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From: troach@netcom.com (Tom Roach)
Subject: NRD 525 vs. 535
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 03:11:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I have already posted on this subject in greater detail in the last
6 weeks, but to sum it up:

If you can get a NRD-525 at about $900, grab it NOW!

I have talked to JRC and they only have 20 left (as of last week).

I have had my NRD-535D with extra stable oscillator and fixed 500 Hz
filter for about seven weeks. I love it. It has better ergonomics, but
the NRD-525 is every bit as good, with the exception of the computer
control capabilities of the 535D, which are better. As far as sensitivity,  
selectivity or stability go, I can see no appreciable difference. The tuning
is smoother on the 535D, but is all of this make it worth the difference
in price. NO! This is all academic, because soon there won't be any 525's
around (at least not new)>

As Janis Joplin used to sing "Get it while you can!"

Tom Roach
From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: WWCR
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:54:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: arrl.519

Scott Fybush writes:
 
;I haven't seen anyone else from New England posting on this, but
;my experience here in Waltham MA is that the RTTY is never heard here.
;I was badly hit by the propagation gremlins last October when SIGNALS
;had to re-run the entire show.  I wasn't taping August 29th, so I
;don't know how bad propagation was that night, but I've just finished
;listening to my tape of the Sept. 5 SIGNALS, and the last 20 minutes
;is plagued by very low signal level and a loud buzzing.  I've not
;ruled out the possibility that another apartment in my building
;turned on the fluorescent light or something at that point, so this
;may not have anything to do with WWCR at all.  Anyone else up
;this way hear a buzz that night?
; 
;Anyone up this way ever hear the RTTY on 7435?
; 
;Scott Fybush -- unixland.natick.ma.us
;Not the views of anyone but me.
; 

I've never heard interference on WWCR's 7435 frequency. There
is occasional propagation trouble. As I've mentioned before,
41 meters is a pretty good band for North American coverage.
I think satellite TV is spoiling a lot of SWLs!

Good listening.

Jim Kearman
From: scowl@adpgate.UUCP (Scott W Larson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: WWCR
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:46:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: adpplz.1557
Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR

In article <SWL-L%92090523291674@OHSTVMA.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU>, GL8574@BROCK1P.BITNET (Glenn C. Lasher) writes:
 > Does anyone out there have any clue as to what is going on with
 > WWCR?!?  Starting about two weeks ago there have been semi-random
 > blackouts of their signal, preventing me from hearing Signals, WoR
 > and RNI, and I'm starting to wonder if it is intentional.  The
 > signal has always made a very sudden drop in quality and it becomes
 > suddenly unusable.

Last Saturday (9/5) a caller said he completely lost the signal. The only 
problem I've been having is an overwhelming dead carrier-type signal that 
blocks out WWCR for a minute or two. The end of Kristen Kaye's show was 
knocked out this time. It shows up maybe once an hour.

It isn't the RTTY interference that other folks have talked about. It
almost seemed like WWCR's carrier was there but no sound on top of it.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: g89r4255@hippo.ru.ac.za (Lt Sajid Rahim)
Subject: Trying to find Radio New Zealand.
Summary: New Zealand
Keywords: New Zealand
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:07:56 GMT


I have been trying to recieve Radio New Zealand according to
the frequency described (which I havent got on me at the moment)
by Radio Japan. 

Has anybody outhere been able to recieve Radio New Zealand?
Do they send QSL cards out if a reception report is sent?

Sincerely

Sajid

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From: jerry@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: WWCR
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:23:28 GMT
Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University

In article <1992Sep13.092319.365@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu>, I wrote:

> 
> It was Saturday night in Northeastern Massachusetts and WWCR was coming in
> fine on my Sony 2010.


I may have to modify this and my apologies if I was wrong, but better to tell
the truth than get people confused.

I tuned in, in fact, early Sunday morning around 12:10AM EDST (4:10 UTC) for
the sole purpose of checking the signal (no pun intended).  So I heard--loud
and clear--whatever station was broadcasting at that time.  My reception 
report, then, assumes that WWCR didn't go off the air at midnight to be
replaced by another station.  (I was hearing world news, if that helps.)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio)
Subject: Re: Internet on BBC Waveguide
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:42:42 GMT
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed below are writers own.
Peruutus: Mielipiteet ovat omiani.
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

In article <9209031941.AA02003@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:

> Well, unless I was misinterpreting the name cited by the correspondent
> on this last week's BBC Waveguide program, our own Kauto Huopio <huopio@LUT.FI>
> was interviewed and demonstrated access to rec.radio.shortwave at the
> EDXC conference, and is now famous worldwide outside these computer
> circles, too... Congratulations!

> Will

That's correct. Personally I'd say that there were a couple of errors
(by me) in the interview, but I hope the basic message went through.
Simon Spanswick (Assistant Secretary General of the EDXC, the
presenter of Waveguide and a rather high-ranking executive at the BBC
World Service) and Stacey Rodda (the producer of Waveguide and.. a
very attractive woman) were at the conference the whole time and made
interviews for a series of "Waveguide" programs. Listen to it!

> PS Now if we can just get the BBC programming and scheduling people
> to receive Internet e-mail, we'd be all set! :-)

Well, I think it is about time. Quite many international broadcasters
have some kind of Internet connections. The very active persons in the
field are George Wood @ Radio Sweden and Jonathan Marks @ Radio
Netherlands, and all the people at CSM. There are some excellent and
rather inexpensive systems in London that offer e-mail and news, so it
would be rather easy to get accounts. If I have understood it
correctly. BBC Recearch Departiment has some e-mail or news connetions
(can anybody confirm this?). Who is going to do the lobbying?

--Kauto

PS:BBC Monitoring offers their reports in electronic form, so they
must have some kind of e-mail, too..
--
****************** Kauto Huopio (huopio@kannel.lut.fi) **********************
*  Mail: Kauto Huopio, Punkkerikatu 1 A 10, SF-53850 Lappeenranta,Finland   *
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: venkat@nsc.nsc.com (Venkataraman_Iyer_V)
Subject: VOA Europe on Shortwave
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:48:12 GMT

A few months ago, when I was in India (A place where FM is not as popular and
SW is infinitely more popular), I could listen to some station that called
itself the VOA Europe Network between 1:30pm and 3:30pm Indian Standard Time
which is 5 and a half hours ahead of GMT. There was no sign on or sign off.
It sounded like they just put on this frequency suddenly at 1:30pm and
at 3:30pm Normal VOA would take over even if it was in the middle of a
sentence/song. The strength was pretty poor and since we used analog radios
with just MHz markings, I'm not too sure about the frequency. A friend with 
a digital readout said it was 21.700 Mhz. I'd say give or take a few hundred
KHz. They put on the Top-40 (Casey-Casum or something like that) on Saturday
(40 to 21) and Sunday (20 to 1) in the beginning. Later on they shifted it to
Sunday and Monday. There were no commercials, save advertising about VOA
Europe Network itself.

I have a lot of questions about this -
1. What was it doing on shortwave? It sounded very much like it would
be better off on MW/FM. Because of the music and all that.

2. How come I could hear it in India if it was meant for Europe? I do
know that I can hear BBC to Africa and Radio Australia to Europe quite
clearly. But it seems strange that I can hear VOA Europe. Its strange
because its like no other transmission I ever hear from VOA.

3. Does it get transmitted here too on SW?

Anyway they played some great music. And they had one more loyal
listener than they bargained for.


Viv   venkat@viking.nsc.com
From: C058SJLX@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: DX-370 review needed
Date: 5 Sep 92 19:14:49 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo


            Could somebody send a review of this RS radio?
 
                      Thank you very much.
 
                Eleazar Puente.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: rkohin@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: BBC - Network Africa
Organization: Clark University
Date: 11 SEP 92 15:51:02 GMT

The following exchange appeared on AFRICA-L.  I would appreciate any 
corrections and additions to my reply.
					Thanks, Rog Kohin
					rkohin@vax.clarku.edu

Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:30:24 EDT
Subject: BBC - network africa

I am an incurable addict to the BBC program NETWORK AFRICA, which is
easily accessible in Africa. For those that don't know this program, I
do recommend it as it covers features, music, and sports for the
continent and does give a sense of identity at the continent level,
beyond country borders (will there ever be a united states of Africa?).
I heard a rumour that one could hear NETWORK AFRICA in the USA. Does
anyone know if this is possible? I've tracked down the BBC but haven't
found network africa. Perhaps readers have information on other radio
waves or programs that are specifically focused on Africa news. Any info
would be much appreciated.
For those discussing the problems of computer use in Africa, my AST
laptop survived a matatu crash at about 60 mph in Kenya! What more can
you ask for?
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:07:00 EST
From: "Rog Kohin/Physics/Clark U." <RKOHIN@CLARKU.BITNET>
Subject: BBC - network africa

The BBC's program "Network Africa" can be heard in the eastern USA most days
although not as well as in Africa.  The schedule is as follows (all
frequencies are listed except medium wave and FM).

TIME (GMT)  BEST FREQUENCIES IN EAST USA (MHz) [Bracketed generally poor]

0335-0400   6.005   9.600     X     15.420     [3.255]   [6.190]  [11.730]
0435-0500   6.005   9.600  15.400   15.420     [3.255]   [6.190]      X
0635-0700     X     9.600  15.400  [15.420]       X      [6.190]  [17.885]
0735-0800  11.860? 11.940? 15.105?     X          X         X        X

There are 5 minutes of African News preceding Network Africa.

I only listen to the 0330 or 0430 transmissions (11:30 PM and 12:30 AM EDT)
here in Massachusetts (daylight time) so can't vouch for the other times.  The
15.400 MHz transmitter is, I believe, on Ascension Island beamed to West
Africa and is generally the strongest signal here.  The 15.420 MHz transmitter
is, I believe, in the Seychelles beamed to East Africa, but New York is on the
same great circle as are Khartoum, Addis Ababa and the Seychelles so it is
fairly dependable especially in the summer.  The lower frequencies are better
in the winter.

This information is taken from the BBC's program guide "London Calling" which
unfortunately will cease to exist after the current (October 1992) issue and
be replaced by "BBC Worldwide."  Unfortunately, the latter will cost L24.00
while the former is free to educators like me.

Rog Kohin

P.S.  Network Africa is aired only on M-F.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: ralph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
Subject: TV DX
Organization: Democrats for Broccoli
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:01:16 GMT

I experienced some TV DX last night that was interesting to me for
the antenna I was using.  I had my TV hooked up to the cable, and
after local channel 31 went off the air, I was watching what turned
out to be the Tonight Show, which doesn't usually show up on
non-commercial channel 31 in NYC.  The call letters turned out to be WNNE,
which seemed to be in Vermont or New Hampshire.  I didn't get a city
of license, but I seem to recall there being a station in White
River Junction, VT, which might be this one.  Does anybody have any
further info, like an address?  (I don't usually do any TV DXing,
but I think I might like a QSL on this one....)

I had heard about the possibility of cable DXing, but I don't recall
actually seeing any specific reports in any of the bulletins I read
(admittedly, TV is not the main focus of the ones I do read).
Anyone out there experience this before?
-- 
Ralph Brandi     ralph@mtunp.att.com     att!mtunp!ralph

"I may have had the needle in my arm dozens of times, but I never
pushed the plunger"    -- Presidential Candidate Dave Barry
From: toad@apple.ucsb.edu (Marazita)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: National HRO-7 receiver free to good home
Keywords: receiver
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:18:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

I have an old (circa late 1940's) National model HRO-7 receiver
that I no longer have room for.  If anyone is interested in
paying the postage to have it shipped, I'll be happy to give it
up.  It worked last time I fired it up, but that was about 5
years ago.  I suspect it may need some new tubes now, but I
haven't plugged it in to see.

I have:  The main receiver
	 The matching speaker
	 Power supply
	 About 6 plug-in band coils
	 Original manual

If anyone is insterested, please reply via email.  First-come,
first-served! 


=======================================================================
Tom Marazita                                     |INET:  toad@ucsb.edu
Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering|VOICE: 805-893-3221
University of California                         |
Santa Barbara, CA 93106                          |
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: schmidt@auvax1
Subject: Re: SONY SW-1 Replacement Antenna
Organization: Adelphi University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:52:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.155051.26546@nntpserver.chevron.com>, hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea) writes:
> 
> Help!
> 
> I broke the antenna on my Sony SW-1 (actually bent off the last
> two sections). Can anyone tell me where I can get a new one?
> 
> I don't really relish the thought of giving it to a Sony repair
> shop and having them charge me $50. All I need is the antenna, 
> which can be replaced by removing one Phillips-head screw.
>  
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Bill Corea                     Chevron Overseas Petroleum         
> hwcco@chevron.com     San Ramon, California

This is a ways from California, but I ordered a replacement Sony antenna from
Dale Electronics, 7 East 20th St., NY City (don't remember zip) (212)475-1124 I
don't remember if I had to get the part number from Sony first, or if Dale
looked it up for me.  They ordered it from Sony, and it took about 2 weeks.  It
wasn't expensive, and I took the subway there from work, and picked it up one
lunch hour.  You might call Sony information (800 number) and ask them who are
parts distributors in Calif.  

John

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From: hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: SONY SW-1 Replacement Antenna
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:50:51 GMT
Reply-To: hwcco@chevron.com (Bill Corea)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Chevron Overseas Petroeum, Inc


Help!

I broke the antenna on my Sony SW-1 (actually bent off the last
two sections). Can anyone tell me where I can get a new one?

I don't really relish the thought of giving it to a Sony repair
shop and having them charge me $50. All I need is the antenna, 
which can be replaced by removing one Phillips-head screw.
 
Thanks in advance!

Bill Corea                     Chevron Overseas Petroleum         
hwcco@chevron.com     San Ramon, California
From: aaa33750@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Arnett)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: apt sat frequencies?
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:01:47 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Does anybody have a list of the apt satellite frequencies.  Unfortunately,
I dissed mine before I knew I needed it.

Thanks,
Drew   kb9fko@uiuc.edu
From: scowl@adpgate.UUCP (Scott W Larson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: WWCR
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:18:55 GMT
Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR

In article <1992Sep10.043357.27121@unixland.natick.ma.us>, fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Fybush) writes:
 > listening to my tape of the Sept. 5 SIGNALS, and the last 20 minutes
 > is plagued by very low signal level and a loud buzzing.  I've not
 > ruled out the possibility that another apartment in my building
 > turned on the fluorescent light or something at that point, so this
 > may not have anything to do with WWCR at all.  Anyone else up
 > this way hear a buzz that night?

I hear buzzing all the time. It fades in for about 30 seconds and disappears
so I assume it's a car engine or something like that. I get it everywhere
on shortwave so I know it isn't hitting WWCR directly.
From: sawtelle@mariposa.stonecutter.com (Don Sawtelle)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Just got a Drake r-8 (Synchro)
Date: 7 Sep 92 23:42:37 GMT
Reply-To: sawtelle@stonecutter.com
Organization: Stonecutter Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <SWL-L%92082416333756@OHSTVMA.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU> (rec.radio.shortwave), PERAINO@GMUVAX.BITNET writes:
> Going back to the synchronous detector, compared with the sony 2010,
> it is vastly different in operation. The sony synchro is very good at
> zapping noise. The R8 manual doesn't even mention using the synchro for
> zapping noise, although I suppose it's possible to use the passband
> offset for that, with or without the synchro engaged. The R8 manual says
> to engage the syncrho in cases of severe fading. I tried this, but couldn't
> really hear a difference. Perhaps I haven't fooled with it enough, but
> could someone give me their advice on how really to use the R8 synchro?

With my R-8, in most cases, pressing Synchro once I am finished tuning
in the signal reduces fading and noise, resulting in a noticeably better
audio quality.

---
Don Sawtelle:Stonecutter Software:Mariposa, CA
sawtelle@stonecutter.com
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Original_To:  JNET%"swl-l@ohstvma"
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:36:00 EST
Reply-To:     PERAINO@GMUVAX.BITNET
From:         PERAINO@GMUVAX.BITNET
Subject:      hamcomm software, and drake r8

I recently received version 2.0 of hamcomm, and I built the receive
circuit and connected to my r8. This software works surprisingly well,
for little money. The author is to be commended. I have some questions;

Do I have the latest version of hamcomm?

I tried using the morse code decoding mode, and this worked fairly well,
although it's very finicky, and I'm glad I had an r8 to clean up the
signal. The notch filter comes in REAL handy when looking at a signal
spike on the audio spectral display, and notching out adjacent noise.
I have had no luck trying to find/decode rtty signals. Perhaps this is
because I've never done it before. I tried tuning into several things
I thought were rtty, and even after hours of fiddling, setting baud
rates, receive modes, etc., I couldn't get it to work. And these were
VERY clean signals, both audibly, and on the scope mode.  Can anyone
supply me with some known CW and RTTY utility-type frequencies? For rtty,
I'd like to get some frequencies that are transmitting at a known
baud rate and format (baudot/ascii7/ascii8) so I can try to tune in,
avoiding as much guesswork as possible.

Can anyone tell me how to apply the step-size setting? All the online
help says is that it's the distance between a mark and a space, in Hz.
I tried setting it to this number, according to the scope mode, but then,
where do I tune the center frequency? To the middle of mark and space?
What seemed to work the best was tuning the center frequency just below
the pulse; but I haven't found a correlation between the step size,
and pulse detection yet; except that if the step size is too small,
it cannot detect a pulse, and if it's too large, it is too sensitive.
Without knowing what step size is really doing, using CW mode was
very frustrating. On the first signal I tried, it decoded fairly well.
But then I tried it against a very strong CW broadcast, that was about
40 wpm, and it wouldn't decode it for anything, even though the
signal was perfect, and center frequency was just right, such that it
"saw" every pulse.

peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu   internet

peraino@gmuvax   bitnet
From: carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Does WWV Give Tours?
Date: 13 Sep 92 06:12:32 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <BuFAG0.7xA@ais.org> danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) writes:
>Does anyone know if WWV gives tours?  I am going to be in Fort Collins,
>CO next month, and would like to see the station.  Does anyone have a
>phone number I can call.

Long time ago, they did.  Then they had a budget crunch many years ago and
they stopped the public tours.  But who knows?  Maybe they've been restarted.
Seems like it might be an on-again-off-again kind of thing, subject to 
budget considerations (tour-guides have to be paid y'know).

You can get their number from information.  They are: 

	  Radio Station WWV
          National Institute of Standards and Technology
	  2000 East County Road 58
          Fort Collins, Colorado  80524

If you send a letter, they will send you a large packet of neat info about
all the signals and codes that are in their transmissions (more that the
typical ear will pick up!).  There's a LOT to that station and to it's
sister-station WWVH.  I highly recommend it!

Carter R. Bennett, Jr. - Scientist      No matter where you go...
carter@scilab.lonestar.org - home                 .../dev/tty!
carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org - work
KI5SR
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