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I'm completely new to the world of short wave.  Someone gave me an old Radio
shack DX160 receiver to start me off.  All the controls are straightforward
except for using the 'band spread'.

Apparently it is for fine tuning.  If so, why are only certain frequencies
listed on it?  Just how do I use it?

Also, it seems as if there are 2 bands that cover pretty much the same
range; .4 to 1.5mhz I think, (don't have the unit with me right now).

The person who gave it to me doesn't have the manual anymore and doesn't
remember how to use it.

Rather than try and order a manual from Radio Shack (Don't know if its even
available),  could someone familiar with this unit pleas give some
pointers?

Thanks,
Bill Mazeika     WJM@UTRC.UTC.COM
From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
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Subject: Help needed with hi-pass filter
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:53:36 GMT
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Hi,

I know this is the wrong group, but my site doesn't get any other
ones that have to do with electronics, so I hope I don't get flamed
too much.

I have a DX-440, and it's being overloaded by a MW station in
Chicago (WJJD -namely, and I pick them up on my phone line as well!)
so I wanted to build Paul Blumstein's Hi-Pass Filter that's in the
"phone line as antenna" article so I could block some of the interference
out.

I'm not an electronics whiz (I'm pretty much ignorant), so I need help
with the coil.  I need to hook up two 2.7 uh coils in parallel.  That's
easy, but how do I make a coil?  Can I buy one pre-wound?  I have no
clue how to wrap them to 2.7 uh.  Is there a procedure for this? I
don't have any test equipment except for a multimeter.

Help!  E-mail replies are fine if you think it doesn't belong in
rec.radio.shortwave

Thanks!
-Louis

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From: medha@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (keshav.havnurkar)
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Subject: Re: Kol Yisrael current world-wide schedule
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:17:45 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1993Jan06.180248.169120@Eingedi.Newton.MA.US> slerner@Eingedi.Newton.MA.US (Shabtai Lerner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.082245.5632@nuscc.nus.sg> sci10019@nusunix1.nus.sg (YU HONG WEY) writes:
>
> Fall Schedule effective 1 November - 27 March
> as announced on DX Corner 25 Oct 1925 UT.
>
By GOD ! You must be a really old guy to have monitored
a 25 Oct 1925 transmission :-)
keshav@mhcnet.att.com
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In article <SWL-L%93010522562869@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> kirk baxter
<KB06810@UKANVM.BITNET> writes:

>Has anyone that put in a pre-pub order with Grove gotten their
>Handbook?  Just wondering, since Grove has had my money for 2 months.
>kgb....

  Yes - mine arrived Monday 1-4-93.

kg


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From: regnad@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Prescott)
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Interesting.  I also started listening to SW radio at about the same time
and age.  :)  Back then all I had was a $30 portable radio with a SW band.
Oddly enough I used to hear places like Bulgaria, Rumania, and Albania
all the time.  I haven't heard any of those countries in several years.
Since then, I've gotten all the radios that I found fascinating at the
time. (And still do, for that matter.)  Mainly, I now use a Hammarlund
SP-600 from 1951, and an RCA AR-88 from 1944.  I also have a DX-440, but
I use that mainly to accurately spot the frequency I'm listening to on my
other radios, and when I want a radio I can carry around without getting a
hernia. :)

I think I have always mainly been a program listener.  In fact, aside from
pirate broadcasters, I haven't bothered with QSLing since the 70s.  I was
always more interested in hearing about other places.  The old "DX
programs" were also very interesting at the time.  Another thing I don't
hear much of these days.

I guess I can break down my "news" gathering like this:  If I want news
about my area I watch the local news or read the newspaper.  If I want
news about the US, or what the US is doing elsewhere in the world I watch
the national news or read something like Time or Newsweek.  If I want to
know what's going on in other countries, or hear a "different" side of
world news, I listen to short wave.  In fact, the station I most often
listen to these days is BBC World Service for their news and features.
Actually, with all the complaints I'm hearing lately about the domestic
news media, I'm surprised more people aren't listening to SW as an
"alternative" news source.


Paul Prescott
N1AAC
regnad@gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
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Subject: Re: Reply: Re: What is Synchro Detect?
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:40:32 GMT
Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.

In article <C0JKzJ.G44@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>In article <199301071658.AA14260@cbos.uc.edu> USR8563A@CBOS.UC.EDU writes:
>>Mike, could you compare the Lowe recievers to the Sony 2010, etc.  What
>>models have this DOUBLE SIDEBAND synchronous mode?

>Jack, I answered this over a week ago. Maybe two.
>Only the HF-150 has a double sideband synchronous mode.
>In fact, it has TWO of them, one with extended treble response.

>The HF-150 OUTCLASSES the Sony 2010 in performance. A comparison
>between the two is not valid, in my opinion.

>>And what about the synchro on the Drake R8.

>Dunno.

The R8 outclasses the 2010 as well, but as an owner of both for quite some
time there are some comparisons which may be useful.

The performance of the 2010 without synchro is often not as good as with,
and I found I almost always had the synchro on. With the R8, the perfomance
is quite good without synchro and and so the added value of synchro isn't
always as obvious until you begin to expect more out of the radio. With the
2010, you select the desired sideband by fine tuning the radio, and the
2010 only uses one sideband. With the R8, the unit operates in a slightly
wider set of modes. The tuning is fixed, but the filter width and passband
shift (which operate in an IF section) are variable. You can select a
wide or narrow filter and shift the passband to select either sideband,
which covers the modes available on the 2010. However, you can use a
wide filter centered which seems to function like a double sideband synchro
might - although I know the theory of these, the only synchro detectors
I've used are the two I'm describing here. It might be quite interesting
to compare the R8, HF-150, newer Grundig units, NRD-535D and the Sonys
(SW-77 and 2010) just on the basis of the relative functionality of the
synchro units.

One of the important determinants in a synchro circuit is the locking
behavior which is characteristic of the PLL (or possibly other adaptive
filtering circuit.) When the circuit is not tracking the carrier, there
will typically be an audible tone pitched at a frequency related to the
difference of the true carrier and the synthetic carrier frequencies.
A circuit that tracks very well will produce low growls, and a circuit
with a lot of tracking error will howl at higher frequencies. You can
here the circuit locking in the carrier when the howl drops down out
of audition. It is reported that the NRD-535D can lose lock much more
easily than the R8 (the R8 doesn't lose lock much at all).

Does anyone know about the rumored Yaesu FRG-100?

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt
From: Will Martin <wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
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Subject: Signals repeat, and Cooper
Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:36:22 -0600
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I don't know how long this will last, but it seems WWCR is *finally*
giving us a repeat broadcast of Signals -- 0600 UTC Monday, the former
timeslot of William Cooper's weekly "Hour of the Time" program, which has
moved to a 5-nights-a-week slot after Tom Valentine on WWCR.

Actually, Cooper's move came as somewhat of a surprise -- I expected him to
be in the weekly slot at least one more week, since he had been talking
about the move to 5 times a week but it was never explictly stated that
it would happen on <date>. Then it seemed to happen sometime during this
past week (28 Dec - 1 Jan) all of a sudden... Anyway, that left this
Sunday night/Monday morning slot open and WWCR probably is putting Signals
in there until they sell the time to someone else. It might be worth a
letter to WWCR asking that they don't sell the time but instead allow 
Singnals a repeat then forever more -- the Saturday night regular WoR/Signals
timeslot appears to get far more interference and noise than this time
does, so it will allow us a chance to hear an otherwise unintelligible
program if the Saturday airing is really unlistenable (as it was the day
after Christmas, but Hauser said that was a repeat airing so we didn't lose
a new show, luckily).

Anybody on the list actually listened to Cooper's new program yet? He
kept claiming that this move from 1 hour a week to 5 hours a week would
allow him to provide the listenership with "20 times more information";
I never figured out how 5 times the time will allow 20 times the data...
Maybe he will quit wasting so much of his show's time on non-information,
like reading letters, asking for money, playing music and old commercials
(a waste of time most definitely!), or wasting the program time on
meta-discussion about the program itself as opposed to the topics
listeners may wish to hear... :-)

I didn't know about the move to the weekday slot until I heard an
announcement given near WoR on Friday, Christmas Day at 2215 UTC, and then
I was asleep at the program's time that night. I'll try for it tonight
(11 PM Central) if I'm awake...

Regards, Will
wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil

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|I just received one of these as a gift,

I just gave one as a gift...

|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.

The person whom I gave the unit to stated that it was less sensitive
than an old SONY ICF-2001 unit.

Some susceptibility to powerful CB rigs (Linears?) was noticed.

Single selectivity.

Variable BFO via thumbknob allows SSB to be tuned, but, like WRTV
handbook states, there is no reference point on the pot to reset
the BFO.

No dial lamp, but power on LED... seems that putting a dial light
in behind the LCD display and a mechanical florescent flag indicator
button (like a lot of professional test equipment uses) would have
made more sense.
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Has anyone experimented with the connectors on the back of the DC777?
There is an accessory that plugs in that allows remote funtions.

Anyone have the service manual for the DC777??

                          Ken
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From: rob@vitsemi.com (Rob Eccles)
Subject: American Commercial Shortwave Broadcasting
Organization: Vitesse Semiconductor
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 21:44:34 GMT

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?
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Subject: Source of aero freq information
From: "David L. Wilson" <dwilson@S850.MWC.EDU>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:02:54 EST
Reply-To: "David L. Wilson" <dwilson@S850.MWC.EDU>
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For those not aware of the following, I thought I would post:

FAA frequency information is published in NOAA documents.  These
can be obtained at the address at the end of this post.  The most useful
such publications are:
The Airport/Facility directory (Volumes are NE, SE, EC, NC, SC, NW and
SW)
The Sectional Aeronautical Chart for your area. (37 charts cover the US)

NOAA is now also the ditributor for Defense Mapping Agency products.
The most useful of these is the US IFR Supplement.

Both NOAA and the DMA have free catalogs listing other products which
are of interest.  The cost for any of the above is VERY reasonable
--under 5 dollars for each (Can you buy any other 500 page book (the IFR
Supplement) for under $5.

Address:

National Ocean Service/NOAA
Chart Sales Office
6501 Lafayette Ave.
riverdale, MD  20737-1199

ph. no. (301)436-6980
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From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: DAK Industries
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:38:41 GMT

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.
He had cash flow problems which he claimed were temporary, and which he
claims are now over.
I have ordered many things from DAK.  If they were late, I can see that my
card was charged on the day that they were shipped, never earlier.
I received a Christmas gift within two weeks, although I was told when I
ordered that the item was "out of stock, do you still wish to order?"

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I am torn between a Sony ICF-SW77 (I am a hacker, so the screwy operating
system doesn't frighten me) and a Grundig Satellit 700. Does anyone have
either: (a) firsthand experience with the '700 to relate or (b) pointers to
some site that has rec.radio.shortwave archives that might include such
experience? The "Welcome to r.r.s" posting I read didn't mention an archive.

I am especially concerned about the distortion that Passport mentions with the
SSB and synchronous detection modes. Money is really not a concern, and I want
a radio that sounds real good. 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.

Thanks in advance for you input!

-Johnny Grundig
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From: davidm@questor.Rational.COM (David Moore)
Subject: Re: If your new braces receive radio broadcasts...
Organization: Rational
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:13:36 GMT

carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett) writes:

>In article <m0nBSIw-00002hC@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson) writes:
>Careful, Craig!

>   Besides, 5.7 kHz is not generally classified as "radio," though it's 
>possible (dare I say "likely") that someone has tried using it for that.
>Mind you, the bandwidth of the signal is likely to splatter outside this
>0.03 Hz band!

Yes, very likely. I don't remember the frequencies of interest, but somewhere
down there, the earth/ionoshpere acts as a wave guide making propagation
easy while the frequencies are sufficiently low for the signals to penetrate
a usable distance under water. Baud rates are low, and you need humungous
antennas.
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HF as a broadcast medium is not going away. Wolf Blitzer and Arnold Schwarzkopf
are the only guys I know of who pack satellite dishes when they go overseas.


The target of most of the big services has changed. Instead of the third-
world peasant, the target listener is the citizen of the broadcasting
country who happens to be overseas on business or vacation. Most of these
guys can afford to pay for things like broadcast schedules.

The CBC said as much when they resurrected RCI.

Accessible DX from the NW US leaves something to be desired a lot of the time,
but if you get out of town on a warm summer night, there's still enough
going on in the world to make interesting DX.

On the East Coast, of course, it's much better. I just wish I had as much time
for SWL as I did in 1972.
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 It seems that Kol Israel now requires listeners to send them a few IRCs
 in order for them to send their programme schedules on a regular basis,
 due to budget problem. I wonder if this is the case for everyone out
 there. 73's.
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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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Subject:      Mailbox Full Error Messages

The user on SWL-L whose mailbox is full has been removed from the list.
The LISTSERVer tries to catch bounce messages by looking for common
words in the header, but apparently it didn't catch this one.  There may
still be some of the bounce messages in transit, but hopefully they
should end soon.
=============================
The above is the response I got when I sent a message to the source asking
if they would please stop.
Cameron J. Beatty                       fax:  (801) 283-6879
Snow College                             office:(801) 283-4021 x650
Ephraim, UT  84627  U.S.A.              email:  cameronb@cc.snow.edu
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Subject:      ..

I would like to get on the SWL Listener's list mailing list.
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Can one hook up a fax machine to a scanner to intercept group 3 fax messages
sent over mobile phone networks?

As I understand it the two faxes talk to each other at the start of a fax to
determine what speeds etc that they both understand.
Would this upset a 3rd fax 'listening in' on a scanner?
Or would this extra stuff be ignored?

I await replies with interest.

--
Andrew Chambers
Computer Services
University of Waikato
New Zealand

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