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From: gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Andy Gardner)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Florida/Hawaii Outages
Date: 13 Sep 1992 21:28:38 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Reply-To: gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Dear Newsgroup,
.
I am off on a 5 day Equinoxial Broadcast Band DXpedition to a nice quiet location on the East Coast of New Zealand.
.
In the past this location (admittedly while using a 1.2 kilometre Beverage antenna) has bought some great catches such as Radio Albania 1215kHz longpath along with Spanish, Portuguese, Caribbean & Latin American stations.  This time, unfortu
nately, I'm only going to be using an active loop antenna so I'm not expecting such excellent results.
.
This trip I will concentrating on US and Caribbean stations. It would be appreciated if someone could post some details of what stations are not on air in Florida/Hawaii due to hurricanes and what stations, if any, will be doing any testing
or special events over the period 17 to 22 September.
Thanks for any help.
.
.
Andy Gardner       "Yeah, gidday mate"
At home in Wellington, New Zealand...
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 19:01:11 CET
From: <KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: SONY SW-1 Replacement Antenna
Distribution: usa

Why don't you phone up a Sony Service Center and ask them how much an SW-1
replacement antenna is and ask them to mail it to you if the price is
acceptable? The nearest Sony Service Center that I know is in Burbank
(4100 Riverside Drive) - (818)842-7669 (service center) or (818)842-4002
(parts dept). So it only costs you a phone call or two to find out!

I broke the antenna on my ICF-7600 a few years ago while I was in England.
Only cost me a few pounds (sterling), less than 10 I think, for the part
from the UK Sony Parts Centre and they even had a service manual for sale
which I bought.


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:30:26 -0500
Reply-To:     dube@CPDVAX.CSC.TI.COM
From:         dube@CPDVAX.CSC.TI.COM
Subject:      Tower ID (was Re: Hand-held frequency counter recommendations
              sought)

It's been a while, but I think aviation sectional charts have the locations
and station ID of radio towers.  Drop by your local FBO (small airport
office) and check it out.

73,
Dube Todd         AB5AP        <dube@cpdvax.csc.ti.com>
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: kmasrani@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kamlesh Masrani)
Subject: Re:  spectrum display integrated with computer software?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:22:45 GMT

I use a dsp device to so spectral averaging for monitoring noise levels in
usb channels.  I can get a computer to find/verify a broadcast by looking
for the carrier (that should be estimate a broadcast transmission).  I 
have used spectral averaging to estimate the presence of a RTTY signal.

Is there any tips that listener have in using spectral displays?, or is the
upshot - that you would look for some change in the rf level and then go to
that frequency and investigate.?

also WRTH lists methods of verifying a broadcast (the FAQ on this
conference also makes suggestions).  Do any DXers have any special tips
that might be automated. ie:-

i) I can tell its Broadcast X because It transmits on concurrent
frequencies and I can scan between the two frequencies knowing there are
similar at the audio (good correlation measure between two frequencies).

ii) Broadcast X has 1 MWatt ERP and I know its on this frequency at this
time.

iii) This broadcast (well all broadcasts) play this simple "jingle" at 
such and such a time.

iv) They say this is the BBC world service (difficult to automate - speak
recognition even with limited vocabuary - I can't do it).

feel free for any comments?


Kamlesh Masrani.
(start work on Monday, only on internet till sunday!, gee I don't think
I will be able to afford 20 dollars p/hour + BT phone prices to get
connected up to CIX (in London).
From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: AM vs FM in hilly areas
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:38:38 GMT
Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.

In article <1992Sep11.163354.10468@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll) writes:
>up on me. The hilliness (which in any case is more extreme than anything
>in England) is exacerbated in the middle of town by several buildings
>which are taller than anything else west of the Mississippi.

Why don't they put the FM transmission antennae on the tall buildings?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I thought if you have line of sight
then FM is just ducky...

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt
From: Jim_Sollows@mindlink.bc.ca (Jim Sollows)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Empire of the Air Video
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:52:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I have had alot of enquiries for the address to order the video EMPIRE OF THE
AIR so here it is:

      Empire of the Air
      PBS Home Video
      PO Box 25675
      West Los Angeles, CA
      90025

      price $19.95

or the Book:

      Empire of the Air
      The Men who Made Radio
      5959 Triumph St
      Commerce CA
      90040

      price $29.95

If you prefer to order by phone:

Video -- 1-800-634-4PBS

Book -- 1-800-441-3000

Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: paulb@harley.tti.com (Paul Blumstein)
Subject: Re: Just got a Drake r-8 (Synchro)
Organization: Black Belt Motorcyclists Association
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:57:03 GMT

In article <01050131.d2dnti@mariposa.stonecutter.com> sawtelle@stonecutter.com writes:
+
+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.

Whoa... there is fading and there is fading.  When the whole sig fades,
synch won't help.  If pieces of the signal (upper sb, carrier, lower
sb) in relation to each other, synchro works well because it uses on
only one sideband and puts its own carrier in.  (Now that I am studying
for my Advanced Class, I know that is due to multipathing!).

As far as as "zapping" noise goes--- yes and no.  If the noise is QRM
(adjacent station noise) and that station is affecting one sideband and
not the other, yes, synchro will do wonders if you synch on the QRM
free sideband.

Tuning hint:  Tune as peraino sez: tune in with your product detector
and hit synch.  The system will home in on the stronger sideband.  If
you wish to try the other sideband, tune your passband slightly to
the right and left.  When you tune right, it picks up the upper sideband
(if it isn't there already); left for the lower.

____________________________________________________________________________
 Paul Blumstein, paulb@harley.tti.com, DoD #36, ABATE, AMA, HOG, KD6LAA
            Transaction Technology, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: mdc@vixen.uucp (24104-marden)
Subject: Monitoring Times.
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: regional
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:28:05 GMT

I am at Bellcore Navasink. I am having a problem picking up a copy
of Monitoring Time. Can someone direct me to a magazine store
in Red Bank-Eatontown area that may carry the mag. 

Or better still could someone send me the address to obtain a
subscription.

Thanks

All standard disclaimers should be applied at this point.
David C. Marden, KE2AG Bell Communications Research, 
100 Schultz Dr. P.O.  Box 7050 Red Bank, NJ 07701 
908-758-5643 vixen!mdc@cc.bellcore.com
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Need reviews of DAK DMR-3000 and Station Stalker..
Date: 6 Sep 92 05:22:22 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Sep6.013302.16980@unislc.uucp> dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold) writes:
>
>I ordered a DAK DMR-3000 on a Tuesday, and had it in my hands on Saturday.
>The standard whip picked up nothing on SW from San Jose, CA, even at night.
>I attached about 20 feet of 20 guage wire that I have lying on the floor,
>and now reception is pretty good, at night.

Easterners take note: San Jose is a _poor_ place to attempt shortwave
reception.  I had a similar experience near there with a Sony 2010 -- there
was _nothing_ to listen to!  I thought I had damaged the receiver in
transit.  No; back home in Georgia it was just fine.
-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
+ VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
From: Jim_Sollows@mindlink.bc.ca (Jim Sollows)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Any PRO 2020 mods??
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:04:07 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Anyone have any mods for the Realistic PRO 2020 scanner?
From: graham@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Rule)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: E-mail and broadcasters
Date: 13 Sep 92 12:13:33 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

MSUORANTA@finabo.abo.fi (Mika Suoranta Tkkk) writes:
>        I have never seen Internet E-mail addresses for 
>        international broadcasters. Is there any way to
>        use e-mail to contact them? I don't like the idea
>        of snail-mail or fax...
> 
>        Info about such stations as BBC, VOA and DW etc. would
>        be appreciated.

I was on the phone to the BBC World Service's publicity office recently
and was told that they do NOT have e-mail.  This was after they had included
a section about usenet (yup - that's us) unfortunately they though of e-mail
as things like 'fidonet' which they thought wasnt 'professional' enough.
I did mention that e-mail could go over the internet and they said that there
were no plans to look at such.
Maybe lots of letters would help them decide otherwise. :-)

Graham Rule
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:29:16 -0400
Reply-To:     "Glenn C. Lasher" <GL8574@BROCK1P.BITNET>
From:         "Glenn C. Lasher" <GL8574@BROCK1P.BITNET>
Subject:      WWCR

I'm sorry if this is repetitive, but I have only been on the list
for a few days as yet this year.

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.

Thanks for any responses.

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From: aj234@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Woolard)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Shortwave scanner recomendation
Date: 10 Sep 1992 04:59:44 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I would like any recomeendations anyone may have for a Shortwave Scanner.
Would like to spend as little as possible. I want to pick up .5khz to 30mhz.
Thanks in advance...
Dave...
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CIRCLE OF LIFE'S SCHEME AND MUST ALWAYS EVENTUALLY ARRIVE AT ITS ETERNAL
POINT OF ORIGIN.
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From: DPS@cup.portal.com (David E White)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Re: Unknown RTTY Signals
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 92 14:32:54 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <t#knhcf.crisp@netcom.com>

>In article <1992Sep1.214758.11650@schbbs.mot.com> YNSL01@maccvm.corp.mot.com (
D
>on Gray) writes:
>>I have a PK-232 that I use to montior some of the RTTY, AMTOR and etc.
>>transmissions on the HF bands. One of the features I like best about the
>>232 is it's signal mode i.e. it's ability to listen to the transmission
>>and determine for me the baud rate, mode and inversion. This sure speeds
>>up the process of determining what to do to decode the transmission. My
>>frustration, and subsequent question lies in the transmissions that the 232
>>cannot i.d.. The bands seem to be filled with a RTTY like transmission at
>>75 baud (the 232 has no problem iding the speed) but the mode is not RTTY
>>(or 6bit or TDM) Does anyone know what these transmissions are or how to
>>decode them. The really frustrating thing is that they are usually
>
>many of the 75 baud 850 hz shift stations are encrypted modes. I have an M7000
>and have never been able to decode them. I wonder if anyone with a HOKA or
>Wavecom is able to?
>
>
>--
>Richard Crisp                 Cupertino, Ca.                crisp@netcom.com
>(415) 903-3832 wk  "Time for a clean sweep of Congress"   (408) 253 4541 fax
>
>A government that is afraid of an armed populace is a government
>the populace should be afraid of.
>



The PK-232 says that there are programs to decode the 6 bit stuff but does not
say where they can be obtained.  Since RTTY is not a perfit transmission mode
I would think that the chances that the encryptions are complex are slim and
could be broken quickly with a program for doing so.

I will can AEA and see if they know of such a program.


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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: VOA Europe on Shortwave
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:44:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: omen.1992Sep14.134453.9269
Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest

In article <9209120921.AA11008@tso.uc.edu> Jack Mor <usr8563a@TSO.UC.EDU> writes:
>Viv,
>From your description of the transmission time UTC -5.5 hours, you were
>receiving VOA Europe on shortwave with replacement with the regular VOA
>broadcast on the same frequency at 10:00 UTC, when VOA Europe stop
>broadcasting on shortwave.
>VOA Europe is located in Munich Germany broadcasting to Europe with
>500KW, it look like India in on the same directional line, I tried to
>receive them in Cincinnati, Ohio this morning (8:30UTC) without any luck.
>The description of 1992 WRTH world radio is: VOA Europe, a 24 hour
>English-language service of contemporary music, news, and features, is
>available on cable systems and FM stations in many stations in Europe. For

"VOA Express" is on Spacenet 2 tr. 3, 5.92/6.12 MHz narrow band
discrete stereo.  The signal is compressed with Panda or something,
but it still sounds better than average shortwave reception.

There are a number of audio subcarriers on this transponder with
programs in various lanugaues including Special English.
-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: horak@convex.com (David Horak)
Subject: Re: Hand-held frequency counter recommendations sought
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:30:09 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <9209091400.AA25468@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:

>I've got questions about these hand-held freq. counters. I've read
>magazine articles about them that say that they need to be very close
>to ordinary utility-type transmitters to get a reading, like within a
>few feet of a handi-talkie someone is using. But what about using them
>to identify the towers of far-higher-powered commercial broadcasters?

My Opto 2810 receives AM and FM transmitters around a mile away; sometimes
more, sometimes less. Cordless phones = 2 to 10 feet. Cellular phones =
15 to 100 feet. 154 MHz police/fire handhelds = 50 to 500 feet. Touch lamp
at 217 KHz = 1 foot. All these values are approximate, of course.

>I often wonder what station is coming from a radio antenna tower I
>see from a highway or street. While the tower is clearly visible,
>it may be a mile or more away. Is it possible to fit these frequency
>counters with some sort of directional antenna, so you could aim it at
>a tower from the window of a car as you drive by, and read the frequency
>of transmission from that tower?

An antenna cut to a precise wavelength would help. A filter to cut out
unwanted freq's would help too. That would allow more of the wanted 
signal to pass through.

>If you could do this, what happens when the tower actually has multiple
>antennas on it, transmitting simultaneously at different frequencies?
>Would the counter just read the frequency of the strongest signal?

This is a problem. The sensitivity of the counter is around a millivolt
or more. If you're way out in the desert and come across a transmitter,
you may pick it up as much as two miles away. In the city, or where
there are multiple signals, the counter cannot differentiate between
frequencies and will produce random readings, unless one freq is 
substantially stronger.

Hope this helps,
David N5OFQ
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:59:57 CDT
Reply-To:     WILLIAM MONROE <WMONROE@USMCP6.BITNET>
From:         WILLIAM MONROE <WMONROE@USMCP6.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: DX-390 or SANGEAN 818

To answer your questions:
1. How do I like it?
     I have had it for about 5 months now and I like it lots.

2. How does it compare....?
     I went to Radio Shack and tried out the DX-440 and the
     new smaller digital radio (I forget the number).  Both were
     OK.  The new 390 came in and I checked that one out too.
     With the 30 day trial period for each one, I liked the 390
     best of them all.  Found the Sangean 818 at a cheeper price
     through a catalog, and took the DX-390 back to RS and ordered
     the Sangean 818.
3. How is reception...?
     In Mississippi, I have use the radio in 2 locations.  For the
     longest time, up in Meridian in a wood framed house with a
     Archer roll-up external antenna I bought a RS.  Reception was
     quite good.  Here in Hattiesburg, I am in my dorm room (more
     like a concrete block cell) and reception is still pretty good
     wsing the same antenna.
4. .... mistake?
     NO.  I like the radio. I didn't get the one with the cassete
     I just was a voice actuvated tape recorder, like the one i use
     to tape my profs' lestures.  works just fine.  Sound is better
     useing headphones that with the speaker.  The lighted digital
     is good, but wish that the buttons also lit up like my car radio.
     But that is just minor.

Hope this helps.

73, Bill

* <WMONROE@USMCP6.BITNET>
From: sci10019@nusunix3.nus.sg (YU HONG WEY)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: BFBS on SW ?
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:32:14 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore


 Yes, BFBS was on shortwave before. I remember hearing it on 15.395 MHz
 (if I'm not wrong) a few years back. I haven't heard from them for a
 long time now.
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Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:06:12 +0200
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:08:43 -0400
Reply-To:     Alfredo Cotroneo <A.Cotroneo@IT12.BULL.IT>
From:         Alfredo Cotroneo <A.Cotroneo@IT12.BULL.IT>
Subject:      Philips DC-777 car radio modification?

Anybody knows of a modification for the Philips DC-777 car radio receiver
to extend the Shortwave coverage up to 27 or 30 MHz?

Pse reply directly or over the list, I will post the answers if there is
 interest.

Thank you

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+---------------------------------------------------------------+
From: idoy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: static w/ AC adaptor
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:09:19 EDT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

Hello All,

I get static anytime I try to use my AC adaptor.  Is there a special
kind of adaptor that I am supposed to buy, or is there a way that
I can shield the cable of the adaptor?

Thanks,

Mike
From: azamora@hexagon.cs.indiana.edu (Tony Zamora)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: DX-440 for sale
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:35:12 GMT
Reply-To: azamora@cs.indiana.edu
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University

I have a Radio Shack DX-440 for sale.  It has not been used much and is in  
great condition.

Asking price: $150 (U.S) or best offer.  I will pay shipping to locations  
within the U.S.

If you're interested, send mail to azamora@cs.indiana.edu.

Tony