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From: andreasf@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Andreas Fuchsberger)
Subject: Info on Sony SW77
Organization: Royal Holloway, University of London
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:51:26 GMT


To all nice-netters!

Thank you all very much for the info I received to a the question I
posted about 10 days ago on the differences between the Sony SW77 and
SW55.  I now know what I want -- the new model SW77 (serial number
around 900 000 and 11 segment whip antenna -- I just don't know how to
get hold of one here in the UK. If anyone has any specific info on how
to buy of one these beasts here and how much they cost, I would, as
always, be very grateful!

Andy
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From: gene.eighmy@the-matrix.com (Gene Eighmy) 
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: SSB and other things (was
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:36:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
Reply-To: gene.eighmy@the-matrix.com (Gene Eighmy) 


AR> 1)  What's the best technique, with a simple receiver like the
AR>     DX440 or its clones, for tuning in a SSB transmission?  I have
AR>     great difficulty in resolving SSB - is there a trick, or do I need
AR>     more sophistication than just a BFO control?

One way that I have found for tuning in SSB on the DX-440 is to use
headphones and only use the left earpiece.  I don't know why this works
but it makes tuning SSB on the DX-440 like tuning SSB on my TS-520S
(almost :-).  If anyone knows of a long term fix for this please let me
know.  My left needs a rest...

Tx,
Gene Eighmy
WD4MPS

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: "dan mckinnon" <dan.mckinnon@canrem.com>
Subject: sangean ats803a shortwave
Reply-To: "dan mckinnon" <dan.mckinnon@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:23:55 EST

HGM>    Subject: Sangean ATS803a Shortwave forsale
HGM>I've had this for about a year, and it's sat in one spot in all that time.
HGM>I've decided that I'd really rather have something that I can haul around
HGM>with me when I go camping, traveling, outside working on the car, etc.
HGM>Comes with all documentation and original packing.
HGM>$100.00 or best offer.

           Yes, I would like this. It is the same, or comparable to
Dx-440 in features, isn't it? I will pay extra shipping charges over and
above what you expected to pay, but I don't need speedy, overnight
courier service. It is late Thursday as I write, and I will be going
away tomorrow (Friday Dec. 18) in early PM. Will be back Sunday after
7:30 PM EDT. You have my permission to call collect to set up details,
up to 10 PM Sunday, and Weekdays 9AM - 10 PM.  I'm on a disability
pension and not employed, so you will find me in  a lot of the day. BTW,
it is no difficulty for you to send something to Canada.

            It's funny why I need a SW receiver - my brother said he
would give me his radio, and I remembered he had a DX-440, but forgot he
traded it in, so I got a parcel Tuesday containing his PRO 2004! Very
nice, solves my in-home scanner problem, but I've ordered a Fax capture
device for SW, and don't have a receiver!

           My phone number is 1-416-368-2011.
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From: rja@newbirth.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Allen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: EEB - and now for some balanced reporting...
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:38:35 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: newbirth

In article <1992Dec17.065329.1813@netcom.com> crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp) writes:
>In article <SWL-L%92121621523955@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> PERAINO@GMUVAX.BITNET writes:
>>     There's been quite a lot said about EEB; most of it not very nice. I live
>>nearby, and have never had any of the experiences that others have mentioned.
>
>I too have done business with EEB and have no complaints at all. They have
>always provided me top notch service. I have purchased receivers from them
>mail order with mods made and everything was just fine and I have been 
>satisfied with their products, service and technical assistance.
>Good folks in my opinion.

    I purchased my HF150 from them in fact, and the guy I talked
    to was quite informative.  But getting two people, in a row,
    in the same office at the same time, who made the mistakes they
    made, gives me pause enough that I'll be ordering from Universal
    from now on.  To each their own.
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: upfv@pool.sunyit.edu (Paul Vieira)
Subject: FAQ
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:22:29 GMT

I just joined the rec.radio.shortwave group. Could
someone tell me if there's a FAQ file?
If so, where is it located ? 

Thanx, Paul Vieira
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: moinard@irisa.fr (Yves Moinard)
Subject: Saint-Lys Radio Frequencies?
Reply-To: moinard@irisa.fr
Organization: IRISA, Rennes, France
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:50:47 GMT


I am interested in the Vendee Globe race, a solo sailing round-the-world race
which started about one month ago and would like to catch some communications.
Radio communications are normally through Saint-Lys Radio, 
(the French ship to shore radio for intercontinental communications)
but I am not sure to have all their present frequencies.
Does anybody have fresh and precise info on this?
Thank you.

                                          Yves Moinard
E-mail: moinard@irisa.fr                      IRISA
tel: (33)-99-84-73-13                     Campus de Beaulieu
fax: (33)-99-38-38-32                     35042 RENNES-Cedex
                                               FRANCE
From: borchers@poogh.llnl.gov (Robert R. Borchers)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: HiFi VCR for FM arcs
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:44:51 GMT

In article <9212011909.AA00795@ns.buffalo.edu>  
GL8574@ACSPR1.ACS.BROCKPORT.EDU writes:
> Steven Koster <kosts@URSA.CALVIN.EDU> (and many others) write:
> 
> >Ok. Ok. I stand flamed.
> >
> >But the question was:
> >"Is SLP hi-fi audio good for archiving Keillor's shows?"
> >
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For my money the best archiving mode is to use the PCM on a Sony 8 mm  
deck. I have an EVS 900. It puts 24 hours of high quality digital audio on  
a single 8 mm cartridge. Bob
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: say@monashee.sfu.ca (Daniel Say)
Subject: Somalia
Keywords: frequencies
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:22:01 GMT

Dave Rogers: >>>>HF radio frequencies for the Somalia action? 9 Dec 1992 14:24
In article <BywzI8.LKv@ais.org>, tim@ais.org (Tim Tyler) writes:
|>     The best bet for HF traffic relating to Operation Restore Hope will be
|> the GHFS freqs used mostly by the enroute aircraft, and (especially with the
|> holidays coming up) NAV-MC, Army, & USAF MARS circuits.  If there's enough
|> time, some of the major commercial satellite circuit & equipment suppliers
|> like Alascom & MCI might fly out some portable earth stations to allow
|> health, morale & welfare phone calls to be placed via Ku band.  This will
|> augment (but not replace) MARS circuits.
|>

Last night the GHFS freqs were hot with Ascension and Lajes rolling in.
Numerious enroute aircraft, both AF and Navy were heard on their way to
(I presume) Africa's East coast.

I would also suggest listening to 30-35 MHz for ground operations when
sporadic E-layer skip is in. These were easily heard during the Gulf War.

===============================================================================
Dave Rogers
M & R Software, Inc.
Internet:   dave@rsd.dl.nec.com
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From: johnd@ka2qhd.de.com (John Decatur KA2QHD)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Hum or noise over WWCR
Summary: WWCR: Snap crackle,pop....
Date: 11 Dec 92 05:26:56 GMT
Organization: ka2qhd - Ocean NJ


As a matter of fact, It happens all too often. I swear I even hear 
a bubble jammer once in a while. But I'm surprised they put up with 
it, often callers complain on the air.  Oh well... 
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: John Peterson <jp@taligent.com>
Subject: WEFAX reception
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A74E8FD90D01C129@kloo.taligent.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 11 Dec 92 02:35:05 GMT
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d14
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:35:10 GMT

[Apologies if this is a FAQ, but the info in the archives is
 somewhat vague]

I am interested in receiving WEFAX (weather fax) transmissions.
If they are anything like slow scan TV (SSTV), it should be possible
to decode the image using some basic DSP techniques on the audio
feed from a shortwave radio.

1) Are there ground stations that rebroadcast the satellite photos?
I don't have the facilities to get the signals directly from the
weather satellites.  Are the broadcast frequences cataloged somewhere?

2) Where can I find a specification of the transmission format?

Thanks,
jp
From: cd651@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wally L. Blume)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Sangean 818 or DX-390
Date: 19 Dec 92 15:42:46 GMT
Reply-To: cd651@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wally L. Blume)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, G06C@UNB.CA (G06C) says:

>anyone have any comments on this radio?

 It has it's shortcomings when it comes to controls. i.e. the bfo is a
little sensitive to the touch and the auto-bandscan only searches in 
coarse 5kHz increments so the tuning knob must be used but you get adjusted to
using the bfo after about a week and most people use the tuning knob
instead of the auto-scan anyway. IMHO it does a nice job with the signal
as long as you have an external antenna (longwire works for me). It does a
really good job with the utility stations once you master the bfo.
 Overall I give it a B- since it could use more memory spaces. After
all this is a $200 radio, not an NRD-535.
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: gerry@bluemoon.use.com (Gerard M. Foley)
Subject: BBC Phone-In about World Service Dec 20
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 08:43:04 EST

   The BBC World Service advertises a "phone-in" to the Managing Director 
of the World Service next Sunday, December 20.  Phone lines will open at 
1200GMT(UTC)( 7:00 am EST). Outside Britain the number is (London) 713 
7974 44, in Britain 071 3790 411.  Selected callers will be called back at 
the caller's expense! The program will be broadcast first at 1401 UTC Dec 
20.

   The subject is "It's Your World Service".


gerry@bluemoon.rn  My amateur radio callsign is K8EF, and my
packet radio address is K8EF@W8CQK.OH.USA.NA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: rrbk50@email.sps.mot.com (Rick Cottle)
Subject: Re: anybody know how to contact YAESU corp?
Organization: SPS
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:34:18 GMT

In article <2B2D0504.20548@news.service.uci.edu> refling@sloth.eng.uci.edu (John P. Refling) writes:
> 
> Would appreciate any info on how to contact / where they are located in the
> usa.  I have some old transceivers i need manuals for!
> 
> thanks.

I called HRO and the salesman knew the number by heart.  It is

Yaesu USA      310-404-2700

I recently picked up users/repair manual for my FT101.  $32 plus
UPS for both.


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: rchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (richard chalk)
Subject: **SANGEAN 803 FOR SALE**
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:35:58 GMT

I have for sale a Sangean ATS-803, this one is branded Emerson, same as the
Radio Shack DX-440, I believe.  Have the box, Manual, all accessories.

Perfect (and I mean PERFECT) condition.  I really don't know what these are
worth used, but I will consider reasonable offers ($150-175 ??) Please
e-mail replies.

Thanks,
Richard

Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: mikem@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Mike Miranda)
Subject: Re: To Monitoring Times Subscribers
Organization: ProLine [pro-charlotte] Charlotte, NC
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 01:51:53 EST

Monitoring Times is starting to appear at the traditional newstands and
bookstore magazine racks here in Charlotte, N.C.

Just thought I'd let you know.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: gst@chinet.chi.il.us (George S. Thurman)
Subject: WEWN TEST SCHEDULE
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:42:29 GMT

Radio Station WEWN at Birmingham, Alabama will use the following schedule
for test transmissions which could start alomost any hour now.  
   
   
   
FREQUENCY            HOURS (UTC)
*********            **********
5825                 24 hours
6000                 0700-1600
6185                 0800-1700
7315                 1300-2400
7465                 0500-2300
7540                 24 hours
9350                 0400-0200
9580                 0800-1700
9730                 1000-1500
9985                 0500-2000
11580                1200-1900
11695                0100-2300
11970                2000-0200
12080                2300-1800
13615                1000-0600
13710                2200-1500
13840                2200-1800
15140                0200-0900
15170                1900-2330
15235                1900-2400
15300                0000-1600
15430                2100-0500
15435                0900-2100
15610                0200-2200
17510                1600-1200
17725                1700-1200 (except 2100-2200)
17850                1600-2300
18930                24 hours
21460                24 hours
21670                1200-0600
21735                1800-0600
21840                1800-0600
   
   
   
Information from George Jacobs and Associates.  Sched. will be
good until Dec 28, when regular transmissions should begin.  I will
post that schedule later.
  
    
    
    
George Thurman
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:12:00 EDT
Reply-To:     CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was SWL$L@CUVMB
From:         CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET
Subject:      BBC Phone-in.

        I would like to see as many people as possible ask why there should
not be internet or orther (or hopefully several) email addresses to the
World Service.  I would like to see at least an Internet connection or
perhaps some others for folks who can't address Internet (though if you
have CompuServe you can so I get get it two ways).

        One address would be for sending reception reports, maybe another
for commenting on program content, and a third for ordering stuff from the
store with your credit cards.  I call them up sometimes in New York when their
Sackville relay site screws up, and nobody seems to know anything.  They tell
me to call London.  I tell them it isn't worth spending the money when they
don't even seem to monitor their own transmissions sometimes (the same thing
will sometimes go out for weeks and weeks).  I know the Beebfolk don't much
like the idea of anything electronic other than their studio control stuff
(I think they are just getting used to telephones{o4/{okw{
("you mean I don't have to tell the operator what number I'm calling?  Wil
wonders never cease").

                                                Chris Morrison
                                                (914) 692-2770 (Voice)
                                                cmorriso@snyescva.bitnet
                                                70712,3102 CompuServe
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: juergenb@ecs.comm.mot.com (Juergen Bartels)
Subject: Re: SWEDEN CALLING DX'ers #2167 (ATTENTION: CHRIS PETERSON)
Organization: eng
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:27:06 GMT

In article <HUOPIO.92Dec13003255@kalkkaro.cc.lut.fi> huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio) writes:
>Well, SCDX 2167 _was_ posted to rec.radio.shortwave on Dec 3rd, I know
>this because I archived the bulletin on the same day to nic.funet.fi
>FTP archives. Is there some kind of a problem between SWL-L mailing
>list and rec.radio.shortwave -newsgroup?

Maybe we should ask Georg Wood to put SCDX here as well when putting it into
rec.radio.shortwave. 

Jurgen


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From: atul@nynexst.com (Atul Chhabra)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Mail order stores for Short Wave Radios?
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:28:18 GMT
Reply-To: atul@nynexst.com
Followup-To: rec.radio.shortwave
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc

I am looking for some mail order stores or discount stores that sell
high end short wave radios at a discount. In the low to middle price
range, SW radios are available at several mail order/discount stores
at a deep discount compared to the list price. For example, Sony 
ICF-2010 has a list price of $450. However, I found it advertized in
Sunday New York Times for $300. Are similar discounts available on
high end SW radios such as Drake R-8, Kenwood R-5000, Japan Radio
NRD-525, or Lowe HF-150? I called some of mail order stores that
carry advertisements in "1993 Passport to World Band Radios" (Grove, 
Electronic Equipment Bank, and Barry Electronics). On a $1000 list
price, their discounts are only about $50 to $100. Are there any
other stores where one can get the high end radios at a greater
discount? 

Please respond by email. If there is sufficient interest, I will post
a summary to the net. Thanks.

--Atul
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Member of Technical Staff                Fax: (914)644-2404
NYNEX Science & Technology          Internet: atul@nynexst.com
500 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604
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From: control3@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Mark Readman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: ssb/bfo
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:25:08 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for  Intelligent Machines
Originator: control3@davinci.mcrcim.mcgill.edu


Presumably when commercial radio stations move over to SSB
we won't to tune the BFO so my question is,
how is a BFO  tuned automatically
say for commercial broadcasts ? 

For instance if i know the center frequency is there
a simple formulae for setting the beat frequency of the BFO.

Thanks.

Mark.


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: say@monashee.sfu.ca (Daniel Say)
Subject: Non-English SW languages lists
Summary: Availability of lists
Keywords: non-English, French Spanish German
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:26:45 GMT

    In the Com-West store the other day, I saw a stack of a new book
called 'The Shortwave Radioguide' the 1993 edition being edited by John
Figliozzi.  It lists daily and hourly programs on Shortwave in English
and seems to be ex-Monitoring Times.  It doesn't give target areas, so
sometimes that day and time might not be good for your area.
 
    On a contrasting, non-English note, Harold Sellers in the December
1992 DX ONtario magazine is offering lists of other languages to those
who write in.  The lists are for French (with the cooperation of COCQ,
Club Ondes Courtes du Qubec) German and Spanish (cooperation of Weltweit
Hren).  He asked that you send a (Canadian) Stamped, self-addressed
envelope to : DX Ontario, Box 161, Station A, Willowdale, Ontario,
M2N5S8 for each language and that they would send you a copy when it is
available.
 
 

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:34:00 EDT
Reply-To:     CHRISTOPHER HOBE MORRISON <CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was SWL$L@CUVMB
From:         CHRISTOPHER HOBE MORRISON <CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET>
Subject:      BBC Phone-in.

        Another person answered my mention of requesting an Internet or
CompuServe link to BBC World Service by saying the traffic would be heavy,
and we still wouldn't get an answer.  My answer to that is that I don't really
care, but that the time-lag for the stuff to get there would make it
worthwhile to send messages that would not be useless or irrelevant by the
time they arrived (like reception problems and coverage of news stories for
example).  Hell, people might even want to send them tips.  The point is that
if they don't change things that should be changed, rather than always going
for the quick change and the shallow gimmick, they will lose their supporters
and their funding, and end up like Radio Canada.  Don't think it couldn't
happen, their funding was just cut again.  Remember the people who fund
them don't much care if people in Africa have no source of information about
what goes on in the world.

                                                Chris Morrison
                                                cmorriso@snyescva.bitnet
PS--I know that others, especially VOA and Radio France International, do
a great job, but BBC World Service is in a league by itself, even if Auntie
is a wee bit too doty to realize it.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave