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Via:      UK.AC.KCL.CC.MAPLE; 13 APR 92 15:31:48 BST
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:31:53 BST
Reply-To:     RCAA000@MAPLE.CC.KCL.AC.UK
From:         RCAA000@MAPLE.CC.KCL.AC.UK
Subject:      High Adventure on Palau

According to a newsletter I've just received from High Adventure
their Palau station is scheduled to start with broadcasts to the Far
East and India on April 20th.

I haven't any frequencies ... but if you hear it please let me know-
I'd like to add Palau to my country collection!

Derek Cooper
RCAA000@UK.AC.KCL.CC.MAPLE
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: bamse@IASTATE.EDU (Sten M Thernelius)
Subject: Radio Sweden  
Reply-To: bamse@IASTATE.EDU (Sten M Thernelius)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 02:12:33 GMT

   


   Hejsan,

      Finns det ngn som skulle kunna informera mig om vilka frekvenser
   Radio Sweden saender pa till den amerikanska mellanvaestern, dvs
   Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska etc. och aeven vilka tider de saender.

      Manga tack pa foerhand,

            Magnus Thernelius
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:08:16 EDT
Reply-To:     Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BITNET>
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Pirate radio

Gary Stimpson writes:
>> After [the pirate] signed off these HAM ops started saying,
>>"Great work Midnight radio!", etc etc.

To which Robert Smits replied:
>I doubt very much if these were Ham or amateur radio operators. Most of
>us know our band ends (in Region II, anyway) at 7.3 MHz. Any
>non-broadcasting station heard here is probably illegal and/or a pirate.

Interesting. I caught the pirate WSKY on 7415 on the night of St.
Patrick's Day. Same thing happened when he signed off - two operators
followed broadcasting comments on the show without identifying themselves.
Bill
From: donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Don Montgomery)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:29:07 GMT
Subject: USA Radio/TV Directory?
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave

Can anyone point me to a directory that list most (if not all) of
the AM, FM, and TV stations in the United States?  So far, I've
checked out:

WRTH - lots of shortwave stuff, no FM, no low power AM for USA
North American Radio-TV Station Guide (Sams) - out of print
North American Radio Guide (WF Innovations) - defunct?

Any others I've missed?  Any on-line public domain databases?

Thanks

Don Montgomery K6LTS
donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com
From: rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: VOX Tape Recorder
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:23:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr15.122306.28392
Organization: Jus' me.

In article <1992Apr15.014249.7834@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ad207@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brett Kollar) writes:
>
>There is a great "Audio Powered Tape Recorder Controller" in the
>December 1990 issue of 73.  I put the thing together about a year
>ago after asking a question just like the one you did.  It uses
>a MOSFET to do the switching and is powered by the speaker output so
>you don't need any external power supplies.  Went to the library,
>photocopied the story and pulled out the welding equipment!
>-- 

If you *really* want to get fancy about it (or if you have to 'catch'
that first trigger-sound on tape) put an ANALOG DELAY LINE between the
sound-sensing circuit and the recorder's input.  That's how the *good*
VOX's work.  (Don't forget to have the recorder-OFF sensor monitoring
the *delayed* signal, or you'll lob off the tail end of the sound-bite.)

You only need enough delay for the recorder to get up to speed.

Rick Miller  rick@discus.mil.wi.us  discus!rick@uwm.edu  rick@ee.uwm.edu
From: rhh@alice.att.com (r hardin)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Religious stations.
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:31:14 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ

In article <26cRiB2w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>, gstimp@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson) writes:
> Hmm.. I'm a Christian myself (everybody gasps in astonishment) and I've 
> been listening to a few religious broadcasts on and off.  To tell you the 
> truth.. I can't stand some of them!  They are so.. corny!  I find 
> American religious radio/tv people hard to listen to.  There is an 
> exception, I enjoy SOME, but still.. I just want to throw my radio out
> the window when I hear some broadcasts.
>  
I used to listen to Southwest Radio Church to get the prophecies.
They're gone now!  Evidently they missed one.

A minister came by a while ago to ask if I wanted to join his Bible
study group.  I told him I really liked Southwest Radio Church, and
asked if he knew that the Savings and Loan collapse was prophisized
in the Bible (big laugh).  I love that stuff.

Well, Mr. Hardin, it's been interesting meeting you, I wonder if
you know if your neighbor is home.

The Perfect Way is still kind of interesting for connoisseurs of
strange delivery and hokey organ music (run by an 82-year old
pharmacist, in perfect health and survivor of 5 fatal diseases),
and of course Veronica who relays information from various Biblical
figures, who speak in the most amazing cliches.  I seem to have
repressed the name.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: troby@diana.cair.du.edu (Thorn Roby)
Subject: Lightning arrestor on TV antenna cuts gain?
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 19:37:04 GMT

Ok, so it's not shortwave, but I figure all you antenna gurus hang out
here. I have a typical Radio Shack log periodic TV/FM antenna on my 
roof. I had previously grounded the mast but decided to add a lightning
arrestor to the coax leadin (also Radio Shack, and probably a coaxial
spark gap), grounding the coax braid in the process. Coax is coupled
to the antenna through a 75/300 transformer. I immediately lost lots of
gain (truly wretched signal for both TV and distant FM). Am I right in
thinking that grounding half of the coax has thrown off the essentially
balanced nature of the log-periodic? Why didn't I see this before, since
the outside of the coax would already have been grounded at the receiver
end anyway? And, as long as you're reading this, why does a log-periodic
antenna have a radiation resistance of 300 ohms anyway, when it's just
a bunch of phased dipoles?
By the way, the incoming signal now appears on only the center conductor
of the coax.

-- 

Thorn Roby                              troby@diana.cair.du.edu
CARL Systems, Inc.                               troby@carl.org   
3801 E. Florida Ave.,Suite D300,Denver, CO 80210 (303) 758-3030
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 11:49:34 EDT
Reply-To:     Tim Smith <tsmith@SPARTA.SPARTACUS.COM>
From:         Tim Smith <tsmith@SPARTA.SPARTACUS.COM>
Subject:      Bandpass filters?

Does anyone have in their bag of trick a bandpass/reject filter (passive)
that will allow the multiple use of the car antenna?  I have a scanner that
I have installed with a tee-connection with the car radio and it seems that
the impedance (has probably) dropped imparing reception on both sets.  Any
commercial designs out there for slippet?
From: rko@cs.tut.fi (Risto Kotalampi)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,sfnet.harrastus.dx-kuuntelu
Subject: Re: EURONEWS 13.3.1992
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:05:27 GMT
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.

In article <5243@kielo.uta.fi> tijoma@uta.fi (Jorma M{ntyl{) writes:

   Kirjoitin juuri juttua uusista IVY-maista ja huomasin, ett{ t{{ll{ Euro-
   newssiss{ oli virhe Valko-Ven{j{n Radio Minskin kohdalla.  Ulkomaanpalvelun
   oikea taajuus on 7420 kHz, ei 7240 kHz.

Jees! Olet oikeassa. Oli tullut n{pp{ilyvirhe uutista kirjoittaessani.
Ihmeellisint{ muuten on, ett{ Minski{ on oikeastikin kuultu tuolla
7240:ll{... katso vaikka uusin Clusive.

-rko
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From: irvine@en.ecn.purdue.edu (B-rent)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: How old is the oldest Diode?
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:04:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: en.1992Apr9.220430.24517
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <17120046@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, jqtaylor@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (John Quill Taylor) writes:
> 
> Didn't some soldiers in the Great War use a piece of pencil lead
> fastened to a wire pin pushing down upon a razor blade to detect
> radio signals from their foxholes? Does this constitute a diode?
>  
	It works under the same principles, but I think they had
	a number of other detectors (galena & cats whisker) that
	worked with a heterojunction.  They weren't called diodes.

	So I figure that only the semiconductor junction can be called
	a diode.

	But, yes, they worked from similar principles.


-- 
Brent Irvine						irvine@ecn.purdue.edu 
 
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
Subject: Re: Radio Havana Disrupting U.S. Service?
Reply-To: grumpy@jpradley.UUCP (Jeff Markel)
Organization: Unix in NYC
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:16:40 GMT

Itoo heard Radio Havana on MW.  Last night around 10 PM EDT they were
broadcasting on 1040 khz AM.  The signal was fairly strong, but the
modulation percentage seemed lower than it should be.
The station faded around 10:30 - at least on my bedside clock-radio!.

I also heard last night around the same time the tail end of what seemed
to be a pirate transmission - I heard the last few bars of a Johnny Cash
rendition of a Bob Dylan song on 3240 khz +-2 khz USB.  Any clues as
to what this was?

                             
-- 
                        Jeff Markel
Jeffrey Markel | uucp:     jpradley!argos!markel   | Argos Computer Systems Inc
KD2HN          | internet: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com | 110 W. 32nd Street 
(212)594-5400  | amprnet:  kd2hn@kd2hn.ampr.org    | New York, NY 10001
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Full-Name: David L. Wilson
Mailer: Elm [revision: 64.9]
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:25:56 EDT
Reply-To:     "David L. Wilson" <dwilson@S850.MWC.EDU>
From:         "David L. Wilson" <dwilson@S850.MWC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Detector != Diode, liquid "diodes"
X-To:         dmturne@PacBell.COM
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>
> The OZ4 is(was) a gas-filled full wave rectifier commonly used with vibrator
> power supplies. It required a minimum of 300 volts DC (1000 volts max) and
> at least a 30 ma load.
>
> It has two anodes and a cathode but no filament. Each anode was connected to
> one end of the center-tapped secondary.

As it had not heater voltage, I am very curious how it worked.
Why did electrons travel one direction but not the other?
>
>
> --
> Dave Turner   (510) 823-2001  {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmturne
>


--
David L. Wilson                 dwilson@s850.mwc.edu
Department of Mathematics       Amateur: AC4IU (ex-KD4ASW/KO4EQ)
Mary Washington College         Home Phone:    (703)898-1084
Fredericksburg, VA  22401       Office Phone:  (703)899-4744
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: richard@harlqn.co.uk (Richard Brooksby)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: A prospective listener asks questions
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:49:33 GMT
Followup-To: richard@harlqn.co.uk
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England

I'm a regular radio listener, though mainly to BBC Radio 4 and the
World Service.  Recently I noticed that the local consumer electronics
shop was selling these wonderful dinky broadband radio receivers (made
by Sony, I think).  Beautiful little matt black boxes with lovely
round corners and pretty little round buttons; a masterful aesthetic
design.  They're the sort of thing I could carry around _all_ the
time.  Anyway, I haven't bought one yet.

I was thinking: with so many broadcasters on so many wavelengths there
must be _something_ interesting happening pretty much _all_ of the
time -- it's just a matter of tuning.  Is this true?  If it is, where
do I obtain the information about what is being broadcast?

I noticed someone mention the `World Radio and TV Handbook'.  Is this
some sort of world-wide station and programme guide?

Please respond by mail.  I'll post a summary of useful responses.
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From: downin@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dave Downin)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Receivers
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:58:17 GMT
Reply-To: downin@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dave Downin)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

I am interested in getting a short wave radio to play around with.
I am not very familiar with anything out there on the market and was
wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a decent set-up for a beginner.
Also, where can I get one and for a decent set, how much can I expect
to pay?

-Dave Downin
From: parnass@cbnewse.cb.att.com (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Convert the Fisher-Price baby monitor into a repeater
Summary: Yes, you can add a switch to select internal mike or external
	 audio source
Keywords: scanner radio, shortwave radio, modification
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:29:51 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL

In article <811@anacapa.NCEL.Navy.Mil>,
greg@anacapa.NCEL.Navy.Mil (Gregory K. Ramsey) writes
about modifying the Fisher-Price baby monitor modification:

> .. My thought is would it be possible to install one of those
> jacks with a built in switch so that plugging in the patch
> cable disconnects the mike, but otherwise leaves the original
> purpose intact?


Yes, you could install a small toggle switch to switch
the audio input from the circuit board between the internal
microphone and external audio jack.  Remember you need
a DC blocking capacitor between the jack and switch otherwise
the baby monitor will be applying DC to your scanner!

The internal microphone needs the DC bias to operate.

-- 
==============================================================================
Bob Parnass, AJ9S - AT&T Bell Laboratories - att!ihlpm!parnass - (708)979-5414
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: maanstro@IASTATE.EDU (Mark A Anstrom)
Subject: RFI / VOA
Reply-To: maanstro@IASTATE.EDU (Mark A Anstrom)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:09:33 GMT

Does anybody have a program listing for Radio France Internationale or the Voice
of America? I'm especially interested in RFI, since I'm francophone and
reception is lousy in Ames on the frequencies and times I know about.


Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: pnz46378@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul N. Zaremba (AA9BK))
Subject: DX-390 Specifications
Summary: A short rundown
Keywords: specs DX-390
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:21:41 GMT


Here is a short rundown of the DX-390 specifications:

Semiconductors:
	LSI		1
	FET		8
	IC		11
	DIODES		49
	TRANSISTORS	45


Circuit:
	FM		Heterodyne
	LW/MW/SW	Double-conversion heterodyne


Frequency Range:
	FM		87.5-108 MHz
	LW		150-519 kHz
	MW		520-1710 kHz
	SW		1.711-29.999 MHz

Antenna:
	LW/MW		Built-in Ferrite 
	SW		Telescoping or Optional External
	FM		Telescoping


Output:		700mW @ 10% THD

Dimensions:	7.5" X 11.875" X 2.875"

Weight:		3.64 lbs. (without batteries)


Does anyone know the REAL specifications (that RS doesn't include)
such as Sensitivity, S/N ration, intermodulation distortion, etc...???

I'd appreciate knowing them.



	

-- 
******************************************************************************* Your haggard, budding young electrical engineering student friend from Illinois Paul N. Zaremba / Amateur Radio Callsign AA9BK (After A 9th Beer, KILLED!)
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From: gstimp@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Religious stations.
Date: 5 Apr 92 10:42:48 GMT
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB

Hmm.. I'm a Christian myself (everybody gasps in astonishment) and I've 
been listening to a few religious broadcasts on and off.  To tell you the 
truth.. I can't stand some of them!  They are so.. corny!  I find 
American religious radio/tv people hard to listen to.  There is an 
exception, I enjoy SOME, but still.. I just want to throw my radio out
the window when I hear some broadcasts.
 
Thank you,
Gary

--- (Gary Stimpson) a user of sys6626, running waffle 1.64
E-mail: gstimp@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
system 6626: 63 point west drive, winnipeg manitoba canada R3T 5G8
From: dans@rehab2.UUCP (Dan Schein)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Convert the Fisher-Price baby monitor into a repeater
Keywords: scanner radio, shortwave radio, modification
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:23:17 GMT
Reply-To: dans@rehab2.UUCP (Dan Schein)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Reading Rehab Hospital, Reading PA

In article <1992Apr12.104656.25199@gagme.chi.il.us> wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer) writes:
>
>The Fisher Price unit is really a very good transmitter.  The weak link is
>the rubber-duckie antenna.  If you eliminate it and replace it with a
>vertical whip (I used a 102" whip from a mobile cb, shortened somewhat to 
>about 80") the range is increased greatly.  With the whip on my 1 story roof, 
>and about 25' of rg-59 coax (cable tv coax), I got 4 SOLID blocks of coverage
>to the standard receiver (not a scanner) during the day when fewer people had
>THEIR baby transmitters on.  Marginal reception was heard up to a mile away!

  This sounds like a lot of fun, but is this not in violation of the FCC
  rules & regs?

  What about problems caused to neighbors who would prefer to monitor their
  children rather than your broadcast?

  Heck for those 'non-secret' phone calls this would work with a cordless
  phone. You could be visiting the neighbors or at the playground with the
  kids. After all its no less secure than a cell phone, but it sure is a lot
  cheeper ;-)

  -Dan
-- 
  Reading Rehabilitation Hospital        _/\_        Those who worked the
  Dan Schein - Information Systems      \    /      hardest, are the last
  RD 1 Box 250                          /_  _\      to surrender.
  Reading, PA 19607                       \/           -= Gary Ward =-

  dans@rehab2.UUCP   -or-   ....{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!rehab1!rehab2!dans
From: oberem@milton.u.washington.edu (Graham Oberem)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Sony ICF-SW55 versus ICF-SW77
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:09:59 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

johns@hpqmolb.sqf.hp.com ( John Struthers) writes:


>Can anyone comment on Sony's new ICF-SW55 radio receiver in comparison
>to the ICF-SW77 ?  What are the performance and design differences ? 

A friend of mine is buying a Sony 2010 and called several well known
suppliers.  He found most of them out of stock but was told by at
least one vendor that the Sony 2010 is being discontinued and that the
ICF-SW55 is the replacement/next-best-thing.

This surely can't be true.  The 55 doesn't even have a synchro detector
system.

Any comments?

Graham, N7UGT
Seattle
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: st901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Scott Fybush)
Subject: WWCR-1 Off Air (Sometimes)
Reply-To: st901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:20:56 GMT

Here's the latest information I've received about the mysterious
goings-on at WWCR:

Those of you looking for the 0605 UTC Monday or 2105 UTC Monday
*SIGNALS* over the weekend didn't find it.  Apparently WWCR is having
some spurious intermodulation problems between their two transmitters.
That's producing some nifty spurs in the 8 MHz aero band.  So WWCR
is shutting down the non-Gene Scott transmitter whenever there's
not paid programming airing over it.

WWCR told me yesterday that they'll be back up by next week.  So next
week's *SIGNALS* airings, as best I can glean from the *SIGNALS*
people and from WWCR, are:

0335 UTC Sunday (11:35 PM EDT Saturday) 7435 (the one paid airing)
2105 UTC Monday (5:05 PM EDT Monday) 17535 (an extra free airing).

The 0605 UTC Monday airing is apparently dead for now. 

As for the move to 5920, WWCR claims it has happened, but that they're
only on 5920 late at night, and still using 7435 earlier.  I don't
know when the exact change is.  Either that...or the 5920 is on the
OTHER transmitter.  Boy am I confused now!  I wish I owned a satellite
dish.  It would make things much easier.

Anyone else heard anything more definite from WWCR?

Scott Fybush -- ST901316@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Xref: sparky rec.radio.shortwave:4001 rec.radio.amateur.misc:7361 sci.electronics:8093
From: Kenneth.E.Harker@dartmouth.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Pirate radio.
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:18:47 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <TiRqiB1w164w@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca>
stimpsn@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Gary Stimpson) writes:

>         ... They also gave out a voice phone number: 214-888-1551 and 
> an address (which I didn't catch).  Can someone give me their address?

I don't know the address, but if you are right about the area code of
the phone number, they are located in Dallas, Texas, quite a long way
from Manitoba...

=======================================================================
          Ken Harker             "And there's bound to be rough waters
Official Chimney Sweep of the     And I know I'll take some falls
  Romantic Fire Association       But with the good Lord as my captain
Kenneth.E.Harker@Dartmouth.Edu    I can make it through them all..."
       Vote GOP in 1992!                   -Victoria Shaw, Garth Brooks
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From: klg@mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Radio Havana Disrupting U.S. Service?
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:28:17 GMT
Organization: Duke Medical Center - Radiology

In article <1992Apr4.124324.11322@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>Last night I got Radio Havana in English, S9 on the meter, on 830 KHz
>here in New York.
>_______________________________Mike Schuster________________________________


  I noticed the same thing last night, and a woman mentioned this was the
"international service".  Audio was not very good, despite a relatively
strong signal (on a GE SRII), though this was not helped by (semi-)fast
fades.  The fades sounded more like SW in nature, rather than the typical
sluggish MW fades found on the BCB, if that makes sense.  I listened for
just a few minutes before falling asleep - had to stay up late (for me)
watching our Blue Devils win the NCAA the night before!  ;^)


-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
From: anachem@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (mark s gilstrap)
Subject: Re: Convert the Fisher-Price baby monitor into a repeater
Keywords: scanner radio, shortwave radio, modification
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 15:26:46 GMT

In article <800@kepler1.rentec.com> andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
>
>Note: the Recoton wireless headphone cost me $69.95 for one TX and one RX.
>Additional RX do not seem to be sold separately.
>

	If you don't already have a tx/rx pair of nursery monitors
	laying around and are planning to buy something, I would
	suggest the Ramsey FM stereo transmitter at $29.95. (or
	even less at the Radio Collection) and a cheap walkman. You
	can plug two scanners into the FM transmitter - one on each
	channel - if traffic is low enough for this to be bearable.
	Or better still plug Car Talk into one channel for constant
	banter in one ear, and the scanner into the other - but is
	it safe to confuse yourself thusly while mowing the grass?

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