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From: brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS)
Subject: Radio Unlicesnsed
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Southern Connecticut State University - Computer Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:07:00 GMT

This isn't really pirate radio but our school  (Southern CT State University)
is currently running an unlicensed AM station. The new FCC rules will allow 
you unlimited power to cover only your campus. (No more than your campus)
This is completly legal. Right now we are trying to get funding to replace
the carrier current equipment with a broadcast tower. Still AM but much
cleaner. If you are doing this on a university level, or a school level and
not as a pirate, this is an excellent idea as it is completly legal.

And definatly check with other stations for equipment. You will sometimes
get two broken items that rebuilt make one excellent working one.
From: hendrix@haber.Eng.Sun.COM (George Haber)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: FM-10 FAQ
Date: 11 Nov 1992 19:38:15 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hendrix@haber.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: haber
Summary: Wireless Data Network

Hi Guys and Girls
=================

  I need some HELP "please"
 I intend to build (For my home) a wireless radio network for data
        - Does any one know how to build such a best cheaply  ??
        - Can I use some "portable phone" components to do it.
        - How do you detect collision in for such an Network ??
        - What is the best protocol for this ??

Any help is greatly appreciated.

George T. Haber
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Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: csplr@trentu.ca (Peter L. Rukavina)
Subject: Re: Of Phones and Antennas
Keywords: antenna, phones
Organization: Trent University, Ontario
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:38:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.230801.6001@dunix.drake.edu> ac94691@dunix.drake.edu (The Dark Kitty) writes:

>(mentioning that the call is being recorded for air time if the caller
>permits)...then if I want to put it on the air...I just pop it in the
>cassette deck.  That way I can avoid filth AND still have sort of live
>callers on the air.  =-)
>
>Tony Scott - KDRK Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa	

When I was a campus radio DJ we invented a program called 'Dead Air'
which we would run when an programmer forget/neglected to show up for
their time slot.  Rather than just playing records -- the usual solution
-- we hooked up a system whereby callers to the patched-in line would
automatically be put over the air to say or do anything that they wished
for as long as they wished.  When they hung up we'd play a tape loop
saying something like "this is Dead Air... phone 555-6677 to be on the
radio Right Now... you can say or do anything, we will not edit nor
censor."

The response varied from mindless teenagers saying "Jimmy's an idiot" to
amaxing three-hour long conversations [once we patched in two lines]
between complete strangers.  We never had to worry about people
"hogging" the line because we never cut anyone off therein removing any
of the impetus [i.e. wall to hit head against] they were looking for.

And we never heard a peep out of the CRTC [the Canadian equivalent of
the U.S. FCC].
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: FM antenna polarization?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:06:32 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Nov9.150343@kuttner.sfc.sony.com> weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver) writes:
>
>In article <1dmh5kINNlp4@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>|> There are some stations that
>|> are using vertical polarization only since the majority of radio listeners
>|> today are using car radios which have vertical receive antennae.
>
>There are?!  Given the way the regs are phrased, "vertical power no greater
>than horizontal power" I don't see how they can.

We've got one station in town whose license literally says "N watts of 
horizontal power, M watts of vertical power" where M is much greater than N.
I don't know how long they've been licensed, but it's been a while, and
they might have been grandfathered in if the regs have changed in the last
few years.
--scott
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS)
Subject: Phones some more..
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Southern Connecticut State University - Computer Center
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:51:00 GMT

Well, The system we are currently using is to take the handset out and use
our wire in its place. Basically we pumped the audio from the remote mixing
board into the mic wires and the earpeice wires are put through an amp into
two headphones for the two people using the mics. This system worked well but
it didn't work without the amps and they were loaners so I have to put
something else together before the next remote (Jan when the new transmitter
goes in)

I'll check radio shack for that one mentioned above. But I think they just 
have out amps for recording your calls. I should just wire up two simple 
LM 386 amps and continue using the same setup.

Last piece of news, I tried the circuit mentioned before but radio shack only
sells two audio transformers. (All they had in the catalog, I didn't go to
the store) They are a 1:1 (600 ohms around) and a 1K center tap to 8 ohm
audio one. The 1K:8 ohm one worked but the volume level was non existant with
the input source ('boom box') turned up full.

[I never thought it would get this complex... famous last words, I know..]


Nick
BRENCKLE@SCSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU

Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: chiner@nova (Chris Hiner)
Subject: Re: Radio Unlicesnsed
Reply-To: chiner@nova.gmi.edu
Organization: GMI/EMI CIM Lab
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:41:11 GMT

brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS) writes:
: This isn't really pirate radio but our school  (Southern CT State University)
: is currently running an unlicensed AM station. The new FCC rules will allow 
: you unlimited power to cover only your campus. (No more than your campus)

Happen to know the reg number for this?  I want to show this to the people
here at school that run the carrier current crap...  All you need to hear it,
is a nice cheap radio... the cheaper... the better..  :-)

--
Chris Hiner   chiner@nova.gmi.edu
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From: mycal@netronix.com (Mycal Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Of Phones, FM10s and Antennas 
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:30:33 GMT
Organization: Netronix, Inc.


In article <12NOV199214433601@scsuc.ctstateu.edu> brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu writes:

  > 
  > Now, the FM10 question. The last set of instructions for the 70mW amp used
  > a 220 ohm resistor off the +12v line. The set I had (an earlier version) had
  > a 110 ohm resistor. Whats the scoop?
  >
My mistake, use the 220 ohm resistor, I was using a variable resistor to
peek for maximum, I mesured it wrong.   If you use a 110 ohm resistor
you will cause the amp to go into oscilation, and you will splatter all over
the radio spectrum (not good).

mycal

Mycal Johnson                          _
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Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: chbeck@anl.gov (Chuck Beck)
Subject: FM antenna polarization?
Followup-To: alt.radio.pirate
Organization: Argonne National Lab
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:22:17 GMT

I thought that the correct polarization on FM was vertical, although
others have said that commercial stations broadcast in horizontal,
just like their TV brothers. What is correct?

These thoughts are only my own. CHBeck@anl.gov
From: weaver@kuttner.sfc.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: FM antenna polarization?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:03:43 GMT
Organization: SONY Advanced Video Technology Center San Jose, CA USA


In article <1dmh5kINNlp4@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
|> There are some stations that
|> are using vertical polarization only since the majority of radio listeners
|> today are using car radios which have vertical receive antennae.
|> --scott

There are?!  Given the way the regs are phrased, "vertical power no greater
than horizontal power" I don't see how they can.
-- 
Eric Weaver  Sony AVTC  677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35  SJ CA 95134  408 944-4904
& Chief Engineer, KFJC 89.7 Foothill College, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb)
Subject: Re: FM antenna polarization?
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:52:39 GMT

chbeck@anl.gov (Chuck Beck) writes:
>I thought that the correct polarization on FM was vertical, although
>others have said that commercial stations broadcast in horizontal,
>just like their TV brothers. What is correct?

"Nothing is correct -- everything is permitted."

Our (legal, grandfathered) Class D station runs circularly polarized,
clockwise, I think, though I can't be sure of the handedness. Many, if not
most, real (>1kW) FM antennae I've seen are the same, either some kind of
snazzy round dipole, or crossed dipoles fed 90 deg out of phase, etc.
Helicals are also Cpol, I believe. 

If this is wrong, I apologize, as we have not been able to consider even
getting our antenna tuned to our new frequency for monetary reasons. Right
now it's tuned with a stub at the transmitter, so it's pretty inefficient.
So I haven't thought too much about antennae lately.

Bill Newcomb
KRRC-FM, Portland, OR
--
~/.oo
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: aar001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: ?: Connecting phone to Radio.
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:18:55 GMT


	About Phoneing into the radio...   

		Technically, I think it requires a device called a
	WATER BOX or something like that.  This is a phreaker device
	that inputs a phone line and outputs a phone line and a small
	audio plug of your choice.  I think it takes a 9 volt battery.
	I read about it about a year ago in the magazine PHRACK (Phreakers
	& Hackers hand-bool [or some such])  
		Does anyone have the plans or circuit diagram for one of 
	these litte babys?  Anyone have a cypber-techno-hacker friend that
	could dig up the info?  Just curious...

								Andy Russell
							AAR001@Acad.Drake.Edu

	P.S.  Another problem is our University's Digital Rolm phone network.
              it does nasty things to analog phone and phone divices.  Any 
	      sugestions?
From: pauly@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sky Cries Mary)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: FM-10 info
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:42:37 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

Well..  I guess I'm gonna break down and buy the FM-10 setup.
Could someone put the FAQ up or mail me the address and the sites with all the  
modifications that have been put up to
pauly@hardy.u.washington.edu

hey, thanks.  you folks are swell.
From: mycal@netronix.com (Mycal Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: PLL and BA1404
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 00:21:56 GMT
Organization: Netronix, Inc.


Does anyone have a PLL frequency controled FM broadcaster?  Plans for one?
Would like to know what chip they use for the PLL.

mycal


Mycal Johnson                          _
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Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb)
Subject: Re: Of Phones, FM10s and Antennas
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:29:38 GMT

brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS) writes:

>I Understand the above configuration. However, I need to pump audio into
>as well as accept audio out of the phone line. If I build two circuits and
>use one for into a channel on the mixer and one from an output on the mixer
>back into the phone, won't I feedback? (Thats where I get confused. I still
>can't figure out why it doesnt feedback now..)

It will, odds are. The previous circuit works for a half-duplex audio
connection only. To do both sides at once, you can do one of two things:

1) Set up the kind of circuit that a lot of speakerphones use, with the gain
on the amp connecting the phone to the console input being reduced as a
function of the console's output. It might still oscillate, you'd probably
have to futz with it a lot to get it to work.

2) For about $500, Symetrix makes a telephone hybrid that does something
entirely different, and works a lot better. It is not a trivial circuit, and
really goes beyond me a little ways. I could explain it, but I couldn't have
designed it. Our station has one of these, and when no one twiddles the
knobs, it works ok. For each phone line you connect it to, you need to
adjust the null and freq.response.

Actually the easiest thing to do would be to just connect the aforementioned
circuit to the input of the console, and talk on the telephone. Sounds
cheesy, but it works. 
Mach viel Spass,
nuke
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From: bdm@druwa.ATT.COM (Brian Millham)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: mixing
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:37:05 GMT

in article <720992278snx@netronix.com>, mycal@netronix.com (Mycal Johnson) says:
> What have the rest of you done in this department?

I have the large RS mixer, but it didn't have enough inputs.  I picked up
a nice mixer at a "emergency liquidation sale" which is what I'm currently
using.

> Is anyone actually running right now?  What kind of studio are you running?
> 
> I know some people that mix up tapes and play them, but don't go live, and
> others that have the bare min and don't sound very good.

My studio is in my basement, in the old coal celler.  I have 2 turntables,
2 CD players (one portable), a tape player, and 2 mic inputs connected
through a RS echo box.  The mixer runs into an eq, then a compresser, and
then to the transmitter.  I can switch the studio speakers to either
compresser output, air monitor, or cue monitor.  The headphones can
be switched seperatly to listen to the cue monitor, or whatever the
studio speakers are set to.  To record a show, I have a reel to reel
that can be connected to either the compresser or the air monitor. 
There is a single switch to turn on the mics, that also turns off the
studio speakers (no feedback) and turns on the "On the Air" light.

> Also has anyone tried call-ins?  I've heard stories about people using
> phone loop pairs, but how about using phone booths connected to a full
> duplex radio.  Some pirates give out there home phone (I know this is
> dangerous) and I have heard at least one time that.

What do you mean by phone loop pairs?  I don't give any info out except
my first name, I'm somewhere in Denver, and my call letters, KCUF.
This is my sign-on:
"KCUF Denver now begins its broadcast day.
 KCUF is a non-commercial, non-educational station operating on a
 carrier frequency of 106.3 Mhz as totally unathorized by the
 Federal Communications Comission in Washington, D.C.  KCUF is owned
 and operated by me, and maintains studios, offices, and transmission
 facilities in my basement"
--
Brian Millham     |Kitty      |Fletch |Dragon's Lair |Kick Man |New World
AT&T Bell Labs    |Ferrah     |Buddy  |Space Ace     |Sinistar |High Speed
Denver, Co.       |Dr. Pepper |       |              |         |
bdm@druwa.att.com |(ferrets)  |(cats) |(laser disc)  |(video)  |(pinball)
From: brewer@anarky.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: WEED
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:15:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Marlboro, MA


	WEED was on 7415 again last night with a bery strong signal
	and it's usually _great_ programming!
	/john
From: rossi@gvlf9-q.gvl.unisys.com (Pete Rossi)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: FM antenna polarization?
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:19:22 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Paramax Systems Corp (A Unisys Company), Great Valley Labs, PA

In article <chbeck-091192102638@chbmac01.el.anl.gov> chbeck@anl.gov (Chuck Beck) writes:
>I thought that the correct polarization on FM was vertical, although
>others have said that commercial stations broadcast in horizontal,
>just like their TV brothers. What is correct?
>
>These thoughts are only my own. CHBeck@anl.gov

Long long ago FM started out as basically 100% horizontal.  Story I heard
was that when FM radios started becoming really popular in cars they started
going to circular polarization since most car antennas tended to be more
vertical.  Circular polarization gave much better coverage to a growing
number of FM listeners driving around in their cars.

=================================================================
Pete Rossi - WA3NNA                  rossi@gvl.unisys.com

Paramax Systems Corporation - a Unisys Company
Electronic Systems - Valley Forge Labs - Paoli, Pennsylvania
=================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: brenckle@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (BRENCKLE,NICHOLAS)
Subject: Radio Networks..
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Southern Connecticut State University - Computer Center
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:31:00 GMT

There already exists such a nasty beast. There are radio versions of
Ethernet network components. I'm not exactly sure of the frequencies or
anything but you can check into it. There was a point where we were trying
something similar here (just as an experiment) but using a small AM 
transmitter and reciever (one way) and just couldn't get the data clarity.

-Nick
BRENCKLE@SCSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU

Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
From: ser@netcom.com (Steve Rubin)
Subject: Re: Help needed
Keywords: New station
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 02:06:33 GMT

In article <clark.720899919@angelo> clark@angelo.amd.com (Brad D. Clark) writes:
>ser@netcom.com (Steve Rubin) writes:
>
>>Forget about not getting caught.  My school was running a pirate station
>>for about 6 years.  And it was finely shut down today.
>
>Details??????

Ok... Ok..

Here is the bload and guts..

Starting sometime in 1984, San Jose City College (Calif.) sprouted a 
radio station, from a group of students who had been trying to do this
for a few years.  It was on AM (535AM?, i dont remember).  Anyway, a
few years later (1 or 2), the A/V dept. got a new chief tech.  who had
a very good knowlege of transmitters.  Then by sheer coincedence, someone
donated a FM transmitter.  It didnt work very well, but the exicter was
replaced ($1000!!!! its not a bad one either), and we gathered some other
stuff, from the donated transmitter, and other stuff that was laying around.
They used the console in the Theater for a while, and then eventually 
got enough money to build a studio for the station.  Anway, this is like
1984 now.  Ok, so basicly, we have been on the air this whole time.  We
now have 3 studios, that are OK, not the best stuff in the world, but
it works good for us.  Anyway, about 1 month ago, maybe less, we got a 
couple of calls like "are you on 104.1...." "How long ..." etc...  And
then last tuesday at about 10:15am, a guy from the FCC drops buy, takes
a couple of readings, then after meeeting with the president of the school,
we get the order at about 10:45 to shut down.  Thats about all there is
so far.  no word on any fines or anythng.

-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
Steve Rubin			    ser@netcom.com
KARA/KLIV, KJCC		            In search of a job.....
From: mycal@netronix.com (Mycal Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate
Subject: mixing 
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 02:24:00 GMT
Organization: Netronix, Inc.


In article <720992278snx@netronix.com> mycal@netronix.com writes:

  > duplex radio.  Some pirates give out there home phone (I know this is
  > dangerous) and I have heard at least one time that....
the FCC has called a pirate and told him to shut down.  Still others
have done this with no problems, though I wouldn't advise it.

mycal

Mycal Johnson                          _
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From: ac94691@dunix.drake.edu (The Dark Kitty)
Subject: Re: Of Phones and Antennas
Keywords: antenna, phones
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:26:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.063830.12130@trentu.ca> csplr@trentu.ca (Peter L. Rukavina) writes:
>-- we hooked up a system whereby callers to the patched-in line would
>automatically be put over the air to say or do anything that they wished
>for as long as they wished.  When they hung up we'd play a tape loop
>saying something like "this is Dead Air... phone 555-6677 to be on the
>radio Right Now... you can say or do anything, we will not edit nor
>censor."
>

Well, I go to a very conservative university.  I'd think something like
that would be fine as long as callers only said awful things about
minorities, the poor, each other...but GOD FORBID someone should say 
something nasty about a fraternity!!!  The students would probably come
down with torches and fire the record collection or something.  =-)

Actually since our station only has 3 or 4 listeners ;-D (which I'm
trying to get changed...increase not decrease), probably nobody would
care.

Incidentally, at the quarter hour mark I have to do the weather, except
there's never any weather sheet to do.  So, I'm going to make things up
like "a volcano has sprung up in the middle of campus.  Right now, a
student delegation is taking virgins to the lip of the fiery hell to
sacrifice them to appease the Gods.  They originally sought virgins on
Greek row but were not able to find any.  As a last resort, they visited
a local elementary school."  but somehow I think that would tick off 
some people.  Tee hee...

Anthony Clifton - KDRK Radio, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: empath@ais.org (Tim Triemstra)
Subject: Re: HELP: .wav or .voc file formats
Keywords: WAVE format
Organization: UMCC
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:05:41 GMT

True, the PAS DEV Kit is a great price, and I got mine a coupla weeks
back.  However, it requires the use of the sound drivers for the PAS,
which I don't believe it includes (I may be wrong, haven't looked
at it much.)  But, in either case, the reason I bought the SDK was 
under the assumption that the code would also drive the Sound Blaster,
which I now believe to be false.  This doesn't help me one bit, since
I have NO intention of specificly programming (and learning to program)
both the SB and PAS.  Definitely not worth it since, if I learn to program
the SB, I can also program the PAS be default.

If I'm off base, someone please tell me.

Tim Triemstra -- empath@ais.org
From: ryan@pecan.cns.udel.edu (daron ryan)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: SB 2.0 with 486
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:14:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark


  I have heard that the Sound Blaster 2.0 won't work with a 486 computer.
Why is this?  I heard it was because the 486 uses the DMA channel 1, and the
SB conflicts with it.  Is this true?  Can you change the SB to work with it
or do I have to live without sound?
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