice
patrols, mariners' warnings, navigation data,
and other public and private transmissions.
DXing the marine bands can be both fun and
educational.
Take the "O" transmissions; the ocean
resea rch vessels and associated shore stations
operating from exotic locations and offering
something for everyone.

In 1986, for example, "O" listeners heard

from-the-site reports coming from Dr. Robert
D. Ballard's RMS Titanic expedition long
before it became a staple on the evening news.
They used voice, CW, RTTY and fax to report
their progress.
More recently, listeners followed a crew
from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(WHOI) as they pinpointed the watery grave
of the Bismarck, the World War II German
battleship. On this and other expeditions,
German listeners account for a majority of the
reports sent to Woods Hole, says Steve Page,
a Senior Electronics Researcher and the
person responsible for verifying them.
Oceanography is more than hunting for
sunken vessels and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is more than a private,
nonprofit research organization. It is a way of

Steven Page at the control

board of KXC-713, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution's
private marine station.
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November 1990

life for the eight hundred full-time staff

members who work year-round with more
than one hundred graduate students on a
variety of projects.
Thirty years before NASA put men in
space, argonauts like Lucius Beebe were
making underwater descents in primitive
bathyscaphes to explore the often hostile
ocean. These dives attracted many bright
students to the marine sciences and once the
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) became a reality, it opened up
the underwater worlds.
Marine institutes are now part of many Lop
universities, but for several reasons, the
unpretentious village of Woods Hole on Cape
Cod, Massachusetts, became a worldwide
center for study. Today, ships from WHOI,
Marine Biological Laboratory, Northeast
Fisheries Center, U.S. Geological Survey and
Sea Education Association all homeport here.
Cape Cod juts into the Atlantic Ocean
giving the state its distinctive hook-shaped
eastern shoreline. The Pilgrims landed on the
cape before moving on to Plymouth. Marconi
built his first trans-Atlantic stat ion here and
early vintage radio-equipped planes flew subhunter patrols from primitive airstrips during
the early days of World War II.

Main rack at KXC-713

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Woods Hole, itself, nestles snugly on

Vineyard Sound in the southwestern portion
of the cape. For three centuries, its semiisolated population consisted of farmers,
fishermen and a few wealthy "summer
people."
Then, the politicians in Boston discovered
the area's rust ic charm, built summer homes
and paved the road that connected Woods
Hole with Falmouth. The area's isolation
van ished in a cloud of automobile exhaust.
Geographic attributes, such as a sheltered
harbor and rapid access to the ocean, made
the village an ideal location for siting ocean
research operations.
So, a stereotypical 300 year old village
evolved into a seaborne un iversity complex
where PhDs are as common as eelgrass and
graduate students stevedore cargo and
su pplies on board the vessels as part of their
course work.
The ferries bound for Martha's Vineyard
and the Outer Islands leave on fixed
schedules. Weekend skippers close-haul their
tiny craft under a drawbridge on their way to
lunch at the famous "Black Duck," while
occasionally, a C oast Guard patrol boat leaves
the station and puts to sea at flan k speed.

WHOl's dockside complex.

Building on left is administration;
on right is marine equipment.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE
WHOI spreads out through the crabbed
downtown area, but the main complex consists
of two buildings and a quay. KXC-713, the
institution's private marine radio station, is on
the second floor of the dockside building. The
tech shop is on the second floor of the other.

biology, chemistry, geology and geophysics,

physical oceanography and ocean engineering. T o accomplish these missions, they
operate five research vessels: the DSV Alvin,
R/V Atlantis II, R/V Oceanus, R/V K1101T and
RjV Asterias.

Going from one to the other is its own

adventure: two sets of stairs, dodging over and
around heaps of marine gear and squeezing
into a room slightly less spacious than a walkin closet. This one kilowatt setup is strictly
utilitarian, not anything like Hollywood's
version with racks of flashing lights, radio
chatter and officers dressed in whites straining
to hear fading signals.

Occasionally, projects include vessels

from other institutions and wi ll constitute a
rare catch.

The only maps are propagation predictions

that paper the back wa ll and the modern
broadcast equipment is p anel mounted or
sitting on shelves. KXC-713's only purpose in
life is to maintain twice daily contact with
WHOI's vessels.
Transmissions are scheduled for 0930 and
1530 local time rather than UTC.
Riding the broadcasts means listening to
exotic locations where oceanographic research
may be underway: Ponta Delagada, Azores;
Forteleza, Brazil; Abidjan, Ivory Coast;
Longyearbyen, Norway; or Izmer, Turkey, to
name a few destinations explored over the
years. Think about the bragging rights
associated with the QSLs.
Currently WHOI's "O" ship activities are
centering around the Pacific Rim . H owever,
the public information office was unwilling to
provide current or projected voyage schedules. So nailing down transmission locations
remains a matter of pot luck and the
willingness of the communications people to
indicate it on verifications.
Page and his assistant, Aldon Cook, are
impressed by the polite and courteous
verification requests they receive from
Germa n DXers.

Atlantis II, /(J101T and Oceanus carry

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vehicle has been used for chores ranging fr om
recovering an H-bomb accidentally lost off
the coast of Spain, exploring black smoker
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RN Oceanus at dockside.
Woods Hole harbor leading to
Vineyard Sound is to the right.

Radio room rack aboard 811

Oceanus located to the rear of
the bridge.

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Current Frequencies
Used by WHOI
All Single Sideband

4122.5
4143.6
6218.6
6221.6
8291.1
8294.2
12429.2
12432.3
16587.1
16590.2
21127.1
22124.0

All frequencies valid until 0001 UTC, July 1,

1991.
However, as a practical matter, Alvi11 has
made only 26 dives for the Navy.
The Atlantis ll which replaced the R/V
Lulu as mother ship was built by the Maryland
Shipbui lding and Drydock Company and
carries a crew of 28 with a similar number of
scientists. A twin screw diesel and thruster
bow design gives the ship a 9,000 mile, 12
knots range. She uses KADC as her call sign.
Atla11tis II is not required to carry a CWtrained radio officer because of her small size.
Cook points out CW is a costly medium. "It's
50 cents a word while SITOR is around $2.40
a minute."

On-board technicians, who routinely

service the expedition's electronics gear also
maintain and operate the ship's radio
equipment.
Actually, K1101r is the only ship in WHO l's
"little navy" large enough to maintain a radio
watch while at sea. Currently, the ship is
finishing a refit at the McDermott Shipyard,
Amelia, Louisiana, and is expected to return,
first to WHOI, then go back out to sea. Keep

Radio room as seen from the

bridge

November 1990

tuned for transmissions from KCEJ.

K1101r has been lengthened to 85 meters
and given a new power plant consisting of two
1500 hp Schottel Z-drives at the stern and a
900 hp retractable Z-drive bow-thruster. This
configuration makes it respond like an
oversize bass boat. Range will be 16,000 miles
at top speed and the ship will carry 34
scientists.

This ship also belongs to the Navy and still

maintains its official hull number, AGOR-15.
WHOI leases it under contract with the
Office of Naval Research and supplies a
civilian crew.
The Ocea1111s is the smallest ocean-goer, a
mere 54 meters. , She carries 24 people
including a scientific party of 12. A single
screw diesel makes 12.5 knots and ranges up
to 7,000 miles. Ocea1111s is also the newest in
the fleet.
Oceanus's radio room contains racks, a
desk and some shelf space. The captain and
mates handle transm itt ing and receiving
chores, so placing the radio room along the
back wall of the bridge makes sense.
However, the area is cramped.

Oceanus uses WXAQ.

WHOI owns another ship, the 14 meter
R/V A stelias which looks more like a fa ncy
lobster boat than a research ship as it prowls
the coastal waters. This boat handles,
primarily, small off-shore projects, carries a
party of ten on daytrips, three on
overnighters, and can cover 600 miles at 12
knots.
A stelias' radio gear consists of a Stephens
"SEA 209" SSB, ICOM M80 VHF on the
flying bridge, and a similar unit in the
wheelhouse. Listen for chance transmissions
on the coastal bands, since she keeps no
regu lar schedules.

As a rule, KXC-713's regular transmissions

begin in the 12 and 16 kHz bands. F inal

Bridge of the RN Oceanus

showing radar, 'sonar and other
navigational aids.
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frequen cies depend on propagation conditions and tropical recept ion problems.
Protocols follow a regular pattern. Once the
frequencies are agreed upon, voice traffic,
position reports and phone patches follow.
Next comes fax, telex, data, RITY,
INMARSAT a nd SITOR traffic.
As a limited private shore station, KXC713 can use "some frequencies up to 8 MHz
for narrow band direct printing teletype," says
Cook, "to reach Atlantis and Oceanus directly
rather than by going through a SITOR
linkup." They are planning to apply for
permanent authority would give WHOI
addition al communications flexibility. If Page
can come up with additional funds, look for
experimental transmissions over the next few
years.
Woods H ole broadcasts do more than
reach out and touch someone. They function
as teaching tools and are aimed at a broad
constituency. Natu rally, these efforts are
separated from the communications department.
For exa mple, satellite transmissions have
become the educationa l core of Jason; an
underwater exploration series aimed at young
students. Dr. Ballard has brought more than a
qu arter mill ion students under Lake Ontario
via closed circuit television. Here, they
witnessed the exploration of the USS
Hamilto11 and USS Scowge; ships sunk in the
War of 1812.
Transmissions from each site went by fiber
optic cable to a topside barge where it was
encrypted and transmitted to the SBS4
satellite. The 1990 Wodd Radio TV Handbook
shows SBS4 la unched in 1984 with ten 43
MHz bandwidth Ku-band transponders
aboard.
The signal was relayed to th e EDS
Corporation Satellite downlink, Atlanta,
Georgia, and then went on to Turner
Broadcast ing System for fi nal production. A t
this point, it was reencrypted, transmitted

The Oceanus. where two crew

members are stowing gear and
supplies. Two large davits
launch and retreive marine gear.

back to the satellite and finally downloaded to

the Jason Museum Satellite Network. The e nd
result was a structured lesson presented to the
students.
They became part of the exploration
process by actively participating in the
question and answer sessions. Jason proved so
successful fu rther expeditions have been
considered for the Galapagos Islands, Spain
and Japan.
Most WHOI projects are not as
spectacular as Jason or locating the Titanic's
bones. They involve scientific investigations
like sampling cosmogenic helium in
Antarctica, riding the Gulf Stream northward
over the Georges Banks or conducting
tomographic experiments in Monterey Bay.
But, for those who enjoy digging out a
tropic transmission during daylight hours,
chasing "O" signals ranks high on the thrill list.
What's more, both Page and Cook
appreciate reception reports. They each hold
ham tickets and understand the romance
associated with DXing, especially reports
from off-propagation path locations.
They seldom receive reception reports
from North America, yet we US DXers have a
decided edge. One possible explanation is that
listeners may have been searching the wrong
frequencies. Even the usually reliable
Shortwave Directory contains errors. So, Page
provided an up-to-date frequency list for
Monito1ing Times readers.
Send reports to Steve Page, Communica-

Ship's mast with communications

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SINPO codes are fine. Describe your receiver
and antenna. Think in linear meters instead of
feet. One meter roughly equals 3.28 feet.
Neither is shy about technical preferences
either: Cook loves the ICOM 7000 receivers
which are used at WHOI while Page is
hooked on Grove antennas.
They are usually found in the tech shop
amid a mass of equipment, benches, shelves
and tech publications. It's a low-stress, jeans
and comfortable shirt environment where a
pocket screwdriver and a hastily sketched

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Here, even the small talk revolves around
electronics, though everyone reserves a New
Englander's right to point out the
shortcomings of this year's Red Sox or Celtics
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November 1990

The Terrible Twenty

by Charles Sorrell

It doesn't take a neophyte shortwave

listener any time at all to discover that not
all shortwave stations are created with equal
hearability. BRT in Belgium doesn't come
pounding in like the Voice of Germany, for
instance. On the other hand, Radiodiffusora
in Sena Madureira, Brazil, is hardly heard
with the same regularity as "Brussels Calling."
Everything, as they say, is relative.
Then there are those stations that,
difficulty wise, are simply in a class by
themselves. We're not talking pretty tough
here, or even extremely hard. These guys live
in the land of the fiendishly difficult - the
closest thing there is to just plain impossible
to hear. The mere thought of logging one of
these stations will turn a highly experienced
DXer into strawberry jelly.
We've chosen to present you with twenty
such stations, just in case you have the
intestinal fortitude to go after one or more of
them. Certainly there are more than twenty
which would fit into this near-impossible
category. A browse through the Peru and

Bolivia listings would turn up half that many

alone. Ditto for Indonesia. And ditto again for
such categories as clandestines and European
pirates. So, rather than choose from these
categories, when any one of a dozen would
qualify, we've chosen our terrible twenty from
other areas.
Naturally, the difficulty of the stations
chosen relates to North American listening
locations. They may not be as hard for
listeners in other areas of the world. Some,
though, are mean enough to smash the
patience of DXers anywhere but within 50
miles of the transmitter.
Actually, some of the stations on the list
have been heard in North America. There has
to be some hope, right? Others have been
heard here but later changes in facilities,
frequencies or scheduling have made a once
difficult logging now even more so.
Here's our Monitoring Times Terrible
Twenty.
Let's begin in Europe, with Schul ungs-

sender des Osterreichischen Bundesheeres,

otherwise known as Austrian Army Radio.
Operated by the Austrian military, there are
QSLs from this station in the collections of a
number of North American DXers. But only
because many years ago the station operated
on 6255 and had a schedule that at least
offered an opportunity now and then. Today,
even with a much more powerful 10 kW,
reception of this station is virtually
impossible. It operates on 5035 from 09301430.
Italy's broadcasting law now allows private
organizations to operate shortwave stations
and several are now on the air (Adventist
World Radio in Forli, the IRRS and so on).
Many of these have been heard in North
America, at least in the east. One which
doesn't seem to have been reported is Radio
Calabria International in Gioiosa Jonica, on
the Ionian Sea in southern Italy. The station is
scheduled only on an irregular basis,
operating from 1200-1300 with 200 watts on
7700.
Another station which a few long-in-thetooth DXers caught a number of years ago is
Radio Bayrak or Bayrak Radio & TV from
northern Cyprus. At one time this station was
operating out of band, up on 6278 with a
schedule in our evening hours. T he picture
today is a lot sadder. Bayrak Radio uses 6150
between 1000-2200.
The USSR's huge and complex broadcasting system uses shortwave from dozens of
sites, many simply relaying various external
services. The 60 meter band is home to a
number of regional outlets and, given enough
time, most can be heard in North America.
One which is almost never logged, though, is
Palana on the northwest coast of the
Kamchatka Peninsula. It is schedu led with
local programs on 4520 Saturdays from 07000800 and Sundays 0600-0815.

This old eye-catcher of a card has been used to confirm only a very few
receptions of Radio Senegal regional stations at Tambacounda and
Ziguinchor.
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November 1990

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In Africa Radio Diffusion Nationa le de

Burundi has been heard and verified by any
number of old timers, as well as some who
haven't been at it all that long. The station
would occasionally break through on its 3300
frequency from 0300 sign on. 3300 appears to
have bee n dropped, however, and only 6140 is
in use. The sign on time is still 0300 but no
one is hearing it now.

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A few North American DXers have this card from A3Z, Tonga, gracing
their collections.
The main government station in
Mozambique is a difficult catch but the
Mozambique regional stations are far worse.
Emissora Provincial de Cabo Delgado at
Pembe is out of reach. The power is probably
little more than one kilowatt, if that. The
frequency is listed for 5004 variable but
listeners closer to the scene have noted it
recently on 4877. It signs on at 0400 with
programs in Portuguese and native languages.
Senegal offers a pair of impossible catches,
though this is another case where a few scores
were made many years ago under different
conditions. The regional station at Tam bacounda operates with just 4 kW from 10001800 on 6045. The other regional, at
Ziguinchor, uses 6180, also with 4 kW and
also on a 1000-1800 schedule. Which is
tougher? It's a flat out tie.
One cannot compile a list like this without
including everybody's most wanted: ZOE -The Tristan Broadcasting Service on the
island of Tristan da Cunha. The number of
DXers who have heard this - anywhere - can
literally be counted on the fin gers of one
hand. Tristan Radio runs a teeny-tiny 40 watts
on 3290 weekdays from 1600-1700, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays 1935-2200 and
Sundays 1000-1200.
Like Mozambique and Senegal, some of
Zaire's regionals are the stuff of tears. Most
have been logged here on rare occasions over

the years. Perhaps the rarest is the station at

Mbandaka, listed for an encouraging 10 kW
and an 0500 sign-on. But the 5995 frequency
is too busy a spot. It's even money, too, that
the station isn't always active.
Like the Soviet Union, the People's
Republic of China has shortwave stations in a
lot of different places around the country.
And, given time, the serious DXer can log
most of them. The Central People's
Broadcasting Station at Wengzhou, in
Zhejiang Province, is an exception. This
station serves mainly a local area with a
transmi11er operating in the curious world of
120 meters on 2415. It's on the air from 08051230 daily so there is a chance of hearing this,
howeve r slight.
All of the Vietnamese regional stations
are difficult and all present the same set of
problems: irregular operations, low power
and frequencies which float all over the place.
Perhaps the toughest is Tainguyen which,
when active, uses variable 6689 between
1200-1400, more or less.
The same things that plague the
Vietnamese regionals also bedevil the
Laotians. Several regionals have been heard
over the years but the most elusive is Pakse
on variable 6604, in Laotian a nd local
languages between 1000-1415. It is probably
off the air as much as it is on.

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The Zaire regional station at Mbandaka on 5995 may never have been heard in North America.

In North Korea the Korean Central

Broadcasting Station operates half a dozen
local stations on shortwave. H ere again, you
can just toss a coin to decide which is the most
difficult. We'll go with the one using the
lowest frequen cy -- Sariwon o n 2350. It carries
its own and Pyongyang's programs at various
hours during its 22 hour per day schedule
(except 1800-2000).
Once upon a time there were a handful of
really neat Thai stat ions on the air, but for
many years now it's been only Radio
Thailand, which is a tough nut in itself. A
couple of years ago one of the old ones
returned: O r Sor, the station of the Thai
Royal Palace. It's been logged by one o r two
Aust ralian DXers but no one in North

America. The only possible time window for

us is 0900-1200. TI1e frequency is 6149.
The most commo nly heard stat io n on the
list, as far as North America goes, is A3Z -the Tonga Broa dcas ting Commission, on
5030 from 1800-1000. A few lucky souls have
logged this, usually sometime between 06000688. You can bet the pleasure was well
earned, with lots of digging and persiste nce.
A relatively new Radio Nacional regional
outlet in A rge ntina has made this list because
there've been no known North American
loggings. Radio Nacional at Viedma, capital
of Rio Negro in the south central part of the
country, uses just one kilowatt on 5990. Its
schedule is no t conducive to reception here,

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Sometimes it isn't lack of power that keeps North Americans from

hearing a station; it can be the schedule or the transmitting frequency.
Such is the case with the Austrian Army Radio.
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running 1200-1600 and 2000-2300. It docs

seem to offer so me chance for reception just
at sign-on o r j ust before sign-off curing
months when 49 mete rs is open at those
hours.
A new station in C hile is Radio Esperanza
at Temu co o n the Cautin River in the south
central sectio n. The schedu le isn't known but
it appears this o ne may be a daytime only
operation which mea ns a real problem in
hearing it on its 6090 frequency.
La Voz de Samaniego, from the
Colombian city of that name, is anot her South
American nearly never heard. It is reported to
use 6350 for a half-a-week schedule,
Thursday-Sun day from 2300-0030. Thcrc've
been only a couple of tentat ive loggings of
this in North America.
Logging the U ruguayans is never easy an d
the roughest of this small group has to be La
Voz de Artigas in Artigas. This statio n's
shortwave efforts arc restricted to weekends,
and even then they a re irregular. Activity is
most likely to occur when there are major
sporting events going on in the country. La
Yoz de Artigas is listed for 2.5 kW and uses
both 4945 and 6076.
So there you arc. T wenty of the meanest,
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by Don Moore
No master slogan List exists, so the stations can common words. The maJOnty begin with
only truly be ident ified by their call letters. "Radio . .." and most of the remainder with
Latin American stations arc also assigned "La Voz de . .. " (The Voice of ... ). Other
call letters, but the similarity ends there. If any words that pop up occasionally are "Ecos de!
country has a law that stations give their call ... " (Echoes of), "Ondas de!-. .. " (Waves of),
letters over the air, it's rarely obeyed or "Armonias de! . . . " (Harmonies of), and
enforced. Occasionally call letters may be "Brisas de! ... " (Breezes of). More unusual
heard during sign-on and sign-off announce- are "Sistema ... " (System) and "Emisora . .. "
ments, or perhaps in a lengthy-but-rarcly- (Radio Station). A few rare exceptions use
played taped station ID, but no one considers none of these.
call letters important. At many Latin
Of course, it's the rest of the name - the
American stations, the announcers, the part that comes after the initial words - that
secretary and sometimes even the owner gives the station its own unique identity and
won't know the call letters without first ties it to the community. Looking at what
these mean can be a fascinating insight into
looki ng them up.
In this part of the shortwave world, the how the stations see themselves and the role
only ID that really counts is the station name. of radio broadcasting in Latin America.
To call them slogans would be incomplete. Especially in rural provinces, where television
Not only do names identify the station on the has not yet reached, radio is an important part
air, they give the station its own identity and of the popular culture. Names are a symbol
that ties the station and culture together.
make it part of the community.
Unlike slogans, names rarely change. The
Many stations identify with the local
station name is chosen by the owner when culture very directly by using the name of a
making the initial application and appears on prominent local geographic feature. The
What Makes a Name?
the license when the government grants the easiest to recognize are stations named after
station
frequencies and call letters. The their own city or town, such as Peru's R adio
Jn the US and Canada, radio stations a re
assigned call letters such as WRSC, KFAB or government uses the station name on a ll Huancabamba and La Voz de Cutervo.
CHIN. By law the call letters must be given at official correspondence and in all official However, you would have to look up the
stations' hometowns in an atlas to know that
the top of every hour. Often they are the only station lists.
Venezuela's La Voz de Carabobo and Radio
ID a station uses. Slogans such as "Q
Tachira are named after states.
Country," "Super Rock 86" or "Lion Country What Do They Mean?
Other stations use the name of a nearby
Radio" may also be announced, but slogans
As a glance at any Latin American station
change freque ntly and are in no way official. list will show, most station names share a few river, like Colombia's Ondas del Orteguaza
and Armonias de! Caqueta and Venezuelan
Ecos de! Torbes, or a lake such as Peru's
Ondas de! Titicaca. Usually names with
"ecos," "ondas," "armonias" or "brisas" are
followed by the name of a body of water.
Soll)e geographically-named stations think
even bigger. Every Andean country has at
least one Radio Los Andes. Radio Macarena
in Colombia and Radio Illimani in Bolivia,
however, are named afrer specific nearby
mountains. Other stations try to identify with
a regional audience by naming themselves
after that region, as does Radio Oriente
(East) in Peru's eastern Amazon lowlands, La
Voz del Llano (Plains) in Colombia and
Chile's Radio Patagonia Chilena.
Stations which broadcast for a particular
audience may choose a name that defines that
audience. These include Venezuela's big
rocker, Radio J uventud (Youth) and Radio
Inca del Peru, one of Peru's principal folk
music stations. Numerous Radio Tropicals
play nothing but beat-heavy tropical music.
Usually Radio Nacional indicates a
Despile ils name, Emisoras Gran Colombia is really i11 Quilo, Ecuador
government-owned
public
broadcasting

"Let's sec, need some new stations in the

log book. It's 0200, maybe a try on 60 meters.
Other DXers report lots of Latin American
stations down there .... Umm, Spa nish ...
Spanish .. . more Spanish. My year of high
school Spanish is even rustier than that high
school algebra I was trying to recall last week.
Wow, do they talk fast. . . . How am I ever
going to ID them? For that matter, what do I
listen for?"
Probably thoughts like that go through the
minds of most DXcrs the first time they try to
tune the little shortwave stations of Latin
America. If you don't know who you're
listening to, it's hard to start counting up
stations and countries. !Ding local broadcasters in North America is easy, but the Latin
Americans are in a different language, and
that's only the biggest problem. The solution
takes a little time and effort, but is really qu ite
simpl e. Just learn to play the name game -- in
Spanish. Like most games, this one has rules,
so let's take a look at them.

14

November 1990

MONITORING TIMES

HEAR MORE DX

Radio Ilucan is named after the mountain

that overfooks Cutervo, Pem.
station, except in Bolivia, where there are
three Radio Nacionals, all privately owned.
Radio Illimani is Bolivia's government station.
Often Radio Universidad indicates a
university-owned public radio station. In
Guatemala, Catholic religious stations Radio
Mam and Radio Chortis are named after the
Indian tribes they serve.
Most of the time, however, religious
ownership of a radio station is obvious, as in
some of Ecuador's Catholic stations: Radio
Catolica Nacional, Radio Jesus del Gran
Poder (Jesus of Great Power), Radio Luz y
Vida (Light and Life) and Radio Paz y Bien
(Peace and Good). Protestants operate
Bolivia's La Cruz del Sur (Cross of the South)
and Guatemala's Radio Buenas Nuevas
(Good News).
Other religious stations appeal to
Christian symbolism, such as Radio Amanecer
(Dawn) in the Dominican Republic, Costa
Rica's Faro del Caribe (Lighthouse of the
Caribbean), Bolivian Radio Fides (Faith) and
Radio Nueva Vida (New Life) in Colombia.
Two Catholic stations in Bolivia, Radio Juan
XXIII and Radio Pio XII, are named after
Catholic popes. One Catholic station name,
however, is anything but peaceful and
Christian. Guatemala's Radio T ezulutland
takes its name from an old Kekchi Indian
word meaning "land of war."
Perhaps the hope for salvation explains
why some nonreligious stations choose
religious names. Many stations are named
after their town's patron saint, such as
Coyhaique, Chile's Santa Maria and Caraz,
Peru's Radio San Juan.

Indian civilization that rose and fell long

before the time of Christ gives Ecu ador's La
Voz de las Caras its name. Ancient Inca
emperors are immortalized in the names of
Ecuador's Emisora Atalaya and Peru's Radio
Atahualpa, while Tawantinsuyo, as in Peru's
Radio Tawantinsuyo, is what the ancient
Incas called their empire. Even the spirit of
Incan sun worship has survived in Peru's
several Radio EI Sols (The Sun).
Meanwhile, the discovery of America and
subsequent destruct ion of the Indian
empires, is remembered by stations Radio
Nuevo Continente (New Continent) and
Radio Nuevo Mundo (New World) of Peru,
and Radio Nueva America in Bolivia.
In southern South America, naming
stations after deceased former presidents is
quite common, as in Chile's Radio Diego
Portales and Radio Presidente Balmaceda.
Each is owned by its namesake's political
party. (In contrast, Argentina's Radio
Belgrano and Bolivia's Radio Alfonso Padilla
are private commercial stations.) Other
historic names reflect the heat of battle, as
does Peru's Radio Grau, honoring a famous
19th century Peruvian admiral, and Ecuador's
Radio Tarqui, commemorating a battle in
southern Ecuador in which a small
Ecuadorian force turned back a much larger
Peruvian army bent on capturing the country.
Probably the most confusing Latin
American station name is Ecuador's Emisoras
Gran Colombia -- after all, why is a station in
Ecuador named after Colombia? History
gives us the answer. Gran Colombia, or
Greater Colombia, was the name of a shortlived union of Venezuela, Colombia, and
Ecuador immediately following independence
from Spain. The station commemorates those
lost dreams of greatness.
If Emisoras Gran Colombia is the most
confusing Latin American station name, the
award for the most egocentric name would

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name from owner Jesus A . Santa Cruz
Valencia's initials. That's not a first, though.
In the early 1970s, an American missionary in
Guatemala operated a station named after
himself, Radio William R. Woods.

Identifying the Stations

The use of station names instead of call
letters in Latin America makes DXing
simpler. Whether you speak fluent Spanish or
no Spanish, it's easier to hear and understand
"Ecos de! Torbes" than "YVOC."

History Lessons
A country's historical heritage is important
to any culture, as Latin America's radio
stations demonstrate. Some of their names
reach back before the Europeans came. An

may be a peaceful Guatemalan Catholic rodio station

but its name means "land of war. "
'
MONITORING TIMES

No vember 1990

15

Latin American
Spanish Pronunciation
for the DXer
Fortunately for the Latin American
DXer, Spanish is one of the world's easiest
languages to pronounce. Unlike English,
where single letters represent as many as
thirteen different sounds, in Spanish each
letLer represents only one or occasionally
two sounds. Spanish pronunciation is
predictable and almost all the sounds are
found in English.
This guide is just meant to be a general
reference for English speaking DXers.
Linguistically, particular sounds do have
very fine differences from one language to
another. However, those distinctions are not
easily picked out by the untrained ear,
unimportant to the average DXer, and too
technical to go into here. There are also
some minor regional variations in
pronunciation of consonants, but this is
mainly outside of the main DX interest
areas. For a more thorough treatment,
consult a good English/Spanish dictionary
such as the University of Chicago Spanish
Dictionary.
VOWELS

Spanish has only five vowel sounds, each

represented by a different letter.
a = the English "short a" sound, as in
"father"
e = the English "long a" sound, as in may
i = the English "long e" sound, as in bean
o = the English "long o" sound, as in go
u = the English "oo" sound as in food
Sometimes when preceding another
vowel, "u" may have an English "w"
sound.
CONSONANTS

The following consonants have more or less

the same sound as in English: b, ch, d, f, k, 1,
m, n, p, r, s, t, w, y, z
c = before a, o and u, this letter sounds like
the English "k,"
before e and i, it sounds like the
English "s"
g = before a, o and u, the "hard g" of
English gate
before e and i, the English "h" sound,
as in his
h = only found at the beginning of words,
: where it is silent, or in the combination
ch" sound
j
English "h" sound, as in his
ll = this double Spanish consonant sounds
very similar to the English "y," as in yes
n = the wavy line on top is caUed a tilde. In
Spanish . this is considered a separate
letter of the alphabet from "n." It
sounds very much like "ny" as in the
Russian nyet.
.
qu = this combination equals the English "k"
sound. It is always foJlowed by another
vowel.
x = normally 'this has the same sound as in
English, however, in words of Indian
derivation it has an "h" sound. For
example, Mexico is pronounced MAYh~co. In some Guatemalan Indian
words, it has an "sh" sound.

16

November 1990

A kind of straw used for weaving hats

gives La Voz def Junco its name.

Spanish uses most of the same sounds as

English, but with fewer and simpler vowel
sounds. Some letters, however, represent
different sounds than they do in English.
Take a look at the Spanish pronunciation
guide included with this article, especially the
vowels. Learn to read station names with the
Spanish (not English) pronunciations. It's
hard to listen for something if you don't know
what it sounds like. Improve your ear for
Spanish by listening to the big Latin
American stations in Spanish, such as HCJB
or Radio Havana. Don't listen to the Spanish
broadcasts of international broadcasters like
Radio Sweden or Radio Japan. Not all
announcers at the big stations are native
Spanish speakers, and it won't help to
understand Spanish with a Swedish or
Japanese accent. Soon, with a little practice, it
should be easy to pick out IDs on the stronger
tropical band stations.
Latin American stations vary greatly as to
how often they give station identifications.
Some give two or three after each song.
Others, it seems, can go for hours without an
ID. Identifying a station is basically a matter
of carefully and patiently listening at the
right time, or for a long time. Many stations
do identify themselves at the top of the hour
with fancy prerecorded announcements by a
different announcer, which tends to stand out
from the rest of the program. However, they
are not so precise about it as North
American stations are. Top-of-the-hour IDs
in Latin America can be off by as much as
five minutes.
Otherwise, station IDs are mixed in with
the DJ chatter between songs and features
throughout the hour. Careful listening is
required to pick them out. Sometimes the ID
stemword will be left off, especially in time
announcements. For example, Radio Tropical's DJ might say "En Tropical, las seis
menos ocho minutos," or "In Tropical, it's
eight minutes before six." Frequently the
same pattern will be used for time
announcements after each song, giving the
DXer several chances at a clear hearing.
When unable to identify a station, the
best thing to do is to stay up late until it
signs-off, or get up early the next morning
MONITORING TIMES

and try to catch the sign-on. Almost all

stations come on or go off the air with
elaborate recorded ID announcements. These
not only include the station name several
times, but also the name of the city, province
and country in which it is located.
The best accessory for IDing Latin
American stations is a tape recorder. The
recorder should be kept running all the time
while DXing. If at all possible, don't record
with a microphone. Use a recorder with an
auxiliary input jack and connect a patchcord
between it and your receiver. This will give a
much clearer sound. A digital counter is a
great help at keeping track of interesting
spots on the tape.
Relisten to announcements which were
not clear at first listening, especially top of the
hour announcements. Many IDs will be
understandable on the second or third
listening. Be careful, though. If listening for a
specific word, like a station name, it is very
easy to mishear a similar sounding word,
especially under poor reception conditions.
Be absolutely certain, or mark your Jog as
"possible ID," "tentative" or "presumed."

Alternative Methods
Sometin1es either the station doesn't ID,
or it's impossible to understand the ID. Other
information might be heard which will
indicate at least a tentative identification, and
occasionally a very definite ID. One of the
most useful pieces of information is time
checks. They point out which time zone a
station belongs to, eliminating some possible
countries. All serious Latin American DXers
should buy a basic Spanish grammar and
teach themselves how to tell time in Spanish.

Radio Clrora is one of Latin Amelica's

many stations named after their hometown.

LATIN STATIONS 3200 - 3300 kHz

Reality at Ecuador's Radio Pa11ame1ica11a is much less grandiose than its name lfies to boast!
Of course, it is necessary to keep track of who
goes on daylight savings time and when.
Music can also help na rrow down which
country or region is being heard. Stations
everywhere play pop and romantic music, but
few outside G uatemala, and probably none
outside Central America, play marimba music.
Tropical music is common throughout the
countries bordering the Caribbean, and in
lowland and coastal areas extending down to
Bolivia. Ranchera music usually comes from
Mexico or Central America, but sometimes is
heard on lowland stations in Colombia,
Ecuador, and Peru. Andean folk music, as
heard on HCJB, is the main fare on Andean
radio stations from Ecuador to Bolivia.
With experience, DXers can recognize the
different varieties within those musical styles.
There are differences between Vene-.welan
and Colombian tropical music. Types of
Andean music include Ecuadorian pasillos
and Peruvian huaynos, with finer differences
dist inguishing between northern and sout hern
Peruvian huaynos.
In addit ion, DXers should learn to
recognize the national anthe ms of the major
DX cou ntries of Latin America, such as Peru
and Ecuador. Many stations play these at signon and sign-off. Even if the ID is down in the
mud, it may be possible to recognize the
national anthem. To learn these, check your
local library. Some have records of national
anthems in their mu sic collections. Otherwise,
tape them off the air whenever you hear a
strong station signing on or off.
Obviously, hearing the name of the
stat ion's city, province or country can be
strong proof of identity, but the context of
how the name is heard as well as how big and
important the place is, are important factors
to remember. Be careful. Lima, Peru,
frequently makes the news in Ecu ador. Tiny
Chota, Peru, rarely docs. A news broadcast
mentioning several provincial cities in Peru,
very strongly indicates the station is Peruvian.
Advertisements can also be great sou rces
of tentative identification. An ad fo r the

3200 Radio 9 de Abrll, Pulacayo, Bolivia 0000

0200; 10000000
3205 Radio Rlbelrao Proto, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil
0000-0300; 0600-0000
3205 Radio VaJe Rio Madeira. Humalla, Brazil
0000-0200; 08000000
321 o Radio Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru 0000-0115;
1100 1300; 2230-0000
3220 HCJB (domestic service). Quito, Ecuador
00000500; 0830 1430; 2100-0000
3230 Radio Sol de los Andes, Jullaca. Peru
0000-0300; 09000000
3235 Radio Clube, Marilla, Brazil 0000-0300;
0700-0000
3240 Radio Antena Libre, Esmereldas, Ecuador
00000300; 11 001300; 2200-0000
3245 Radio Clube. Varglnha. Brazil 0800-0000
3245 Radio Ubertador. Caracas. Venezuela
00000400; 1000-0000
3250 Radio Luz y Vida. Sanla Barbara 00000400; 22000000
3255 Radio Educadora cal1rt, Crato, Brazil
00000100; 08000000
3255 la Voz def Trtunlo, Santo Domingo
Clrdos; Ecuador 0000-0500 (Irregular)
3260 la Voz de Rio Carrtzal, Calceta, Ecuador
0000-0330; 11000000
3260 la Voz de Oxapampa. Oxapampa, Peru
0000-0500; 1000-0000
3269 Ecos del Oriente. Lago Agrlo, Ecuador
0000-0300; 23000000
3275 Radio Mara. Maracaibo, Venezuela 0000
0000
3279 la Voz del Napo, Tena. Ecuador 0000
0230; 1000-1215; 22000000
3280 Radio Huart. Ayacucho, Peru 0000-0245;
10000000
3285 Radio Belize, Belmopan. Belize 0000-0600;
11 000000
3285 Radio Totovlslone Sonllnela, Obldos, Brazil
0000-0300; 07000000
3285 Radio Rio Tarqul, Cuenca, Ecuador 0000
0130; 10301330; 2230-0000
3289 Radio Centro, Ambalo, Ecuador 0900 1100
3289 Radio Tayat>ama, Tayabamba, Peru 0000
0500; 1 000-0000 .
Courtesy 199 1 Passport to World Band Radio.
Times are In UTC. Frequencies rounded off to
the nearest kHz.

Banco de Pichincha surely indicates Ecuador,

since Pichincha is an Ecuadorian province.
Also, store ads sometimes give prices, and the
name of the local currency may be as good as
the name of the country. The ad said a shirt
cost 16 le mpiras -- must be Honduras. Peru
uses the inti, Venezuela the bolivar, and
Ecuador the sucre. Mexico, Colombia, Chile
and Uruguay all use the peso.
If a pair of trousers cost 20,000 pesos, it's
probably Mexico, where the exchange is
around 2,500 to the dollar, not the other
countries where the exchange is only a few
hundred to a dollar. For a complete list of
Latin American currencies and exchange
rates, check a recent copy of The Wall Street
Journal.
Finally, fo r the serious D Xer who has the ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '
interest and time, almost any background background information. Not only does it give
knowledge about Latin America may be a information on things like holidays, patron
help in pinning down where a station is saints, and cathedral names, it also gives
located. Such things as pat ron saints, holidays, company names for two of the most
historical events, national heroes, arch- advertised products in Latin America: banks
bishops, and famous cathedrals can be a nd beer. If you hea r an ad for Cerveza
mentioned in radio broadcasts. For example, a Bavaria, the SAH will tell you that that is the
mention of Liceo (High School) Romulo most popular beer in Colombia.
Betancourt would likely indicate a Venezuelan station, since Betancourt was a popular In Conclusion
president of that country (although sometimes
Identifying weak stations broadcasting in a
schools are named after famous leaders of foreign language is never an easy thing to do.
neighboring countries too). Current presi- As so often in the DX hobby, experience is
dents will probably be mentioned several the catch-word. With each listening session,
times in news broadcasts, as may be local the ears become a little more accustomed to
political parties.
Spanish pronunciation, and gradually station
Background reading on Latin America is IDs begin to pop out from the noise. Soon
important. The more knowledge you have at other important DXing words, such as tin1e
your disposal, the better your chances of announcements and products advertised
identifying a station and getting good program slowly begin to make sense.
details for a reception report. Be sure to read
Through time and experience, many
any Latin American news in your local DXers who have never formally studied
newspaper and favorite news magazine, and Spanish have developed a keen ear for
don't forget to check out some books on Latin Spanish pronunciation and built up a large
America from the local library. Serious Latin DX vocabulary. It takes some time and effort,
American DXers should be familiar with The but there are hundreds of Latin Ame"rican
South Ame1ica11 Handbook. This is the most stations out there waiting to be logged. So,
extensive travel guide available on the area, why not give it a shot? Good listening -- or
and has hundreds of pages of useful Buena Sintonia.
iJ
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November 1990

17

When the VP is the visiting VIP, you could be

Hunting Quayle on Air Force 2

Story and pictures
by Sue Kennedy

America, Dan Quayle, was on his way to

Amarillo. The highly polished 707 touches
down lightly and taxies toward the gate.
D espite the whine of the jet engines, all I hear
around me is the squawking of Secret Service
walkie talkies. I hope my scanner is working
properly and searching out the active
frequencies.

It is a cold, windy and

downright nasty day in
the Texas Panha ndle, a
great day to stay home,
turn on the scanner, sit
back and relax.
As invit ing as that
sounds, I have bette r th ings
to do. I button up my
leather jacket and head towards the pack of
photographers and reporters already jostling
one another for position on the airport
tarmac. T rying to keep warm, th ey rub their
ha nds together and shielding their ears, each
and every one of them looking very much like
they would rather be any place else in the
world than he re.

But we all have a job to do a nd mine is lo

get a close-up look at Air Force 2 for

Monito1ing Times.
Just as the fin a l symptoms of hypot hermia
were about to set in, the cloudcover was
broken by a shining blue and silver jet. The
Vice President of the United States of

I planned ahead for this one. The time

President Bush was in town, I was caught flat
footed. No advanced notice was given and I
had a hard tim e finding t he frequencies being
used. Not this time though. I had some time
to prepare and was ready. I even was able to
wrangle myself a press pass and get within
four feet of the Vice President himself!
When I first heard that Danny Quayle was
pla nning to stop in Amarillo to give a boost to
Texas Republican Represe ntative Dick
Waterfield's political campaign, I knew this
wou ld be a golden opportunity to eavesdrop
on Air Force 2. I also thought it would be a
grea t way to get a Mo11ito1i11g Times exclusive
look at VIP monitoring.
I called the Office of the Vice President to
see what I had to do to get up close. The
procedure was simple. Just show up at the air
terminal an hour before the arrival of Air
Force 2 with my press credentials and present
them to the Secret Service agents there.
Sounded pretty easy. I had had harder times
gett ing into rock concerts.
The V.P.'s press secretary asked what
paper I was working fo r and I told her
Mo11ito1i11g Times. She thought for a moment
and said "You know you can't bring any
scanning radios with you, don't you? The
Secret Service won't let you in with one."
Obviously she knew the publication a nd
what I wanted to write about. T tried to assu re
he r I wouldn't. She said she would put my
name on their list, whatever that meant. I
would have to devise a way of monitoring by
remote control.

Dan Quayle and Rep. Dick Waterfield

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November 1990

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The next day I talked to Bob Grove,

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On UHF frequency 305.00 MHz wideband FM:
Air Force 2 was heard talking to Air Force 1 via satellite.
Phone patches were also made via this satellite link to
stations PRETENDER, PILLSBURY and SIDESTEP. .
This was an uplink channel as on ly one side of conversation
was heard. Downlink channel wasn't found.
nice list of frequencies to start monitoring. H e
also gave me some codewords to keep an ear
out for and wished me good luck. I now had
my frequencies, my name on a list and a plan
for remote scanni ng. It was time to get goi ng.
I decided to work it this way. Since I
couldn't bring my scanner in, I would leave it
in the car. My car would be parked about a
hundred yards from Air Force 2 and would be
close enough to capture all signals. I wou ld
also have my PR02005 at home searching
11 hrough the UHF military band for any other
active frequencies.
I swung my Grove scanner beam antenna
in the general direction of the airport . The
new search-and-store module I had just
installed would be very helpful in capturing
those discrete frequencies. The module would
au tomatically e nter the busy frequencies into
memory and the automatic scanner recorder
would record the voices. So much for the
UHF spectrum. Now for the VHF band.
The scanner I would keep in my parked
car would be my Regency HX2000. I would
have it search between 163.00 M Hz and
171.00 MHz. I attached by ve lcro a General
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the recorder worked well. When the scanner

stopped on an active channel the voice
activated recorder wou ld tum on, capturing
the signals on tape. I then would have two
ways of recordi.ng the airwaves unattended
and automatically searching out the active
frequencies. I started my recorder and search
on the PR02005, mounted the hand held
scanner in the car and headed for the airport.
When I arrived at the airport I found that
Air Force 2 would be stopping at the H ughes
Aircraft Flight Service Station gate . The
driveway leading to the FSS was crammed
wit h every kind of vehicle imaginable. There
were Amarillo City Police cars, Department
of Public Safety cars, ambu lances, fi re
equipment and even unmarked government
vehicles. All were sprouting whip antennas as
far as the eye could see.
The loca l TV media were busy aligning
their microwave transmitters so they could
transmit remote video back to the stations. I
hoped all the radios wouldn't bleed over on
my scanner and overload it. A uniformed
security guard pointed out a parking place in
sight of the fiightline. I set the recorder on the
scanner and grabbed my camera bag.
As I e ntered the terminal, I was stopped at
the door by a pretty woman holding a
MON ITORI NG TIM ES

F.

VP limousine and
Secret Service agents.
clipboard and talking into a walkie talkie. It
had a short stubby antenna, which probably
meant it transmitted somewhere in the UHF
band. I hoped my scanner was doing its job.
She asked my name a nd what media
organization I was with. I gave her my press
pass and said I was wit h Mo11it01i11g Times.
She looked down at her clipboard and I
wondered if this was the "list" t hat the VP's
secretary talked about putting me on. I
suddenly had this vision of her saying, "Oh
yes, Sue Kennedy, Monito!i11g Times . Agent
Bob, a rrest this woman!" Instead she handed
me a clip on pass and asked me to step into a
small room just inside the term inal.

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frequency? I joucd it down in my notebook.

Soon Air Force was taxing toward us.
Overhead the chopper hovered thumping
noisily.
The huge 707 soon stopped about 50 feet
away. Everyone was busy holding their fingers
in their ears to keep from going deaf from the
jet noise. The engi nes slowly died and steps
were rolled out to the front door of the plane.
The door opened up and military brass, local
politicians and Secret Service agents poured
out. I aimed my camera at the door knowing
any second t he V.P. would soon appear.
After what seemed to be ten long minutes
of holding a heavy telephoto lens in the stiff
wind, a familiar face popped o ut onto the
stairs. Standing on the steps the Vice
President waved to the press, I clicked away
as did everyone else and all you could hear
was the whirring of shutters and the popping
of strobes.
Soon I was sta nding within fo ur fee t of
V ice President Dan Quayle, struggling with
the rest of the press pack to get a picture.
Luckily I am tall and didn't have much
trouble. Some held their cameras up in the air
over their heads.

UP. Press coordination was heard via walkietalkies on 166.250 MHz.

Inside a big Secret Seivice agent took my
camera bag from me. Looking quite the
serious type, he opened every zippered pocket
and examined every camera. Holding the
cameras up to the light he pee red through the
lenses. Then he said, "your turn." I knew
instantly what that meant.
The agent scanned me with a metal
sensing wand. Nothing, no beeps. "You're
clean," he pronounced a nd I was cleared to
join the other members of the press gathering
outside. "Sue Kennedy, Mo11itmi11g Times,
cleared, coming out." Later I would hear those
words again as I reviewed my scanner tapes.
When I stepped outside I was instantly hit
by a chilling wind. Off to the north of the fie ld
a C-141 Starlifter was opening its clamshell
doors. The mouth of the transport jet
disgorged three official-looking cars and the
Vice President's limousine. I had always
wondered how they got the limos around; now
I knew.
I loaded my cameras and tried to shake off
the chill. Soon I was chatting with members of
the media that I knew from loca l TV stations

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and the newspaper. Everyone was complaining about the weather or talking about the
security. One commented, "I haven't seen
security this tight since Eddie Murphy was in
town!"
Standing be hind us was a sullen looking
Secret Setvice agent. When he talked into his
walkie talkie, I cou ld sec the bulge of an
automatic weapon underneath his three-piece
suit. I briefly contemplated taking his picture
but decided he might not like that. He didn't
look like the type to mess with.

After a few qu estions, the V.P. and local

V.J.P.s rushed to the limos and sped to a
political luncheon. I also sped to my car, to
see what my scanners had bagged.
As you can sec by the frequencies in the
sidebar, when Air Force 2 is in town the
airwaves a re filled with golden opportunities
for some high level monitoring. If ever Air
Force I or Air Force 2 should be flying into
your town, heat up the set, sit back and scan
away! You never know who you will hear.
Maybe you will be able to catch Supervisor
talking to Timberwolf (George Bush)!

I did actually see one of them smile when

one newsman joked, "The reason the Secret
Service are so tight around Dan Quayle is
because if the President was to get shot they
have orders to shoot the V.P.!" One of the
agents actually smirked when he heard it and
everybody laughed.
Then we got the word; Air Force 2 was
ten miles out. Soon walkie talkies were
buzzing all around. A helicopter pilot raced
with an agent to a chopper warming up on
the pad. I heard the pilot shout to an agent,
"We'll be on 46.75!" Was t hat a low band

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Secret Service helicopter

transmitted on 46. 75 MHz.

MT

Scores

a Hit!

The 1990 Monitoring Times Convention

Phot os by Harry Baughn

Attendees learned a great deal from

knowledgable exhibitors (some of whom led
forums as well); Finally here were some
dealers taking our monitoring hobby
seriously! We rewarded them by purchasing
more from them than they usually sell to a
hamfest with many times the attendance.
Pictured here is Radio Shack's exhibit; Others
who set up displays were OptoElectronics,
Systems and Software International, Xenolith
Press, Universal Radio, TRS Consultants, DX
Computing, KIWA Electronics, Uniden,
Somerset Electronics, Hunterdon Aero
Publishers, Cellular Security Group, and
Advanced Electronic Technologies.
Other exhibitors included shortwave
broadcasters - Radio Canada International,
HCJB, . WCSN, and Radio for Peace
Internat ional; clubs and publications NASWA (North American Shortwave
Association), IRCA {International Radio
Club of America), Northeast Sca1111ing News,
and the Bearcat Radio Club.

Welcome to the Convention! The HyattRegcncy in Knoxville, Tennessee, opened its doors
to some 300 shortwave and scanner hobbyists who
dominated its lobby with displays and activities for
three days.

Did we have forums!? MT attenders were

hot-footing it to keep up with all that was
going on. Here's the prestigious lineup:
NASWA representatives Bob Brown
Harold Cones and others, Bob Grove, Karl
Zuk and other IRCA representatives, Ken
Reitz, Larry Magne, Ian McFarland (RCI),
Bob Kay, Skip Arey, Fred Osterman
(Universal), Alan Weiner (Radio NewYork
Int'!), Thomas Bernie (Cellular Security
Group), Clem Small, Gerry Dexter (Popular
Communications), Larry Va n Hom, Gene
Hughes (I'olice Call), Jean Baker and friends,
Howard Perry (Advanced Electronic Technologies), Jack Sulliva n (Hunterdon Aero
Publishers), and Glenn Hauser.

Conventioneers who visited the Knoxville Air Traffic

Control T ower with Jean Baker were treated to an
extremely gracious and educational tour of th e facility.

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November 1990

21

Choose your receiver! Scanner and

shortwave listeners alike were found raptly
intent on discussing their hobby. There was, in
fact, no competition between the fields - only
that conflict experienced by a person who
wanted to attend a forum with Larry Magne
and Ian McFarland (above) and a sessiorr on
scanning in the same hour!

The tours of the Knox County EMC

Center kept folks busy, when they weren't
scavenging the left-overs at the Radio
Amateur Club of Knoxville's flea market,
talking on ham station WA4PYQ or AM 530
kHz. Or they may have been listening to
presentations by HCJB, Radio for Peace
International, WCSN, Radio
Finland,
Antique Wireless Association, !RCA or other
groups, both formal and informal.

Bob Grove demonstrated how to test a

receiver for sensitivity and other functions,
using receivers brought by those attending the
forum. Sue, meanwhile, guided other scanner
owners in performing speed and frequency
restoration modifications.

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November 1990

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At Saturday's banquet VOA Director

Richard Carlson reminded us in vivid
examples from recent events of radio's
enormous impact on world affairs. Bob Grove
ex-p ressed the appreciation of all present.

~--!ili<....lilllW c ll -armed with scanners and frequency

counters, participants scattered in all
directions to find the elusive bugged "fox."
Bob Kay presented winner Joe Pilgrim
(center) of Marietta, Georgia, with the prize
of a Nite-Logger donated by Capri
Electronics.

Editor Larry Miller congratulates Steven

Price on winning the grand prize drawing.

Prizes! We had prizes! T hanks to ACE

Communications who donated the AR3000
scanner, won by Steven Price of Connemaugh,
PA (above). Thanks to the many other
businesses who donated prizes, including:
!COM, OptoElectronics, MFJ Enterprises,
Christian Science Monitor World Service,
RCMA, DX Radio Supply, HCJB, International Broadcasting Services, J ust Tces'n,
Universal R adio, Grove Enterprises, and
Monitoiing Times.
We want to express our heartfelt
appreciation to all who participated in this
very first convention - speakers, exhibitors,
conventioneers. It's impossible to give full
recognition in this short pictorial review to all
the many people who loaned their talents, and
there are bound to be oversights. But all can
be proud of a very successful -- and exciting first event.

Intense discussions, good fe llowship, DXing in rooms, on the

balconies, in the park: These were some of the best memories of
the Convention ... the pleasure of being with other folks who share
the same enjoyment in monitoring the radio waves.
MONITORJNG TIMES

November 1990

23

ShortW'ave Broadcasting
Glenn Hauser
Box 1684-MT
Enid, OK 73702

AFGHANISTAN (non) Radio Free Afgha nistan, the semiclandestine via Radio F ree Europe/Radio Liberty facilities, continues
on thi s winter schedule : 0230-0300 UTC in Pashto on 7255-Germany,
9540-Germany, 9555-Portugal, 11770-Portugal; 0300-0330 in Dari on
7295-Germany, 9540-Germany, 9555-Germany, 11770-Portugal; 13301400 in Pashto and 1400-1430 in Dari on 17895-Germany, 21510Germany, 21530-Portugal (Radio Australia's Japanese DX-Time) Why
do the two morning broadcasts have to be on different frequencies?
ANDAMAN ISL.ANDS A IR Port Blair has a new engineer, one
of the few who is DX-aware a nd DXer-friendly; so address your
reception reports, with return postage, to Mr. Yuvraj Bajaj (Suprati.k
Sanatani, India, Oz-DX)
ANGOLA (non?) Voz da Resistencia do Galo Negro, the
UNITA clandestine claiming to broadcast from Jamba, has three
shortwave transmitters: 0500-0830 on 6135, 1100-1430 on 9850, 18002200 on 7100; and at all times on 4880 and 7125; but 7145, 9700 and
11830 have been dropped; tested 11665 before settling on 4880.
International Service, Voice of Resistance of the Black Cockerel is on
T uesday, Thursday, Sunday at 20 15-2115, half an hour each of English
and French (Richard Ginbey, Namibia, Radio Netherlands Media
Network) Check, except it runs to 2230 (BBC Monitoring) Don't
con fuse with Mozambique, q.v., which it bu ries on 7100 (Bob Padula,
Australian DX News) 9700 has been active subsequently, from 0455 past
0530 (Ernie Behr, Ont., and A l Quaglieri, NY, RCI SWL Digest)
AUSTRALJA The addit ional Radio Australia transmission fo r
servicemen and captives in the Middle East mentioned last month on
21775 and l'.7630, at 1300-1500, is in fact on many regular frequencies,
including 9580 toward the Pacific; includes Kuwait time-checks; bumps
the Sunday 1430 airing of Communicator (DX Listening Digest)
Radio Australia plans to add a mailbag program in the near fu ture;
and Lo add two new 250-kW transmilters at Darwin in two years
(Kannon Shanmugam, KS, World of Radio) Bring back Keith Glover!
BELGIUM Biussels Caffing, from BRT has this winter schedule
to the Americas: Monday-Saturday 1400-1425, Sunday 1230-1255 on
21810; daily 0030-0055 on 9925, 13675. Radio World airs Satu rday
morning and evening, Monday morning (World of Radio)
The French counterpart, RTBF-4, may have to close for lack of
funding (Frans Vossen, BRT, RN Media Network)
BRAZIL The English program at 0200 from RadioBras on 11745
has been missing. Is it off the air, or somewhere else? (Brian G ilbert,
OR, DXLD)
R adio Nacional da Amazonia reactivated 15445 after many years,
heard at 1300 past 1330, also announcing but not heard on 11780 (Ernie
Behr, Ont., RCI SWLD) Sometimes 15448 (Bob Padula, Australia)
RNA off-frequency, 6183.2 at 2135 (Julian Anderson, Argentina,
Pampas DXing)
CANADA RCI sometimes carries special relays in Japanese
from Radio J apan we hear nothing about in English -- such as a baseball
game at 0502 past 0630 on 9510 (Ernie Behr, WO.R.)
CANARY ISL.ANDS (non) Though some continue to report
and even QSL R adio Exterior de Espanya at 2200-2300 on 17715 as
coming from here, the following confirms our contention years ago that
this is not the case: Even if the program is intended for Canary Islands,
the transmission comes form Noblejas, near Toledo, Spain. The
tra nsmitting center in Las Masas, Tencrife, was dismantled last in 1988,
so Canaries has not been an active SWBC country since then (M .
Molano, Spain, Play-DX)
CHINA On an Amnesty Int ernational list of people detained for
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activities in the 1989Pro-Democracy Movement is Wu Xiaoyong, son of

Vice-Premier Wu Xueqian, and Vice-Director of China International
broadcast station. His arrest in 1989 was unconfirmed but according to
recent reports he was secretly tried and sentenced to 12 years'
imprisonment. This is the gentleman who allegedly produced the
statement that was read on Radio Beijing, June 4, 1989 (Northwest
Regional China Council via Bruce MacGibbon, DX Spread)
A senior executive of Radio Beijing has been removed from his post
and believed ordered to undergo political re-education, colleagues say.
Li Dan, Program Director of the English Service had been held
responsible for that broadcast (Reuter via RC! SWLD) An earlier
report said Li Dan and five others were attending a workshop in
Malaysia (San Fra ncisco Examiner via DX Spread)
Radio Beijing has made a major overhaul of a transmitter in the
Beijing suburbs, allowing additional frequencies for external services
(Radio Beijing Messenger via DXS)
(non) Voice of Democracy was a new clandestine heard for only
three days on 8057, with 43-minute broadcasts at 1200, 1400, 1600, 2000
and 2200, addressed to commanders and soldiers of the PLA (Tetsuya
Kondo and Toru Yamashita, Asian Broadcasting Institute via Radio
Japan)
CONGO A new 100 kW shortwave transmitter 45 km north of
Brazzaville built with West German aid has been inaugurated. Two
more 300 kW transmitters arc planned (AFP via BBCM)
COSTA RICA RFPI has decided to build two 20-kW
transmitters to be added to its three lower-powered units; at the new site
it can broadcast 24 hou rs, and the power company has agreed to install
three-phase lines capable of servicing 50- or 100-kW transmitters. New
high-gain 4-element cubical-quad multi-band ant e nnas will also be
home-made, installed on 130-foot tower. RFPI program additions: the
issue-oriented Underr:wrents, from Pacifica in New York, WBAI,
weekdays around 2210 and 0140 before the U.N. news; a nd repeated in
one block Saturdays at 2200. UNESCO programs, Tuesday 2100,
Wednesday 0030, Thursday 2200, Friday 0130, Saturday 2130, Sunday
2300; Music from Eve1y where, from Radio Earth, not only Sunday at
2200 but also Thursday 2130, Friday 0100; Food for the Thoughtful,
Thursday 2100, Friday 0030; all plus the usual repeats lat er in the night.
F requencies are 21565 and 13630 weekdays until 0300, weekends until
2430; 7375-USB weekdays from 2330, weekends from 0045 (RFPI
Mailbag T uesday 2300, Wednesday 0230, Saturday 2000, Sunday 0245)
CUBA (non) International coordination fr equency for 6-meter
openings is 28885 USB; among the participants are WA5IYX in San
Antonio (Arnie Coro, C02KK, RHC DXers Unlimired) That's our old
friend Pat Dyer, whose VHF DX reports have appeared in QST.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA In it s
schedule until November 4, Radio
Praha International specifies three
different transmitt er sites; for
broadcasts to the Americas between ~AD
2230 and 0415, 11990 and 5930 are
from Rimavska Sobota at 20-00 E,
K
48-23 N; 11680 from Velke Kostola ny INT,.~RNATIONAL
at 17-44 E, 48-31 N; 7345 from Litomysl, at 16-10 E, 49-48 N. Among the
programs on UTC days at 0000-0015, 0100-0130, 0300-0330 and 04000415 are DX-Special and Mailbag on Thursday; Stamp Comer
(fortnightly), Mailbag and Ainnail Special on Sunday. RPI points out
that foreign and domestic companies can now advertise on the station
(via John Carson, OK)
ECUADOR HCJB has added an E nglish hour, another repeat of

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Studio 9, to the Middle East, 1630-1730 on 21480 (RN Media Netw01k)

HCJB heard on new 12015 at 0700-0730 (Bob Padula, Australia, RCI
SWLD) Program previews for November at 1652, 1952, next UTC days
0052, 0252, 0522: Mondays, Dateline 90-- Nov. 5, today's heroes; Nov. 12
& 19, business buzzwords. Tuesday, Nov. 6, Happiness ls, mini-tour of
Ecuador and the world; Wednesdays, Ham Radio Today includes
propagation notes, "simply electronics:" Thursdays.: 1!appin~ss ls -- No;,.
1, Ecuadorian holidays and folk music; Nov. 22, f1~e grams of corn .
Party/me -- Nov', 3, K~n
Fridays, Ml/Sica def Ecuador. Saturdays,
MacHarg and Radio for Peace Internat10nal, Neil Carleton s rad10
stamps; Nov. 10, RFPI part 2, ODXA Perspectives; Nov. 17, SPEEDX,
Pacific, Angola; Nov. 24, ANARC, SPARC, EDXC reports. Sundays,
Saludos Amigos (HCJB)
ErHIOP/A (non) Voice of Oromo Liberation, in Oromifa daily
at 1500-1545 and 1900-1945 on 9540; has varied to 9550 and around
9440, believed from a site in Sudan (BBCM)
FRANCE RFI is considering a 24-hour world service in English,
just as in French (Le Monde via RN Media Network)
GERMANY Radio Berlin International did not merge with
Deutsche Welle -- OW simply took over the facilities of RBI, paying a
few megamarks rental for transmitters; DW will not continue any RBI
prooram or popular features such as DX-Club, and will consider hiring
0111; those ex-RBI staffers who are professionally and politically
qualified (Bill Matthews, OH, Radio Korea SW Feedback)
GABON A WR's KSDA will relocate its present two 100 kW
transmitters to a new site close to the present one at Agat. A third 100
kW will be added. The present property has been bought by a Japanese
company which wants it for - a golf course! High Adventure's relay via
KSDA ended last April. The Government of Guam has still not given
permission to lease or buy land at Piti for construction of KHBN's own
station (Maarten van Delft, Micronesia, Wo1id of Radio)
GUATEMAJ.JJ. The third harmonic of La Voz de! CID, 9941.7, is
back as a high-frequency propagation pilot this fall on 29825.1 (WO.R.)
IND/A News gathered during a visit here: Parliament has passed a
bill granting autonomy to All India Radio and Doordarshan (TV). The
independent Broadcasting Corporation of India will come into being on
March 31, 1991, once approved by the President. AIR is still committed
to expansion of FM in major cities, in addition to AM and SW. The
lower house of Parliament has proposed abolishing English as the joint
official national language as a vestige of colonialism; but southern states
speaking minority languages oppose this (K.Shanmugam, KS, WO.R.)
INDONESIA RDK Sukabumi heard on 3330 at 1016 (David
Vitek, Australian DX News) RRI Padang, 6190 has English segment for
tourists at 0138-0153 on Wednesday (Lim Kong Jin, Malaysia, Oz-DX)
Unfortunately during local daytime.
IRAQ Radio Baghdad broadcasts in English at 2000-2200 on
13660 switched unpredictably to 13600 or 13680 at times.
English ro the American troops on 11860 at 1000-1200, 1600-1800,
2000-2200 was renamed The Voice of Peace from Baghdad (BBCM)
Sec also Kuwait! This program at 1600 has also been heard on 17915
(RNMN) and 21675 once (SCDX)
For a while, the 13660 transmission was 3 S-units stronger when
received on a vertical antenna than on any horizontal antenna;
unexplained why polarization varies, and best to be able to switch
between them (Vince Bartell, WOMFK, MN, DX Listening Digest)
Iraq's clandestine program Holy Mecca Radio on 9720 was soon
blocked by Voice of the Arabs, from Cairo (BBCM) Voice of Egypt of
Arabism was scheduled at 2020-2220 before the time change, on 17720,
15310, 15170, 15150, and via Kuwait on 13620, plus AM & FM (BBCM)
ITALY Italian Radio Relay Service is upset about Radio France
International blocking their only frequency, 9815, between 0600 and
0700; asks for listener protests to be mailed or faxed to the President of
Telediffusion de France (IRRS)

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KOREA SOUTH Radio Korea is running a lengthy Wednesday

series through yearend, We Are the Koreans Usi11g the Same Language,
interviews with immigrants to the U.S. recorded last summer
(Slw11wave Feedback) After DST, look for the Canada relay one hour
later at 1130, on 9700.
(non) Voice of National Salvation, clandestine from North to South,
heard at 1700 and 0100 on unannounced 6960 (BBCM)
KUWAIT It took al.most a month after the invasion for Kuwaiti
shortwave frequencies to come back, presumable actually from the
Kabd site in Kuwait, but of course now programmed by Baghdad. Voice
of the Masses, which had not been on SW fo r some time, appeared on
6055, 11990 and 21675; the General Service on 13620 and 15495. Arab
countries hostile to Iraq soon started blocking -- Saudi Arabia on 15495,
then following Iraquwait down to 15490; UAE Radio, Dubai on 21675,
incl English 1600 parallel to clear 21605 (BBCM, MacGibbon, gh)
Before the winter time change, Iraq was also using Kuwaiti
transmitters for revived clandestine programs in Arabic: Voice of the
Pe11insula and Arabian Gulf, 1300-1500, and Holy Medina Radio, 19002200 on 6055, 11990, 21675; see also IRAQ (BBCM)
(non) Though supposed to be on shortwave, Kuwaiti exile
broadcasts via Egypt were confirmed only on mediumwave 661 kHz,
varying to 663, jammed until closing at 2200, calling itself "This is
Kuwait," or "Free Kuwait Radio" (BBCM)
LAOS The royalist clandestine mentioned last month on 10200
kHz uses a 100-watt mobile transmitter in the mountains of northern
Laos (Bangkok Post via BBCM) Yet to be reported by DX listeners.
LEBANON King of Hope, 6280, started a new semi-evangelical
service for American t roops in Saudi Arabia by turning its antenna in
that direction, at 2000-2300 (RNMN)
LIBERIA VOA relay managed to remain on the air long into the
civil war, but disappeared in mid-September, so VOA brought up
replacement transmitters in Greenville, Bethany, Delano and
Philippines (RNMN)
LUXEMBOURG RTL converted its 24-hour service on 15350
from French to English pop music (RNMN) Includes news at 2 minutes
before the hour, heard from 2100 past 0130; could this be for troops in
Mideast? (Ernie Behr, Ont., W.O.R.) Apparently not; something to do
with the English service now being on the ASTRA satellite (RNMN)
MAJ.JJ.YS/A RTM Radio One, Kuala Lumpur, in Malay uses
5965 24 hours and 11930 from 2200 to 1100 (BBCM) The latter not
listed in WRTfl or PWBR; guess what - it's the second harmonic of
5965; sure it's not also audible from 1100 to 2200?
MAURITANIA ORTM continues to drift: between 1940 and
2045 one night from 4840.7 to 4838.2, but the next night on nominal 4845
(L. Botto, G. Zella, D. Monferini, Italy, Play-DX) One morning at 0701
on 4839, at 0708 on 4838, 0712 on 4837; next day at 0635 on 4842, by 0655
on 4839. Another day at 0625 opening on 4840, but at 0630 jumped to
4845 (Bruce MacGibbon, OR)
MOZAMBIQUE lnterprovincia l Network, Maputo, on new
7100 until 2208 sign-off. Don't confuse with Angola, q.v. (Bop Padula,
Australia, RCI SWL Digest)
NETHERLANDS Though shown in ou r schedules as starting at
the end of September, 11740 may not replace 15560 to North America at
0030 until propagation requires it in December (RNMN)

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ShortW'ave Broadcasting
NORWAY Radio Norway Int' l has long-range plans to expand
English to daily, gain a relay in US, resume Spanish (RN! Sat Beast)
PERU Radio El Puerto, Pacasmayo, La Libertad is new on 4330,
strong from 0000 testing past 0100. La Voz del Altiplano, 5815,
reactivated at 1230 (Rafael Rojas, Peru, Pampas DXing) Economic
crisis causes many easy Peruvians to curtail hours. Radio Cora, 4914.5,
opens at 0900 but closes shortwave at 1900. Radio Andahuaylas, 4840,
closed early at 0145 (Ju lian Anderson, Argentina, ibid.) New in
Arequipa is Radio Cultural Comunidad Minera de Cailloma, from 0000
to closing at 0055, announcing 6850 (Rojas, Play-DX) Does that mean
they were actually on another frequency? (gh) Radio Andina, 4994.9,
Huancayo, was silenced in August by an attack from Sendero Luminoso
who removed two tubes from the transmitter. InOation drove one US
dollar to 700,000 new intis on the black market; postage fo r a letter to
Europe reached 2,100,000; electricity went up 1000% in one month
(Pedro F. Arrunategui, Lima, Play-DX) Radio Cora, 4914.6, welcomes
reports by fax to: X 51 / 14-336134. Listeners Corner at 0300 (Giuseppe
Zella, Play-DX) On a visit to Radio Tacna I was told by Mrs. Yolanda
Viuda de Caceres that one of her sons, a technical engineer, built the
emergency transmitter, adapting a ham transceiver, and uses no more
than 200 watt s, only on weekends. Heard at 0005-0025 on 6571.4 parallel
to 9486 (Julian Anderson, Pampas-DXing)
PHILJPPINES A bomb damaged one shortwave antenna tower
of VOA north of Manila. It left a large crater but did not affect
transmissions (RN Media Netw01*)
SAINT HELENA Radio St. Helena was surprisingly easily heard
during the MT Co nvent io n Saturday from before 2000 until 2100 on
11092.6 SSB as relayed by Cable & Wireless. T he DX special took
phone ca lls from David Alpert in New York, Jean Burnell in
Newfoundland, and others. Though a 700' Beverage was set up, it could
be heard on a much shorter wire and even on a portable whip (gh, with a
NASWA DXpedition to a Knoxville park- Kevin Atkins, Bob Brown,
Harold Cones, Alan Johnson to George Zeller) Verification by special
QSLcard if3 IRCssent only to: Stora Tuna DX Club, Box 5018, S-78105
Borlange, Sweden (Dario Monfcrini, RCI SWL Digest & WO.R.)
SA/PAN KFBS dropped German, but added Mongolian, 11251530 on 12025 (Maarten van Delft, Micronesia, WO.R.)
SEYCHEUES FEBA has been carrying programs from Trans
World Radio on 100 kW 9770 at 0000-0057 in Telugu and Tamil (DX
Listening Digest)
SICILY (non) Country-cou nters have relied on RA! 6060 coming
from Caltanissetta, but since late August this frequency was moved to a
100 kW transmitter near Rome, for better service to the Mideast after
0030 with No1111mo dall'ltalia (Dario Monferini, Play-DX)
SOLOMON ISLANDS Honiara sometimes stays on 9545
much later than scheduled, heard once until 1158 (Bruce MacGibbon,
OR, DX Spread)
SUDAN Radio Omdurman, 11633, very strong at 1531 with
English news, 1538 ID, rock music request program, heavy reverb DJ
female, inviting mail to Box 572 (Peter Bunn, Australia, Oz-DX) English
at 1530-1600 one day on 11632.1 , the next on 11631.1 (Roland Schulze,
Germany, Fine Tuning)
SWEDEN With Portuguese dropped, Radio Sweden added an
English broadcast to Latin America at 2330; retimed to North America
at 0200 and 0330, all on 9695 and 11705, but still best heard at 1530 on
21500, 17880. George Wood said Siveden Calling DXers was in jeopardy.
SWrTZERL..AND Red Cross Broadcasting Ser,~TE.q"'
vice is act ive during the week following the last Sunday ~~~
of each mont h: Oct. 28, Nov. 25, Dec. 30, Jan. 27, Feb. i
~
24; to North America UTC Tuesday and Friday at 0310- ~
~
0327 on 6135, 9650, 9885, 12035. Also on Monday and
Ot:NE"~
Thursday to Asia at 1310-1327 on 21695, 17830, 15570,
13635, and via Beijing on 11695 and 7480 replacing 9620 (via Kevin
Klein , Ben Krepp, Swiss PTf)

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Nov ember 1990

TAIWAN WYFR programs via VOFC, effective to March 30:

English 1302-1517, Hindi 1517-1602 on 11550; Mandarin 1102-1602 on
5275, 1202-1602 on 9280; 2100-2400 on 6300; 2100-2300 on 9270, 23002400 on 11550; 2100-2200 on 9955, 2200-2400 on 9465; Russian 15051705 on 9955 (DXLD)
mlSTAN DA CUNHA After seeing a TV
documentary on Tristan, I wrote to ZOE; my letter
took a month to reach them, and theirs took almost
four months to reach me. J.B. Kerr, Acting
Administrator of the island revealed that 3290
(listed as 40 wans) had added a morning broadcast
at 0709-0815 GMT, along with 1230-1330 and 1600-1700, all MondayFriday on ly (Ed Cichorek, NJ) At 12.5-W, 37-S, Tristan is almost an
hour of sun tin1e behind UTC and there is as much seasonal variation as
in mid-America, so propagation at sign-on to the dark side of the planet,
the Americas, ought to be~ at least during the southern winter.
Start losing sleep next May!
UK 0 GB AN I at 1330, BFBS moved brieOy to 21500 to avoid
Dubai on 21735, but VOA took over that frequency so BFBS went back
to 21735; then VOA took over 15195, so BFBS moved to 15390. BBC
added a special service of its own, Gulf Link, Monday-Friday 1645-1700
on 6040, 11720, 15120; repeated at 0445 on 11760, 15245, 17815 - poorly
heard in North America and presumably some or all frequencies are via
relays such as Cyprus (WO.R. and RC! SWLD)
U S A The State Department inserted messages to hostages in
Iraquwait on VOA broadcasts at :08 past certain hours, curtailin g the
news, such as 1208, 1808, 2108, and 0108 -- even on beams to Latin
America (WO.R.)
KG El's original G.E. 50-kW transmitter st ill works and doesn't cost
much to operate, but the site in R edwood City is bothered by urban
growth, so a new 50 kW may be installed furth er south on Interstate 5,
where there is a lot of cheap land (Jose Holovaty, KGEI, int erviewed by
Jaime Baguena on Radio Nederland's Radio-E11lace )
USS R Radio Moscow's World Service in Russian includes a
church service on Sundays starting before 2030 on 15125, 15180; seems
from a different church or group each week. So RM has joined the Oood
of religious broadcasters - what's next? (Ernie Behr, Ont., WO.R.) On
winter time presumably one hour later and different frequencies
Pirates in the Moscow area: Radio Kardinal announces 1607 kHz,
estimated 200 watts, address in Serpukhov, but heard at 2130-2150 on
1616.5. Radio Belomorkanal, in the northern part of Moscow city, heard
between 1624 and 2248 on frequencies varying between 1703 and 1724
kHz, plus second harmonics above 3400 (Nekrasov,Moscow,Play-DX)
ZIMBABWE (non) Radio Truth, clandestine from South Africa,
was scheduled daily on 5015: 0400-0417 Shona, 0417-0430 Ndebele,
0430-0500 English; 1700-117 Shona, 1717-1730 Ndebele, 1730-1800
English; the 0430, 1700 and 1717 broadcasts are repeats. Then the
Johannesburg Star reported that South Africa had silenced the
transmitter in the Transvaal. Radio Truth denied, but said it might
voluntarily close due to improvements in the ruling party (BBCM) Still
heard the following week at 0425 (Al Quaglieri, NY, RCI SWLD)
Does this whet your appetite for more? Sample gh's publications OX LISTENING
DIGEST and REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING for $2 each; 10-issue
subscriptions $21 or both for $40, In North America. US funds on a US bank to Glenn
Hauser. Box 1684-MT. Enid, OK 73702.
OX news reports conclude each SWL DIGEST on RCI, UTC Sun 0036 on 9755,
5960; 1836 on 17820, 15260. 13670; 2236 on 15325, 11945; 2306 on 11730, 9755;
Tue 1333 on 17820, 11855, 9635 and C-SPAN AUdlo 1.
Totally different Is WORLD OF RADIO, half an hour weekly; on WRNA, New
Orleans: UTC Thu 0200 (or 0130), 1630; Fri 0000 and 0130; Sat 0400; Sun 0030 and
2130 on 15420 until 2400, 7355 until 0400, then 6185 (these are winter timings after
OST); and on RPI. Costa Rica: Fri 2000, 2330; Sat 0315. 0645, 1015, 1930; Sun0215,
0845, 2230; Mon 0515, 1145; Tue 2230; Wed 0200, 0545, 0915 on 21565 and 13630
weekdays until 0300, weekends until 2430; 7375-USB weekdays from 2330,
weekends from 0045. Late-night repeats often run as much as hall an hour early.

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Broadcast Loggings
Th anks to our con11ibw ors -- Ha ve YO U sent in your logs ?
Send your loggings to Gaylt! Van llom, c/o Monito1ing Times.
English broadcast unless othen vise noted.
0030 UTC on 7355
USA: WANO. universal Radio commercial lnlo world of Radio" show. Station
IDs and promotlonals. Audible on 15420 kHz at 1525 UTC. (John Carson,
Norman, OK) (Jack Davis, Birmingham. AL)
0040 UTC on 11710
USSR: Radio Moscow. Report on preparing the nation for a capltallslic society.
Parallel frequency 12040 kHz. (Bob Fraser. Cohasset, MA) (George Neff, Luiz,
FL) (Robert Babin, Shrewsbury, MA)
01 00 UTC on 9565
RWANDA: Deutsche Welle (relay). lnlernallonal news and ID. (Mark Selden,
Miami, FL) (Robert Babin, Shrewsbury, MA)
0100 UTC on 7414.6
PIRATE: Hope Radio. Station ID and declaration of "fighting ln]usllce." Fair
signal and co-channel lnlerterence from two unidentified pirates. (Mark
Selden. Miami, FL)
0107 UTC on 11800
ITALY: RAI. News report on the nation's 45th Spanish Fiim Feslival. (Bob
Fraser. Cohasset, MA) (Donald Westbrook. Columbus, OH)
0110 UTC on 9475
EGYPT: Radio Cairo. Spanish/ English. Nlghtty news wilh decent audio for a
change. English world news al 0200 UTC. (Mark Selden, Miami, FL) (Robert
Babin, Shrewsbury. MA) Audible on 9900 kHz at 21 10 UTC. (Frank Hlllton.
Charleston. SC)
0128 UTC on 4799.8
GUATEMALA: Radio Buenas Nuevas. Spanish. Religious texl lo canned ID at
0130 UTC. Piano Instrumental and scripture readings. Additional Guatemalan
Radio Kek'chi heard on 4844.5 kHz at 0155 UTC. (ed.)
01 45 UTC on 4830
VENEZUELA: Radio Tachira. Spanish. Lady pop vocalist lo Tachira ID. Local
lime check and Lalin guitar ballads, battling two co-channel stations. (ed.)
(William Kruger, Miami. FL)
0213 UTC on 13745
UNITED KINGDOM: Brlllsh Forces Broadcasling Service. Excellent fast-paced
OJ format, with 60s era and British pop music. Frequent IDs noled as "BFBS,"
and "These programs are from BFBS. for the Brilish forces In Saudi Arabia and
the Gulf. on Operallon Granby." Announced schedule as: "0200-0230 on 7125,
9640. 13745 and 21735 kHz.' Also announced, "0930-1000 on 15205. 17695,
21735 : 1330-1400 on 15195, 17695, 21 735 KHZ.'
Programming Includes messages and mosic dedications for the troops,
news bils and sports report. Interesting to note that BFBS' last broadcast were
to the troops during the Falkland Islands war. Try sending your reception
report to U.K. address: BFBS (SSVC), Allention: Station Manager, Bridge
House. North Wharf Road, London W2, England. Any DXers wllh an additional
or new address, please forward to me. "Thanks," from Gayle Van Horn
0220 UTC on 4980
VENEZUELA: Ecos del Torbes. Spanish. Latin vocalist to canned ID. Local
time checK and easy-listening tunes. (ed.) Monitored to 0255 UTC. (George
Nett, Lutz, FL)
0228 UTC on 21725
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Radio Abu Dhabi. Arabic/ English. Koran
recitations. (John Carson. Norman. OK) History on American Indians and ID at
2230 UTC on 11 985 kHz. (George Neff, Lutz, FL)
0232 UTC on 17875
ECUADOR: HCJB. Latin vocals and talk on the Colombian drug war. (George
Neff, Luiz, FL) Religious music and excerpts from "God At lhe Con1ro1s on
17875 and 151 55 KHz al 0357-0430 UTC. (Loyd van Horn. New Orleans. LA)
(Bob Fra ser, Cotlasset. MA)
0300 UTC on 15290
BULGARIA: Radio Sofia. News and review of Bulgarian events and
developments. (John Carson, Norman, OK) Monil ored on 15350 kHz at 2138
UTC. (Craig Young, Fl. Devens, MA) Report on 1990 Budget Hearing at 1850
UTC on 15330 KHz. (Bob Fraser, Cohasset, MA)
0300 UTC on 7345
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Radio Prague lnlernational. International news, travel tips
for Europe and Biii Bathursl's "Observer. (John Carson, Norman, OK) (Bruce
Grohas. San Antonio, TX
0310 UTC on 17880
TURKEY: Voice of Turkey. Easy -listening vocals to stallon ID. ' Turkish Album,
show on ancient excavations In Ankara, and Turkish folk tunes. (Loyd Van
Horn, New Orleans. LA)
0340 UTC on 6015
ZANZIBAR: Radio Television Zanzibar. (Swahili). Announcements to African
hll1fe tunes. Pop vocals lo Interval signal at 0400 UTC. Time tips signal, ID and
news report. (Frank Hllllon. Charleston, SC)
0430 UTC on 4800
LESOTHO: Lesolho National Broadcasting Service Lesotho. Fair signal for pop
music program and chat In African language. (Robert Babin, Shrewsbury, MA)
(Donald Westbrook, Columbus, OH)
0435 UTC on 11825
FRENCH POLYNESIA-TAHITI: RFO. Tahllian/ French. Soothing Polynesian
music program to 0500 UTC. International news items in French to ID. Audible

parallel on 151 70 kHz. (Henry Magers, Monterey, CA)

0510 UTC on 11845
WEST GERMANY: Deutsche Welle. "European Journal." economic news and
political commentary. (John Garson, Norman. OK)
0600 UTC on 7215
COTE D'IVOIRE: Radiodlffuslon Televlslon lvolrlenne. French. Melodic Interval
signal to sign-on ID, "lcl Abidjan Radlodiffusion lvoirenne.' Frequency
schedule and national news. (Joseph Kolb, Newark, NJ) (Robert Ballin,
Shrewsbury, MA) (Donald Westbrook, Columbus, OH)
0602 UTC on 9765
MALTA: Voice of the Medllerranean. ID/ frequency schedule and Mallese
travelogue. (George Neff, Lui z, FL) Phil Collins music, IDs and current events
In Malla at 0625 UTC. (John Carson, Norman, OK)
071 5 UTC on 9480
MONACO: Trans World Radio. Fairly strong signal for Chuck Swlndle's
religious program. He sounds a lot like George Bush. (Christopher Grawburg,
Wiison, NC) (Bruce Groham, San Antonio, TX)
0810 UTC on 11715
USA: KNLS-Alaska. Discussion about Alaskan totem poles and free Bible offer.
Comments about this week's phrase "Going against the grain" and Its
Interpretation. (Christopher Grawburg, Wilson, NC)
0830 UTC on 11810
GUAM: KTWR. Sl allon ID and contemporary Christian music. Taped Bible
study program with lntermlllenl fading. (Christopher Grawburg, Wiison, NC)
Audible at 0845 UTC on 15210 kHz. (Sam Wright, Biioxi, MS) (Bruce Groham,
San Antonio, TX)
1007 UTC on 15010
VIETNAM: Voice of Vlelnam. World news to editorial on Germany's
reunification. (Craig Young, Fort Devens, MA) Monitored on 15010 kHz at 2250
UTC. (Robert Babin, Shrewsbury, MA)
1223 UTC on 12025
MONGOLIA: Radio Ulan Bator. Regional music vocallsl l o sign-off IDs at 1230
UTC. (John Carson, Norman, OK)
1233 UTC on 17535
GREECE: Voice of Greece. Local Alhens time check, weather forecast, and
news coverage on Cyprus. Beautiful Greek vocalizing. (Betsy Robinson,
Clinton, TN) (Loyd Van Horn, New Orleans, LA)
1234 UTC on 9750
SOUTH KOREA: Radio Korea. seoul Calling features about an lnternalional
choral feslival. "Let's Learn Korean" al 1255 UTC. (John Carson, Norman, OK)
1430 UTC on 21490
AUSTRIA: Radio Austria International. Station sign-on, lnternalional news and
sports report. Comments on lhe Middle East crisis. Monitored on 13730 kHz at
1648 UTC. (John Carson, Norman, OK) Editorial on 9870/ 9875 kHz at 0130
UTC. (Bob Fraser. Cohasset, MA)
1500 UTC on 13770
NETHERLANDS: Radio Netherlands. Tom Myers' Happy Stalion show with
letters and B'd greelings. Chat and comedy routine to sign-off at 1525 UTC.
(Loyd Van Horn, New Orleans, LA)
1842 UTC on 15510
AFGHANISTAN: Radio Alghanlslan. Commentary on higher educallon for the
nallon and discussion on lhe religion of Islam. Station ID at 1850 UTC.
Monitored to French service al 1930 UTC. Parallel frequencies 9645/ 17745
and 9485 kHz. (Stephen Price, Conemaugh, PA)
1850 UTC on 17605
BONAIRE: Radio Netherlands relay. "Newsline show on lhe Liberian
revolulion. (Bob Fraser. Cohasset, MA) Astronomy show on 15560 kHz at 011 O
UTC. (Craig Young, Ft. Devens, MA) "Newsllne" heard also at 0330 UTC on
6165 kHz. (John Carson, Norman. OK)
1900 UTC on 17590
ISRAEL: Kol Israel. American Rabbi Mark Angel talks aboul the gap be~.veen
lhe Reform and Orthodox faiths. Continued talk on "The Love of God" and
clarlnel solo. Excellent signal. (Belsy Robinson. Clinton. TN) "Israel News
Magazine and "Letter From Jerusalem heard at 2 140 UTC on 15640 kHz.
(Craig Young, Fl. Devens, MA) (Bob Fraser. Cohasset, MA)
1915 UTC on 17870
LIBERIA: Voice of America relay. "African Panorama show on Soulh Africa,
Liberia and U.S. aid to Togo. Parallel heard on 15600 kHz. (Bob Fraser,
Cohasset. MA) (T.D. Leinweber. Blylhville, AR)
1925 UTC on 15265
QATAR: Qalar Broadcasllng Service (Arabic). Tradlllonal Middle Eastern
vocals to program feature about Mohammed. Arabic lnslrumenlals and
comments lo 2000 ID and newscast (Frank Hillton, Charleston, SC)
2026 UTC on 15095
SYRIA: Radio Damascus. Slalion ID and Middle Eastern music. Fair signal for
"Welcome 10 Syria" feature. (George Neff. Luiz. FL) Monitored lo 2135 UTC.
(Craig Young, Fl. Devens. MA)
2100 UTC on 15215
ALGERIA: Radlodlffuslon-Televlslon Algerienne. Arabic/ English. Arabic
newscast 10 English pop vocals. Announcer stal ed lhal lhe nexl three songs
had a message in lhe m usic.' Tllles Included "Money for Nothing," "So Far
Away and "Brothers In Arms.' (Walter Swelkhart, Montgomery, AL)
2132 UTC on 17875
CANADA: Radio Canada lnlernalional. Environmental feature on global
management DX show on 9755 kHz al 2332 UTC. (George Neff, Luiz, FL)
(John Carson. Norman, OK) (Brian Bagwell, SI. Louis, MO)
2215 UTC on 4795
CAMEROON : Cameroon Radio Television-Douala. French. American/ French
pop vocals. Station ID and DJ chal. ID/ frequency quole, nallonal anlhem lo
sign-off al 2305 UTC. CATV-Yaounde heard on 4850 kHz lo 2300 UTC. (ed.)

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Utility World
Larry Van Horn
c/o MT, P.O. Box 98
Brasstown, NC 28902

More on the Mossad

Who's that lady with the strange accent, who's that lady?
That lady, as I mentioned last month is the Israeli's CIA The Mossad. If my mail and this column's loggings sectio n are
any indication, not only is there interest in these stations, but
there are a lot of questions about what they are and what they
do. Last month's tease was only the tip of the iceberg. Now
here is the rest of the story.
The Israeli Mossad is a worldwide operation. From US
military spies to the inte lligence needed for the raid o n
Entebbe, Mossad agents have had a hand in each operation .
No doubt, the mystery "phonetic alphabet" stations heard
throughout the shortwave spectrum have played a major role in
getting messages out to their agents worldwide.
The headquarters of the Mossad is located in Tel Aviv.
From atop an office bu ilding in this city, signals are sent out
by microwave and UHF to shortwave transmitters located
throughout Israel.
Several years ago, shortwave listener Greg Mitchell, while
staying at a hotel just outside Tel Aviv, noted signals from the
"alphabet stations" blasting through on his shortwave receiver.
He noted up to twenty different transmissions during the hour.
Most were heard on the hour and half hour.
These transmissions consisted of long lists of letters. These
letters are spoken phonetically (Alpha, Bravo, C harlie, etc). The
a nnouncers of these broadcasts are female and probably like
the U .S. numbers stations, automatic machines do the actual
announcing.
According to Mitche ll, the tapes with the messages are
prepared and sent via telephone, UHF or microwave Links to
over 20 shortwave transmitting sites in Israel. These transmitters
range in power from 10 to 20 kW and use suppressed AM
carriers or sideband depending on where the messages are
destined for.
Mr. UK across the pond picks up the story from here.
"Most of the ca11 signs can be heard o n two o r more
frequencies simultaneously, higher frequencies being used during
daylight hours. Ju st prior to schedu led broadcast time, o ne can
hear the fr equencies to be used keyed up using the appropriate
ca ll sign or just part of it."
Sometimes a call sign not relevant to that particular
frequency is used, whether in error he is not sure, but at the
scheduled transmission time the correct call sign will be sent.
Table 1 lists ca ll signs and broadcast times.

Table 1
Israeli Mossad call sign list
ART H+OO H+30
CIO H+45
EZI H+OO H+30
FLU H+OO H+30 (nol regular)
GBZ H+ 00 H+30 (nol regular)
JSR H+OO H+30
KPA H+OO H+30
MIW H+15
NCJ H+OO H+30
PCD H+30

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RCH H+OO H+30 (nol regular)

SYN H+30
ULX H+OO H+30
VLB H+1 5 H+45
YHF H+OO H+30
BAC (nol regular)
TMS (not regular)
YLF (nol regular)
EZI lransrnlls on following hours:
0500 0600 1100 1200 1515 1720
1800 1900

Masada's ruined fortress: A symbol of Israeli resistance

Mossad broadcasts are widely heard throughout the world on
a variety of frequencies. T he list of frequencies in Table 2
represent reported frequencies over the last several years
including now inactive channels represented by an '#'.
What does a phonetic alphabet broadcast sound like and
what is the format of their messages?
Call signs like those in Table 1 are repeated fo r four to five
minutes. A ll messages consist of five-letter groups and arc given
in the following format:
"VLB" - repeated for about three minutes
"Message, message"
2.
"Group 34, group 34"
3.
'Text, text"
4. "APKNC BNYGT OLIUY GFDWP
5.
"End of message"
"Repeat, repeat"
(Items 1 through 5 then repeated once more)
6.
"End of transmissions"
1.

Single figure codes a re often g iven after the call sign

usually a two which indicates no message (usage much like a
marine DE/CO statio n marker). It has been reported that the
numbe r one in the call suffix indicates a transmission for test
purposes. The numbers may also be a 0, 3 or 9. There also
have been suffixes noted wit h number/letter or letter/ number
combinat ions (e.g. - 10 and X2). The meaning of t hese calls
and others are as yet unclear.
When codes are given after the call sign NO MESSAGES
are sent.
When only the three-letter call sign is heard then a message
will follow. The same messages are transmitted at exact ly the
same time each day, a nd may run fo r several days before they

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Table 2
Israeli Mossad number stations
2120
2270
2515
2743
2953
3150
3270
34 17
3840
3930
4035
4056
4270
4447
4560
4625
4665
4670

MIW
JSR/RCH
VLB
ULX/YLX
SYN
FLU/PCD
KPA
ART / NCJ
VHF
ULX/VLB# /VLX# /YLX
VLF
FLU
MIW/PCD/PCD9
NCJ
BAC/YHF
VEB# /VIB# (moved to 4670)
VLB (replaced 4670)
VLB/VLB9 (moved to 4665)
/XLE
4780 KPA
4880 ULX
4882 GBL/GBZ/ULX
4987 V LF
5085 RCH
5091 JSR/RCH
5230 BAC#/MIW2/ULX/YLX
5295 JSR/ NCJ
5437 ART/NCJ/ULX/YLX
5630 MIW/SYN
5643 SYN
5670 MIW#
5670 various cans
5820 PCD/YHF
5910 BAC/YHF
6270 GBZ/GNZ/J SR/ULX/YLX
6500 FLU

6505
6745
6790
6840
7115
7445
7540
7605
7918
8127
8330
8425
8465
8640
8802
8925
9130
9325
9965
10125
10820
11565
12412
12747
12950
13150
,
13291
13533
13921
14750
15980
17170

VLB
CIO/CIOX2/CI01 D/ MIW
CIO
CIO#/EZI
ART
KPA/KPO
JSR/VLB
ART/ ULX/ VLB/XLE
VHF/YHF
TMS
FLU
SMN# /SVN# /SYN# (moved
to 8465)
MIW/SYN
MIW
VHF
CIE# /CIO# /KPA# /SYN#
/VUB#
EZI
CIE/CIF/CIO
MIW
CIO
KPA
CIO/EZl/VLT
KPA#
MIO/MIW/MLW
SYN/VIB/VLB/XLE
CIO#/KPA# (moved to
13921)/VIB#
CIO
EZI
CIE/CIF/CIO/KPA
KPA
EZI
MIO/MIW/ MLW

notice are especially welcomed. I am particularly interested in

what is being heard in areas outside of North America. I
believe these broadcasts are worldwide and folks outside of this
continent hear other broadcasts we do not hea r. I would like to
thank Mr. UK, Bob Grove, Ute World log reporters and
several who want to remain nameless in the preparation of this
month's feat ure and I especially appreciate those who responded
so quickly after last month's column which also addressed this
subject.

Speaking of Mr. UK
Yep, our faithfu l reporter from across the pond has checked
in again with some Canadian frequencies for CANFORCE
military. Without further ado, let's get with it:
Teletype circuits:

VDD: 4824 7985

VEL: 2401 4738 7923 11041 14521
14660 14812
Airways stations and frequencies include:
Trenton:
6705 6735 6753(Wx) 8989 9006 11214 11233 13207
13257 15035(Wx) 17995 18012 23250
Lahr (West Germany): 3092 4704 5690(Wx) 6705 9006 11233
13231(Wx) 13257 15031 18012
Halifax:
3153 4560 4739 5684 5718 6693 6716 6746 8993
9010 11249 13254 15035(Wx) 18027
Thanks a bunch fo r the check-in, Mr. UK, and we hope to
hear from you again real, real soon.

are changed.
Occasionally a call sign will be transmitted continuously
including a special code, (e.g. - C IO BOB86 or SYN 97144).
Also, other call signs may be heard on a particular
frequency as well as the expected call sign. When these are
heard they are nearly always much weaker in strengt h. Th is may
be a fau lt at the transmitter site or is an indication, as I
mentioned earlier, of various power levels and more than one
transmitter site in use.
Even though the messages sent by the alphabet phonetic
broadcast are coded, you can still use these broadcasts to sort
out Middle East tensions. Your chances of decrypting one of
these messages is nil to none. I would say, however, that
keeping some records on these broadcasts for those interested
in the Middle East would be of benefit. You should keep
records on when the messages occur and carefully log the
overall nature of these messages.
There are several things you should watch for. First, record
how often different groups are sent in the messages. Second,
record the length of the messages (number of groups, etc).
Third, be sure to record the time/frequency/ day of the week
with the information you have noted. Be sure to tag possible
world events with the broadcast for later analysis. You can then
use these statistics in conjunction with Middle East and
worldwide events to see how the Israeli intelligence community
reacts to different situations.
By doing the above you might get to the point where you
c'an foresee the future headlines before they happen, so to
speak. While you won't know what each specific message says,
your traffic analysis could give you some clues about what's
happening in the world. Many governments throughout the
world use these same methods of traffic analysis to keep tabs
on their enemies.
Of course, any new frequ encies or call signs you might

Middle East buildup

Several reports have reached my desk concerning the Middle
East buildup of US and foreign forces. A lot of activity has
been heard by monitors all over the world who have listened to
our forces in the Saudi peninsula.
Middle East Air T raffic Control (ATC) channels listed in
last month's column have been busy from late afternoon into
the early evenin g with a lot of military traffic on these
frequencies. As I have stated many times in this column, a
good frequency to hear over here is 11300. It has been hopping
as usual.
Coronet flights have been heard transporting fighter aircraft
across the pond into the Gulf region. Both ATC and military
channels have been carrying this traffic. Don't overlook the
NAT MWARA family of channels, as most of the aircraft start
their trek across the Atlant ic over here and consequently use
these frequencies initially.
Even the FLTSATCOM military satellites have been carrying
traffic from the Middle East. The Atlantic 23 degree west bird
in the DOD wideband channels has had some clear voice
associated with Operation Desert Shield.
MAC aircraft associated with Middle East deployments have
been using special call signs. Instead of the normal call sign
(i.e. - MAC 50860, etc.), Desert Shield MAC aircraft are using
call signs such as: MAC 010 SM (special mission?) or MACOll
SK.
David Moisan was probably one of only a few to learn
about the C-5 crash in West Germany. He was listening to AF
GCCS channels (list published last month) when a MAC
aircraft was trying to get a phone patch Phantom through
Croughton and was put on hold. They mentioned the
emergency at Ramstein AFB.
Well, time ro check out some of what you have been
heari ng this last month. Now it's Ute World logging time.

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Utility Loggings

6343.5
6512.6

Abbreviations used in this column

6515.7

All times UTC, frequencies in kilohe11Z. All voice transmissions

are English unless otherwise noted.
AM
ARO

cw

FAX

FEC
ID
421 .0

1660.0

1730.0

2680.5

2832.7
3196.0
3319.0
3641 .0

3700.0
4450.0

4560.0
4625.0

4882.5
5065.0
5417.0
5591.0

5713.0
5860.0
5950.0

6218.6

30

Amplllude modulation
SITOR
Morse code
Facsimile
Forward error correction
ldenllficallon

ISB
LSB
RTTY
UNID
USB

Independent sideband
Lower sideband
Radlotelelype
Unldenllfled
Upper sideband

6643.0
6685.0
6730.0

PCHSchevenlngen Radio, Holland, wllh a OOG In CW at 0055. (Bill

Kiely, Elsinore Rise, Middleton. County Cork, Ireland) Thanks tor the
nice comments, 8111, and welcome to the column. Please report often. The Chief.
JA2SXV-Bellsville, Maryland. using AM and heard from 12341239. This
Is lhe experimental skywave compression stalion operated by the
National Association of Broadcasters. (Hurley, MD)
Monlloring several conversations via cordless phones at 1247. I've
been picking up neighborhood cordless phones on this frequency for
several monlhs. (Hurley, MD) We won't tell your neighbors, Bob.The
Chief.
DHJ59-Wllhelmshaven Naval Radio. Denmark, heard al 2000 with V
cw marker G23B NAWS. (Ary Boender. Nelherlands) Welcome to the
column, Ary. Nice to see a fellow from my homeland on board. Please
report often. The Chief.
GNKNorwlck Radio. England heard wilh ARO marker al 0115.
(Boender. Netherlands)
Prague Meleo. Czechoslovakia wilh weather RTTY messages al 2207.
(Boender. Nelherlands)
MGJ-Royal Naval Radio Glasgow. Scotland, wllh V CW marker al 2212.
(Boender. Nelherlands)
BMB Taipei Meleo. Taiwan. heard at 1040 wilh conclusion or !raffle and
ID: DE BMB BMB. (Mike Hardester. Okinawa) Hey, Mike, CW I assume.
The Chief
Female (American accenl) In AM sending lhree/ two digit number
groups al 1910. Parallel lo 4700 and 5055. (Hurley, MD)
New York CAP Wing Net wllh net control Empire 504 (Northeast 4
mobile) working Empire 10, Empire 749, elc. wilh Information
concerning a communlcalions school that was held In Albany. Heard a1
2230-2255 In USB. (Hurley, MD)
VHF-Israeli Mossad slallon wilh group 21, 66 lhen five-leller groups al
0133. (Fernandez. MA)
VEB-lsraell Mossad slation wilh same "pips as usual bul now every 31/2 seconds (usually 21 / 2 seconds) at 0139. (Fernandez, MA) This Is
definitely not a time station, it's an Israel/ Mossad. - The Chief.
Bulgarian female flvedlgll number s1ation ending at 0349, followed by
anolher (same?) flve-dlgil number broadcast. (Fernandez, MA)
Female In AM (American accent) number stallon sending three/lwodlglt groups at 2315. (Hurley. MD)
Spanish female flvedlglt number station a1 0207. (Fernandez. MA)
In USB. two males with fishing boats ops In English In lhe Gulf of
Mexico. Also a slmlllar group on 5604.0, also In lhe Gulf area. On 5604,
a female came on and asked the boals lo shift frequency bul lhey
Ignored her. She IDed as Rainbow Radio. Bolh nels Inside lhe aero
bands al 0153. (Fernandez. MA)
ArchlleclRAF wilh alllmeter reading for locallons around England.
(Fernandez. MA)
Bulgarian female tlvedigll number slalion (repealed each group)
followed by anolher (same?) lexl heard al 0403. (Fernandez. MA)
B3B/ M4W/RYR heard al various limes covering lhe Voice of Free
China al 0220. I am nol a Ute lislener and would appreclale you pulling
lhls In your column so I can find out who lhese slatlons are. I would like
lo wrile whoever and lell lhem !heir communlcallons dislurbed my
lislenlng. (Alvin Mahler) Well, Alvin, you can start with the Department of
the Navy, but before you write, take a hard look at your radio. I don't /isl
this channel ever used by //Je Navy signal on that frequency. Good fuel<
and if you ever get Interested in Ute, drop by and see a// of us again.
The Chief.
KEL-Orange. Texas. USA. limited coastal working M/V Johnny Brown
for ETA at 1930 In USB. WEC-Nortolk, Virginia, working M/V Linda
Brandl l alklng aboul engine room problems at 2004 In USB. (Perdue,

November 1990

6556.0

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6735.0
6745.0
6825.0

AL)
UKA-Vladlvoslok Radio, USSR, al 1101 wilh CO CW marker. (Dix, NY)
LGN30Aogaland Radio, Norway, heard In USB at 2305 wilh English
wealher broadcast. (Kiely, Ireland)
WCMWithamsvllle, Ohio, working M/V City of Huntinglon, el al for
dally reports al 1914. (Perdue, AL)
KLM 887 working Bombay Wilh a SELCAL check (DLAM) and
requesling a flight level of 37,000 feet al 2326 In USB. Also Colombo
Aeradlo working Madras Aeradlo In USB al 2319. (Kiely, Ireland)
KLM 838 working Bern Radio wllh a phone patch to a prlvale number at
211 2 In USB. (Kiely, Ireland)
AFNV-Moscow Aerotlot Radio, USSR, heard al 1948 calling CO In CW.
(Boender. Nelherlands)
WAR46/ Brow Bealer wllh radio checkS on primary/ secondary
frequencies. This frequency referred lo as Xray 903. Other frequency
was Papa 380. Then WAR46 had Line Pole do a radio check on Papa
380. (Fernandez. MA)
x single letter HF beacon heard al 2056 in CW. (Boender,
Netherlands)
Cl021sraell Mossad number slallon al 2145 In USB. (Kiely, IR)
RCC Vancouver, BC Canada wilh several phone patches al 0420.
(Forslund, CA)

7404.0
7604.0

German female three/ lwo-diglt number slatlon at 0009. (Dix, NY)

KAA60-FCC Station In Grand Isle, NE, conducllng radio checkS with
olher monitoring stations. Using RTTY 425/ 45 could also be heard
simultaneously on 10902. No bit Inversion encrypllon was used al
0330. (Inman, TN)

7658.0

YZDTANJUG News Service. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, with EE RTTY news

bullellns al 2240. (Boender, Nelherlands)

7680.0

English female with "6959, 2520" repeated while a male In Czech doing
a long siring of numbers and a single word al lhe end (0235), then off
lhe air. Meanwhile female continues. Al 0239 she slopped and the
carrier off a minute laler. Al an earlier dale, heard five-digit groups In
English al lhe same lime as Spanish groups. (Fernandez. MA)
RBV75-Moscow Meleo. USSR, with ATTY weather messages at 2200.
(Boender. Nelherlands)
RGH77Arkhangelsk Meleo. USSR, with ATTY wealher al 2125.
(Boender. Nelherlands)
ROK24MOSCOW Melwo. USSR. heard at 2125 with RTTY wealher
messages. (Boender. Netherlands)
R003-Novosiblrsk Meleo. USSR. with ATTY weather al 2133.
(Boender. Netherlands)
RCC Vancouver, BC, Canada, heard conducllng phone patches In USB
at 0545. (Forslund, CA)
RVL21-Khabarovsk Meleo. USSR. with RTTY wealher at 2130.
(Boender. Nelherlands)
SYD-Nairobi Aeradlo, Kenya, with RTTY RY test tape at 1950. (Kelly,
Ireland)
9WHKota Klnabalu Radio, Malaysia. with CO CW marker al 1042. (Dix,
NY)
PBC38-Dutch Naval Radio. Goeree Island, Holland. heard at 2025 wilh
ATTY RY tesl tape. (Kiely, Ireland)
A9M-Bahraln Radio heard at 1858 with DE CW marker. (Boender,
Netherlands) Heard same al 2030. (Kiely, Ireland)
ROTSoviel Naval Radio. Moscow, heard at 2230 with CO CW marker.
(Boender, Nelherlands)
UXN-Arkhangelsk Radio. USSR, with DE CW marker al 2042. (Boender.
Nelherlands)
FFL4-SI. Lys Radio, France, wilh CO marker al 0127. Llsled tor FFS4
and also heard al 8522.5 (Hawkins, MS)
TBAS-Turkish Naval Radio Ankara wtlh CW V marker al 2244. (Boender.
Nelherlands)

7685.0
7760.0
7855.0
7890.0
7953.0
8085.0
8165.0
8438.0
8439.0
8448.0
8458.0
8471.0
8510.0
8550.0
8715.0
8858.0

8903.0
9023.0

WCCChalham Radio, MA wilh SITOAB plain lexl wealher al 0503.

(Hawkins. MS)
Unld Two drunk fishing boal caplalns jabbering In Cajun French and
English mixed In lhe aero bands al 2230. (Perdue. AL) I told those two
ho/ heads not to use that f1equency, that you would be listening.
Welcome again Neal, and thanks for the nice words. - The Chief.
Niamey Aeradlo, Niger, working Speedblrd 44 al 0054 In USB. (Dix,
NY)
Brewmaster and Darl<Slar Mike aulhenllcatlng each olher al 1347. Big
Foot and Yeager (appears to be lhe NORAD conlrol over the hol areas
by CFB Cold Lake, northeast or Edmonl on) conducllng radio checkS a1
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9025.0
9129.0
9130.0
9140.0
9237.0
9290.0
10740.0
10880.0
10970.0

11 108.0
11176.0

11215.0
11300.0
11532.0
12070.0
12682.5
12690.0

CFB Cold Lake-their call sign Rhinestone and a tall of HG #) to

Dungree (AWACS) using a frequency or 336.6 primary and 324.0
secondary and refueled by Emit 83, also AIRP would be 309.4. They
also used 230.4 as a data link channel to Yeager Weapons. The whole
bunch also talked on 15.715 and 18.027. All comms In USB. (Brinkley,
CA)
Thunderstone (SAC ground station?) working Normandy with
authentication request at 1302 In USB. (Kiely, Ireland)
TWo unld stations called this channel "Goll" In USB at 1335. (Brlnl<ley,
CA)
Israel! Mossad station heard here with five-letter groups at 0203.
(Fernandez, MA)
English female five-digit number station at 0240. (Fernandez, MA)
Spanish female five-digit number station at 0523. (Fernandez, MA)
RT078-Sverdlovsk Meleo, USSR. with ATTY weather messages at
2140. (Boender. Nelherlands)
German female three/two-digit number station at 0114. (Dix, NY)
SPAR66 aircraft flying from Keflavik to NAS Norfolk, -Virginia, working
Andrews AFB, Maryland, at 2140 In USB. (Kiely, Ireland)
English female five-digit number station mixing with AFRTS 1 kHz down
and occasional USAF OTHAB burst. Text ended with just 00000 at
0510. (Fernandez, MA)
English female (accent) repeating Papa November then at 0335 started
three/two-digit number groups. (Dix, NY)
SAM972 working Andrews AFB at 1956 In USB. Has the National
Security Advisor on board. (Kiely, Ireland) This one surprises me, Bill.
This is a GCCS House channel and I would lhink they would avoid these
channels, but II Is /he Navy, we do lhings wierd, hi, hi. The Chief.
German female three/two-digit number station at 0222. (Fernandez,
MA)
Mogadlsclo Aeradlo working Seychelles Aeradlo about aircraft flight
plans at 2012 In USB. (Kiely, Ireland)
Spanish female five-digit number station at 0217. (Fernandez, MA)
Several stallons heard on this channel, Identified channel as W-108.
(Brinkley, CA)
PKEAmbolna Radio, Indonesia, with CO CW marker at 1114. (Dix. NY)
NMNUSCG COMSTA Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. with NUKO traffic In
CW at 1815. (Boender, Netherlands)

12833.0 AMP-Soviet Naval Radio. Kallnlngrad, heard at 1452 calling UXAL In

cw. (Boender, Netherlands)
12950.0 Golf 3 Victor (a/c) and an unld ground station conducting a phone
patch. Once patch Initiated, all parties conversed In German at 0300 In
USB. (Fernandez, MA)
13053.0 E32GB-Comsubmar with copy headed "Restrtngldo" date, time and Into
encrypted ATTY 796/75R at 0035. (Bilodeau, IL)
13205.0 SPAR65 (US Navy VIP aircraft) calling Andrews AFB for 30 minutes with
no answer at 1745 In USB. (Klely, Ireland)
13214.0 MAC 76955 (C-141 Starlifter) working Croughlon AB (GCCS) with
phone patch to Command at 1130 In USB. (Kiely, Ireland)
13247.0 WGY-912 to Red Bat ready to send traffic then ATTY 1733 then Mess
Hall radio check at 1749. (Brinkley, CA)
13342.0 Pakistan 714 calling Karachi Aeradlo with no answer at 1706 In USB.
(Kiely, Ireland)
13434.0 Spanish female flve-dlgll number stallon heard at 0207 In AM.
(Fernandez, MA)
13530.0 RVW53-Moscow Meleo. USSR, with ATTY weather at 1856. (Boender,
Netherlands)
14315.0 Spanish female five-digit number station at 0450. (Forslund, CA)
14441.5 NNNOCMQ-USCGC Alert working NNNOPPE (US Navy MARS phOne
patch speciality nel coordlnal or) Norfolk, Virginia, with phone palch
traffic at 1517 In USB. (Perdue. Al)
15715.0 Leg Boot, Retenllon, Deer Tag, Red Dog Ops (552nd, AWACS, Tinker
AFB, OK) Ankle Bone talking about tracks al 151 1 and Side Car to
Brewmaster at 1825. (Brinkley, CA)
16075.0 Unld Russian cyrllllc transmission headed with 'Gorbachev on Russian
FSA party conference. Also contained many references to the
Kommunlstl Partll, meellngs, etc at 0415 with ATTY 475/100A.
(Biiodeau, IL)
16959.0 ZBZ2-unid station with DE CW marker around 0100. (Dix, NY) Anybody
know who /his Is. - The Chief.
16980.0 UND-Novorosslysk Radio, USSR, calling 41S7 at 2002 In cw. (Dix. NY)
17014.5 Single letter HF
beacon heard at 2212. (Dix, NY) Nol all these dudes
have disappeared. I have lwo of them reported /his monlh. - The Chief.

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17029.0 JMC-Tokyo Radio, Japan, with CW weather al 2149. (Dix, NY)

17037.0 Y015-Constanta Radio, Romania, calling YOGP at 1730 In CW.
(Boender. Netherlands)
17045.5 57YTR calling 590SB followed by RY INT ZBZ ZAl2 KKK In ATTY
839/100A at 1826. (Biiodeau, IL)
17090.0 Bequlck 3 requesting a radio check with Bequlck 1 with Interference
from XSG at 1850 In USB. (Dix, NY)
17170.0 MIW2-lsraell Mossad number station heard at 2017 parallel 12747. (DIX,
NY)
17229.5 YUAAljeka Radio, Yugoslavia. with CW call sign only ID and ARO
Idling at 1855. (Hawkins, MS)
18038.0 Numbers station Female In English wllh a strange accent using fivenumber groups an repeated each group before the next group Is sent
heard at 1808. (Brinkley, CA)
19529.0 JMG5-Tokyo Meleo, Japan. with 850/ 50R ATTY coded weather at
1520. (Hawkins, MS)
19822.5 5AF-Trlpoli Aeradlo, Libya, with aero ATTY messages at 11 15.
(Boender, Netherlands)
19969.0 WGY986 working WGY906 would maintain this channel (F52) because
the female operator had only one transmitter at 1908 In USB. (Brinkley,
CA)
20150.0 SAM 206 (A/ C) with phone patch to Guitar via Andrews AFB. Later 206
talking to another SAM A/ C and shifted to another frequency after
patch comms completed In LSB at 2127. (Fernandez. MAJ
20715.0 AFFXCC-French Navy with coded five-letter groups 334 total. Controle
de Vole Message followed afterward at 1616. ARO-E3. (Biiodeau, IL)
20812.0 AFTJ D-French Navy Paris, France. with controle de vole test message
at 1530 using ARO-E3 826/ 48. (Biiodeau, IL)
20972.2 MKK-London (Stanbrldge), England, with foxes test tape at 1520 using
FDM 120/50N. (Bilodeau, IL)
22543.0 7TF-Sklkda Radio, Algeria. with ca cw marker at 1235. (Boender,
Netherlands)
23370.0 Jeddah Meleo, Saudi Arabia. with ATTY weather messages at 1340.
(Boender. Netherlands)
23561 .0 PCW1 MFA. The Hague, Netherlands, heard at 1200 with ARO
messages. (Boender. Netherlands)
23642.0 KWS78US Department of State Radio, Alhens. Greece, with cw ORA
marker at 0946. (Boender, Netherlands.

MON ITORING TfMES

November 1990

31

The Scanning Report

Bob Kay
c/o MT, P. 0. Box 98
Brasstowll, NC 28902

Scanning Basics
I was opening my mail the other day when I came across a le tter
positively brimming with frustration. "A ton of frequencies can't
help me," bemoa ned the reader, "if I don't know how to utilize my
equipment." As I read that statement, I suddenly realized that
many of you were new subscribers who were just beginning to
explore the world of scanning. If you're nodding your head in
agreement, then this column has been written especially for you -the scanning novice .
Here are a few of the more common questions that have
appeared in my mail bag.

-+

"What scanl!er radio should I buy?" This is a difficult question

to answer. It's akin to asking, "What automobile should I buy?" If
you're new to the hobby, don't spend more than $200.00 dollars on
Bob Kay answers questions at the Knoxville
a scanner radio. Forget about monitoring the military aircraft and
cellular bands. Buy a basic scanner radio that can receive the VHF Convention
a nd UHF fr equencies. H eck, there's plenty of action on the regular
descramblers that retailed fo r under fi fty dollars.
scanning bands. Afte r your feet get wet, you can upgrade to a
more professional and expe nsive model.
-+ "Can l be airested for monitoring cellular car phones?" You
probably stand a better chance of being struck by lightning. In any
"Will I hear m ore signals on a desk top scal!ner radio?"
large city, millions of cellular conversat ions a rc being broadcast
Absolutely not. The sensitivity of hand held scanner radios is
across the air. Anyone with a scanner radio can listen in. If you
ident ical to the larger, non portable models.
walked into a police station wit h your scanne r radio tuned to
"If I erect an outside antenna, will my monit01ing range
cellular phone conversations, the cops would probably join in and
increase?" With an outside antenna, you can expect to receive radio listen to the activity.
signals that a re within 35 to 50 miles away. But don't forget that
-+ "Is. it illegal to have a scanner radio in my car?" In some states
buildings and ground terrain can adversely affect your reception.
mobile scanning is illega l. Before installing a mobile rig, check with
-+ "How do I dete1111ine tire height of my outside antenna?" Ideally, your local or state police.
your antenna should be above the roof tops and or tree tops in
'1'111 disabled and in a wheel chair. Cai1 you suggest an agency
your neighborhood. If that isn't possible, don't be afraid to
that
will erect a mof top scanning antenna?" Your local television
experiment. Place your antenna in several locations, and spend an
repair shop is an ideal place to start looking. O ther repair shops
hour or so comparing notes. Afterwards, it's a simple matter of
can be found in the yellow pages of your phone book.
permanently installing the antenna at the most receptive location.
-+ "What is tire fon1111la for making a c1istom antenna ?" T o
-+ "Will I !rear m ore signals 1f my olllside scanning antenna is
construct a half wave dipole, divide the freque ncy by 468. The
grounded?" No. Your antenna should be grounded for safety
a nswer provides the length of the antenna. Here's an example: To
reasons. But don't expect an improvement in reception.
monitor the cordless phone bands, let's choose 46.6 as our
-+ "ls there a 'super antenna', that can extend my scanning range?" frequency. T o determine the length of our antenna, simply divide
The signals that we receive on our scanner radios rarely travel over 46.6 into 468. As you ca n see, your cordless antenna would be
60 miles. D on't be fooled into believing that a particular make or
approximately ten feet long.
model will extend your scanning distance to hundreds of miles.
-+ "When I enter tire frequen cy of 162.4375 imo my scanner, it
-+ "What type of coax cable should l use?" Visit your local R adio automatically displays 162.435. ls something wrong with my radio?"
Shack store and buy RG-6 coax cable. Ir you don't want to inst all
Your scanner radio is working just fi ne. The 5 kHz resolut ion of
the e nd connectors, the cable can b e purchased with factory
most scanner radios will round off the entered frequency. Since the
installed "F connectors." For maximum signal transfer between the FM signal is quite broad, it won't compromise your ability to hear
antenna and scanner radio, keep the lead-in as short as possible.
all the action.
Generally, any length under 50 feet is acceptable.
"How can I reduce tire 'hiss' on my scanner when 111onit01ing tire
-+ "Can I use a television preamplifier on my scanner radio?" Sure, 800 megalrenz band?" T he "hiss" is receiver noise that is internally
but be careful to check the manufacturers frequency limits. Most
generated by the components of you r scanner radio. Strong signals
TV preamps fall between 80 and 500 megahertz. If you're trying to usually eliminate the problem, but weak signals cannot. The only
boost your scanning reception on 800 megahertz, the selected
cure is to improve your antenna syste m or move closer to the
preamp must be rated fo r the higher frequencies.
transmitte r site.
-+ "My local police can 'scramble' their transmissions. ls there a way For best results, use low loss RG-6 coax and keep your lead-in
for me to listen in?" The Electronic Communicati ons Privacy Act of as short as possible. If your coax is 100 feet or more, an outdoor,
mast-mounted preamplifier is recommended.
1986 made it illegal to monitor scra mbled voice transmissions.
Prior to the ECPA, there were a few commercially produced
-+ "ls th ere a scanning book that explains tire basics of tire hobby?"

.+
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Novem ber 1990

MONITORING TIMES

Power is supplied by an internal 9 volt battery, and there are no

Yes indeed -- Contact DX Radio Supply, and ask for Bob Kay's
Citizen's Guide to Scanning. The book retails for $12.95 plus $1.20 external wires or technical adjustments. The Super Converter II is
shipping. Here's the address: P.O. Box 360, Wagontown, PA 19376. a straightforward, compact unit that really works.
When I asked GRE to provide their Super Converters for our
Treasure Hunt, they sent two of each unit. In addition to
800 Band Allocations
providing four converters, GRE also sent along two "Super
Last month we talked about the world "beyond cellular" and
Amplifiers." The Super Amplifier is a preamp that has been
made reference to an official frequency allocation chart which did
designed to improve reception on the VHF/UHF bands from 100
not accompany the article. We're sorry; the dog chewed it up. But
MHz to 1 Gigahertz.
we've reconstructed the pieces, and it appears below.
The Super Amplifier has an adjustable gain that allows for 20dB
of amplification. In appearance, the Super Amplifier is nearly
Treasure Hunt
identical to the Super Converter II. Both units are contained in
Sure, I know that you're excited. I also know that many of you
professional quality aluminum boxes that have an attractive black
have a problem. You want to monitor the new world of 800
metal finish.
megahertz, but you don't want to spend several hundred dollars on
The Super Amplifier connects directly to the BNC connector on
a new scanner radio. Relax. I've got the perfect solution.
your scanner radio. Power is supplied by an internal 9 volt battery
The folks at "GRE America," are marketing two scanning
and the unit incorporates "state-of-the-art" circuitry. Best of all, I
converters that will allow you to explore the entire world of 800
tested the Super Amplifier and the Super Converters. All the units
megahertz. The "Super Converter I," converts the standard UHF
performed admirably and without exhibiting any major flaws.
band to receive all of the action between 806 and 960 megahertz If you're keeping count, we now have six prizes for the
including cellular!
November/December Treasure Hunt. But wait, there's more! GRE
The Super Converter I is approximately 3''x5"x2". The unit is
has also provided two rubber ducky antennas. These antennas
equipped with a short length of coax, and a factory installed
feature extended range and they can be the ideal companion for
motorola plug. To convert the standard UHF band to 800
hand carried scanner radios.
megahertz, you simply connect the Super Converter to your
Okay, we now have eight prizes. I'm going to include one rubber
scanner radio, and then search between 450 and 512 megahertz.
ducky antenna with each Super Amplifier II. To keep things
The Super Converter II is not a bulk]' piece of equ ipment that
simple, we will pick six winners. Two people will win one Super
mu st be disconnected when not in use. The unit is only a few
Amplifier with a rubber duck]' antenna. Two people will win one
inches long, and it attaches directly to the BNC connector on your Super Converter, and two people will win one Super Converter IT.
scanner radio. When standard scanning of the UHF band is
T o become a lucky winner, you'll need to find the answers to the
desired, there's a switch on the back that allows instant return to
following clues:
normal scanning.
1. What is the 800 telephone number for GRE America, Inc.?
2. An attenuator reduces the strength of the signal. True or False?
3. "On the second day of Christmas, my true Jove gave to me - ."
Business conventional systems mobile
806810
Name the items that were received.
Publlc Safety slow growth system mobiles
810816
4. What is the main UHF backup frequency for the Space
Business SMR trunked system mobile
816821
Public Safety mobile
821824
Shuttle?
Cellular Mobile Telephone nonwlrellne mobile
824835
5. Provide the handset frequency for cordless phone channel #2.
Cellular Mobile Telephone wlrellne (Bell) mobile
835845
845846.5
846.5 849
849851
851 855
855861
861 866
866869
869880
860890
690691 .5
691.5894
894 896
896 898.5
898.5899. 75
899.75901
901 902
902928
928928.35
928.35-928.85
928.85 929
929 929.75
929 .75-930
930931
931 932
932935
935937.5
937 .5938. 75
938.75940
94094 1
941 944
944.947
947 952
952.1952.7
952.8956.1
956.25956.45
956. 5959.8
959.85960

Cellular Mobile Telephone nonwlrellne mobile

Cellular Mobile Telephone wirellne (Bell) mobile
Land Mobile Satellite (reserved) mobile
Business conventional system base
Public safety slow growth systems base
Business trunked systems base
Public safety base
Cellular mobile telephone nonwlreline base
Cellular mobile telephone wlrellne (Bell) base
Cellular mobile telephone nonwl rellne base
Cellular mobile telephone wlrellne (Bell) base
Land mobile satellite (reserved) base
Business SMA
Industrial Land transportation
Business
General purpose mobile radio
Amateur radio (Ham)
Domestic publlc private multi-address
Domestic public reserved
Domestic public wide area paging
omestlc public reserved
omestlc public voice paging
Domestic public digital paging
Domestic public common carrier paging
Government private shared operallonal fi xed
Business SMR
Industrial Land transportation
Business
General purpose mobile radio
Government private shared operational fixed
Broadcast studio-transmitter link (aural)
Broadcast aux iliary
Private microwave omnldirectlonal control
Private microwave operational fi xed
Private fixed signaling and control
Private microwave operallonal fixed
Common carrier wide area paging

Send your answers to the 'Treasure Hunt," P.O. Box 98,

Brasstown, N.C. 28902. Beginning with this month, there are
several new rules that should be noted:
1) Please use post cards whenever possible.
2) No FAXed entries.
3) Multiple entries are okay, but each entry must be mailed
separately.
If You REC06NllE

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165.6625
Tinker, Fire & Crash Crews
166.00
IRS
170.065
Federal Prison
173.10
Storm Spotters, Norman, Oklahoma
451.125
Electric Company
Frequency Exchange
453.775
Midwest City Hospital Net
During this time of year, most people that Live in the snow belt
Ready for a Helicopter ride? Let's visit Par1'."View Memorial
are wishing fo r a white Christmas. With that in mind, let's visit a
Hospital, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As we board the Sam01ita11,
place where there's been snow on the ground since late September. you'll immediately notice that the interior resembles a hospital
Ken Webster lives jn Newfoundland and he has provided the
emergency room. The helicopt er can carry two patients, two
following frequencies:
medical specialists, an FAA trained flight mechanic, a registered
nurse and a flight paramedic. Here are the frequencies:
165.2375
US Customs
155.01
Lake Placid Police, NY
122.800
Fuel station located at Smith Field
155.37
"
155.205
Hospital Dispatch frequency
156.21
155.280
Indiana H?.spital Emergency Net
158.91
155.340
154.10
Montreal Police, North
462.950
Ground EMS dispatch
155.40
Montreal Police, South
Parhiew Memorial Hospital
463.175
167.01
Quebec Police
If you want to go ai rborne, there's a problem. The liftoff fee for
166.62
"
the Sa11101i1a11 is Sl,450.00 dollars. Cost per mile is S30.00 dollars.
Since everyone is chilled to the bone, let's warm up with a visit
Anyone bring along their check book?
to the "Richard Nixon Library" in California. Norm Anderson lives
Flying enthusiasts that couldn't afford the Sammiran will love
nearby, and he has provided us with a few of his favo rite
our next stop. Welcome to "Baer Field," Fort Wayne, Indiana. As
frequencies: 163.96, 163.91, 163.885 and 167.025.
some of you already know, Baer Field is home to the 122 Tactical
Norm claims that the above frequencies become very active
Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard.
when dignitaries make a scheduled stop at the Library. Thanks
148.175
Fire & Crash
Norm. I'd like to stay longer, but the Democrats and Republicans
148.300
Commanders Net
in the group are beginning to growl at one another.
148.400
Training
To get everyone into a fest ive mood, our next stop will be the
148.550
Security
state of Kansas. Dorothy, Toto and the Wicked Witch have invited
149.275
Operations
us to Munch.kin land - just kidding, just kidding.
257.800
Tower
Since we are in Kansas, I suppose that it wouldn't hurt to check
348.600
Ground
out the frequencies that were sent in by Jeff Henjes.
369.200
Approach
398.200
Approach
39.78
Fish & Game
41.50
Fort Riley Tower
Okay, gang, that's it for the Frequency Exchange. If anyone
148.15
Civil Air Patrol (repeater out)
needs a lift home, the National Guard will fly you back and
151.10
Turnpike maintenance
Mo11itori11g Times will pick up the tab. Enjoy. (The Sama1ita11 and
151.085
Turnpike toll booths
Baer Field frequencies were submitted anonymously.)
158.73
Johnson County Sheriff
To invite the Frequency Exchange to your neck of the woods,
154.83
Turnpike Authority
simply
send in your favorite frequency list to the "Frequency
155.85
Kansas City Police, tactical
Exchange," P.O. Box 98, Brasstown, NC 28902.
159.03
Johnson County Sheriff
159.105
Johnson County Sheriff
Cordless Taxation
159.21
Kansas City Police, tactical
452.35
Highway Patrol
Under new guidelines for its criminal invest igators, the IRS can
453.45
Highway Patrol
monitor your cordless phone conversations. As most of you know,
a recent Supreme Court decision ruled that cordless phones are
Our next invitation is from the state of Oklahoma. Bob
not protected by federa l privacy laws.
Pettengill lives near Oklahoma City, and he has prepared an
The IRS says that since cordless phones are nor protected, its
interesting list of his favorite frequencies:
agents can listen in at any time, and without a court order. If
45.22
Highway Patrol
you're thinking about discussing your tax return with someone,
131.925
Federal Express
don't do it on a cordless phone.
149.525
Will Rogers fire and crash crew
151.055
Storm Spotters, Oklahoma City
Cellular Hanky Panky
154.10
Mustang City Water
154.785
Highway Patrol
The Canadian Attorney General was forced to resign when his
G rady County Sheriff
155.130
taped cellu lar phone calls were made public. According to a
Oklahoma Rescue teams
155.160
newspaper article, the Attorney General used his cellular car
155.205
Baptist Medical Center
phone to arrange dates wit h his mistress and to verbally slander his
155.280
Presbyterian Hospital
fellow colleagues. I'll wager $5.00 bucks that the Attorney General
155.385
Yukon EMS/Norman/Lindsay
never
subscribed to Mo11itoii11g Times. Anyone care to bet?
155.565
Yukon Police

The Super Converter II and the Super Amplifier can be

purchased from Grove Enterprises. Check Grove's catalog for the
current prices or call 704-837-9200.

158.775
158.925
160.325
164.9625
165.635

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Airport surveillance
Marriott Hotel security
Burlington Railroad
Tinker Medical Net
FAA Security

November 1990

Next Month
Forget about "Peace on Eart h and Good Will toward Men." In
December's column, you'll experience Christmas in the big city. It's
an act ion filled scanning adventure that you won't want to miss.
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Among the unit's many
features are 200 memory
channels and razor sharp
selectivity (6 kHz ceramic, 2
kHz mechanical, and 1 kHz
crystal).
For more information on
the JST-135HP, contact your
favorite radio store or write
Japan Radio Company, ltd.,
430 Park Avenue (2nd Floor),
New York, New York 10022.

Meanwhile, rumor has it

that work is underway at
Japan Radio Company, Ltd.
on the replacement for the
widely acclaimed NRD-525
general coverage receiver.
According to an unofficial
source, the NRD-535 should
be released sometime in
1992. No further details are
available at this time.

36

November 1990

Heavy Duty
Antenna Rotor
f you've been thinking of
putting up a big antenna and we're talking big here
- you may want to consider
Philips ECG's HD-73 Heavy
Duty Anten na Rotator.
The HD-73 rotator is
constructed of thick,
aluminum castings on the
outside with hardened steel
gears for strength and
resistance to wind and severe
weather.
Just how tough is this
baby? The HD-73 is designed
to be able to swing 1,000

The Traveler's
Guide to
World Radio

ubbed "the hot line to

the world's English
language broadcasts,"
the Traveler's Guide to World
Radio is especially designed
for the information-hungry
business or recreational
traveler.
Published by the same
people who bring you the
World Radio TV Handbook,
this new entry into the radio
book arena is arranged by
city, showing local AM and
FM broadcasts in English,
schedules and frequencies of
major shortwave broadcasters
such as the BBC and Voice
of America and other detailed
..schedule information - all
shown in "at a glance"
(sound familiar?), easy-to-read
charts. Other information
shows local language, electric
pounds of antenna at one
current,
and telephone
revolution per minute.
country prefix.
The suggested retail price
The 128 page Traveler's
for the HD-73 is $263.00. It's
available at your favorite radio Guide to World Radio is
available from DX Radio
store or call Philips at 1-800Supply, Box 360, Wagontown,
526-9354 for the dealer
PA 19376, for 9.95 plus 1.20
nearest you.
book rate or 2.30 UPS
shipping.

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(Legal) FM
Transmitter!
ust about every radio
enthusiast harbors a
secret desire to own his
own radio station. Unfortunately, few of us can afford
the real thing. So we turn to
smaller version of the 100
kW station in town.
M.B.R. Distributing,
headed by Monitoring Times
reader Mike Reiss, is now

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complete, solid state radio
station.
The FM-3 uses standard
house current, and has a
chip that allows you to
program a message of up to
64 seconds that is repeatedly
broadcast on the FM band.
Of course, the FM-3 has
a number of commercial
applications and can be used
to sell real estate ("Tune to
94.1 FM for details on this
house'), accompany billboard
advertisements, and so forth
for a range of between 200
and 300 ft. And while you
probably won't have to worry
about getting a lot of
reception reports for your
station, it should be fun in
most neighborhoods. Heck, in
an urban environment, you
could reach tens of
thousands!
The FM-3 measures 1O" x
3" x 6" and is covered by
what the seller calls a
"normal electronics defects
guarantee of 1 year, parts
and labor."
The FM-3 is $495.00 (which
includes shipping) from
M.B.R. Distributing, P.O. Box
155, Ramsey, IL 62080.

RTTY traffic. Morgan's

programs, which are available
for use with the Universal M7000, AEA PK-232, and
Kantronic KAM, provide the
Soviet maritime monitor with
cyrillic hard copy of the
transmissions that are monitored.
A description of the
program is beyond the scope
of a normal review; instead
we encourage interested
readers to send a self
address, stamped business
size envelope to Mr. Morgan
at P.O. Box 37595, Raleigh,
North Carolina 27627-7595.
Please specify the type of
decoder that you use.

New DAT
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be offered in 46-, 60-, 90and 120-minute lengths.
' Dealer and consumer
reaction to DAT has been
phenomenal,' says George
Ozan, assistant general
manager of Panasonic's Magnetic Media Division.
Unlike the CD, Digital
Audio Tape is a recordable
format with the audio signal

being recorded magnetically

on a 3.81 mm-wide tape (the
same width as normal audio
tape) and played back by a
fast-spinning magnetic head,
similar to, but smaller than,
that of a VCR.
Panasonic DAT tapes will
range from $10.99 for the 46
minute version to $16.99 for
the 120 minute length.

New ICOM
IC-R7000
Computer
Controller

Cyrillic Hard
Copy for RTTY

he Deltacomm
Version ~ .O~ is a
communications
manager for the
ICOM IC-R7000

new computer program

by Stewart Todd
Morgan, KM41C, will be
of interest to the small but
dedicated number of people
who monitor Soviet maritime

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receiver. Unlike similar

products that merely
control the receiver,

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says its manufacturer, Delta

Research, Deltacomm does
not just control the radio but
will "maximize the potential"
of the R-7000.
The program includes a
custom MS-DOS interface for
control plus a comprehensive
set of software
communications tools that
offer an individual "real world"
software to analyze, log and
generate reports from the
data.
You can get your copy of
Deltacomm 1.04, which
includes external interface and
components for cabling, for
$299.99 plus $4.00 shipping
and handling. For more
information write Delta
Research at Box 13677,
Wauwatosa, WI 53213 or call
414-353-4567.

Fire Service
Corn ms
lthough intended for
dispatchers, technicians
and others involved in
firefighting radio communications, Fire Service Radio
Communications by Edwin
Spahn serves well as an
informative text for all forms
of public service and even
private sector radio
communications.
Logically divided into
seven basic themes, involving
35 chapters, Spahn's professional volume takes the
reader from an FCC license
application through the concepts of radio installation and
maintenance and on into
communications theory and
equipment construction and
design.
From preparing fiscal
management responsibilities

38

November 1990

to wiring and cabling the

system to planning and
erecting an antenna tower,
this comprehensive work
examines every imaginable
cranny of radio system
conception and realization.
Chapters include consultant services, specifying
needs, repair shop considerations, installation requirements, signal propagation,
characteristics of the radio
spectrum, types of modulation, electronic components
and laws, lightning protection,
paging systems, batteries and
power supplies, even various
signaling methods.
Appendices cover electronic symbols, communications center standards, flowcharting principles, coax cable
specifications and related
documents and publications.
Whether you are a law
enforcement officer, serious
scanner enthusiast, dispatcher,
technician or student of radio
communications systems, this
is the definitive book on
planning VHF through microwave communications.
The 437-page Fire Service
Radio Communications can
be purchased on 30 day free
trial from Pennwell Books,
P.O. Box 21308, Tulsa, OK
74101, for $42.95 plus $2
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Pen

NRC AM
Radio Log
the new 1991 edition of
the NRC AM Radio Log
is now available. If
you're one of the growing
number of people who enjoy
spinning through the AM dial
in search of DX, this is a
must-have.
Containing nearly 350
pages, the 8-1 / 2 x 11" loose
leaf format book contains
over 6,000 listings of AM
stations from the United
States and Canada. Included
with each listing is the
station's frequency, location,
call letters, format news
network, address, slogan, day
and night transmitter power
and more.
The new NRC AM Radio

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\ 1991 EdiUon

\
Log is considered one of the
more up-to-date references
and one of the only sources
prepared especially for DXers.
It's available from DX Radio
Supply for $17.95 plus 2.00
book rate or $3.05 UPS
shipping from DX Radio
Supply, Box 360, Wagontown,
PA 19376.

New Kenwood
Service Center
nternational Radio and
Computers, a Floridabased firm, is now an
authorized Kenwood repair
service agency. Their address
is 751 South Macedo Blvd.,
Port St. Lucie, Florida 34983
or call 407-879-6868.

reject builders and electronic tinkerers may find

Planned Products' 3300
Circu it Works Overcoat Pen
to be a helpful addition to
the bench. Designed to
insulate, protect and repair
circuits boards, components
and delicate electronics, the
3300 applies a conformal
overcoat to insulate against
shorting, arcing and static
discharge while protecting
against moisture, abrasion,
chemicals and other environmental hazards. Amazing.
Normal writing pressure
opens the tip and the
overcoat flows easily. Each
pen is filled with enough fluid
to protect approximately 60
feet of exposed traces.
To get your 3300 Circuit
Works Overcoat Pen, send
$9.95 plus $1.00 mail or
$2.50 UPS shipping to
Planned Products, 303
Potrero, Suite 53, Santa Cruz,
CA 95060 or call 408-4598088.
This column is dedicated
to new products, books, and
gadgets of interest to the
radio hobbyist. Send new
product announcements or
catalog clippings to: Editor,
Monitoring Times, P.O. Box
98, Brasstown, NC 28902.
(Be sure to include full
information on where to
obtain the item and its price,
if possible.)

Review:

Computer Aided Scanning

Microdec MD-100
Code/RTTY Reader

a new d imension in communications from Daiametrics

In the early 1980s several amateur accessory manufacturers

including Kantronics and AEA manufactured small, inexpensive
devices which could be plugged into the external speaker jacks of
receivers to directly view Morse and radioteletype messages.
These add-ons gradually disappeared as home computers
took over. This left only two options: purchase a computer and
the interface and software to view digital communications, or
purchase a stand-alone demodulator like the lnfoTech, HAL or
Dovetron.
Now Somerset Electronics {1290 Highway A1A, Satellite
Beach, FL 32937; phone 1-407-773-8097), has released a
professional, inexpensive reader for the shortwave listener who
would like to casually monitor RTIY and CW off the air with his
receiver.
This featherweight (less than one pound) accessory measures
approximately five inches wide and deep, and only a little over an
inch high, fitting easily anywhere near-or on-the receiver. Power
is derived from an AC wall adaptor (included); an internal,
rechargeable nicad battery for portable operation is available.
The display is a bright, green, eight-character, 5 x 7 dot matrix
LED array. As the message is received, it scrolls from right to left
"Times Square style.
The brightness of the display may be controlled by a pair of
up/down pushbuttons; any of seven levels of intensity may be
selected to accommodate various ambient lighting conditions.
An internal speaker is very handy for monitoring the digital
signal while it is being tuned in for copy; a volume control may be
adjusted to suit the user. An LED tuning light indicates when the
signal level is adequate and properly tuned in to match the audio
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If you'd like to get your code speed up to snuff, simply plug a

key into the rear-panel jack. A pleasant tone, adjustable to
comfortable listening volume, comes from the internal speaker as
your message appears on the display.

A computer interface
If you would like to feed the decoded message into a
computer, simply connect your PC to the DB-9 connector on the
rear of the MD-1 00.
General impressions

Modes
The Microdec MD-100 is capable of receiving Morse code (up
to 70 WPM), radioteletype (60, 67, 75 and 100 WPM; 170 or 850
Hz shift) and ASCII (110 and 300 baud). Functions are provided
by a Motorola 68HC705C8 microprocessor; an SK EEPROM
supplies the memory.
When the instrument is first switched on, it cycles through a
self-test program on the main display; a READY readout tells the
operator that he may select the appropriate mode. This is done
by holding down the mode pushbutton which steps through its
functions.

The MD-100 is, in a word, cute. And it works well. The display
is unusually sharp, and straightforward engineering invites
immediate use without consulting the manual. The unit couldn't
be simpler to operate.
With the appropriate mode selected by the pushbutton and
the receiver tuned to the correct audio level and frequency,
messages begin scrolling across the display within a few seconds
as the microprocessor locks in on the bit rate.
Of course, with only eight characters visible, the operator will
have to keep a sharp eye on the display to get the message -- no
referring back to earlier copy! With words like 'if,' "and,' and 'the,'
it's no problem, but antidisestablishmentarianism could take
some concentration!
The MD-100 manual is very well written, easy to read filled with
helpful hints for successful decoding.
All in all, the MD-100 is an impressive little box -- professionally engineered and designed, and worth its asking price.
The Microdec MD-100 decoder is $199 plu~ $8.50 shipping
from Somerset Electronics, 1290 Highway A1A, Suite 206,
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November 1990

39

the beginner's corner

uncle Skip Arey, WB2GHA

Safety First and Foremost

It has taken me most of my life to figu re it
out, but I have finally come to the conclusion
that I am a n "Adrenalin Junkie." I'm one of
those folks who is always looking fo r the next
thrill. Psychologists have long referred to ''The
Risk T aker Personality." They could put my
picture next to t he definition by way of an
example.
So, between trips to the word processor, I
have been found racing motorcycles, surfing,
shooting rapids, doing all manner of
wilderness adventures (still waiting for my
wallet to grow so I can take up stunt piloting) .

This is Monitoring Times, not

Outward Bound, Uncle Skip!!
Aw, there you go agai n, looking for my
point, huh?
The point is, I have developed a healthy
respect for safety over the years of chasing
adventure and excitement. Fact is, you can do
almost any wild and crazy thing in this world
with little fear of severe retribution if you
simply pay attention to safety.
Now playing radio isn't quite as
complicated as rappelling down the side of a
mountain. Howeve r, do not let the sedentary
nature of our pursuit of DX dull your senses
to the potential dangers associated with our
hobby. A t the risk of being identified as a
Nervous Nelly, allow me to point our a few
cogent points through a little treatise I call

Robert A. Heinlein once said that the only

crime is ignorance and the only sentence is
death. Pretty strong stuff, but relatively true.
O ur hobby can place us in pretty close
proximity to elect ricity. Lack of knowledge in
this area can surely kill. This and other
dangers lurk in the corners of the radio hobby.
But you can relax, old son, because knowledge
is power and you are about to get a good
strong dose of information.

Electricity
We tend to take that stuff that comes out
of the wall sockets for granted. But it doesn't
rake a whole lot of electricity to kill someone.
Over the years, building and electrical codes
have changed and in1proved the state of the
juice coming into our house so that the system
itself can't harm us so long as we treat it with
respect.

40

November 1990

Never override
devices

existing

safety

On the most basic !<..'Ve!, let's assume your

receiver came with a three-prong grounded
plug. The purpose of the third prong is to
allow a direct elect rical short in your
equipment to route itself safely to the ground.
Now if you have removed the third prong
of the plug or if you have used an adaptor to
allow you to plug your gear into an oldfashioned two-pronged socket, you have set
yourself up for failure or worse. In this case, if
a short occurs, the radio lacks a path to
ground.
So what happens? You reach for the
controls to tune Radio Freedonia in better
and you become the path to ground. The st ray
voltage takes a shortcut through your body. lf
the path Lo ground just happens Lo cross your
heart, well, it was nice knowing you.

Keep your
belong

hands

where they

Most consumer elect ronics devices have a

little rap printed on the back that goes
something like this:
"TO PREVENT FIRE OR SHOCK HAZARD. DO NOT
REMOVE THIS CABINET COVER. NO USER
SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO
QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL"

The reason they put th.is on equipment is

that it is really easy to get yourself zapped
inside appliances. And guess what? They don't
even have to be turned on to hurt you. This is
possible because of a very common electronic
component called the capacitor.
Capacitors store electrical charges, often
well in excess of the 110 volts you find at your
wall outlets. Capacitors can hold t heir charge
even when equipment is turned off. As a
matter of fact they ca n hold their charge
indefinitely, until something comes along to
discharge them.
If you have lifted the lid on your receiver
and you poke your finger across a capacitor
that has not discharged, once again you
become that quick path to ground, only this
time you may be dealing with 1500 volts. This
would definitely lead to some slow walking
and sad singing by the relatives of the
deceased.
Treat a ll equipment and circuits as if they
are energized at all times and please, please,
please, if you have no training in electronics,
take your gear to someone who does before
you try to fiddle with it.

If a fuse blows, find the reason

I have never ever run across a fuse or

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You would not want to climb a

tower like this without proper
safety equipment.
circuit breaker t hat died of old age. [f your
receiver's fuse goes or you trip your house's
circuit breaker, make a thorough investigation
into the possible cause before proceeding to
replace the fuse or reset the breaker.
Most causes arc fairly obvious. I am sure
we have all tripped a circuit breaker a few
times by having too many things all running at
once. The solution is simple. You can't listen
to BBC while you are making toast, running
the can opener, with dinner on the stove and
the air conditioner going.
But some fuse a nd breaker fai lures are a
little less obvious. If you cannot come to a
logical conclusion, seek the help of someone
with a stronger background in electronics.
The reason for this is one of the causes of fuse
and breaker tripping is our old friend, the
short. Replacing the fuse or resetting the
breaker against a short will just set you up fo r
wings and a harp. Of course, never, never,
never try to solve your problem by installing a
larger fuse than
indicated by the
manufacturer.

Stay dry
Most folks will think I am stating the
obvious here but every year dozens of people
mix electricity and water with fatal results. A
good radio hobbyist example would be
someone who was listening to Radio
F reedonia with their receiver perched next to
the sink where t hey were doing dishes. The
receiver falls in the water and our radio buddy
takes up the occupation of pushing up daisies.
Likewise, handheld moisture can get you
in rea l trouble. For many folks in radio la nd,

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Don't get frazzled

The power cord coming out of the back of
most electrical devices is usua lly subject to all
manner of injustices du ring its life span. D on't
let your cord run under rugs or where folks
ca n step on it or trip over it. A lso, don't
dangle it down behind your desk in such a way
that it is subject to abrasions from sharp
corners of drawers or doors. A frayed cord
can lead to a fi re. You don't want to hear your
own address come up on your scanner now, do
you?

Avoidance behavior
If I haven't scared you complete ly away
from the hobby with th e above, you will
probably reach the point where you will seek
10 install a n outside a nte nna system. Whe n
st ringing antenna wire or tower guy wires,
take special care to make sure that your wires
and cables do not pass over, under, around or
near any existing outside powerlines including
the main feed to your humble abode .
T his assures that your a nten na syste m will
not come in direct contact with your
neighborhood electrical service. Further, this
wi ll serve to assure your hair does not stand
on end when you go to tum your rig on.

Lightning -- Big electricity

Light ning is devastating. None of your
radio equipment can survive a direct lightn ing
hit. Fu rthermore, even hits some dista nce
from your home can gene rate voltages that
wi ll severely damage you r gear. O bviously, it
is highly desirable to keep lightning outside
the home.
The only sure protection fro m lightning is
lo comple te ly disconnect a ll of your
equipment from all a ntennas a nd powerlines
when a storm is in your area. O utside
antennas should be grounded to allow fo r
static discharge. Products billed as "lightning
arresters" arc really static discharge devices.
T hese components, a long wit h surge
protectors used on your wall out lets will help
ward off some voltage and thereby protect
your equipment. But the best course of action
in combating lightning remai ns keeping it
tota lly outside of your shack. The few minut es
it takes to unhook and rehook your

equipment with each use is nothing compared

to the weeks of waiting for your receiver to
return from the repa ir center.

And you thought all you had

to worry about was electricity
Keeping the fr iendly voltage monster in
tow is really the b iggie, but we do have a few
ot he r sma ll concerns.

Heightrophobia
As I mentioned earlier, as most folks
progress in the pursuit of the radio hobby,
sure as shootin' they are going to want to get
up an outside antenna or two. With few
exceptions, one general rule of a ntenna craft
seems to be "get that puppy up as high as you
can." T his being the case, you will eventua lly
fi nd yourself climbing to the top of the highest
object on your piece of real estate. If you get
really serious, you may install a tower to
create an even higher place fo r your anten na
to rest.
Plan to climb carefully. Use safe ladders
that are in proper working order and great
condition. Do not set your ladders up where
they or you can come in contact wit h existing
powerlines. When we Jose our bala nce, most
of us have a tende ncy to reach out and grab
the nearest anything fo r you r support . If that
a nyt hing is a powcrline, your estate ca n
donate your radios to the U ncle Skip Frie d
DXcr Foundation. If that anything you grab is
a loose roofing shingle or semi-attached piece
of trim , you may find that you will have ple nty
of spare time to do your listening until the
casts come off. So place you r ladders carefully
a nd plan your ascent into the heavens in as
secu re a manner as possible.
If you are someone who is fo rtunate
enough to have a tower, always use an
approved cl imbing belt for securi ty.
Now that you have climbed to t he top of
your antenna system, you will probably
discover that a supervisor or two have
gathered to tell you what you a lready know.
Do the m a favor a nd have them wear hardhats
in case you drop a tool.
If you are terri fied of heights, get someone
else to make the climb. If you arc too nervous
MONITORING T IMES

up there you could get a bad case of the

dizzies and accelerate your decent by falling.
A lso, don't try to steel your nerves with a
couple of cans of liqu id courage; alcohol will
just throw your balance centers off. You may
feel good on the way up, but you'll fall just as
hard.

I only have ears for you

It may not be a potential kille r, but
hearing loss can ruin your life long pursuit of
the radio hobby. When you really want to dig
out some rare D X, it is fa irly common
practice to throw on the old earphones to
make the catch. The wh ole purpose of this is
to concentrate the sound so you can hear it
better with out interruption from t he outside
world.
What you must keep in mind is t hat the
difference between concent rating the sound
a nd producing sound that can have a negative
effect on your hearing is an easy border to slip
over. Look at it this way, you're digging unde r
a couple of strong signals to route ou t some
rare station so you crank up the gain control;
the signal is fad ing so you crank up the gain
control; there are a lot of static crashes so you
cra nk up the gain control, etc.
Pretty soon, your signifi cant other can
hear the station too through the outside of
your phones. You are so busy concentrating
on the weak signal that you don't even notice
the job that all these other signals are doing
on your ears. Hearing loss can be a
cumulative proposition. Ask any artilleryman
or heavy meta l fa n. Be ki nd to your ears, they
only issue two.

Fear not
You may not have noticed the thread of
logic passing through my premise so I'll spell
it out. Compadre, you only have to fear the
above ment ioned oblivion producers if you
ignore the safety p rocedures that will protect
you from harm. A lways take the time to think
things ou t so you will do them right. When in
doubt, defer to someone with more
experience. That's the best way to learn that I
know.

November 1990

41

federal file

Rod Pearson

The Prairie Navy

Dallas, T exas, is a long way fro m saltwater,
my friend. As a result, when you tell people that
there's a Navy base he re, many people are
surprised. All in all, though, it's not as odd as it
sounds. It's just that at NAS Dallas their job
happens to be patrolling the skies. A nd the
wake of prairie dust kicked up by the brave me n
and women of Naval A ir Station Dallas du ring
the past five decades is not one bit less colorful
for the lack of salt spray.
NAS Dallas was commissioned on 15 May
1941, with eight officers, 109 enlisted men and
35 freshly recruited flight students. D uring the
war years, it became a major training base fo r
student pilots, attracting some of the biggest
celebrities of the day as they sought to entertain
the sailors and troops defending this cou ntry.
O ld timers still remember the night back in '43
when Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Bob H ope
and Claudett Cobert all played the base's newly
re novated recreation center.
Today the war is over and the stars are gone
but the work of the NAS Dallas is j ust as vital. A
reserve training base for the Navy, every other
branch of the service has a place here as well.
The re are 26 te nant commands, including two
fighter squadrons (VF-201 a nd VF-202 flying
the :f-14 Tomcats), a transport squadron (VF59 flying the C-98), a Marine Corps air group
and several un its of the U.S. Army and Texas
Air National G uard.
O ne of the main frequencies to liste n to at
NAS Dallas is the fire and crash channel. This
activity can be heard on the Navy's nationwide
fire a nd crash frequency allocation of 140.100
MHz. Table 1 lists the most current call sign list
I have for the fi re fighters and others at NAS
Dallas.

Table 1
NAS Dallas Crash Freq Call Signs
Units ID as Dallas
Control
1

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

12
13
14
15
16
17
20
21
23
26
27
28
29
30

42

xxxxxx or 1111

Control Tower
Commanding officer (CO)
Executive officer (XO)
Command duty officer (COO)
Operations department (OPS)
PA7 Crash truck
MB-1 Crash truck
P-4 Crash truck
Crash boat
Road ambulance
Airfield ambulance
Fire chief vehicle
Road ambulance
Twin agent unit
Structural fire truck
Structural fire truck
Medical building
Ground electronics shop
LTV Vought control tower
Crash Truck (LTV)
Fire station (LTY)
Jeep (LTV)
Pickup truck (LTV)
Arresting gear truck
Operations radio truck
NAS fire station

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32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
49
50
51
52

Rre chief
Assistant fire chief
Runway alert shack
Transient line shack
Transient line shack
Transient line portable
Transient line (van)
Follow-me truck
Ground electronics
Ground electronics truck
GCA radar truck
Airfield electronics truck
Crash crane
PA-4A crash truck (TANG)
Runway vacuum sweeper
Mobile control lower
TANG Follow-me truck
TANG S.O. F. truck

Abbreviations:
TANG - Texas Air National Guard
S.0.F.. Safely of Fllghl
GCA - Ground Controlled Approach Radar
OMO - Organizational Maintenance Department

You probably noticed that I mentioned LTV

Vought on the list. T his military contractor
shares the one runway at the base with the
Navy. LTV Vought has produced several Naval
aircraft over the years and uses the runways on
an occasional basis at NAS D allas fo r their test
aircraft a nd contractor aircraft. In fact, several
years ago the NASA Guppy aircraft brought
some material to LTV by landing on the
runways at NAS Da llas.
Like any military city, NAS Dallas has its
own police force. They can be found on
140.580. T heir call signs use the prefix
"Sandpoint." Table 2 lists the Sandpoint call
signs normally heard on NAS security
frequencies.

Table II
NAS Dall as Security Call Signs
NOTE: 11 units use the Sandpoint call sign; others just
their leller-number combination
Alpha
Alpha 1
Alpha 2
Alpha 3
Alpha
Alpha
Alpha
Alpha
Alpha

Patrol 1
Patrol 2
Patrol 3
Post 1
Post 2

Alpha Post 3
Alpha Post 4
Alpha Post 5
Alpha
Alpha
Alpha
Bravo

Post 6
Rover 1
Rover 2
II

Charlie
Della
EchO
Foxtrot
Mike
November
Quebec
Quebec 8

Securlly dispatcher
Security officer (SO)
Security chief of police (COP)
Security assistant chief of police
(ACOP)
Security vehicle one
Security vehicle two
Security vehicle three
Main gal e ser:itry
TANG (Texas Air National Guard)
gate sentry
Army gale sentry
North Perimeter gal e sentry (MAG
41 main gale)
BEO (Bachelor Enlisted Quarters)
gale sentry
Flighlline sentry (VF fllghlline)
Fool patrol (as assigned)
Fool patrol (as assigned)
NAS Dallas base investigators (81,
82, etc)
NAS Dallas command duty officer
(COO)
NAS Dallas officer of the day
(OOD)
NAS Dallas quarterdeck (POOWpelly officer of the watch)
Naval Investigative Service Office
(N ISO)
Army security
TANG security
Public works
Public works boiler watch

MONITO RI NG TI MES

Yankee
Xray
Zulu

Commanding officer (CO)

Executive officer (XO)
Ground electronics shop

For those of you who might not be fam iliar

with some of the above terms, I'll try to catch
you up a Little bit. The security officer at a Navy
base is the officer assigned by the Commanding
O fficer (the head cheese; in cha rge of the base)
to run the base's secu rity department. He is a
naval officer who is on a shore duty tour and
has department head status (assistants to the
base CO).
The Chief of Police's rank varies but is
usually a naval warrant officer, junior officer or
very senior Chief Petty Officer. He pretty much
runs the day to day operations of the security
depa rtme nt. The ACOP or assistant chief of
police is normally a Chief Petty Officer and is
the administrative assistant to the COP.
M uch like the security department, any
naval command has an administrative assistant
to the Commanding Officer or CO. T hat is the
XO or executive officer. H e handles routine
administrative matters a nd is the CO's second
in command. Normally both the CO and XO of
a maj or naval shore command are senior
officers (commande r and above).
During each 24 hour period aboard NAS
Dallas, certain personnel get what the Navy
calls "duty." They must remain on board the
station during the whole period. The person in
charge of the duty section is the C OO or
Command Du ty Officer. T he person who
stands CD O is a naval officer and during their
period of duty is a direct representative of the
Commanding O fficer of the base.
The COO is assisted by the OOD (Officer of
the Day). This person is usually a Chief Petty
O fficer (enlisted) and oversees the other
members of that day's enlisted duty section.
D uring the 24 hours aboard NAS Dallas
someone has to answer the phone and there is a
central number or duty office phone. That task
is given to senior petty officers (enlisted) called
POOW (Petty O fficers of the Watch). This
watch of waiting for the phone to ring usually
lasts fo ur hours so the re are several POOWs
each day. O nce relieved by the next watch the
off-going POOW is free to leave bu t must
re main on call during the rest of the duty day in
case his services are needed.
Most daily duty sect ions also have junior
enlisted personnel standing duty also. Their
duties consist of messenger of the watch (a
runner fo r the POOW), duty driver (if
someone important needs a ride, he drives) and
roving security watches (foot patrols around
the base). With t he exception of the duty
driver, all these watches last four hours then
that person goes on call for the rest of the 24
hou rs.
Some of the other freq uencies that
Met roplex area monitors might hear from NAS
Da llas inclu de:
138.525
138.700

NAS Dallas fuel farm channel

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139.545
140.050
140.075
140.175
140.220
140.320
140.775
140.895
143.675
143.700
148.275
149.150
149.265
163.485
163.562

VF-202 Primary ground maintenance

channel
AIMD (Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance
Department) NAS Dallas Operations
Naval Investigative Service (NIS) channel
2
VF-201/VF-202 squadron F3 ground
channel
NAVPRO (LTV) channel
NAS Dallas Supply Department
Naval Investigative Service (NIS) channel
1
VF-201 Primary ground maintenance
channel
MARTD Mobile paging
Aircraft maintenance general
USAF ground transportation unit (Hensley
Field)
TANG-136 ARW Commanders Net
(Hensley Field)
TANG-136 ARW Aircraft maintenance
TANG security department (Hensley Field)
Hensley Reid Command and Control/
Emergency Disaster preparedness
frequency

The fo llowing frequ e ncies are listed for the

Dallas area but their usage is unknown at this
time:
139.100
139.150
140.650
142.450
143.430
413.325

Army-Dallas
Army-Dallas
Navy-NAS Dallas
Army- Dallas (possible MARS channel)
Army-Dallas (possible Corp of Engineers
channel)
Hensley Field - usage unknown

Some Navy MARS cha nnels that might be in

use at the Naval Air Station and surrounding
Metroplex area include:
148.350 148.950 148.41O 148.375(repeater outpul)
148.975

Below are some other active military

channels in the area around NAS Dallas.
139.025
143.025
143.800
46.800
34,700

Dallas Army/ Air Force PX headquarters

Army - civil emergencies Texas
USAF Hensley Field TANG command
and control
Army National Guard Helicopters NAS
Dallas
Army Reserve helicopters NAS Dallas

Finally, the fo llowing aircraft frequencies

are used around the NAS Dallas area:
ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) 278.0
Regional Approach Control 123.9 124.5 125.2 252.9
372.1
NAS Dallas Tower 126.2 (336.4 Army/NG helos)
340.2 360.2
NAS Dallas ground control1 34. 1 382.8
Regional departure control 118.55 364.0 - East,
120.5 127.75 227.8 West
Texas AJr National Guard Ops (TANG) 300.75
Nalionai Guard Copter Ops 46.8 FM 242.6
Army Operations 34.7FM
Base operallons/ PMSV: Metro 263.5

And so, although much has changed over the

Naval Air Station Dallas' history during the
nearly five decades, one thing will remain
always: the land-locked sailors of the D allas
area seldom feel the spray of saltwater. They
are the Prairie Navy and proud of it.
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Help for a friend

A good friend down south, Fred Cottonelle,
has written to me, asking for a favor. He says, "I
have scanned, searched and hunted near and
fa r fo r the operations frequencies used by the
Guntersville Military Operational Area
(MOA) down around Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee way. No luck so far. Do you, 'old
frequency breat h,' know the a nswer?"
Well, sir, you r request is "frequency breath's"
command. The Guntersville MOA is
controlled by the Atlanta ARTCC out of the
Uniontown remote site. It is a low level, up to
11,000 feet MOA. I show the Departure/
Recovery frequency pair to be 132.25/297.4
MHz. Addit ional frequencies I have listed for
the MOA a re 252.9, 352.8 and 339.1 MHz. You
might also want to check the fo llowing
Uniontown remote site frequencies for
MONITORING TfMES

additional activity in and around the MOA:

133.25 a nd 351.9 MHz.
H ope that helps and hope to hear from you
again real soon.

Speaking of Cubes...
Speaking of Cubos, one Monitoring Times
reader asks for my Cubo recipe. Well, here's
how Sue fixes 'em up for me. Take one shot of
your favorite rum (I like Bacardi) add generous
amounts of ice a nd Coca Cola, squeeze the
contents of one-half a lime into the glass and
stir to taste. Hummm. Sound's pretty good.
"Oh Sue!"
Until next month, good listening and good
DX to all. Remember before th e next issue gets
into you r hands be sure to send in your federal
frequency list to the column, c/o MT.

November 1990

43

high seas

James R. Hay

Touring the Mediterranean

l n this month's radio cruise, our fi rst
stop is Greece and its main coast station,
Athens Radio. Athens Radio uses several
callsigns which, used in conj unct ion with a
number, indicate the band in quest ion. In
this case the fo ll owing callsigns are used:
SYA, SYB, SYD, SYF, SYG, SYl, SYM,
SYS, SYT, SYU, used on these frequencies:
SYD 2 4.2230
SYB 2 4.2394
SYF 2 4.3270
SYA 2 4.3430
SYB 3 6.3440
SYD 3 6.4110
SYF 3 6.444S
SYA 3 6.4784
SYG 4 8.4S4S
SYJ 4 8.S300
SYD 4 8.S36S
SYI 4 8.681S
SYA 4 8.6870
SYF 4 8.6900
SY F 4 8.692S
SYB 4 8.7040
SYD S 12.7200
SYF S 12.8330
SYA 82S.4010

SYD 82S.S3SO
SY! S 12.8S90
SYG S 12.9420
SYB S 13.0290
SYA S 13.0470
SYM 616.9030
SYI 6 16.9660
SYG 616.981S
SYF 6 17.99SS
SYA 617.0948
SYJ 6 17.1472
SYD 617.1880
SYB 617.1944
SYG 722.327S
SYI 7 22.346S
SYB 722.4108
SYA 722.4170
SYD 722.471S
SYF 7 22.5000

A ll of t he above frequencies are for CW.

T he fo ll owi ng are SSB freque ncies fo r
Athens radio.
SVN
SVN
SVN
SVN
SVN
SYN
SYN
SYN
SYN
SVN
SVN
SYN
SVN
SVN
SYN
SVN

2 4.3946
2 4.4008
2 4.4287
2 4.4318
3 6.Sl26
4 8.7220
4 8.7344
4 8.7406
4 8.7437
4 8.7S92
4 8.7747
4 8.7778
4 8.7871
S13.1101
S13.1194
S13.1349

SVN
SVN
SVN
SVN
SYN
SYN
SYN
SVN
SVN
SVN
SYN
SVN
SVN
SYN
SVN

Sl3.1S97
S 13.1969
6 l 7.2S1S
617.2S77
6 17.3073
617.3104
617.313S
617.3197
6 l 7.3S38
722.6208
722.64S6
722.6Sl9
722.6673
722.6890
722.7014

For th ose o f you who want to try RTTY,

At hens should be found on t he fo llowing
freque ncies:
SYS 2
SYU 2
SNS 3
SYU 3
SYS 4
SYU 4

S 13.079S
S 13.082S
6 l 7.208S
Sl7.221S
7 22.S72S
svu 722.S8SS
SYS
SYT
SYT
SYU
SYT

4.3S2S
4.3S60
6.499S
6.S020
8.7LOO
8.712S

Next comes the ever interesting Libya

whose CW stations can be found on:
4.2410
8.4800
8.SlSO
16.9630

SAL
SAL
SAT
SAL

Tobruk
Tobruk
Tripoli
Tobruk

Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio

Tripoli Radio SAT can be found on SSB

using:
2.1820
2.1970
2.3200
2.4180
4.3680

8 .7608
8.8002
13.1300
13.1475
13.1825

4.3838
4.4349
6.SOOO
6.S186
8.74S6

As we move to the north side of the

ocean, there is Aranjuez Rad io in Spain on
the fo ll owing CW freq uencies:
EDF
EDZ
EAD
EFD
EDG
EAD
EDZ
EDG
EDF
EDZ
EAD
EDF

2
2
2
2
3
3
4
3
4

4.23SS
4.269S
4.3490
6.3300
6.3370
6.3822
6.4002
8.4S70
8.4730
8.6180
8.6820
12.6735

EDF 44 12.6910
EAD 4412.8875
E IZ 5 12.934S
EDG 4 13.0S60
EAD 4 13.06SO
EDF S 16.9428
EDZ 6 17.0648
EOG S 17.17S2
EAD S 17.1848
EDF 6 22.3840
EAD 6 22.4460
EDZ 7 22.5330

ln Italy Genoa Radio's callsign ICB can

be found in CW on the following
frequencies:
4235.0
6425.0
8649 .S
12978.0

16879.0
1688 l.O
16970.0
17182.0

Next is Algeria. Alger Radio (7TA)

operates on the fo llowing CW frequencies:
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA

2
3
4
6
8
10
12

4.2880
4.2880
6.41SO
8.4370
12.6620
16.9320
22.S430

Genoa Radio also uses the fo llowing

SSB freque ncies:

Their SSB freque ncies arc:

7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA

13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

4.3853
4.3946
4.4287
4.4349
6.S064
6.Sl26
6.Sl88
8. 7228
8.7437
8.7561
8.7933
13 .1194

7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA
7TA

2S 13.1442
26 13.1S04
27 13.1969
28 17.3197
29 17.32S9
30 17.3414
3 1 17.3S69
32 22.6084
33 22.6704
34 22.6766
35 22.7104

4.3822
4.7391
8.7344
8.7871
13.1132

13.1318
l 7.2S46
17.2732
22.642S

T he major It alian coast station is Rome

Radio, which can make interesting listeni ng
since the station handles some of the traffic
destined for th e Cent re International
Radio Medical, which also has its own
stat ion located in Ro me . O n CW they can
be found on the followi ng frequencies:
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
!AR
IAR

24 4.2920
4 4.3200
26 6.4180
6 6.409S
28 8.S300
38 8.6S60
8 8.7600
33 12.9960

TAR
JAR
TAR
JAR
JAR
JAR
lAR

23 13.0110
3 13.0lSS
7 16.8955
37 17.00SO
27 17.1608
2 22.3760
32 22.3780

Using SSB Rome Radio can be found on

the fo llowing:

44

November 1990

MON ITORING T IMES

4.3605
4.3915
4.4163
4.4256
6.5095
6.5157
8.7592
8.7747

8.7778
8.7964
8.8119
13.1163
13.1256
13.1380
13.1535
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on:
JAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
JAR
JAR

4
24
34
44
6
26
36
46
8
28
38
48
22
32
42

4.3500
4.35 15
4.3545
4.3565
6.4965
6.4990
6.5015
6.5035
8.7065
8.7075
8.7103
8.7115
22.5745
22.5830
22.5920

IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
JAR
IAR
JAR
JAR
IAR
IAR
IAR
IAR

58
3
23
33
43
53
7
27
37
47
57
2

8.7145
13.0895
13.0915
13.0945
13.0965
13.0980
17.2070
17.2110
17.2140
17.2245
17.2305
22.5715

As was m entioned above, the C.I. R.M.

has its own coast station (IRM) and it ca n
be found o n the following frequ e ncies:
4.3425
4.3505
6.3650

6.4200
8.6850
12.7480

12.7600
17.1050
22.5250

All of these frequen cies are CW; voice

a nd telex messages are handled through
Rome Radio (IAR).
Next is Y ugoslavia which has several
stat ions. Try these CW fre qu encies:
4.3460
4.3550
6.5020
8.4450
8.7000
8.71 20
12.7805
12.9075
13.0880
16.9428
17.0456
17.2200
22.4436
22.5850

YUR 2
YUW
YUW
YUR 4
YUR 3
YUW
YUR 5
YUR 6
YUW
YUR 7
YUR 8
YUW
YUR 9
YUW

Rijeka Radio
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Bar Radio
Rijeka Radio
R ijeka Radio
Bar R adi o
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Ba r Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Ba r Radi o
Rijeka R adio
Ba r Radio

The following SSB frequ encies a re also

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4.3574
4.3791
4.4070
4.4 132
4.4194

YUS
YUR
YUW
YUR
YUR

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6.5064
6.5095
6.5157
6.5188
6.5219
8.7468
8.7499
8.7809
8.7840
8.7995
8.8088
12.1628
13.1199
13.1721
13.1814
13. 1876
17.2639
17.2856
17.2949
17.3 135
17.3476
22.6053
22.6115
22.6585
22.7138

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YUR
YUS
YUR
YUR
YUR
YUR
YUR
Y US
YUW
YUR
YUR
YUW
YUR
YUS
YUR
YUR
YUS
YUR
YUR
YUW
YUR
YUR
YUR
YUR

Bar Radio
Rijeka Radio
Split Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Split Radio
Bar Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Bar Radio
Rijeka Radio
Sp lit R a dio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Sp lit Radi o
Rij eka Radio
Rijcka Radio
Bar Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio

RTIY fa ns ca n try these:

4.3526 YUR
4.3530 Y US
4.3540 YUR
6.4960 YUR
6.4980 YUR
6.4990 YUR
8.7060 YUR
8.7080 YUR
8.7100 Y UR
13.0760 YUR
13.0790 YUR
13.0840 YUS
17.2040 YUR
17.2 140 YUR

Rijeka Radio
Spli t Radio
Rijeka R adio
Rijeka Radi o
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijek a R adio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Split Radio
R ij eka Radio
Rijcka Radio

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22.5710
22.5760
22.5820

YUR
YUR
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Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Rijeka Radio
Split Radio

The last cou ntry is Alba nia whose CW

sta tions can be found on:
4.2200 ZAD Durres P.T. Radio
4.3020 ZAC Shengjin P.T. Radio
4.3020 ZAD Durres P.T. Radio
4.3020 ZAS Sarande P.T. Radio
4.3020 ZAV Viore P.T. Radio
6.3105 Z AS Sarande P.T. Radio
6.4340 ZAD Durres P.T. Radio
6.4340 ZAS Sarande P.T. Radio
8.6960 ZAD Durres P.T. Radio
12.6900 ZAD Durres P.T. Radio
17.1730 ZAD Durres P.T. Radio
For voice tra ffic, try the following:
4.3605
4.3729
8.7313
13.1163
17.3507
22.6735

ZAD
ZA V
ZAD
ZAD
ZAD
ZAD

Durres P.T. Radio

Viore P.T. Radio
Durres P.T . Radio
Durres P.T. Radio
Durres P.T. Radio
Durres P .T . Ra dio

T his concludes our tour of t he

M e diterranean area. I hope you will find
so me new listening from a mong these
stations.
Si nce my next co lumn will be in J a nuary,
may I take this o pportunity to wish you all a
M e rry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and
peace, health and success in th e new year

Gll

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ham radio

What's Your Specialty?

We've already told you about a type of
a mateur radio that few people know about -amateur "fast scan" television. Thanks for the
cards and letters and interest in this facet of
UHF video signals. This month, we'll take a
look at how shortwave listeners can, without
spending too much money, view radiotelctype
(RITY) copy and slow scan TV (SSTV) o n
their TV sets.
Radio Shack's TRS80 Color Computer arc
perfect for RITY and SSTV use. And
because the white colored 64K model
COC0-2 unit is no longer ma nufactured, they
can often be found for as little as S50.00 in
some stores or ham flea market s.
By the way, you do not necessari ly have to
have an expensive disk drive system to run the
COCO. Radio Shack also sells an inexpensive
$39.95 (on-sale) cassette reco rder /player that
plugs into the computer. Any cassette
recorder, however, will work if the un it has a
steady 11 OVAC powered motor drive function
requirement and good high quality audio
reproduction.
Now, you're going to have to get your
computer working with your radio. Ham
R adio Software (P.O. Box H, Lowden, Iowa
52255) has some neat "i nterfaceless"
radioteletype communications softwa re that
works well with this computer. Simply load in
a machine language software program called
"COCORITY" ($29.95 on cassette or disk)
into the computer, and bring over an audio
cab le tapped from the speaker or headphone
jack of your radio and plug it into the
earphone jack of your cassette reco rder and
computer. (A miniature Y-jack plug or cable
and $4.95 cassette cable is required.)
The result is stunning: you will have
upgraded your radio room with new visual
capabilit ies by being able to "printout" on you r
TV screen (standard TV set) all of the 60 to
100 word per minute BAUDOT RITY
teletype signals being sent from local (146.700
MHz FM) and international sources (7.0907.100. 14.090-14.100 and elsewhere!
You will be amazed at how well this
software/computer combination works fo r
you. Copy commercial, press, amateur and
government RITY signals at 170 Hz shift.
(Always use the Lower Sideband (LSB) mode
of tuning.) A special on-screen bar graph
allows smooth correct tuning of the chirping
5-level signals.
If you are interested in th is or other
applicat ions, send an SASE and I'll return you
some addit ional information. Mark clearly o n
the outside of your envelope: Mo11it01i11g
Times Sh ortwave Computer Info.
Amateur Ham Radio "Slow-Scan" TV
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November 1990

pictures can be viewed on this inexpensive

computer with the same hookup but with a
different software program. "COCOSSTV"
(same company a nd price) is available which
allows the reception of 128 pixel by 128 line
(and other mode format speeds) still-frame
B/W and (false) color pictures. Tune in on
14.230 MHz on the 20 Meter Ham band or
28.680 MHz on the 10 Meter Ham band and
listen for these signals right now. You'll also
hear amateur radio operators actually talking
in between the pictures they send.
Adding both computerized RITY and
SSTV capabilities to your shortwave
monitoring system wi ll add a nd enhance
hundreds of hours of viewing and Listen ing
enjoyment!

Special Interest Net

Amateur radio is a n exciting hobby t hat
has something of interest fo r virtually
everyone. There's satellite commun ications,
computer-to-computer
message
systems
(called "packet"), "ragchcwing" between
statio ns located thousands of miles away,
amateu r relevision (sec last month's column),
awards, message handling (called "traffic")
and experimenting with new methods of
communications.
A wide number of groups arc represented
within the ranks of amateur radio. There are
groups for p hysicians who arc hams. There are
groups who meet each week (usually called
"nets" who share interests in retired life,
mission work, solar energy and more.
The Lambda Amateur Radio Club
(LARC) is one such group, serving the gay
and lesbian ham since 1975.
LARC saw its first local chapter fo rmed in
the San Francisco a rea, ca lled the "Golden
Gate Chapter." Before long, membership
consisted of about two dozen people in the
U.S. and Canada. A Washington D.C.
"Potomac Chapter" was soon added.
LARC grew slowly a nd operated
informally until 1984, when an aggressive
campaign was launched to seek ou t new
members and to publicize the existence of the
club. Today, LARC chapters arc breaking out
across the United States, Canada and Great
Britain, each designed to offer a social
environment and a local, friendly, support
group to aid in the enjoyment of ham radio.
Membership, according to President Jim
Kelly, KKJK, is increasing by 60% a year with
the highest interest coming from England.
LARC members maintain a number of onthe-air meetings for members every week.
Members are also eligible to receive , along
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with their monthly Lambda Net News, various

awards fo r communicating with other
members and for exceptional proficiency.
For more information on LARC, contact
the club at P.O. Box 24810, Philadelphia, PA
19130 or call 215-978-LARC.

Three Element Beam

You can enjoy the excitement of the new
WARC bands wit h the new A3WS beam
antenna by Cushcraft. Wit h a st urdy allaluminum design, this WARC beam feat ures
pinned boom sections, heavy duty element
mo unts and all stainless steel clamps.
Offering 8dB forwa rd gain, the A3WS is a
high performance Yagi on 12 a nd 17 meters.
With the additi on of t he A103 add-on kit, it
will also cover 30 meters.
The A3WS has a 14 foot boom and takes a
1.5 to 2.0 inch mast size, making it easy to
install on your existing support. The antenna
is rated for 2000 watts PEP and takes
standa rd 50 ohm coax.

You can get more information by writing

to Cushcraft, P.O. Box 4680, Manchester,
New Hampshire 03108 or slopping in at your
favorite ham store. Retail is $350.00.

Hams at War
Granted, it's only a hypothetical situat ion
but what would happen to ham radio if war
broke o ut in the Persian Gulf? Under Section
706 (c) of the Communica tions Act and Parts
20 1-2 15 of Tit le 47 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, the President of the United
States does have the power to suspend all
amateur communications. That 's not likely to
happen, even if a shooting war does break
out. Still, if things would get close to home -literally -- the President docs have the option
to shut down all unnecessary transmitters
that could be used as homing beacons for
enemy attack.

Texas Super System

Gordo n West writes about
some
information one of his readers (Andy Lange)
picked up at a local hamfest in Texas. "The

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gives you the edge in selecting just
the right equipment for the shack,
whether it be HF or VHF/UHF rigs or
accessories. All the information is
here in one handy. concise directory
with descriptions. technical specifications. model numbers, retail
prices and photographs. What do
you do to get a lice nse? How do you
put a packet stotion on the air? What
transceiver features are important
to DXers? What equipment will you
need for the new code-free license?
These questions and more are answered in feature articles. Buy with
confidence when you make your de
c isions based on all the fac ts.

We are honored to welcome Rob Gerardi

of Benton, Illinois, to the Ham column as
editor of our DXing tips. Here are Rob's lastminute tips for November:
ARUBA: W2GD, John Croelli, will
operate from this Caribbean island 20-27
November. John will concentrate on code for
the CQ Wodd Wide CW contest (24-25th)
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West Texas Connection" describes a system of

repeaters -- some located in quite remote
areas -- that link together to give amateurs a
coverage area of over 100,000 square miles.
The information sheet indicates plans to
include linki ng in and out of Dall as, Houston,
and Amarillo. The system is comprised of
146.700 VHF and 444.100 UHF back-to-back
repeaters operating via 450 MHz simplex.
To get a copy of the nyer, called 'Texas
Super System," write to WB5RXA, 4900
Foxboro, Midland, TX 79705. Be sure to
include a double-stamped self-addressed
envelope.
West also mentions another freeb ie, a map
showing links all over the southwest on ham
radio. You can get that for a self addressed
stamped envelope from Bud Turner, N7EOJ,
120 W. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85704. It
describes the Western Amateur Radio Packet
Radio Network. Thanks to Gordon West and
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meters each hou r on the hour 2200 to 1000
UTC. QSL to: N2MM, Howard Miller, 61
Mill Rd RFD 11, Vincetown, NJ 08088.
KAMPUCHEA ~ XU8DX has been a
regular on 14180 kHz daily at 1100 UTC as
well as 21275 kHz at 0200 UTC. QSL to:
JAlNUT, Sin Onizawa, 100-9 Naka, Mohka,
Tochig, Japan.
LATVIA: The Latvian DX Club will
operate special callsign station RQ9W during
illl contests for the remainder of 1990 and
1991. QSL to: Igor Kuzhelev, P.O. Box 418,
Riga, 22601 Latvia, USSR.
MARION ISLAND: The current operator
of ZS8MI keeps a regular schedu le as follows:
28505 kHz at 1430 UTC daily and 14205 kHz
at 1600 UTC daily. QSL to his home address:
Gerhard, P.O. Box 13077, Jacobs 4026, Natal,
Rep. of South Africa.
SRI LANKA: 4S7EA is on 21300 UTC
each day starting at 2400 UTC. His QSL
address is: E. Amarasinghe, 275-6 Colombo
Rd., Divul Pit ija, Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka.
Rob reports on a new publication dealing
with report s on amateur radio and hams in the
USSR that will be available in English starting
January 1991. Entitled Soviet Ham Press
Digest, it can be had for a $12 (US) annual
subscription fee. For additional information
or subscription contact: George Yankopolus,
13 Glen Meadow Dr, Glen Mills, PA 19342.
KE20P and several other hams are
attempting to establish direction-finding nets
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QRM'ers on the bands. Look for their net on
14235 kHz at 1500 UTC each Tuesday.

Special Events Station

This month marks yet anot her special
events station to try for. Called "Live from the
Island," W41AX will operate from Dauphin
Island, Alabama, from 1300 UTC November
17 until 0000 UTC on November 18th.
Frequencies will be 3925, 7225, 14225, 21325,
28325 MHz.
This special events station will issue QSL
cards to shortwave listeners. All you need do
is send a note mentioning the time ahd
frequency the station (W4IAX) was heard.
Rick Wiles, W4PRQ, who will be running the
station is a Mo11itoli11g Times reader who says
"I have been a ham for only three years but a
shortwave listener for 20."
For your QSL send a business-size self
addressed, stamped envelope along with Sl.00
to cover costs to: W41AX, Mobile Amateur
Radio Club, P.O. Box 9315, Mobile, Alabama
36691.
Thanks to everyone for their help in
making this column possible. We appreciate
your quest ions, comments -- even clippings -about ham radio. Send them to: Ham Radio,
Monitoring Times, P.O. Box 98, Brasstown,
NC 28902. And thanks!

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the qsl report

Gayle Van Horn

AUSTRALIA
6\VF Perth-720 Al\!/4QD Emerald. Queenstown1548-AM kHz. Full data cards for bo th frequencies.
wit hout ve rificatio n signer. Received in 38 days fo r
an English AM repo rt. Station add ress: Australian
Broadcasting Corp., P.O. Box 9994, GPO, Sydney,
NSW. Australia. (Dick Moon, George. S. Africa)

CANADA
Beacon 13 266 kHz. Full data prepared fo rm card,
verifi ed by J .13. MacSwecn. Received in 11 days for
an English utility report nnd an SASE. Stat ion
address: Transport Ca nada, Hami lton Airport, Mt.
Hope, Ontario LOR I WO (Russ Hill. Oak Park,
Ml)
Beacon "L" 368 kHz (Toronto). Full data prepared
QSL card, and personal letter verified by E.C.
Wyatt. Nava ids ~fa nager. Received in 18 days for an
English util ity report and an SASE. Station address:
Transport Ca nada, Lester B. Pearson International
Airport, 2490 Britannia Road East, Mississauga,
Ont. L4W 2P7 (Russ Hill. Oak Park, Ml)
Gander Aerod io, 10051.0 kHz. Full data verified
QSL lette r and sticker. Ve rified by Wayne J.
Lorenzen. Received in s ix mo nths for an English
utility report and mint stamps. Station address: 89
Edinburgh Ave .. Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
AIV IC9 (Fraser Bonnett, Fairborn, OH) (Mike
Hardester, Okinawa. Japan)

CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Radio Prague lnternation:il. 7345, 5930 and 11990
kHz. Full data scenery QSL card, with illegible
s ignat ure. Received in 33 days for an English
report. Station address: English Language
Prague
12099,
Czechoslovak ia.
Broadcasts,
( Nicholas Adams, Newark, NJ) (John Carson.
Norman, OK) (Frank Hillton, Charleston, SC)

GUATEMALA
Radio Tezulutlan. 4835 kHz. Full data QSL card
(photo of village procession). without verification
signe r. Station information letter signed by Antonio
Jacobs. director of ejecutivo . Received in 75 days
for a Spa nis h follow-up report and mint stamps.
Station add ress: Apartado 19. 1690 1 Coban. a.V.
Guate mala. C. America (Robert Landau, Secaucus.
NJ) (Sam Wright, 13iloxi, MS)

INDONESIA
Radio Republik Indonesia. 15154.6 kHz. Partia l
data QSL card verified by Drs. R. 13askara. station
manager. Received in 60 days fo r a fo llow-up report
and mint stamps. Station address: RR! Nasional,
Merdeka Baral 4-5, P.O. Box 356, Jakarta,
Indonesia. (Robert Landau, Secaucus, NJ)

J APAN
Japan Meteorological Agency, 14880 kHz USB.
Full data typed letter, with illegible signature.
Received in 12 days fo r an English utility report and
one U.S. dollar fo r return postage. Station address:
1-2-4 Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Japan ( Hugh
Hawkins, Porl Gibson. MS)

KENYA
Kenya Aeradio, 8165 kHz USB. Fu ll data pink
colored pnper, verified by N. Nguku, directo r, civil
aviation. Received in 24 days for an English utility

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Station address: P.O. 13ox 30163, :-.lairobi, Kenya
(Hugh Hawkins, Port Gibson, ~S)

MALAYSIA
Pe nang Rad io 9MG, 22456 kHz. f'u ll dat a verified
letter by Ka nda Kuma r. rad io telegraph master.
Received in 100 days for a n Englis h uti lity report
and two U.S. dollars. Stat ion address: Stesen Pantai
(Pnerimaan) Penang Rad io, Syarikat Telekon
Malaysia Berhad, Kuala Muda, 1311 0 Penaga,
Seberang Perai, West Malaysia (Gunter Wurr.
Cuxhaven. West Germany)

PIRATES
East Coast Pirate Radio, 7484 kllz. Full data QSL
letter verified by N. Tesla. Received in 20 days for
an English report and mint stamps. Station address:
P.O. 13ox 6527. Baltimore, Maryland 21219 (f'raser
Bonnett. Fairborn, OH)

SHIP TRAFFIC
Pride o f 13altimo re 11-WUW-2120 (topsail vessel,
replica or the Pride I, War of 1812) 156.8 MHz. Full
data verified lette r and pamphlet o n the ship.
Received in 34 days fo r a n English utility repori and
return postage. Ship address: Pride of Baltimore,
Inc., 100 Light St., Baltimore. MD 21202 (Hank
Holbrook. Dunkirk, MD) Letter included
comments t hey were bound for Po land, and will
ret urn to t he US in summer of 1992.-ed.
Athenia n Beauty-H2VY (product tanker), 500 kHz.
Full data prepared QSL card and photo of ship.
Received in 104 days for an English utility report
and return postage. Ship address: lnterst ra Co ..
S.A., 10-12 Kifisias Ave., Aniaro usio n, Athens,
Greece (llank Holbroo k. Dunkirk. MD)
Bulkplotus-3EKH3 (bulk carrier), 500 kHz. Full
data HAM QSL card (II FGK) with 113YS info typed
in. Received in 54 days for an English ut ility report
and return postage. Ship address: Bulkitalia. S.p.a.via Ma rtin Piaggio, 17/ 6. 16122 Ge nova, Italy
(Hank Holbrook, Dunkirk, MD) Italian Oag #43
QSLed.-cd.

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November 1990

Cape Town Radio ZSC Time Stat io n. 17018 kHz.

Full data QSL card verified by J.G. l'othanagel,
control coastal radio office r. Received in 77 days
for a n English utility report. Station uddress: Cape
Town Radio ZSC, Chief Superintendent, Private
Bag, Milncrt o n 7435, Republic of South Africa.
(Gunter Wurr, Cuxhaven, West Germany)

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UNITED STATES
Beacon "LY L", 362 kHz. Full data prepared card
verified by Todd Carpineto. manager. Received in
29 days for an English utility report and an SASE.
Station address: Allen Co. Airport , 700 Airpo rt Dr..
Lima, Ohio 45804 (Russ Hill. Oak Park, Ml)
KKA R -1180 AM. Full data verified letter by Allen
Sherrill, C.E. Received in seven days fo r an English
AM re po rt and US mint postage. Stat ion address:
100 1 f'nrnam-On-the -Mall. Onrnha. l'E 68 102
(Randy Stewart, Springfield. MO)

KOKK-1210 AM. Partial data verified letter by

Daniela Jury. Received in 14 days for an English
report a nd US mint postage. Statio n address: P.O.
Box 931. Huron, SD 57350 (Randy Stewart,
Spring fi eld. MO)
WNDE-1260 AM. Partial data letter ve rified by
Daniel J. Mettler. C.E. Received in 11 days fo r an
English AM report a nd an SASE. Station add ress:
6161 Fall Creek Road. lndiannpolis. I N 46220
(Harold Frodge. Midland, Ml )
WHAS-840 A:-1. Partial data OSI. card. witho ut
verification signer. Received in 14 days for an
English AM report and mint stamps. Statio n
address: P.O. Box 1084. Louisville. KY 4020 1
(Darren Whit e, New Augustus. MS)
WH0-1040 AM. Partial data QSL card, without
verification signer. Received in 26 days for an
English AM report and mint stamps. Statio n
address: Pl801 Grand Avenue. Des Moines, IA
50308 (Darren White, New Augustus. MS)
WGCI -1390 AM. Full data logo card verified by
Cice ro Miller. Received in six days for an English
AM report and an SASE. Stat io n address: 3325
Michiga n Ave. Suite 600, Chicago. IL 60604
(Harold Frodge, Mid land. Ml)

USSR
Radio Mins k. 7400 kHz. Full data scenery card of
Lenin Square, with illegible signature. Received in
168 days fo r an English report. Station address:
Krasnaya 4. Minsk 220807. Byelorussian SSR.
USSR. (Nicholas Adams. Newark. 1'J )

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Rad io, 9605 kHz. Full data scenery QSL,
witho ut verification signer. Received in 70 days for
an English report and one IRC. Stat ion address:
Englis h Programmes. 00120 Vatican City, Vat ican
City State , Italy. (Nicholas Adams. Newark, NJ)
(John Carson, Norman. OK)

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Jack Albert

A New Technology
for your Shack or Listening Post

DSP:

Have you ever heard of a DSP, FIT or FIR?

H ow about an IIR, ADC or DAC? Some day
these acronyms will be as common as SWL, HF
or RITY. They are, in fact, terms that are used
in conjunction with a new technology called
Digital Signal Processing. A DSP is actually a
microprocessor that, for some applications, has
an audio input and output.
The input is connected to a micro-chip called
the ADC or Analog to Digital Converter. It
converts an audio signal to digital data and
sends it to the DSP Chip (sec Figure 1). The
DSP processes the information and sends the
new data to the computer or to the DAC
(Digital to Analog Converter). The DAC will
provide an audio signal which can be connected
to a speaker amplifier or an oscilloscope.
Several ADCs or DACs can be used in a DSP
system. The computer can, for example, act as a
control panel or a graphics interface for FAX
or a chart recorder.
The microprocessor also communicates to
another chip which is called the RAM
(Random Access Memory). The RAM
contains a computer program which instructs
the DSP to perform a certain function. The
program can simulate an audio filter, an RITY
decoder, an audio spectrum analyzer or even a
Motley C rew (Heavy Metal) to Mitch Miller
musical converter. The latter may be somewhat
difficult because it may require several
megabytes of RAM. The capabilities of such a
device in the shack or listening post is limitless.
You can connect the audio output of your
shortwave receiver to your computer and use it
to digitally record voice or an RTTY signal and
store it on a floppy or hard disk. You can also
use your computer as a digital storage
oscilloscope.
An audio spectrum analyzer is a piece of test
equipment that is untouchable to a ham or
shortwave listener because of cost. The same
DSP unit in conjunction with your computer
can open a new world ofRITY listening. Have
you ever seen a spectrum analyzer or

panoramic display? If you have, you arc

probably familiar with the "pips." The pips
represent each signal that is present within the
audio spectrum. Figure 2 is an actual display
that was drawn by a $25,000 HP signal analyzer
and an $800 HP plotter. Would you like one or
two in your shack?
The SWL/DSP unit could have software for
your PC that would allow you to display a
similar picture. But let's say you have
interference on the band, which is represented
by the other pips in Figure 2, and you want to
eliminate it. You could use your computer
mouse to place a curser over the pips and by
clicking the mouse button the interference can
disappear from the speaker.
The above scenario is possible because a
special computer program called an IIR
(Infinite Impulse Response) or FIR (Finite
Impulse Response) filter can be loaded into the
RAM of the DSP unit. They are actually
computer softwares. They instruct the DSP to
simulate an audio filter and to send the results
to the DAC. FIR's and IIR's are very
complicated and involve difficult mathematical
formulas which are far beyond the scope of this
column.
The DSP can handle it because it's a special
processor that is designed to handle math
problems very quickly. The speed is so fast that
the audio signals are processed in "real time."
DSP chips can run on a 40 MHz crystal. That's
fast, considering the average home computer
operates at 8 or 12 MHz. An FIT is another
math program which is used to display the pips
or to simulate the spectrum analyzer.
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could copy the military 16 or 39 tone system
which I talked about several issues ago. A
product such as this is just around the corner.
In fact, several DSP unit s were introduced at
the Dayton Hamfest this year and will be
available by Christmas.
A few readers were asking if that was me on
CNN during a report about the tornado that hit
the Joliet, Illinois, area last August. I have to
confess I was helping out by providing
communications for the Red Cross and
Salvation Army in conjunction with IESDA
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49

satellite tV - adventures in the clarke belt

Ken Reitz, KC4GQA

The Sporting Side of TVRO

With the last out of the World Series a
fading memory and the nights getting longer
and colder, the home dish owner is tha nkful
fo r the plethora of sports available. When
questioned closely, the T YRO enthusiast will
talk at length about F /D ratio, HEMT LNBs
and e ngage in ferocious debate on the merits
of horizon-to-horizon VS linear actuators.
But the simple fact is that most dish owners
are unashamed sports enthusiasts. Better
make that sports nuts.
Even now, nearly four years after the
advent of scrambling, the a mount of sports
programming via satellite is staggering. But
it's the wint er season that makes this so
obvious. Here is the college and professional
football season, the college and pro hockey
season, college and pro basketball, all
needing transponder space to "back haul" the
live feed from the event site to the affiliate
stations.
While major league baseball began
scrambling their backhaul feed using the VCI
encryption syste m years ago, the other big
time sports have been slow, for whatever
reason, to follow suit. In this respect it's still
the "good old days of satellite TV."
How long it will last depends on how
successful the encryption system salespeople
arc.

Cricket anyone?
One thing about this satellite technology
that one has to appreciate is the opportunity
to be introduced to regional sports we would
ot herwise never have a chance to experience.
For example, we've a ll seen regular old
bowling, but how about candle pin bowling?
Played with pins which are narrow at the top
and bottom and wide at the middle and
quick-bowled with a holeless ba ll about the
size of a big grapefruit, this is apparently
quite the rage in New Engla nd. Look for it
nights on F4,13 on New Engla nd Sports
Network (NESN).
O ne of my favorite sports via satellite is
"curling." This is a national passion in
Ca nada. Imagine shuffleboard on ice with
massive polish ed granite rocks with a flat side
on the bottom and a handle on top. One
participant glides the rock along the court
toward a target while assistants furiously
scrub a path wit h special brooms. This is a
gracefu l sport with no appare nt age barriers
and lots of strategy. Look for curli ng on the
Anik satell ites.
Among other oddities is the occasional
cricket match, arena football, lacrosse (both
college and pro) and Australia n rules foo tball

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November 1 990

legislation favorable to TYRO users is just

one item on the AHSA agenda.
Membership in AHSA is $36 per year and
includes the 10 issue per year AHSA
newsletter entitled S/...y Repo11. Written by a
notewort hy staff, this newslette r is crammed
wit h articles on techn ology, programming,
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For more information on AHSA call
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interest them? FAX it to AHSA at 914-9486217.

IRAC revisited
(which seemingly has no rules), just to name
a few. Noticeably missing in recent years are
the bullfights from Mexi co City which were
complete with instant replays.
At last count there were some 26 full -time
sports channels and at least that many more
backhaul channels on any given winter
evening. Still not satisfied? Crank up the
SCPC receiver and listen to every single
college and professional game in North
America. T hey are all up the re. Audio
backhau l transponders to find SCPC sports
include G2,3 and W4,2.

American Home Satellite

Association
Last month I briefly menti oned a legal aid
package available for home dish owners beset
by zoning ordinances. The package was put
together by the folks a t American Home
Satellite Association. Founded in early 1988,
AHSA is a member-supported consumer
advocacy group which has sought to address a
number of the legislative and lega l problems
which cont inue to dog the industry.
A HSA's executive director, Court
Newton Jr., states that zoning regulations
intended to restrict cit izens from installing
private satellite TV antennas are a "continual
problem." One of the big issues this past
su mmer was major league baseball's refusal
to allow Americans to watch their favo rite
teams in action. Says Newton, "!Members
were] very heated about sports franchises
restricting access to programming." Encouragi ng legislators in congress to support
MONITORING TIMES

In the September column I gave out

inform at ion on a radio spectrum chart.
Here's an update: While it is published by
the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee of the National Telecommunications
a nd Information Administration in the U.S.
Department of Commerce, it is available
only through the Government Printing
Office.
As my good friend, Edwin E. Dinkle,
executive secretary, IRAC, said to me in a
form lette r: 'The NTIA frequency all ocation
chart entitled "United States Frequency
Allocations: The Radio Spectrum" may be
purchased by contacting the U.S. Government Printing Office at 202-783-3238. Please
reference stock number 003-000-00652-2
when ordering."
The price of the chart is $2.75 each. This
massive mu lti-colored wall chart is de 1igueur
fo r every monitoring e nthusiast. Don't want
to spring fo r the toll call'! Write the GPO,
Washington, D.C. 20402. This is the
government. It'll take a while.

New solar cells

This story came in on the Xinhua (PRC)
newswire via X-Press X-Cha nge on G 1, 18
VBI: "A British consortium has begun a
three-year project to develop a new
generation of solar cells ... (to) be based on
indium phosphide, a high radiation resistant
mat erial."
The report states that while current
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performance levels as a result of radiation,
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Henry Ruh, KB9FO, of Chicago, Illinois, writes: "Here in the
Chicago area I can 'view' at least two Inte/Sat TVRO sources... The
video is PAS 625/50, which I can watch in B&W since the TV sets' H/V
oscillators can still latch on and lock up despite the frequency
differences from NTSC. So far the video has been sp011s and news,
mostly with no audio or subcanier audio in the 6 to 7 MHz region
(varies).
"! am using a 12-foot dish and HTS V TVRO receiver. My 'look
angle' is about ... 45 and 50 degrees east of due south. My neighbor's
house blocks anything more easterly from my site. Video is on during
evening hours (European time) to about 11 p.m. Central time.
"Pix quality is pe1fec1 to 50 percent snow. Apparently they are using
different spot beams at different times. Also, lately a lot of Fl signals
have go11e11 weak (lots ofsparkles even with a 50 degree LNB). Also, Ml
seems to have gotte11 weaker or they have moved the f ootp1i11t south as I
used to get three cha1111els in the good range and now get only one in the
poor to fair ra11ge."
Excellent comments, Henry. It's good to see that a 12 foot dish has
such good reception in the midwest. To further improve your IntelSat
signals I would recommend gelling the special IntelSat feedhom
which is made by National AOL. It's not cheap, especially if ordered
with the C and Ku band options.
The only drawback to this fccdhorn is that there will be a dB or
two loss on the right and left hand polarity when combined with the
circular polarity. The other option is to use a Teflon dielectric plate
which is inserted in the throat of the feedhorn and simulates a circular
feed chamber.
As to picture degradation on the various satellites, I would suggest
that it's time to peak your dish. The fact that the weakest signals have
gotten worse indicates that your dish isn't off by much. My solution is
to get your hands on a Bulz-I-Meter and you'll be amazed at the
difference. The ADL IntelSat feedhorn and Butz-I-Meter are
available from the SI...')' Store, St. Hillaire, MN 56754 or call them toll
free at 800-328-7733. The dielectric plate is available from Avcom, 500
Southlake Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23236 or call them at 804-7942500.
Ian Lau, from Troy, Michigan, writes: 'Would you please tell m e
1vhat it wkes to receive Anned Forces Radio again. I know, for example,
that AF/ffS is broadcasting from JNMARSAT. But the local satellite
dish people know 1101hi11g abow the satellite since it is 1101
'e111e11ai11111e11t' related. Any advice?"
Good question, Ian. You'll find that a lot of dealers aren't aware
of what's happening outside the "cable related" satellites. This is really
through no faulr of their own, but it always amazes me that they could
work in this industry and maintain such a narrow scope.
Here's the situation: Up until a few years ago AFRTS, both audio
and video, was available to TYRO through their transponder on F2.
Because they frequent ly rebroadcast certain cable programming,
which was VCII encrypted, those programmers forced AFRTS to
likewise encrypt. They did, using the Leitch encryption system and
AFRTS programming was taken away.
There remains a slim hope for receiving AFRTS via Single
Channel Per Carrier audio subcarrier on domestic satellites. If you
live far enough west that you can receive Alascom Aurora (143
degrees west) look for AFRTS on transponder 15 and Armed Forces
Radio Network (AFRN) on transponder 18.
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Forces variety entertainment service" this SCPC channel is said to be
on W4 transponder 4. Perhaps there are readers who can advise me if
there are any I missed. At any rate, you're right about AFRTS and
INMARSAT, the trick is to set up for reception.
E lectronic Equipment Bank of Vienna, Virginia, had advertised a
stand-alone AFRTS reception system was in the works and available
shortly. However, prior to filing thjs column I spoke with Scott at EEB
who explained that their proposed AFRTS Receiver System was still a
ways from reality.
From Monitoring Times reader Rene Matthijssen of Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada: '1[ one of your readers needs technical infonnation
abow older satellite TV equipment or how to hook it up, I know
probably 9? percent of all equipm ent ever manufactured and put 011 the
market from experience. l can tell whether to snap it up or walk away
from it."
Sounds good, Rene; It's good to hear from you and hope many of
our readers can take advantage of your knowledge. If you have a
question for Rene, write him at 11950 69th Street, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada T5B 1S5. Out of courtesy, how about enclosing
something for return postage?
From George Poppin of San Francisco, California, a reprint of a
letter from the engineering department at the Voice of Turkey
indicates that VOT will be beaming one of its four national TV
channels to Europe via satellite.
Patrick Paventa of Hawthorne, New Jersey, communicates his
hopes of putting in an SCPC-only TYRO system, the landlord willing.
He also says that so far the only World Standard Teletext
transmissions are found on the VBI of TBS Superstation. Those with
teletext decoders should occasionally monitor other channels for WST
transmissions. Most likely will be WGN (G1,3).

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November 1990

51


bandscan
amer1can

Karl Zuk

The Trashcan Transmitter

"Will you be working in the garbage can
today, honey?" Anthony Kord's wife asks as he
leaves for his job as station e ngineer at
WWRX radio in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Kord winces.
"Even the general manager has been
known to ask when I'Li next be visiting the
canister," he says, a trace of humility hanging
thickly in his voice. T o these questions Kord is
likely to sigh, "the correct title fo r the WWRX
transmitter building is 'overseas shipping
crate."'
When stat ion WWRX went shopping for a
new transmitter building, they were shocked
by the price tag: at least one firm wanted
$10,000 to build a new ci nder block "shack."
T o make matters worse, they wanted a month
in which to complete the project. That's when
Kord came up with a better idea.
An overseas shipping crate is a large steel
box, eight feet deep, nine fe et tall and forty
fee t wide -- perfect to house the FM station's
transmitter. Best of a ll, a tractor trailer leasing
and sales firm in the Providence a rea could
supply one for a modest $3,500. When
compared to similar specs on the concrete
block building the station was first
considering, the overseas shipping container
began to look attractive.
Kord,
the shipping
According to
crate/transmitter building turned out to be a n
even better deal than he thought. "Although
the roof is fl at, the inside is corrugated for
stre ngth. M ounting most objects to the ceiling
is therefore easily accomplished with selftapping sheet metal screws."
Shipping containers are also air and water
tight, designed to protect its cargo from a long
overseas journey. "Careful attention was given
to cooling," says Kord, who used a cutt ing
torch to make the necessary air intake
openings on the shipping container. "Even
wit h 25 kW of generated waste heat," says
Kord, "t he shipping container is often a few
degrees cooler than the outside temperature,
even during the summer."
In winter, the clever e ngineer simply
diverts some of the transmitte r's heat back
into the shack.
TI1ere is one drawback to the overseas
shipping container cum transmitter building,
admits Kord. H is is sinking. 'The minimal 1inch sink over the past year on our ve ry soft
site was not unexpected," he says, mainly

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Novem ber 1990

because the structure's entire weight is resting

on six cinderblocks.

desirable since current digital radios can tune

them without modification.

H ow has Kord been able to handle all of

the ribbing he obviously receives from fam ily,
friends, and co-workers regarding his
"t rashcan" workplace?

o/ ABC Radio Network personality Paul

H arvey continues to be America's most
popular voice. According to recently released
nationwide rat ings, Paul's news programs and
his feature, The Rest of the Sto1y, firmly hold
the top five slots. CBS Radio's weekday
newscasts at 6 and 7 a.m., and their feature,
The Osgood File, arc right behind, followed by
ABC's Information Net newscasts at 6 and 8
a.m., rounding out the top ten.

"You eventua lly learn to smile and take

the comments in st ride," says Kord. "You
know that the overseas shippi ng crate has
saved you time and money, a nd made you r
construction j ob a bit easier."

Bits 'n' Pieces

o/ The FCC has fin ally unveiled their first
proposal for usage of the new expanded AM
band. Ten new channels, fro m 1610 to 1700
kHz, should eventually be allocated to 250 to
300 new full-time stations. Each station would
operate with 10 kilowatts during the day and
one kilowatt at night in stereo. 1700 kHz will
be set aside for Traveler's Information Service
stations now using 1610 kHz. Medium-sized
towns that were never assigned licenses due to
their proximity to larger cities will have
priority on t he new channels.

The broadcast industry a nd the public now

have their turn to comment on these FCC
proposa ls. Expect to see stations on 1610 and
1620 kHz first. These fr equencies are most

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o/ CBS owned and operated WCAU in

Philadelphia has dropped its news-talk format
and now simulcasts rock oldies with sister
station WOGL-FM. Philadelphia Phillies
baseball, Villanova basketball and CBS
network coverage of major league baseball
a nd NFL footb all will continue to be heard on
the AM side only.

The station has been the home of

controversial talk show hosts such as former
Philly mayor Fra nk Rizzo. CBS claimed, "The
station had not been profitable for us for
some time. We tried a ll forms of news and
talk, and nothing seemed to work." What a
waste of 50,000 watts.
In Boston, the CBS Radio Network has
dropped its long-standi ng affiliation wit h
WEEI in favor of rival WRKO . WEEI was

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The owner of a new FM stat ion in the
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As we mentioned before, the BBC has
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to accommodate new Radio 5. Radio 1 is now
found in stereo between 97 and 99 MHz
nationwide. Radio 2 is now exclusively on FM
between 88 and 91 MHz. Radio 3 is found
from 90 to 93 FM. Radio 4 is the only BBC
service still on long wave and can also be
found on FM between 92 and 95 MHz. New
Radio 5 is available on mediumwave only at
693 and 909 kHz.

In Belgium, BRT has begun a relay of its

international seivice throughout the day on
1512 kHz with 300 kilowatts. Ireland's
Atlantic 252 has extended its operating hours
and now signs off at 0100 UTC instead of
1800 UTC. Their transmitter power is being
reduced to just 100 kilowatts at night to cut
back on expenses. At full power, Atlantic 252
boasts a powerful half a megawatt signal
heard in North America and Europe.
Credits
Readers
Malcolm
Kaufman,
Ron
Carruthers and Ken Chatterton provided
information for us this month. Thanks to
Radio Wodd, Broadcasting Magazine and The
M Street Joumal for various data, and the
British DX Club for foreign news. Until next
month, happy trails.

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53

outer limits

Dr. John Santosuosso

P.O. Box 1116
llighla11d City, Fl 33846

And Castro Makes Three?

Manuel Noriega a nd Da niel Ortega have
fallen from power. Is Fidel Castro next?
One maj or Florida business magazine has
already published an extensive article on
economi c opportu nities in post-Castro
Cuba. Mea nwhile we hear rumors that
Brigade 2506 whi ch did the fi ght ing in t he
ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion is in training
agai n. Certainly there is more opt imism in
Miami's exile commu ni ty tha n one has seen
in years.
Anri-Cast ro broadcast ing activity con
tinues to pick up. D iego Medina, chief
broa dcaster fo r th e Voice of Alph a 66, can
be hea rd n ightly except weekends at 2330
on 13760 via WHRI. In a recent broadcast
Dr. Medina blaste d the Castro regime fo r
fai lure to follow th e path of perestroika.
Thanks to Florida's D avid Crawfo rd we
were able t o log a nothe r Cuban exi le

Thank you f Oi your raoorL!

Long Jonn S ~ 1 ,er

broadcaster, R adio C uba Libre, o n 7001.5

kHz at 0030 UTC. In past years one or two
C uban clandestines identified with that call.
At present it is not clear w hether the
current Radio Cuba Libre (Radio Free
Cuba) is a reactivation of one of these or a
brand new stat ion. Regard less of which, it
may indicate st ill more statio ns could pop
up.
In the past the frequencies between
about 7040 a nd 7100 were often a happy
huntin g ground for Cuban clandestines,
some of which made only a coup le of
broadcasts and others which st uck around
fo r quite some time . It may pay to sca n tha t
sectio n of the band from ti me t o time.
Tha nks to our hard-working edito r
Larry Miller and the BBC Monitoring
Service, we were able to bring yo u late
break ing news in the September issue that
Radio Impacto ha d returned to the air on
mediumwave eve n if yet
on
shortwave.
si lent
With th e pol itica l clima te in Nica ragua a nd
Panama now much m ore
t o Jmpacto's liking, perhaps the station will ai r
ant i-Castro broadcasts.
If any of our readers a re
able to monitor it s signal
on 980 kHz, we would
love to know wha t yo u
are hearing these days.

, ake

JOHtl ROS c NG>RTEN

Personal message :

Free Radio One: We have had

seve ral inquiries from pe rsons wanting to
know if F ree Radi o One is curre ntly active.
The stat ion a tt racted quite a lot of
attention because it s righ t-wing political
and
fund amen talist
religious
views
app roach mad e it far more philosop hical
than most pirates around . Free Radio One
also issued a most impressive QSL
certificate.
Apparent ly broadcasts have not been
made for a nu mber of months now. Why? It
may be simply beca use the folks responsible
fo r th em got tired of doing them, or
pe rhaps they had transm itter problems.
H owever, th ere may be another reason.
Free Radio O ne was always a st rong backer
of "Radio Free America" and its host, T om
Valentine. Valentin e's po int of view is
virtually th e sa me as that of Free Radio
One. While ca rried by a nu mber of
mediumwave a nd FM stat ions, he is also
relayed via WWC R Nashville on 7520 kHz
at 0200 UTC. Maybe the Free Radio One
staff thought WWCR with it s 100 kW signal
cou ld reach a la rger audie nce th an they did.
"Outer
Limits"
Readers
Write: They say that they are hea ring
qu ite a lot these days. F rom F lorida Mark
Seiden says he bagged his first domestic
pirate. It was Hope R adio on 74 14.6 at
0100. The ga ng at H ope R adio claimed to
be running 350 watts. Here's "hoping" you
co me across some more, Ma rk.
O ne of our regular reporters, Connecti-

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Long John Silver of CHGO sent this sample QSL

and personal message commemorating the
station's final broadcast. CHGO was closed by the
FCC.
54

N0Pe111b er 1990

There were all kinds of clowns at the MT

Convention! Actually, MT shared the hotel with a
Shriner convention, many of whom were also
interested in radio, as was this one, talking with
Radio NewYork lnternational's Alan Weiner at the
/R CA booth.

MON ITOR ING T IME S

Feeling Left Out?

cut's Jim Kalach, also came across Hope
Radio International. He found them in a
QSO with KNBS , Samurai Radio and Radio
Happy Isle. These pirate QSOs appear to
be turning up with increasing regularity in
recent months.
Michigan's Bill Laut erbach checks in
again with severa l nice logs. He heard the
Revolutionary Voice of Plainville at 0015
on 7412 kHz. CFCN, claiming to be a
Canadian pirate, came in at 0120 on 7416,
while Rockabilly Radio put in a SSB signal
on 7412 at 0130. Some nice catches, Bill.
M eanwhile in Illinois Tim Johnson has
been catching his s hare . He found WKND
at 2340 on 7415 with an "Elmer Fudd rap
song." WKZP (K-Zap) a lso checked in on
7415 at 0010 with the theme from "The
Munsters" TV show. Tim also had logs of
Hope Radio on 7370 and Samurai Radio on
7415 .
Virginia's Pat Mu rphy continues to have
a good deal of monitoring success. Action
Radio came in with an excellent signa l on
7415 at 0148.
Radio ESP was found on 7415 at 0313
with Janis Joplin tunes. In USB on 7415 Pat
heard Fourth of July R adio at 0346. For
good measure Pat fou nd CFCN (or CFBN)
on 7420 at 0207.
Once again Al an Masyga has ha d good
hunting up M inn esota way. He got WNTZ
at 0135. Alan also heard an unidentified on
15036 at 2235.

Here and There: A relic of the

Viet nam War: a French language program
of Radio-TV National Laos can be heard
via a USSR relay from 1100 to 1130 on
17595. With the changes in Moscow and
elsewhere this may be gone one of these
days. Meanwhile if you cannot hear Laos
direct, you might find th is an interesting
catch.
According to the BBC M onit oring
Service, groups opposing the government of
Ethiopia are quite act ive with clandestine
transmissions t hese days. Among them
EDORM, t he Ethiopian Democratic
Officers' Revolutionary Movement, has
a nnounced broadcasts at 0500 and 1930 in
the 48, 44, 43, 41, 40 and 31 meter bands.
Voice of the Broad Oromo Masses is on at
0400 and 1500 in the same bands. It has
been mo nit ored o n 9316 and 7886 at 0400.
These freq uencies are also used by the
Voice of the Ethi opian People for Peace,
Democracy and Freedom and by the Voice
of the Tigray Revolution. Other frequencies
worth trying a re 9335, 7905 and 7820. The
Ethiopian elands are difficult, but who
knows wha t you might hear.

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leftist guerrillas in E l Salva dor recently
demanded that the governme nt stop
jamming their Radio Venceremos and
Radio Farab undo Marti broadcasts. Tha t
jamming has often been reported by
shortwave monit ors and has even included
a black version of Radio Venceremos.
American assistance has often been
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beloW' soo khz

You Can Take it with You

What's That?

As T have menti oned several times in the

past, it is worthwhile to take a portable
longwave receiver with you when you go on a
trip. Ken Stryker went to Europe last summer
and took his Sony '2010 a long. The loggings,
below, show what he heard while in Wuerzburg, West Germa ny, and in the Swiss Alps.

Bob Hurley writes to say that he heard

UQN /372 o n a couple of occasions and
couldn't fi nd it in Th e Aero-Mmi11e Beaco11
Guide. The reason is that it is a more recent
change. UQN/372 is Vidalia, Georgia. It used
to send an ID of V DI. It is part of the free
Updater sent to buyers of the A ero/Mmi11e
Beacon Guide. If you bought the 1990 edition
of th e Guide and haven't sent for your Upda1er,
be sure to send your SASE to the address
below.
If you haven't purchased the Guide, you can
o rder now and receive both the Guide and the
Updater. You'll be just as up-to-date as
everyone else. You can order The Aero/Mmi11e
Beacon Guide and the Upda1er by sending $15
to:
Ken Stryker
2856-G W. T ouhy Ave nu e
Chicago, IL 60645
You will get a listing of ove r 7,000 beacons,
including frequency, ID, location, airport,
operating agency such as army, private, FAA
etc. There is information on coordinates,
power, elevat ion at transmiucr sight and
modu latio n shift.
Included is a listing of active lowfers
(amateu rs operating beacons o n 1750 meters)
and t he GWEN stations. There arc articles on
propagation and sending for QSLs. The
beacons arc Jjsted by ID within frequency and
there is a cross index of freque ncies within IDs.
If you liste n to beacons, this quickly beco mes
your most valuable aid.

292
295
303
306
308.5
311
320
325
327
331
338
355
357.5
360
362
363
366
370
370
371.5
375
378
382
382
390
395
398
403
413
415
420
426
426.5
441
446
452
470
473
473
475
482
488
507
514

NKR
NB
RTT
SG
WOF
NSN
FFM
KTG
LNZ
MUN
RUD
KNG
KG
WAL
BZO
SCF
WS
GAC
PSA
SHA
NDG
MC
FW
SBG
VAL
TRA
FTT
HAB
KTI
RTB
INN
GBG
MIO
FDA
HNU
ANS
FY
FHA
BU
WT
SWH
ILM
GBL
DZ

Neckar (Heidelberg), w. Germany

Nurnberg, W. Germany
Rattenburg, Austria
Stuttgart. w. Germany
Munich, W. Germany
Nledersteln. W. Germany 2DAID
Frankfurt Main, W. Germany
Kilzingen (MF), W. Germany
Linz. Austria
Munich, W. Germany
Rudeshelm, W. Germany
Koning, W. Germany
Sarajevo. Yugoslavia
Wallisellen, Switzerland
Bolzano, Italy
Schweinfurt (APH), W. Germany
OTH?
Gacko, Yugoslavia
Spessart. W. Germany
Scharthausen, Switzerland
Nordlingen, W. Germany
Munich, W. Germany
Frankfurt Main, W. Germany
Salzburg, Austria
Valjevo. Yugoslavia
Trasadlngen, Switzerland
Feucht (AFF). W. Germany
Hammelt>urg, w. Germany
Kuhtal, Austria
Rothenbach (Nurnberg), W. Germany
lnnsbruch, Austria
Glelchenberg
lnglostadt (Mike) W. Germany
Fulda (MF), W. Germany
Hanau (MF), W. Germany
Ansbach (AHP) w. Germany
Finthen (MF). W. Germany
Frledrichsharen. w. Germany
OTH?
Wertheim (AHP). W. Germany
Schwat>lsch Hall (AHP), w. Germany
lllesheim (MF). W. Germany
Gliebelstadl (MF). W. Germany
Mlada Boleslav. Czechoslovakia

Old Beacons Never Die,

or Do They?

As I have commented before, all too many

beacons pass into oblivion quiet ly, without any
report of their demise. Sometimes a beacon
wi ll be silent for severa l years and the n
suddenly reappear with their signal on the
sar1e old freque ncy. Fo r t his reason, we are
Note that the frequ encies start at 292 kHz usually hesita nt about writing a beacon off too
and extend through the 400s into the low 500s. soon.
Those of you who listen to longwave broadcast
T here was one instance severa l years ago of
stations from E urope and A fr ica will recognize a beacon at a private airfield in Virginia that
that the beacons are genera lly above the was no lo nger being heard. DXc rs in the a rea
broadcast station frequencies. Thu s, you don't continued to check just in case it might be on at
find a ny in the lower 200 kHz bands and do odd or usual hours. Finally, one listener
fin d them higher.
spotted an item in the business section of the
Next, notice the use of .5 frequencies. T his newspaper. The airport was closed a nd the
permits more beacons without duplicating the land had been sold to be developed into
frequency. In the U.S . we frequently fi nd a anot her shopping mall. It was quite safe to
number of beacons on the same frequency. remove this beacon from the list.
Hopefully, they are far enough apart to prevent
Herc arc some more th at have been listed as
overlap. But, try listening o n a crisp, cold night decommissioned in various documents and
and you may be able to hear quite a few reports. CCO /210 in Newman, Georgia, and
togcrhcr. A loop a ntenna helps to separate HLW/265 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a re
them.
gone. A couple of T exas beacons are no lo nger:
The AAF stands for Army A ir Field and t he They are MXJ/28 1 Conroe a nd MIH/375
AHP stands for Army Helicopter Pad o r Port. Brownsville. A mong the ot hers t hat have been
These arc military installat io ns, including both closed a rc FMM/338 Fort Morga n, Colo rado;
U.S . and West German facilities.
G FG/378 Leesburg, Virginia; TVB/383
Cabool, Missouri; a nd FJM/414 Fra mingham,

56

November 1990

MON ITORING TIM ES

Joe Woodlock

Massachusetts. Sometimes, a new beacon wi ll

appear on a different frequency and ID for
that airport at some later date, but these
particular beacons arc permanently gone.
For a number of years, the G reat Lakes
Coast Guard units have maintained quite a few
remote lig hts t hat also have beacons. These
have created problems because of difficult
access to their remote locations. Now they
have developed solar powered units that will
provide power for the light s. H owever, there is
not enough power to also keep t he beacons
going.
The decision has been made to do away
with the beacons and keep t he light s using
solar power. Some of the beacons that have
been eliminated are M/298 Manit ou Island,
Michiga n; X/305 Passage Island, Michigan;
X/31 5 Grays Reef, Michigan; and 0 /317
D evils Island, Wisconsin. There wi ll likely be
others in the futu re if these work out
successfully. I do n't know if the closing of
G /294 Mississippi River Outlet, Lou isiana, is
for the same reason or another.

Correction
A couple of months ago I mentioned the
test by MP/ Montauk Point on 293 kHz. Yes,
293 is the correct fre que ncy as shown on the
loggings rat her than the incorrect fre quency
listed in th e test. I have a spell checker on my
word processor that helps me avoid spelling
errors, but it can't do much when I write the
wrong number down. It now appears that the
test is going to be for a longer period of time.
perhaps as long as a year.
M eanwhile, ME/350 in Ch icago has
ret urned to th e air with both voice and code
ID. I still don't know whether this was a test of
tu rning it off or a malfunction of some type
th at took a long whi le to repair.

Apologies
I was very sorry to miss the convention in
Knoxville . T had been looking forwa rd to
meet ing a lot of you people for some time. It
was a bitt er disappointment.
The following is offered not as any appeal
for sympathy but rather to simply explain the
sequence of events that occurred. Last mon th's
column covered the beacons I heard down in
Ecuador. About a week after l came back I was
felled by a pinched nerve in the back. It was
fo llowed an allergy to th e medication that was
being used fo r my pinched nerve.
After that began to clear up, the real villa in
e merged. The beginning of Augu st I was taken
to the hospital with a breathing problem. The
tests concluded that I had lu ng cancer at an
advanced stage. I quit smoking seve ral years
ago, but apparent ly not soon enough. Or
maybe it wouldn't have made any difference
anyhow. Now we pick up the pieces and go on
fr om here with some adjustm ents in personal
activities.

prograni

MT Program Team
Kannan Shanmugam,
Program Manager
4412 Tumbeny Circle
Lawre11ce, KS 66047

John Carson
No r111a11 , Oklahoma

Jim Fr immel
Willow Park, Texas

Sunday
Nov 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
0000 KSDA. Guam: Your Story Hour. Dramatized
children's stories.
0008 Radio Canada lnt'I: Innovation Canada. Bob
Cadman looks at Canada's new Ideas and
technological developments.
0010 Kol Israel: Spotlight. A weekly news
magazine.
0030 BBC: The Ken Bruce Show. A mix of popular
music and entertainment news.
0030 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. H.M.
Richards' devotional program.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. News analysis
from correspondenls worldwide.
0036 Radio Canada lnt'I: The Shortwave Listeners'
Dlgesl. Ian McFarland wllh DX news and
features.
0052 Radio Netherlands: Over to You. Listener
letters and questions, and music selections.
0100 Radio Norway lnt'I: Norway Today. A
magazine program on issues and people
affecting modern-day Norway.
0101 BBC: Play of the WeeK. Hour-long drama
selections.
0108 Radio Canada lnt'I: Spotlight on Science. Bob
Cadman examines the latest developments In
science and lechnology.
0109 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. Opinion on
current Issues.
011 O Kol Israel: Spotlight. See S 0010.
0117 Deutsche Welle: Feature. 'Mailbag: Ph0ne
In: or 'To The Top (the German pop
scene). presented on a rotating basis.
0130 Radio Canada lnt'I: Earth Watch. Andre
Courey looks at environmental Issues.
0134 Deutsche Welle: German by Radio. An
advanced German language course for
Engl lsh speakers.
0

legend
* The first four digits of an entry are the
program start time in UTC.

* The time is followed by the station

0136 Radio Canada lnt'I (Latin America): Listeners'

Corner. Listener comments, questions, and
music requests.
0138 Radio Canada lnt'I (USA): Coast to Coast.
Ian McFarland looks at opinions of
Canadians on issues affecting them.
0200 KSDA. Guam: AWA Magazine. Stories about
science. nature. discoveries, nutrition, and
heallh matters.
0200 Radio Norway lnl'I: Norway Today. See S
0100.
0209 BBC: British Press Review. Edllorlal opinion
In the British press.
0209 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 01 09.
0210 Kol Israel: Spotlighl. See S 0010.
0213 Deutsche Welle: Sports Report. The latest
news from the world of sports.
0215 BBC: Talk. A short discussion on various
topics (except November 4th: Talking From....
talks with leading figures throughout the UK).
0219 Deutsche Welle: Mailbag Asia. Answers to
listeners' queries. musical requests. and the
club corner.
0230 BBC: Feature. More topical programming on
various subjects.
0230 KSDA. Guam: DX Aslawaves. News from the
world of shortwave radio.
0245 KSDA. Guam: Probe. A Bible study program.
0309 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
0315 BBC: From Our Own Correspondent. In
depth news stories from correspondents
worldwide.
0317 Deutsche Welle: Feature. See S 0117.
0330 BBC: My Music. The return of the popular
musical quiz, hosted by Steve Race.
0334 Deutsche Welle: German by Radio. See S
0134.
0337 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Over to You. See S
0052.
0404 Radio Canada lnt'I: Double Exposure. A
mocking look at the week's top news stories
and newsmakers.
0409 Deutsche Welle: Commenlary. See S 0109.
0413 Deutsche Welle: Sports Report. See S 0213.
041 9 Deutsche Welle: International Talking Poinl. A
round-table discussion on major trends and
events.
0430 BBC: Musical Feature. Music programming of
a topical nature.
0434 Deutsche Welle: People and Places. A
program for Alrica wllh Interviews, stories,
and music.
0434 Radio Canada lnt'I : Listeners Corner. See S
0138.

The four digits stand for a time in UTC.

Listeners should check back to that date
and time to fi nd out more about that
particular program.

* All days are in UTC. Remember that if

you are listening in North American
prime time, it is actually the next
morning UTC.

name, program name, and a brief

summary of the program's content.

Some listings may be followed by

"See X 0000." The letter stands for a
day of the week:
S=Sunday
T = Tuesday
H =Thursday
A = Saturday

M=Monday
W =Wednesday
F =Friday

For example, if you are listening to a

program at 8:01 pm [EDT] on your
Thursday night, that's equal to 0001
UTC and therefore Friday morning UTC.

We suggest that you tune in to a

program a few minutes before the

MON1TORJNG TIMES

0445 BBC: Personal View. A personal opinion on

loplcal Issues In British life.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. Analysis .)f the
main news of the day.
0509 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
0517 Deutsche Welle: Feature. See S 0117.
0530 BBC: Financial Review. A look back al lhe
financial weeK.
0534 Deutsche Welle: German by Radio. See S
0134.
0540 BBC: Words of Faith. People share how their
scripture gives meaning to their lives.
0545 BBC: Letter from America. Alistair Cooke's
distinctly British view of America.
0609 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
0613 Deutsche Welle: Sports Report. See S 0213.
0619 Deutsche Welle: International Talking Poinl.
See S 0419.
0630 BBC: Jazz for the Asking. A Jazz music
request show.
0634 Deutsche Welle: People and Places. See S
0434.
0709 BBC: Twenly-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0730 BBC: From Our Own Correspondenl. See S
0315.
0730 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station. Tom
Meyer's family entertainment program with
music and letters.

Do you have special QSL's, pe11a111s, or

logos from radio s1a1io11s? Send /hem to us
and we'll use them as space pemrils; We'll
copy them and re/um them to you 111ithi11
the month. Send to: QSL's, c/o Mo11i101i11g
Times, P.O. Ba'( 98, Brassto11111, NC 28902.

schedule start t ime, as some stations

have tentative schedules which may
slightly vary. Consult the frequency
section begining on page 65 for the
frequencies in use by that station at
that time.
new sline is your guide to news
broadcasts on the air. All broadcasts are
daily unless otherwise noted by brackets
enclosing the day codes.
We invite listeners and stations to send
program information to the program
manager at the address above.

November 1990

57

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1/1e Yiddish depa11111e11t at Kol Israel is in
the hands of A11ka Shamir.
0745
0750
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1110
1115
1130
1130
1134
1200
1201
1300
1308
1345
1401
1404

BBC: Book Choice. ShOrt reviews of current

or future best-sellers.
BBC: Waveguide. How to hear the BBC
better.
Deutsche Welle: Arts on the Air. Reports and
Interviews on major cultural events and
developments.
Kol Israel: Mainstream. A look al consumer
and community affairs.
BBC: From Our Own Correspondent. See S
0315.
BBC: The Ken Bruce Show. See S 0030.
Radio Netherlands: Happy Slatton. See S
0730.
Deutsche Welle: German by Radio. See S
0134.
Radio Norway tnl'I : Norway Today. See S
0100.
BBC: Play of the Week. See S 0101.
Radio Norway lnl't: Norway Today. See S
0100.
Radio Canada tnl'I : Listeners' Corner. See S
0138.
BBC: Sports Roundup. The day's sports
news.
BBC: Feature. Topical programming on
vanous subjects.
Radio Canada lnl'I: Sunday Morning. A
magazine program covering virtually everything under lhe sun.

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BBC: Newsdesk
Christian Science Monitor: News
Kol Israel: News
Radio Australia: International Report
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Canada lnl't :News[SMJ;World al 6[T-AJ
Radio Finland: Northern Report (T-A)
Radio Havana Cuba: News [T-S)
Radio Kiev: News
Radio Korea: News
Radio Luxembourg: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnt'I: News [M-A]
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio Sofia: News
Spanish Foreign Radio: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [T-AJ
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing: News Abou1 China
BAT, Brussels: News [TA)
Christian Science Monitor (Asia): News (Mj
Christian Science Monitor: News [T-FJ
HCJB: Latin American News
Radio Budapest: News [T-S]

November 1990

1430 BBC: Anything Goes. Bob Hotness presents a

variety of odd recordings.
1430 Radio Netherlands: Happy Slatton. See S
0730.
1509 Deutsche Welte: Religion and Society. A
roundup of news and developments
concerning lhe world's major religions.
1513 Deutsche Welle: Africa In the German Press.
A took al what German papers and weeklies
have lo say about Africa.
1515 BBC: Concert Hall. Recordings of classical
music setecllons.
1523 Radio Canada tnl'I: (Europe) Current Alfatrs.
An In-depth took at the news.
1534 Deutsche Welle: Pop from Germany. A took
at the German pop music scene.
1600 KSDA. Guam: AWA Magazine. See S 0200.
1600 Radio Norway tnl'I: Norway Today. See S
0100.
1609 Deutsche Welle: Arts on the Air. See S 1109.
1615 BBC: Feature. See S 0230.
1630 KSDA. Guam: Power to Cope. Advice for
coping with life's problems.
1630 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station. See S
0730.
1634 Deutsche Welle: German by Radio. See S
0134.
1645 BBC: Letter from America See S 0545.
2300 Kot Israel: Hebrew Lessons. Hebrew language
lessons for English speakers.
2300 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. Advice for
dealing with fam ily life In today's culture.
2305 BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
2308 Radio Canada lnt'I: The Shortwave Listeners'
Digest. See S 0038.
2310 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
2315 BBC: Leiter from America. See S 0545.
2315 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound.
Dramatized Bible stories.
2330 BBC: Feature. See S 1401.
2330 KSDA. Guam : Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.

Monday
Nov 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
0000 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
0004 Radio Canada tnl'I: Royal Canadian Air Farce.
A humorous look at the land up north.
0010 Kol Israel: Calling All Listeners. A mailbag
program.
0015 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
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Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak (T-S)
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya: News
Radio Moscow (Wor1d Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News (T-S)
Voice of America (Americas, East Asia): News
(Special English) {T-SJ
Voice of America (E.Asla):News(Spec Eng)[M)
Radio Berlin tnl'I: News
Radio Korea (World News Service): News
Spanish Foreign Radio: News Summary (SJ
KUSW: News [TSJ
WANO: ABC News (H, A]
BBC: News Summary
Christian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Kol Israel: News
Radio Australia: Wor1d and Australian News
Radio Canada lnl'I: News [SM)
Radio Havana Cuba: News (TSJ
Radio Japan: News
Radio Luxembourg: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News (MF)
Radio Prague Int'!: News
Radio Yugoslavia: News
Radlotelevlslone ltallana: News

MONITORING TES

2315.
0025 Kot Israel: DX Corner. Ben Dalfen presents
DX news.
0030 BBC: In Praise of God. A half-hour program
of worship.
0030 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
0030 Radio Netherlands: Happy Sl atton. See s
0730.
0034 Radio Canada lnl'I: Double Exposure. See s
0404.
0045 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
0100 Radio Norway lnl'I: Norway Today. See S
0100.
0101 BBC: Feature. Programming on var1ous
subjects.
0108 Radio Canada lnl'I (Latin America): L'Altilude.
The arts scene In Canada.
0108 Radio Canada lnl'I (USA): Listeners' Corner.
Sees 0138.
0109 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
011 O Kol Israel: This Land. Jackie Beecham
presents a travel magazine.
011 6 Deutsche Welle: Living in Germany. A weekly
took al the social scene in Germany.
0134 Deutsche Welle: Larrys Random Selection.
Larry Wayne takes a took at Germany from
the lighter side.
0134 Radio Canada tnl'I (Latin America): Coast to
Coast. See S 0138.
0134 Radio Canada lnl'I (USA): L'Altllude. See M
0108.
014* BBC: Musical Feature. Musical programming
of a topical nature.
0200 Radio Norway lnl'I: Norway Today. See S
0100.
0209 BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
0209 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. A review
of major events In Europe, with Interviews
and analyses.
0210 Kot Israel: Catting All Listeners. See M 0010.
0215 BBC: Andy Kershaw's Wor1d of Music. Exotic
and Innovative music from the world over.
0230 BBC: Science In Action. The latest In
scientific devetopmenl s.
0234 Deutsche Welle: Science and Technology.
New scientific and technological developments.
0309 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
0315 BBC: Good BookS. A recommendation of a
book to read.
0316 Deutsche Welle: Living In Germany. See M
0116.
0330 BBC: Anything Goes. See S 1430.
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Spanish Foreign Radio: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [T-SJ
Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Nal'I News (T-S]
HCJB: World News
Christian Science Monitor (Asia): News (M)
Christian Science Monitor: News (TFJ
Radio Austria lnl'I : News
Radio Budapest: News
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak (T-SJ
Radio Moscow (Wor1d Service): News In Brief
Voice of Greece: News [MAJ
Spanish Foreign Radio: News Summary [SJ
KUSW: News [T-SJ
WANO: ABC News [W, A)
BBC: Wor1d News
Christian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Kot Israel: News
Radio Australia: tnlernallonal Report
Radio Bras, Brasilia: News (TS)
Radio Canada lnl'I: The World al Six [T-AJ
Radio Havana Cuba: News (T-SJ
Radio Luxembourg: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News [MF)

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0330 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station. See S
0730.
0334 Deutsche Welle: Larry's Random Selection.
See M 0134.
0408 Radio Canada lnl'I: Innovation Canada. See S
0008.
0409 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0430 BBC: Off the Shelf. A reading selected from
the best of world literature.
0434 Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. Reports and
bac kground to the news from correspondents.
0434 Radio Canada lnl'I: Spotlight on Science. See
s 0108.
0445 BBC: Feature. Topical programming on
various subjects.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0509 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
0516 Deutsche Welle: Living In Germany. See M
0116.
0530 BBC: Waveguide. See S 0750.
0534 Deutsche Welle: Larry's Random Selection.
See M 0134.
0540 BBC: Words of Fallh. See S 0540.
0545 BBC: Recording of the Week. A personal
choice from the latest classical music
releases.
0609 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M

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BBC: Feature. See S 1401 .

Radio Canada lnl'I: Inside TracK. A sports
feature magazine.
Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
BBC: Feature. See S 0230.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
Radio Netherlands: The Research File. A
science and technology review. covering the
latest discoveries and developments.
Deutsche Welle: Newsline Cologne. A current
affairs program with worldwide reports and a
German press review.
Kol Israel: Israel Mosaic. A weekly magazine
on life In Israel.
BBC: Health Matters. New developments In
the world of medical science and fitness.
BBC: Composer of the Month. A month-long
series on a particular classical music
composer.
Deutsche Welle: Hello Africa. Musical requests
and greetings to friends.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
Radio Netherlands: The Research File. See M
0752.
BBC: Quiz. A topical game show.
Radio Romania lnl'I: News
Swiss Radio lnl'I: News
Voice of America: News
Voice of Free China: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [T-AJ
Radio Cairo: News
Christian Science Monitor(Af.Eur) :News[MJ
Christian Science Monitor: News [T-F]
HCJB: Latin American News
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak [T-S)
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Portugal:. News [T-AJ
Radio Tirana. Albania: News
Radio Berlin lnt'I: News
Radio for Peace lnl'I: UN Radio News [T-A)
Radio Korea (World News Service): News
KUSW: News [T-S)
BBC: World News
Christian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Havana Cuba: News [T-SJ
Radio Japan: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News [MF]
Radio Prague lnl'I: News

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the program file

november 1990
MUSINGS: As the winter shortwave
listening season begins in. earnest, some
random thoughts... Kol Israel recently
started Hebrew lessons on Sundays,
Wednesdays, and ,Fridays at 2300 UTC ...
Boy, I wish CNN had a shortwave service.
There's no station with worldwide coverage
that provides baseball scores! .... Is it just me,
or does the BBC seem to be manipulating
their .schedule to fit in another "Newshour"
at 1300 UTC? ... I don't know about you, but
I think that Oliver Scott of "Newshour" is the
best news broadcaster on the shortwaves
today... On the same topic, "Newshour" is
great, but the BBC's 1300 UTC "News and
Twenty-Four Hours on Sunday" is better...
Rumblings that the BBC might split into two

networks -- BBC 1 for news, BBC 2 fo r other

programming -- continue unabated ... R adio
Australia will soon be starting up a mailbag
program ... Thanks (O au of you who have
sent in letters and contributions over the past
few months; your help is really appreciated.
RADIO
NEW
YORK
INT'L
INFORMATION: At last report, Radio New
York International is still being heard via
WWCR on Mondays at 0100-0500 UTC.
Most of the programs previously heard on
WWCR in that time slot can be heard at
different times later in the week.

Kan11011 Sha11111uga111
Program Manager

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1245 BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
1308 Radio Canada lnl'I (Asia): Current Affairs. See
s 1523.
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
1330 BBC: Andy Kershaw's World of Music. See M
0215.
1330 Radio Canada lnl'I: North Country. Sports,
weather. and lhe stock market report.
1345 BBC: Personal View. See S 0445.
1405 BBC: Outlook. Conversation. controversy, and
color from Britain and the rest of the world.
1430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
1437 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
1445 BBC: Talk (except November 5th: Talking
From .. ). See S 0215.
1452 Radio Netherlands: The Research File. See M
0752.
1509 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
1515 BBC: Feature. See M 0101.
1523 Radio Canada lnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
1534 Deutsche Welle: Monday Special. An Interview
or report on an event or development with
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Voice of Free China: News
WWCR: USA Radio News IT-Sl
BBC: News About Britain
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radio Cairo: News
Radio France lnl'I: News
Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Nat'I News [TS]
HCJB: World News
Christian Science Monltor(Af.Eur):News[M)
Christian Science Monitor: News (T-F)
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak (T-S]
Radio Moscow (World Service): News in Brief
Radio Netherlands: News IT-SJ
Radio Tirana. Albania: News
UAE Radio, Dubai: News
Voice of Greece: News (MA)
Radio Yerevan: News
Radiotelevisione ltallana: News
KUSW: News IT-SJ
Radio 'japan: News (M-FJ
BBC: Newsdesk
Christian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: world News
Radio Australia: International Report
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Berlin lnl'I: News

MONITORING TIMES

special relevance for Africa.

1600 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
1609 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
161 5 BBC: Good Books. See M 0315.
1615 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. Sees
2315.
1630 BBC: Health Matlers. See M 111 5.
1630 KSDA. Guam: Grealest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
1634 Deutsche Welle: Asia-Pacific Report. Correspondents' reports, interviews. and background news from the Asia-Pacific region.
1637 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
1645 BBC: The World Today. News analysis on a
selected location or event In the news.
1645 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
1652 Radio Netherlands: The Research Fiie. See M
0752.
2300 KSDA. Guam: Famlly Matlers. See S 2300.
2305 BBC: Commentary. Background to the nows
from a wide range of specialists.
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Radio Canada lnl'I: News

Radio Havana Cuba: News [T-S)
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I : News [M-FJ
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio Romania lnl'I: News
Radio RSA: News
Radio Sofia: News
Swiss Radio lnl'I : News
Voice of America: News
Voice of Turkey: News
WANO: ABC News [F]
WWCR: USA Radio News [M-A)
Radio New Zealand lnt'I: NZ News IM-F)
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radiotelevlslone llaliana: News
Christian Science Monilor(Af,Eur,NE Asla):(M)
Christian Science Monitor: News [T-Fl
Radio Canada lnl'I : News [T-A]
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak IT-SJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Tirana, Albania: News
Radio Berlin int'I: News
KU SW: News IT-SJ
WYFR (Nelwork): News (T-A)
BBC: World News

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2308 Radio Canada lnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
2310 BBC: Financial News. News of commOdlly
prices and significant moves In currency and
stock markets.
2315 BBC: Poems by Post. Michael Rosen presents
your poetry requests.
2315 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
2330 BBC: Mullllrack 1: Top 20. Tim Smith
presents what's hot on the British pop music
charts.
2330 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.

0210 Kol Israel: Spectrum. See T 0010.

0215 BBC: Network UK. A look at the Issues and
events that affect the lives of people
throughOu t the UK.
0230 BBC: Sports International. Feature program
on a topic or person making sports
headlines.
0230 Radio Canada Int'!: As It Happens. See T
0030.

Tuesday

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KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.

Kol Israel: Spectrum. Science and technology
In Israel.
KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
BBC: Megamix. A compendium of music,
sport. fashion, health, travel. news and views
for young people.
KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
Radio Canada lnt'I: As It Happens. A detailed
look at the people and events making news
In Canada and abroad.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See s
0030.
Radio Nethertands: The Research Rte. See M
0752.
BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
Kol Israel: Calling All Listeners. See M 0010.
BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
BBC: Short Story. Brief tales written by BBC
listeners.
Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. Cultural,
science, and economic developments
between the U.S. and Germany.
BBC: Europes World. A magazine program
reflecting life in Europe and Its links with
other parts of the world.
BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
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Deutsche Welle: World News
HCJB: Latin American News
Kol Israel: News
Radio Australia: World and AUstrallan News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Havana Cuba: News (T-S)
Radio Japan: News
Radio Lesotho: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News [M-A]
Spanish Foreign Radio: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News (TAJ
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Nal'I News (TSJ
Christian Science Monllor(Al,Eur,NE Asla): [M]
Christian Science Monitor: News (T-F]
Radio Austria lnl'I: News
Radio Finland: Northern Report [TAJ
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak [T-S]
Radio Jordan: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Romania Int'!: News
UAE Radio, Dubai: News

November 1990

Ki-Woo11g is a11 a111101111cer for KSDA whose

broadcasls are direc/ed lo Korean lis1e11e1S.
0234

0337

Deutsche Welle: Man and Environment. A

program on all topics relating to the
environment In Industrial and developing
countries.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
BBC: The world Today. See M 1645.
BBC: John Peel. Tracks from newly released
albums and singles from the contemporary
music scene.
Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.

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HCJB: World News
KUSW: Nows [S, T-F]
BBC: Newsdesk
Christian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Radio Australia: lnlernallonal Report
Radio Havana Cuba: News [T-SJ
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News [M-FJ
Voice of America: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I : NZ News [M-F)
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Berlin Int'!: News
Radio Canada lnl'I: News (MFJ
Christian Science Monitor: News (MF)
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak (T-S)
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Polonia: News
Radio Tirana. Albania: News
Swiss Radio lnl'I: News
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio Berlin lnt'I: News
Radio Romania lnl'I: News
KUSW: News [S. TFJ
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0352 Radio Netherlands: The Research File. See M

0752.
0408 Radio Canada lnl'I: As It Happens. See T
0030.
0409 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
0434 Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
0438 Radio Canada lnt'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
0445 BBC: New Ideas. A radio shop window for
new products and Inventions.
0455 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0509 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0530 BBC: Rnancial News. See M 2310.
0534 Deutsche Welle: Transauantlc Diary. See T
0134.
0540 BBC : Words of Faith. See S 0540.
0545 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
0609 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0630 BBC: Rock Salad. Tommy Vance presents
heavy metal music. Rock on, dudes!
0630 Radio Canada tnl'I: The FoOd Show. An
audio cornucopia for the gourmet.
0634 Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
0709 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0730 BBC: Europe's World. See T 0145.
0737 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0745 BBC: Network UK. See T 021 5.
0752 Radio Netherlands: Images. A cultural
magazine. highlighting film. theatre. opera.
bookS, and music.
1109 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
111 o Kol Israel: With Me In the Studio. An
Interview with a studio guest.
1115 BBC: waveguide. See s 0750.
11 25 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
1130 BBC: Megamix. See T 0030.
11 34 Deutsche Welle: Hello Nrlca. See M 11 34.
11 37 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
1152 Radio Net11erlands: Images. See T 0752.
1215 BBC: Multllrack 1: Top 20. See M 2330.
1245 BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
1308 Radio Canada lnl'I (Asia): Current Affairs. See
s 1523.
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
1330 BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
1330 Radio Canada Int'!: North Country. See M
1330.
1345 BBC: Musical Feature. See S 0430.
1405 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
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Radio Havana Cuba: News (T-SJ
Radio Japan: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand tnl'I: News [M-FJ
Radio Tirana, Albania: News
Voice of Free China: News
Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Nal'I News (TS]
BAT, Brussels: News (M-FJ
Christian Science Monitor: News (M-FJ
HCJB: Latin American News
Radio Austria lnl'I: News
Radio Finland: Northern Report (T-AJ
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak (T-S]
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News (MA]
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio Sofia: News
Swiss Radio Int'!: News
KUSW: News [SJ
Radio Japan: News (M-FJ
BBC: World News
Christian Science Monitor: News
Radio Australia: lnlernatlonal Report
Radio Jordan: News Summary
Radio Korea: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News

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Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
BBC: Musical Feature. See M 0145.
Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
BBC: A Jolly Good Show. Dave Lee Travis
presents requests. 1he Record of the Month,
and the album charts.
Radio Canada lnl'I : Current AHalrs. See S
1523.
Deutsche Welle: Insight. AA In-depth feature,
giving the background lo political events and
international developments.
KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
BBC: Omnibus. A half-hour program on
practically any topic.
KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
Deutsche Welle: Asia-Pacific Report. See M
1634.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
BBC: Commentary. See M 2305.
Radio Canada lnl'I: Current AHalrs. See S
1523.
BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
BBC: Concert Hall. See S 1515.
KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.

Wednesday
Nov 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
0000 KSDA. Guam : Family Mailers. See S 2300.
0010 Kol Israel: With Me in the Studio. See T
1110.
0015 KSDA. Guam: Bible in Living Sound. See S
2315.
0025 Kol Israel: Faith to Faith. AA examination of
religion in Israel! communities.
0030 BBC: Omnibus. See T 161 5.
0805
0825
0830
0830
0830
0830
0830
0840
0840
0845
0855
0900
0900
0900
0900
0900
0900
0900
09 15
0930
0930
0930
0930
0930
0940
0955
0955

Radio Pyongyang: News

HCJB: World News
Christian Science Monitor: News (MF]
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News in Brief
Radio Ne1herlands: News (MA]
Swiss Radio lnl'I: News
Radio Beijing: News About China
Voice of Greece: News
Radio Berlin lnt'I: News
KUSW: News [SJ
BBC: World News
Chnslian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Finland: Northern Report [TA]
Radio Japan: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Radio Korea (World News Service): News
Christian Science Monllor: News (MF]
Deutsche Welle (Africa): African News (MFJ
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Finland: Norlhern Report (TAJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Beijing: News Abou1 China
KUSW: News [SJ
Radio Japan: News (MF)

Pn"nce Claus of tire

Netlredands dedicates Radio
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pat* in this QSL s11bmi11ed by
Ray Lab1ie.

0030 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See

M 0030.
0030 Radio Canada Int'!: As It Happens. See T
0030.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0045 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
0052 Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
01 01 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
0109 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
011 0 Kol Israel: Israel Sound. The latest In pop
and rock music.
0125 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
01 30 BBC: Feature. Topical programming on
various subjects.
0134 Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0 145 BBC: Country Style. David Allan presents
British country music.
0209 BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
0209 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0210 Kol Israel: With Me ln the Studio. See T
1110.
0215 BBC: Health Mailers. See M 111 5.
0230 BBC: Rock Salad. See T 0630.
0230 Radio Canada lnt'I: As lt Happens. See T
0030.
0234 Deutsche Welle: Insight. See T 1534.
0309 Deutsche Welte: European Journal. See M
0209.
0315 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
0330 BBC: Discovery. AA In-depth look at scientific
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1030
1030
1030
1030
1030
1030
1040
1045
1055
1055
1100
11 oo
11 00
11 00
11 00
11 00
11 00

BBC: News Summary

BAT. Brussels: News [MF)
Christian Science Monitor: News
HCJB: Latin American News
Radio AUslralia: International Report
Radio Berlin ln1'l: News
Radio Jordan: News Summary
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Swiss Radio lnt'I: News
Voice of America: News
Christian Science Monllor: News [MF]
Radio Austria lnl'l: News [MFJ
Radio Korea: News [MS)
Radio Moscow (World Service): News in Brief
Radio Netherlands: News [MA)
UAE Radio, Dubai: News
Voice of Greece: News
Radio Berlin Int'!: News
HCJB: World News
KUSW: News [SJ
BBC: Wortd News
Clirlstian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: world News
Kol Israel: News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Japan: News

MONITORING TIMES

0334
0337
0352
0408
0409
0430
0434
0438
0445
0509
0509
0530
0534
0540
0545
0609
0630
0630
0634
0709
0730

research.
Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
Radio Netherlands: Images. See T 0752.
Radio Canada lnl'I: As lt Happens. See T
0030.
Deutsche Welte: European Journal. See M
0209.
BBC: OH the Shelf. See M 0430.
Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
Radio Canada lnl'I: Curren! AHalrs. See S
1523.
BBC: Country Style. See W 0145.
BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
BBC: Meridian. The world of the arts.
including music, drama. and books.
Radio Canada lnl'I: Open House. The eHecl
of religlon on politics. soclal justice. and
personal relations.
Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
BBC: Development '90. Ald and development
Issues.

1100 Radio Jordan: News Summary

1 t 00 Radio Korea: News
1100 Radio Moscow (World Service): News
1 100 Radio RSA: News
1100 Swiss Radio Inn: News
1100 Trans World Radio, Bonalre: News (MFJ
1100 Voice of America: News
1105 Radio Pyongyang: News
1109 BBC: News About Britain
111O Radio Beijing: News About China
1 115 Radio Korea (World News Service): News
11 30 Christian Science Monllor: News [MF]
1130 Deutsche Welle: African News [MFJ
1130 Radio Austria lnt'I: News [MFJ
1130 Radio Lesotho: News
1130 Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
1130 Radio Netherlands: News [MAJ
1150 Radio Flnland: Northern Reporl [TFJ
1155 KUSW: News [SJ
1155 Radio Japan: News [MFJ
1200 BBC: News Summary [SJ: Newsreel [MAJ
1200 Chri stian Science Monitor: News
1200 Radio Australia: International Report
1 200 Radio Beijing: News
1200 Radio Berlin lnl'I: News
1200 Radio Jordan: News
1200 Radio Moscow (World Service): News

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61

program
0737 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0752 Radio Netherlands: Home. Market, and
Family. Ginger da Sliva lookS al Iha
upcoming European lnlegrallon.
1109 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
111 o Kol Israel: This Land. See M 011 o.
111 5 BBC: Country Slyle. See W 0145.
11 30 BBC: Meridian. See W 0630.
11 34 Deutsche Welle: Hello Africa. See M 1134.
11 37 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
11 52 Radio Netherlands: Home, Market. and
Family. See W 0752.
1215 BBC: Talk. A short commentary on various
subjects.
1225 BBC: To Be Announced. Schedule changes
nol available at press lime.
1245 BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
1308 Radio Canada tnl'I (Asia): Current Affairs. See
s 1523.
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
1330 BBC: Development '90. See W 0730.
1330 Radio Canada lnl'I: North Country. See M
1523.
1405 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
1430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
1437 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
1445 BBC: Business Mallers. See W 0430.
1452 Radio Netherlands: Home, Market, and
Family. See w 0752.
1509 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
1515 BBC: Poems by Post. See M 2315.
1523 Radio Canada lnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.

1530 BBC: Comedy. A regular series of humor

(except November 281h: Two Cheers for
November. a satirical look at the month jusl
past).
1534 Deutsche Welle: Living In Germany. See M
0116.
1600 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
1609 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
1615 BBC: Rock Salad. See T 0630.
1615 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
1630 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
1634 Deutsche Welle: Asia-Pacific Report. See M
1634.
1637 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
1645 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
1645 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
1652 Radio Netherlands: Home. Markel, and
Family. See W 0752.
2300 Kol Israel: Hebrew Lessons. See S 2300.
2300 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
2305 BBC: Commentary. See M 2305.
2308 Radio Canada tnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
2310 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
2315 BBC: Good Books. See M 0315.
2315 KSDA. Guam: Bible in Living Sound. See S
2315.
2330 BBC: Mullilrack 2. Graham Bannerman
presents new pop records. Interviews, news.
and competlllons.
2330 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.

Thursday
Nov 1st,8th,15th,22nd,29th

Ne1vs broadcasts in 18 languages

are s11pe1vised by Freddy J:,'ytan.

011

Kol Israel

1300
1300
1300
Radio Polonta: News
1300
Radio Romania tnt'I: News
1300
Radio Tashkent: News
1300
Voice of America: News
1305
Radio Beijing: News About China
1310
Radio Korea: News
131 5
Christian Science Monllor: News (M-FJ
1325
Radio Cairo: News
1328
Radio France lnl'I: News
Radio Moscow (Wortd Service): News In Brief 1330
1330
Radio Polonia: News
1330
Trans World Radio, Bonalre: News (M-AJ
1330
Voice of Greece: News
1330
Radio Berlln lnl'I: News
1330
KUSW: News (SJ
BBC:News and Twenty-Four Hours on Sunday 1330
1330
[SJ ; World News [M-AJ
1330
Christian Science Monitor: News
1330
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
1345
Radio Beijing: News
1355
Radio Canada tnt'I (Asia): News
1400
Radio Canada lnl'I (N.Am):World Report[M-FJ
1400
Radio Finland: Northern Report [T-FJ
1400
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
1400
Radio Romania lnl'I: News

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1200
1200
1200
1200
1210
1215
1230
1230
1230
1230
1230
1230
1235
1245
1255
1300
1300
1300
1300
1300
1300
1300
1300
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62

0000 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See s 2300.

0010 Kol Israel: Jewish News Review. A look al
events affecting followers of Judaism.
0015 Kol Israel: Living Here. People who have
made Israel their home.
0015 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
0030 BBC: Comedy (except November 29th: Two
Cheers for November). See W 1530.
0030 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
0030 Radio Canada lnl'I: As II Happens. See T

November 1990

Radio Tirana, Albania: News

Radio Yugoslavia: News
Swiss Radio lnl'I: News
Trans World Radio, Bonalre: News (SJ
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [S-F]
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing : News About China
Radio Bertin tnl'I: News
HCJB: News [M-FJ
Radio Cairo: News Headlines
BAT, Brussels: News [M-F]
Christian Science Monitor: News (M-F]
Radio Austria tnl'I: News
Radio Korea (World Nev.s Service): News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News in Brief
Radio Tashkent: News
Swiss Radio tnl'I: News
UAE Radio, Dubai: News
Voice of America: News (Special English)
Voice of Turkey: News
Radio Berlin lnl'I: News
WYFR (Network): News (M-FJ
BBC:News Summary[A-S]:5Mln News[M-FJ
Chrlsllan Science Monllor: News
Radio Australia: lnlernallonal Report
Radio Beijing: News

MON1TORING TTMES

0030.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
0045 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
0052 Radio Netherlands: Home. Market, and
Family. See w 0752.
0101 BBC: Oullook. See M 1405.
0109 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
011o Kol Israel: Israel Mosaic. See M 11 1o.
0125 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
0130 BBC: waveguide. See S 0750.
0134 Deutsche Welle: Transallanllc Diary. See T
0134.
0140 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
0145 BBC: The Farming World. Developments and
Issues In the world of agrlcullure.
0209 BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
0209 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
021O Kol Israel: Living Here. See H 0015.
0215 BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
0230 BBC: Assignment. Examinations of current
loptcat Issues.
0230 Radio Canada tnl'I: As II Happens. See T
0030.
0234 Deutsche Welle: Living In Germany. See M
0116.
0309 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0315 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
0330 BBC: Quiz. See M 1215.
0334 Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0337 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See s 0037.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Home, Market, and
Family. See W 0752.
0408 Radio Canada lnt't: As II Happens. See T
0030.
0409 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
0434 Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
0438 Radio Canada lnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
0445 BBC: Andy Kershaw's World of Music. See M
02 15.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0509 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0530 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
0534 Deutsche Welle: Transallantic Diary. See T
0134.
0540 BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
0545 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
1400
1400
1400
1400
1400
1400
1400
1400
1400
1400
1405
1410
1425
1430
1430
1430
1430
1430
1445
1500
1500
1500
1500
1500
1500
1500
1500

Radio Canada tnl'I: News [SJ

Radio Finland: Northern Report [T-AJ
Radio France lnl'I: News
Radio Japan: News
Radio Jordan: News Summary
Radio Korea: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Radio Peace and Progress: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [M-FJ
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing: News Aboul China
HCJB: News [M-F]
Chrlsllan Science Monitor: News [M-FJ
Radio Austria lnl'I: News [M-FJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News [MAJ
Radio Polonia: News
Radio Berlin lnl'I: News
BBC: Newsreel
Christian Science Monllor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Finland : Northern Report (T-AJ
Radio Japan: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News

progra111 -.
~

0609 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M

0209.
0630 BBC: Talk. See W 1215.
0630 Radio Canada lnl'I: Media File. The ethics,
responslbllltles, and performance of the
media.
0634 Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
0645 BBC: The Farming World. See H 0145.
0709 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0730 BBC: Write On .... Paddy Feeny reads listener
letters.
0737 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0745 BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
0752 Radio Nelhetlands: Media Network. Jonathan
Marks surveys communications developments
worldwide.
1109 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
1110 Kol Israel: Studio Three. A look at the arts,
music, and culture In Israel.
1115 BBC: The Farming World. See H 0145.
1130 BBC: Serial. A dramatic reading of a book
(except November 1st: Lonetyheart 4122, the
final part of Colin Watson's novel).
1134 Deutsche Welle: Hello Africa. See M 1134.
1137 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
1152 Radio Netherlands: Media Networl<. See H
0752.
1215 BBC: Mullitrack 2. See W 1830.
1245 BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
1308 Radio Canada lnt'l {Asia): Current Affairs. See
s 1523.
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
1330 BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
1330 Radio Canada lnt'I: North Country. See M
1523.
1345 BBC: Jazz Now and Then or Folk In Britain.
A look at jazz or folk music on the British
Isles.
1405 BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
1430 BBC: Off the Shelf. See M 0430.
1437 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
1445 BBC: Write On .... See H 0730.
1452 Radio Netherlands: Media Network. See H
0752.
1509 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
1515 BBC: Music for a While with Richard Baker.
Classical music with the well-known
broadcaster.
1523 Radio Canada tnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
1534 Deutsche Welle: Spotlight on Sport.
Background stories and coverage of Important
sporting events.
1500
1500
1500
1500
1505
1510
1515
1525
1530
1530
1530
1530
1530
1530
1530
1545
1545
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600

Radio Romania lnl'I: News

Radio RSA: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radio Canada lnl'I {Europe): News
Radio Finland: News Summary
Christian Science Monitor: News [M-F)
Deutsche Welle: African News [M-F)
FEBA. Seychelles: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Tirana. Albania: News
Swiss Radio lnt'I: News
Voice of Greece: News [M-A)
Radio Berlln lnt't: News
Radio Korea (World News Service): News
BBC: World News
Christian Science Monitor: News
Deutsche Welle: World News
Radio Australia: lnternallonal Report
Radio Beijing: News
Radio France lnt'I: News
Radio Jordan: News Summary
Radio Korea: News
Radio Lesotho: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News

2315.
2330 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.

Friday
Nov 2nd,9th, 16th,23rd,30th
0000 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
0010 Kol Israel: This Land. See M 0110.
0015 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
0025 Kol Israel: Off Center. A program presented
by Daniel Gavron.
0030 BBC: Best on Record. Examinations of
various recordings of classical music
compositions {except November 30th: Musical
Feature, programming on various musical
topics).
0030 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
0030 Radio Canada lnt't: As tt Happens. See T
0030.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0045 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S

Bob Cadman of RCl's "l1111ova1ion

Canada" and "Spotlight on Science."
1600 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
1609 Deutsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
1615 BBC: Assignment. See H 0230.
1615 KSDA. Guam: Bible in Living Sound. See S
2315.
1630 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See
M 0030.
1634 Deutsche Welle: Asia-Pacific Report. See M
1634.
1637 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
1645 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
1645 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
1652 Radio Netherlands: Media Network. See H
0752.
2300 KSDA. Guam: Family Matters. See S 2300.
2305 BBC: Commentary. See M 2305.
2308 Radio Canada lnt'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
2310 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
2315 BBC: Music Review. Classical music events
and developments from around the world.
2315 KSDA. Guam: Bible in Living Sound. See S
1600
1600
1600
1600
1600
1609
1610
1630
1630
1630
1630
1630
1630
1630
1630
1645
1655
1700
1700
1700
1700
1700
1700
1700
1700
1700
1700

Radio Polonia: News

Radio Porlugal: News [M-F)
Radio RSA: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [M-FJ
BBC: News About Britain
Radio Beijing: News About China
BAT. Brussels: News [M-FJ
Christian Science Monitor: News [MF)
Radio Austria lnl'I: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News [M-A)
Radio Polonia: News
UAE Radio, Dubai: News
Voice of Arnerlca(exc Afrlca):News{Spec Eng)
Radio Berlin lnt'I: News
WYFA (Network): News [A)
BBC: World News [S-FJ: News Summary [A)
Christian Science Monitor: News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Japan: News
Radio Jordan: Newsdesk [S-HJ
Radio Moscow {World Service): News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News [M-F]
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio ASA: News

MONITORING TIM ES

0030.
0052
0101
0109
011 O
0125
0130
0134
0145
0209
0209
021 O
0215
0230
0230
0234
0309

1700
1705
1705
1710
1715
1715
1730
1730
1730
1730
1735
1755
1600
1800
1800
1600
1600
1800
1800
1800
1800
1800
1800
1800
1800
1800
1825

Radio Netherlands: Media Network. See H

0752.
BBC: Outlook. See M 1405.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
Kol Israel: Studio Three. See H 111 0.
BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
BBC: Jazz Now and Then or Folk In Britain.
See H 1345.
Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
BBC: Global Concerns. Issues of an
environmental nature.
BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
Kol Israel: This Land. See M 0110.
BBC: Seven Seas. A weekly program about
ships and the sea.
BBC: Serial (except November 2nd:
Lonetyheart 4122). See H 11 30.
Radio Canada lnl'I: As II Happens. See T
0030.
Deutsche Welle: Spotlight on Sport. See W
1534.
Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.

Voice of America: 'News

Radio New Zealand tnt'I: NZ News [M-F)
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radio Canada lnl'I: News
Radio Korea {World News Service): News
Christian Science Monitor: News (MF]
Radio Moscow {World Service): News In Brief
Radio Peace and Progress: News
Radio Romania lnl'I: News
WYFR (Network): News (M-F]
KUSW: News [M-F]
BBC: Newsdesk
Christian Science Monitor: News
Kol Israel: News
KVOH: UPI News
Radio Australia: International Report
Radio Bras. Brasilia: News (M-A)
Radio Canada lnt'I: News
Radio Korea: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Radio NeYo( Zealand lnt'I: News [S-F)
Radio RSA: News
RAE. Buenos Aires: News [M-F)
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [A)
WYFR (Network): News (A)

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63

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0315 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.

0330 BBC: Focus on Fallh. Comment and
discussion on the major Issues In the worlds
of fallh.
0334 Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0334 Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0337 Radio NelhOrlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Media Network. See H
0752.
0408 Radio Canada lnt'I: As 11 Happens. See T
0030.
0409 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0430 BBC: Off the Shell. See M 0430.
0434 Deutsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
0438 Radio Canada lnl'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
0445 BBC: Jazz Now and Then or Folk In Britain.
See H 1345.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0509 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0530 BBC: Financial News. See T 0125.
0540 BBC: Words of Fallh. See S 0540.
0545 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
0609 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0630 BBC: Meridian. See W 0630.
0630 Radio Canada lnl'I: Arts Tonight. Interviews.
panel discussions and reviews covering the
arts.
0634 Deulsche Welle: Africa Report. See M 0434.
0709 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See s 0509.
0730 BBC: Feature. Topical programming on
various subjecls.
0737 Radio Nelherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0752 Radio Nelherlands: Rembrandt Express. Pete
Myers presents a magazine program.
1109 Deulsche Welle: Newsllne Cologne. See M
1109.
111 O Kol Israel: Thank Goodness It's Friday. A look
at Judaism today.
11 15 BBC: Global Concerns. See F 0 145.
1130 BBC: Meridian. See W 0630.
1134 Deulsche Welle: Hello Africa. See M 1134.
1137 Radio Netherlands: Aslascan. A live magazine
show wllh Interviews wllh newsmakers. press
reviews. monthly quizzes and listener opinion.
1215 BBC: Feature. See F 0730.
1245 BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
1308 Radio Canada lnl'I (Asia): Curren! Affairs. See
s 1523.
1309 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.

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Christian Science Monllor: News (MFJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News [M-A]
Radio Polonia: News
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio Tirana, Albania: News
Swiss Radio lnt'I: News
Voice of America: News (Special English)
SLBC. Sri Lanka: News
Voice of Greece: News [MAJ
Radio Berlin lnt'I: News
KUSW: News [MA]
BBC: News Summary
Christian Science Monitor: News (MAJ
Deutsche Welle: World News
HCJB: Latin American News
KVOH: UPI News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Canada lnt'I: News [MF]
Radio Havana Cuba: News [M-A]
Radio Japan: News
Radio Jordan: News Summary (S-H]
Radio Moscow (World Service): News

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1630 KSDA. Guam: Greatest Story Ever Told. See

M 0030.
1634 Deutsche Welle: Asia-Pacific Report. See M
1634.
1637 Radio Netherlands: Newsline. See S 0037.
1645 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
1645 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See S
0030.
1652 Radio Netherlands: Airtime Africa. Music.
discussion wllh studio guests, and analysis of
the Issues that concern bolh Europe and
Africa.
2300 Kol Israel: Hebrew Lessons. See S 2300.
2300 KSDA. Guam: Family Matlers. See S 2300.
2305 BBC: Commentary. See M 2305.
2308 Radio Canada lnt'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
2310 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
2315 BBC: worldbrlef. A roundup of the week's
news headlines and human-lnlerest happenings.
2315 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
2330 BBC: Multltrack 3. Sarah ward surveys the
British allernatlve music scene.
2330 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See s
0030.

A few of KSDA 's Asian staff - John

Wilson, Greg Scolf, J-lamrah Liu, Richard
Liu.
1330 BBC: Short Story. See T 0130.
1330 Radio Canada lnl'I : North Country. See M
1523.
1345 BBC: Here's Humph! All that jazz with
Humphrey Lytlellon.
1405 BBC: Oullook. See M 1405.
1430 BBC: Olf the Shell. See M 0430.
1437 Radio Netherlands: Aslascan. See F 1137.
1445 BBC: Feature. See M 0445.
1509 Deutsche Welle: Newsline Cologne. See M
1109.
1515 BBC: Music Review. See H 2315.
1523 Radio Canada lnt'I: Current Affairs. See S
1523.
1534 Deutsche Welle: Economic Notebook. A look
at the economic scene In Germany and
around the world.
1600 KSDA. Guam: Family Mailers. See S 2300.
1609 Deutsche Welle: Newsline Cologne. See M
1109.
1615 BBC: Science in Action. See M 0230.
1615 KSDA. Guam: Bible In Living Sound. See S
2315.
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Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News [S-FJ

Radio Portugal: News [M-F]
Spanish Foreign Radio: News
Voice of America: News
WWCR: USA Radio News [M-F]
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya: News Headlines
Radio Beijing: News About China
Voice of Greece: News [MAJ
Christian Science Monllor: News [MFJ
Deutsche Welle: African News [M-F]
Radio Austria lnt'I: News
Radio Budapest: News
Radio Canada lnt'I: News [M-F)
Radio Finland: Northern Report [ MFJ
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak [MA]
Radio Moscow (World Service): News in Brief
Radio Romania lnt'I: Nows
Radio Sofia: News
Radio Yugoslavia: News
Radlotelevlslone llaliana: News
Radio Korea (World News Service): News
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya: News.
HCJB: World News
KUSW: News [M-F]
Radio Finland: News Summary
WYFR (Network): News [MAJ
BBC: World News

MON1TORJNG TIMES

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Nov 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th
0000 KSDA. Guam: Your Story Hour. See S 0000.
001 O Kol Israel: Letter from Jerusalem. Commentary on a major news story.
0015 Kol Israel: Thank Goodness ti's Friday. See F
111 0.
0030 BBC: From the Weeklies. A review of the
weekly British press.
0030 KSDA. Guam: Voice of Prophecy. See s
0030.
0030 Radio Canada lnt'I: As 11 Happens. See T
0030.
0037 Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0045 BBC: Recording of the Week. See M 0545.
0052 Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt Express. See
F 0752.
0101 BBC: Oullook. See M 1405.
0 109 Deulsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
011 0 Kol Israel: Shabbat Shalom. Sabbath
greetings and record requesls.
0125 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
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Christian Science Monllor: News

Kol Israel: News
KVOH: UPI News
Radio Australia: tnlernatlonal Report
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Havana Cuba: News [M-AJ
Radio Jordan: News Summary [SHJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Radio New Zealand lnt'I: News (S-F]
Radio Polonia: News
Radio Portugal: News [MFJ
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Voice of America: News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: NZ News [SHJ
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radio Bertin lnt'I: News
Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Nal'I News [MAJ
Radlotelevlslone llallana: News
Christian Science Monllor: News (M-F]
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak [MAJ
Radio Korea: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Netherlands: News [MAJ
Radio Berlin lnl'I: News
Radio Korea (World News Service): News
KUSW: News [MA]

progran1
0130 BBC: Feature. Programming on various topics
(except November 3rd: The Ones That Got
Away, theatre shows ttlal were acclaimed
flops).
0134 Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0145 BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.
0150 BBC: New Ideas. See T 0445.
0200 KSDA. Guam: Listener Mailbox. Responses to
listener lelers.
0209 BBC: British Press Review. See S 0209.
0209 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
021 0 Kol Israel: Thank Goodness It's Friday. See F
1110.
0215 BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
0215 KSDA. Guam: Focus on Living. Life's
problems and their solutions.
0223 Deutsche Welle: Panorama. A review of the
major news events of the week.
0230 BBC: People and Politics. Background to the
British pollllcal scene.
0230 KSDA. Guam: Power to Cope. See S 1630.
0230 Radio Canada lnt'I: .As II Happens. See T
0030.
0234 Deutsche Welle: Ec!onomlc Notebook. See F
1534.
0309 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0315 BBC: The World TOday. See M 1645.
0330 BBC: The Vintage Chart SllOw. Paul Burnett
presenls top ten hits from tile music charts of
yesteryear.
0334 Deulsche Welte: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0337 Radio Nelherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
0352 Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt Express. See
F 0752.
0408 Radio Canada lnl'I: .As It Happens. See T
0030.
0409 Deutsche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.
0423 Deutsche Welle: Panorama. See A 0223.
0430 BBC: Here's Humph! See F 1345.
0434 Deutsche Welle: Man and Environment. See
T 0234.
0438 Radio Ganada lnl'I: Current Affairs. See s.
1523.
0445 BBC: Worldbrief. See F 2315.
0509 BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
0509 Deutsche Welle: European Journal. See M
0209.
0530 BBC: Financial News. See M 2310.
0534 Deutsche Welle: Transatlantic Diary. See T
0134.
0540 BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
0545 BBC: The World Today. See M 1645.
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Christian Science Monitor: News [M-A]
Deutsche Welle: World News
KVOH: UPI News
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Japan: News
Radio Jordan: News Summary (S-H]
Radio Kiev: News
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Radio New Zealand lnl'I: News (S-F]
Radio Prague lnl'I: News
Radio Romania lnt'I: News
Spanish Foreign Radio: News
Swiss Radio lnt'I: News
Voice of America: News
Voice of Turkey: News
Radio Beijing: News About China
WYFR (Network): News [MF]
Christian Science Monitor: News [M-F]
Radio Budapest: News
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Canada lnt'I: News
Radio Moscow (Wortd Service): News In Brief
Radio Sofia: News

KUSW: News [MA]

BBC: Newshour

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Jackie Beecham talks to travel guide Mike

Rogoff for Kol !Srae/'s "Tlris La11d." I11
tire backgro1111d is the Churclr of tire
Visitation i11 Ein Kerem, Israel.
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Deu1sche Welle: Commentary. See S 0109.

Deutsche Welle: Panorama. See A 0223.
BBC: Meridian. See W 0630.
Deutsche Welle: Man and Environment. See
T 0234.
BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.
BBC: From the weeklies. See F 2315.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
Radio Netherlands: Over To You. See S
0052.
Deutsche Welle: Africa This Week. A review
of trends and events on the African continent.
Kol Israel: Spolllghl. See S 0010.
BBC: Feature. See A 0130.
BBC: Meridian. See W 0630.
Deutsche Welle: Mailbag Africa. Listeners'
questions, music requests. and the club
corner.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See S 0037.
Radio Netherlands: Over lo You. See S 0052.
Radio Norway lnt'I: Norway Today. See S
0100.
BBC: Mullltrack 3. See F 2330.
BBC: Sports Roundup. See S 1330.
Radio Norway lnt'I: Norway TOday. See S
0100.
BRT, Brussels: News [M-FJ
Christian Science Monllor: News
Radio Australia: International Report
Radio Beijing: News
Radio Canada lnl'I (.Asia): News
Radio Canada lnl'I (Europe): The World al
Six [MF]; News [A-SJ
Radio Finland: Northern Report (MFJ
Radio Havana Cuba: News (MAJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News
Radio New Zealand lnt'I: News [S-FJ
Radio Peace and Progress: News
Radio Yugoslavia: News
Radlotelevlslone llallana: News
Voice of America: News
Voice of Free China: News
Voice of America(Carlb):Carlbbean News[M-F)
Radio Beijing: News About China
Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Nal'I News (M-AJ
Christian Science Monitor: News (MF)
Kol Israel: News
Radio Havana Cuba: Newsbreak [MA)
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio Polonia: News
Radio Sofia: News
Radio Tirana. Albania: News
Radio Vilnius: News

MONITORI NG TIMES

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1630
1634
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1645
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0008.

BBC: Twenty-Four Hours. See S 0509.

BBC: Network UK. See T 0215.
BBC: Sportsworld. A weekly sports magazine.
BBC: Sportsworld. See A 1345.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See s 0037.
Radio Netherlands: Over to You. See s 0052.
Deutsche Welle: Africa Highlight. A weekly
feature on an Important topic concerning
Africa.
Deutsche Welle: Development Forum. Reports
and Interviews on projects and progress in
Africa and .Asia
BBC: Sportswortd. See A 1345.
Radio Canada Inn: Current Affairs. See s
1523.
Deutsche Welle: Science and Technology.
See M 0234.
KSDA. Guam: Micronesian Snapshots. The
news, m usic, and cullure of Micronesia.
Radio Norway lnt'I: Norway Today. See s
0100.
Deutsche Welle: International Talking Point.
See S 0419.
BBC: Sportswortd. See A 1345.
KSDA. Guam: Listener Mailbox. See A 0200.
Deutsche Welle: Development Forum. See A
1513.
KSDA. Guam: DX .Aslawaves. See S 0230.
Deutsche Welle: Religion and Society. See S
1509.
Radio Netherlands: Newsllne. See s 0037.
KSDA. Guam: Probe. See S 0245.
Radio Netherlands: Over to You. See S 0052.
KSDA. Guam: Micronesia Snapshots. See A

1600.
2305 BBC: Words of Faith. See S 0540.
2308 Radio Canada lnt'I: Innovation Canada. See

s 0008.

2310
2315
2315
2330
2345

BBC: Book Choice. See S 0745.

BBC: A Jolly Good Show. See T 1515.
KSDA. Guam: Focus on Living. See A 0215.
KSDA. Guam: DX .Aslawaves. See s 0230.
KSDA. Guam: Probe. See S 0245.

SUGGESTIONS? OMISSIONS?
Send your comments to Program Ma11ager
Kanno11 Sha11111uga111 at 4412 Tumbeny
Circle, Laivre11ce, Kanasas 66047.

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Voice of America: News (Special English)
WYFR (Network): News [MFJ
Radio Bertin lnl'I: News
KUSW: News [MFJ
WYFR (Network): News (M-A)
BBC: World News (ASj; 5-Min News [MF]
Christian Science Monitor: News [MAJ
Radio Australia: World and Australian News
Radio Canada lnl'I: News
Radio Japan: News
Radio Moscow: News
Radio New Zealand lnt'I: Nows [SFJ
Radio VIinius: Nows
Voice of America: News
Voice of Turkey: News
Radio Polonia: News
Radio Pyongyang: News
Radio for Peace lnt'I: UN Radio News (MFJ
Christian Science Monitor: News (M-FJ
Radio Moscow (World Service): News In Brief
Radio New Zealand lnt'I: News (S-H]
Radio Tirana. Albania: News
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya: News Headlines
Voice of Greece: News [M-AJ
KUSW: News [M-A)
Radio Japan: News (MF)

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Radio New Zealand, Wellington
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BBC world Service, London, England 5975
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Adventist World Radio, Costa Rica
Radio Moscow N.Amerl can Service 11710
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Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
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Radio Prague lnt'I, CzechoslovaKla
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CFCN, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
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FEBC Radio lnl'I. Phi lippines
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TA KUSW, Sall Lake City, Utah
15590
Radio Beijing. Beijing. China
15100 17705
Radio Luxembourg, Jungllnster
6090
Spanish Nalfonal Radio, Madrid
9630 11880
Voice of America-Americas Service
5995 9775
15205
Voice of America-Caribbean Service 6130 9455
7120 9770
Voice of Ameri ca-East Asia Service
15290 17735
Radio for Peace lnt'I. Costa Rica
7375 13630
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
7315 9495
WINB, Red Lion. Pennsylvania
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WRNO worldwide, Louisiana
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WWCR. Nashville, Tennessee
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WYFR, OKeechobee, Florida
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november 1990
Please note: The last major frequency cha11geover until May takes place
this month. We will therefore, in keeping with our emph cms on
timeliness, b1ing you these cha11ges in the very next edition of ML
Another One Bites The Dust
With the reunification of Germany, we've lost one of the most
interesting shortwave stations in recent memory: Radio Berlin
International the Voice of the German Democratic Republic. It's odd
that one could miss something that for so long was just another mindbo<mlinO' fountain of deceit, but it's happened. How interesting it
wo':id have been to have heard the GDR's point of view of the
upheavals that will take place there over the next s~e:al years.
I always liked their interva l signal. It's gone. The Bn~1 sh- acc7nted
announcers had a certain gentle if somewhat puzzling delivery.
They're gone. I once designed an aerogramme-style reception
reporting form for them (yes, I was an RBI DX~C l ub member) and
they thanked me by mailing me an album by Usch1B.runmg, a popular
jazz artist there. I loved the album, and fe lt genume gratitude.
When I first moved to Winston-Salem several years ago, I had to go
to the post office to pick up a registered parcel. I had no idea what it
was and 1 didn't particularly like the inconvenience of having to go to
the post office to pick it up. When I got there the clerk reminded me
that I needed to get a new drivers license (with the new address) and
then, osten sibly satisfied that I was who I said I was, handed me the

~~

It was from RBI and contained an RBI mk p en and keycham, all

neatly packed in a small red and black carrying case that resembeled.a
mutant ladyfinger cookie. J ust a little gift to Jct me know they were sull
out there.

It doesn't mat ter that we won't any longer be gett ing those little
"tokens of our appreciation", as they called them. It doesn't matter
that the thoughts beh ind such "goodies", as we aficcionados of
shortwave often call them, were not altogether altruistic. It doesn't
even matter that the short handwritten notes that often accompanied
their verification cards ("sorry for the delay in responding but with
summer vacations we've been short-staffed") were somewhat unique
and unheard of from their collegues in Koln.
What does matter is that we've lost yet another shortwave station to
history. Just as Radio RSA stopped transmitting ovi::rseas earlier this
year, RBI has taken a somewhat similar cou rse, albeit under some
drastically different circumstances.
In that brief window of peace that opened with the triumphs of the
E uropeans and Africans, and closed with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,
we've also seen the demise of not only RBI, but Radio Kuwait as well.
The former was more widely heard and closed down under totally
different circumstances. It was volu ntary, more or less. Radio Kuwa it
was not.
Perhaps this can serve to show us all how much we take for granted.
We had little idea several years ago that the two Germanys would
reun ite. We had little idea several months ago that Kuwait City would
be a run-down and occupied shantytown out of a bad science fiction
movie. Yet, life doesn't sit around and ask for our permission to
happen.
.
Just as nothing should be taken for gra nted, so goes the airwaves.
Perhaps the very last act of R adio Berlin International could be to
serve as a ve ry poignant reminder that this is the season of
thanksgiving.
-- Greg Jordan, Frequenly Ma11ager

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9585

9835

11740
25950ssb
15180

UTC [8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST]

01000105
01000115
0100-0125
0100-0125
0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0130

0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0145
0100-0150
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200

0100-0200
0100-0200

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200

9605 11780 15180

9535 9910
11715 11745 15110
9575 11800
RAI, Rome, Italy
6020 6165 11740
Radio Netherlands lnt'I, Hilversum
9435 11605 12077
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
9615 11925
S,M Radio Norway, Oslo
11880 15160 15240 15465
Radio Australia, Melbourne
15560 17630 17750 17795
21525 21740 21775
Radio Canada International, Montreal 5960 9755
Radio Japan Americas Svc, Tokyo 17755
5930 7345 11680
Radio Prague tnl'I, Czechoslovakia
CBC Northern Quebec Service, Can 9625 (ML)
15405
Radio Sweden. Stockholm
Radio Yugoslavia, Belgrade
5980 6005 11735
Deutsche Welle, Koln, west Germany 6040 6145 9565
15105 11865
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
4830 9655 11905
15145 ML
WINB Red Lion, PA
Radio Moscow North American Svc 11690 11710 11730 11780
11850 11980 12040 15290
15425 15580 15595
15280 17690 21690 21 790
Radio Moscow wortd Service
BBC World Service. London, England 5975 6005 6175 7325
9590 9915 11750 12095
15260 21715
S,M Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal
9535 11845 11940
13720
Radio New Zealand. Wellington
17675
CBN, St John's, New1oundland
6160
CBU. Vancouver, British Columbia
6160
6005
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Christian Science World Svc. Boston 7395 9850 13760 15225
15610 17555 (+17865 A,S)
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
All India Radio, New Deihl

0100-0200
CKWX, Vancouver, British Columbia
0100-0200
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario, Canada
0100-0200
FEBC Radio lnt'I. Philippines
0100-0200
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
0100-0200 T-A KUSW, Salt Lake Clly, Utah
Radio Havana Cuba
0100-0200
0100-0200
Radio Japan General Svc, Tokyo

17765 17810 17835

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200

(TA add 13630)

11880
9775 9815 11580

0100-0200
01000200
01000200
01000200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200

0145-0200
0145-0200

0200-0220
02000230
02000230
0200-0230 H,A

T =Tuesday
A=Saturday

0200-0230 S.M Radio Norway, Oslo

0200-0230
British Forces Radio, UK

W =Wednesday

If there Is no entry, the broadcasts are heard daily. If. for example, there
Is an entry of "M." the broadcast would be heard only on Mondays. An
entry of ' M,W,F" would mean Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only. ' M
F" would mean Mondays through Fridays. 'TEN" Indicates a tentative
schedule and "TES" a test transmission.

The last entry on a line Is the frequency.

after a frequency as follows:

Several codes may be found

SSB Indicates Single Sideband transmission.

v after a frequency Indicates that II varies
Notations of USB and LSB (upper and lower sideband transmissions)
usually refer only to the Individual frequency after which they appear.
[ML) after a frequency Indicates a multl-llngual transmission containing
English-language programs. All other frequencies may be assumed to
be English language programs directed to various parts of the world.
Listings followed by an asterisk (*) are for English lessons and do not
contain regularly scheduled programming.
We suggest that you begin with the lower frequencies that a station Is
broadcasting on and work your way up the dial. Remember that there is
no guarantee that a station will be audible on any given day. Reception
conditions can change rapidly, though, and If II is not audible one night. II
may well be on another.

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Radio Verltas-Asia, Philippines

SLBC Domestic Service, Sri Lanka
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
Radio Budapest, Hungary

0200-0230
FEBC Radio lnt'I, Philippines
02000230 TA Voice of America

The first four digits of an entry are the broadcast start time in UTC.
The second four digits represent the end lime.
In the space between the end time and lhe slatlon name is the
broadcast schedule.
M =Monday
FaFrtday

15155

9455
7205 9740 11705
21525
11785
9495

9505
9520
15160
9395
11810
9875
9755
15160
17630
21740
9640
11750

11720 17612
9585 9835
9420
11830 2t5B5
13730
15240 15465
17750 17795
21775
15575
15135

0200 UTC [9:00 PM EST/6:00 PM PST]

LEGEND

S =Sunday
H=Thursday

6080
6070
15490
17875
15590
11820
5960
17845
Radio Luxembourg, Jungllnster
6090
Radio for Peace tnt'I, Costa Rica
7375
9630
Spanish National Radio, Madrid
Voice of America-Americas Service
5995
15205
Voice of America-Caribbean Service 6130
Voice of America-East Asia Service
7115
15205
Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta
11753
WHRt, Noblesvllle, Indiana
7315
WRNO Worldwide, Louisiana
7355
WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
7520
5985
WYFR. Okeechobee. Florida
Radio Budapest. Hungary
6110
11910
M-A Voice of Greece. Athens
11645
11755
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
Radio Austria International, Vienna
9870
S.M Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal
5960
Radio AUstralia, Melbourne
11880
15560
21525
Radio Korea, Seoul
6165
9650
Vatican Radio, Vatican City

MONITORING TIMES

15220
4940
9435
6110
11910
15490
5995
15205
9615
7125

15360
11605 12077
9520 9585
15160
9775

9835

9815 11580

11735
9640 13745

HOW TO USE
THE PROPAGATION CHARTS
Propagation charts can be an invaluable aid to the
DXer in determ ining which frequencies are likely to be
open at a given time. To use the propagation charts,
choose those for your location (they are divided into
east coast, midwest and west coast of North America).
Then look for the one most closely describing the
geographic location of the station you want to hear.
Once you've located t he correct charts, look along the
horizontal axis of the graph for the time that you are
listening. The top line of the graph shows the
Maximum Useable Frequency [MUF] and the lower
line the Lowest Useable Frequency (LUF] as indicated
on the vertical axis of the graph.
While there are exceptions to every rule (especially
those regarding shortwave listening), you should find
the charts helpful in determ ining the best times to
listen for particu lar regions of the world. Good luck!

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6095 6135 9650 9885

12035 17730
Deu1sche Welle. Koln. w. Germany
7285 9615 9690 11 835
0200-0250
11945 15235 17770
4830 9655 11905
0200-0300
Radio Thailand. Bangkok
9535 11845 11 940 13720
0200-0300 T-A Radio Canada lnl'I, Monlreal
0200-0300
BBC World Service. London. England 5975 6005 61 1O 6175
7135 7325 9410 9590
9915 11750 12095 15260
15390 21715
RAE, Buenos Aires. Argenllna
11710
0200-0300
13720
KSDA. Guam
0200-0300
0200-0300
Radio Moscow North American Svc 11 690 11 710 11 780 11850
11980 12040 12050 13605
13675 15290 15315 15425
15435 15530 15580 15595
15280 17690 21690 21790
Radio Moscow world Service
0200-0300
0200-0300
CBC Northern Quebec Service. Can 9625 (ML)
CBN. SI. John's, Newfoundland. Can 6160
0200-0300
CBU. Vancouver, Brillsh Columbia
6160
0200-0300
0200-0300
CFCF. Monlreal, Quebec. Canada
6005
6030
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta. Canada
0200-0300
CHNS. Halifax. Nova Scolia. Canada 6130
0200-0300
Christian Science World Svc. Boston 9455 9650 13720 13760
0200-0300
( + 17865 & 17555 A.S)
02000300
CKWX, Vancouver, Brillsh Columbia 6080
0200-0300
CFRB. Toronlo, Onlario. Canada
6070
15155 17875 25950ssb
0200-0300
HCJB. Quilo, Ecuador
15590
0200-0300 T-A KUSW, Sall Lake Clly, Utah
11880 15160 15240 15320
Radio Auslralia. Melbourne
0200-0300
15465 15560 17630 17750
17795 21525 21740 21775
Radio Bagl1dad, Iraq
11755 11 610 11630 21585
0200-0300
0200-0300 T-A Radio For Peace lnl'I. Cosla Rica
7375 USB (T-A add
13630)
0200-0300
Radio Romania lnl'I. Bucharest
5990 6155 9510 9570
11830 11940 15380
Radio Cairo, Egypl
9475 9675
0200-0300
Radio Havana Cuba
971 o 11620
0200-0300
Radio Luxembourg, Junglinsl er
6090
0200-0300
Voice
of
America-South
Asia
Service
7115
7205 9740 11705
0200-0300
15160 15250 21525
Radio Cullura, Gua1ema1a
0200-0300
3300
0200-0300
Radio New Zealand. Wellington
17675
5950 7445 9680
0200-0300
Voice of Free China. Taiwan
WHRI, Noblesville. Indiana
7315 9495
0200-0300
WRNO Worldwide, Louisiana
7355
02000300
0200-0230

Swiss Radio lnlernallonal. Berne

0230-0300 T-A Radio Portugal. Lisbon

0230-0300
Radio Sweden. Stockholm
Radio Tirana. Albania
0230-0300

0300 UTC
0300-0315
0300-0330
0300-0330

0300-0330
0300-0330
0300-0330
0300-0330
0300-0350
0300-0355
0300-0400
0300-0400

0300-0400
0300-0400

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400

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WWCR, Nashville. Tennessee

WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
WYFR. Okeechobee, Florida
Radio Pakistan (Slow speed news)

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400

Azad Kashmir Radio, Pakislan

WINB Red Lion. PA
Radio Australia, Melebourne

7286 4960 3665

15145 ML
11 880 15160 15240 15320
15465 15560 17630 17750
17795 21525 21740 21775
Radio Cairo. Egypl
9475 9675
15325 17825 2161 O
Radio Japan . Tokyo
Radio Prague lnl'I, Czechoslovakia
5930 7345 11680
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
11755 11810 11830
Deutsche Welle, Koln. West Germany 6085 6120 9545 15205
11 810
Radio Beijing, China
9690 11715 151oo
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
17675
BBC World Service, London. England 5975 6005 6175 6195
7135 7325 9410 9600
9915 11750 12095 15220
15260 15420 17705 21715
CBC, Northern Quebec Service. Can 9625 (ML)
Radio Moscow North American Svc 9635 12050 13605 15180
15425 15455 15530 15580
15595
Radio Moscow World Service
15280 17690 21690 21790
CBN, SI. John's, Newfoundland, Can 6160
CBU. Vancou ver, Brlllsh Columbia
6160
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec. Canada
6005
6030
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta. Canada
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Christian Science World Svc. Boston 9455 9650 13720 13760
15225 (+1 7865 & 17555 A.S)
CKWX. Vancouver. Brillsh Columbia 6080
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario. Canada
6070
Faro del Carlbe,San Jose.Costa Rica 5055 9645
HCJB. Quito, Ecuador
17875 15155
Radio Cullural, Guatemala
3300
Radio Havana Cuba
9710 11820

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50.00

50.00

9505 11720
15115 17640 17690
21730
9660 9705 11840
11705
11825

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MHz.

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15145
6065
9545
17725
9600
9695
9500

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0300-0400
Voice of America-Africa Service
0300-0400

Voice of Free China, Taiwan

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0310-0325
0315-0330
0315-0345

WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana

WRNO Worldwide, Louisiana
WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
WYFR. Okeechobee, Florida
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
Radio for Peace lnl'I, Costa Rica
Radio France International, Parts

0330-0400
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Tirana. Albania
Tanzania
Australia, Melbourne

0330-0400
United Arab Emirates Radio, Dubai
0340-0350 M-A Voice of Greece, Athens
0349-0357v
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RAI, Rome. Italy

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Swiss Radio International, Berne
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11 930
Deutsche Welle, Koln, West Germany 7225
11 765
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
0400-0450
15180
Radio Beijing, China
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Voice of America-Africa Service
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9575
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9815
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11925
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0400-0430
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11720
11905
9510 9570
15360
15240 15320
17795 21525

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9535
7150
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6035
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RAI. Rome. Italy
0400-0410
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0400-0415
0400-0425
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0400-0425
Radio Netherlands lnt'I, Hilversum
04000430
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9535 11930
6035 7170 7280
9575 11835
5950 7445 9680
11745 15345 17845
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7520
6065 9505 15440
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9590 11 720
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11680 15160 15240
15465 15560 17795
21740 21775
11945 13675 15400
11645 9395 9420
11675 11790 15180
15465 17555
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0400-0500
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Radio Moscow North American Svc

9635 11895 12050 13605

151 60 15425 15455 15530
15595( + 17605 from 0430)
Radio New Zealand. Wellington
17675
BBC World Service, London, England 5975 6005 6195 7105
71 20 9410 9560 9600
9610 9670 9915 12095
15070 15245 17665 21470
21715
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
71 15 11 720 11 735 11 760
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
9445 17860
Radio Moscow World Service
15280 17690 21690 21790
CBC, Northern Quebec Service
9625 (ML)
Radio for Peace Int., Costa Rica
7375 US B
Radio RSA. Johannesburg
7270 11900
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland, Can 6160
CBU, Vancouver. British Columbia
6160
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta. Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Christian Science World Svc, Boston 9455 9840 13720 13760
15225 17780 (+17555
A.S)
CKWX, Vancouver. Brllish Columbia 6 080
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6070
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
17875 15155
KSDA. Guam
15225
Radio Havana Cuba
9710 9750 11760 11820
S-F WMLK Bethel, Pennsylvania
9465
Voice of America-Middle East Service 3980 5995 6040 6140
7170 7200 11785 15205
7315 9495
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
6165
WANO Worldwide. Louisiana
7520
WWCR. Nashville, Tennessee
WYFR. Okeechobee. Florida
6065 9505
RAJ, Rome. Italy
5990 7275
MF NBC Windhoek, Namibia
3270 3290
11860 15160 15240 15320
Radio Australla. Melbourne
15465 15560 17630 17750
17795 21525 21740 21775
IRR Radio Truth
5015
(cl andestine Intended for Zimbabwe)
Radio Tirana. Albania
9500 11835
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
7255

0500-0505
0 500-0515
05000515
05000520
05000530
05000530
05000550
0500-0600

0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0 500 -0600
17555 A.S)
0 500-0600
05000600
05000545
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0 500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600

50.00

East Coast To

East Coast To

South Africa

East Africa

~-------..-,

MHz.

50.00

Radio Lesotho
Kol Israel, Jerusalem

4800
9435
15640
Azad Kashmir Radio. Pakistan
7268
Vatican Radio
6185
Vatican Radio African Service
17710
MF NBC Windhoek. Namibia
3270
Deutsche Welle, Koln. w est Germany 5960
11845
BBC world Service, London, England 5975
9410
12095
21470
CBU, Vahcouver. British Columbia
6160
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
6030
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
4630
WANO New Orleans. Louisiana
6185
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
S-F WMLK Bethel, Pennsylvania
9465
Christian Science World Svc, Boston 9455

0500-0600
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MHz.

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11655 12077
3665
21650
9670 11705

6005 6195 7120

9600 9640 9915
15070 17740 17865
21715

9655 11905

9640 13720 13760

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Radio Moscow North American Svc

9635
15180
15595
Radio Moscow World Service
15280
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
17675
CKWX, Vancouver, British Columbia 6080
CFRB. Toronto, Ontario. Canada
6070
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
15155
Radio Australia, Melbourne
11880
15465
17795
Radio Havana Cuba
5965
Radio Japan General Service. Tokyo 15195
17890
Radio for Peace Int., Costa Rica
7375
Spanish National Radio, Madrid
9630
Voice of America-Africa Service
3990
9575
Voice of America-Middle East Service 3960
7200
Voice of Nigeria. Lagos
7255
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
7315

11 895 12050 13605

15425 15455 15530
17605
17690 21690 21790

17675
15160
15560
21525
9710
17765

15240
17630
21740
11760
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15320
17750
21775
11820
17825

7260

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5995 6140
11 785 15205

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9495

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0530-0600
Radio Austria International, Vienna
0530-0600
Radio Romania lnt'I, Bucharest
0530-0600 M-F NBC Windhoek, Namibia
0530-0600
UAE Radio Dubai
0545-0600
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
0555-0600
Voice of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

I0600 UTC
0610-0615
0600-0645
0600-0650
06000650
0600-0650
0600-0700

06000700
06000700
0600-0700

0600-0700
06000700
06000700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
06000700
06000700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
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0600-0700
21700
15295
06000700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0618-0700

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0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0700
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0645-0700
0645-0700

15185 17875
13705 15240
21525 21740
11820
11740
6195
9580
15070
15420
17885

ML
7120
9600
15245
17640
21470

15155 17875
9660
5030V
3990 6035
7280 9530
11915
Voice of America-Middle East Serv
3980 5965
6095 6140
7325 9715
11925 15195
WHRI, South Bend, Indiana
7315 9495
Voice of Hope, Lebanon
6280
Voice of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
6175 9750
M-FRadio Canada International. Montreal 6050 6150
9760 11840
RTV Congolalse, Brazzaville*
6115 7105
9715
*(Experimenlal broadcasts)
Radio Finland, Helsinki
11755 9560
Vatican Radio African Service
17710 17730
BAT. Brussells, Belgium
13675 11695
Radio Tirana, Albania
9500 7205
Radio Polonia. Warsaw, Poland
6135 7270
Swiss Radio International. Berne
15430 17570
A Radio for Peace Int.. Costa Rica
7375 USB
6130
GBC Radio, Accra, Ghana
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
9610 11835
Radio Romania lnt'I, Bucharest
11810 11940
17805 21665

0700-0710
0700-0715
7355 13760
0700-0725
0700-0730
0700-0730
0700-0750
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800

11705 13720

13605 15180
15595 17605
21690 21790

Sierra Leone Brdcstng.Svc.. Freetown 3316

Radio Romania lnt'I, Bucharest
11810
17805
BRT Brussels, Belgium
21815
11880
Radio Australia, Melbourne
17630
11835
Radio Tirana. Albania
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
15340
7375
A Radio for Peace lnt'I, Costa Rica
6280
Voice of Hope, Lebanon
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Columbia
TWA Monte Carlo
9480
Radio Havana Cuba
11835
WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida
6065
Voice of the Mediterranean. Malta
9725
ZBC-1, Zimbabwe
7283

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Central Asia

South East Asia

Indonesia

MHz.

50.00

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5995
7170
11785
15205

6060
7200
11 805
17715

15295
7155
17840
7175

9740
9615

6120
21650

15120 9675
21770

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15335 17720

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11940 15335 17720

21665
11695 6035
13705 15240 15465
21525 21740 21775
9500
17795
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7355 13760 15566

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6080
9540

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East Coast To

0630-0645

HCJB. Quito, Ecuador

ABC Brisbane, Australia
Radio Tonga, Kingdom or Tonga
Voice of America-Africa Service

East Coast To

! -:':"~ .. .. ::':'

17720 17745

Sierra Leone Brdcstng.Svc.,Freetown 3316 ,

Radio For Peace, Int.. Cosla Rica
7375 USB
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
151 80 15230
Doulsche Welle. Koln, W. Germany 11765 13790
CBU, Vancouver. British Columbia
6160
Radio Auslralla, Melbourne
11880 13700
15465 17630
21775
5965 11760
Radio Havana Cuba
M-A Vatican Radio
6248 9645
BBC World Service, London. England 5975 6180
7150 9410
9640 12095
15280 15400
17710 17790
21715
7165 7190
M-F NBC Windhoek. Namibia
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6005
SIBC Solomon Islands
5020 9545
Radio New Zealand, Welllnglon
9855/ 17675
WYFR. Okeechobee, Florida
5985 6065
15566 17640
15425
ABC Domestic Network. Australia
S-F WMLK Belhel, Pennsylvania
9465
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta. Canada
6030
CHNS. Halifax. Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Chrlsllan Science World Svc. Boslon 9455 9840
15225 17780
CKWX, Vancouver. British Columbia 6080
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario, Canada
6070
Radio Moscow North American Svc. 9635 12050
15425 15530
Radio Moscow World Service
15280 17690
Voice of lhe Mediterranean, Malta
9765

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20.00

0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700

17640 15566
7255

(1 :00 AM EST/10:00 PM PST]

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7520
5985 11580
3356 4830
6015
15340 15380
17790 21665
3270
15435 17830
9855/17675
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BBC World Service. London

9855
5975
9640
15070
21715
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.
5020
Voice of Free China. Taiwan
5950
7315
WH Ai Noblesville. Indiana
ABC Brisbane, Australia
9660
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada 6130
Christian Science Wortd Svc, Boston 9455
15225
Radio Moscow World Service
15280
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6070
6130
GBC Radio, Accra. Ghana
7550
Radio Korea, Seoul
9610
HCJB, Qullo, Ecuador
KNLS. Anchor Point. Alaska
9785
Radio Japan. ToKyo
17765
21690
Voice of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
6175
HCJB. Qulto,Ecuador(S. Pacific Sv.) 6130
Radio Prague lnl'I. Czechoslovakia 17840
ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
231 0
2485
ABC, Katherine. Australia
2325
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
21490
Radio Austria lnt'I. Vienna
9745
HCJB Qullo, Ecuador
KTWR, Agana Guam
15200
Radio Australia, Melbourne
6035
17630
9630
Radio Netherlands. Hllversum
11720
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
Swiss Radio lnl'I European Service
3985

0700-0800
0700-0800

0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0710-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800

Radio
Sierra
Radio
Voice
Radio
Radio

Pakistan
17555
Leone Brdcstng Co.. Freetown 3316
Nelherlands lnl'I. Hllversum
9630
of Malaysia. Kuala Lum pur
6175
17800
Finland, Helslnkl
Australia. Melbourne
13705
17750
Voice of Islam, Dacca. Bangladesh . 15195

0800-0830

MHz.

9495

9840 11705 13720

17780
17690 21690 21790

13670
11 835 15270
17810 17890 21 590
9750 15295
9745 11 925
21705
(Ml)
(Ml)
15410 13730
11 925

6155

11 880 13705 15240

21525 21775
15560
15160 17825
6165 9535

15560
9750 15295
21550
15160 15240 17630
17795 21525 21775
11 705

Radio Pyongyang, North Korea

Radio Moscow World Service
KTWR, Guam
Trans World Radio. Monte Carlo
ABC Brisbane, Australia
BBC. London

East Coast To

East Coast To

Australia

Far East

Pacific

~-----~~

40.00

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21575

15180 15230
15280 17690 21690
15200
9480
9660
15280 9640 12095
15360 21715 15400
21660
2310 (ML)
ABC. Alice Springs, Australia
0800-0900
0800-0900
ABC. Katherine. Australia
2485
15425
0800-0900
ABC, Perth, Australia
2325 (ML)
ABC. Tennant Creek. Australia
0800-0900
7375 USB
0800-0900 A Radio for Peace Int.. Costa Rica
Voice of Hope, Lebanon
6280
0800-0900
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland. Can 6160
0800-0900
CBU. Vancouver. British Columbia
6160
0800-0900
Radio Havana, Cuba
11835
0800-0900
Radio Australia (Southwest Pacific)
6020 6035 6080
0800-0900
WHAi, South Bend. Indiana
7315 7355
0800-0900
6005
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec. Canada
0800-0900
CFCN, Calgary. Alberta. Canada
6030
0800-0900
0800-0900
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada 6130
0800-0900
Christian Science World Svc
9455 9530 9840
15225 15610
0800-0900
CKWX, Vancouver, Brlllsh Columbia 6080
6070
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario, Canada
0800-0900
0800-0900
HCJB,Quilo,Ecuador
6130 9610 11835
0800-0900
HCJB, Qullo. Ecuador (all pro)
9745 11925 15270
0800-0900
KNLS. Anchor Polnl, Alaska
11715
0800-0900
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.
5020
0800-0900
WH Ai. South Bend, Indiana
7355
11753 11785
0800-0900
Voice of Indonesia. Jakarta
7255
0800-0900
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
0815-0830
Radio Korea, Seoul
9570 13670
0815-0900 S Italian Radio Relay Svc. Milan
9815
0815-0900 A.S Radio New Zealand, Wellington
9855
0830-0855 MF Radio Nethertands lnl'I, Hllversum
15190
Radio Auslralla. Melbourne
0830-0900
9580 15240 17630
21525 21775
0830-0900
Radio Netherlands lnt'I, Hilversum
9630 17575 21485
0830-0900
Radio Finland. Helsinki
21550 17800
0830-0900
Swiss Radio tnternatlonat. Berne
9560 13685 17670
0837-064 1v
4485 5940 7210
Radio Tikhiy Okean. Vladivostok
9530 9635 9670
9820 9905 11 815
11850 11915 12050
13605 15180 15410
15425 15530 15535
0800-0850
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900

East Coast To

50.00

30.00

9545

[3:00 AM EST/ 12:00 AM PST]

0800 UTC

0800-0803
0800-0810
0800-0825
0800-0825
0800-0825
0800-0830

7150 9410 9600

9760 11940 12095
15280 15360 15400

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21790

15070
9410

9710

13720

17750

21695
7320
9780
11840
12070
15415
17590

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KTWR, Agana. Guam

0840-0850
0845-0900

I 0900 UTC
09000920
09000925
09000925
0900-0930
09000930
0900-0930
0900-0945
09000950
09001000
09001000
0900-1000
0900-1000
09001000
0900-1000
09001000
0900-1000
09001000
09001000
0 900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
09001000

09001000
0900 1000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000
0900-1000

MHz.

50.00
4().00

0900 1000
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
7255
0900-1000
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
731 5
09100940 M,W,H.AS Radio Ulan Bator, Mongolia 11850
0920-1000
ABC, Perth, Australia
6140
0930-1000
Radio Alghanlslan. Kabul
4940
09300955
RRI Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia 2377
09301000
Radio Australia, Melbourne
5995
17715
British Forces Broadcasllng Svc, UK 15205
09301000
0930- 1000
CBN, SI. John's, New Foundland
6160
09301000
KTWR. Agana. Guam
11805

17605 17645 17695 17860

21505 21515
15625 17535
15210'

[4:00 AM EST/ 1:00 AM PST]

15425
9925
9630 17575
6020 6035
5995 9580
21775 21825
KTWR Agana Guam
15200
s llallan Radio Relay Svc, Milan
9815
Deulsche Welle, Koln, West Germany 6160 9565
17780 17820
21680
ABC. Allee Springs, Australia
2310 (ML)
11 755 15440
Radio Beijing, China
ABC Brisbane. Auslralla
9660
5020
Solomon Islands Broadcasllng Co.
Radio Moscow world Service
15280 17690
ABC. Kalherine. Australia
2485
2325 (ML)
ABC. Tennant Creek, Australia
S Adventist World Radio. Portugal
9670
A Radio for Peace lnl., Costa Rica
7375 USB
KTWR, Agana, Guam
11805
Radio New Zealand, Welllnglon
9855
S Radio Bhulan, Thlmpu
5023V
Voice of Hope, Lebanon
6280
BBC World Service. London, England 5975 9740
15070 15190
17640 17705
21470 21660
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec, Canada
6005
CFCN. Calgary. Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Chrlsllan Science World Svc. Boston 9455 9530
13720 15610
CKWX. Vancouver. Brlllsh Columbia 6080
CFRB, Toronlo, Ontario. Canada
6070
FEBC Radio lnl'I, Philippines
11 845
HCJB, Quito.Ecuador

6130
HCJB. Qulto.Ecuador(all pro)
9745 11925
Radio Japan Auslral1an Svc., Tokyo 15270 17890
Radio Japan General Service, Tokyo 11840 21610
ABC. Perth, Auslralla
BRT Brussels, Belgium
Radio Nelherlands lnl'I. Hilversum
Radio Auslralla (Soulhwesl Pacific)
Radio Auslralia, Melbourne

96 35 17655 21600
95 80 9655 9760
21775 21825
17695 21735

1000 UTC [5:00 AM EST/2:00 AM PST]

Radio Budapest, Hungary

1000-10 15
11740 15410
21600 21650

15160
9585
21810
4940
7375
9840
9560
5995
21775
Radio Korea, Seoul
15575
KHBN Guam
9 830
WHRI, South Bend, Indiana
7315
Radio Beijing, China
11755
ABC. Allee Springs, Australia
2310
ABC, Katherine. Auslralia
2485
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
11860
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.
5020
ABC. Perth. Australia
9610
ABC, Tennanl Creek. Auslralla
2325
KSDA Guam
13720
Radio Moscow World Service
11840
All India Radio, New Delhi
15010
21735
BBC World Service, London. England 9410
15070
17705
CBN, SI. John's. Nfld, Canada
6160
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec. Canada
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada 6130
Christian Science World Svc. Boston 9455
13625
CKWX, Vancouver, Brillsh Columbia 6080

17710
21690 21790

1000-1 100
1000-1100
1000-1100
1000-1 100
1000-1 100
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1030-1100
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1030-1100
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1030-1100
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11 760 9565
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Radio Australia, MelbOurne
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17785
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21820
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21815
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21695 25680
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9840 12020
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5950 6015 11580 13695
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Voice of Hope, Lebanon
1430-1500
Voice of Myanmar (Burma)
1430-1 500
Radio Australia, Melbourne

143o-1500
1430-1500
14301500
14301500

F ABC. Alice Springs, Australia

F ABC. Tennant Creek, Auslralia
Radio Austria lnternalional. Vienna
Radio Netherlands lnl'I, Hllversum

14451500
Radio Korea. Seoul
14451500 M,W,H,A,SRadlo Ulan Bator. Mongolia

i 1500 UTC

11550
15185 21550
5023v
5005 7165
6280
5990v
5995 6020
6080 7215
9770 11 800
2310 (ML)
2325 (ML)
6155 11780
5995 13770
17605
7275
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1500-1530
15001530
1500-1540
1500-1550
15001 550
1500-1555
1500-1600
15001600
15001 600
15001600
15001600
15001600
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001 600

1500-1600
1500-1600

(alt. 3230)

6036
9580
13745

6060
9710

13730 21490
15150 17575

[10:00 AM EST/7:00 AM PST]

15301600
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
1500-151 5 M,W,H.A.SRadlo Ulan Bator, Mongolia
1500-1515
WYFR, Taiwan
1500-1525
Radio Nelherlands lnl'I. Hllversum
1500-1530

11 680 15310
9795 13780
11550
5955 13770
17605
MAVallcan Radio, Vallcan Clly
6248 7250
ML
A.S Radio Tanzania
5985 6105
Radio ,Sweden. Slockholm
17740 11905
Radio Romania Inter'!, Bucharesl
11775 11940
17720 17745
FEBA. Seychelles
11665
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
9325 9640
Deulsche Welle, Koln, W. Germany 9735 11965
Radio Beijing, China
11615 15165
9560
Radio Jordan, Amman
S Radio Canada Inf'!. Monlreal
11955 17620
FEBA. Seychelles
9590 15330
Voice ot Iha Medilerranean. Malla
11925
Voice ot Hope, Lebanon
6280
F ABC, Alice Springs, Auslralla
2310 (ML)
ABC, Perth, Auslralia
9610
F ABC, Tennanl Creek, Auslralla
2325 (ML)
BBC World Service, London. England 941 o 11 750
15070 15260
17780 2 1470
Voice of Myanmar (Burma)
5990v
S Radio Canada Inf'!. Monlreal
11955 17820

17825

15150 17575
9645 11740
7165
15250 15335

9977 11760
17765 21600

11 775 12095
17640 17705
21660 21710

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21545 (MA add: 13650
15315 17620)
1530-1540 MA Voice ot Greece. Alhens
1t645 15625 17535
1530-1600
Radio Tirana. Albania
11 635 9500
1530-1600
Radio Tanzania
5965 6105 7165 9664
1530-1600
Radio Omdurman. Sudan
11635 9550/ 9540
Radio Sweden. Stockholm
1530 1600
17860 2 1500 21655
1530-1600
Swiss Radio lnlernallonal, Berne
13685 15430 17630 21630
15401555 MAFEBA. Seychelles
11665
Radio Pakistan
1545-1600
21740 21480 17695 17560
15605 13665
1545-1600
Vatican Radio, Vallcan City
11 715 15090 17870
1555-1600 M,AFEBA, Seychllles
11665

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15205

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9625
6160
6160
6005
6030
6130
9530
21760
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1500-1600
CFRB, Toronl o, Onlario
15001600
6070
1500-1600
FEBC Radio lnl'I, Philippines
11650
1500-1600
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
11740
1500-1600 TS KNLS, Anchor Point. Alaska
11715
1500-1600
KTWR. Agana. Guam
11650
15001600
KUSW, Salt Lake City, Ulah
15590
Radio Australia. Melbourne
15001600
5995
6080
9770
15001600
Radio Japan General Service, Tokyo 11665
1500-1600
Radio Moscow World Service
11640
1500-1600
Radio RSA, Johannesburg S. Africa 7230
1500-1600
Voice of America-Middle East Service 9700
1500-1600
Voice of America-South Asia Service 611 o
9760
1500-1600
Voice ot Nigeria. Lagos
7255
1500-1600
All India Radio Northeast Svcs
3255
1500-1600
KHBN Guam
9630
1500-1600
Radio Korea. Seoul
5975
1500-1600
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
15105

Central Asia

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CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
CBU, Vancouver, Brillsh Columbia
CFCF. Monlreal. Quebec, Canada
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta. Canada
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scolla. canada
Chrislian Science World Service

Midwest To

Indian Ocean
MHz.

1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600

11820

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1600- t700

11600 UTC [11 :00 AM EST/8:00 AM PST]

1600-1700
1600- t700

4800
11865
6248 7250 9645 11740
5985 6105 7165 9684
7268 4980 3665
11680 15310 17825
3255 ML
7287 13665 15605 17554
21670
A.S Radio Norway International, Oslo
15220 25730
Radio Polonia, Warsaw. Poland
6135 9540
21530
M-F Radio Portugal, Lisbon
Radio Jordan, Amman
9560
9840 15010 12020
Voice of Vlelnam. Hanoi
UAE Radio, Dubai
11795 15320 15435 21605
6170 7225 15105 15595
Deutsche Welle. Kain, W. Germany
17825 21680
KSDA. Guam
11 980
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
11860
2310 (ML)
F ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
BBC world Service, London, England 941 o 11775 12095 15070
15260 17640 17705 21660
Radio Auslralia, Melbourne
5995 6020 6035 6080
7215 9580 9710 9770
11800 13745
( + 6060 unlil 1630)
961 O
ABC, Perth, Auslralla
2325 (ML)
F ABC, Tennant Creek. Australia
CBC Northern Quebec Service. Can 9625 (ML)
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
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11955 17820
Radio Moscow World Service
7110 9655 9840 11630
11890 12005 12010 12015
15375 15540 17600 17670
17710 21585 21630 21740
( + 11840 via Cuba)
CBU. Vancouver, British Columbia
6160
6005
CFCF. Monlreal, Quebec, Canada
6030
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Christian Science World Service
9530 13625 13745 21640
CKWX. Vancouver. British Columbia 6080
6070
CFRB, Toronto, Onlarlo
KTWR. Agana. Guam
11650 11 91O 13720
KUSW, Salt Lake Cily, Ulah
15590

1600-1610
Radio Lesotho
1600-161 O M,A FEBA. Mahe, Seychelles
1600-1610
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
1600-1615
Radio Tanzania
1600-1615
Azad Kashmir Radio, Pakistan
1600-1630
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
1600-1630
All India Radio Northeastern Svcs
Radio Paklslan
1600-1630
1600-1630
1600-1630
1600-1630
1600-1630
1600-1630
1600-1640
1600-1650
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700

1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700

1600-1700
1600-1 700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700

1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1610-1620
1610-1625
1615-1620
161 5-1630
1615-1630
1630-1655
1630-1700
1630-1700
1645-1700
1650-1700

1700 UTC [12:00 PM EST/9:00 AM PST]

17001725
Radio Netherlands, Hllversum
17001730
Radio Prague lnl'I. Czechoslovakia
1700-1730
Radio Sweden. Stockholm
17001730 A.S Radio Norway
1700-1750
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
17001750
Radio Bras. Brazil
ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia
1700-1800
1700-1800
Radio Beijing, China
1700-1800
Radio Auslralla, Melbourne

1700-1800

BBC Wortd Service. London

Midwest To

Indonesia

Australia

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11 855
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15310
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15225
6035
9580

6080
9710

12095 15070
15400 17640
21660

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6020
6055
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15570
5930
6065
9655
9325
15265
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7215
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9410
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6175 11705 12015 15360
17620 17795 17845 17850
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15135
Voice of Amerlca-Alrlca Service
7195 9575 11920 15410
15445 15580 15600 17785
17800 17870
Voice of America-Middle East Service 3980 9700 15205 15260
Voice of America-Asia Service
7125 9645 9700 9760
15205 15260 15395
7230 15270
Radio RSA. Johannesburg
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
7255
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
9465(MF) 13760(MA)
15105(S) 21840(A.S)
WINS, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15295
WRNO New Orleans. Louisiana
15420
15690
WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
WYFR. Okeechobee. Florida
11830 13695 17750 15566
11580 17612 21525 21615
M-FRadlo Botswana
3356 4830 7255
M FEBA. Mahe, Seychelles
11865
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
9645 11740
Radio Korea. Seoul, South Korea
9870
Radio Budapesl, Hungary
15160 15220 11910 9835
9585 7220
M-ABRT Brussels. Belgium
17580 21810
15570 6020
Radio Nelhertands. Hllversum
Radio Auslria lnl'I. Vienna
11780 13730 21490
M-F Radio Botswana
3356 4830 7255
Radio New Zealand. Wellinglon
15485

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1600-1700
1600-1700

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Radio France lnternal lonal. Paris

10.00

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17301800
17301800

Radio Korea. Seoul

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15575
7195 9575 11920 15410
15445 15580 15600 17785
17800 17870
11840 12010 12015 15150
Radio Moscow Wortd Service
17001800
15265 17585 17600 17670
17695 21585 25375
( + 11840 via Cuba)
17001800 SF WMLK Bethel, PA
9465
1700-1800
Voice of AmerlcaMlddle East Service 3980 6040 9700 9760
11 760 15205 15260
Voice of America.south Asia Service 7125 9645 9700 15395
17001800
17001800
WHRI. Noblesville, Indiana
13760 15105
17001800
Radio RSA. Johannesburg
7230 15270 17790
1700.1800
Christian Science wortd Service
13625 21640
(+ 17555 & 15610 A.S
15485
17001800
Radio New Zealand. Welllng1on
11 660
17001800
Radio Baghdad. Iraq
11 690 11745 11775 11850
17001800
Radio Moscow Alrlca Service
11 960 15230 15330 154 15
15535 15585 17565 17570
17595 1761 5 17655 21565
21630 21715
9625 (ML)
17001800
CBC, Montreal
17750 (ML)
Radio Surinam lnt'I (via Brazil)
1700-1800
9695 11615 11865
17001800
Radio Japan, Tokyo
9325 9640 9977 11760
Radio Pyongyang, Norm Korea
17001800
15590
KUSW Salt Lake City, Utah
17001800
15295
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
17001800
15420
WRNO, New Orleans. Louisiana
17001800
15690
WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
1700-1800
WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida
11830 13695 15440 17750
1700.1800
17885 21615
5995 7235 13650 15325
17151730
Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal
17820 21545
17151800
Radio Pakistan
11570 15605
1730-1740
Radio Bayrak. Northern Cyprus
6150
17301755
11695 5910
BRT Brussells, Belgium
17301800
Radio Sia. Peace & Progress. USSR 6110 9705 11695 11745
11775 11 850 11 910 11980
12055 12065 15330 15480
15585 17565 17615 17635
17655 21715
17301800
11680 15310 17825
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
Swiss Radio lnt'I, Berne
17301800
9535
Vatican Radio Alrlcan Service
17301800
17710 17730 21650
1730-1800
5015
Radio Trulh
(Clandestine Intended for Zimbabwe)

17001800
17001800

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15410
17785
11760

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17640
6080
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Radio Canada Int'!, Montreal
Radio Norway lnternallonal. Oslo
Voice of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa
Radio Sweden, Stockholm
Voice of Vletnam. Hanoi
Trans World Radio. Swaziland
All India Radio, New Deihl
Radio Mozambique. Maputo
ABC. Alice Springs, Australia
ABC, Tennant Creek. Australia
Radio Tanzania
SLBC Wortd Service, Sri Lanka
KVOH, Rancho Simi. California
BBC world Service, London
Radio Australia. Melbourne

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11585 11655
13670 15260 17820
17755
9660
6065 7265
15010 12010 9840
15210
11 935 15360
9618 4855 3265
2310 (Ml)
2325 (ML)
5985 6105 7165
9720 15120
17775
94 10 12095 15070
5995 6020 6035
7205 7215 7240
11855
18001900
Radio Moscow world Service
11765 11840 11 890
15185 15375 15540
17670 17695 21740
18001900
Radio New Zealand. Wellington
15485
18001900
CBN, SI. John's. New1oundland
6160
1800-1900
CBU, Vancouver, Brillsh Columbia
6160
1800.1900
6005
CFCF. Montreal. Quebec. Canada
6030
1800- 1900
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
CHNS. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada 6130
1800-1900
Christian Science Wortd Service
11 650 13625 21640
18001900
(+21780 MF)
(+15610 A.S)
1800 1900
CKWX. Vancouver. British Columbia 6080
6070
18001900
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
KUSW, Sall Lake City, Ulah
15590
1800 1900
9625
18001900
CBC Montreal
18001900 SF WMLK Bethel. Pennsylvania
9465
1800 1900
Radio RSA, Johannesburg. S. Alrica 17765 15270 7230
18001900 A.S Radio for Peace Int'!, Costa Rica
13630 21566
18001900
Voice of America-Alrlca Service
7195 9575 11920
15445 15580 15600
17800 17870 21485
1800 1900
Voice of America Mlddle East Service 6040 9700 9760
15205

1800.1815
18001830
18001830 A.S
18001830
1800.1830
18001830
18001845
18001845
1800-1855
18001900 F
18001900 F
1800-1900v
1088V1900
18001900
18001900
18001900

South America

Pacific

MHz.

30.00

[1 :00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST]

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Midwest To

40.00

1800 UTC

7155 9480
15340 15365 17805 17860

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1800-1 900
1800-1900

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WANO, New Orleans. Louisiana
WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida

18151900
1830-1845
18301845
1830-1855
1830-1855

Radio Bangladesh. Dacca

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Radio Finland, Helsinki
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1830-1900 A.S Radio canada lnt'I. Monreal
1830-1900
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Radio Tirana, Albania
1830-1900
1830-1900
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18301900
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1830-1900
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18401850 MA Voice of Greece. Athens
18451900
All India Radio, New Delhi
1845-1855vlRR Africa No. 1, Gabon

13760
15345
15295
15420
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11830
21500
12032
6055
11755
5910
5995
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9705
13670
9635
7120
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9885
3985
11645
7412
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15475

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13695 15440 17885

1900-2000
19002000
1900-2000
1900-2000

15255
7345
9550
11695
6135
11640
9720
15260
15510
9480
15560
11955
6165
12105
9665
11935

6120
13675
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5985
6190
17710
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3356
1900-1920
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1900-1920v
Radio Omdurman, Sudan
11635
1900-1925
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6020
1900-1930 M-FRadto Budapest, Hungary
15160
7220
Radio Canada lnl'I. Montreat
13670
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19001930
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
11680
19001930
Radio Afghanistan, Kabul
9635
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13670
19001930
Radio Japan General Service, Tokyo11650
15220
1900-1930 A.S Radio Norway International, Oslo
1900-1930 M-FRadlo Portugal, Lisbon
11 740
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Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi
9840
19001945
All India Radio, New Delhi
7412
11660

7285
19002000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000

17820
17745
17605 21685

19002000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000

9535
15625
9910 11620

6105 7165
6248 7250
17730 21650

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

9684
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4830
15560
11910
6110
15260
15310
15510
15260
11865
15235
15250
12020
9665
11935

17605 21685
9835 9585

1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000

17820
17825
17745
17620
15270
21705 25730
21530
15010
9910 11620

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1900-2000
1900-2000
19002000
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Eastern Europe

MHz.

20.00

West Coast To

Western Europe

MHz.

W.00

11765 11610 13790 15390

17610
ELWA Monrovia, Liberia
11800
CBC, Montreal
9625
15485
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
11765 11840 12010 12060
Radio Moscow World Service
13605 15405 15540 15580
17570 17670 21630 21740
21630
Radio Moscow African Svc
11960 12035 15230 15520
17655
(In English & Zulu)
MF RAE. Buenos Aires. Argentina
15345
Radio Beijing, China
9440 11515
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.
5020
KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
17775
BBC World Service, London. England 941 O 12095 15070 15400
17660
CBN, St. John's, Nev.1oundland
6160
CBU, Vancouver. British Columbia
6160
6005
CFCF, Montreat. Quebec, Canada
CFCN, Galgary, Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6130
Christian Science World Service
11650 13625 21640
(+ 17555 & 15610 A,S)
(+21780 MF)
CKWX, Vancouver, British Col umbia 6080
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario
6070
GBC Radio, Accra. Ghana
6130
HJCB European Service, Ecuador
17790 21480 25950ssb
KUSW, Sall Lake City, Utah
15590
Radio Algiers, Alger
9510 9665 15215
Radio Australia, Melbourne
5995 6020 6035 6080
7205 7215 7240 9580
11855
(+13745 from 1930)
A.S Radio for Peace tnt'I, Costa Rica
13630 21566
Spanish National Radio, Madrid
11790 15280 15375 15395
Voice of America-Africa Service
7195 15410 15445 15580
15600 17765 17800 17670
21485
Voice o f America-Middle East Service 6040 9700 9760 11760
15205
9525 11870 15180
Voice of America-Pacific Service
13760 17830
WHAi. Noblesville, Indiana
15295
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
9465
SF WMLI<. Bethel, Pennsylvania
15420
WANO, New Orleans, Louisiana

1900-2000

11900 UTC [2:00 PM EST/11 :00 AM PST]

1900-1910
Radio Tanzania
1900-1910 MA Vatican Radio

Deutsche Welle, Koln, W. Germany

..

10.00 .. .;.... ;....

: ..

~ '\f

~""~-~---~T-"~'~'~~~~~~~..._,

MONITORING TIMES

12

UTC

16 20 24

12

16 20

UTC

24

frequency ..
ft

:s

1900-2000
1900-2000

WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee

WYFR, Okeechobee. Florida

1920-1930 M-A Voice of Greece, Athens

1930-2000 M Radio Tallln, Estonia
1930-2000
Radio Austria lnl ernatlonal, Vienna
1930-2000
Radio Romania lnt'I, Bucharest
1930-2000 A.S Radio Budapest, Hungary
1930-2000
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
1930-2000
Radio Yugoslavia, Belgrade
1930-2000 M-F Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal
1939-2000
1930-2000

Radio Korea. Seoul

Radio Tlkhly Okean, Vladivostok

Voice of lhe Islamic Republic Iran

19302000
1935-1955
RAJ. Rome, Italy
1940-2000 M,W,H.A.SRadlo Ulan Balor, Mongolia
All India Radio, New Delhi
1945-2000
1945-2000
Radio Korea, Seoul
Vallcan Radio
1950-2000

i 2000 UTC

15690
11830
17612
9395
5925
5945
5955
61 10
11 910
11660
7215
5995
17875
6480
5015
11995
15560
6080
7275
11650
11935
5975
6190

50.00

12010 13730
9750 11810
9585 9835

6155
9690
7220
15160
11765
9660
7235

15330
11735
11945 15325

2000-2100
2000-2100
20002100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100

2000-2100
7550 15575
7335 9885 11870
15180 15435 15535
17645 17650
n 9022 15064
9710 11800
12050

2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100

9670
7250

9645
2000-2100
2000-2100
20002100

[3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST]

Vatican Radio. Vatican City

6190
2000-201 0
Radio Ulan Bator. Mongolia11650
2000-2010 M,W, H.A.S
Sierra Leone Brdcslng.Co.. Freel own 3316
2000-2010
2000-2030
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
11605
15485
2000-2030 M-F Radio Portugal
15250
2000-2030
Radio Prague lnt'I, Cze<:hoslovakla
5930
2000-2030
Radio Romania lnl'I, Bucharest
5955
6460
2000-2030
Radio Korea, Seoul
2000-2030
Voice of the Islamic Republic Iran
6080
2000-2050
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
6576
2000-2100
Radio Moscow Brlllsh Service
7330
17695
2000-2100 M-F Radio for Peace lnt'I, Cosla Rica
13630
2000-2100
KHBN Guam
9620
2000-21 00
Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta
11753
20002100
Voice of Hope. Lebanon
6280
20002100
BBC World Service, London. England 5975
15260
17860

MHz.

2000-2100
13695 15440 15566
17885 21615
11645

7250
12050

9645

11745 12077 15090

17575
6055 7345 11 990
9690 9750 11610
7550 15575
9022 15084
9345 9640 9977
11630 11930 15185
21566
Ml
11765
9410 12095 15070
15400 17755 17760

2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100

2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
20002100
2005-2100
2025-2045
20302100
20302100

West Coast To

West Coast To

Arctic Europe

Middle East

,...-,---,---,.-------~

MHz.

50.00

Radio Australia, Melbourne

6020 6035 7205 7215

7240 9580 11855 13745
( + 6060 & 5995 unlll 2030)
M-AABC, Allee Springs. Australia
2310 (Ml)
ABC, Katherine, Auslralla
2465
MAABC, Tennanl Creek, Auslralla
2325 (Ml)
CBN. SI. John's, Newfoundland
6160
6160
CBU. Vancouver, Brlllsh Columbia
CFCF. Monlreal. Quebec, Ganada
6005
Radio Moscow world Service
7315 11630 11 670 11605
11690 12060 13605 15185
15315 15355 15560 17695
Radio Moscow Alrlca Service
11715 11775 11960 12035
15520 15535 21630 21740
CBC. Montreal
9625 (ML)
CFCN. Calgary. Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scolla, Canada 6130
Radio Baghdad. Iraq
13660
Christian Science World Service
9455 9495 11980 13625
13770 15610 17555
CKWX, Vancouver, British Columbia 6060
Radio Sia. Peace & Progress.USSR 9470 9820 11830 11680
11960 15260
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
6070
KUSW, Salt lake City, Utah
15590
Radio Beijing. China
9440 9920 11500 11715
15110
ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
11800
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
11860
Radio Havana Cuba
11800
7195 15410 15445 15580
Voice of America-Alrlca Service
15600 17785 17600 17870
19480lsb 21485
Voice of America-Middle East Service 6040 9700 9760 11760
15205
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
13760 17630
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15185
WANO. New Orleans, Louisiana
15420
KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
1m5
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.
5020
WWCR, Nashville. Tennessee
15690
WYFR. Okeechobee, Florida
11830 13695 15440 15566
17612 17885 21525 2161 5
Radio New Zealand, Weltlngton
15465
Radio Damascus. Syria
12065 15095
RAJ, Rome. Italy
7235 9575 11600
Radio Nelhertands lnl'I, Hltversum
9660 13700 15560
Voice of Vlelnam. Hanoi
9840 12020 15010

West Coast To

West Africa

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12 16

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24
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All India Radio. New Dellli

2045-2100

74 12 9665
11715 15265

2100-2200 TA KUSW. Salt Lake City, Utah

21002200
Radio Australia Melbourne

9910 11 620

2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
21002200
2100-2200
2100-2200

j 2100 UTC [4:00 PM EST/1:00 PM PST]

Radio New Zealand, Wellington
2100-2105
Radio Damascus, Syria
21002105
Radio Prague lnl'I. Czechoslovakia
2100-2115
Radio Netherlands lnt'I. Hllversum
2100-2125
21002130 M Radio Ljublijana. Yugoslavia
Vatican Radio
2100-2130
2100-2130 A.S Radio Norway, Oslo
Radio Budapest. Hungary
21002130

15485
12085
5930
9860
5980
17710
15165
11910
7220
Sierra Leone Brdcstng.Co.. Freetown 3316
15575
Radio Korea, Seoul
Radio Romania lnt'I. Bucharest
9690
3985
Radio Beijing, China
Radio Japan General Service, Tokyo 11815
17810
9655
Radio Sweden. StockhOlm
9885
Swiss Radio International. Berne
6120
Radio Finland, Helslnkl
Deutsche Welle. Koln. West Germany 9670
15435
ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
11800
Radio Angola lnt'I Svc. Luanda
3355
All India Radio. New Delhi
7412
11715
CBC Montreal
9625
Radio Moscow World Service
7115
11 670
11 840
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
9795
Radio Kiev, Ukraine
9865
CBN, St John's, Newfoundland
6160
KHBN Guam
9820
CBU. Vancouver, British Columbia
6160
Voice of Hope, Lebanon
6280
6005
CFCF. Montreal. Quebec, Canada
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta. canada
6030
CHNS. Halifax. Nova Scotia. Canada 6130
Christian Science Wortd Service
9455
15310
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.
5020
CKWX, Vancouver. British Columbia 6080
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
6070

21002130
21002130
21002130
2100-2130
2100-2130
2100-2130
21002130
2100-2130
2100-2150
21002200
21002200
21002200v
21002200
2100-2200

2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
21002200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
21002200
21002200
21002200

..
..
Cit
(IS

15095
6055
13700
7240
17730

7345 11990
15560
9620
21650

15160
6110

9835

9585

21002200

6480
11810 11940
15110
15270 17765

21002200
21002200
2100-2200
2 100-2200

15525 12035
15400
11785 13780

2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200

9910 11 620

2105-2200
2110-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
21302200

7150 7315 9685

11745 11775 11805
11890 11985 12040

2130-2200

7550
9750
11715
11835
17890
11705
13635
11755
9765

9535
9665
15265

15590
11880 15465 17795
(until 2130: 7215 13745)
(from 2130: 15240)
9900
Radio Cairo. Egypt
KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
17775
Radio Baghdad. Iraq (lo Europe)
13660
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
11860
9920 11500
Radio Beijing. China
13630 21566
Radio for Peace, Costa Rica
11800 17860
Radio Havana Cuba
Voice of America-Alrtca Service
7195 15410 15445 15580
15600 17785 17800 17870
21485
Voice of America-Middle East Service 6040 9700 9760 11760
15205 11710
11 870 15185 17735 ,
Voice of America-Pacific Service
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
13760 17830
15185
WINS. Red Lion. Pennsylvania
BBC Wortd Service, London, England 5975 9410 12095 15070
15260 15400 17755 17760
17880
WRNO Worldwide, Louisiana
15420
15690
WWCR. Nashville. Tennessee
WYFR. Okeechobee, Florida
11830 13695 15566 17612
17885 21525 21615
Radio New Zealand. Welllnglon
17675
Radio Damascus, Syria
12085 15095
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
11660 11765 15330
Radio Canada lnt'I. Montreal
11880 13670 15150 17820
Radio Japan. Tokyo
11815 11835 15270 17765
17810 21610
HCJB. Quito, Ecuador
15270 17790 25950ssb

2200 UTC
ML

9495 13625 13770

15610 17555
9545

22002205
Radio Damascus. Syria
12085 15095
2200-2215
Sierra Leone Brdcslng.Co.,Freetown 3316
2200-2215 MAABC. Alice Springs, Australia
2310 (ML)
2200-2215
ABC, Tennant Creek. Australia
2325 (ML)
2200-2215 MF Voice of America-Caribbean Service 9640 11880 15225
2200-2225
RAJ, Rome. Italy
5990 7235 9710
2200-2230
BRT Brussels. Belgium
5910 9925
2200-2230
Radio Canada lnt'I. Japan relay
11705
22002230
ABC, Katherine, Australia
2485
22002230 S KGEI. San Francisco, California
15280

West Coast To

West Coast To

Central Africa

South Africa

MHz.

[5:00 PM EST/2:00 PM PST]

West Coast To

East Africa

MHz.

MHz .

50.00

50.00 ~-------:

40.00

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30.00

30.00

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20.00

20.00

10.00

10.00

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50.00

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2200-2230

All lnella Radio. New Delhi

7412

15195
Radio Norway lnternallonal. Oslo
15295
WINB Red Lion . PA
5955 9620
Radio Yugoslavia, Belgrade
9820 ML
KHBN Guam
9760 11 945
Radio Canada lnt'I. Montreal
17675
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
9900
Radio Cairo, Egypt
BBC World Service, London, England 5975 6005
7325 9410
11 750 12095
15400 17750
CBC Northern Quebec Svc. Canada 9625
2200-2300
6160
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
2200-2300
Radio Korea. Seoul
15575
2200-2300
Radio Moscow North American Svc 11 670 11 690
2200-2300
11 800 12040
15315 15355
15595 17735
Radio Sta Peace & Progress.USSR 9470 9820
2200-2300
11980 15260
1t 615 11 745
Radio MOSCOW World Service
2200-2300
15140 15560
(from 2230 add: 7315 15480 17655
CBU, Vancouver, British Columbia
6160
2200-2300
6005
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2200-2300
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta. Canada
6030
2200-2300
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia. canada 6130
2200-2300
9465 15225
Christian Science World Service
2200-2300
15405 15610
2200-2300
CKWX, Vancouver, British Columbia 6080
6070
2200-2300
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
15590
2200-2300 T-A KUSW, Salt Lake City, Utah
6280
2200-2300
Voice of Hope, Lebanon
11880 13605
22002300
Radio Australia, Melbourne
17715 17795
13630 21566
Radio for Peace lnl'I. Costa Rica
2200-2300
5030V
Radio Tonga. Kingdom of Tonga
22002300
7120 9770
Voice of America-East Asia Service
2200-2300
15290 15305
9852 11805
Voice of America-Eur/ Pac. Service
2200-2300
17610
17750 21720
Voice of Free China. Taiwan
2200-2300
United Arab Emirates R., Abu Dhabi 9600 11985
2200-2300
WHAi, Nobtesvllle. tndlana
2200-2300
13760 17830
15420
WANO Worldwide, Louisiana
2200-2300
WWCR, Nashville, Tennessee
15690
2200-2300
2200-2230 AS
2200-2245
2200-2245
2200-2300
2200-2300
22002300
2200-2300V
2200-2300

WYFR, Okeechobee. Florida

11580
17885
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
7125
Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi
9840
5995
Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
Radio Tirana, Albania
7215
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
9435
12077
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
11660
Radio Vilnius. Lithuania
6100
Swiss Radio lnl'I. European Service 6190
WINB Red Lion. PA
15145

2205-2230
2230-2300
2230-2300
2230-2300
2230-2300

11735 15165

2230-2300
2230-2300
2230-2300
2245-2300

6175 6195
9590 9915
15070 15260
17830

11 710 11 780
12050 13605
15425 15580

2300-2310
2300-2325
2300-2330

11830 11880

2300-2330
2300-2330
2300-2345
2300-2350
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

11 775 11 985
17570 21690
17850 17890)

15275 15300
17555

Sierra Leone Brdcstng.Co.. Freetown 3316

Radio Finland, Helsinki
11 755
Radio Vilnius. Lithuania
6100
13645
Radio Canada lnl'I. Montreal
9755
11660
Radio Sofia, Bulgarla
WYFR. Okeechobee. Florlda
5985
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
11 735
Radio Havana Cuba
11930
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
4830
Radio Korea. Seoul
15575
KHBN Guam
9820
Adventist World Radio. Costa Rica
9725
Radio Moscow North American Svc. 7150
11800
15315
15595
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
9445
Radio Moscow World Service
12005
15590
17655
21690
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Columbia
6005
C FCF, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CFCN. Galgary. Alberta, Canada
6030
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia. Canada 6130
BBC World Service, London, England 5975
9410
15260
Christian Science World Service
9465
15405

2300-0000
2300-0000

15240 15465
21740

2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
230()-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

11 760 15185
17735 17820
15345 15370

13605

2300-0000

Indian Ocean

MHz.

..----,----,--~--.,.-~

----'---+

40.00

+o.00

: :

12 16 20 24

UTC

12

UTC

16

ML
11 870
7315
12040
15355
17735
9665
15140
17570
17730
2 1790

15405
6175
9590

11710 11 780
12050 13605
15425 15580
9685
15480
17600
17850

17880
15550
17620
21585

6195 7325
9915 11750

15225 15275 15300

15610 17555

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20.00

10.00

10.00

9655 11905

-.--r-+~Yf..!. . 1... ;....

15185
7400 9865 11790
15455
11 730
11720
11580 15170
13650

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30.00

20.00 ... ~- i ~- ~ -;-!r r i~- !

20.00

11655 11745

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50.00

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30.00 r .. ++;

30.00

11830 15105
15010
7125 7270

South East Asia

Central Asia
50.00

13695 17612

West Coast To

West Coast To

MHz.

11830
21525
9615
12020
6135
9480
11 605
17575
15330
9675

2300 UTC {6:00 PM EST/3:00 PM PST]

West Coast To

+o.00

2200-2300

9665 9910 11620

11 715 15265

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85

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23000000
Radio for Peace lnt'I, Costa Rica
23000000
CKWX, Vancouver. British Columbia
CBC Montreal
2300-0000
2300-0000
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
23000000
KSDA. Guam
2300-0000 TA KUSW, Salt Lake Clly, Ulah
Radio Australia. Melbourne
2300-0000

13630 21566
6080
9625
6070
15125
15590
11880 13605
17630 17715
21740
Radio Japan General Service, Tokyo11835 15195
21610
Radio Luxembourg
6090
Radio Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga
5030V
7120 9770
Voice of America-East Asia Service
15290 15305
United Arab Emirates R.,Abu Dhabi
9600 11985

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

MHz.

15240 15465
17750 17795

Far East

Australia

MHz.

50.00

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40.00

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World Band Radio

New Portables from Sangean,

Radio Shack, Magnavox and Philips

Not long back, we reviewed OAK's MR-101 -- a S50 world band
radio with features aplenty, but so little sensit ivity as to make it all but
useless.
There's a story behind that radio, and it leads us to th is month's
models. But let's get back to those in a moment.

These models are vastly superior to the OAK imit ation, which is
more of a novelty tha n a real radio. A pparently, the Chinese firm that
produces the OAK unit laid its hands on only some superficial specs,
which would help explain why the OAK has so many obvious features,
but performs so poorly.

Reasonable Shortwave Coverage...

At Last -- The Real Th ing

Here's what we've unearthed. It appears that the giant
intern ational electronics conglomerate, Philips, decided to transfer
the R &D and production of it s new line of world band radios to Asia.
These proposed new radios would succeed th e 02935 and 0 2999
portables, which rightly had become fam ous as fi rst-rate perfo rmers at
hamb urger prices.
H e re, the trai l thins, but it appea rs that at least two fi rms were
approached by Philips: Sangean of T aiwan, a nd another fi rm in C hina
proper. Sangean got the contract, but the C hinese firm apparently was
made privy to e nough of Philips' specificat ions to produce a knockoff
model...even before the original model cou ld be produced. This
knockoff model, of course, was the OAK M R-101.
Finally, the "real" radio appeared -- unde r no less than four guises:
the Phi lips AE 3805, Magnavox AE 3805 (Magnavox is owned by
Philips), Sangea n AT S 800, and Radio Shack's Realistic OX-370. All
arc essentially ident ical in pe rformance, a nd all are manufactured by
Sangcan. But the Sangean and R ealistic incarnations differ from the
others in how th e controls are laid out, and also in that they have
stereo FM -- not just mono -- via headphones.

Like the OAK, the compact ATS 800 is small enough fo r trips, yet
beefy e nough for household use. It covers FM in 200 kHz steps, AM
fr om 530-1630 kHz in 10 kHz steps, and shortwave from 3.2-7.3 and
9.5-21.75 M Hz in 5 kHz steps.
This means it misses 120 a nd 11 meters; plus the 7.3-7.6, 9.3- 9.5,
and 21.75-21.85 MHz p ortions of 41 , 31 a nd 13 meters. Complete
world band coverage is unusual in the '800's price class, but there are
a lot of stations squirreled away in the not-covered 7.3-7.6 and 9.3-9.5
MHz slices. Look over Passpon/91's Blue P ages between 7305-9495
kHz to see whether you can live without these.

... but AM and FM for Americas Only

If you take this set abroad, there is a nother problem -- but not on
shortwave. The radio's 200 kHz and 10 kHz tuning steps for FM and
AM, respectively, are appropriate for the Western H emisphere, but
not elsewhe re where cha nnel spacing is narrower. Even in the
A mericas, the fo rthcoming expanded AM band is cove red to only
1630 kHz -- not the upper parame ter of 1705 kHz.

Unusual Tuning System

To keep costs low, the radio has precious few tuning facil ities. Not
only is there no tuning knob, there's no keypad, eit her. Instead, tun ing
is dependent on a pair of up/ down multi-speed slewing buttons, and
te n memories for shortwave (p lus five more each fo r AM and FM).
In principle, this is a questionable approach. H owever, in practice
it works pretty well. The radio can clog along at one channel per
keystroke, cruise through the bands at a pleasant rate, or zip from
band to band at high speed. Tuning from 9.5 to 21.7 MHz, for
exa mple, takes only 10 seconds -- a nd a safc crackcr's touch - to bring
the radio to a screeching halt somewhere near the desired cha nnel.
As with the OAK, tuning is complicated by a hoary "SW l SW2"
control. SWl tunes fro m 3.2-7.3 MHz, SW2 from 9.5 to 21.75 MHz.
It's ann oying, but you quickly get used to it.
The on/ off signal-strengt h indicator is of littl e value, but the 24hour World Time clock is -- even though the radio can't display the
fre quency and clock at the same time.

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That digital display, although it's not illuminated, has good
contrast and fairly large numbers. However, it uses the XX.XXx MHz
format, rather than XXXXX kHz. To boot, the least-signmcant digit
doesn't appear if it's a zero. So, for example, 15360 shows as 15.36.
Again, a petty annoyance that you grow accustomed to.
For traveling, there's also a lock switch to keep the power from
coming on accidentally during transit. Unlike that on the DAK, this
one really works. There's also an alarm clock built in - useful when
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The one significant drawback: spurious-signal rejection. This radio
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The AR3000 vs. the R7000:

Which is Better?

Probably no question regarding radio

comparisons is asked more often than that of
the two top contenders of high end
VHF/UHF scanning receivers: the popular
ICOM R7000, now several years old and
selling for slightly over $1000, and the new
AOR AR3000, selling for slightly under
$1000.
First, it must be understood that the two
models are quite different in terms of their
intended markets. The ICOM R7000 is a
VHF/UHF communications receiver for 30
megahertz and above, designed for seriousmindcd monitors who need more stringent
specifications than scanners offer.
A key market fo r the 7000 is the federal
government who uses a large number of these
receivers; so many, in fact, that some
shortages to the consumer market have been
attributed to large government contract
purchases.
For a communications receiver intended
for intercept applications, memory channels
and scanning capability are secondary to
single-signal reception and overall receiver
performance.
The AOR AR3000, on the other hand, is
first and foremost a scanner; its wide
frequ ency coverage, reaching down below the
AM broadcast band, is not intended to
compete with dedicated shortwave communications receivers, nor does it.
Think of it as a VHF / UHF, continuousfrequency-coverage scanner with extended
range down into the shortwave frequencies
and below, and you will be satisfied with its
performance.

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Specs at a
Extracted from th e Grove catalog

ICOM R7000
Frequency range: 25-1000, 1025-2000 MHz
Keypad frequency entry: Yes
Tuning steps: 0.11115110/12.5125 kHz
RIT (fine tuning~ No
Display: Fluorescent
Dimmer. Yes
Type of listening recommended: VHF/UHF utilities
Receiving modes: AM, wide FM, narrow FM, SSB
Memory: 99 channels
Scan: Yes, programmable by mode
Banks: No
Lockout: No
Priority: No
Search: Yes, with autoload
Delay: Yes
Squelch: Yes
Clock: No
Audio output power. 2.5 watts
Record output: Yes
Recorder activator. Yes
S meter. analog
Computer Interface: Optional
Conve111ion scheme: Triple up-conversion under 1000
MHz, quadruple above
Sensitivity: 0.5 uV AM/narrow FM; 1uV AM
Selectable preamplifier. No
Selectable attenuator. Yes
Selectivity: (- 6 dB): SSB 2.8 kHz, narrow FM/AM 15 kHz,
wide FM 150 kHz
Image rejection: 60 dB
Frequency stability: +I- 5 ppm @ -10 to + 60 degrees
centigrade
Selectable AGC: No
Dynamic range: Unknown
Passband tuning: No
Noise blanker/limiter. Yes
Adjustable notch filler. No
Tone control: No
Antenna connector. N female
Au~iliary connector. 10.7 MHz IF output
Dimensions: 11 114"W x 4 3/8"H x 10 7/8"0
Weight: 16 lbs.
Power requirement ~: 120/240 VAC @ 1.5 A; 12 VDC with
ootional adaptor
Warranty: One year
Ac:essories included: None

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AOR AR3000
Frequency rlllQe: 100 kHz2036 MHz (continuous)
Keypad frequency entry: To 4 decimal places
Tuning steps: 50 HzlOO kHz. selectable
RIT (line tu ning~ Not required
Display: Backlit LCD
Dimmer. No
Type of listening recommended: VHF/UHF communications, casual
shortwave broadcast and communications
Receiving modes: AM. FM wide. FM narrow. USB. LSB. CW
Memory: 400 channels (frequency, channel number, mode, at
tenuator setting)
Scan: 20 channels per second
Banks: 4
Lockout: Yes
Priority: 4 channels
Search: 4 ranges, 2 steps per second
Delay: AllChannel. 2 seconds
Squelch: Yes
Clock: 24 hOur with timer
Audio outpu t power. 1.2 watts into 4 ohms @ 10% THO
Record audio output Yes
Recorder activator. Yes
S meter. LCD bargraph
Computer Interlace: AS232
Conve~ion scheme: Tnple up.conversion (quadruple on wideband
FM)
Sensitivity: 0 25 uV SSB. 0.35 uV NFM. 1 uV AM (2.5 1800 MHz)
Selectable preamplifier. No
Selectable attenuator. 20 dB
Selectivity: f-6/ - 60 dB) 2.4/4.5 kHz SSS. 12120 kHz AM/NFM, 180
kHz/1000 kHz WFM
Image rejection: Not Available
Frequency stability: Not Available
Selectable AGC: No
Dynamic range: Nol Available
Passband tuning: No
Noise blanker/limiter. No
Adjustable notch filter: No
Tone control: No
Antenna connector. BNC
Auxiliary connector. 8pin DIN
Dimensions: 5'h w x 3-H x n 1 D
Weight: 2'il lbs.
Power requin!ment s: 13.8 VDC @ 500 mA
Warranty: One year
Accessories included: AC wall aaaptor. whip antenna. DC cord. 1s
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Sensitivity
On low band (30-50 MHz) both receivers
were equivalent in their ability to discern
weak signals, but as frequency range increased
to the 72-76 MHz range, the edge was given to
the AOR product. The separation grew ever
wider with increasing frequency range.
At UHF (450-512 MHz) signals were
significantly stronger on the AOR. At 800
MHz distant signals were full quieting on the
3000, while noisy on the 7000. The dancing
buzzes from 1090 MHz digital aircraft signals
were strong on the AOR, but barely audible
on the ICOM.

Audio Quality

Frequency Stability

The larger R7000 had profoundly better

sound than the compact AR3000, due in large
measure to the loading effect of a ,larger
enclosure. Without a doubt, a high-quality
external speaker would benefit the scanner.

While absolute dial stability may not be a

concern for AM and FM reception, it is
absolutely ' essential for single sideband,
radioteletype and even CW (Morse code).
Short-term frequency drift rapidly makes
reception unintelligible. We were pleased to
note that both receivers provided excellent
stability in these modes.

Frequency Accuracy

With fine tuning down to a few hertz

available on both receivers, how accurate was
the frequency display? Both receivers were
measurably off, especially noticeable on single
Selectivity
sideband, but the AOR by a much greater
But what about strong signal environ- amount.
A call to the distributor brought this
ments? How did the two receivers compare in
their ability to reject adjacent channel explanation: The main cause for the
interference? Here the marks were distinctly inaccurate display is mechanical drift of the
in favor of the ICOM. The AOR scanner was oscillator trimmer capacitor when the receiver
was being shipped. Since the AR3000
broad as a barn in all modes.
Interfering adjacent-channel signals were oscillator operates at VHF and UHF ranges,
sharply sliced off as the R7000 was tuned up slight changes in capacitance can cause large
and down in frequency; the same slewing of changes in frequency. In any case, either
the AR3000 dial still brought in off-frequency receiver can be recalibrated if necessary.
Frequency stability is another matter.
signals quite audibly. On shortwave, this
broad selectivity allowed strong signal Unless a receiver can be fine tuned, using it
interference from adjacent signals to on frequency-sensitive modes like single
completely override weak signals on center sideband, radioteletype and CW (Morse code)
can be difficult if not impossible.
frequency.
Many receivers have receiver incremental
It may be tempting to compare the
AR3000 with general coverage communica- tuning (RIT) or a "clarifier" or "delta tune"
tions receivers like the ICOM, Kenwood and control to effect this pruning procedure. The
JRC; this would be a mistake. Remember, this best receivers tune in increments (frequency
is a scanner with extended frequency steps) of only 10 or 25 Hz, making additional
coverage, allowing reception in a part of the fine tuning unnecessary.
Neither the !COM nor the AOR has such
spectrum where signals are stronger and
closer together. There is no comparison. Even a control. The ICOM tunes in 100 Hz
popular portables like the Sony ICF2010 and increments, making SSB reception intelligible,
Sangean ATS803A will perform better on while the AOR tunes in 50 Hz steps for even
better natural sound.
shortwave.
MONITORING TIMES

The Bottom Line

The AR3000 offers many advantages enormous frequency coverage in all useful
modes, large memory capacity with fast scan
and search functions, compact installation and
noticeably better sensitivity among them.
The R7000, on the other hand, is clearly
more professional in its appearance and
performance, with large dials and displays,
cleaner audio, superior selectivity and
displayed frequency accuracy.
The final choice boils down to your
intended application. If you need one receiver
for the widest possible frequ ency range and
are willing to accept some compromise in
performance, you will not be disappointed in
the AR3000.
If you have the room and the budget fo r
larger equipment and need optimum
perform ance, the R7000 and another general
coverage communications receiver will be
clearly superior.

November 1990

91

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Doug DeMaw

Indoor Antennas for the SWL

Arc you an urban dweller who can't erect
a n outdoor antenna? Maybe you're a
suburbanite who lives in a condo or
apartment where outside ante nnas are not
permitted. It is a frustrat ing experience: I
have been there. 1 cont rived numerous
schemes and applied them fo r deployment of
"invisible" antennas. I have used end-fed
antennas made from no. 28 enamel wire.
Rubber bands were used as en d insulato rs. I
also used monofilamcnt fishing line, formed
into small loops, as antenna insulators.
Unfortunately, the longevity of such
Oimsy antennas was poor, owing to birds
Oying int o the sma ll wire, stress fr om the
wind and ice loading. I have also used plastic
clothesline that had a strengthening wire
inside it. Since clothesline antennas were
usually only a few feet above ground (strung
between the back yard support poles),
performance was mediocre at best. I fina lly
graduated to in door antennas that were
erected in t he attic, storage room or st rung
along the baseboards of second-story rooms.
This article details some of the antennas that
I used successfully indoors for high-frequency
reception.

The Basic Dipole

impedance. The slight mismatch will not be

discernible during receive.

A half-wave dipole is perhaps the most

simple of the indoor antennas. One of the
better antennas of this type was made fr om
two-conductor speaker wire (no. 22) with its
clear plastic insulation. I routed the antenna
along the area in my shack where the wall
and ceiling meet, then bent the ends of the
dipole downward in the corners where the
walls meet. The antenna was not an eyesore,
since it blended with the light-colored wa lls
a nd ceiling.

A folded dipole that is cut for 10 MHz is

46 feet , 10 inches long overall. I find this a
good midrange frequency for my shortwave
listening needs. Owing to the length of this
dipole it is necessary to install it in an attic or
a fai rly large room. The ends of the dipole
may be bent and routed along the baseboard
of the room if you lack sufficient space.
These ends shou ld be routed away from
rathe r than toward one a nother for best
result s.

I chose the folded dipole style of antenna

to enable me to use additional speaker wire
as the balanced feed line. The feeder was
connected to a sma ll receiving type of
antenna tun er with a 4: 1 balun transform er.
Figure 1 sh ows the details of this a ntenna.
The tuner is not required if you place the 4: 1
balun between the feed line and the receiver.
Th~ effective feed impedance is 300 oh ms
balanced. It becomes 75 ohms unbalanced fo r
attachment to the receiver. This is not
critical, even though the specificat ions for
your receiver may indicate a 50-ohm

The length of a dipole is determined by

dividing 468 by the desired frequency in
MHz. This provided the answer in feet.
Figure I shows sho rting jumpers inward from
the ends of the dipole. This is necessary when
we use solid dielectric wire such a 300-ohm
TV ribbon or speaker wire in order to
compensate for what is known as the VF
(velocity fa ctor) of the line. The shorting
wires a re not needed for folded dipoles made
fr om open-wire line.

I have had good results with wire loops of

unspecified size (made to fit the available
room area). These antennas were made from
one conductor of low-cost no. 22 speaker
wire. The two wires puU apart easily, and this
provides twice the available wire for the
same price. The wire loop may be routed
along the ceiling, down the walls (where they
join one another) , then a long the baseboard
under the radio desk or table. The feed line
is co nnected at noor level beneath the table.

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Figure 1 -- Details for an indoor folded-dipole antenna made from parallel speaker wire
or T V ribbon line. Feedpoint A is located at the center of the overall antenna . A 4:1 balun
transform er is shown pictorially a nd electrically. It cont ains 15 bifilar (two wires wound o n
the core at the same time) turns of no. 26 ena mel wire on an Amido n Association FT-50-43
fe rrite roroid (1/2 inch OD with a permeability of 850). The locat io n of the short ed
connections is dependent upon the velocity factor of the wi re used.

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A no nresona nt loop of this type needs to

be used with a small tuning capacitor in
order to make it match the receiver across a
wide range of frequencies. A loop offers t he
advantage of being a "quieter" anienna than
a dipole or vertica l type. This is because a
closed loop is more immune to the pickup of
ma n-made noise than arc most of the
ordinary wire antennas. This can be
advantageous if you live in a noisy
neighbo rhood.
Dimensions fo r a full-size resonant loop
are obt ained fro m: L (feet) = 1005/f (MHz).
You can see that a 10-MHz loop would be
very large (100 feet and 6 inches) if it were
full size. This is easy to achieve if you can
e rect it out of doors, bu t few homes or
apartments have su ffici ent space fo r a big

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loop.

End-Fed Random-Length Wires

Perhaps the simplest of the indoor
antennas is the end-fed piece of wire.
Generally speaking, the longer the wire the
better it will perform, especially at the lower
end of the high-frequency range. This style of
antenna can be dangled out of the window of
an upper-level apartment for temporary use.
Alternatively, you may route it into an attic
or along the baseboard in your radio room.
A simple tuner can be used (Figure 3) for
matching the wire to your receiver. If you
have a receiver that lacks terminals for
attaching an external antenna (equipped on ly
with a telescoping whip) you may connect an
end-fed wire directly to the whip antenna
through a trimmer capacitor. The trimmer is
adjusted for peak signal strength at the
frequency of interest. Reception can be
impaired if the capacitor is not used, since a
direct connection to the wire can disrupt the
performance of the receiver from excessive
loading of the input tuned circuit.

The Figure 3 Tuner

L1 in Figure 3 needs 18 microhenries of
inductance in order to tune to 2.0 MHz,
which is the lowest frequency for this
particular circuit. Sl can have as many switch
positions as you wish. The more L1 taps the
better the range of tuning up to 30 MHz. I
suggest five switch positions.

LOOP ANTENNA

Make your coiJ taps every eight turns on

the coil. The coil has an OD of 1 inch and a
winding le ngth of 2 inches. Use 43 turns of
22 or 24 enamel wire, close wound. When
tapping the coil turns be careful to avoid
shorting adjacent turns. A small tab of meatwrapping paper or other insu lating material
can be slipped around the tapped turn (U
shaped) to prevent shorted turns. The
completed co il can be coated with clear
varnish to protect it from abrasion and to
hold the turns firmly in position. PVC tubing
or some similar plastic may be used for the
coil form.
Cl is a 365-pF tuning capacitor, such as
those used in the older AM broadcast
radios. It is tuned for maximum signal
response at the desired frequency. L2 has
four turns of no. 24 enameled wire over the
grounded end of LL This tuner is suitable
for any e nd-fed wire antenna, no matter
what its length may be.

Closing Comments
The sma ll loop in Figure 2 is tuned for a
peak signal response at the chosen frequency
by means of Cl. T his may also be a tuning
capacitor from an old AM broadcast radio.
Try to mount this antenna away from walls
that contain power wiring and plumbing.
The same rule should be foll owed when
installing any indoor antenna.
If you attach an end-fed wire to th e whip
antenna of a portable radio, use a 10-100 pf
trimmer capacitor between the wire a nd the
connection point on the whip. Tune this
capacitor for peak
signal response.

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size of the loop is not critical. The larger the loop the better the
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use with end-fed antennas of random length. Sec the text for
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experimenter's W'orkshop

Rich Arland, K7YHA

Old Business- and New

At times I tend to forget the range of
audience that this colu mn reaches. Such was
the case with the August EW comments about
"high gain" antennas used with the Sony 2010
receiver. A flood of letters and phone calls has
led us back to this, one of my favorite topics.

Common Sense Prevails:

Read the 2010 manual and heed the
instructions when it comes to external
antennas. Active antennas should not
adversely affect the 2010. I have used the
following commercially manufactured active
antennas with a Sony 2010 with absolutely no
ill affects and outstanding results: Datong
AD-270/370, Sony AN-1, and Inline
Components AC-1 Micro Module. There is no
reason to believe that any of the active
antennas by Grove E nterprises, MFJ,
Dressler, Dymek or others could not be used
with equal success with no harm to the radio.
Okay, now that we've covered active
antennas, how about "high gain" external wire
antennas - dipoles, end fed wires, Beverage
antennas - and beams, etc? Well, here is
where some confusion creeps into the picture.
ANY external antenna, as in an antenna that
is outside the shack, that is hooked to the 2010
has the potential to cause problems. These
antennas, regardless of configuration, will be
susceptible to static caused by rain, lightning,
high winds, etc. Therefore, they all p ose a
potential problem to the 2010 front end, if
they are hooked to the external antenna input
port. The obvious solution to the problem is
not to use any out side antennas.
Certain antenna tuning units, like the
Grove TUN-4, have static discharge
protection built into the ATU. Using an
outside antenna coup led to the TUN-4 and
then into the 2010 should work fine. The static
discharge protection in the TUN-4 will bleed
off any static charge built up on the outside
antenna and protect the Sony 2010 RF front
end. Now, I do not have a list of antenna
tuning units that are static discharge
protected, but maybe the readers of this
column can provide some insight on this.

Now the Good News:

In talking to
Bob G rove, I learned that over the last two
years, Grove Enterprises has not had one
documented case of Q-303 (RF front end)
failure. Apparently Sony has fixed the static
discharge protection proble m on late model
2010s.

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useless. It's amazing what lOW-40 can do to a

radio.

Doug Arvella of Thornwood, New York,

sent in a novel approach to monitoring
around the house without going to the
expense of buying a new handheld scanner. It
seems that Doug had (notice the past tense) a
handheld that he took with him around the
house to keep up wit h the local action on the
VHF/UHF bands.

Since Doug wanted to stay on top of the

act ion bands, and a new scanner was not in
the budget, he looked fo r an alternate
solution. What Doug came up with is
applicable not only to scanner listeners but to
shortwave listeners and hams as well and the
price is right. A visit to the local Radio Shack
store netted a Portable FM Cordless Room
Monitor (RS # 43-202) for a total of S39.95.
(Ed note: RS changes models in their product
line like most women change shoes. Check
out the current catalog or ask your local RS
salesmaker for help in selecting the right
product.)

That is, he had a handheld scanner until

the day he dropped it into a container of oil
which he had just drained out of his car. You
mean you don't take your handheld scanner
out to the garage when you change your oil?
Needless to say, the scanner was rendered

Doug's premise was if the cordless room

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monitor could hear a baby, why couldn't it

hear a scanner? D oug took the monitor home,
plugged it in according to directions and fired
up the PR0-2004 scanner nearby. Then he
took a walk out to the garage with the
handheld room monitor receiver to test out
his theory. I hope he stayed away from any
containers of oil.
Doug reports that the room monitor
worked well and relayed all the action corning
over the PR0-2004 with no problems. No
problems, that is, until his family came home
and then the room monitor started picking up
conversations from all over the house, which
masked the scanner information. Yeah, they
are rather sensitive little devices. The theory
was proven but a bit of refine ment was
needed.
Doug purchased a DPDT slide switch, 1/8
inch phone jack and a dubbing cord from
R adio Shack and went to work on the
transmitter portion of the room monitor. He
removed the three screws on the bottom of
the unit and pulled the mic plug from the
circuit board. The entire unit is now apart and
can be easily modified. He located the switch
in the top of the case and the ph one jack went
in the back of the unit. Be careful boring holes
and mounting the switch and the jack.
Next Doug cut the wires going from the
rnic plug to the mic and routed the wires
corning from the plug to the center DPDT
switch contacts. The mic was connected to one
side of the DPDT switch and the phone jack
was wired to the other side of the DPDT
switch (refer to Figure 1). This configuration
allows the input to the transmitter to be
switched between . the mic for normal room
monitoring to the phone jack which can be
plugged into the PR0-2004 via the dubbing
cable. The unit was reassembled after
plugging in the modified mic plug.

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dubbing cable between the 2004 and the jack
on the back of the room monitor. With the
switch on the room monitor transmitter in
the "scanner" position, Doug headed out the
door carrying the handheld room monitor
receiver. Everything the scanner received was
relayed via the room monitor transmitter to
the receiver in Doug's hand.
Although Doug did not indicate the range
of this unit , I would guess it to be about 1,000
feet. Not a bad low-cost solu tion to a
common problem facing many monitors,
SWLs and hams. There is no reason why this
application of a cordless room monitor
cannot be applied to the SW receiver or ham
transceiver, either VHF / UHF or HF. Total
cost to Doug including the room monitor and
extra parts and dubbing cord was about $50.
Thanks, Doug, for an outstanding tip.

A Call for Mods:

Requests and Answers
During the last two months I have
received many requests for modifications to
specific sca nners or SW radios. Here is a call
for modifications for the following receivers:
RS PR0-2021, PR0-34 and PR0-38
scanners, DX-300 and DX-440 SW receivers,
Bearcat BC-210, BC-140/145 scanners,
Kenwood R-600 and R-1000, R-2000 SW
receivers, Yaesu FRG-7700 and FRG-8800
SW receivers. Send these to Moni101ing Times
headquarters in Brasstown, North Carolina,
Attention: Rich Arland.
Experimenter's Workshop readers have
come through again. I have received five Smeter circuits for the RS PR0-2004/2005
scanners. In looking th em over, the general
concepts can be applied to alm ost any
scanner by placing the circuit in the AGC
loop. Next month we will feature several of
these circuits in this column.
In the meantime, if you can't wait, Ph il
Moreau, GOFWU, 35 Randel Bennett Close,
Elworth, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, has
put together a kit of parts including PC board
and all components for a fully wired and
tested PC board for his S-meter design for
the PR0-2005. Contact Phil at the above
address. Until next month, keep the soldering
iron hot. 73s es G ud DX.

Doug was ready for the "smoke test" and

plugged the room monitor transmitter into
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W. Clem Small, KR6A, GET

A Groundplane Antenna for

Mediumwave (AM) through UHF
base. O n the other hand, ma ny fi nd it easier
to use a heavy wire vertical e lement hung
fr om a tree.
T o make the VHF / UHF model, you will
need the length of copper rod or tubing
indicated by the formulas, a length of 2-1/8
inch OD PVC pipe to serve as a mounting
mast, an end cap with square-topped,
threaded plug fo r the PVC pipe, a length of
RG-58 coaxial cable for the matching
sections a nd the lead-in, and about two feet
of No. 10 or No. 12 copper wire for bracing
the groundplane. You will also need some
epoxy glue to cement things in place. Avoid
any glue that seems to have a metal filler.

The standard quarterwave vertical

groundplane antenna is a very popular
ante nna, and with good reason: it gives good
all-around coverage, is inexpensive, easy to
make, durable, and easy to install. But there
is another antenna, a cousin of the
quarterwave groundplane, that is almost as
easy to make and install and yet gives you a
coup le of worthwhile advantages over the
quarterwave. F irst, it gives you a worthwhile
gain over the quarterwave: more gain and a
lower angle of radiation. The a ntenna I'm
referring to is the five-eighth wavelength
vertical groundplane.
The five-eighth wavelength vertica l has
long been used in AM broadcast, by ham
radio operators and various ot he r installations where a low vertical radiation pattern is
important. This antenna is utilized fr om MF
to UHF, but practically speaking, for most of
us its height makes it impractical fo r the MF
ba nd or even the lower end of the H F band.

1. From the formu las in Figure 1 determine

the lengths for the vertical e lement and
the fou r radials. Cut them to length using
a tubing cutter or other convenient means.

2. Take the plug from the e nd cap and drill a

hole the diamete r of you r ele ments in the
cente r of the square end of the plug.
Insert one end of the vertica l ele ment into
the drilled hole until the ele me nt is into
the plug for the full le ngth of the plug. In
this position the bottom end of the
vertical clement will be just even with the
bottom of the threaded port ion of the
plug. Now position the plug so that it is

So Let's Build One:

Using the formulas in Figure 1 you can
design your own a nte nna for the HF, VHF or
UHF band. On HF a guyed vertical radiator
made of a luminum tubing or meta l gutter
pipe can be used with a heavy insulator, such
as a thick-glass bottle, at the ground e nd fo r a

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upside down (compared to its final

position as shown in Figure 1).
Te mporarily mount the vertical
element securely in a vert ical position
with the plug upside down at its top. A
vise is good for this or you can tie it to
some stable object. Make sure that the
antenna is in-line with t he center axis of
the plug as it is in Figure 1. If you wish
you may use small bits of dry wood or
plastic between the clement end and the
inside of the plug to hold the plug in
proper alignment. Fill the inside of the
plug cavity around the end of the vertical
element with glue. Completely cover any
wood bits you have used. Let it harden.
3. Drill fou r equally-spaced holes the
dia meter of you r elements in the e nd cap
so that they enter the cap from the side
just at the bottom of the threaded portion
of its inside wall. When the radials are
later insta lled in these holes, this
positioning will allow you to tighten the
plug down on the ends of th e radials and
provide a n extra measure of strength in
holding them in place. Drill the holes
straight in from the sides so that the
radials will st ick straight out from the cap.
4. Insert the radials so that there is one-half
inch of each radial showing inside the cap.
This leaves about five-eighth inch
between the inside ends of opposi ng pairs
of radials. Make a circle of one inch
diameter from the heavy copper wire and
place it on the inside ends of the radials as
shown in Figure 1. Solder it to the e nds of
the radials.

5. Cut two le ngths of heavy copper wire,

each about 10 inches long. Fashion each
into a circle. Put these on the radials just
outside t he cap as shown in Figure 1.
Solder them in place.

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together. Trim the outer insulator back oneh"a lf inch from each end of L3 and IA and
the end of the feedline that will attach to
them. The n trim one-quarter inch of the
braid (shield) and center dielectric of
these ends, exposing one-quarter inch of
the center conductor.
Be ca reful that small wires from the
coax braid do not cross over the dielectric
a nd short out to the center conductor.
However, do short and solder IA's center
conductor to its shield (braid) at one end
(see Figure 1).
7. Solder L3, IA and the lead-in together as
shown in Figure 1. This is accomplished by
soldering together the center conductors
of all three cables a nd also the braids of
all three cables. Check again to see that
there is no short between a loose small
wire in the braid and the center conductor
of each cable. A magnifying glass is useful
for this task. Cover this cable connection
with plastic tape.
8. Screw the plug with the ve rtical element
into the cap. Screw it down tightly to help
hold the radials in place. Now solder the
fr ee center conductor of L3 to the bottom
of the vertical element and the shield of
L3 to the small circle of heavy wire inside
the cap.
9. Pass the lead-in through the length of
PVC pipe tha t you are going to use as a
mast and a tt ach a connector that fits your
receiver's antenna input to its far end.
10.Mount the antenna as high and in-theclear as practical and connect to your
receiver. You are now ready to monitor.
11.If you live in lightning country, don't
fo rget to add some kind of lightninginduced da mage protection. The minimum here is to unplug-and-ground the
antenna when it is not in use, and to never
use the a ntenna in weather likely to
produce lightning.

RADIO RIDDLES

Last Month: Last month, in talking

about radio direction findi ng (RDF), I
me ntioned a "goniomete r" a nd asked you
what the term means.
Basically the term means an "a ngle

measurer." For RDF, a goniomete r consists

of outside ante nnas connected via lead-in
cables to coils in an antenna coupler which
has a dial marked wit h the points of a
compass. As the dial is turned, it turns the
coils in the coupler, which electrically rotates
the antenna system recepti on p att ern.
By tuning to a specific signal on the
receiver and then rotating the goniometer
dial to get a "null reading" (significant
decrease in signal strength) on that signal,
the direction lo the station transmitting that
signal can be read fr om the goniometer dial.

Next Month: When a ntenna plans

call for some specific le ngth , like a quarter
wavelength of wire and also a quarter
wavelength of coaxial cable, the two quarter
wavelengths turn out to be differen t
measured le ngths. F or instance, a quarter
wavele ngth in regular coax at 10 MHz is 16.2
feet but in wire is 24.6 feet. For foam
dielectric coax it's different than eit her of
these values. Is a quart er wavelengt h
different for coaxial cable tha n fo r pla in
wire? If so, how can this be? We'll clear this
up next month . 'Tit then, Peace, DX and 73.

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Bob Grove, WA4PYQ

A Most of the same caveats regarding

indoor rece1vmg antennas apply to
transmining as well. Impedance matching is
more of a concern in transmitting, so always
use a transmatch ("antenna tuner"). A good
ground or ground counterpoise (quarter
wavelength of wire for each band used
attached to the chassis) is mandatory.
Always use enough wire (50-100 feet),
erected as high and straight as practical, and
as far away from electric wires and large
metallic masses (air conditioning ducts, metal
siding) as possible.
A good TVI filter for transmitters is
always recommended.

If efficiency is poor and you don't need

both receivers going at once, a CB-type
antenna switch works perfectly. So does a
video game switch (with appropriate cable
adaptors).
If you are a perfectionist and want both
receivers going at once, you may wish to try a
simple TV-type two-way splitter. That works,
too. A commercial package built around just
this part for shortwave use is the Grove CPLSW Multicoupler ($39.95 including cables
and universal adaptors).

A
A Most TV interference comes from the
horizontal sweep oscillator; while its
fundamental frequency is about 15.75 kHz, its
raspy harmonics extend nearly to VHF!
Install a 30 MHz high pass filter on the
TV set; install a 30 MHz low pass filter on
the shortwave radio; separate the receiver
and TV as distant as possible; ground both
sets if possible; shield the inside of the TV
cabinet if possible and ground the shielding.

There are several possibilities. First,

simply jumper the two antenna inputs
together (if they are both 50 ohms) and
attach them to the antenna; no harm will be
done other than hearing the oscillator of one
receiver occasionally tune by the receiving
frequency of the other. Some purists install a
47 ohm resistor in series with each receiver
lead to ensure no less than 50 ohm match and
add some isolation.

smaller (indoor) antenna; use cut-tofrequcncy, directional antennas; add a Grove

FTR5 Scanner Filter (removes strong TV
and FM broadcasting signals which can
combine to produce intermod); install an inlinc attenuator (10 dB units are available
from Radio Shack). M ove.

1111111

First, decide which modes are of greatest

interest to your monitoring, then check the
ads to sec what is available. Do you already
own a home computer? If so, all you need is
a simple interface (like the AEA PK.232A)
and software; much cheaper than buying a
stand-alone demodulator (like the powerful
InfoTech M7000), but computer noise may
radiate into your receiver, adding interference.
All systems, whether utilizing computers
or not , operate on the same principle: Du allevel audio tones from the receiver's audio
output accessory jack are converted into
volt age levels which the computer interprets
as characters. These characters may be
displayed on a screen and/or fed to a printer.
Be sure to use adequate shielding;
audi ophile interconnect cables are usually
not shielded enough for radio frequencies.
Use coaxial cable and add appropriate
connectors.

The TurboScans had excellent sensitivity,

but were notorious for front-end overload.
You actually need Jess signal st rength. Try a

Bob's Tip of the Month:

RERUNS
More on the ICOM HTS
fn ou r September, 1990, issue we
listed general-coverage receive procedures
for three popular ICOM hand-held
transceivers. Several readers had no luck
in implementing the tricks.
A call to the !COM factory revealed
that in some early models, a small
inhibiting diode, D9, must be removed
for the keyboard command to be
effective. D9 is the only glass diode
visible, and it is located near the diode
matrix behind the keypad.
Once the diode is gone and the
nimble-fingered keyboard tactic is begun,
the keys must be held down for a few
seconds as the display gradually scrolls,
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revealing the VFO message which

indicates it is ready for the new range.

BC1 OOXLT Extended Battery

Life
While the procedure outlined in our
June 1990 issue of MT adds hours of
charge life to the batteries of the Uniden
BC200XLT, Jeff Elson of Brookfield,
Missouri, reminds us that it will work on
the BCJOOXLT as well. Just keep in
mind that the two round capacitors are
mounted venically on the BClOOXLT,
not horizontallv as shown for the
BC200XLT. Nlce hint for our BClOOXLT
owners--t han'ks, Jeff!

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A Nothing could be farther from the truth,

yet that myth continues. The fact is that while
communications equipment is standardized
for 50 ohm transmission lines and TV
systems are rated at 75 ohms, no antenna
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in purchasing such items could let me know.
Any other ideas will, of course, be gratefully
received."
What a quaint idea, teach ing capitalism to
Bulgarians. If you're interested in giving Nigel
and his Bulgarian friends a hand, drop us a
note and we'll pass your le tte r on to him.

Co nfirms r

Nigel's letter regarding the Bulgarian

DXers is not the only one. Here at Monit01i11g
Times we've been amazed at the number of .
Russians and Eastern Europeans who are !
writing in to ask about subscription rates.
Some have even picked up on a little
capitalism on their own, offering to trade
articles and frequency lists for subscriptions.
Writes Alexei Yakovlev of Kameshkovo
City, "I live in Central Russia but sometimes a
back issue of your magazine reaches my
hands. I am prepared to contribute to your
publication
covering Soviet shortwave
listening activity, with possible topics: who are
the shortwave listeners in this country, their
qualifications a nd skills, the equipment they
used, etc. As a reward I could be int erested in
a subscription for your magazine as well as in
improving my writing abilities in English."
Bob Kozlarek write from his home in
Elmwood Park, New Jersey, where he has
been puzzling over a signal on 895 kHz. 'The
station is identifying itself as 'Fun Radio -Powerhouse of the Eastern Caribbean.'
Program content would lead me to believe it
to be located on the island of St. Nevis. The
power, according to the station identification,
is 10 kW."
You have correctly put the pieces of the
puzzle together, Bob. Once known as 'The
Voice of Nevis," Fun Radio operates from
Charleston, .Nevis. Good catch! You see, AM
DXing can be fun!

"How about some information on QSL

cards prepared by listeners fo r those stations
that might not have their own QSLs?" asks
Preston Sewell Jr., of Franklin, New Jersey.
Some QSL collectors prepare thei r own cards
and enclose them with their reception reports
to stations, often utility stations like ships at
sea, that are unlikely to have their own QSL
card.
''I'll bet that there are a lot of different and
creative solutions to the problem," says
Preston. "I've enclosed a couple that I have
created on my IBM PC using Harvard
Graphics software and printed on a laser
printer."
By the way, Preston also sends a picture of
his monitoring post (JRC NRD-525, Sangean
ATS-803A, Regency MX3000 and Bearcat
200XLT) ... The cat checking out the shack is
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admits to losing interest in

the technical end of things.
"I no longer have any
desire to keep up with that
sort of thing. Neither do
many others. And I'm tired
of hearing about Morse
code. The only concern
that we should have is
making sure that we don't
allow anyone to take away
ou r parts of the radio
spectrum."

Another MT fan,
Raymond Miller of Williamsville,
New
York,
sends a snapshot of his
"scanner cart" which keeps
his toys close by (PR02020, PR02004, PR02005,
PR034 and PR030, DX440 for shortwave, plus
found walking around on his
personal QSL, too.
Regarding prepared form
cards, Preston says, "I'd be
interested to sec what others
have done and to learn how
they did it and what tool they
used."
Folk? Are any other MT
readers practicing the fine art
of prepared QSL card-making?

C.R. "Rich" Armstrong of

Puyallup, Washington, is an
enthusiastic
reader
of
Mo11ito1i11g Times. "Swapped
QST for MT," he says.
Rich used to be a rea lly hot
ham,
doing
things
like
"bouncing ou r 2 meter signals
off Mt. Rainier." Still, he
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various guides, manuals and frequen cy

directories). Raymond sta rted listening to
scanners as a teenager, which may have
inOuenced his career decision to become a
police officer.
Raymond says he keeps a scanner with him
both on and off duty -- a habit which paid off
th ree years ago. "We were looking for two
bank robbery suspects who escaped on foot
after a high speed auto chase. My scanner
picked up a local ambu lance driver talking to
his dispatcher excitedly that 'one of the guys
the po lice are looking for just ran by our unit
on a certain street.'" Being just one block
over, Raymond doubled back and made the
capture.
Raymo nd maintain s that a scanner in the
ha nds of a civic minded citizen is a positive
tool in law enforcement. "Needless to say,"
says this officer, "I don't agree with those who
lobby for taking scanners fro m law abiding
citizens."

Who says radio is an a rmchair hobby?

Another reader, Joey Boone of H o dge,
Louisiana, sent an filQ QSL card (dated 1927)
from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. How
he came by it is the story. The property across
the street from his ho me had be longed to an
amateur radio operator. 'The hou se has been
falling in for several years," says Joey. "While a
fri end and I we re out there looking around, I

for certificate lo: W41AX. Mobile Amateur Radio

Club, PO Box 9315. Mobile, AL 36691.
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Location: Meadows Racetrack (Indoor), Exit 8 t
79, 30 min south of Pittsburgh. $3 admission.
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109 Thomas Rd, Hollywood, FL 33023

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found
what
gathered to be his
radio shack. I found
nearly 100 old cards,
and a n old transmitter
which
stood
nearly five feet tall.
"I lifted up the old
transmitter, and to
my
surprise
and
horror, I also found a
5-1/2 fo ot long rattlesnake. The snake had
15 rattlers, and it
took me less than 15
seconds to be 100
Ollllii11111oOllOlllld' yards away!"
Not
to
be
daunted, Joey went back later (with a
shotgun!!) and killed the snake. H e came up
wit h several old QSLs, and we a ppreciate his
entrusting us with this original 1927 verie .

Gene Wilkin, a subscriber a nd broadcast

consu ltant since 1974, writes to say that the
often dim view of T V that we sometimes take
is unnecessary. Calling it "anti-broadcast
propaganda," Gene feels that "attributing 'the
decline of culture and solid moral values' to
television viewing qualifies as an editorial
comment and should be labeled as such."
H e continues, "I spent forty-plus years
working with some of the finest individuals I'd
been privileged to know in life; all of it in
radio, televisio n and film syndicat ion. T o
de nigrate Roseanne and Cosby (you should
write such successful material) only blows the
competitive print horn that television is a
'wallow.'
"MT is a marvelous a nd worthy 'read' that
I will keep until the issues (or I) disintegrate,"
concludes Gene, "but tearing d own nets zero.
Why not support such communications?
You're in that business."

Hugh Walton of Leawood, Kansas, has

got a solut ion to the problem of keeping t rack
of a ll the me mory channels o n the Sony ICF2010 that would probably work pretty well
with a lot of other receivers as well. "I have
had difficulty in making a plastic overlay as
your readers have suggested, the main
problem being the precise cutting of 32
rectangula r holes," says Hugh.
"Usi ng the kind of lapel label used at many
social functions ("H ello, my name is ..."), I type
in 3 letter codes for each fre quency I wish to
retain. Then, I peel off the backing to expose
the stick.)' side, cut to size, and press on to the
keys. Three typed capital letters exactly covers
one key. To change a listing, simply peel it off
and replace."
Nice idea, H ugh. Aren't MT readers
great?

We've got another idea o n how to

make the most of your listening time. Judy
Nort on of Billerica, Massachusetts, suggests
that yo u connect your receiver's phone/
record jack to your VCR's "AUX" audio
input. You can record for six to e ight hours,
says Judy, a nd use the VCR timer. "It's even
bett er," she says, "if your receiver and VCR
arc part of your full audio system -- the sou nd
is so much better."
J udy closes by saying that she "enjoys MT
very much, especially the sh ortwave listings
and helpful tips."
Finally, we offer our congratulations to
Radio Canada International's Ian McFarland.
This month - o n the 18th, to be exact, he is
celebrating the 700th edition of the popular
Shonwave Listener's Digest. That's 700 shows
wit hout missing a beat -- no absences and no
repeats. Congratulations, Ia n! That's no easy
task.
We 'd like to hear your comments, opinions,

"Someone told me," writes Ken Atlee a11d e.xperiences conceming the wodd of radio.
of Washington, D.C., that there is at least one
picture of pu blisher Bob Grove hidden in
every issue of Mo11i1oii11g Times. Is this true?
No.
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Closing Comments
The 1990 Convention
The forums were incredible. The real
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November 1990

MON ITORING T IMES

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