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From: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Panasonic RF-B45?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 08:04:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, tdenbo@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Denbo) says:
>
>I saw this radio at a local retailer for $200.  How does it compare with
>the Sangean ATS-803A and the Sony ICF s?

I just received one of these as a gift, but I've never seen any of Sangean's
products, and the only Sony I've ever used is the ICF-7600 that I inherited
a very long time ago.  (I'm also a complete idiot^H^H^H^H^Hnovice about
shortwave; I only discovered today that the reason that I was getting such
lousy reception was that I had the "DX/Local" switch set to "Local"....)
Anyway, with that disclaimer, here's a description of the RF-B45:

Frequencies:	144-288 kHz LW (9 kHz tuning)
		520-1610 kHz MW (9 or 10 kHz tuning)
		1620-29995 kHz SW (5 kHz tuning)
		87.5-108.0 MHz FM (0.5 MHz tuning)

LCD display displays either the current time (when the unit is turned off)
or the frequency tuned to, the signal strength (on a scale of 0-3), and
several status flags like the band in use and whether features like standby
are engaged.  There is a "standby" feature that basically lets the unit act
as a clock radio, turning on at a specified time, and a sleep feature that
automatically shuts off the unit after a certain time elapses.

Tunes digitally with a keypad or "+" and "-" keys rather than by turning
a dial, although the volume and fine tuning use thumbwheels rather than keys.
There is also an "auto tuning" key that scans sequentially for signals
with a strength of 1+.  A three-position switch on the side selects between
"fixed" tuning with the fine tuning dial disengaged, "variable" tuning
using the fine tuning dial, and SSB reception also using the fine tuning
dial.  A "hold" button locks out the keyboard to prevent accidental changes
or battery drain due to the power key being accidentally hit.

18 channel memory (9 FM, 9 AM LW/MW/SW) with "memory search" function that
cycles around through your set of saved frequencies looking for signals.

High/low tone switch
DX/Local reception switch
External antenna jack and external antenna to improve reception
DC adapter jack

How does it compare with the others?  I've never seen the others, so I
quite frankly have no idea.  I'm happy with mine, but since I didn't
actually spend any of my own money on it, that evaluation should be
taken with a grain of salt.

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From: cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Subject: Re: Grundig Satellit 700 experience
In-reply-to: zweig@dubius.cs.uiuc.edu's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:07:05 GMT
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Date: 8 Jan 93 12:40:33 CST

Johnny Zweig writes:

   I'm not as interested in DXing -- I mostly want something that can
   pull in signals (I'm in California) and make them sound nice.

I've seen a number of comments like the above, but this distinction
doesn't make sense to me--I don't see a real difference between DXing
and "pulling in signals".  I want to pull in some *interesting* signals
from places like Iraq and Yugoslavia, which often require the approaches
used for DXing.  I'm not interested in the technical challenge per se
(which is what pure DX is), but I still want to get some difficult
signals.  So I tend to assume that what's good for DX is also good for
my interests.  Maybe the key words there are "and make them sound nice",
which definitely is *not* a DX priority.  Comments?

Chris Brewster
cb@cray.com
From: rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
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Subject: If your new braces receive radio broadcasts...
Date: 11 Jan 1993 10:48:10 -0600
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Article 4730 of alt.alien.visitors:
Xref: pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk alt.alien.visitors:4730 alt.religion.kibology:2096
From: dbn7350@venus.tamu.edu (NASH, DAVID BENNETT III)
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Subject: Re: Trip on Space Ship 3.
Date: 8 Dec 1992 16:37 CST
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In article <1992Dec7.070417.25423@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes...
>John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com writes:
>>Subject: Trip On A Space Ship. Part 3.
[...]
>Alien tip #2: If your new braces receive radio broadcasts in the range
>of 5.77314 to 5.77317 kHz, remove them IMMEDIATELY, even if it costs
>you all your teeth.  Then call the UFO Task Force.  DO NOT INFORM THE
>U.S. GOVERNMENT -- they probably already know about it.

Are you suggesting that one can pick up alien transmissions on an AM radio?
My walkman here beside me picks up from 5.3 to 16 kHz (I believe).
So you are saying that I can pick up the latest sports report from
the Pleidaes in the Universal Championship Game where the blues
play the greys?

Just tuned down there.  Nothing there... :}


[...]
dbn3.
-- bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve. NIN
-- an enemy of the Ronald Reagan Republicans.          dbn7350@zeus.tamu.edu  
-- the Irony is Delicious. . . . I pay Texas A&M  -- I do not speak for them.
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From: eagle@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Steven Aquilina)
Subject: Re: Iraqis attack Kuwait (fwd)
Organization: Monash General Access UNIX System
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:14:56 GMT

In article <Pine.3.05.9301071220.A5683-9100000@uafhp.uark.edu> plaws@uafhp.uark.edu (Peter Laws) writes:
>crossposted to alt.radio.scanner, too!
>
>Anybody get any good hits on Mil Aero or HF???
>
>Peter Laws|GEnie:P.LAWS1|"The '90s are gonna make the '60s|plaws@uafhp.uark.edu
>n5uwy@ka5bml.ar.usa.noam| look like the '50s"  --D. Hopper|plaws@uafsysb.bitnet
>
>
>
>

I have heard quite a bit of traffic on 11176 from the US Air Force in
Somalia.


Steven Aquilina

eagle@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

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In <1993Jan7.163841.2808@unislc.uucp> dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold) writes:

>From article <segross.6@uci.edu>, by segross@uci.edu (STEVE GROSS):

>> I think I remember reading here a few months ago about DAK going out of

>Not at all.  Deathmongers read what they want.

DAK did, in fact, declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy some months ago, but has
been managing to keep in business.  Basically, a lot of the suppliers and
other companies dealing with DAK have decided to continue doing so,
figuring that keeping DAK in business will get them (the creditors) more
of their money than putting DAK out of business.

However, if you look at the filings and how much variou sgroups were owed,
and how much different groups were paid since the filing, it starts to
look a bit strange.

SO, the recommendation: pay by credit card (which most people would do,
anyway.)  This way, you can block the charge if you don't get the product
or service.  (minor caveat: there is some sort of strange limit, where if
you live within ?100? miles of the company, but I doubt this would apply here)

dannyb@panix.com
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From: troach@netcom.com (Tom Roach)
Subject: Turkish (?) diplo tfc on 13941.5 kHz
Keywords: rtty
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:14:06 GMT

I am picking up some SITOR-B tfc on 13941.5 kHz here is San Jose, CA.
A friend seems to think this is Turkish but my reference indicates
only Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this frequency in RTTY.

Anybody else hearing them? They seem to show up daily between 1500 to 1630
hours UTC. TFC ends with remarks in French about how copied and tfc is
normally five letter groups of letters.

tr
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Hi.  I'm hoping to buy a used JRC NRD525 receiver.  If you have one that
you may be willing to sell, please send me a message (I would prefer one
with the computer interface, but I will reply to all messages).
                         Thanks.
dpalik@ccit.arizona.edu            --- Don Palik
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From: chris@bclwn.wn.bcl.co.nz (Chris Mackerell)
Subject: Radio Luxembourg email address?
Organization: Business Computers Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 11:22:37 GMT
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Hi all,

A friend of mine is wants to contact an acquaintance at Radio Luxembourg.

Does anyone know if Radio Luxembourg is contatable via email?

Cheers,

Chris


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In article <1992Dec30.160829.13278@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com
(Jeff Carroll) writes:

>In article <1992Dec29.203107.5758@walter.cray.com>, jcarroll@ferris.cray.com
(Jeff Carroll) writes:
>>
>> In article <1992Dec29.221207.2374@sal.wisc.edu>, lattis@sal.wisc.edu (Jim
Lattis) writes:
>> > Today's New York Times contains an ad offering
>> > the Casio PR-100 portable SW ("4 bands") for $39.
>> >
>> > has anyone seen enough of one of these to give an opinion?
>> > how, for instance, does it compare to the DAK cheap SW units?
>>
>> I have one. Never bought the DAK. I posted a fairly lengthy "first night"
>> review of the PR-100 recently; the only additional comments I have to make
>> are that
>>
>> *    I still think the keypad is cheesy
>>
>> *    I have the same sort of EMI problems sitting in my living room
>>      as I did with the DX-440, only worse. This leads me to suspect
>>      that the PR-100 might be a dual-conversion receiver, or at least
>>      that the first IF is at a pretty high frequency (~22 MHz).

>Allow me to elaborate a little bit, and to correct myself.

>My house is located near several of the most powerful FM transmitters in
>the Seattle area. It is a SWL nightmare.

>After some experimentation last night I can say that the PR-100 is a single
>conversion receiver with IF at 450 kHz, as is to be expected of such a unit.
>The spurious responses I have observed are due to the mixing of FM signals
>with harmonics (primarily the fifth) of the LO.

>I also observed some fourth and sixth harmonic mixing.

>The problems I used to have with my DX-440 (which is now living happily in
>Virginia) were due to the mixing of the second harmonic of the first LO
>(the first IF is on the high side of the SW bands) with the strong FM signals.

>The practical result is that the upper band of my PR-100 is not very usable
>at home; the spurs raise the noise floor pretty high.

>The low band works fine; Radio Japan, Voice of Free China, and VOA all come
>in loud and clear; BBC is OK but occasionally walked on by adjacent channel
>interference; and I've logged Radio Australia's world service as well as a
>couple of the South Pacific regional services (news in pidgin).

 Hey!  Can you e-mail me your original posting(s) on comments about the
 radio, we have about 10 possible customers for that radio over here
 who want to know more about the little "marvel".

 My "beam" address is barreraa@lamar.colostate.edu,
 alternat address is kabos@lamar.colostate.edu.
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Bearcat DX-1000

Features :
100 Khz - 30Mhz
Digital Frequency readout
Dual Time Zone Clock (can turn on radio and trigger a tape recorder)
Direct Entry Tuning
Manual Tuning in 1Mhz or 100Khz steps
Fine Tuning Knob
10 Memories
AM,USB,LSB,CW, FM Modes
Squelch
12,6,2.5 Filters
Noise Blanker Fast /Slow
AGC - Fast/Slow
Selectable Attenuator
S-Meter

Have box and manual.
The receiver is in very good condition.
$150.00 Firm

If intertested contact me email

Thanks
From: trb@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Andrew Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Radio Shack VOX tape recorder?
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:12:22 GMT
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In article <1993Jan10.202626.31592@europa.asd.contel.com> pascoe@rocky.ndhm.gtegsc.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
> The latest Radio Shack flyer showed the CTR-85 (? not sure about model
> number) tape recorder one sale for $35.  Are there any major
> disadvantages to this unit when it is being used to make recordings
> from a scanner?   I seem to remember some talk about problems with
> audio input levels but don't recall the details, or if the comments
> pertained to this particular model.

When I use my CTR-85 VOX with a cable (rather than with mic activation),
it seems that if there is ANY signal present (i.e. if the radio is on)
then the recorder runs.  This is fine for my needs, which is to record
scheduled shortwave broadcasts, but it wouldn't suffice for scanner
recording.  It might/should be possible to adjust the VOX sensitivity on
the CTR-85 to provide for the needs of scanner recording, but I don't
know how to do it.

	Andrew Tannenbaum   Brookline, MA  USA
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From: cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Subject: SW database from Tom Sundstrom
Organization: pubs
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:32:29 CST


The FAQ mentions a database about SW programming available from Tom
Sundstrom of Pinelands BBS.  I'd like to know more about the databse.
What's the price?  How often is it updated?  Does RBase work with the
format used by Pinelands (DBase III)?  I'd like to hear how well people
like this database service.

Also I'm wondering about Pinelands and other BBS's.  What are these
like?  Thanks for any info...

Chris Brewster
cb@cray.com
From: bmasti@cse.unl.edu (balasubrahmanya masti)
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Subject: Question on DAK's Station stalker
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:02:01 GMT
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Summary: Improvement of reception
Keywords: SW Antenna, Station stalker

	Dear Netters,

		I recently bought a SW antenna or as DAK calls it
  	"station stalker". It has improved the quality of many stations,
	especially All India Radio, which I listen to.

		I just wanted to know if anyone else on the has been
	using this. If so, can you give me your opinion on the same?

		Thanx.
	
	Balasubrahmanya Masti
	bmasti@cse.unl.edu
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In article <CB.93Jan6134917@tamarack13.timbuk>, cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris
Brewster) writes:
> Combined with similar news from Canada and elsewhere, this makes me
> wonder how much importance governments now put on shortwave
> broadcasting.

Hi Chris!

A friend of mine (who is also a ham) and I had a discussion about this
a few months ago.  He was mentioning about how the FCC is grabbing all
the ham frequencies (esp. uhf and microwave).  In a pessimistic way he
figured that in 20 years, amateur radio would not exist - no spectrum
left.

My position, forever the optimist, was that with all the commercial,
government, military, etc. communications moving to satellite and
microwave, the only thing *left* on shortwave in 20 years would be
hams and broadcasters (and CBers).  Evidence to back this up?
At recent WARCs, both hams and broadcasters *gained* SW spectrum.

SW is a pretty economical media compared to satellites, dishes,
microwave equipment, spread spectrum gear, magic decoder rings, etc.
It is dirt cheap to broadcast and dirt cheap to receive.  Very popular
in the third world.

I don't know what VOA's budget is, but I'll bet it is measured in
only 10s of millions of $$ a year.  Considering the coverage and
listenership, it is cheap.  And many of the major broadcasters are
already supplying satellite feeds.

Besides: it isn't much fun writing for QSL cards when you merely point
a dish and listen in FM quality sound.  Somehow picking through the
static, waiting for that weak signal, tweaking the antenna for that
last db, trying to figure out the atmospheric conditions, etc. is
far more romantic and challenging.  Then the QSL card really means
something!

> Somewhat related question: how and why does UK pay for a service as
> gigantic as the BBC!?

As they say, Tax and Spend.  :-)

Walt
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From: medha@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (keshav.havnurkar)
Subject: Christian broadcasting on SW
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:27:30 GMT

Hi 
   I was randomly tuning in SW freq range. One thing that
amazed me was that in SW band , there are so many stations
that broadcast 'church sermons'. Does anybody know how many
stations are fully dedicated to this 'service of GOD' on SW ?
As compared to MW and FM , SW seems to be attracting these
fellows quite a lot . How is the funding of these stations done ?

(sorry no religious sentiments were targeted )

keshav@mhcnet.att.com
From: franzis@evax.gdc.com
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Subject: Re: Ramsey SW Converter Kit
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:51:13 GMT
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT


Robert Smits Writes: 


>The only problem with some digital radios is that they tune in 10KHz 
>steps, while you often fins SW stations are at 5KHz intervals. It's no 
>big problem, just use two crystals in the converter - one 5KHz away from 
>the other, and switch from one to the other to cover the entire range of 
>frequencies you're interested in.

   I thought maybe this converter would work like one of those
   FM Converters I used to use, where the converter would do the 
   tuning and broadcast it on one frequency on your AM radio.
   Do you actually have to use the radio to tune through the SW
   range? How do you know where you are tuning?

                        Thanks.
   franzis@evax.gdc.com
   
                            

                                         
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From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: American Commercial Shortwave Broadcasting
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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In article <1863@wshb.csms.com> michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng) writes:
>>I have some questions about shortwave broadcasting...
>>
>>What is the feasability of making commercial broadcasts over shortwave in the
>>USA?  Is it legal?  Are there any commercial stations in the US?  What is the
>>investment required to establish a station that could be easily heard with a
>>radius of 100 miles, for example?
>
>
>Commercial HF broadcasting is definatly legal in the USA. In fact, that's
>the only place privatly owned shortwave station are legal. Just a for
>instance, that's what we do here! The restriction is that we are *NOT*
>allowed to target the USA as an audience. There is a minimum power
>requirement of 50 KW also, so the investment is pretty substantial. There
>are fees every six months for frequency coordination also. It's not
>something you can undertake as a hobby, but there are a couple of low
>budget groups with dedicated support that do an adequate job of remaining
>on the air.

I never knew that American SW stations were prohibited from targeting
US listeners.  I seem to pick them up just fine, here in Texas :-).

Seriously, why is there this restriction?

Simon

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kirk baxter <KB06810@UKANVM.BITNET> asked

>Has anyone that put in a pre-pub order with Grove gotten their
>Handbook?

Yes. Mine, ordered in mid-December, arrived yesterday, 1/5/93.

Tony Waters <CCW@APLVM.BITNET>
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kirk baxter <KB06810@UKANVM.BITNET> asked

>Has anyone that put in a pre-pub order with Grove gotten their
>Handbook?

Yes. Mine, ordered in mid-December, arrived yesterday, 1/5/93.

Tony Waters <CCW@APLVM.BITNET>
From: lawrence.walley@satalink.com (Lawrence Walley)
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Subject: EEB MODS FOR ICOM R71
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:30:00 GMT
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Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

Does this mean EEB will do a mod for my R71a..not purchased from them?
Thanks,Joe Walley,Phila. Pa.
                            
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First of all, reposting a querry some days ago.  Has anybody used
the Sherwood mod on 525?  How is the result?

Second, I notice that the 525 has a very different audio contour
from sony 2010.  Wheras 2010 is soft, both voice and noise, 525 is
brighter for voice but harsh for noise.  I definitely enjoyed
voice on 525 better than 2010 but the noise on 2010 is much kinder to
to the ear.  Is this only my radio or is it true for all such radios
  I would like to hear from those of you that have both radios.
Thanks.

Zhang at lingr1000@ucsvax.sdsu.edu