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CONTENTS
May 1995
Cover Story
Leapfrogging the
Atlantic
by Stephen
W. Worden,
NN3M/ZDBNN
On an island of volcanic rock,
isolated in lhe middle of the South
Atlantic, it might be a surprise to
find a smoothly functioning, hightech system producing enough water and power to supply a small
city. Ascension Island has been
home to a BBC relay station since
1966, and all thi s energy doesn't
power a city; it beams the BBC
World Service into homes on two
continents.
Despite the forbidding aspect of
the terrain, lhe author (pictured on
the cover at the site entrance) found
a warm and enthusiastic welcome
from the residents and the BBC
staff. Join him as MTtags along on
a tour of thi s very efficient operation. See page 9.
Reviews:
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and what accounts fo r its longevity?" is the
question asked by Magne this month . The
answer is the !COM IC- R7 1.a table topmode l
w hi ch fi rst appeared in 1984. Though the
receiver is not without its naws. few models
can beat it fo r pull ing a weak s ignal out of
adjacent interfere nce-a broadcast and uti lity DXer's dream (page 102).
The new Uniden BC860XLTis no highpe rformance machine, but if you' re a relati ve
beg inner looking for a reasonably-pri ced upgrade unit, check o ut Parnass review on page
100; this mode l has some good things going
for it.
Long a tool of s urveill ance experts, spectrum displays are just beg inning to become
affordable for hobby ists. AOR's SDU5000.
designed primarily as an accessory for the
sophisticated AR3000 general coverage receiver, is rev iewe d thi s month by Lee
Reynolds (page 98).
Letters ................................................. 4
Communications .................................. 6
Utility World ...................................... 32
Scanning Report ................................ 36
Uniden BC860XLT
Volunteer Testing
Skip Time!
Federal File ........................................ 82
FCC Downsizing
High Seas .......................................... 84
Petroleum Industry
Satellite TV ........................................ 86
TVRO Shopping via Satellite
Below 500 kHz .................................. 88
Who's on the Band?
/COM R71
Computers & Radio .......................... 104
SWR
Experimenter's Workshop ................. 108
Easy Datalogger
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Selecting an Antenna-II/
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Plane Talk
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Experimenter's Wkshp
OeMaw's Workbench
Federal File
Digital Digest
Ham OX Tips
SW Broadcasting
High Seas
Scanning Report
On the Ham Bands
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What's New?
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Satellite TV
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American Bandscan
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that appears in this month s "Com4
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May 1995
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# I : If you go 10 l'Ole. go early and behave well. Do11 ' 1 rake a liar wirh polirical
propaganda 011 ii. Do11 r even ((Ike any lee
shirts wirh polirical propaganda 011 rhem. If
you do rake any tee shirrs. p1111hem aside."
#2.: Viva Mexico and dearh ro rile bad
govem111e111. "
# I: 'God give us a blessing for all of rhe
Mexicans and we u see you Monday."
The photo was shot in G uadalaj ara July
12, and shows political workers from the
opposition (Democratic Revolutionary Party).
The ripples from last summer's assassination of the leading presidential candidate and
subsequent events in Mexico have been spreading in ever-widening circles ever since. Tunedin shortwave listeners understand better than
most that,just like radio waves, sooneror later
such ripples reach our shores as well.
More on Marconi
munication" column, regarding an unlucky
radi o liste ner who got caught with his rad io
tuned to a pirate station. Andy adds this warning: 1 would strongly suggest to anyone
contemplating coming to Great Britain on
holiday and bringing with them radio receiving equ ipment (your TV's won' t work here !),
they should write to the Radiocommunications
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as wel l. Mobile units on the
ground w ill use Ericsson radios e mploy ing vo ice and
data capability to communicate ov e r th e EDACS
Trunked Radio Sys te m.
USAir and Continental Airlines are pa rtic ipating in the
testing.
This is Serious
B M any rad io system operators, it seems, are
only marginally aware of the many facts.
c ircumstances and laws that can affect their
licenses. In the March 1995 issue of Mobile
R adio Tech110/ogy, a uth o r Rob ert
Schwaninger, Jr., reports that one former FCC
licensee was fo und to have abused its license
for operatio n of a Public Coast Radi o Service
station. The Commission, he says, found that
the station was using Special Emergency Radio Service channe ls to order liquor s upplies
for a brothel.
When asked to explain the situation , a
represe ntati ve o f the licen see responded,
" W he n you run out of liquor at a whore house,
it is a specia l emergency ."
Radio Blockade
The s ixth congress of the Community Radio World Association in Dakar. Senegal,
una nimousl y approved a resolution condemning U.S . "electronic aggression" against Cuba.
For 30 years, says the CRWA, the U nited
States has blockaded Cuba, "damaging its
communications by prevent ing access to information and impairing its teaching and cul tural roles.,.
The CRW A has de manded that the United
Nations use whatever means necessary to
e nsure compliance with its dec isions.
CUBA
Bye Bye Radio?
Ever s ince the earliest days of radio. the
U.S. government has forbidden fore ign ownership of broadcast stations. Now al I that may
c hange if Representative Michael Oxley of
Ohio has his way.
Ox ley was scheduled to conduct a House
Commerce subcommittee hearing on repealing the anti-foreign ownership provision of
the Communications Act of 1934. Oxley fee ls
that opening the U.S. broadcast media to
fore ign ow nership would encourage other
countries to relax restric tions against U.S.
te lecommunications carriers and U.S. eq uipment providers.
lf the subcommittee does recommend li fting the ban, it would next come before the
House Commerce Committee and, later, the
House fl oor for a vote.
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Going Digital
Arinc is demonstrating the use of dig ita l
data trans miss ions for ground operat ions at
Wash ington's National Airport. The techno logy be ing used is quite similar to ACARS
(Aircraft Communications Addressing and
Reporting System) that c urrently ties airline rs
and ground operations bases together.
The new syste m w ill be used to manage
de ic ing and baggage personnel, but is expected to expand to maintenance and catering
FM Pirate Raided
WEFX was a true pirate. The Holbrook,
New York, station broadcast on 87.9 MHz
FM using equipment systematically sto le n
from at least three re mote broadcast sites
be longing to other radio stations in the Long
Island area.
Aft er six weeks of investigation. 24-year-
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In all of its glory: the author stands near the old NASA Tracking Station (now abandoned) at Devil's Cauldron. It's about 2,000
feet down to the South Atlantic Ocean from here!
By Stephen W. Worden,
NN3M/ZDSNN
casting Corporation transmitter s ite. watching the World Service come to life, and loving
every minute o f it!
MONITORING TIMES
8 Acres of Antennas
Up the hill from the Power Station is the
Transmitter S ite. fl was here that George and
I vis ited with Jeff Cant, a long-time BBC
engineer and manager, who kindly showed us
around the grounds. An e ngaging speaker,
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May 1995
The island's tie to Bush House: an Andrews JO meter downlink dish. Notice the maintenance crew in the cherry picker.
This, naturally, happens during one of our
quite popular program times, so we' re trying
to keep the HF station still going."
Overall, the sate llite feed has improved
quality and reliability. and simplified operation. although Jeff expressed concern that the
sensitive microwave receiving equipment provided a single point o f failure. (Another reason fo r the HF back-up capability.)
" But the system works perfectly well for
our needs," he said . "We get six channels on
it. which we use to produce three music
circ uits." The appropriate audio c ircuit is
switched live to the correct transmitters at
broadcast time.
By the way, Jeff called the transmitters
"senders" sometimes. on which the operator
performs a '"wave change." not a band change.
Ascension Island is defin itely British territory!
T he transmillcr site is located right along
English Bay, on the northern coast of the
island. We s urveyed the bay and antenna farm
as Jeff continued. "The who le thing is built
around a horseshoe (the bay), so we have a
good cho ice of bearings. Those (pointing to
the nearest antenn a array) are fairly standard
Vintage Transmitters
Jeff now led us into the operations building, where the s ix Marconi senders reside.
Large and well-built, these transmitters pro-
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Arthur Ta lbot and the fin e staff of the BBC
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li ste ner was tuning.
Monitor owners improvised. It 's common to see penci l lines and
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receivers.
In the late 1960s. solid state receivers began to replace the ir
vacuum tube counterparts . Some models, like the Radio Shack PR02, featu red both tunable and c rysta l control. Because d ial calibrations
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and tra nsistor tunable receivers had poor selectiv ity.
As the VHF bands became more c rowded. the FCC mandated that
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monitor receivers we re to become more stable and select ivc. the cheap
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NNAGROUNDS
By Joseph J. Carr
20
MO NITORING TIMES
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the power company came out, they found that Dave's grou nd system
had a lower AC resistance than the ground they ' d installed!
O nly a few of us are rich enough to bui ld "Dave' s Ground Grid ,"
and few of us own antique coppe r bathtubs that we are willing to
sacrifice. But its al so true that many readers may not understand what
is a good ground. In this article we will look at some aspects of ante nna
system grounds.
FIGURE 1
Basic antenna ground system
using a lightning arrestor.
Window
1-
Basic Antenna
Ground System
----J
Figure I shows
the basic (and most
common) anten na
g round system for
li g htning protecHeavy ground wire
tion. A lightning
~
arrestor is connected into the an\ I
I
_,.,,...,,,. tenna down lead (or
' \ - "" \ \ ,.... I tran smi ss io n line)
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some place outside
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of the building . A
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' Copper or copper clad ' heavy ground wire
, '
, '
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steel ground rod (>6') ' is connected fro m
/ I
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t he
gro und "
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(GN D o r G ) te rmi'
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nal o n the lig htning
arrestor to a ground
and radio performance is improved if the
rod dri ven into the ground.
anten na system is provided w ith a good RF
The "innards" of a lig htning arrestor are
ground .
shown in Fig. 2A. The ante nna lead is re pre sented by a center condm:tor ('"A' "). that is
Li g htning g ro unds, e lectrical s afety
grounds, and RF gro unds arc not necessarily
separated from a pointed ground lug by a
the same thing. For exam ple. a lightning
small air gap. The air gap is an insulatorat low
ground that works th rough a li ghtning arresvoltages. but whe n a high voltage lig htn ing
tor may be a reasonabl y good protector for
strike comes a lo ng. the ai r in the gap ionizes
lig htning, but is totally ineffec ti ve for RF o r
and creates a low resistance path to ground
electri cal protection purposes. The idea is to
(Fig . 28).
design a gro und system Lhal w ill work for all
Ground rods are available in 4- foot, 6three fun ctio ns.
foot , and 8-foot lengths. A ltho ugh some are
copper, most are coppc rclad steel. For lightI Ground Wires
ning protecti o n purposes. the 4-foot and 6foo t lengths are no t the best c hoice. In fac t.
The ground wi re. whe ther from the remost local electrical codes require 8-foot
ceivcror a lightning arresto r. sho uld be made
lengths. For RF purposes. however. two or
of either aluminum o r copper. and be as large
three 4-foot rods separated by a few inches.
as possible. Aluminum c lothes line is someand shorted togethe r a bove the surface with
times used , as is aluminum TV antenna ground
hea vy wi re wi ll suffice. However, keep in
wire. Another popular form of ground w ire is
mind that such an arra nge me nt may not be
to use multiple sectio ns of# 12 or# 14 house
lega l fo r lightning protectio n ... If you want
wiring con nec ted in parallel at both ends. A
multiple gro und rods. the n dri ve several 8lot of people use heavy copper flat braided
foo te rs into the ground.
wire , while o thers buy a roll o f automotive
A somewha t bette r system is ~ h ow n in
batte ry ground wire. Still others recycle the
Fig. 3. O n the rear pane l of most modern
o uter braided shie ld of the larger s ize coaxi al
shortwa ve receivers arc two connectors: a
cab le for the gro und wi re (RG-8/U or RG-1 l/
coax ial con necto r for the ant enna (ANT). and
U). T he o uter insulati o n, inner insulation,
a g round connect io n (GN D). The latter is
+--Lightning arrester
usua lly a mach ine screw and nut that is attached to the metal c hassis of the receiver.
On some receivers . espec ia lly older designs . there w ill be a small phe nolic o r ceramic strip (see inset to Fig. 3) wi th either two
o r three screw term inal connections. If there
are two screws. then o ne is fo rthc single-wire
antenna lead. and the other is for the g round
connectio n. On three-w ire types, there are
two fo r ante nnas (A I and A2) and one for
ground (G ). If an unbalanced antenna is used
w ith the three wire type. a s ho rting w ire is
connected be twee n A2 a nd G.
T he ground system in Fig. 3 uses two
ground wires. One goes from the ground
connection on the back of the receiver to the
ground rod. wh il e the o ther goes from the
grou nd connectio n on the lig htning arrestor
to the ground rod.
FIGURE 2
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Air Gap
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FIGURE 5
Lightning
arrestor for the
element of a
vertical antenna.
Antenna
~
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Downlead
----- ------
Old-fashioned knife
switch antenna
grounding system.
Ground
rod
------
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Receiver
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Example
What is the length of a radial c ut for a
frequency of 9750 kHz (i.e. 9.75 MHz)?
L,..,
246
F MH:
L,..,
492
= 25.23 feet
9.75MHz
I Conclusion
For an antenna to work al its opti mum
peak performance, and yet still provide at
FIGURE 6
Antenna
~
FIGURE 7
Multiple ground
rods used with an
antenna tower adds
to the lightning
protection.
SI
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Ground rod
Ground rod
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Independent Shortwave
Broadcasting ::in Canada
Part II
By Adrian Peterson
Manitoba-c.JRX
Mediu mwave radio station CJRC came onto the a ir in Winni peg,
M anitoba. in 1928 with 500 watts on 630 kHz. Thi s station was owned
by James Ric hardson & Sons Ltd,. grain me rchants o f Winnipeg,
M anitoba. w ith studios in the Royal Ale xandra Hote l.
Soon afterwards and be fo re the e nd of the decade. a 2 kW
sho rtwave transmitter was insta lled; thu s began what they claimed
was the first regular entertainme nt a nd in formation service on shortwave in Canada. The shortwave transmitte r was licensed as VE9J R on
I 1780 kHz and VE9CL on 6 150 kH z. Interesti ngly, as their 1933 Q SL
Manitoba
Winnipeg
rm
1929
1943
24
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.c_gu
VE9JR/CJRX
VE9CUCJRO
Oct 1 CKRX
CKRO
1lat.a
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Wfil1l
2000
2000
2000
2000
kHz
11780
6150
11720
6150
card states, VE9JR was authorized to use the courtesy call letters,
CJ RX. Thus. the double sets of ca ll signs were used simultaneous ly:
VE9J R as CJRX . and VE9CL as CJRO.
O n October I, 1943, the callsigns of all three stations were
c hanged from the CJ series to the CK series. Thus mediumwave CJRC
became C KRC, and the two shortwave outlets. CJRO and CJRX,
became CKRO and CKRX.
With a n old and ailing transmitter. CKRO/CKRX le ft the air in
1949. Sta tion management issued a state ment soon afterwards indicating that the s hortwave service would return to the air early in 1950.
That ne ver happened.
II Alberta-VED
For a peri od of some eight years beginning in mid- 1949, the
communication transmitter VED , operated by the Canadian Army in
Edmonton, A lbe rta, was used for a relay of C BC
programs to isolated sett lements in the North
West Te rritories a nd the Yukon. The transmitte r
was a 5 kW Ca nad ian Marconi TH4 1 fed into a
MW
kHz
rhombic antenna d irected northwest. The first
CJRC
630
freq uency in use was the out-of-band c hanne l
CJRC
630
8265 kHz, though this was soon changed to 7320
CKRC
630
CKRC
630
kHz.
I Atberta-CFVP
Back in the year 193 1. another shortwave transmitter in
I Alberta-VE9At
Strangely, even though al l other shortwave stations in Canada had long ago regularized their callsigns from the experimental
VE series to the regular C series. yet there was
one station after World War2. that was granted
an experi mental designation. This was station VE9Al. wh ich was also located in
Edmonton. Alberta.
The I00 watt transmitter came onto the air
in 1945 as VE9A l with a re lay of the
mediumwave CJCA. Two channels were in
ahernating use, 6005 kH z and 9540 kHz. This
station was erected for the purpose of passing
on persona l messages and entertainment to
people living in di stant northern areas.
Althoug h the WRHB listed the callsign as
VE9AJ fo r this station. it wou ld appear that
thi s was a mistake. Their QSL card showed
only VE9A I, and it therefore seems that the
accurate and only callsign ever employed
was. in reality, just VE9A l.
In 1954. stat ion VE9A I was temporaril y
consolidated with radio VED. the Army/CBC
station. Then. in mid 1957. the power output
Y.urs
c.arr
VED
kHz
kHz
5000
8265
7320
MW
CBX
kHz
1010
fIB1nki
Alberta
km
Edmonton
Y.e.m
1945-1959
Cfil1
VE9AI
100
kHz
6005
9540
MW
kHz
CJCA
930
fIB1nki
Alberta
km
Midnapore-1
Midnapore-2
Calgary
Yrn
1931
1934
1939
1949
1982
1994
VE9CA
Spring
Cfil1
VE9CA 100
VE9CG 100
VE9CU 100
100
6005
CFVP
100
CFVP
100
CFCP
100
CFVP
100
Mk
MW
kHz
6030
6110
6005
CFCN
6030
6030
6030
6030
CFCN
985
1030
CFCN
CFCN
CFCN
CFCN
1010
1060
1060
1060
Back in 1931. a small shortwave transmitter appeared on the air in Vancouver, British
Columbia. This station was licensed as VE9CS
and radiated just l 0 watts on 6070 kHz. At the
time. it was owned and operated by the Uni ted
Church of Canada and it relayed the programmingofa local mediumwavt: station.CKFCa 50 watt station on 730 kH z, a lso owned and
operated by the United Ch urc h of Canada.
The address in Vancouver at thi s stage was at
the corner of Hemlock and 12th.
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25
:r "'
\(
.C
"
In the mid- I930"s. the MW station
c.:hanged channels to 14 10 kHz. and al
abou t the sa me time. the church divested
itself of the small short wave outlet. which
was taken over by Radio Service Engineers Ltd. at 734 Davie St.. Vancouver. A
year or two later. VE9CS was taken over
again- this time by Standard Broadcasti ng
System in the Stock Exchange Buildingthough progra mming was stil l a re lay fro m
th e churc.: h-o wned mediumwave station .
CKFC.
In the earlier part of 1939, shortwave
VE9CS began to relay the programm ing from
medium wavc CKWX. which was owned by
Western Broadcasti ng. Soon after the midyear. the callsign of the shortwave unit was
changed to CKFX.
The transmiuer. license and callsign were
taken over by CKWX. and a construction
permit was gran ted in 1939 for shortwave
CKFX to c.:o-locate with the mediumwave
facil ity C KWX. The 10 watt transmi tter was
rebuilt. using new parts and probably some of
the older parts from the original VE9CS as
CKFXICKWX
Shortwave CKFX is
undergoing
co11structio11 of a
11ew transmitter,
but its low priority
has kept it off the
air f or two years
.111..ITS
~mo
RealCormtry
CKWX
r!!_30 -
I British Columbia-CKZU
British Columbia
.cm
Vancouver
Lulu Is
Lulu Is
Yrn
1931
1939
1980
1994
c.an
VE9CS
CKFX
CKFX
CKFX
10
10
10
10
kHz
6070
6070
6070
6070
MW
kH1
CKFC
CKWX
CKWX
CKWX
730
980
11 30
11 30
MW
kill
British Columbia
26
.cm
Vancouver
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Yrn
1946
1953
1954
1965
1983
1994
May 1995
c.an
CBRX
CBUX
CBUX
CKZU
CKZU
CKZU
150
150
500
500
1000
1000
kHz
6160
6160
6160
6160
6160
6160
CBR
CBU
CBU
CBU
CBU
CBU
11 30
690
690
690
690
690
cec
OSLs
Each of the exotic little short wave stations in Canada has issued QSL lellers and
cards verify ing acc urate reception reports.
These stations have been heard in all cont inents worldwide when propagation condition s are good. It looks as though the Canadian radio scene is still undergoing cha nge.
Why not QSL what you can while you can ?
Station CKZU provides CBC programming to the Pacific and northern reaches of
the province of British Columbia.
lo CBUX. This project was inte nded to be completed in 1960,
but il was never implemented.
In 1979.aproposalwasunder study for the impleme ntation of a new broadcasting syste m for northern areas in the 4
MHz band. This project was
abandoned for three reasons:
I. Too costly lo impl emenl.
2. Ins uffic ie nt rece ivers
w ith 4 MHz tuning range.
3. Newly developing sate llite technology seemed a belier
alte rnat ive.
In 199 1, the newly organi zed North American Broadcasting Company announced
that they pl anned on establ ishing an international shortwave
station to serve as a relay base
for overseas broadcasters. The
station was to be located al
Morden, eighty mi les southwest o f Winnipeg. for coverage into the United States and
other countries in the Americas. It was planned that the
station would accommodate
lwo shortwave lransmillers at
250 kW. each of which would
be rented out at a fee of $ 1,000
per hour.
In 1993. Radio for Peace
In ternational in Oregon and
Costa Rica announced lhal they
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Quebec
Alberta
British Columbia
British Columbia
ki.W
St. John's
Halifax
Toronto
Montreal
Calgary
Vancouver
Vancouver
.c.au
CKZN
CHNX
CFRX
CFCX
CFVP
CKFX
CKZU
kfu
MW
kfu
6160
6130
6070
6005
6030
6080
6160
1000
500
1000
500
100
10
500
CBN
CHNS
CFRB
CIOC
CFCN
CKWX
CBU
640
960
1010
600
1060
1130
690
.D.w.ofil
CBC
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
CBC
S1a1il
Active
Active
Active
Irregular
Active
Inactive
Inactive
c.an
Yrn
CBFW
1946
CBLX
CBRX
CFRX
CJCX
VE9AI
VE9CA
VE9CF
VE9CL
VE9CS
VE9HX
VE9JR
VEO
VONH
VONW
XWA
1946
1946
1937
1938
1945
1931
1929
1929
1931
1935
1929
1949
1939
1950
1919
S11b:iidh.l ll Calls
Yrn
~
CBFR CBFX CBFO
No changes, closed 1956
CFY CBFL CBFA CBFZ
No changes, closed 1956
CBUX
1953
No changes
No changes, closed 1976
No changes. closed 1959
1939
VE9CG BE9CU
CFVP
CHNX
1936
CJRO
1931
CKFX
1939
VE9HK
CHNX
1936
CJRX
1931
No changes, closed 1956
CBNX
1949
VONG
1954
CKA36
VE9DR &VE9DN 1930s
Yrn
1943
Closed
1949
1943
Closed
1949
CIOX
CFCX
1991
1992
Ch.ailM
Yrn
CKZU
1965
CKRO
CKRX
CKZN
1965
Disappeared 1954
CFCX
1936
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27
Try Se
By Ed Hesse, WB2RVA
~canner
f your
cou ld talk. it would probahl) say search me. The search feature
in a scanner is o ne of the least-used- and
most va luable- funct ions it conta ins. Thi s
ability to searc h a de fin ed range o f frequenc ies can lead you into a w hole new worl d of
monito ring e njoy me nt.
Too many times we get carried away by
the numbe r of .1ca1111i11g c han nel s a unit con-
Do11 't get stuck in a rut, scanning the same frequen cies,
liste11ing to tlie same agencies; Use the search function of
your scanuer to remi11d you how much fun sca11ning can be.
(Photos by Ed Hesse)
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ti me you c hange ranges. For example. you
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TABLE 1
VHF/UHF Search Areas of Interest
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45.1 - 45.6
46.1 - 46.55
11 8.0-121.4
121.5-123.45
121.6 - 121.925
121 .975 - 122.675
123.175 -123.575
123.3 - 123.5
132.025 - 135.975
138.0 - 144.0
148.0 - 150.8
148.290-150.75
150.815 - 150.965
151.625-151.955
152.27 - 152.465
156.25 - 161.975
158.91 - 161 .61
406.0 - 420.0
420.0 - 450.0
450.0 - 470.0
450.0 - 452.0
452.9625 - 453.0 453.0125 - 453.9875
462.55 - 462.725
472.4675 - 472.7875
816.0 - 821.0
82 1.0125 - 823.9875
851.0 - 855.0
861.0 - 866.0
866.0125- 868.9875
902.0 - 928.0
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Unu1YW0RLD
Operation Secure
2R/3.4 LSB (1101 USIJ- 2R /2.0) 0800Z. DPS Vic10ria working DPS
Corpus Christi. Mostly radio checks and 1rlwt might hme heen o
co111ersatio11 abo111 a hospital.
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ccause I was born and raised in Texas. the above logg ing caugl'.t.
my attention when it was posted o n the Grove BBS by Je ll
Haverlah for Brian Scott in W hite Settlement. Texas. In case
you don' t recognize the acronym. ' DPS' stands for Depart111ent of
Pu blic Safety (in othe r words. the Texas Highway Patrol).
Initially. I wondered what Texas DPS was doing in the shortwave
spectrum. I have never seen them reported on HF before. The answer
became quite clear once the frequency was cross-checked in Illy HF
database: it is called Operation Secure.
SECURE is an acronym for ''State Emergency Capability Using
Radio Effecti vely." The syste m is an outgrowth o f the old Disaster
Cormnunications Service. formerly governed hy FCC Part 99.
O n January 16, 1980. the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Ruic
Mak ing (N PRM) which addressed the need for 111cdium and longrange communications between disaster sites and command c..:nters.
T he inte nt of the adoption of the NPRM was to provide freq uency
capabi lity which woul d a llow rel iable coverage no matter what the
distance. The resu lt o f thi s was the deve lopment of Operation Secure-governed under Pan 90- and the delet ion of Part 99.
To provide the required coverage. the FCC decided to use frequencies between 2 and I 0 MHz instead of the l 750to 1800 kHz ran ge used
by the old Disaster Co111mu nications Service.
Initially, the FCC proposed to assign dedicated frequencies lo
applicants 10 use for di saster com munications. It soon became apparent that thi s would not work. due 10 the potent ial fo r inte rfere nce. The
current practice is for the state agency appl icants 10 speci fy which
bands and and how many c hannels on each are needed . The FCC then
ass ign ~ those which are least likely to cause interference from the
avail ab le freque ncies.
A s originally deve loped, the assigned freq uenc ies could only be
used for emergency co111munica1ions and short periods of testing and
tra ini ng. not to exceed one hour per week. This ru le has been amended
to a llow testi ng or hand ling of administrati ve traffic for periods of up
to seven ho urs a week or one hour per day. During a dcdarcd
e mergency, the Secure system may be used for extended periods
during the duration of the emergency.
According to an FCC official, all the states have now been licensed
for Secure operation. but not a ll slates have eq ui pme nt at this point.
The current FCC database tells a different story. however. It ind icates
that on ly 33 slates and Puerto Rico have listings on Operation Secure
freqm:ncies. The fo llowing 17 states do not have listings in the current
FCC master fi le on any of the Operation Sec ure freque nc ies: Alabama.
Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas. Delaware. Georgia. Hawaii, Illinois.
Iowa. Kansas. Kent ucky. Maryland , Minnesota. O regon. South Dakota. Tennessee, West Vi rgi nia. and W iscons in.
Table I lists all the Operation Secure freque ncies and the states in
the FCC database that have been lice nsed lo use them.
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Moy 1995
241 1.0
2414.0
2419.0
2422.0
2439.0
2463.0
2466.0
2471.0
2474.0
2487.0
2511 .0
2535.0
2569.0
2587.0
2801.0
2804.0
2812.0
5135.0
5140.0
5192.0
5195.0
7477.0
7480.0
7802.0
7805.0
7932.0
7935.0
TABLE 2
Texas Operation Secure Frequencies and Stations
Frequencies lkHx):
2326.0
2419.0
2422.0
2587.0
Call
KB39419
KNGR741
WPAH450
WPAH45 1
WPAH452
WPAH453
WPAH454
WPAH455
WPAH456
WPAH458
WPAH459
WPAH460
WPAH461
WPAH462
WPAH463
WPAH464
WPAH465
WPAH466
280 1.0
2804.0
2812.0
Station
Mobiles Statewide
Austin IDPS Headquarters)
Corpus Christi
Kerrville
Sulphur Springs
Texas City
Sherman
Lufkin
Beaumont
Childress
Del Rio
Austin
El Paso
Loredo
Amarillo
Mineral Wells
Tyler
Houston
5135.0
5192.0
5195.0
7802.0
Call
WPAH467
WPAH468
WPAH469
WPAH470
WPAH471
WPAH472
WPAH473
WPAH474
WPAH475
WPAH476
WPAH477
WPAH478
WPAH479
WPAH480
WPAH481
WPAH482
WPAH483
WPAH484
7805.0
7932.0
7935.0
Station
Waco
Brownwood
Bryon
Wichita Foils
Vidorio
Garland
Abilene
Texarkana
Son Antonio
El Compo
Pecos
Lubbock
McAllen
Midland
Hurst
Son Angelo
Lomirn;sos
Hor ingen
Boeing 707
Boeing 727
Falcon 900
XA8
XAC
XAD
XAE
XAF
XAG
XAI
XAJ
XAO
XAP
XBH
XBO
XBP
XBV
XCB
xcc
XCJ
XDB
XDD
XWH
XYP
XYT
Ping Pong
Moy 1995
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4495.0
4724 .0
AM
ANSA
Amplitude Modulation
Agenzia Nazionale Stampa
Associata
ARINC
Aeronautical Radio. Inc
ARO
Synchronous transmission
and aulomalic repetition
teleprinter system
AROE3
Single channel ARO
teleprinter system
AWS
Air Weather Service
BRO
Booster Recovery Director
COMSTA
Communications Station
COMSUBLANT Commander. Submarine
ForceAtlanlic
ca
General call for any station
CTU
Commander Task Unit
cw
Continuous Wave (Morse
Code)
DEA
Drug Enforcement
Administration
DSN
Defense Switch Network
EAM
Emergency Action message
ETA
Estimated Time of Arrival
FEMA
Federal Emergency
Management Agency
GEP
Ground Entry Point (station
part of Echo/FoxtroV
Wideband system)
GHFS
Global HF System
HF
High frequency
HICOM
High Command (Old US
Navy JCS network)
HMCS
Her Majesty Canadian Ship
ID
Identification
IFE
In-flight emergency
MARS
Military Affiliate Radio
System
Mena
Middle East News Agency
Meleo
Fixed station used for the
transmission of
meteorological information
MFA
MHz
m/v
Mystic Star
NAS
NASA
NAVTEX
NCS
NECN
NORAD
Ops
Reach
R/T
ATTY
SAM
SATCOM
SCACS
SITORA
SITORB
SRB
Tan jug
Twlnplex
U.S.
USAF
USB
USCG
USCGC
VIP
Xinhua
4787.0
5320.0
5693.0
5696.0
5700.0
5715.5
5870.0
6230.0
6516.0
6586.0
6683.0
6697.0
6706.0
6712.0
6715.0
6717.0
6730.0
6735.0
518.0
6736.0
2622.0
2749.0
3033.5
3047.0
3067.0
3134 .0
3151 .0
3152.0
3290.0
3314.0
4125.0
4372.0
4446.4
4448.0
4469.0
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MONITORING TIMES
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6739.0
6745.0
6750.0
6761 .0
6836.0
6871.0
6902.0
6961.0
6970.0
6993 .0
7606.6
7640.9
7650.0
7657.0
7668.0
7832.4
7855.0
7975.0
8063.0
8068.0
8240.0
8297.0
8524.0
8564 .0
8570.0
8634 .0
8689.0
8765.0
8843.0
8967.0
8971 .0
8989.0
8992.0
9007.0
90 14.0
90 17.0
90 18.0
9022.0
9023.0
9057.0
10160.0
10493.0
10873.2
10999.0
11038.6
11053.0
11 175.0
1121 4.0
112t7.0
11220.0
11224.0
11226.0
t 1243.0
t 1244.0
11267.0
11 270.0
11 271.0
11 460.0
11466.0
12170.5
12t84.0
12295.0
12720.0
12947.0
13200.0
13211 .0
13242.0
13247.0
13437.0
13826.0
144851 .1
14485.0
14615.0
14674.0
14890.0
14931.0
15016.0
15041.0
15925.0
18046.0
19109.0
19216.3
20083.6
20477.0
May 1995
MONITORING TIMES
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SCANNING REPORT
Bob Kay, c/o MT, P.O. Box 98, Brasstown, N.C. 28902
I Placement
Placement of your scanner radios is criti cal. Each radio must be
w ithin easy reach and secure ly mounted . Desktop scanner radios can
be mo unted under a shclf by using a uni versal mo bi le mounting
hrac ket. Radi o Shack c arri e~ several diffe rent types o f brackets tha t
can be utili zed. Installa tio n of the brackets may a lso requi re a
mo<lificatio n to your scanner radio's case. The exac t mounting
confi g uratio n w ill depe nd upo n your s kills and imaginatio n.
.
Exte nsio n speakers. adapte rs. and othe r scanning accessories
sho uld al so be mo untc<l a/Jo1e your writing a rea. You' ll need o pe n
<ll.!sk space to research freq uency g uides. books. a nd ot her wrille n
mate rial.
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1reas11re.1 - ed.)
T he problem. as you a lready know. is findin g a crystal for a
partic ular frequency. If you enjoy canvass ing fl ea markets and yard
sales, it may be possible to find a nother crysta l radio with the <lesired
freque ncy. C rystals can sometimes be switched be twee n d iffe rent
models of the same brand .
Your second o pti o n is to contact G&G Communicatio ns. 9247
G lenwood Drive, Leroy. NY 14482. (7 16) 768-8 15 1. G&G re pairs
nearly every type of scanner radio. regardless of age. G&G also has
a large supply of c rysta ls for the o ld Bcarcat a nd Regency scanner
radios. If they do n' t have what you need , you c an ask to be placed on
their wait ing lis t.
Li ste ning to mo re than o ne scanner radio at o ne time is an
im porta nt sk ill that anyone can maste r. Adjust the vo lume o f e ac h
radio to a slig htly differe nt level. Your cars will become accusto med
to pickj ng o ut the important points of each broadcast. It takes a little
practice. but it can be <lone.
If you re ha ndy with soldering iron. it' s al so poss ible to connec t
two jacks to a ste reo head pho ne se t. One jack is plugged into scanne r
radio # I and the o the r jack is plugged into scanner radio #2. You ' ll
Port
Seattle
hear a different radio in each ear. Again, it may seem like a confusing
way to monitor. but it really isn't. After a littl e prac tice. you'll be
wishing that you had three ears!
Honolulu
Transmit
467.750
468.9875
469.0375
469.6625
Receive
467.750
468.9875
469.0375
469.6625
Play it Safe
With today's tech nology and high priced gear, it' s easy to in vest
thousands of dollars in the hobby of scanning. Smoke detectors can be
purchased for less than ten dollars, but it' s not very likely that there's
a smoke detector in your listening post. The lack of a smoke detector
is especially problemati c if your listening post has an e ntrance door.
If the door is closed and a fire develops w ithin the listening area. the
smoke may not be capable of reaching a detecto r that is in an adjacent
room. If you don ' t have a smoke detector in your listening post , install
o ne today!
Improving your li stening post docs n ' t require large sum s of cash
or state-of-the-art equipment. W ith a little imagination and ingenuity
you can construct an impressive listeni ng post that won' t bust your
budget.
Treasure Hunt
Are you ready for a trip down memory laneJ In our May/June
Treasure Hunt, we're offering two reconditi oned scanne r rad ios from
G&G Communi cat ions . The Bearcat Ill and a Bearcat V are vi ntage
radios that feature eig ht c hannels across three bands-V HF Low,
VHF High, and UHF. As I've a lready mentioned. the radios are not
new, but they are very much al ive. Each radio is complete with power
cord and inside antenna . The crystals that arc prov ided may o r may not
be active in your area. but that shouldn' t be a problem--crystals can
be purchased from G&G Electronics.
To win an original, reconditioned Bcarcat scanner for your liste ning post. answer the fo llow ing quest ions.
I.
2.
3.
4.
5.
L~,n g Beach
Calaveras Sheriff
Sheriff
Sheriff
School buses
Water company
Sonora PD
Search and Rescue
Highway maintenance
Yosemite Pork Guards
Yosemite Pork Guards
Mednet dispatch
School buses
Mednet Hospital
148.525 ... . ..
149.224 .. .....
150. 15 .........
162. 25 .........
163.00 .. . ..
164. 9875 ....
173.4375 .....
173.4875 ....
413. l 0 ..... ...
Munitions
Fuel
Supply Dept.
Bose Operations
Security
Low enforcement
Motor pool
Medical services
Command net
155.925 ....
155. 97 ........
460.075 .......
460.15
460.325 .... ...
460.425 ......
Fire
Fire
Ventnor Police
Police
EMS
Margate Police
Margate Police
Police
Ventnor Police
Police
Police
Police
Dr. Stan Glass lives in M iami, F lorida, and has in vited everyone
to come on clown for a free rabies shot. (You're right: Dr. G lass is a
veterinarian .) Here are his fa vorite freque ncies.
118.30 ........
119.45 ........
120.90 . .......
121.20 ........
123.70 . . . ..
124.70 .. .
125.200 .. .....
129.20 ..... ....
132.95 .. ... ....
323.000 .......
Miami Tower
Approach
Executi ve area
Clearance delivery
Havana Center
Miami Center
Moving north across the state line. we ' ll stop at the home of
.. Dan." Dan has given us permi ssion to enjoy hi s hospita lity, but we
can't tell anyone his last name . Dan lives in Marietta, Georgia, and
here are hi s freq uencies.
I Frequency Exchange
Port
Oakland
Transmit
461.9375
463.7125
468.9875
Receive
46 1.9375
463.7125
468.9875
856.2125
856.7375
856.9875
857.2125
858.9875
859.2125
859.7375
859.9875
857.7375
857. 9875
858.2125
858.7375
860.2 125
860.7375
860.9875
Marietta City
151.625 ...
151.685 .... ...
154.755
153.77 .........
154.905 .. ... ..
154. 935 . .
155.79
159.09 ... ......
May 1995
Police
Pol ice
Police
Police
MONITORING TIMES
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(continued)
Tom Belkin li ves in Mifllin County, Pennsylvania. He monitors
a lot of the same freque nc ies we li sted from Anthony Swailes last
month. but here are some addit ional ones:
33 .90 ... .... ..
39.42 ...... ....
39.52 ... ... ... .
46.02 - - --
47.58 ...........
47.90 ....... ....
151. 16 ... ..... .
151.37 .... .. .. .
151.40 ..... ....
152.33 ....... .
152.45 ... .... ..
154.155 .......
154.7 55 .......
155.01 .........
155.055 .. .....
453.90 .. .. .....
458.90 ...... ...
460.15 ..... ....
460.60 .... .....
Tom s list contains more than 150 frequenc ies for central Pe nnsylvania. To receive the complete list. se nd a# I 0 SASE to the Freque ncy
Exchange. P.O. Box 98. Bras stown, NC 28902.
Since we' real ready in Pennsylvania. let 's visit with Jim Slater. Jim
li ves in Scranton, Pennsylvania. a nd he routinely lis tens to the
followin g frequenc ies.
37.74 - -
124.500 ... ....
154.31 ... ... .
154.57 --
155.70 .........
PP&L Electric
Avoca Airport
Lockowonno Fire
McDonolds order window
Scranton Police
Scranton Police
Scranton Fire
Scranton Police
Verto Coble TY
Inviting the Freq uency Exchange to your home town is easy. Send
your favorite frequencies to the Frequency Exchange. P.O. Box 98,
Brasstown, NC 28902.
A transportation company located in T ijua na. Mex ico. is transmi tting on the same freque ncy used by the Los Ange les County Fire
Derartment. Fire fi ghte rs a re concerned because they rely o n radio
communications when battling brush fi res. An offic ial investigation
fou nd rad io interfe re nce cont ri buted to the deaths of two county fire
fighters in the August 1993 G len Allen w ild fire.
The Tijuana compan y, licensed by Mex ico authorit ies to transmit
on the frequency , is cooperating with the Federal Communications
Commission. The Altade na county fire units and the Mex ican company
were scheduled to run a j oint radi o test in an effort to solve the problem.
(News clippings from the Press-Telegram and Dispa1ch Mo111h!Y.)
CBJam
I Scanning Live
169.505
170.245
170.305
171.045
171 .105
171 .845
I Tijuana Jam
183.60
186.20
186.60
189.00
190.60
200.30
202.20
203.00
206.00
208.20
210.00.
I Bumper Beepers
Bumper beepe rs a re low powe r transmitte rs that can be placed on
a vehicle or used by an indi vidual. If you moniior a bumper beeper.
consi der yourse lf to be in a "danger zone." Your local police or federal
agents co uld be nearby ! He rc arc a few freque nc ies to c heck :
A CB radio operator in Avoyelles County, Loui siana, was convicted of using his CB radio to tran smit offensive. derisive and
annoy ing words, with the intent to deride. offend or an noy."
The c ulprit was fin ed $ 100.00 dollars court costs. a victi m' s
reparation fee of$7 .50 and he was ordered to pay $ 18.00 in witness fees.
(News clipping from the Marksv ille Weekly Ne11s.)
Scanner Tip
In Saint Louis. Mi ssouri. a bandi t robbed the local 7-E lcven store.
A fter ~everely beat ing the d e rk . the bandit ran o ut of the store.
forgetting to take the cash. He the n reente red the store and took the
entire cash register.
The next day, a n unknown scanne r buff called the poli ce and
provided the name of the hand it. The hobbyist had monitored one of the
bandit' s fri ends talking about the robbery on a cordles s phone. (News
clipping from Bob Fick.)
National
Scanning
Report
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MONITORING TIMES
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BEGINNER'S CORNER
Volunteer Testing
I Ready
Okay. you vc studied hard. You have all but memori zed the question pool in your license manual. You have
g ivc.:n a good ha lf hour each evening to getting through the
code.: so you have S word s per minute down cold. Now
what ~
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MONITORING TIMES
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I Get Set
So now you have ident ified your testing s ite. now
how does the whole procc~s work? There arc a few
tasks you have to perform in preparatio n for h itti ng the
VE test si te .
VE testi ng gro ups arc c urrently authorized by the
FCC to collect a fee ofS5.90 for the testing process. Do
yourself and the VE group a favor and bri ng exact
change w ith you to the tc.:st even t.
C all up the VE group ahead o f time. You wil l wan t
to do this for several reasons. Fi rst, you will need g ood
d irectio ns to the VE test site. You will also want to
know if they have any spc.!cial expectatio ns. Most VE
test sites now provide you w ith a copy of FCC Form
610 (the license appl ication form) . If they te ll you they
do not. you w ill need to get a copy of the fo rm to bring
wi th you to the test by ca lli ng the FCC at (2 15) 7521324. Make sure you a llow enough time forthe for m to
arrive before your scheduled tc.:st.
Bring two forms o f identi fica ti on. If at all possible.
at least o ne o f these IDs should have your p icture on it.
For my test I p lopped d own m y driver's Iicense and m y
Mo11i10ri11g Times Press Card. What better ID can you
find than that' Young folk s not burdened with a walle t full of credentials
can bring their birth certificate as identificatio n.
If you already possess an amateur radio lice nse and are show ing up
for an upgrad e test. you will need your orig inal ham license and a clear
photocopy. They will give yo u back yourorig inal. bu t the photocopy wi ll
be ~en t alo ng with your paperwork to prove you have already passed the
prev ious test ele ments fro m your current license. T his can be very
import ant. If you already posses a Novice licen se and you are planning
to take the Technician class test. your Novice pri vileges wi ll assure you
Techni cian "Plus" s tatus by v irtue o f previous ly passing the 5 word per
minute code requireme nl.
The tools o f modern test-taki ng are the same a lmost everywhere.
Always bring two sharpened #2 lead pencils. In add it ion. make certai n
that you have an excellent eraser. If yo u change you r answers. you want
to he sure you can erase th ings completely to avoid any confusion: a
q u e~t i on that looks. to the examiner. as if it has more than one answer w ill
be marked as wrong. You s hould also bring a pen because you will have
a few things to sign in ink.
Ca lculato rs are not only permissible at ham tests. they are recommended. All level s of theory test elements have eno ug h math-based
questions that they can mean the d iffere nce betwee n a pass ing and fa iling
grade. A basic pocket calcu lator w ith a square root function should be
adequate. Complicated ca lculators with me mo ry func tions w ill come
under intense scrutiny by the VE team. They will ma ke you demonstrate
that you have dumped any equatio ns you may have sto red in memory.
A lso. if your calcu lato r has perm anently prog rammed e lectronics equatio ns it is like ly to be di sa llowed.
Re me mber. you arc the re to demon strate what you know. not what
yo ur calculator k n ow~. Before the exam. practice wi th the calculator so
that you are comfonablc wit h its operating style . You"re going to be
nervous e nough during the exam without needing to teach yourself how
to operate an unfa miliar calculator. Make sure the calc ulato r has fresh
batteries. Avoid bring ing a so lar powered .. ca lc ulato r. because the lig ht
level in the testing center mi ght no t be strong eno ugh to all ow for good
ope ration .
If you "re not absolutely s ure o f the location o ft he V E testing site. take
a tri p to the site prior to the date of your test. Need less to say. if you d on 1
arrive on time. you"II probably be out o f luck. T hese folks arc volunteers
and they want to get ho me to 1he ir families. too.
I Go
Now you ' re ready to take the test. First things li rst: relax. This is a
tt!st. s ure. but the results o f it will no t drasticall y diange the course o f
huma n history. The world w ill not end regardless of your score and you
can always take it again. In fac1. many VE si tes allow you to retak e 1he
test one additional time d uring the session you are attending. Wi th all th is
said yo u can actually try to enjoy the test.
Mo't VE s ites give the code tests first. You w ill be g iven the
opport unity to ru n a minute or so o f practice to make s ure you arc
comfo rtabl e and can hear the code tape c learly. If you have any proble ms.
speak up.
The most import ant thing about copy ing code for a test is to 11erer stop
rnpyi11g! Even if you 1hink you"rc not getting anyth ing ri ght. relax and
drive on. In the encl you wi ll be ~ u rprised how m uch you actual ly copied.
fac n if what you wrote ini tial ly looks li ke g ibberish. when yo u sit down
to answer the I 0 q uestions associated with the code exam you wi ll like ly
d iscover that you have copied e nough to fig ure o ut the answers.
Next comes the theory test. Again. re laxati on is the key. W hen you
get your test. you w ill al so be g ive n a sheet or two o f paper for do ing
calc ulations. Once you have been to ld to start-before you even open the
book- write down al I of the e lectronic formulas that you can remember
from your studies. This will help preve nt "brain freeze" w hen you come
up against the math-based questio ns in the test.
Take the test in fo ur pas,es. remem bering to read each q uestio n and
a ll fo ur nnswers carefully. On the first pass. answer all the q uestio ns that
you are s ure o f withou1 hard tho ught. On the second pass . do the math
problems a nd the harder que~tion~. O n the third pass. all you s ho uld have
le ft are a few questions that just don t click fo r you. Try to narrow
yourself down to two o ut of the four answers and then g uess. Guessing
is bene r than leaving something blank nncl assuring it will be marked
wrong . On the fourth pass, chec k all yo ur work even on the easy
questions to be sure you haven't mi ssed someth ing.
As I said earlier. if you m iss an element. you wi ll probably have the
o pportunity to retake it at mo~t VE sites. If a ll goc~ well you will wal k
away wi th a Certificate of S uccessful Completion of Examinatio n
(CSCE) and in about fo ur to six weeks your ham license wi ll be in your
mailbox. If you on ly pass some clements leadi ng to a particular class o f
license you will be issued a CSC E giving you credit for these e le ments.
Th is CSCE proves w hat you have accompli shed so you wi ll only have
to retake the cle ment s you mi ssed at the next VE testing sessio n and not
the ones you passed.
My VE testi ng experience wa~ a ct u ally fu n. T here was a great fee ling
of camaraderie amo ngst the ti! ters and the tested . For this reason I want
to exerc ise writer's privilege and thank the members of The Bell mawr
New Jersey Volunteer Examiners Team. J im N2WFB. Lorna N2YH Y.
Ray WB 2L N R, Lois N201S. Bill NT2N. Bob W A2U DO . and John
N2 VPN. I hope your VE testin g experi ence is as e njoyable as these fo lks
made mine .
Now I can start shopping fo r a vanity"" I x2 call , ig n so I can be a real
Extra Class curmudgeon .
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Maya 0030-0 I00 with Spanish guitar; 3360. La V oz de Nahuala. 00300 I OOGuatemalan salsa. old-fashioned silent-movie soundtrack: 3370. R.
Tczulutlan, marimba 0015-0 115: 3380. R. Cho11fs. 0000-0200 wi th more
contemporary music than the others (Barry E. Hlucan. TX. W.O.R.)
GUINEA RTVG on 4910 ex-4900 around 1930 (Godfrey Clemitson.
Sout h Africa, DSWCJ SW News)
HONDURAS R. Albatross International, via HRJA. 15675, Sun 2000-2100
includes Mad Pad. Pi rare Bag, Albatross
DX. Is produced hy nati ve Clevelander
Mikell Goetsch: sell s T-shirt. sweatshi11.
li stene r club membership: order blank
from P.O. Box 609338, C leveland OH
44 109 (RAJ) Graphic is from Pirate Bag.
La Vozde la Mosquitia, 49 10.57. had
Engli sh religion at 0237-0251 on a UT
Sat ( Brian Alexander. PA) Radio Luz y A FRfE VOICE 1M TilF: AMRICAS
Vida. 3249. IDed in English at 0355 UT
Mon as HRPC. Honduran Radio Proclaiming Christ, in San Luis. but
address P.O. Box 303. San Pedro Sula ( Barry E. Hlucan, TX)
ICELAND RUY good on new 5060 at 1911 -1924 // 11 402 (Carlos
Gonr;alves. Portugal, DSWCI)
INDONESIA GEC-Marconi w ill supply VO i with three 250 kW SW
trans mitters, five curtain antennas for enhanced coverage (Marcon i via
B8CM )
IRAN [non] Y IRI adds more languages: Hausa, Malay. Dari , Uzbek.
Tajik are broadcast from studios and transmitte rs in Mashhad, Korasan
pr~vince. 0130-0330. 1430- 1630 on 7 180. 6175 (BBCM) Should quali fy
as a separate "station" from Tehran (gh) Heckleron 9023 AM talked about
A IDS. pigs. during English from Tehran on 9022 around 2015 (Jeff
Ri chardson. DEJ
[non J Y. ofMojahed (Crusader) from 04..+9 jumped around from 5440
to 5460. 5450, 54 70 as bubble jamming followed (Rich Mc Vicar. HCJB
DXPL)
Olifln..., Z11028
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Holdova
DX Listening Digest
More broadcasting information by country compiled
by Glenn Hauser
Moy 1995
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AIRCRAFI' TRAFFIC
DOOM 8 1, (B-52H) Tait # 60-0059) 1176 kHz
USB. Full data prepared QSL card verified. Personal lener from pilot and 96th Bomber Squadron patch enclosed. Received in 47 days for an
English u1ili1y report. QSL address: Barksdale
AFB. Shreveport. LA 71 110. (Steve McDonald,
Port Coquitlnm. BC Canada).
REACH 92. (KC- 135R) 92nd Air Refueling
Squadron (Tail #64-483 1) 11176 kHz USB. Full
data prepared QSL curd verified. Received in 38
days for an English utility report. QSL address:
Fairchild AFB, Spokane.WA 99011. (McDonald.
CAN)
ANTIGUA
Deutsche Welle Relay. 6040 kHz. No data 40th
Anniversary station card unsigned. Received in
I03 days for an English report, I !RC. and address label (1101 used on reply). Original report
sent to Antigua nddress. reply received from
German address as: Deutsche Welle. Postfach 10
0444. 50588 Cologne I, Germany. (Mike
Hardester. Jacksonville. NC)
AUSTRALIA
VHP-8478 kHz US B. Verification statement on
letter. signed by E.M. Doncaster-PORS, Freq.
Manager. Received for an English utility report,
prepared QSL card (not returned) I TRC and
address label (used on reply). Station address:
NA VCOMST A Canberra. HMAS Harman,
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia. (Hardester, NC)
CANADA
CFCX-6005 kHz. Full data QSL cenificate unsigned. Station T-shirt with emblazed station's
French logo. lapel pin, and s1a1ion stickers. Received in 46 d:iys for a French report and programming casscne. Station address: c/o CFCX,
Metromedia CMR Inc.. 2 11 , Ave. Gordon.
Montreal. Quebec. Canada H4G 2R2. (Walter
Szczepaniak. Philadelphia, PA)
VCT-8422 kHz USB. Prepared QSL card returned and signed by Robert Glasco-VOIRP.
Station cover lcller enclosed. Received in 34
days for an English utility repon, Canadian mini
stamps and address label (used on reply). Station
address: Neweast Wireless Telecom. General
Delivery, Tors Cove. NFLD Canada AOA 4AO.
(Hardester. NC)
MEDIUM WAVE
KBOl-670 AM. Full data station verification
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SHETLAND ISLANDS
GNK-1 Norwick, 2832.7 kHz USB. Full data
QSLsigncd by Neil Muir. Frcquenc.y/s1a1ion master schedule and two picture postcards enclosed.
Received in 164 days for an English utility report.
QSL address: 45 Willow Bank, Wick, Caithness,
Scotland KW 14NZ (McDonald. CAN)
SHIP TRAFFIC
USS Missi.l'sippi-NGGD, 10493 kHz USB.
(Nuclear Guided Missile Crniser). Full data prepared QSL card vcrilicd, let1er, and photo of
vessel enclosed. Received in 20 days for an English utility report nnt.1 U.S. mint stamps. Ship
QSL address: FPO AE 09578- 11 67. (M ike
Schulsinger. Springfield. OH )
USS Vicksburg-NV MS. 5211 kHz USB (Guided
Missile Crui~er). Full data prepared QSL card
verified, leller. and ship brochure enclosed. Received in 30 days for an English utility repon and
U.S. mint srnmps. Ship QSL address: FPO AA
34093- 11 89. (Schulsinger, OH)
Nurdb11/k-P3EC-l, 156.65 MHz USB (Bulk Car-
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to 24-hour format; add (during Daylight Savi ngs Time) 4, 5, 6 or 7 hours for
Eastern . Central, Mountain or Pacific Ti me, respectively.
Note that all dates, as well as times, are in UTC; for example, the BBC's
"Joh n Dunn Show" (0030 UTC Sunday) will be heard on Saturday evening
(8:30 pm Eastern , 5:30 PM Pacific) in North America, not on Sunday.
2:
Some selected prog rams appear on the lower half of the page for prime
listening hours- space does not perm it 24-hour listings except for the
"Newsline" listing, which begins on the next page.
Occasionally prog ram listings will be followed by "See X 0000." This
information indicates that the program is a rerun, and refers to a previous
summary of the program's content. The letter stands for a day of the week,
as indicated below, and the four digits represent a time in UTC.
T: Tuesday
H: Thu rsday A: Saturday
S: Sunday
M: Monday
W: Wednesday F: Friday
4:
Not all stations can be heard and none all the time on all frequencies.
To help you find the most promising frequency, we've included information
on the target area of each broadcast. Frequencies beamed toward your area
will generally be easier to hear than those beamed elsewhere, even though
the latter will often still be audible. Every frequency is followed by one of
these target codes:
am: The Americas
as: Asia
na: North America
au: Australia
ca: Central America
pa: Pacific
sa: South America
va: various
eu: Europe
do: domestic broadcast
at: Africa
om : omnidirectional
me: Middle East
Consult the prop agation charts. To further help you find the right
frequency, we've included charts at the back of this section which take into
account conditions affecting the audibility of shortwave broadcasts. Simply
pick out the region in which you live and find the chart for the region in which
the station you want to hear is located . The chart indicates the optimum
frequencies for a given time in UTC.
RADIO PROGRAMS
Sundays
0024
0030
0030
0 I 09
0 124
0200
0200
0200
0234
0245
0258
03 15
0350
04 10
0434
0500
0507
0509
0524
0525
06JO
0634
0635
0720
0810
0835
0915
0930
0940
1000
11 20
1137
1145
1235
1235
1352
1425
1436
1635
1645
1725
1805
1935
1938
2005
2 105
2 11 5
2 125
2 145
2215
2235
2252
2300
2300
2300
2335
Mondays
0108 Deutsche Welle: "DXcrs World Meeting"
0125 Radio Japan: " Media Roundup
0134 Radio Korea: '"Shortwave Feedback"'
0330 KWHR ( Hawaii): "World of Radio"
0430 Radio New Zealand Int'!: Mail box"
0445 Radio Bulgaria: "Radio Bulgari a Calling
0620 V. of Med. (Malta): "VOM DX Comer"
0640 Radio Korea: "Shortwave Feedback"
0700 Radio For Peace lnt'I: "World of Radio"
0720 V.of Med. (Malta): "VOM DX Comer"
0945 Radio Bulgaria: '"Radio Bulgari a Calling
1040 All India Radio: "DX-ers Comer(2/4)"
1215 Radi o Bulgaria: "Radio Bulgaria Calling"'
1420 V. of Med. (Malta): '"VOM DX Comer"
1435 All India Rad io: "DX-ers Comer (214)"
1520 V. of Med. (Malta): "VOM DX Comer"
1840 All India Radio: "DX-ers Comer (2/4)"
19 15 Radi o Tallinn: ""Radio Estonia DX Prog."
21 30 All India Radio: "DX-ers Comer (2/4)"
2340 All India Radio: "DX-ers Comer (2/4)""
Tuesdays
1147 Radi o Sweden: "Media Scan
1230 WWCR # I: "World of Radio
1249 Radi o Sweden: "'Media Scan
1349 Radi o Roman ia: "For Radio Amateurs"
1349 Radi o Sweden: "'Media Scan
1749 Radio Sweden: " Media Scan"
1900 Radi o For Peace lnt'I: '"World of Radio"
1950 Polish Radio: Polish Radio DX Club"
2().19 Radio Sweden: ""Media Scan ..
2 136 Radio Havana Cuba: "DXers Unlimited"
2 149 Radio Sweden: Media Scan"
2235 Radi o Havana Cuba: "DXers Unlimited""
Weckiesdays
0049
0135
0 149
0220
0249
0300
0335
0349
0535
0700
0800
0930
1030
1044
1100
1315
1530
1611
1711
I 77JJ
1730
1800
1920
20 10
Tbulsdays
0014 Radio Prague: "Calling AllListencrs '
0 114 Radio Prague: "Calling All Listeners"
0 130 HCJB: "Harn Radio Today"
01 52 VOA: " Media Network"
0200 HCJB: "T he Latest Catch"
0235 RAE Argentina: " DX'crs Special"
03 14 Radio Prague: "Calling All Listeners"
0344 Radio Prague: "Calling All Listeners"
0530 HCJB: "Harn Radio Today"
0600 HCJB: 'The Latest Catch""
0752 VOA: " Media Network'"
0830 Radio New Zealand lnt'I : "Mailbox"
0953 VO A: " Media Network'"
11 24 Deutsche Welle: " DXers World Meeting"
11 52 VOA: " Media Networl<'"
1220 Polish Rad io: " Polish Radio DX Club"
1353 VOA: " Media Network"
1552 VOA: ""Media Network""
1752 VOA: "Media Network""
1952 VOA: "Media Network""
Fridays
0053
0053
0252
0430
Q.152
1145
1230
1245
1345
1446
1845
1930
2016
2030
2 11 5
22 10
2220
2345
Saturdays
0010 Radio Australia: "Feedback""
02 10 Radio Austral ia: "Feedback'"
0235 RAE Arge ntina: oxc rs Special''
0246 Radio Portugal : "Radio Portugal DX"
0400 Radio For Peace Int'!: " World of Radio"
0600 WHRJ: "World of Radio"
0639 Radio Vlaandercn lnt"I: "Radio World"'
07 15 BBC (as pac): "Waveguide'
07 15 BBC (south as): "Waveguide''
0739 HCJB (cu): o x Panyline'
0940 FEBC (Philippines): "DX Dial"
1000 BBC (south as): "Waveg uide'
1009 llCJB: " DX Partyline
1030 VOA (as): "Communicati ons World"
1200 Radio For Peace Int'!: w ocld of Radio"
12 15 Bulgaria: "Radi o Bulgaria Calling
1230 VOA (as): c ommuni cations World"
1245 Voice ofTurl<ey: "DX Corner"
13 11 Radio Vlaanderen lnt" I: " Radio World"
1342 Radio Tashkent: "DX Program"
1347 Radio Romania lnt'I: " DX Mailbag"
1709 HCJB: "DX Partyline
1729 KWHR (Hawaii): " World of Radio"
1729 WHRJ: "World of Radio""
1730 VOA (af): "Corrununications World"'
1730 VOA (as): c ommun ications World"
1730 VOA (as): '"Commun ications World"
1730 VOA (me): communications World"
1800 Radi o For Peace lnt"I: "World of Radio"
1924 REE: " Distance Unknown"
1945 Radi o Romania Int"!: " DX Mailbag"
2045 Voice of Turkey: " DX Comer"
21 30 VOA (as): "Communications World"
2130 VOA (me): c ommunications World"
2136 Radio Havan a Cuba: "DXers Unlimited"
2215 Voice of Turl<ey: " DX Corner"
2236 Radi o Havana Cuba: " DXcrs Unlimited"
2300 KSDA (G uam): "Wavescan"
M oy 7995
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MT Monitoring Team
Gayle Van Horn, Frequency Manager
North Carolina
Jacques d'Avignon
Propagation Forecasts
Dave Datko
California
Ontario, Canada
newsline
"Newsline" is your guide to news broadcasts on the air. All broadcasts are world news reports unless followed by an asterisk, which
means the broadcast is primarily national news. All broadcasts are daily unless otherwise noted by the day codes.
0000 UTC
0003
Radio Pyongyang
0010
China Radio lnt'I"
Voice of America (ca) [T-AJ"
0015
0110
Radio Australia [M-F]"
Radio Japan [A]"
0113
Radio Havana Cuba [T-S]"
01 30
Radio Austria lnt'I
Radio Havana Cuba [T-SJ
Radio Netherlands Inn
Radio Sweden [T-AJ
Radio Tirana
Voice of Greece
Voice of Russia [T-AJ
0152
Vatican Radio [SJ
Radio Cairo
0155
0030
0045
BBC (amr
BBC (south as)"
0050
RAI llaly
0100 UTC
!!!:!!!! eM EQI, M!! eM e12n
BBC (am) (Newsdesk)
BBC (as pac)
BBC (south as) (Newsdesk)
Canada (North-Quebec)
Deutsche Welle
FEBC (Philippines)
HCJB
KVOH[WJ
Monitor Radio lnt'I (T-AJ
R Slovakia lnt'I [A]"
R Slovakia Inn [SITFJ
Radio Australia
Radio Canada l nfl
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0200 UTC
021 3
Radio Havana Cuba (TSJ"
0215
Radio Cairo
Moy 1995
0228
(Special English)
Voice of Russia
0340
0230
BBC {af)'
Voice of Greece
Radio Nepal
0300 UTC
(l l :!!!! eM EDI, !!:!!!! eM eim
BBC (af)
BBC (am)
BBC (as pac)
BBC (eu) [S-F]
BBC (south as)
Canada (North-Quebec)
Channel Africa
China Radio lnt'I
Deutsche Welle
KVOH (T/W/HJ
Monitor Radio lnt'I [T-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio Havana Cuba [T-SJ
Radio Japan
Radio New Zealand lnfl [M-A)
Radio Prague
Radio Thailand
Radio Ukraine lnt'I
Voice of America (af) [A-SJ
Voice of Russia
Voice of Turkey
WHAi [TSJ
WINB[T-A]
WWCR #3 [T-AJ
0345
Radio Yerevan
0355
Radio Japan
0400 UTC
0403
0301
Radio Pyongyang
0410
0303
0413
031 0
0425
0313
RAI Italy
0430
0315
0330
0431
Radio Cairo
Voice of Greece [S/HJ
0320
0500 UTC
Canada (North-Quebec)
Channel Africa
China Radio lnt'I
Deutsche Welle
HCJB
Monitor Radio lnt'I (T-F]
Radio Australia
Radio Cameroon
Radio Canada l nfl [M-F]
Radio Havana Cuba [T-SJ
Radio Japan
Radio New Zealand lnfl [S-F]
Spanish National Radio
Swiss Radio lnt'I (eu)
Vatican Radio (T/F)
Voice of America (af)
Voice of America (me)
Voice of Israel
Voice of Russia
WHRl [AJ
0510
China Radio lnt'I"
Radio Australia [M-F]"
0513
Radio Havana Cuba [T-S)"
0530
BBC (af)"
Radio Austria lnt'I
Radio Havana Cuba [T-AJ
Radio Romania lnt'I
Voice of Nigeria
Voice of Russia
0555
Radio Japan [A)
0600 UTC
0601
Voice of America (af) [M-F]"
SlttltT\\'A\'Bl
0603
Radio Pyongyang
0613
Radio Havana Cuba [T-sr
0628
Radio Havana Cuba [SJ
0630
BBC (al)
Radio Austria lnt'I [T-SJ
Radio Havana Cuba [T-AJ
Radio Vlaanderen Inf!
Radio Yemen
Vatican Radio [HJ
Voice of Nigeria [M-F]
Voice of Russia
0632
Radio Romania lnt'I
0645
Radio Romania Int'!
Voice of Nigeria [MFJ
0655
Voice of Med. (Malta) [M-F]
0657
AWA Latin America [F]"
0700 UTC
BBC (at)
BBC (am)
BBC (as pac)
BBC (eu)
BBC (south as)
KNLS
Monitor Radio Int'! [M-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio Finland
Radio Korea
Radio New Zealand l nt'I
Radio Pakistan
Voice of Indonesia [A-HJ
Voice of Malaysia
Voice of Russia
0803
Radio Pyongyang
0810
Radio New Zealand Inf! [MF]
0830
R Slovakia Int'!
Radio Nether1ands Inf!
Radio Yerevan [SJ
Voice of Russia
0855
Voice of Indonesia [A-HJ
0900 UTC
1100 UTC
May 1995
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SltlltT\\'A\TEI
Newsline
1530
All India Radio
FEBA (Seychelles)
FEBC (Philippines)
Radio Austria lnt'I
Radio Netherlands lnt'I
Voice of Nigeria [M-HJ
Voice of Russia [M-AJ
WYFR [M-F]
1540
Radio Ventas [A-MJ
1550
Voice of Med. (Malta) [FJ
1555
Radio Japan (AJ
Radio Veritas [A-MJ
Voice of Med. (Malta) (M-HJ
1600 UTC
{l2;QQ EM EDI, !:!;QQ AM Elm
BBC (af)
BBC (am)
BBC (aspac)
BBC (eu)
BBC (south as)
Canada (North-Quebec) [A-SJ
Channel Africa
China Radio lnt'I
Deutsche Welle
Monitor Radio lnt'I [M-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio France lnt'I
Radio Jordan
Radio Korea
Radio Norway lnt'I [SJ
Radio Pakistan
Radio Prague
Radio Tan zania
Radio Tirana
Voice of America (al) [A-SJ
Voice of America (as)
Voice of America (me)
Voice of Ethiopia
Voice of Kenya
Voice of Russia
WINB[M-F]
WRNO [M-FJ
WWCR #3 [M-F]
WYFR[AJ
1604
HCJB [M-F]
1610
China Radio lnt'I'
1612
Vatican Radio
1615
Radio Sweden
Vatican Radio
1630
Channel Africa [F)"
Deutsche Welle (T-FJ'
HCJB [M-FJ
Radio Canada lnt'I
Radio Dubai
Voice of America (af) [M-FJ'
Voice of America (as) (Special
English)
Voice of America (me) (Special
English)
Voice of Ethiopia
Voice of Russia [S-F]
1633
Deutsche Welle [M)'
1645
BBC (am) [S-F)'
Radio Canada l nt'I [M-FJ
BBC (af)
BBC (am)
so
MONITORING TIMES
1835
Radio New Zealand lnt'I (F]'
1840
Voice of Greece [M-AJ
1855
Radio New Zealand lnt'I [M-H]'
1858
BBC (af) [M-F]'
1900 UTC
Ca;QQEME!:!I, 12:QQEMEQD
1758
1901
1800 UTC
{2;QQ EM E!:!I, ll :!IQ AM E!:!D
1703
Radio Pyongyang
1710
China Radio 1nr1
Radio Australia
1725
Radio New Zealand lnt'I [F]
1730
Radio Austria lnt'I
Radio Netherlands lnt'I
Radio Romania lnt'I
Radio Sweden [M-FJ
Vatican Radio [F]
Voice of Russia
1740
BBC (af) [W-MJ
1745
Radio Yerevan
1755
1910
All India Radio
BBC (at) (Newsdesk)
BBC (as pac) (Newsdesk)
BBC (eu) (Newsdesk)
BBC (south as) (Newsdesk)
Canada (North-Quebec) [AJ
Monitor Radio lnt'I [M-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio Bulgaria
Radio Cameroon
Radio Mozambiqu e
Radio New Zealand lnt'I [M-F)'
Radio Norway lnt'I [S J
Radio Omdurman
Radio Tanzania
Radio Tirana
Radio Vlaanderen lnt'I
Radio Yemen
Voice of America (at) [A-SJ
Voice ol America (al) [M-F]'
Voice of America (me)
Voice of Kenya
Voice of Russia
WINB [M-F)
WWCR # 1 [M-F]
WWCR #3 [M-F]
1815
Radio Bangladesh
1700 UTC
{l;QQ EM EDI, lQ;QQ AM EQD
1830
BBC (af) [A-S)'
R Slovakia lnt'I
Radio Kuwait
May 1995
1930
Deutsche Welle [T-FJ"
Polish Radio [A-SJ
Polish Radio [M-F)'
Radio Austria lnt'I
Radio Finland
Radio Korea
Radio Netherlands lnt'I
1933
Deutsche Welle [MJ'
1935
RAI Italy
1955
Radio Japan [T-W/S]
2000 UTC
{4;QO EM Et2I. l;!IQ EMEDD
BBC (al ) (Newshour)
BBC (am)
BBC (as pac) [A)
BBC (eu)
BBC (eu) [S-F]'
China Radio lnt'I
Deutsche Welle
KVOH[A-SJ
Monitor Radio lnt'I [M-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio Budapest
Radio Canada lnt'I
Radio New Zealand lnt' I
Radio Portugal lnt'I [M-FJ
Radio Prague
Swiss Radio lnt'I
Voice of America (af) (A-SJ
Voice of America (af) (M-F]
Voice of America (me)
Voice o f Indonesia
Voice o f Israel
Voice o f Nigeria [M-F]
Voice o f Russia
Voice o f Turkey
WHRI [M-F]
WINB[M -F]
WWCR #3 [S-HJ
2003
Radio Pyongyang
2007
Radio Damascus [M-F]
2010
China Radio lnt'I'
Radio New Zealand lnt'I [S-HJ'
2025
RAI Italy
2030
Radio Netherlands lnt'I
Radio Riga lnt'I [M-F]
Radio Sweden [M-F]
Radio Thailand
Voice of Russia
2055
2145
Radio Damascus [W)
Radio Korea
2155
Radio Japan [A)
2200 UTC
{!i:QQ EM EQI, a;QQ EM E!:!D
All India Radio
BBC (af) (Newsdesk)
BBC (am) (Newsdesk)
BBC (as pac) (Newsdesk)
BBC (eu) (Newsdesk)
Canada (North-Quebec) [A-SJ
China Radio lnt'I
Monitor Radio l nt'I (M-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio Budapest
Radio Canada lnt'I
Radio Havana Cuba [M-AJ
Radio Korea
Radio Yerevan
RAI Italy
Voice of America (as)
Voice of Russia
Voice of Turkey
WWCR #3[SJ
2203
2057
2210
Radio Kuwait
2100 UTC
{:i:QQ EM E!:!I. :i:QQ EM E!:!D
2215
All India Radio
BBC (af)
BBC (am)
BBC (as pac)
BBC (eu)
China Radio lnt'I
Deutsche Welle
KVOH [SJ
Monitor Radio lnt'I (M-AJ
Radio Australia
Radio Bulgaria
Radio Cameroon
Radio Canada lnt'I
Radio Damascus [F)
Radio Havana Cuba (M-AJ
Radio Japan
Radio New Zealand lnt'I [A-HJ
Radio Romania lnt'I
Radio Ukraine lnt'I
Radio Vlaanderen lnt'I [M-FJ
Radio Yugoslavia
Spanish National Radio
Voice of America (at)
Voice of America (as)
Voice of America (me)
Voice of Russia
WHAi [M-F]
WWCR #3 [M-FJ
2230
Radio Canada lnt'I [A-SJ
Radio Finland
Radio Yerevan
Voice of America (as) (Special
English)
Voice of Russia
2240
Radio Cairo
Voice of Greece [S-F]
2245
Organization of American States
[M-F)'
2300 UTC
(Z;QQ EM EDI, ~;QQ EMEQD
2112
2303
2110
Radio Pyongyang
2115
2315
BBC (at)
BBC (eu)'
Radio Damascus [T]
2330
2120
Radio Cairo
2130
Radio Cairo
Radio Havana Cuba (M-A)"
Radio Nacional de Venezuela
[M-AJ
Radio Cairo
Radio Netherlands lnt'I
Radio New Zealand lnt'I [S-HJ
Radio Vlaanderen l nt'I
Voice of Russia
2335
Voice of Greece [S-F]
2355
Radio Japan
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FREQUENCIES
00000030
00000100 vi
00000100 vi
00000100 vi
0000-0100
00000015
0000-0100
00000100
0000-0100
00000100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100 mtwtf
0000-0100
0000-0030
0000-0030
00000100
0000-0030 vi
0000-0045
Australia, Radio
Australia, VL8A Alice Spg
Australia, VL8K Kalherine
Australia. VL8T Ten! Crl<
Bulgaria, Radio
Cambodia, Natl Voice of
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada. RCI Montreal
China. China Radio Intl
Cosla Rica, AWR Alajuela
Cosla Rica, R Peace Intl
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Gua1emala. AWR
India, All India Radio
0000-0015 flvl
0000-0100
0000-0004
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0030
0000-0100
0000-0050
0000-0100 mtwhfa
0000-0100 vi
00000100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0030
0000-0100
9610as
4835do
5025do
4910do
7205na
11940as
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5960na
9710na
5030ca
7385am
5930na
9900na
3366do
5980ca
9705as
15145as
7125va
6280me
7150na
7295do
5980do
7160do
6020na
15115pa
11335na
11980as
4890do
15450as
7125af
9540na
9655as
4780na
9810na
13605pa
13745as
17750as
00000100
0000-0015
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
00000100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100 m
0000-0100 twhfa
00000100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0044
0000-0030 mtwhfa
0015-0030 sm
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-01 00
0045-0100 irreg
0045-0100
0050-0100
Russia. Voice of
Sri Lanka, SLBC Colombo
Sweden, Radio
Thailand, Radio
Belarus. Radio Minsk
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Italy, RAI Rome
9700na
9755na
11575af
9725am
9400am
7345na
11920na
11715na
11870ca
4915do
9950as
11745as
13750as
9960me
6165na
1376-0na
15130na
17835na
9675do
9750na
9680af
6055na
11870na
11 750na 17570as
7180na
9620eu
5965as
7325na
11750na
6195as
11 945as
13740Jm
7510am
9785am
17510as
7535na
5995am
9455am
11580am
15120am
17735as
5825eu
5745am
11950na
7490na
9955am
9955am
7355am
7465eu
5065am
6085na
6195na
11835am
13605pa
15415as
9745am
7100na
5905as
9840na
7105na
15425as
6065sa
9655as
7150eu
6065na
9645na
5970sa
9590na
11955as
7110as
5975na
9760as
6175na
9915sa
7180as
9580as
7215as
9775am
11760as
15205am
7405am
9890as
13740am
15290as
13815am
9430am
6130am
9770as
11695am
15185au
17820as
7425na
9495am
9410eu
17510am
13595na
7435am
13845am
7115na
15155am
13745as
17795pa
15540am
9022na
6020na
11655na
7165na
13755as 15365pa
1786-0pa
21455am
9670na
6165na
7305as
9810sa
11 845af
13650eu
13640as
11 905as
17655eu
11800na
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
0015
0030
0030
0030
0045
0045
0045
Mondays
0015
0030
0030
0030
0045
0045
0045
Tuesdays
0015
0030
0030
0045
0045
0045
Wednesdays
0015
0030
0030
0045
0045
0045
Thursdays
0015
52
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0030
0030
0045
0045
0045
Fridays
0015
0030
0030
0045
0045
0045
Saturdays
0015
0030
ffAUSERS 11.IGHLIGIITS:
TURKEY
North America at 2200 & 0300 on 9445; elsewhere 2000 on 9445, 2200 on 11710, 7185:
Tue-Sun News and the press review
Mon
Last week news and the press
review and then:
Mon
Rose of the Wind or On Tolerance
Notes from Turkey
Tue
A Haven in the East: Turkey
Cultural Changes or Ecorwmic
Parwrama
Wed
Review of the Foreign Media
Letter Box
Potential
Thu
A Blood Feud or The Industry of
Terror
Fri
Sat
Sun
FREQUENCIES
0100-0200
0100-0200
Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
0100-0200 vi
01000200 vi
0100-0200 vi
0100-0200 vi
0100-0200
0100-0200
01000200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200
0100-0150
0100-0200 m
0100-0130
0100-0130
0100-0110
0100-0200
0100-0200 smlwh
0100-0130
0100-0200
0100-0125
0100-0200
0100-0130 m
0100-0200 v1
Malaysia. Radio
Moldova, RMoldova Intl
Netherlands, Radio
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Norway, Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
13525as
9580pa
11655as
15240pa
17715as
17680as
4635do
5025do
4910do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5030ca
7365am
6000na
7345na
9745am
6040na
9670na
3300do
6025na
7100na
9645na
9565na
15195as
7295do
7190na
5905as
6020na
15115pa
5905na
4690do
9610as
13605as
15365pa
17750as
6150sa
9400am
9630na
9660pa
13605pa
15415as
17795pa
7325am 9725am
15050am
15540am 17490eu
6145na
6065na
9700na
9635na
9022na
11600na
11640as
17610as
7305as
6165na
5910na
9675do
11 715as
13755as
15510as
17660pa
21455eu
9650na
t1910na
9670na
11860as
17845as
11910as
9640na
11655na
7450na
0100-0130
0100-0200
0100-0200 vi
0100-0130
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130
0100-0200
Slovakia. AWR
Slovakia, R Slovakia Intl
South Korea. R Korea Intl
Spain, R Exterior Espana
Sri Lanka, SLBC Colombo
Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
Uni1 ed Kingdom.BBC London
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130 twhfa
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
01000130
0130-0200
0130-0150
0130-0200
0130-0200 twhf
0130-0200
0140-0200
15450as
7105na
17665as
7275as
5930na
6575na
9540na
15425as
5665na
5965as
7325na
11 750na
5610am
7510am
9765am
17510as
7535na
5995am
9775am
15205am
5B25eu
5745am
11950na
7490na
9955am
7355am
7465eu
5065am
6065na
6195eu
9655na
6260na
9860as
9570na
9695au
5960as
7125na
17690as
9440na
7550eu
6135na
5970sa
9590na
11955as
13740am
9430am
61 30am
11560am
15340as
7425na
9495am
9920me
13640as
15575na
9665na
9905na
5975na
6175na
9760as
9915sa
15360as 17790as
7405am 9455am
13740am 15120am
17740as
9410eu
17510am
13595na
5935am
9505na
7435am
7446na
9935na
11655as
9705na
11695as
7335as
SELECTED PROGRAM S
Sundays
0110
0115
0130
0130
0145
BBC las pac): Press Review. A look a1what the papers say.
BBC jas pac): Variable Feature. Special features and new
series.
BBC lam): People and Politics. Background to the British
political scene.
BBC jas pac): From Our Own Correspondent. BBC
correspondents comment on the background to the news.
0130 BBC (south as): Breakfast Briefing. News. views,
sport. business and press reviews to start the day in South
Asia.
BBC (as pac): Write On. Air your views about World Service:
wrile to PO Box 76, Bush House. Strand. London WC2B
4PH. 0145 BBC (south as): Letter from America. See S
0030.
0115
0130
0130
0135
0145
0145
Fridays
0110
0115
0130
0130
0145
0145
Saturdays
011 O
0115
0130
0130
0130
0145
0145
Mondays
01 10
0115
0130
0130
0130
0145
Tuesdays
0110
0115
0130
0130
0130
0145
Wednesdays
0110
0115
0130
0130
0130
0145
Thursdays
0110
llAUSER8 lhmn.IGHTS:
BELGIUM
.. .
inclrictes:
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FREQUENCIES
02000300 !Whfa
02000300
02000300
Aroentina, RAE
Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
02000300 vi
0200-0300 vi
02000300 vi
0200-0300 vt
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300
0200-0250
0200-0300
02000300 smtwh
02000230
02000230
02000300
02000300 vi
02000300
0200-0300
Russia. Voice of
11710am
13525as
9580pa
15365pa
17795pa
4835do
5025do
4910do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6120na
11845na
7385am
6000na
9745am
9475na
6035as
7285as
4885do
7295do
5990do
5905as
15115pa
4890do
5990na
11940na
5940na
7270na
15425na
9660pa
15415as
17860pa
9535am
13720na
9400am
9820na
15540am
13605as
15510as
17880as
9755na
15240pa
17750as
0200-0300 v1
0200-0230
02000300
Slovakia, AWR
Sri Lanka, SLBC Colombo
Taiwan. VO Free China
02000300
02000300
02000300
02000300
02000300
02000300
0200-0300
02000230 twhfa
02000300
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300
02300300
02300300
02300300
02300245
0230-0300
0230-0300
02500300
Russia, Voice of
Sweden. Radio
Vatican State. Vatican R
11725na
12150am
9830na
21455am
6130as
9515as
4935do
7255as
9615as
7265as
9690as
7305as
9860as
11655as
9675do
6155na
9510na
9570na
7105na
9825na
15455na
7205eu
12050na
17665as
7225na
13640as
7270as
15425as
5950na
15345as
5965as
6175na
9760as
17790as
5810am
7510am
9785am
17510as
5850na
6130sa
9455sa
15370as
5995am
13740am
7425na
5745am
11950na
7490na
7355am
7465am
5065am
6065na
9580na
9655na
5965na
7290as
21730as
5905na
7120na
6095na
9680na
11745ca
11825as
5970sa
7235me
9915sa
5975na
7325na
11955as
6135af
9590na
15360as
9815na
9430na
7115as
9740as
17740as
7405am
15120am
9465me
9495am
7205as
7215as
11705as 15250as
21550as
9775am 11580am
15205am
17510am
13595na
5935am 7435am
9505na
11840na
9870sa
13730sa
9835na
11910na
15190as 17705as
17725as
9850as
9850na
7305na
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
0230 BBC (as pac): Variable Featur3. See S 0115.
0230 BBC (eu): Variable Feature. See S 0115.
0230 BBC (south as): In Praise of God. Weekly programme of
worship and meditation.
Mondays
0230
0230
0230
0230
Tuesdays
0230
0230
0230
0230
Wednesdays
0230
0230
0230
0230
NETHERLANDS: RNI
Summer schedule shanges, at 2330-0130 resumes using compatible USB on 9840 in
order to protect Budapest on 9835; at 1130 to Europe, Nauen, Germany relay on 9650,
and //6045 could be Jillich or Flevo. W. N. Am. at 0330 shifts to 0430 (RNMN) That's
to accommodate two consecutive hour8 of Spanish at 0230, which now like English
has different features in the two hours, on 6020-Flevo, 6 165 & 9590-Bonaire; also
now three hours at 2230-0125, the third hour repeating the first, on 15315-B and 9895F; 2230-0025 also 11715-F, 2230-2325 also 11680-B. Radio-En/ace, Fri & UT Sat
DX program, expands to 28 m.ins. Fri 2250, Sat 0050, 0250, now repeated Sun 2350,
Mon 0350 (Jaime Baguena Garcfa, RN) English audible in N. Am. includes: 0730 on
11895, 9720, 0830 & 0930 on 9720. 1330 & 1430 on 15150, 13700, 9890; 1830 &
1930 on 17605, 15315; to us at 2330 & 0030 on 6020, 6165, 9840-USB, 0430 on
9590, 6165 (RNMN)
1230.
Thursdays
0230
0230
0230
0230
Fridays
0230
0230
0230
0230
Saturdays
0230 BBC (am): Meridian. See S 0630.
0230 BBC (as pac): People and Politics. See S 0130.
0230 BBC (eu): People and Politics. See S 0130.
0230 BBC (south as): People and Politics. See S 0130.
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FREQUENCIES
0300-0400
Australia. Radio
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400 sm
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400 vf
0300-0400
0300-0330
0300-0400
0300-0330
0300-0350
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400 s
0300-0400 smtwh
0300-0330 tw
0300-0325
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400
0300-0400
9580pa
15365pa
17860pa
4835do
5025do
4910do
6010do
4830af
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6000ca
9755ca
9690na
7385am
5055do
6000na
5930na
9745am
9475na
6045na
9650na
3300do
5960na
11920na
17845as
4885do
9960me
7295do
7290na
9860as
15115pa
4890do
5905na
7180na
15425na
5995af
9660pa
15415as
13605pa 15240pa
15510as 17795pa
7255af
6120ca
11725ca
9710na
9400am
9535ca
9725ca
11845ca
11715na
9820na 9830na
7345na
15540am 21455am
6085na
6120na
9535na
9565na
15210as
11885na 11895na
15230na 17810as
4935do
12015na
11655as
9675do
5940na
7225na
6035eu
7270na
9585af
15240af
7105na
9825na
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400
Slovakia, AWA
Taiwan. VO Free China
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
Thailand, Radio
Turkey, Voice of
Ukraine. A Ukraine Intl
0300-0330
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-()400
0300-0400
0300-Q315
0300-()400
0315-0330 sh
0320-0350
0330-0400
0330-0400 fas
0330-0400
0330-0400
0330-0400
0330-0400
0330-0400
0330-0400
0340-0350
0345-0400
Greece. Voice of
Tajikistan. Radio
6050af
5950na
15345as
11890na
9445na
4870na
11790na
5970sa
9760as
3255af
6190af
15310as
5810am
7510am
9785am
17510as
5850na
6035af
7405af
7425na
5745am
11950eu
7490na
7355am
5065am
6065na
6095na
3306do
6260na
5865af
5930as
7290na
6015na
9500af
6200na
5050af
11945na
9610af
17790as
6260na
7245as
7270as
9680na
11745as
6055na
7180na
11870na
6135af
7235me
9915sa
15360as
5975na 6005af
9410me 9600af
11825as
9810na
7325na
15380as
6175na
11760as
9815am
9455af
7105af
9575af
7280af
9885af
9495am
17510am
7340af
13595na
5935am
9505na
7305na
3396do
7448na
7360af
7345af
12000na
6165na
7435am
4828do
9935na
9725af
9440me
7120na
13675na
11730af
15280as
7448na
9935na
15575af
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
0305
0305
Mondays
0305
0305
0315
0315
0315
0315
0315
0330
0330
0330
0330
0330
0333
0345
Tuesdays
0305
0305
0315
0315
0315
0315
0315
0330
0330
0330
0330
0330
0333
0345
0345
Wednesdays
0305
0305
0315
0315
0315
0315
0315
0330
0330
0330
0330
0330
0333
0345
0345
Thursdays
0305
0305
0315
0315
0315
0315
0315
0330
0330
0330
0330
0330
0333
0345
0345
Fridays
0305
0305
0315
0315
0315
0315
0315
0330
0330
0330
0330
0330
0333
0345
0345
Saturdays
0305
0305
0315
0315
0315
0315
0315
0330
0330
0330
0330
0331
0331
0345
May 1995
MONITORING TIMES
55
FREQUENCIES
0400-0500
Australia, Radio
04000500v1
04000500 vi
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0430
04000500
04000500
0400-0500
04000430
0400-0450
0400-0500 twtfa
0400-0500
04000500s
0400-0500 smtwh
04000425
04000458
04000500v1
0400-0430
0400-0500
Russia, Voice of
0400-0500
0400-0500v1
0400-0430
0400-0500
04000430
9580pa
15365pa
17860pa
4835do
5025do
4910do
6010do
7335na
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6150me
9730na
7385am
6000na
9745am
6015af
7265as
3300do
4885do
9960me
7295do
6015na
15115pa
4890do
5990na
11940na
5905eu
7180na
9825na
5955af
6050as
9720as
6155af
6135na
9660pa
15415pa
13605as
17750as
15240pa
17795pa
9700na
9505me
9670me
9400am
6180na
15540am
6065al
9565al
9820na 9830na
21455am
7160al
7225af
9765af
4935do
6165na
9675do
6155na
9510na
9570na
5940na
7270na
15295na
9585af
9465af
15425as
6035eu
7300na
7105na
9705na
9885na
9905na
15240af
0400-0430
04000415
0400-0500
Tanzania. Radio
Uganda, Radio
United Kingdom.BBC London
04000415
04000430
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400--0500
04000500
04000500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500 smtwhf
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0445
0400-0459
0400-0500
0400-0500
0415-0440
0425-0500
0430--0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
04300500
0430-0500
0455-0500
04590500
5050al
4976do
3255al
:110me
11760as
15575me
9610al
6175na
5810am
7510am
9785na
9930as
7535eu
5995eu
7170me
9575af
7425na
5745am
11950eu
7490na
9465eu
7395am
7465eu
5065am
6065na
9770eu
5940na
3306do
5990me
3326do
13525as
4975as
11765as
3200af
9905na
6035al
7255al
9570pa
5026do
5975na
9585eu
12095al
17790as
6005al
9600al
15280as
6190al
11730al
15310as
9840al
6040eu
7280al
9885af
6140al
7340al
6873al
7405ca
9495am
9930am
9815am
13595na
5935am
9505na
7435am
7400na
3396do
7275eu
4990do
6000as
15360as
5055af
9785eu
17620as
7150af
9865eu
17675as
7280al
7340al
9575af
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
0415
BBC (as pac): A Jolly Good Show. Dave Lee Travis presents
your record requests and dedications in his own unique way.
0430 BBC (am): Science in Ac1ion. The latest in science and
technology.
0430 BBC (eu): Short Story. Variable dramas.
0430 BBC (eu): Weekend. European magazine program co-produce
by European broadcasters.
0430 BBC (south as): Short Story. See S 0430.
0435 BBC (al): Education Express. Examining the issues attecting
Africa's students and teachers.
0445 BBC (eu): Variable Music Feature. See S 0015.
0445 BBC (south as): Variable Music Feature. See S 0015.
Mondays
0415
0430
0430
0430
0430
0433
0445
0445
0445
Tuesdays
0415
0430
0430
0430
0430
0430
0433
0445
0445
0445
Wednesdays
0415
0430
0430
S6
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0430
0430
0430
0433
0445
0445
Thursdays
0415
0430
0430
0430
0430
0430
0433
0445
0445
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UTC
Freq kHz
1130
13730
9655
0130 & 0230
6015, via Canada
0530 & 0630
English to Latin America
0230
9870, 13730
(via Diane Mauer)
Fridays
0415
0430
0430
0430
0430
0430
0433
0445
0445
0445
Saturdays
0415
0430
0430
0430
0430
0430
0431
0431
0445
0445
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FREQUENCIES
0500-0600
0500-0600
Australia, M Radio
Australia, Radio
0500-0600vl
0500-0600vl
05000600vl
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600 as
0500-0550
0500-0515
0500-0600 mtwhlvl
0500-0600
0500-0600
05000600s
0500-0600
0500-0505
0500-0600
0500-0530 m
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0545 f
0500-0600 vi
05000600
05000600
0500-0530
05000515
13525as
9580pa
15365pa
17795as
4835do
5025do
4910do
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
9595na
6150am
7385am
9820na
9745na
9585af
5960na
7465na
7125va
5975eu
11740as
4885do
9960me
9570pa
3326do
7255af
5905na
4890do
5905eu
7270na
9865as
7185af
15555me
9465af
9540na
6155af
5055af
9500af
3985eu
9660pa
15415as
17860pa
13605as
1771 5pa
17880as
15240pa
17750as
9400am
9830na
6045na
9435na
6120na 6185na
17545as
6025na
7230eu
11885na 15410as
4935do
9565as
17810as
4990do
59t0na
9675do
5930eu
7345na
9895as
11900af
6070af
7105na
9705as
17890as
7150af
7175eu
9850na
7200af
0500-0530
0500-0502
0500-0600
05000600
0500-0600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
05000600
0500-0600
0500-0600 mtwhfa
0500-0600
05000600
05000600
0500-0600
0500-0545
05000530
0500-0520
0500-0600
0500-0600
0525-0600
0530-0600
05300600
0530-0600
05300600
0530-0600
0530-0600
05300600
05350600
Russia, Voice of
Swaziland, Trans World R
United Kingdom.BBC London
Swaziland, Trans World R
9885al
4976do
3255al
6180eu
9600af
12095me
15420al
5810am
7510am
9785am
9930as
7535eu
5995eu
6873af
9665af
15205me
7425na
7315am
11950na
7490na
9465eu
7395am
7465eu
5065am
5985na
9850eu
5865al
4010eu
5940na
3306do
3366do
9660do
17860pa
6015na
6120eu
11940af
17790af
5930as
9500af
11735eu
6070al
13635af
15340af
3955eu
6190af
9640na
15280as
15575me
9815am
5975na
6195eu
11760as
15310as
17885af
6035af
7170me
9700eu
15600af
6040eu 6140af
7405af
9530eu
11825me 12080al
9495am
9930am
6005af
9410af
11955as
15360as
t3595na
5935am
7435am
7360af
9725af
11625af
15565as
17715as
7400na
3396do
49t5do
15510as
17880as
9635af
15250af
11755me
15380al 17745af
117t0as
9650af
6165eu
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
0510
0530
0530
0530
0535
0555
0530
0530
0533
0545
0555
Fridays
0510
0530
0530
0530
0533
0555
Saturdavs
0510
0530
0530
0530
0531
0531
0540
0555
Mondays
0510
0530
0530
0530
0533
0540
0555
Tuesdays
0510
0530
0530
0530
0533
0545
0555
Wednesdays
0510
0530
0530
0530
0533
0555
Thursdays
0510
0530
58
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llAusER's lllGlll.JGIITS
USA: WWCR, NASHVILLE,
Selected programs as time.shifted for sunun.er:
Specmm1
Live 0200 UT Sun 5065, 7435, repeat Mon 0600 on 7435
Sound Currents of the
Tue 0600 on 7435, Sat 1405 on 15685 Spirit
Thu 0600 on 7435, Sat 2200 on 12160
Rock the Universe
The Old Record Shop
Mon 2045 on 15685, 2100 on 9475;
UT Sun 0100on 7435, UTMon0300 on 7435
The Big Backyard
Fri 2045 on 5685, 2100 on 9475
President & RepublicallS Sat 1900 on 15685, 2245 on 9475
Wolfe Calling
Sun 0500 on 7435, Mon 0330 on 7435
lAtin Catholic Mass
Sun 1600 on 15685
View from Europe
Sun 1805 on 15685
World Wide Country
Mon-Fri 1600-2000 on 12160, Sun 1900-2100
Radio
and 2200-2300 on 12160
Sun 0500 on 5065
Tempered Steel
Extraordinary Science
Mon 0300 on 5065
Radio Hour
FREQUENCIES
0600-0630
0600--0700
Australia. AF Radio
Australia, Radio
0600-0630
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600--0700
0600--0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630 mtwhf
0600--0700
0600-0700
0600--0630
0600--0700
0600--0700 as
0600-0650
Australia, Radio
Australia, VL8A Alice Spg
Australia, VL8K Katherine
Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Bahrain, Radio
Canada. CfCX Montreal
Canada, CfRX Toronto
Canada, CfVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. RCI Montreat
Costa Rica, R Peace Intl
Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB Quito
Eqt Guinea. R East Africa
Germany, Deutsche Welle
0600-0615
0600-0700 mtwh/VI
0600--0700
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600--0700 s
0600--0700 vi
0600--0700
0600-0700 asmtwh
0600--0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0700
0600--0700 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600-0630 vi
Slovakia. AWA
Solomon Islands, SIBC
13525as
9660do
17715as
13605as
4835do
5025do
4910do
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6050eu
7385am
9820na
5930eu
9745na
9585af
6100af
15185af
3316do
7125va
11860as
4885do
9825do
9960me
7275do
4760do
7295do
6175as
9765me
9570pa
3326do
7255af
4890do
5905eu
7345na
17620as
13715af
5020do
11910pa 13755pa
17880as
15240pa 15415pa
6150eu
9400am
9760eu
7345eu
9505eu
9565af
17820af
4915do
11765af
21705af
15510as
17795as
11905me
0600-0630
0600--0700
0600--0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600--0700
0600-0700
17885af
United Kingdom.BBC London
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHRNaalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. VOA Washington DC
0600-0700
0600--0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600--0700 smtwhf
0600-0700
0600--0700
06000700
0600-0700
0604-0700
0630-0700
0630-0700
0630--0700
0631 -0640
0640-0700 mtwhfs
0640--0700
0645-0700
11945na
6155af
5055af
3985eu
4976do
3955eu
9410af
11780eu
15070af
15400af
13790af
21610as
4935do
9750as
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0615 s
0600--0700
15295as
4990do
9675do
5930eu
9850as
17890as
71 75na
9895as
7270na
11710na
6180eu
5810am
7510am
9785am
9930as
7535eu
3980eu
6060eu
7325me
11805af
12080af
6065eu
7315am
11950na
7490na
9465eu
7455eu
5065am
5985na
5975do
11730af
9580pa
21725as
6015na
5985eu
7105eu
7115eu
5865af
15205pa
6070af
6165eu
7110do
6005af
9600af
11940af
15280as
15420af
9500af
9650af
6190af
9640na
11955as
15310as
15575af
6195eu
11760as
12095me
15360me
17790as
6035af
6873eu
9530af
11950af
15600af
6040eu
7170me
9665af
12035af
13740am
5995eu
6140af
7405af
11825af
15205me
7425na
9495am
9930am
13595na
5935am
7355eu
6045do
7435am
9680eu
9850af
9860pa
11880pa
15415as
9925au
7175eu
9510eu
11775eu
7360af
15335pa
9660af
17720pa
11625af
17805pa
9545do
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
0615
0615
0615
0615
0615
0630
arts.
0630
0630
063D
0631
BBC (as pac): Jazz for the Asking. Record requests with
Malcolm Laylock.
BBC (eu): Jazz for the Asking. See S 0630.
BBC (south as): Jazz for the Asking. See S 0630.
BBC (af): African Perspective. Feature or discussion
analyzing a major issue.
Mondays
0615
0615
0615
0615
0615
0630
0630
0630
0633
Tuesdays
0615
0615
0615
0615
0615
0630
0630
0630
0630
0633
Wednesdays
0615
0615
0615
0615
06t5
0630
0630
0630
0633
0630
0630
0633
Saturdays
0615
0615
0615
0615
0615
0630
0630
0630
0630
0631
Thursdays
06t5
0615
06t5
06t5
0615
0630
0630
0630
0633
Fridays
0615 BBC (at): Network Africa. See M 0333.
0615 BBC (am): Country Style. See S 1445.
06t 5 BBC (as pac): On the Move. See S 0615.
0615 BBC (eu): The World Today. See M 1645.
0615 BBC (south as): The World Today. See M 1645.
0630 BBC (am): Meridian. See S 0630.
0630 BBC (as pac): Meridian. See S 0630.
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FREQUENCIES
0700-0800
Australia. Radio
0700-0730
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
Australia, Radio
Australia, VLBA Alice Spg
Australia, VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Bahrain. Radio
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica, R Peace Intl
Ecuador, HCJB Quito
0700-0800 as
0700-0715
0700-0800 mtwh/vl
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800
0700-0800 asmtwh
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0730
0700-0716
0700-0800 vi
0700-0715
0700-0800
0700-0715
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800
0700-0735
0700-0800
0700-0715 mtwtfa
0700-0800
0700-0730
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0800 smtwhf
0700-0800
0700-0800
0700-0745
0700-0800
0702-0800 as
0703-0710 mtwhfa
0717-0800 mtwhf
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-0800 mtwhfa
0730-0800
0730-0800
0730-07 45 sh
0730-0800
0730-0745 mtwhf
0735-0800 smtwhf
0745-0800
0745-0800 s
6020pa
9860pa
13605pa
17750as
15415as
4835do
5025do
4910do
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
7385am
6135pa
9745pa
21455eu
9585af
3366do
7125va
5975eu
15335me
4885do
9825do
7275do
4760do
7295do
6175as
7t15eu
5990do
9570pa
4890do
15205pa
5905eu
9700as
17840af
3316do
5020do
6155af
5055af
5950na
4976do
3955eu
9410af
11940af
15280as
17790as
6005eu
5810am
7510am
9785am
9930as
7535eu
7425na
7315am
11950na
7490na
9465eu
7455eu
5065am
735Seu
5975do
6100pa
5895eu
6100pa
9660pa
6155eu
15410me
17485as
11805eu
9425eu
9720pa
4010eu
15210eu
5055af
6120eu
3366do
9400am
6205as
11835eu
9420eu 9600eu
11925pa 17490pa
49t5do
7230eu
15410as
4935do
9750as
t t 740as 15270as
17810me 216t0au
15295as
9730do
9675do
15335pa
5930eu
9850as
17720pa
7175na
11 675eu
17805pa
7270na
15385me
Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
0800-0830 vi
0800-0830 vt
0800-0830 vi
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5995pa
9710pa
17880as
4835do
5025do
4910do
Moy 1995
Bahrain. Radio
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Halifax
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica, R Peace Intl
Ecuador, HCJB Quito
0800-0900 as
0800-0805 s
0800-0900
0800-0900 mtwh/vl
0800-0900
0800-0900 vi
0800-0900 vi
0800-0830
0800-0900
0800-0830 .
0800-0820 mtwhfs
0800-0805 a
0800-0825
0800-0900
0800-0830 m
0800-0850
0800-0900 vi
0800-0900
0800-0815
0800-0900 vi
0800-0900 vi
0800-0900
0800-0805 smtwhf
0800-0900
0800-0815
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900 smtwhf
0800-0900
0800-0900
0803-0810 s
0815-0900 mtwtf
0830-0900 vi
08300900 vi
0830-0900 vi
0830-0900
0830-0900
0830-0900
0855-0900
9545do
6070af
9500af
9650af
7110do
6190af
9600af
11955as
153t 0as
17830af
11780eu
13740am
6195eu
9640na
12095af
15360as
17885af
11860af
7325eu
11760me
15070af
15400af
9495am
15575me
9930am
13595na
5935am
9680eu
6045do
7435am
9850af
7370eu
9630eu
13830eu
17880as
13730eu
17870me
21705as
9935eu
11645eu
11895pa
7250eu
9645eu
11740eu
15570eu
6070af
9500af
9650af
9560eu
11755eu
4915do
0800 UTC
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0900
0800-0830
18193af
6020pa
9860pa
6080pa 9580pa
15565pa 17715as
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
9400am
9600eu
21455eu
9585af
3366do
15200as
7125va
4885do
9825do
7275do
4760do
729Sdo
617Sas
7115eu
711Seu
9720pa
6t00pa
9590pa
15625eu
4890do
1t710as
17890as
3316do
17630af
5020do
7550eu
5055af
6190af
11940af
15280as
17830af
3955eu
11 760me
5810am
9615as
7510am
9930as
7535eu
5975na
7315am
11950na
7490na
9465eu
5065am
5975do
5895eu
J326do
2310do
2485do
2325do
6135pa
9720pa
11990au
11830pa
9745pa
11835eu 11925pa
4935do
9750as
15295as
1t895pa
15175as
17900eu
9675do
15230me 17620na
9545do
13670eu
6070af
6195eu
11955as
15360as
17885af
9410eu
15310eu
13740am
9425pa
9350na
9495am
17840as
9500af
7325eu
12095af
15400af
9650af
9740as
15070af
17640af
9600af
17790as
9640na
99JOam
13595na
5935am
6045do
7370eu
4990do
7285do
9630eu
9745pa
9895pa
17485au
17490pa
13700pa
21705au
13830eu
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1t:15
Begin SW
Mil. VHF/UHF
Sat TV Progs
L. Magne
J.Sullivan
TBA
Federal Mon.
SWBC Prog.
J.Frimme/
J.Fulford
K. Reitz
HF Aero
Scan Equip
Domestic TVRO
B.Evans
TBA
F.Baylin
4:30
5:15
7:00
Utility DX
Satel lite
Salellite Monit.
L.Van Hom
Bob Kay
K. Stein
BC Develop.
Listen. Law
Weather Sats
G.Hauser
J.Rodriguez
J.Wal/ach
Begin Sats
2:15
3:15
Scanner
Public Serv.
Lunch
1:00
10:15
AM DXing
Begin Scan.
Monitor NASA
TBA
8.Grove
L. Van Horn
HF Dig.
Trunking
Amateur Sats
B.Evans
11:30 Pirate/Gland
G.Zeller
12:45
VHF Aero
Radio Astronomy
J.Baker
J Lichtman
$SS.OO Registration
$23.00 Banquet Ticket
Grove Enterprises
P.O. Box 98
Brasstown, N.C. 28902
1-800-438-8155 or 704-837-9200
0900 UTC
5:00 AM EDT/2:00 AM PDT
SlttltT\\'A\'El
1000 UTC
6 :00 AM EDT/3:00 AM PDT
FREQUENCIES
09001000
09001000
Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
0900 1000 vi
09001000 vi
0900-1000 vi
09001000
09000930 mtwhfa
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
0900-1000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000 as
09001000
0900-0950
09000915 mtwtt
0900-0915
09001000
09001000
09001000 mtwh/vl
09001000
0900-0948vl
09001000 vi
09001000
0900-0930
09001000
09001000 mtwtf
09001000
09001000 mtwtta
09001000 vi
09001000
Kiribati, Radio
Liberia, Radio ELBC
Malaysia. Radio
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria, FRCN/Radio
Nigeria, FRCNNoice of
Palau, KHBNNoice of Hope
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Russia, Voice of
09001000 vi
09001000 vi
09000930
09001000
Slovakia, AWR
Solomon Islands. SIBC
Switzerland, Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom.BBC London
09000915
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000
09001000 smtwhf
09001000
09001000
09030910 mtwhfa
09100940
09151000
0920-0935 sh
09300945 s
09301000 mtwhfa
09301000
09301000
15607af
9510as
15170as
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
6035eu
12040au
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6950as
9400am
6135pa
9585af
15330as
6160as
15410af
21650as
3366do
15200as
11830pa
13680as
7125va
9610as
15270au
9825do
7275do
7295do
9720pa
6100pa
3326do
7255af
9830as
4890do
9480eu
15580as
9445eu
5020do
9885au
6190af
11760me
15190sa
15575me
17830as
6120as
11955as
5810am
7510am
993oas
7395sa
9350na
7315am
11950na
7490na
9465eu
5065am
5975do
5895eu
7290na
6130do
15650au
15275eu
17870pa
6160do
7260pa
18193af
9580pa
21725as
9860pa
I 3605as
09301000
09301000
09400950
l 1690as
11675as
15650au
10001100
10001100
lOOOllOOvl
10001100vl
10001100 vi
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
1000 1100
10001100
10001100as
10001040
10001100
10001100
10001100 mtwh.M
10001100
10001100
10001030
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100 mtwhfa
10001100 vi
10001 100
10001100
Australia. AF Radio
Australia, Radio
Australia, VL8A Alice Spg
Australia, VL8K Katherine
Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Bahrain, Radio
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China, China Radio Intl
Costa Rica, R Peace Intl
Ecuador, HCJB Quito
Eqt Guinea, R East Africa
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
India, All India Radio
Iraq, Radio Iraq Intl
Italy, IRAS Milan
Malaysia, Radio
Malaysia, RTM/Kota Kinab
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Radio
Nigeria, FRCNNoice of
Palau, KHBNNoice of Hope
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Philippines, FEBC/R Intl
Russia. Voice of
10001100
10001100 vi
10001030
10001015
10001100
Uganda, Radio
United Kingdom.BBC London
1000t030
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001 100
10001100
10001100
10001100
10001030
10031010 s
1020 1030 mtwtta
10301100
10301100
10301100
10301100
10301100
103011 00
13525as
95BOpa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6590as
9400am
6135as
9585af
6130do
15050as
13680eu
7125va
7295do
5980do
7260pa
6100pa
4990do
7255af
9830as
4890do
11690as
9480eu
12015eu
17810af
9450eu
6165eu
13635as
4976do
6165eu
9740na
15070af
15575me
17830af
15280as
9815am
7510am
9930as
6095ca
5985pa
11915am
9350na
6040am
11950na
7490na
5065am
5950na
10059as
5895eu
11740af
17870pa
7345eu
7160do
7260pa
11835as
13675eu
12015as
17525au
1000 UTC
15510af
17595af
11755pa
15440pa
9745pa
17490pa
21455pa
11715as
17800af
12055as
21600af
17800au
9565af
17780as
21680as
4915do
975Qas
11815as
15190as
13700pa
4990do
9675do
9550eu
17765eu
17630af
9545do
13685au
6195as
11940af
15280as
17640af
17885af
6195eu
1536Qas
13740am
11710me 13370as
17795eu 17860as
17515au
9410eu 9740as
12095af 15070af
15310as 15400eu
17705af 17790as
7345eu
7535eu
9430as
9495am
9930am
958Qas
13615pa
13595na
5935am
6045do
7285do
7370eu
9830eu
12000na
7295do
17525au
15370eu
9720pa
9810pa
13830eu
21505pa
9860pa
15170as
21725as
11755pa
15440pa
9745pa
11925pa
21455pa
7295do
15180as
17387au
17895as
9720pa
9810pa
21505pa
9550eu
15385na
9680na
17860as
11675na
9535eu
9885as
11640as
6190af
11760me
15190sa
17640af
17885af
6195as
11940af
15310as
17705eu
9410eu
12095af
15400eu
17790as
7395sa
9430as
7405am 9590am
1512Qam 15425pa
13625as
1l720pa
7285do
9675do
13815am
9850am
9930am
13595na
5935am
12025as
7370eu
15210af
15010as
9830eu
13830eu
17585me
9505eu
9810pa
15120as
15320eu
l 7850au
15395eu
21605me
62
MONITORING TIMES
May 1995
FREQUENCIES
1100-1200
1100-1200
Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
1100-1200 vi
1100-1200 vi
1100-1200vl
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200 mtwhf
1100-1200
1100-1130
1100-1200
1100-1200 as
1100-1130
1100-1150
1100-1110as
1100-1200
1100-1130
1100-1200 mtwh/vl
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1105
1100-1 150
1100-1130 s
1100-11 20
1100-1200 mtwhf
1100-1200 vi
1100-1200
13525as
9510pa
13605as
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5030ca
9400am
9745pa
12005am
958Saf
11815eu
15370af
21600af
3366do
13680eu
15640na
7125va
6120na
7295do
5980do
7160do
6100pa
4990do
6576na
9590eu
15625as
9830as
4890do
7205as
11675eu
9580pa
15170as
9710pa
15565as
9860pa
9725am
11925pa 21455pa
15115am 21455pa
15410af
17765af
17575eu
9610as
15295as
7285do
9977na
11850eu
17900as
9675do
9470eu
11835as
11335na
9550eu
11980as
Rwanda, Radio
Singapore, SBC Radio One
Singapore.A Singapore Int
Sri Lanka, SLBCColombo
Switzerland, Swiss R Intl
Taiwan. Voice of Asia
Uganda. Radio
United Kingdom.BBC London
1100-1130
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1100-1200
1130-1200
1130-1200
1130-1200 vi
1130-1200
1130-1155 s
1130-1200 a
1130-1200
1130-1200
1130-1200
1130-1200
1130-1200
1145-1200
1145-1200 s
17800af
4915do
15650eu
1100-1115
1100-1 200
1100-1200
1100-1130
1100-1130
1100-1200
1100-1102
1100-1200
9680eu
12015eu
6055do
6155do
9530as
11835as
6165eu
7445as
7110do
5965na
9410eu
11940af
15575me
21660af
5965na
9815am
7510am
9930as
6095na
5985as
9590am
11915am
6000na
6040am
7490na
5950na
13730na
9770as
8660as
11745as
7115eu
7115eu
6045eu
11655na
9650na
13775au
10059as
6055do
9955am
15120as
9535eu
7195do
6165eu
9670na
12095af
17640af
17850au
6190af
9740na
15070af
17830sa
6195na
11760me
15310as
1788Saf
9700as
15400eu
13815am
7395ca
6110as
9615as
15120am
9355eu
6165am
9760as
15160as
9425au
7405am
11720as
15425as
9850am 9930am
13595na
7355na
11740as
11445as
11790as
15135as
11930me
7130eu
7160eu
15120as
12025as
15240as
15010as
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1130
1130
1130
1130
1130
Mondays
1130
Tuesdays
1130
11 30
11 30
1130
1130
Wednesdays
1100
1130
1130
1130
11 30
1130
1145
Thursdays
1130
1130
1130
1130
1130
1145
Fridays
1130
11 30
1130
1130
1130
1130
1130
1130
1130
Saturdays
1130
HAUSER'S 11.IGHLIGIITS
CANADA: RCI
Some RCI programming as planned for summer if they can still afford it; often a few
minutes later than shown after news:
as
as
May 1995
MONITORING TIMES
63
FREQUENCIES
1200-1230
Austraha. Radio
1200-1300 v1
1200-1300 vi
1200-1300vl
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1230
1200-1215
1200-1300 v1
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1230v1
1200-1300
1200-1300 mtwhf
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300 as
1200-1300
1200-1300 vi
1200-1230
1200-1300
1200-1300 mtwh.M
1200-1300
1200-1300vl
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1235
t 200-1230 mw
1200-1230 ha
1200-1300
1200-1206
1200-1230
1200-1300 mtwhf
1200-1230a
1200-1300 vi
1200-1255
1200-1300
Russia, Voice of
5995pa
11800pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
15445na
9770as
11940as
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
8660as
8425as
15440pa
5030am
6200am
12005am
9585af
11615na
5980ca
11745as
13680eu
7125va
9560eu
7275do
7295do
5980do
15315na
7290na
7290na
6045eu
6100pa
4990do
9830as
9830as
4890do
6135eu
11815eu
7205na
6060pa
15565as
6080pa
9610as
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300 s
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1230
1206-1300 occsnal
1220-1229vl
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300 s
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1240-1250
11740as
11445as
9715as
15135as
11660as
11795pa
9725am
9400am 15050am
15115am 21455pa
13625na
15325af
11790as
11930me
12015na
12000na
7t30eu
15365na
7160eu
7285do
9675do
7t45eu
7270eu
9525eu
9470eu
9540eu
9680eu
11675at
12065me
6155do
9530as
7800as
7130au
5965na
11 750as
15310as
21660af
5810am
7510am
9930as
6095na
6110as
15160as
6000na
6040am
7490na
9955am
11745eu
5065am
5950na
6025eu
6100pa
4915do
5995pa
15565as
15450as
9650as
13675na
6150as
11735na
9850eu
6130do
4875do
6000eu
9570as
11650na
9675as
10059as
11835au
9935af
11980eu
15190af
12015af
15485eu
9610as
6190af
6195na
11760as 11940af
15575me 17640af
9410eu
12095af
17705eu
11760eu
13370eu
9815am
9425au
9645as
15425as
9455na
9760as
13625as
11 715as
9850am 9930am
13595na
5935am
7355na
9715eu
15685am
11830na 11970na
13785eu
6060pa
7260as
13615as
15520as
11800pa
11730as
11740na 15400na
15155eu 15195eu
7295do
6060eu
11740as
15240na
11655as
13670eu
12025as
11 865au
11645af
15010as
15650af
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1205
1205
1205
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
Mondays
1205
1205
1205
1205
1205
1215
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
1245
Tuesdays
1205
1205
1205
1205
1205
1215
64
MONITORING TIMES
May 1995
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
1245
Wednesdays
1205
1205
1205
1205
1205
1215
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
1245
Thursdays
1205
1205
1205
1205
1205
1215
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
1245
Fridays
1205
1205
1205
1205
1205
1215
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
1245
Saturdays
1205
1205
1205
1205
1205
1215
1215
1215
1215
1215
1230
1230
1230
1245
1245
FREQUENCIES
1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400
1300-1330 mtwhfa
1300-1320
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400 mtwhf
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400 as
1300-1330
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400 mtwh/vl
1300-1400 mtwhfa
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1325
1300-1400 occsnal
1300-1350
1300-1330 s
1300-1400 mtwhf
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
Australia. Radio
Australia. Radio
Australia. VLBA Alice Spg
Australia, VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Bahrain, Radio
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Brazil. Radiobras
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada, RCI Montreal
China, China Radio lnU
Costa Rica. RPeace lntt
Ecuador. HCJB Quito
Eqt Africa, R East Africa
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guatemala. AWR
Italy, IRRS Milan
Lebanon. Wings of Hope
Liberia, Radio ELBC
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. RTM/Kota Kinab
Malaysia, RTM/Kuching
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea, R Pyongyang
Norway, Radio Norway Intl
Palau. KHBNNoice of Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philippines, FEBC/R Intl
Romania. R Romania Intl
Russia. Voice of
1300-1400
1300-1400
5995pa
6060pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
13675na
15445na
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6150na
8425as
6200am
12005am
9585af
3366do
5980ca
7125va
9960me
7275do
7295do
5980do
7160do
6045eu
6100pa
9345as
11730as
9830as
4890do
11995as
9690eu
5925as
11765as
15460eu
6155do
9530as
7240as
6080as
11855na
9715as
9400am
15115am
9610as
11800pa
17820na
15440pa
15050am
17890am 21455eu
4915do
7130eu
7160eu
11740as
13800as
15190as
15605as
9675do
11940eu
7205eu
12065na
15470me
15390eu
954-0na
13370as
15480as
9680eu
15320eu
15560me
1300-1330
1300-1400
1300-1330
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
17885af
United Kingdom.BBC London
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA, KJES Mesquite NM
USA. KNLS Anchor Point AK
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. VOA Washington DC
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400 s
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1303-1310
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400 tw
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1335-1345
1345-1400
7250as
5990as
7180na
11750as
15070af
15575me
21660af
15105af
5810am
11715na
7365as
7510am
6095na
6110as
15160as
6000na
604-0am
7490na
9955am
11745eu
5065am
5950na
11970na
5895eu
13830eu
6155eu
6150as
9400am
11735na
4915do
13732as
15315eu
9895as
12015as
11650na
6165eu
13675eu
6025eu
10059as
15650na
11625as
7480as
6190af
9410eu
11760me
15220na
17640af
11640as 13635as
6195na
7110as
9515na 9740na
11940af 12095af
15310as 1542Qaf
17705eu 17830af
9815am
9455na
9645as
15425as
7425na
9930am
13595na
13625as
9760as
5935am
9705na
13695af
7370eu
15685am
11550na 11630na
13730eu
9535as
15450as
154-00na
17740na
11805as
12160na
15105am
9830eu
13640eu
15120as
13700as 15150as
15190eu
15240na
9535eu
15320eu 15395eu
9715eu
13785eu
12025as 15010as
17520na
12050as 15585pa
21605me
SELECTED PROGRAMS
HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS
Sundays
1305
1311
1340
Mondays
1304
1305
1316
1330
1341
1346
Tuesdays
Wednesdays
1305
1306
1310
1316
1330
1341
1347
Thursdays
1305
1305
1308
1314
21630
21500
21485
17885
17765
17740
15380
15315
Fridays
15265
13605
11970
11885
1305
1306
1310
1320
1330
1335
1341
Saturdays
1305
1305
11815
9780
9770
9605
7215
6180
0800-1000.
0900-1100
1600-1700
0900-1359
1100-1300
1000-1200
0800-0900
0600-1100
1359-1500
0400-0500
1359-1500
0600-1000
1359-1 900
0600-0800
0900-1000
1100-1600
1200-1500
1500-2200
0600-0700
1700-1900
0200-0600,
1500-1800
02.Q0-0500
MONITORING TIMES
65
FREQUENCIES
1400-1500
1400-1430
Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
14001500 vi
14001500 vi
14001500 vf
1400-1500
1400-1500 vf
14001500
14001500
1400-1500
1400-1500
14001500
14001500
14001500s
14001500
14001500
14001430
14001500 as
14001500
14001420
1400-1500 vi
1400-1500
1400-1500 mtwh/vl
14001500
14001500 mtwhfa
1400-1500 vi
14001500
1400-1500
14001500
14001500
1400-1500 s
1400-1500
1400 1500 occsnal
1400-1405
1400-1430 s
1400-1430 mtwhf
1400-1500
8743af
5995pa
11800pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
11955na
4200as
6200am
12005am
9585af
5405as
3366do
5980ca
13732as
7125va
9535na
11915as
9960me
7275do
7295do
5980do
7160do
11925eu
17575af
9895as
6100pa
4990do
13800na
9830as
11995as
10623af
7240pa
9610pa
17820na
7405na
9535as
9785as
9400am 15050am
15115am 21455eu
7110as
4915do
17560af
15120as
9750as
13700as
11 705na
15150as
7285do
17795na
14001500
Russia, Voice of
1400-1500
1400-1500 vf
1400-1500
1400-1500
14001500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
14001500
1400-1500 as
14001500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1415 1500 mtwtfa
14301500
1430-1500
1430-1500
14301500
14301500
1430-1500 s
1430-1500
14301500
1445-1500
9710pa
11840as
5925as
9830na
15320as
6155do
9455af
5975as
5990as
7180as
9740na
15070af
17830af
13815am
11715na
7510am
9355as
6110as
15160as
7425na
6040am
7490na
9955am
11745eu
5065am
9705na
6065af
5025do
5995pa
9710pa
11800pa
9555me
15325me
11445as
15115am
11735na
3366do
5990do
11740as
7290na
7205as
12015as
15465eu
7490as
9680eu
12065eu 13370as
15480as 15560as
7275as
6190af
9410eu
11750as
15575me
17840na
15725am
11740as
6195as
9515na
11940af
17640af
21470af
711 0as
9660as
12095af
17705eu
21660af
7215as
15205as
9645as
15395as
9760as
15425as
9930am
13595na
15105am
13845am 15685am
11 550na 11830na 17760na
6060pa
977oas
6080pa
11660as
7260as
11695pa
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1401
1401
1401
1405
1405
1415
1415
1430
1445
Mondays
BBC (af): Outlook. An up-to-the-minute mix of
conversation, controversy and
color from around the world.
1405 BBC (am): Outlook. See M 1405.
1405 BBC (as pac): Outlook. See M 1405.
1405 BBC (eu): Outlook. See M 1405.
1405 BBC (south as): Outlook. See M 1405.
t 430 BBC (af): John Peel. See S 0530.
t430 BBC (am): Omnibus. See M 1130.
1430 BBC (as pac): Health Matters. See M 0445.
1430 BBC (eu): John Peel. See S 0530.
1405
Propagation Forecasting
1430
1445
Tuesdays
1405
1405
1405
1405
1405
1415
1430
1430
1430
1430
t 445
Wednesdays
1405
1405
1405
1405
1405
1430
1430
1430
1430
1430
1445
1445
Thursdays
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MONITORING TIMES
May 1995
t 405
t405
1405
1405
1405
1430
1430
1430
1430
1430
Fridays
1405
1405
1405
1405
1405
1430
1430
1430
1430
1430
1445
1445
Saturdays
1405
1405
1405
1405
1405
1450
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Australia, AF Radio
Australia, Radio
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 v1
1500-1600 v1
1500-1600 vi
1500-1600
1500-1600 v1
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 s
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 as
1500-1550
1500-1600 mt
1500-1600
1500-1600 mtwhM
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 mtwhfa
1500-1600 v1
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1515
1500-1525
1500-1600 occsnal
1500-1530
1500-1600
1500-1550
1500-1600
Guam, TWR/KTWR
Italy, AWA Europe
Italy, IRAS Milan
Japan. NHK/Radio
Jordan. Radio
Lebanon, Wings of Hope
Liberia, Radio ELBC
Malaysia, Radio
Malaysia, RTM/Kota Kinab
Malaysia, RTM/Kuching
Maha, V of Mediterranean
Mongolia, A Ulan Bator
Netherlands, Radio
New Zealand, A NZ Intl
Nigeria, FRCN/Radio
Nigeria, FRCNNoice of
Nonh Korea, A Pyongyang
Palau, KHBNNoice of Hope
8743af
5995pa
9710pa
11800pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
11955na
4200as
620Qam
6080do
9585af
7195af
17800af
11580as
7230eu
7125va
9535na
9560eu
9960me
7275do
7295do
5980do
7160do
11 925eu
7290as
9895as
6100pa
4990do
7255af
9325eu
9965as
10623af
6060pa
9770as
6080pa 7260as
11660as 11695pa
17820na
7405na 9335as 9785as
9400am 15050am
15115am 17490eu 21455eu
9735af
9750as
11965af
11955as
15145af
15355af
12000na
13700as 15150as
7285do
9977na
13785eu
1500-1600
1500-1530
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 mtwhfa
1500-1600
1500-1600 vi
1500-1600
1500-1530
1500-1600
1500-1530
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 as
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1520-)530 mtwtf
1530-1600
1530-1545
1530-1600
1530-1600
1530-1600 mtwhf
1530-1600
1545-1600
11995as
11740as
4940as
7490as
12065me
7225af
9810as
6155do
9455af
9720as
9885as
5990as
9515na
11750as
15260na
21470af
15420af
13815am
7510am
9930as
9355as
6110as
9700as
6000na
9930am
15715eu
7490na
9955am
15665eu
121 60am
11 830na
6065af
5925eu
11780as
7140as
9575as
9895as
2151 5me
5920eu
9500as
11a1oas 15335as
6035eu
7115na
9600eu 9820eu
15465eu
7345na
1201 5eu
11870as
15425as
12075as
6190af
9660as
11940af
15400eu
21660af
17790af
15725am
13635as
6195eu
9740na
12095me
17830af
9410eu
11705eu
15070af
17840na
21490af
7125as
7215as
9645as
9760as
15205me 15395as
7425na
13760am 15105am
13595na
13845am 15685am
15215na 17760ca
7412as
11790as
15150as
9910as
11670me
7130na
11640as
7150af
9800eu
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1501 BBC (south as): Variable Drama. See S 1130.
1505 BBC (at): Education Express. See S 0435.
1505 BBC(am): From Our Own Correspondent. See S 0130.
1505 BBC (as pac): Sportswortd. The weekly sports magazine.
1505 BBC (eu): Spons Roundup. See S 0315.
1515 BBC (as pac): Variable Feature. See S 0115.
1515 BBC (eu): BBC English. For learners of English.
1525 BBC (am): Book Choice. Short book reviews every week.
1530 BBC (at): Variable Comedy/Quiz Feature. Panel quiz show~
and salire.
1530 BBC (am): Variable Comedy/Quiz Feature. See S 1530.
1530 BBC (eu): New Ideas. Window on the world of 1echnology,
innovation and new products.
1545
1545
Tuesdays
Mondays
1500
1505
1505
1505
1505
1515
1515
1515
1530
1530
1545
1545
1500
1505
Wednesdays
1505
1505
1505
1515
1515
1515
1530
1530
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1500
1505
1505
1505
1505
1515
1515
1515
1530
1530
1530
1530
1540
1545
1545
Thursdays
1500
1505
1505
1505
1505
1515
1515
1515
1530
1530
1530
1545
1545
Fridays
1500
1505
1505
1505
1505
1515
1515
1515
1530
1530
1545
1545
Saturdays
1505
1505
1505
1505
1505
FREQUENCIES
1600-1615
1600-1630
1600-1700 vf
1600-1700 vi
1600-1700 vi
1600-1700
1600-1700 vi
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700 s
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1650
1600-t700
t600-1615 mt
1600-1630 whfas
1600-1630
16001700 mtwhlvl
1600-1700
1600-1630 mtwhfa
1600-1700 vf
1600-1700
1600-1625
1600-1649 occsnal
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1630
Guam, AWR/KSDA
Guam. TWR/KTWR
Guam. TWR/KTWR
Iran. VOIRI Tehran
Italy. IRRS Milan
Jordan, Radio
Lebanon, Wings of Hope
Liberia. Radio EL8C
Malaysia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCN/Radio
Nigeria, FRCNNoice of
Pakistan. Radio
1600-1700
Russia, Voice of
1600-t 700
1600-1700
7155eu
5995pa
9710pa
11800pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
962Sdo
600Sdo
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
11955na
11575as
6200am
6080do
7165af
6175eu
12015af
6170as
9585as
9370as
11580as
11580as
9575as
7125va
9760eu
6060pa
977Qas
6080pa
11660pa
7260as
11695pa
17820na
15110af 15130af
9400am 15050am
1535~u 21455eu
9560af
9485me 11615af 11700af
15530af
7225as
7305as
9525as
11795as 13790na
11790as
9S~u
9960me
7275do
7295do
9895as
6100pa
4990do
725Saf
9435at
1555Saf
590Seu
6035as
7490eu
17780eu
7240af
615Sdo
15150as
1600-1 700 vi
1600-1700
1600-1630
1600-1700
1600-1640
1600-1700
Slovakia, AWR
South Korea. RKorea Intl
Sri Lanka. SLBC Colombo
Swaziland, Trans World R
UAE, Radio Dubai
United Kingdom.BBC London
1600-1615
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700 as
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
17760na
1600-1700
16t51700
1615-1630
1630-1700
21525af
6065af
5975as
7250eu
6060pa
9860pa
11880pa
1630-1700
1630-1700 mtwhfa
1630-1700
1630-1700
1640-21650 s
1645-1700
1650-1700 mtwhf
7150as
4760do
6110eu
3306do
605Sdo
7245as
6145pa
7285do
9470af
15675at
5950eu
7205na
9550na
11570af
17660af
5965eu
7345na
11920na
15240af
13590af
6015as
7370eu
15105af
9455af
5975as
972Qas
9500af
13675eu
3915as
9515na
12095af
17830af
5990as
21470af
13815am
15590am
6120as
9355at
3970af
9645as
12040af
15320af
17785af
9455na
6120am
15715eu
7490na
9955am
15420am
15665eu
12160am
11830na
9515af
15425as
9870af
15320eu
6190af
9740as
15070af
21660af
9660as
t5395me
6195eu
941Qaf
1175Qas 11940af
15260na 15400eu
17705eu
17840na
7125as
9760as
15205as
15410af
7215as
11920af
15225af
15445at
15725am
21640af
6110as
9700as
13710af
15395as
17895af
15695eu
13760am
15105am
13595na
13845am 15685eu
15215na 15566eu
2t745eu
9630af
9510as
964Seu
6080pa
7260as
11660pa 1169Spa
15420af
9710pa
9550as
7150na
3396do
7380as
4828do
9800eu
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Sundays
1615
1615
t615
1615
Mondays
1615
1615
1615
1615
1615
1645
1645
1645
1645
BBC (af): Fast Track. The latesl African sports news and
action.
BBC (am): Variable Feature. See S 0115.
BBC (as pac): Mullitrack: Hit List. The UK Top 20.
BBC (eu): Variable Feature. See S 0115.
BBC (south as): Omnibus. See M 1130.
BBC (al): The World Today. Examines thoroughly a topical
aspect of theintemational scene.
BBC (am): Britain Today. See S 0045.
BBC (as pac): Britain Today. See S 0045.
BBC (south as): The World Today. See M 1645.
Tuesdays
1615
1615
1615
t615
1615
1630
1645
1645
1645
1645
Wednesdays
1615 BBC (af): Talkabout Africa. Telephone conversations with
BBC correspondents on late-breaking African events.
1615 BBC (am): Meridian. See S 0630.
1615 BBC (as pac): Multilrack: XPress. New pop records.
inlerviews. news andcompeJitions.
1615 BBC (eu): Variable Feature. See S 01 ts.
1615 BBC (south as}: Discovery. See T 0230.
1645 BBC (af): The Wor1d Today. See M 1645.
1645 BBC (am): Britain Today. See S 0045.
1645 BBC (as pac): Britain Today. See S 0045.
1645 BB<: (eu): Folk Routes. See T 0030.
1645 BBC (south as}: The World Today. See M 1645.
Thursdays
1645
BBC (at}: The Jive Zone. Keep in the groove with all lhe
latest sounds onl he Afro music scene
BBC (am): Sports International. See H 0230.
BBC (as pac): Variable Music Feature. See S 0015.
BBC (eu): Variable Feature. See S 0115.
BBC (south as): Network UK. See H 1430.
BBC (al): The Wor1d Today. See M 1645.
BBC (am): Britain Today. See S 0045.
BBC (as pac): Britain Today. See S 0045.
BBC (eu): Fourth Estate. NEW! John Eidinow and his team
review the European press.
BBC (south as}: The World Today. See M 1645.
Fridays
t6t5
1615
16t5
1615
1615
1645
1645
1645
1645
1615
1615
1615
1615
1615
1645
1645
1645
1645
Saturda~s
1605
1605
1605
1615
1615
HAUSER'S IIIGHLIGlITS
llAwAn: KWHR
Summer schedule: 17510 fro~ 2200,
17780 0400, 9930 0800, 6120 1600,
13625 1800, 15405 2000 (George
Jacobs & Associates)
JAPAN: RADIO JAPAN
MONITORING TIMES
69
1700 UTC
1 :00 PM EDT/10:00 AM PDT
SltlltT\\'A\'81
17001800
Australia. Radio
17001800 vi
17001800 vi
17001800 vi
17001800
17001800
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700 1800 as
1700-1800
1700-1730
1700-1800
1700-1730
1700-1800 mtwh/vl
1700-1800
17001730
1700-1800 vi
1700 1800 mtwhf
1700-1800
1700-1750
1700-1750
17001755
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800 vi
1700-1715
1700-1730
1700-1720
1700-1800
1700-1715
1100-m5
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1800
17001800
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1800 smtwhf
1700-1800 as
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1705-1800
1715-1730 mtwhf
1715-1800
1730-1800
1730-1800
1730-1800
1730-1800
1730-1800
1730-1745
1730-1800
1745-1800
1745-1800
1745-1800 mtwhf
15410af
USA, WEWN Birmingham AL
USA, WHAi Noblesville IN
USA, WINS Red Lion PA
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WMLK Bethel PA
USA, WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WVHA Green Bush ME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. R Christian Voice
Zimbabwe. ZBC/Radio 4
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
Swaziland. Trans World R
United Kingdom.BBC London
Austria, R Austria Intl
Moldova. RMoldova Intl
Netherlands, Radio
Romania, R Romania Intl
Russia. Voice of
Sweden, Radio
Vatican State, Vatican R
Armenia. Radio Yerevan
Bangladesh. Radio
Canada. RCI Montreal
1745-1800
70
MONITORING TIMES
6060pa
9710pa
11880pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
7160eu
6010do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
4130as
5030am
6200am
5930as
6080do
9485as
7125va
6150na
9560eu
7275do
6145pa
3326do
9325eu
7485eu
6000eu
5905me
7345eu
9890eu
7240af
7270as
7120af
6205af
4976do
3955eu
6190af
9630af
12095af
17830al
9515na
3915as
13815am
15590am
7425as
9355af
5900as
7125as
9645as
9770af
12040af
15445af
9455na
6120am
15715eu
7490na
9465eu
9955am
t5420am
17612af
12160am
15566eu
6065af
3306do
3366do
7120af
7160me
9665me
7235eu
6020af
9510af
7130me
6065eu
7305af
4810eu
7190eu
5995me
17820eu
7412eu
11935af
May 1995
6080pa
9860pa
7260as
9580pa
11660pa 11695pa
9580as
18001830
18001900
18001900
18001900 vi
18001900 vi
18001900
18001900
1800-1830
1800-1900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
1800-1900
1800-1830
1800-1900
1800-1830
1800-1900
1800-1900 mtwh/vl
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1830 mtwhfa
1800-1900
1800-1900
18001830
1800-1849 mtwhf
18001830
18001830 s
18001900
18001900 vi
1800-1900 irreg
1800-1900
18001845
18001900
Slovakia. AWR
Sudan. Sudan Natl BC
Swaziland, Trans World R
Swaziland, Trans World R
United Kingdom.BBC London
18001830
1800-1900
1800-1900
18001900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900 as
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1845
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1830-1900
1830-1900
Netherlands. Radio
1830-1845
18301900
18301900
1830-1900
1833-1900
184-01850
1845-1900 irreg s
18501900
Rwanda, Radio
Slovakia, R Slovakia Intl
United Kingdom.BBC London
Yugoslavia, Radio
Cote D' lvoire. RDTV
Greece, Voice of
Mali. RDTV Malienne
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
11930as
4990do
9640af
9977af
13785eu
11570eu
7270eu
7285eu
7115eu
7325na
5950eu
7370eu
7490eu 9550na
11825na 11920na 11980as
9450as
9885af
13635me
5975as
6195eu
9740as
15070af
6005af
9410eu
11750as
15400af
6180eu
9510as
11940af
15420af
15260na
15725am
21640af
5990eu
7215as
9670af
11895af
13710af
17895af
15695eu
13760am
6045as
7235as
9700eu
11920af
15205as
6110as
9525as
9760af
11945af
15395as
15105am
13595na
13845am 15685eu
17760na
3396do
4828do
11780as
9605af
9750af
7340eu
11655af
11740af
9520na
9695af
9725af
4990eu
7480eu
9647eu
11935me 13610eu
9650me
13750as
7405af
9535as
11575af
9725am
9400am 15050am
7345eu
9420me
15490eu 21455eu
11700af
9535na
1800 UTC
11940af
9720eu
11625af
15325eu
9950me 11620eu
15075me
7230eu
11715eu
6060pa
11660as
2310do
2325do
6010do
9730eu
71 90~u
9647eu
9925af
9700eu
5910eu
7305eu
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
6200am
5930eu
6080do
3366do
7412eu
11935af
7125va
4885do
11990na
6550eu
7275do
4760do
6020af
6145pa
3326do
5960eu
4940eu
7180as
9550eu
13670af
9455af
9200af
3200af
9500af
3955eu
6195eu
11955as
15420af
5975as
13815am
15385na
15590am
13625as
9355me
4875af
9760eu
13710af
9455na
9495am
15715eu
7490na
9465eu
9955am
15420am
17612af
t2160am
15566eu
17760na
9780as
6065af
3306do
5035eu
5970eu
6015af
9895af
6055do
5915eu
3255af
6100eu
11920do
9935af
4783do
11910pa
6080pa
11695pa
9580pa
11880pa
9860pa
9400am 15050am
7345eu
9420eu
15490eu 21455eu
4915do
9650me 9950me 11620eu
13750as 15075me
4935do
9605af
11655af
4990do
5905me
7345eu
9860eu
5950eu
7370eu
9890eu
6065as
7490eu
11945as
6005af
9410eu
12095eu
17830af
7160me
15725am
6180eu
963Qaf
15070af
6190af
9740as
15400af
9510as
11940af
21640af
604-0eu
12040af
9700eu
13680af
15665eu
4985af
11920af
15580af
15695eu
13625am
13760eu
13595na
13845am 15685am
3396do
5260eu
9505eu
6020af
15315af
4828do
594-0eu
9605af
17605af
7345eu
9720af
11645af
4835do
5995do
5960eu
9860af
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19002000 vi
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19002000 vi
19002000
1900-1945
19002000
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19002000
19002000
19002000
19002000 mtwhf
19002000
19001930
19002000
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19001930
19001945
19002000 mtwh/vl
19002000
19002000
19002000
19002000
19002000
19001925
19002000
19002000
19002000 vi
19001930
19002000
19002000
19001915
19002000 vi
19002000
19002000
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19001930
Rwanda. Radio
Slovakia, AWR
South Korea, R Korea Intl
Spain, R Exterior Espana
Swaziland. Trans World R
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72
MONITORING TIMES
6060pa
7260as
11660pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
7190as
15268eu
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
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6955af
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3975eu
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4885do
11990eu
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5995eu
6110eu
7370eu
9890eu
6055af
9455as
597s'eu
9675af
3200af
3985eu
9885af
9655eu
4976do
3255af
6190af
9630af
15070af
13815am
15590am
17775am
13625as
9355me
3980eu
9700af
12040af
15445af
9455eu
9495am
12160eu
7490na
9465eu
9955am
15420am
9930af
11970am
17760af
6065af
3306do
5945eu
9665me
6120eu
7260af
7290na
6020af
11655af
6000eu
7250eu
4976do
7275eu
5940eu
4010eu
May 1995
6080pa
6150as
7240pa
9560as
9580pa
9860pa
11695pa 11880pa
9647eu
9725am
15050am 1791Oam
15490eu 17490eu
9665af
9670af
11810af 11865af
15425af
6110eu
7220eu
9650me 9950me
13750as 15075me
21455eu
9765af
13790af
7140au
9580au
9535na
11620eu
4935do
6020af
15315af
9605af
17605af
3240af
6135af
11640af
9700eu
5026do
3955eu
6195eu
9740as
15400af
15725am
15665eu
6040eu
9760af
13710af
15580af
15375eu
13625am
6190eu
7195eu
7205eu
7345eu
9550eu
9800na
12050na 15205af
6165eu
9770af
13635af
11855eu 11905eu
6005af
7160me
11955as
17830af
17510af
7415af
11870as
15180pa
17800af
15695eu
13760eu
6180eu
9410eu
12095me
9525pa
11920af
15410af
19379af
13595na
13845am 15685am
3396do 4828do
6155eu
13730af
9730eu
11755eu
9022eu
13670na
9605af
9860af
15315af 17605af
6135eu
7285eu
5026do
9575eu
7105eu
5882eu
11905eu
7210eu
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20002100 vi
20002100 vi
20002100
20002020
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20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002050
20002030
20002010
20002100
20002030
20002010
20002015 mtwhM
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002025
20002050
20002005
20002100
20002050
20002100 vi
20002025
20002030 mtwhf
20002100
20002030
20002100 vi
20002100 vi
20002045 s
20002100
20002015
20002030
Russia, Voice of
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Solomon Islands, SIBC
Swaziland, Trans Woifd R
Turkey, Voice of
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United Kingdom.BBC London
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100 as
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100
20002100 as
20002100
20002100
20002045
20002100
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20002030
20002100
20052100
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20252045
20302100 mt
20302100 as
20302100 asmtwh
2030-2100
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20302100
20302100
20302050
20302100
20452100
20512100
9860af
9675do
6105eu
7170eu
7490eu
11825as
20002100
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9895af
7405eu
11715eu
6060pa
9580pa
11855as
2310do
2485do
2325do
6010do
15268eu
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
4130as
11715na
6200am
6080do
5960eu
3366do
9375eu
9675as
7260af
7405na
15640af
7125va
4885do
11990eu
7275do
4760do
6020af
11655af
119t0pa
3326do
7255af
6576eu
4890do
6000eu
6130af
6085eu
7345eu
9890na
15385na
5920eu
6055eu
5020do
3240af
9445eu
4976do
6190af
15070af
3255af
6195eu
1t750sa
13815am
15590am
17775am
9355eu
3980eu
9760af
15205me
17725af
9455na
9495am
12160eu
7490na
9465eu
9955am
15420am
11 970eu
21525af
13695af
7355af
6065af
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12085eu
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2200-2300
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22002300
22002300
22002245
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22302300
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Clem Small
That Marcon i made many importan t contributions to the field of radio is undisputed:
without question he was the pivotal figure in
the early development of w ireless communication. Nevertheless. it is also trm: that there
were many other persons working on
similar systems o f their own design
during the same period of hi story.
Some of them demonstrated wireless
communication systems very sim ilar
to Marconi ' s, and some even produced thei r sys tems ea rli e r tha n
The "Father" of Radio
Marcon i prod uced his .
Marcon is work on w ire less began in 1894
In fact. the questi o n o f "W ho disafte r he read the o bit uary o f He inri ch Hertz.
covered rad io?" docs not have a
TOP: Two men whose driving ambition shaped the
the man who first convi nc ing ly demonstrated
simple answer- at l ea~t. not o ne
course
of radio: David Samoff amt Guglielmo
wh ic h can be s u bs tant iated to
e lectromagneti c wave~ to the scie nti fic world .
Marconi visit the RCA Communications transmitting
Re ading of He rtz "s achi evements led Marconi
everyone 'ssatisfaction. Therefore. it
center at Rocky Point, NY, in 1933 (NBC photo
to po nde r the poss ibilities of utili zing Hen z s
is fitting that othe r contributo rs to
pro vided by Maury Midlo). BOTTOM: Italian bank
find ings as a basis for wire less signalling. He
radio s histo ry should be mentioned
note, courtesy Giovanni Serra.
cut sho rt hi s vacatio n a nd headed fo r home to
in this tribute to the di~covcry of
begin working o n thi s idea. By 1895 he had
radio.
o n the ground . Even today. many persons who
Lo ng before Marconi s work was started.
sent wire less s ignals acro~s a space of two
are know ledgeable in the fie ld of antennas
miles. thus turning his vision into reality.
various scientists had pointed o ut the possicall a grou nded. verti cal. quarterwave anFor hi s wire less com m unicatio n system
bility of electromagnetic waves (what we
tenna a Marconi .
Marconi borrowed Hen zs idea of utiliz ing
now also call ''radio waves: which could
As hi s work progressed Marconi was able
the spark-coil as a transmitter to produce hi s
travel through space wi tho ut connecting wires.
to communicate over greater and g reater dissig nals. and o f usi ng the halfwave dipole
We find that as early as 1832 the Englishman
tances. perseveri ng in de mo nstrating the value
antenna to rad iate and rece ive them. For the
Mic hael Faraday wrote. 1 am inclined to
of wi reless, even when Ita ly. hi s ho me couns ig nal detector he used a device deve loped by
compare the diffusion of mag netic forces from
try. could sec no value in hi s syste m. Ult iEdo uard Branly: the coherer. Th is device
a magne ti c pole to the vibrations upon the
mately. governme nt o ffic ials in Eng land beal lowed him to attain much greate r sens iti vity
surface of disturbed water, to those of air in
came interested in hi s success at sending
a nd di stance than the s imple, vis ible-spark
the pheno me no n of sound , i.e., I arn incli ned
wireless s ig nal s th rough space. and muc h of
detecto rs used by He rt z.
to think the vi brato ry theory wi ll apply to
hi s subseque nt work was do ne in that country.
Marconi a lso contributed vario us inventhese phe no mena as it docs to sound. and most
Pe rhaps the most memorable moment in
tio ns of his own: for exampl e. the familiar
probably to light.'"
the histo ry of wire less came in 190 I as the
grounded . vertical. quartcrwave ante nna. He
As earl y as 1837 Joseph He nry. in the
world heard in awe an d ad mirati o n that
de vised thi s antenna by rotating one e lement
U.S.A .. was ab le to receive and detec t the
Marconi had sent wire less s igna ls compl etely
electromagnetic sig na ls which result from
of a Hertzian halfwa ve d ipole from its horiacross the Atlantic Ocean. There was utterl y
zontal orie ntat io n to a vert ical position. and
lightning discha rge~: his reports indicate that
no doubt now that wireless telegraphy was
he understood the o~c ill ato ry nature of these
attaching it toa ven ical metal cyli nder mounted
about to become a maj or conte nder in the fie ld
o n a pole. He then ~ubs titut cd a metal plate for
waves and the si milarity of their action to that
of commerc ial and military communi cations.
the other c le me nt a nd placed the metal plate
of light waves.
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Then, in 1864, Maxwell , the great Scottish mathe mat ici an and physicist who also
came to see heat, li ght , and other manifestations of the electromagnetic waves as
part of the same spectrum. gave us the
famous ''Maxwe ll 's Equation s." These
equations indicated in mathe matical terms
that e lectromagnetic waves were a physical real ity. Maxwell 's Equations are now
basic mathematical tools in radio communicat ion engineering.
In 1888. the German physicist Heinrich
He rt z, fo ll owing Maxwell's lead, per- Snapshots in DXing History: Marconi 's desk in
the summer of I 895, a few days after his first
formed ex perime nts wh ic h convinced the
succes.1f11l tra11smissio11 of the letter "S" in CW to
scientific world that the electromagnetic
his brother, located just a mile away! (Thanks to
waves predicted by Maxwell's equations George Karaya1111opo11los)
did indeed ex ist. and that the y could travel
through space without interve ning w ires to
Lodge, an English sc ientist who had earlier
complete the ir c ircu it. Marconi then utilized
come very close to de monstrating the existHe rtz' s findin gs as a basis for his own work.
ence of wireless waves prio r to He rt z, transHowever. there were other persons who
mitted wireless signals 150 yards with a sysprod uced working wireless systems prior to
tem which he had devised.
He rtz' s work. In 187 1, Elihu Thomson, an
However, perhaps the best-known conAmerican. developed a system w ith transmittender wi th Marconi for the inve ntion of
ting compone nts si milarto those later used by
w irele ss te leg raph y was th e Ru ss ian.
Marconi, a nd Thomson used his system to
Alexander S . Poppov, who described hi s wi retransmit wireless signals for s hort di stances at
less telegraph to the Russian Physical Soc ithe school where he taught.
ety in 1895. Poppov also reportedly develIn 1880, an Englishman, David Hughes,
oped the grounded vertical antenna prior to
demonstrated his "experime nts upon aerial
Marcon i's discovery of that design.
transmission" to a group of eminent scie nEven so, in the same year that Marconi's
tists. sending and receiving signal s over a
and Poppov 's early work was be ing do ne,
di stance of 500 yards. Unfort unate ly fo r him.
Captain Henry B. Jackson of the British Navy
the sc ientists to which he demonstrated hi s
began working on the idea of sending s ignals
work convinced him that his system utilized
through space with Hertzian apparatus; this
only inducti on rather than the new waves that
was before he had heard of Marconi. Jackson s
we now realize were the basis of hi s success.
work was held confidential at the time, and
He was di scouraged by thi s negati ve evaluatherefore was not well known. About the
tion and didn ' t realize what he had discovered
same time as Marconi was pursuing hi s work.
until Hertz ' s later work became known. In
Adolphus Slaby- a German scient ist someGermany, at about the same time as Hughes 's
times called ''the German Marconi"-was
experiments. Ludtge discovered a s imilar sysalso working on the transmi ssion of w ire less
tem.
signals. Slaby reported that he was unable to
In the U.S.A., as early as 1893, the legendtransmit no more than I 00 meters w ith hi s
ary Ni kola Tes la developed. and then w ide ly
syste m, until he was able to study Marconi' s
demonstrated, a working wireless communisyste m w ith its improved a ntenna.
cation system. Muc h later-fi ve months after
There were many other persons who, a long
Tesla's death in 1943-Tesla' s syste m was
with Marconi and the othe rs just di scussed,
judged by the United States Supreme Court to
contributed to the history o f the deve lopment
have preceded Marconi 's. In 1894, Sir Olive r
of radio. Thi s short rev iew has purpose ly om itted reference to the many
" non-radio" w ireless systems based on
electromagnetic induction as well as to
o- r:=:Clf~~
that of Mah lon Loomis, w hose successeo~"
ful wireless system seems also to have
functi oned on the basis of phenomena
other than rad io waves.
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AMERICAN BANDSCAN
THE WORLD OF DOMESTIC BROADCASTING
Sl<ip Time!
Es openings alway s start on low frequen c ies and 111ove up . Channel 2 is affected first.
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PRESERVING THE
WllD LIFE
NOW YOU'RE
TALKING!
was written with you, the
reader, in mind.
CILQ-FM Toronto, " Q/07, " is a potential skip catch for readers in the
deep South or the western Plains.
SKIPPING
IN
Ad d r e s s - - - - - - -- - -- -
WIBG-1020
Ocean City, N.J.
WWRV-1330
New York
(relayed by RVC-532 in the Caribbean)
WOND-1400
Pleasantville, N.J.
WFPG-1450
Atlantic City, N.J.
City
State
Zip
MT
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01
416.050
Use
C/ M (CONTROL/
MOBILES)
418.625
REPEATER OUTPUT
02
416.325
C/M
418. 900
RPTR OUT
03
418.750
SIMPLEX CARTOCAR
04
418.675
SIMPLEX CARTOCAR
05
415.600
C/M
418.825
RPTR OUT
06
416.200
C/M
418.950
RPTR OUT
07
417.025
C/M
418.975
RPTR OUT
08
418.975
SIMPLEX CARTOCAR
09
413.975
C/ M
417.750
RPTR OUT
10
417.750
SIMPLEX
All of the above use o svboudib/e tone of 156.7
Hz (PL code 5A)
The DEA now has two other radio systems that have not been reported before. One
is for local operat ions and the other is for
HIDTA Projects (High Inte nsity Dru g Traffic Arca)
Use
01
416.375
418.775
417.400
419.000
414.600
41 9.200
413.975
419.225
411.125
419.250
414.425
419.275
414.525
419.300
C/M
RPTR OUT
C/ M
RPTR OUT
C/M
RPTR OUT
C/ M
RPTR OUT
C/ M
RPTR OUT
C/ M
RPTR OUT .
C/M
RPTR OUT
02
03
04
05
06
07
Wh ile we are ta lking about drug e nforcement. the Federal Bureau ofinvestigation (FBI)
also has the ir Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The FB I
rad ios have the associated rad io channels in
the .. D-Zonc .. o f their radios. They are:
The Uni ted Sta tes Navy has its own criminal investigators. They arc cal led the Naval
lnvcstigative Service. Their channel layout
is:
Chan
Chan
Dl
168.8625
D2
D3
D4
164.5500
164.5500
166.4625
167.5625
D7
167.5375
163.8625
167.5375
167. 100
DB
155.475
D5
D6
Use
C/MOCDETF NATIONAL
RPTR
RPTR OUT
SIMPLEX
TREASURY COMMON
FBI COMMON NATION
WIDE
SPECIAL CASE SIMPLEX
C/M-SPECIAL CASE RPTR
RPTR OUT
DEPT OF ENERGY
COMMON
LAW ENFORCEMENT
SIMPLEX
167.9 Hz (6Z)
Let s go down to the water for some scan ning. The Coast Guard Securi ty Service has
been reported on the fo ll owi ng:
US Navy
01
140.775
140.075
02
140.775
03
140.075
04
139.525
05
140.650
06
140.675
07
138.650
08
140.025
The Subovdible tones ore:
127.3 Hz (3A)
141 .4 Hz (4A}
173.8 Hz (6A)
192.8 Hz (7 A)
C/M
RPTR OUT
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
Coast Guard
Chan
Freq
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
41 5.925
416.850
417.125
419.925
41 5.625
409.825
419.125
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419.425
414.500
414.025
414.050
414. 150
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414.350
419.325
414.350
419.375
414.450
419.400
414.475
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412.125
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WDS
KZV698
WHX790
WHX614
WHX790
WHX790
KZV698
KGA4 12
WHX614
WDS
WHX790
KGA412
WDS
KZY698
WDS
WHX614
WHX6 14
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C6WD
C6HH6
ZCAB2
C6WA
C6WE
6WP
C6FN
C6WH
C6Hl4
C6FL
C6HH8
C6WU
48.8 m.
96.5
340.5
340
342.9
342.9
245.4
340
245.4
245.4
196.5
255.5
133969 grt
31677
133375
149608
139150
139150
54537
149608
54563
54537
31677
57830
QZOQ
GCCV
GQAD
GWFU
GJPS
OPY
GPUY
GWFH
GOPX
GUHG
GOPW
MMTQ3
270.5
91.3
165.5
162.7
284.8
91.4
166.5
162.7
91.4
166.5
91.3
161.2
58394
1599
11897
10631
75536
2144
11896
10631
2144
11897
2144
13340
EL009
ELOP2
ELOP4
LOPS
ELOP7
ELOP8
ELOP6
161.2
92.7
155
191.5
92.7
191.6
191.6
12806
1944
11 503
19568
1944
216 19
21619
995
1360
9YBK
191.5
9YFX
19568
07.l
S6AM
171
9VGG
17829
272
9VGT
70. 1
12975
FNLX
347.8
FNSI
348.8
FNYP
FNSL
161.2
348.8
13544
FNYP
161.2
13544
LMCG
LIMA
LAWM
LATI
73. l
54. l
162.7
73.2
499
471
9762
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Frequencies used by oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico
33.3600
33.3600
33 .3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
33.3600
48.8600
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
KYL347
KGD249
KIY408
KUW874
KVJ545
KXP923
WXP217
WZV469
KEP215
KNIZ763
KXD504
KXH899
KXU490
WNBX358
WNBZ395
WZW868
KFZ321
KNCS459
KRS480
KTF708
KTF713
KUW873
WNVU434
WNY1406
WZV470
WZV471
KNEJ792
WXL919
KNAG659
KYL347
KGD249
KIY408
KUW874
KVJ545
KXP923
WXP217
WZV469
KEP215
KNIZ763
KXD504
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158 .3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
158.3700
928.018750
928.256250
952.018750
952.256250
953.2500
953.8500
956.8500
1860.0000
1875.0000
1885.0000
1885.0000
1890.0000
1935.0000
1935.0000
1935.0000
1935.0000
1940.0000
1940.0000
KXH899
KXU490
WNBZ395
WZW868
KBN654
KDE521
KFZ321
KNCS459
KRS480
KTF708
KTF71 3
KUW 873
W NRE639
WNVU434
WNYl406
WQX817
WZV470
WZV471
KNEJ792
WNDD887
WNRE640
WNRE641
WXL9 19
WNEY732
WNTP773
WNEY732
WNTP773
WGX851
WEV69
WNTS641
WNTP473
W EH832
W EH830
WSW89
WNTP473
WED555
WEH831
WJX85
WSW89
WNTP472
WNTP474
1945.0000
1955.0000
1955.0000
1960.0000
1965.0000
1965.0000
1970.0000
1975.0000
1985.0000
21 32.4000
2132.4000
2134.8000
2134.8000
21 36.4000
2138.0000
2138.8000
2140.4000
2 141.2000
2 142.0000
2 143.6000
2146.0000
2 147.6000
2180.8000
2 181.6000
2182. 4000
2 182. 4000
2 182.4000
2182.4000
2184.8000
2 184.8000
21 86.4000
2 188.0000
2188.8000
21 90.4000
2191 .2000
2191 .2000
2192.0000
2 196.0000
2197.6000
6665.0000
6825.0000
WJX85
WED555
WJX85
WNTP474
WEH831
WJX87
WNTP472
WED555
W HC857
WCE305
WJX85
W CE956
WEE621
WCE305
WCE956
WGX744
WBB720
WJX87
WEE621
WNEE857
WJX83
WEV70
WEF372
WEV79
WEH832
WGX710
WGX851
WSW89
WCE955
WEV79
WEV69
WED555
WCE955
WSW89
WGY572
WEE589
WEV69
WGY572
WEV69
WEH832
WEH833
Pictures anyone?
Do you have a fa vorite photo of a ship
which you would li ke to share with other
readers? Perhaps a picture of a coast station?
As you know I am always on the lookout for
info rmation to share wi th readers, and pictures arc also very welcome. Not bei ng a
world traveler, I have to rely on ou r far-flung
readership to provide the "color" for the column.
Unti l next time. good luck and good listen111g.
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dis tance communications are usually possible regard less of distu rbanc es o n the
shortwave bands.
Also in thi s low
range a re severa l
time and frequency
standard stations. WWVB (60
kH z) is perhaps the best known. WWVB is
run by the same people (and from the same
site) as its HF cousin, WWV in Fort Collins,
CO.
Between I 0 and 14 kHz is home to the
lowest frequency service that most people will
ever hear-OMEGA. The OM EGA system
consists of e ight tran smitters around the world
and is used for radio location. By comparing
the timing differences between several sites, a
pilot o r mariner can detem1ine hi s positio n
wi th close accuracy. In the 1960s OMEGA
was considered state-of-the-art, but today it's
destined to become a backup to GPS.
Be low I 0 kH z is generally considered to be
the territory of "Natural Radio" - that is,
signals which are e manated by the Eart h itself.
or by the atmosphere. "Whistlers," "Tweaks,''
nmestep
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and " Dawn Chorus" are all examples o f natural radio sounds. There are also studi es underway to determine if some of the signals heard
here may be precursors to seismic events .
There you have it- an abbreviated to ur of
the lo ngwave band. Consider th is your invitati o n to tune down under!
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Ham DX Tips
May is an interesting word. It is the name o f a month that is the apex of spring in the
northern hemisphere. autumn in the southern. It is also an imperfect verb used o nl y as an
auxiliary, sut:h as: "May you log some new DX with the aid of this month's tips! which we
hope you do!
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Jamming Gone
MT overseas reader Vi1aliy Liberny of LvivRudno. Ukraine. writes in lo remind us 1hat
reception conditions are much different in Europe since considerable jamming by the forme r
USSR has disappeared. Jammers ha ve always
been 1hc ultima1e clandestine 1ransmit1er. since
they aucmpt to oblitera1e programming from
01her countries. Although some jamming survives today on shortwave. especially in the
Middle East region. we're all thank.fo l that the
days of major Soviet jamming broadcasts are
now in the past.
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or her shack.
But wait a minute. D idn ' t
Grove Enteprises o nce o ffer a
shortwave converter for scanne rs? Yes' In fact, it was o ne of
the first pieces of equipment that
Bob manufactured. (The closeout version was only a printed
circuitboard-nocase! Boy, have
times changed.)
Grove has now introduced a
new, completely updated (and
with case!) shortwave converter
that turn s your scanner into a
full-c overage communi cati o ns
receiver capable of tu ning in global shortwave statio ns like the
Voice of America, the BBCnot to mention spy numbers transmi ss ions, pirate, and clandestine
stations. Plus, if your scanne r has
tunabl e VHF/UHF SSB capabil ity. you can even eavesdrop o n
intri g uing two-way voice communications as we ll.
Your scanner must recei vc at
least the 118 to 136 MHz air
band. For mo re details. check o ut
theGrovecatalogorca ll the tec hnical assistance line at 704-837708 1. If you ' d like to order. call
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Converter II
A fi rm called M ic ro Tt.:k Products has announced that the y are
now marketing a product th at
plugs into your car' s AM radio to
all ow you to hear 49-60 mete rs
shortwave. The Minut e -Man
Shortwave Converter cove rs
5000 to 61 80 kHz on most car
radios. Micro Tek cl aim s that the
unit works with both continuo us
tuning and dig ital radios . (A
fin e-tuning control a ll ows
coverage between channels on
dig itally tune d rad ios.)
O f cou rse , th e re ' s
nothing to stop you (except for the Moto rola conn ec to r s) from u s in g th e
Minute-Man to convert any
AM radio into a sho rt wa vt.:
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Multi-Element Dipole
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Rebel Radio
For me, the intri g uing thing
about shortwave radio is the s heer
numbe r of voices. From o ne end
of the spectrum to another, hundreds upon hundreds of hum an
souls compete with one another
for the presentat ion of ideas in a
we ller of lang uages and styles
that boggle the mind.
Every stage of my working
life has involved some aspect of
the ind ustry. a nd I used to imagine myself pan of this huge, radio
frat ernity.
One station particularly caught
my attention . It called itself Radi o Venceremos and it first went
on the air in the late I 970s -a
dark time in the Central Ameri can country of E l Salvador. Li stening to Radio Venceremos was
c hilling; broadcasts began wit h
Air-Scan #6
Civilian aeronautica l. Mi litary. Seaplanes. Helos...
!f it fli es. Tom Kneitel probably has it in the all-new, 61h
edition of hi s popular Air-Scan.
Coveri ng the entire V HF aero
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Hanging On
Gall 's Incorpo rated is ad verti s in g a nice- looking ve hi c le
radio holde r to sec ure your
ha ndheld radio o r eel I u la r pho ne .
The dev ice has a self-lockin g
mechani sm that allows it to ho ld
most handhelds in pl ace . A quick
re lease butto n lets the rad io be
removed quickly. The ho lder can
be screw-mo unted to a dashbo ard.
car tran smissio n hump. or stacking syste m.
The handhcld radio Universal
Bracke t measures 3-1/2" H x 5"
W x 3" D an d we ig hs o ne po und.
$ 14.99 fro m Gall 's, Inc .. 2680
Palumbo Drive. P.O. Box 54308.
Lex ington . KY 40555-4308 or
call 1-800-477-776 6.
MStreet
Norwegian AM Log
Book
We' re approac;hing o ne of my
favorit e times o f the year- FM
DX season. Any time now, yo u' ll
be liste ning to the FM radio and
you' ll notice a n unfam iliar station- something that sounds every bit as strong as the local stations, o nly it's comin g o ut of
some place like San Anto nio. Los
Ang e les. C hi c ago. o r Po rt
Je fferson .
That' s FM skip, and fo r some
of us, it's as close to hea ven as a
radio person's going to get. The
troubl e is that. bec au se the
station 's from o ut of
to wn, it 's not al ways
e asy to ide ntify .
Pro b a b ly th e
bt:st book for ide ntifying skip is the
M Street Radio Direc1orv. Thi s is the
book that broadcasters use. and as
such it ' s c hoc kfull of clues thai
c a n simplify the identi ficatio n of
stations. First. the book is arranged by state so you can look
up likely canuidate s by city. Eac h
station has a mi ni-profile . includ-
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Kiwa in Cyberspace
C rai g Sie genth a le r a lw ays
keeps his products first-c lass and
his bus iness o n the culling edge.
Now. C raig says th at he has the
complete Kiwa Electronics catalog-in color and complete with
produc t i n fo rm at ion . photograph s. and pe rfo rma nc e
graphs--on the Inte rnet. So. if
you' re crui sing the Internet, stop
in at web address:
http://www.wolfe.net/-kiwa.
Note that the address starts with
h and ends with the a in Ki wa. The
tilde (-) mu st be included. Kiwa
al so has a n e- m ai l addre ss :
kiwo@wolfe.net.
C heck it out. Ki wa stuff is
innovati ve and al ways first class.
Tell C ra ig that Monitoring Tim es
sent yo u through cybe rspace.
(Don ' t tell him you read about it
on an o ld-fashioned printed page!)
Miracle Baby
Micro Duck
We ra n
across an int cr es ti n g
sc anne r accessory. It 's
c a ll ed th e
Mi r ac l e
Baby Mi c ro Duc k. Whi le the
manufactu rers of most replace ment rubbe r ducks spend their
time tryin g to co nvince you that
you ' ll hear the moon with their
antenna, the Mirac le Baby has an
entirely d ifferent slant.
Th e Miracle Baby Micro
Duc k's main claim to fame is its
size. and at one inch. it is perfect
for low-profi le scanning . No w
you can ta ke that scanner a lmost
anywhere without being seen. Sl ip
the scanner into a deep pock e~
and do n' t wo rry about that footlong ant e nna st icking o ut-or
riding u p your sto mach if you
wear the radio on your be lt.
The Miracle Baby Micro Duck
is a "local sig nal s o nly'' a nte nna
that s pe rfec t for air shows. race
tracks, sho pp ing malls. o r eme rgency scenes -any time yo u want
to hear sig na ls close by. no t 50
mi les away. The Miracle Baby
Mic ro Duc k is also great for inc ity monito ring where its natural
attenuation wi ll reduce intermod
pickup.
The Miracle Baby Micro Duck
is $3 3.95 plu s $4.50 UPS fro m
D X Rad io Supply, Box 360.
Wagontown. PA 19376. For more
informatio n. ca ll 6 10-273-7823
or fo r credit card orders ca ll to ll frcc at 1-800- 753-2060.
UHF /Microwave
Proiects Manual
As publications for the hobby
market go. the American Rad io
Relay Leag ue ( ARRL) maintains
its historical leade rship for acc uracy. th roug hness, reada bility,
illustration and economy. Thi s
publ ication is no e xcepti on. lts
330 liberally-illustrated page s
examine impo rtant a spect s of
equipme nt desig n, test. and use
at VHF and beyond.
Excellent insights are provided
to assure the re ader of co rrect
shielding. layout, enclosing, compo nent handling. so lde ring. a nd
o ther tec hniques of success. An
excelle nt sectio n on mi crowave
antenna des ig n is included.
Not merely a how-to for the
avid experime nte r, the manu al is
a superb tutorial for the RF desig n eng ineer. Althoug h we were
d isappo inted to find no receiver
or transmiucr projects. the re were
ampl e acti v iti es available to
choose fro m. including s imple
preamps. po wer supplies. filters
and converte rs. and advanc ing to
transverters . RF amplifie rs and
test equipment.
The ARRL UHF/Mic ro\\'ave
Proj ec1s Manual is $20 plus shippin g fro m the Ame rican Radio
Relay Leag ue, 2 25 Main Street.
Newing to n. C T 061 11 -1494.
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Correction
The pho ne number for Contact Connect Systems. Inc .. maker
o f the CD-2 communicatio ns deco der (Apr. . p. 96). conta ined a
ty po graphic al e rror: it sho uld
have been 800-545- 1349. Thanks
to the reade r who a lerted us and
supplied the correct number.
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The SDU5000 requires ei ther the AR3000A or a receiver with a
I 0.7 MHz IF output; it has a built-in, switchable amplifier to help it
cope with receivers of different JF output levels. T he sweep width of
theSDU is user-programmable between I kHz and 10 MHz in I kHz
steps (a nice feature!); the display mode can be changed (direct.
peak, and average); and provision for hookup of an external monitor
is made. When used with the AR3000A, a number of additional
functions and display modes become available.
Initial setup of the unit was fairly simple, cons isting of plugging
in the power cube (suppl ied), the BNC-BNC RF cable (not supplied). and the DB9-DB25 SOU-to-receiver control cable (also not
supplied). You then (after powering up the SDU) configure the
device foreither stand-alone mode (foruse with a rcceiverotherlhan
the AR3000) or for use with the '3000.
Tests were conducted with two receivers-the author's TCOM
R7000 and an AR3000A kindly loaned by Edco Electronics. The
SDU worked very well with the AR3000A, as might be expected.
and performed acceptably with the R7000. Sensiti vity with the
AR3000A was excellent, showing signals that were only just above
the noise floor, but with the R7000 a lack of sensitivity was noteda signal had to be in excess of an S I to produce a visible peak on the
display.
Sweep time (the time it takes for the SDU to check across the
selected bandwidth) was noticeable, making true, realtime tuning
slightly diffcult. but acceptable. A number of bands were chec ked
and very useful displays of transmission traffi c were observed.
The SDU really shines when it is used with the AR3000A-you
then get direct freq uency and signal level display on the screen, the
ability to position a crosshair cursoron an interesting looking signa l,
and, with the push of a button. tune directly to that signal. It's a
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the screen!
Pros:
Well buil t, compact and good looking.
Easy-to-use menuing syste m. flexible sweep width, excellent display if an external monitor is used.
Used with the AR3000A, provides radio control and other usefu l
features not easily found elsewhere.
Cons:
The keypad is set up with an uncoventional numeric layout: the
keyboard itself is of the membrane type and provides insufficient
tactile feedbac k.
The case is rectangular with a vertical front panel which makes the
LCD screen very hard to read from most angles-a tilt bail or an angled
front panel would be a great improvement.
The unit generates noticeable RF noise at some frequencies-this
is something AOR should rectify as quickly as possible. It is not
acceptable to have a dev ice, designed to work in close proximity to a
scanner, that masks the signals it is supposed to he lp fi nd.
No so fl ware exists at this time for use wi th the PC interface port on
the SDU. UseoftheSDU with the AR3000A will not pennitcomputer
control of the AR3000A without having to use a swi tch box.
The manual is extremely basic at present.
Summary:
My impressions were mixed-the SDU5000 is a very usefu l
adjunct fo r the serious scanner listener; one that can provide that
extra edge in locating and identifying s ignals. When used with the
AR3000A it becomes an easy-to-use, fast-tu ning, surveillance device. O n the other hand, the high price and limited applications (when
used w ith other receivers) is a definite detraction for a buyer. The
author suggests that if you have an AR3000A-buy it- it' s far too
useful a tool to pass up ! If you use other receivers and need spectrum
analysis capability then you may do welJ to consider whether a less
expensive device or. a second-hand spectrum analyzer might meet
your needs better.
In the U.S. , the SDU5000 listsfor$ / ,/99; comact the U.S. distrib11
tor for a dealernearest yo11, Electronic Distributors Co. (EDCO ), 703938-81051938-4525 fax.
A Note of Explanation: A spectrum display 1111i1 does just wha1 its name
implies- it produces a visual represe11tatio11 of a piece of the radio
spectrum 011 a screen. The screen acts as a graph-the 1ertica/ axis
indicates signal strength. and the horizo11tal axis displays the radio
frequency. In operation, yo11 ll'ill see a line with peaks appearing along
it, as shown i11 the line art above. The peaks are radio transmissions 011
either side of the cha1111el to which the spectrum display is t1111ed. The
bigger the peak, the stronger the signal. The line co11stantlyf/11ctuates as
stations begin or end tram111issio11s. This provides a very effective 1ray
ofmo11itori11g a wide c/11111k of a band without using multiple receivers,
and is also a great way to search ow new frequencies.
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I A Look Inside
The majority of components inside the
BC860XLT are mounted on a large printed
circuit board. The BC860XLT and portable
BC220XLT share most of the same circuitry.
They both use the same 800 MHz front-end
boards and the same plug-in PLL (phase
locked loop) boards. and appear to have the
same IF chip and filters. Our BC860XLT
CPU chip was marked UC I6 I 2A and the
CPU chip in our older BC220XLTwas marked
UC 1612.
Steve Donnell published an innovative
mod ification in the January 1995 RCMA
Sca1111er Journal to enable cell band reception fo r the BC220XLT. Perhaps the same
mod ifica ti on co uld be a pp lied to the
BC860XLT. It 's tempting to conjecture that
the BC860XLT can be easily modified to act
I Test Modes
If the BC860XLTis powered off, you can
enable the following test sequences by pressing the three keys listed simultaneously. whil e
turning the scanner on:
2 9 MANUAL
2 9 LOCKOUT
2 9 SCAN or
2 9 TURBO
Be sure to write down any important frequencies you have programm ed in the
BC860XLT before using the test modes, as
memory w ill be altered.
I Conclusion
The BC860XLT's cabinetry. knobs, and
keyboard could be improved, but it is easy to
program and includes the most important features and more. Except for image interference, the BC860XLT works well for a mature
design. I would recommend it to someone
ne w to scanning. or who wants to upgrade
from a 16 or 20 channel unit but doesn' t want
to spend the money for a premier model using
up-conversion circ uitry.
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SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW
Lawrence Mogne
Editor-in-Chief
Passport lo World Bond Radio
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I Overall Findings
In the final ana lysis, the ' R7 l excels in
broadcast and utility DX reception, particularly w here weak signa ls are being clobbered
by interference from adj acent-channe l signals. However, the Drake R8 has pretty muc h
stolen the market fro m the 'R7 1 for tropical
bands DXing, where hair-curling ultimate rejec tion is not a primary concern. Mainly , the
R8's superior audio quality-it sounds muc h
better than the 'R7 1- allows even faint DX
voice signals to be copied slightly better than
they can be on the 'R7 I. However, technology
never sta nds still, and someday the R8 wi ll
a lmost certainly be knocked off its pedestal by
another model w ith even greater "copyabil ity."
A final caveat. ICOM's quality of production is arguably the least good of any of the
c urrent crop of tabletop and portatop manufacture rs. If you dec ide to purchase an ' R7 I,
be sure you obta.in it from a dealer who w ill
stand behind the product.
MAGNE'S
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This equipment review is peiformed independently by Lawrence Magne and his colleagues
i11 accordance with the policies and procedures
of lmemational Broadcasting Services, Ltd. It
is completely i11dependellt of the policies and
procedures of Grove Enterprises, Inc., its advertisers and affiliated organizations.
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I High Compatibility
ScanCat versio n 6 retains all the userfri e ndliness of the previo us vers ions and adds
a bunch of new radi os tha t it can control,
I Good as Gold?
Now what abou t the high performance,
supe r-charged hot-rod of the produc t lineScanCat-Gold? What makes it differe m 'l Is it
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I Windows Washing
I What's under
the hood?
O K. So the the inc reased speed can burn
worth the $25 inc rease over versio n 6? Good
data rubber." But docs it have guts? We ll.
questions.
we spoke about fil e handl ing above. Gold
Unlike older versio ns o f Scan Cat, Scan Cat
goes
one better by allow ing you to link up 15
Gold (just c alled Gold for o ur di scussio n)
ind ividual fil es: that 's aro und 4500 frequencanno t be run from a noppy. Its I .6M of
c ies ' This. plus the almost unlimited random
program fi les must be insta lled o n a ha rd
fi le o ption, will satisfy the most voracious
dri ve. The public domain Install progra m that
frequency
appeti te.
is incl uded is all right, but at the $ 100 level I
If you have a PR0-2005/2006 equi pped
would have expected better. For example. the
wi th an OS-456 contro l board. or a DC440
source. destination dri ves. and the sub-directo
ne decoder. the n ScanCat Gold' s DTMF
to ry must be inserted all at once with the
logg
ing optio n will store to ne in fo rmation to
In stall command . Most commerc ial install
a
fil
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called DTMFTONE.TXT. T hi s can be
programs today walk the user thro ugh the
ve ry use ful in situa tio ns whe re the to nes are
possible cho ices indi vidually by read ing the
eithe r unex pected, or occur at a high rates.
owner's system confi guratio n- a sma ll deAnot he r new feature is what I c all " com tail. but o ne which could com plicate insta llaments
comma nd macros ... This mouthful
tio n o n computers which a lread y have an
gives the user the powerfu l ability 10 incl ude
older vers ion of ScanCat insta lled.
terminal cont rol commands in the com me n t~
T he ma in me nu in Fig ure 2 looks ex actly
field of each logging. Say you decoded 75
like the latest no n-Gold version. Once again
Baud RTTY o n 14.096 M Hz in USB . When
the impressive list of supported radios is
you
log the freque ncy and mode into Gold
ava ilable. After loading a file the familiar
you can also include commands whi c h w il l
generic radio appears. So far everything looks
set your PK-232, for exam ple, to RTTY a nd
and fee ls exactly as a ll ScanCat use rs would
75 Baud. The tota l mo ni tori ng e nvironme nt
expect. But ... wait. The keystrokes appear to
now can automatically control the TNC as
turn into screen actions instantaneously!
wel l as the receivers frequency and mode.
To make sure the fee li ng o f speed was not
Although there are many other Gold feaa n ill usio n. I went back to ScanCat versio n 5.
tures,
I want to mention a mod ification that
Sure eno ug h. Gold is c learly faster. On past
been
made lo Scan Port- the file importhas
vers ions, turning on the opti onal sq uelch detect cable- which the prog ram uses to detect the FIGURE 3: Gold's Radio control screen
presence of a sig na l and
stop the scanni ng-produced a margi nally acceptab le scanning speed.
Not so for Gold, which
covers the same ground
a lmost three times faster
o n a 386DX33 mac hine !
Yo u can see the speed benefit in most a ll the operations of Gold. Yet. the re is
no ne w set of operational
instruction s to learn. T he
intuiti veness of the opera-
I So What Do I Think?
At $94.95 ScanCat Gold is in the ranoe I
consider pricey. In fact. I look at any product
al thi s price very . ve ry carefully before I buy,
asking myself if I really need it and how much
w il l I use it. In my opinio n. few, if any .
programs approach ScanCat Gold' s combination of power. flexibilit y, and case of use.
J im Springer. the author of a ll versions of
ScanCat and owner of Compu ter Aided Technologies. has tried very hard to keep a ll his
products user-friend ly and a good va lue. I
believe these products renect hi s hig h standards . Computer A ided Technologies (P.O.
Box 18292. Shrevesport . LA 7 1138) can be
con tacted o n (3 18)-636- 1234. Sec the ir ad in
MT.
We ' ll take a look at CAT's o ther products,
Copycat-Pro and Ho ka Code 3, over the next
few mo nths.
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DEMAW'S WORKBENCH
Doug Demaw, WI FB
WATTS
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An SWR greaterthan the ideal I: I ratio
NOMOGRAPH
results when unlike impedances (ac resistance) are connected together and power FIGURE 1: Nomograplzfordeterminillg SWR
is caused to flow between th ose points . A from known RF power levels up to 20 watts. The
good example of this may be seen when dashed line illustrates how to find the SWR.
you attach a coaxial line to the feed point
of a dipole antenna. An important fact to
have difficulty discerning a 3-dB change in
remember is that "maximum power transfer
s ignal level. and I have excellent hearing!
between two ac or RF c ircuits can occur on ly
Furthermore, the AGC (automatic gain conwhen existing unlike impedances are matched.
trol) in modern receivers is so effective that
or the same." This means that if an antenna is
the human ear may not detect a s ignal-level
fed with, say , 52-ohm coa xial cable, the anchange as great as 20 dB.
tenna feed point should also exhibit a 52-ohm
The situation is more serious at VHF and
impedance. Thi s would resul t in an SW R of
UHF. where the inherent dB losses in feed
I: I. wh ich is what we always seek.
lines (generall y referenced to I 00 feet ofli ne)
SWR affe cts transmitting and receiving
increase as the operating frequency in MHz
antennas in the same way . Although the sigbecomes higher. By comparison, the losses in
nal power picked up by a rece iving antenna is
100 feet of RG-58 coax cable at 2 MHz are
minisc ule, that signal energy must travel down
l/2dB, but they rise to 6dB at 150MHz. lfwc
the feed line to the receiver with the least
use a l 00-watt transmitter signal as a referamount of loss a lo ng the way. At frequencies
ence at 150 MHz, in a system w ith 100 feet of
below 30 MHz, an SW R as great as 2: I is
RG-58 coax, there will be only 25 watts of
ge nera lly acceptable. s ince the loss in the feed
power that reach the antenna feed point , even
line for a 2: l SWR is se ldom greater than
w ith an idea l SWR of I: I.
112 dB (decibe l: power refere nced to I watt).
These dreadful losses can be reduced by
It is unlike ly that most human ears could
using a more suitable feed line, such as RGde tect even a I dB change in signa l level. I
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SUPER SNOOPER
For those who are licensed. but do not own
an SWR bridge, a fool-proof and easy-tobuild unit is described in c haptcr 6. page 173.
of WI FB"s Design Notebook. (available from
the ARRL. Inc.). o test equipment is needed
to balance the bridge. You merely build it and
u se it!
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EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
Bill Cheek
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SIMPLE DATALOGGER
For Shack & Sho p
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cYer-lower costs . Today. a few hundred dol lars can do what 550.000 couldn' t do in those
clays. What' s more. that techno logy is now
avai lab le to the c asua l hobby ist, techn ician.
and profess ional fo r my riads of applicat io ns
around shack and shop.
One magnifice nt example is Radi o Shack s
dig ital m ultimete r wi th PC lmerface a nd a 20
MH z frequ ency counter. c at no 22- 168 (page
1 18. 1995 Catalog). (#22-182 was its predecessor in 1994.) Wow ! For S 129.95. you get
nut only a h ig h c lass di g ital vo lt -oh m mi ll iammeter. but also a freque ncy counter
good to 20 MH z. and best o f all. it can be
o perated as an automated data logger with a
simpleconn..:ction to any IBM/ PC compatib le
computer. from an XT/ AT th roug h the modern Penti um. Let me put it to yo u this way: a
$ 130 mu lti meter a nd an old junked $200 XT
can do more and bet te r than $5.000 wo rt h of
comparable i11stn11ncnt s twe nty years ago '
806 - 960mHz
controlled by a low-cost computer that was
oth erwise read y for the j unkyard. Acc umulated dala is written to the ASC II text fil e and
saved o n the hard d isk o r llo ppy d isk as
desired.
Yo u might ask what <.:an later be done with
the text file of data. Pro<.:ess it. of course! An
ASCII text fil e is easily re form atted into the
type of file suited for exporting into a database manager program such as dBase IJI. IV,
Mi<.:rosoft ACCESS. Fox Pro. Approac h, Paradox . FilcExpress. PC- File. Q&A. o r any of
the many others. The best un iversal fo rmat
fo r export to most all databa~e managers is a
cm1111w-deli111ited ASCII text file. Database
managers make quick work of data processing for human evaluation and interpretation
of the results.
M y daug hter did a win ning Sc ience Fair
study of e lectrical parameters in living plants.
She took data for month~ o n end and the n
correlated that data to variables of Iig ht. temperature, and moisture. This would have been
an impossible task for a teenager if it weren' t
for a computer and a database manager to
make quick work of the organization and
presentatio n of the data.
The aforementioned cornrna-delirnitcd
ASC II te xt file is not produced by the program that comes wi th Radio Shack s P C lntcrfacc Meters, but the output file can be
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am .... and want it all. you arc welcome to
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rev ised versio n of the mete r program that wi ll
generate the comma delimited fil e. hands off!
My dear friend and a sso<.:iate, Brian G reer of
Los Angeles. d id the necessary revisions to
the open source code and made it free ly
available. and it works w it h eithe r merer. The
revised PC- Interface contro l program. named
RSMET ER.ZIP (about 50-kh) is available in
the free file sectio n. RSM ETE R.ZIP also
contains a n icon , a P IF fil e. and a batch file to
faci litate runn ing the data lo ggi ng program
from W indowsTM Of course. it' s a natural to
run from MS-DOS as wel l.
The Her1::.ia11 fllrercept BBS (6 l 9-57892-n) is open from 5: 3Upm to I :30pm. PDT.
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ANTENNA TOPICS
BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS
CLOUD
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RADIO
RIDDLES
I Last Month:
Last month I gave you the fo ll owing statement , taken from TV and Other Receiving
Antennas, by Arnold B. Bailey ( 1950, John F.
Rider Publishers, New York): " If it were not
for the presence of radio noise, the useful
radio paths expressed in miles would have no
limit. Furthermore, if it were not for radio
noise being present in a ll radio circuits, the
magnitude of the transmitter power would be
of no great consequence. and there would be
no necessit y for usi ng large values of power."
1 then presumptuously asked you if you
found fau lt with the state ment ; I hope that you
didn t. because I can' t! We receive s ignals as
long as they are s uffi c ient in s tre ngth to be
heard over receiver-generated noise, noises
received by the antenna (terrestrial static,
cosm ic static, man-made e lectrical noise ).
and noise generated in the antenna and transmission line.
Noise is a very significant limit ing factor
in radiocommunications, and the more clearly
we understand its presence, the more effective ly we can design and utilize our communicati on systems.
I This Month:
Did you know that the re are antennas called
.. mute antennas: "dummy antennas," " phantom antennas," and "artific ial antennas?" and
that they are used to test a transmil!er or
receiver when we wa n t non e o f the
tran smil!er' s s ignal power transmitted nor
off-the-air signals received by the receiver?
We" ll say a bit more about these antennas next
month as we a nswer the question: .. Do we also
have mute, dummy. phantom and artificial
grou nds avai lable?"
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ASK BOB
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In the United States. 825-849 MHz ( 1110 bik) and 869-894 MHz (base) arc excl usively allocated for the cellular mobile telephone scr\'ice. There are no exceptions. If
you hear law enforcement conversatio ns taking place anywhere in thi s range. it is on a
ce llular telephone. The only other poss ibili ty
wou ld be that you are hearing an image or
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Q.
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2035s and it worked impressively. The knob not only spun easily
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it gripped better and the increased diameter gave it a more positive
feel.
Purists who obj ect to the rubber ring might be a ble to locate a
1/4-inc h-w ide VCR belt of the same diameter.
Thanks for the handy hint, Jerry!
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West Coast VHF/UHF Conlerence I Gracie Hastings KK6CG, 854 Bernard
Dr, Fullerton, CA 92635 714-990-9203
Louisiana State Convention I Herb Ramey KB5AO, 7310 Airline Hwy, Baton
Rouge, LA. 70805, 504-654-6087
Arkansas River Valley AR Foundation I Jerry Wilkinson WB41CV. 544
Richland Circle, Russellville, AR 72801, 501-968-7257
Nat'I Expo's Hamfest & Computer Show I Ronald Nelson, 30799 Pinetree Rd,
#230, Cleveland, OH 44124, 216-292-7744
Keno ARC I Tom Hamilton WD6EAW. PO Box 678, Keno, OR 97627, 503883-2736
Blue Ridge ARS I John Chism ND4N, PO Box 6751, Greenville, SC 29606,
803-967-0000
Ontario DX Association, 20th Anniversary Convention. Local ion: CBC
Canadian Broadcast Center, Downtown Toronto. Gen. admission $12 Can..
Panhandle ARC I Guy Pigg WZ5C, PO Box 3842, Amarillo, TX 79116-3842,
806372-8462
Ozaukee RC Swapfest, /Jerry Walker KB91MH , W70 N1018 Hampton Ct.,
Cedarburg, WI 53012, 414-377-7468, Location: CircleB Recreation Center,
Hwy. 60 and Co. I.Talk-in 146.37/97 and 146.52. Adm ission $3
Arrowhead RAC I George Mead KAOBUM, 4152 Ugstad Rd, Duluth, MN
55811, 218-729-6882
West Texas Section Convention I Peggy Richard KA4UPA, 1442 Lakeside
Dr, Abilene, TX 79602, 915-672-8889
Metro 70cm Network I Ono Supliski WB2SLQ, 53 Hayward St, Yonkers, NY
10704, 914-969-1053
Warminster ARC I William Gorodetzer K3MFI, 25 Fa wn Dr. Holland, PA
18966, 215-968-2504
Iowa State Convention & Hamboree #17 I Dick Pitner WOFZO, 2931 Pierce
St, Sioux City, IA 51104, 7122581520
North LA, South AR Hamlest I David Smith KF5BF. PO Box 812, Springhill,
LA 71075, 318-539-9161. C ivic Center.Talk-in 147.165, 146.730,Adm. $3
Ma ncorad RC I Glenn De Baker AA9MT, 2244 Richmond Ave. Manitowoc, WI
54220,4 14-684-7096
Radiofest I GMRS of Illinois, Inc, 5715 Plymouth, Downers Grove, IL 605 16,
708-7607727. DuPage Co. Fairgrounds, talk-in 146.52 slmplx, 462.600/
467.600 PL 173.8, Bam-2pm, Admission $5
T riple S ta tes RAC I Ralph McDonough K8AN, Box 240, RR 1, Adena, OH
43901 . 614-546-3930
Antietam Radio Association / Steve Blevins N3MVL. 21508 LeitersburgSmithburg Rd, Hagerstown, MD 21742, 301797-2767
Medina 2 Meter Group I Clarence Miller WASJLA. 620 Oak SI, Medina, OH
44256, 216-725-4492
Allanlic Division/New York Slale Convenlion I Harold Smilh K2HC, 300 WMe
Spruce Blvd, Rochesler, NY 14623, 716424-7184
Dakota Division Convention I Lon Seabold! WSOV, RR1 Box 100A2, Hot
Springs, SD 57747, 605-7455929
Paducah ARA I David Fraser K041U, 5715 Blandville Rd, Paducljh, KY
42001 , 502554-7999
Cherryville Hamfest I Marty Grozinski NS2K, 6 K irkbridge Rd, Fleming1on, NJ
08822, 908-806-6944,Warren County Fairgrounds, ott Route 178. Talk-in
147.375+600, Adm $6
Jetterson County ARC I Herb Metts NONTJ, PO Box 232, House Springs, MO
63051, 314-671 -0667
Missouri Stale Convention I Chuck Miller WAOKUH, 7000 NE 120 SI, Kansas
City, MO 64166, 816-781-7313
Alabama Section Convention I Bill Levey WA4FAT, 2953 Donila Dr,
Birmingham, AL 35243, 205-967-6122
Sierra Blanca ARC I Gunnar Carlson AE4W, PO Box 4067, Ruidoso, NM
88345, 505-525-2159
Yakima ARC I Mark Tharp KB7HDX, PO Box 2222, Yakima, WA 98907, 509
965-3379
Kankakee ARS, Hamlest '95 I Willis Bowse r K91 FO, 1210 N. Riverside Dr.
Momence, IL 60954-3452, 815-472-2079, Will County Fairgrou nds, 157 Exil
327 (East), Talk-in 146.94, Adm. $5
Wabash County ARC I Larry Manning N9AFI, 5199 E State Rd #218,
LaFontaine, IN 46940, 317-9814735
Valley Emergency Communications Assn f Chuck Gysi N2DUP, PO Box 911 ,
Bur1inglon, IA 52601-0911, 3197523000
MIT RS & MIT Electronics Research/Sieve Fineberg W1GSL. PO Box
397082 MIT Branch, Cambridge. MA 02 139-7082. Flea Markel 9am-2pm.
Albany & Main St. Adm. $2. Talk-in 146.52, 449.725/444.725 pl 2A.
Long Island Mobile ARC I Neil Hanlman WE2V, 2 Majestic Ct, Dix Hills, NY
11746, 516-462-5549
Oklahoma State Convention I Merle GriHin WB50SM, 11671 E 80th St N
#BB, Owasso. OK 74055, 918-2723081
Chicago Amaleur Radio Club I CARC, 5631 W lrvingpark Rd. Chicago, IL
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Model R20
Interceptor/Bug Detector
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The R20 is a compact RF signal
strength detector with a 10 segment
bargraph display. There is also an
audio output from the detector that is
processed for constant volume for
use with ear phone.
The audio output is useful for room
sweeps where in close proximity to a
transmitter a quieting effect can be
heard due to detector saturation.
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