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From: FG
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: SW/AM pirate radio
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:34:44 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1jkbdiINNk9m@life.ai.mit.edu>, regnad@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Prescott) writes...
> 
>Since I got a few pieces of mail from my previous post asking about this
>subject I'm gonna try a "real" post this time and see what happens. :)
> 
>pirate info in the print medium.  I know there are other magazines with
>pirate columns, but I can really only afford to subscribe to one.)
>Anyone read Monitoring Times, or some other publication with regular
>reports on pirate activity?

	Paul
	Check out the ACE magazine. I think you can get a trial issue
	for $2.50 from 	The ACE
			PO Box 11201
			Shawnee Mission KS 66207-0201

	Yearly subs to this  30-page or so a month magazine are 18$.

	The ACE is _the_ mag for SW pirate information. There are monthly
	logging columns, Interviews with ops, technical information etc.
	If you have an interest in SW Pirate activity worldwide, this is
	the mag to get.  Kirk Baxter is the publisher and he does an excellent
	job every month.

	Poop Com's pirate section is about 5 months old, and the editor
	seems very out of touch.  MT's is much better, but both pale
	to the ACE's up-to-dateness and depth.

	/FG
From: cc774@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert M Connelly)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: Drooling Wannabe
Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:56:06 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Alittle over five years ago I was actively engaged in the design,
financing and construction of a 15,500 wattstereo FM installation 
here in southwest Ohio. Tower, antenna, antenna cable from the
transmitter, transmitter building big enough to permit 12 paging
system transmitters in addition to the broadcast tx with concrete
inner roof to protect against falling ice, consulting engineering
for which the engineer was exceedingly kind in his greatly reduced
fee - the whole 9 yards was a shade over $200,000. It is a 15,500
watt facility on 88.7 mHz from a 20 foot mast on top of a 422 foot
tower using a Harris Tx and a Broadcast Engineering exciter. Of
this cost none was for any studio equipment which would at today's
prices for commercial equipment (Minimum of 2 of each: reel-to-reel
tape decks, cassette decks, CD players, 2 speed turntables, micr-
phones, spring-loaded adjustable mike stands, minimum of 8 pot
control board, building large enough for expansion meeting all the
various codes especially disabled access and miscellaneous other
bits and pieces ( not a accounting for repair bench and production
facilities) at toda's prices will run approximately another 
$200,000. The Transmitter facility was put on the air in March,
1988 and there was much donated material and expertise most people
buiolding a station would have to pay for. I believe that today
for such a complete facility (studio, studio equipment, transmitter
building, transmitter, coaxial cable, tower, antenna - the whole
nine yards) would very quickly approach the minimum of $750,000.

Hope this helps in some way.

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From: regnad@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Prescott)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: SW/AM pirate radio
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:16:44 GMT
Organization: The Land of Forgotten Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu


OK, so there does seem to be some interest in SW pirates amoung the readers
of this newsgroup.

Is everyone familiar with the idea of the "maildrop" for QSLing pirates?
Well, for lack of a better subject I'll explain it, anyway.  (At least as
well as *I* understand it.)

It seems the most common method of QSLing SW pirates these days is via a
"maildrop".  That is, a P.O. Box announced on the air.  If you want your
report to be answered you need to include 3 units of first class postage,
and here is why:  Your reception report goes to the P.O. box.  The person
who has the box is not the broadcaster.  He opens your letter and uses
one of the stamps on an envelope in which your report, and the second
stamp is forwarded to the pirate, who reads your letter and then uses
that second stamp to return your QSL to the maildrop operator.  The
maildrop operator then repackages your QSL and uses the third stamp to
send it back to you.

This method is why I don't try to QSL every pirate I hear.  It can get a
bit expensive for someone trying to live on unemployment like me.  :)


Paul Prescott
regnad@gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: adalton@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Andrew Dalton)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: Guide for Teaching English in Japan
Summary: alt.pirate
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:07:28 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University

In article <26JAN93.20307016.0067@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, BFLV000 <BFLV@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA> writes:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
> I am distributing a booklet called "A Comprehensive Guide For
> Teaching English in Japan".
> 
> This valuable booklet (60 pages & some figures) provides you everything
> you need to know about conducting job hunting and living in Japan.
> (e.g. medical insurance, budget travelling, Japan railway pass etc.)
> It includes detailed information of 50 famous language school in Japan.
> Even If you have no intention to teach English in Japan, this booklet
> still is an excellent reference for anyone who is interested in Japan.
> We charge a minimum cost price of US$10 (including S&H expenses).
> If you are interested, send your name and address with a check to
> M. Yoshida, 2125 rue St-Marc, Apt. 1110, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3H 2P1.
> Please allow two weeks for processing.  Reliable !
> ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
One question!  What does this have to do with pirate radio????
From: nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: Guide for Teaching English in Japan
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:39:18 GMT
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

BFLV000 <BFLV@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA> writes:
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
>I am distributing a booklet called "A Comprehensive Guide For
>Teaching English in Japan".

Please keep thhis crap out of alt.pirate.radio.

Bill Newcomb
nuke@reed.edu
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From: bbe001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: y
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:53:26 GMT

I live in Des Moines, and am thinking of setting up a pirate FM station.
Question is, how hard does the FCC look for pirate stations? Am I safe if I
don't crossover anybody's broadcast's? And is there a generic setup someone
could recommend for maybe a 1-2 mile radius? Generic meaning cheap and parts
easy to find...

Thanks in advance,
b

Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: reynhout@cs.uri.edu
Subject: Re: Radiating on Private Property
Organization: University of Rhode Island, Computer Science Dept.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:00:21 GMT

brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS) writes:
>
>The ranch question raises some interesting questions. And ones I don't think
>the government would be to happy about. I'm sure if you had a 1K acre ranch
>really was private (ie: no one allowed in, big fence etc..) then they would 
>never know that you were doing anything illegal within your lines. But then 
>there are some laws that really have nothing to do with propery lines, just
>you can't do them, period. 

   Yup.  Federal Agencies have jurisdiction over every piece of land (or
water) that can call itself part of the United States.  That's their whole
reason for existence.

>I have a feeling that the FCC is going to get a major funding increase in the 
>years to come. Why? Everything is going to radio waves. There are a few
>thousand new radio devices in the past few years. Switches that turn on
>and off appliances they aren't wired to, the TV-Rabbit systems, the "talking"
>for sale signs, cellular cellular cellular not to mention the "new" Radio
>Ethernets for computers. (How long has paket been around?) The rules are going
>to get even more bizzare but hopefully a little more lose to allow for 
>experimentation.

   Those of us who follow the industry have noted that their funding will
probably continue to drop, at least in some departments.  The immediate
result for those of us who ARE licensed is an increase in the amount 
and frequency of forfeitures.  I would hope that there is a corresponding
increase in fines for UNLICENSED folks...although I wouldn't support 
extra funds for increased hunting of pirates...except in cases where they
cause interference...in which case they're easy to find anyway.

   As an aside there's a little station here in Rhode Island that has
been operating unlicensed for almost three years now...continuously.  
(more or less).  It amazes me.  They claim to be operating into a cable
modulator putting out legal levels, but they're lying.  They have adopted
call letters and everything.  Worse yet, it is at a STATE college!
They're going to have to move frequencies, because an application was
recently approved for the frequency on which they operate, located in
close proximity.  Their impending frequency move will probably be back
to 91.9 (where they were for awhile,) which will be interesting because
it's only 2 channels away from a _big_ class B commercial, and I'm sure
they will NOT put up with interference from an unlicensed school.

   A textbook case in what NOT to do if you're looking for Part 15 safety,
yet no one has touched them.  Somebody must be paying somebody off.

   Andrew
-- 
   Andrew <reynhout@cs.uri.edu>    "Which is Zen -- The head in the stars,
                                    or the body in a chair?"  - Kristin Hersh
Date: Sunday, 24 January 1993 01:09:53 EST
X-Mailer: TMail version 1.14R
From: "Tim Triemstra" <empath@ais.org>
Organization: Empath Software
Subject: Re: Irreconcilable differences: SB and Modem
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Distribution: world

In <1993Jan23.143501@IASTATE.EDU>, kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)  wrote:
   >  Unfortunately, when I went to configure the SB in windows no matter what
   >interrupt I specified the SB was not recognized.  Windows now says that I just
   >don't have one.  Am I doing something wrong?  It won't acknowledge the modem
   >either if that means anything.

You may try the setting in the win.ini or system.ini (I can't remember which
holds the sound driver flags.)  I know when I was flipping IRQs on mine, I
had to change the IRQ/DMA settings with a text editor in DOS in one of the
.INI files, otherwise it wouldn't work.  I has something to do with windows
doing an auto-verification regarding your settings, although the driver
can only be initialized once.  That is why it installs fine the first time,
but once it is loading during boot-up, when it autochecks for the new IRQ
it simply isn't going to work as the driver is already installed into
another IRQ.

I'm not possitive this is the proper logic, but experimenting with the .INI
file rather than playing with the device driver install is probably your
best bet either way.

Tim.

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| When the end comes, there will be two men standing: |
|   Me, and the guy I gotta kill.   - Gosh I'm EVIL   |
------ Tim Triemstra ------------- empath@ais.org -----
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Subject: Irreconcilable differences: SB and Modem
Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:35:01 GMT

  Before you start thinking I am an idiot: I did know to change the IRQs.

  At first I set my modem IRQ to 5 (I didn't want to have to mess with all my SB
stuff if I changed its IRQ instead).  No software I have would recognize it.

  Giving up I set my modem to COM4 (IRQ3) and changed the SB (original model) to
IRQ5 since I use it in windows and might have wanted to print and play a sample
at the same time.

  The DOS communications packages I have all work now, and all my DOS games were
able to use the SB without problem.  When I started up windows I was relieved to
have it signal me that the SB was no longer on IRQ3.

  Unfortunately, when I went to configure the SB in windows no matter what
interrupt I specified the SB was not recognized.  Windows now says that I just
don't have one.  Am I doing something wrong?  It won't acknowledge the modem
either if that means anything.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

 |  __L__
-|-  ___  Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub
 |  | o | kv07@iastate.edu
 |/ `---' Iowa State University
/|   ___  Math Department
 |  |___| 400 Carver Hall
 |  |___| Ames, IA  50011
 J  _____
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: colin.buckley@rose.com (colin buckley)
Subject: SB/TB Problems
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:31:09 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 01-21-93 18:27
    Can someone uuencode me a copy of the latest CT-VOICE.DRV for the
Sound Blaster?  I've got the original SB w/CMS chips, and all the original
crappy software.  Anyways, I've written a program that uses CT-VOICE.DRV
and apparently someone who tried my program with a Thunderboard experiences
lock ups.  Is the Thunderboard TRUELY compatible?  I've compressed the samples
with 4-bit ADPCM using the original VOXKIT.  I'd hate to lose a registration.

Say, does the Thunderboard have a similar driver that I can just use
as a drop in a replacement?  Must play 4-bit compressed VOCs.

I don't understand it though, Creative Labs must know how to program
there own card, if it doesn't work on a Thunderboard, then it must be
a Thunderboard problem, as I certainly have no problems with lock ups using
my SB.

Any help is appreciated.  Any flame for being stupid enough to use CT-VOICE,
well, don't bother.

On a some what related note.  What's the story on FMDRV?  I pulled it
from a self playing CMF, and I noticed Jill of the Jungle uses it to play
CMFs aswell.  Unfortunately, that is also not included with my SB.  Infact,
there is no FM support at all on the disks except for the test program, it's all
in lovely stereo AM.

Does anyone know the function calls for it?  Any known problems?  I'd
appreciate a copy of that aswell as I don't know the exact size.

I dissassembled it and noticed that it uses a variable to store the
base address, and an ADD [whatever],8 to address the FM registers.  I
was thinking of putting the Adlib address inplace of the SB address, and
getting rid of the ADD, or maybe just ignore the variable altogether
and replcae the MOV DX,[whatever] with a MOV DX,388h assuming that there
is enough room.  Aside from copyright infringement, anyone see a problem
with that?  I've don't know why Creative Labs uses the base address when
it can be many possibilities.  Does the Creative Adlib implementation
require less of a delay?  That's no problem, as FMDRV uses a loop, I
can just use a higher CX value.
.----------------------------------------------------.
| Colin Buckley                                      |
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada                           |
| InterNet: colin.buckley@rose.com                   |
|                                                    |
| So Eager to Play, So Relunctant to Admit it...     |
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From: mjack@sumax.seattleu.edu (Batman)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: SBPRO READ PROGRAM
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:11:48 -0800
Organization: Seattle University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: sumax.seattleu.edu
Summary: How to make it read.
Keywords: Read all text..

	Hi all,
	
	I've been trying to make the read program on the Sbpro to work but
it still doesn't work.. What I need help on is, how to make it load itself
when you start the computer and make it read everything you type in without
using the READ COMMAND.  Please E-mail if willing to help..

   Thanks...

   Batman....   
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: mvcooley@eos.ncsu.edu (MATTHEW VANCE COOLEY)
Subject: Re: SB/TB Problems
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:11:15 GMT

I'm not sure, but I think the program "INST-DRV.EXE" will
initialize the CT-VOICE.DRV file. I recall seeing a
utility somewhere that referred to this procedure if
problems developed. Maybe someone can add to this info.
Evidently INST-DRV changes something inside of
CT-VOICE.DRV (port setting/interrupt?). 

Hope this helps!

-- 
           Matthew Cooley
      mvcooley@eos.ncsu.edu    
  72770.1522@compuserve.com  

Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: jmukher@lonestar.utsa.edu (Joy . Mukherjee)
Subject: Re: ModulePlayer in C
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:18:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.180933.26367@dhhalden.no> Chris Berg <Christib@dh.halden> writes:

>I have been programming in pascal using the Goldplay unit, now I have

Could you upload the GOLDPLAY TPU to some site?  The one on ftp.cs.edu (I
think) is missing that file...

Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: i323859@phceaa20.cad-sg.ce.philips.nl ( HENK MEULENDIJKS     )
Subject: Midi and Soundblaster
Summary: going to buy what kind of programs are available
Keywords: programs
Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:33:19 GMT

I'm going to buy a soundblaster-pro.
I have a Yamaya sampled piano with midi-connection

I'm looking for programs 
I want to give in note's with an editor send them to the piano and play with them.  Futher want to learn to play the piano with use of some programs

I have understood that the midi protocol is standard but that the sb midi chip is not standard. 

what kind of programs are for this purpuse available
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: colin.buckley@rose.com (colin buckley)
Subject: SB/TB Problems
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:39:29 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 01-23-93 00:37
M(>I'm not sure, but I think the program "INST-DRV.EXE" will
  >initialize the CT-VOICE.DRV file. I recall seeing a
  >utility somewhere that referred to this procedure if
  >problems developed. Maybe someone can add to this info.

Unfortunately no.  All it does is set the base address and interrupt
so they're used as defaults.  I ignore defaults and ASK for the address
and interrupt and set them manually through the driver.

My probelm is not a Sound Blaster problem, but rather a compatibilty
problem.  I want the SBv1.5 CT-VOICE.DRV as I believe that IS what
the Thunderboard claims compatibility with.
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| Colin Buckley                                      |
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada                           |
| InterNet: colin.buckley@rose.com                   |
|                                                    |
| So Eager to Play, So Relunctant to Admit it...     |
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: bsmith@crustacean.osf.org (Bruce Smith)
Subject: Re: Idea
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:27:04 GMT

In article <C18449.K0H@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> cstringe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer) writes:
>bsmith@osf.org () writes:
>| I just noticed a.s in a r.h crosspost. Made my day when I subscribed to
>| discover the nefarious goings-on, especially the HK thread. It gave me an
>| idea for another net.shenanigan. People often post to rec.food.cooking
>| spouting off about how wonderful and flame-free it is. (This is generally
>| true, much to my annoyance, although I did manage to get a small flap going
>| several years ago...that's another story, though.)
>| 
>| Now, isn't there something that could be done to "stir things up" in r.f.c?
>| Along HK lines, someone could ask for a non-existent recipe -- "Coca-Cola
>| Bread," f'rinstance. Then we could submit several different recipes and even
>| argue about which is the correct one. Whaddya think?
>
>How about the recipe for hash brownies or flamable Jello? Ought to
>upset a few bunheads.
>

I like the flammable jello idea, although it might get recognized as a prank.
The hash brownies would probably just get told to move it to another group, like
alt.drugs. A thought just occurred to me...how about "Refreshening old fish"?

Something like, "I read somewhere that it's possible to restore freshness to
old fish (as long as it's not spoiled). I *think* two of the ingredients used
are vinegar and baking soda. Anyone have more info?"

Of course, several of us could offer plenty of info.  People might actually try
the stuff. Might take some restraint to keep things plausible.

Bruce Smith
From: tgrupe@watserv.ucr.edu (Todd E. Grupe)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Date: 25 Jan 93 03:27:35 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <C184I2.Ksv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>  
cstringe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer) writes:
> 
> If you want to annoy a group, post to rec.motorcycles and ask what
> 'DoD' stands for. It's a secret group they have and they hate
> references to it on the net.
> 

	We'd be happy to tell you.  It's just that we'll have to do so in  
person, because soon afterward we'll have to kill you.


TG   DoD#4043   Lost in Southern California Hell

tgrupe@watserv.ucr.edu

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From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: alt.shenanigans ARCHIVES now available via FTP
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:11:43 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat ) writes:

>: Every message ever posted on this newsgroup, from day 1 through a few days
>: ago, is there.  See the `shenanigans.README' file for details.

>Is there some sort of "Best of" file for those of us who don't feel like 
>digging through thousands of posts?

>Sna

No, but there will be.  We're working on it.  Unfortunately, it requires
us to...  Dig through thousands of posts.  But it's coming.
-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
From: lorax@ap.cl.msu.edu (Dale Gee)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Art Prank
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:46:05 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: ap.cl.msu.edu

Several years ago two friends pulled a art prank.  There was a art show going
on, my friends took a 2 foot section of a 2X4 painted it blue drove a 10 penny
spike into the side of it and mounted upright. They named it something really
oddball I think it was "mans inhhumanity to man" They not only won a prize but
some fool gave them a 100 bucks for it.  

Side note: I told this story to some people I know who are real art snobs. 
They didn't find any humor in it.  

Dale