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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:42:00 GMT
Reply-To:     "Thomas R. Sundstrom" <0002446376@MCIMAIL.COM>
From:         "Thomas R. Sundstrom" <0002446376@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Thanks for Welcome!

I hope this makes it to the network, if I've interpreted the
feedback correctly.  Thanks to all!

 > From:     mathur
 >           EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
 >           MBX: mathur@iastate.edu

 > I am one of the owners of the SWL-L list and I am more than
 > happy to add your name to the subscription list. Please note
 > that in future you can subscribe/unsubscribe yourself by sending
 > appropriate messages

Sanjay, thanks very much for adding my name to the distribution
list.  Obviously the listing on GEnie got close but it wasn't
complete enough for my needs.  I appreciate the intercept and
the handling.

I was on here before through a FidoNet gateway but that's
stopped now, and I don't know when it may resume.

 > From:     Ralph Brandi
 >           EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
 >           MBX: ralph@mtunp.att.com

 > I believe that this will cause each individual message to show
 > up as a separate mail message in your MCI mail box.  You may
 > want to consider this; I'm not sure if MCI mail charges for
 > incoming mail messages.

Ralph, thanks for the help.  Glad to be back since the BBS link
was lost.  I didn't realize the MCI gateway was doable,
otherwise I would have been on here a long time ago.  Yes, the
mail shows up as separate mail messages.  No, no charges for
incoming mail.

 > From:     Brett Breitwieser
 >           EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
 >           MBX: lancelot@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

 > Could you tell me more about your BBS?
 > BTW, I just signed up for GENIE yesterday, largely to

Thanks for your note.  The Pinelands RBBS is one of the two
largest SWL-oriented telephone BBSs in NA, if not the world.
Unfortunately it is a single line at 609-859-1910, but the modem
is a US Robotics HST Dual Standard V.32bis/V.42bis/LAPM so it
supports up to 14,400 bps (8n1).  Among the FidoNet echos
available, the SHORTWAVE echo and a couple of amateur radio
echos are carried.  The BBS is also used to distribute SWL
software we write and sell.  Just call and look around.
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From: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Diane Bailey)
Subject: Re: E-mail and broadcasters
Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:19:00 +0000



A fellow user of this system is currently working on an email
network for the BBC's television news and current affairs
section.  He says this should be connected by the end of this
year.  Since some of the machines are news systems that are
already connected through to systems at Bush House and Caversham,
this should put much of the BBC World Service, both radio and TV,
online.

My guess would be that the addresses will be
user@system.bbc.co.uk, as their engineering design departments
already have that form of address. Or
user%system@gateway.bbc.co.uk.

But there are many other departments at the BBC, including
listener correspondence and publicity, drama, education, etc.,
and they may not be connected for some time.

In any case, they will probably need considerable persuasion
before they feel safe to publicise their exact addresses.  But
letters sometime around the turn of the year might have some
effect.

Diane
From: max@helios.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: FAQ-list
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:59:11 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory

Could someone tell me where I can get the FAQ-list from?
Max.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: pfluegerm@gtephx.UUCP (Mike Pflueger)
Subject: Tower identification (was Re: Hand-held frequency counter recommendations sought)
Organization: AG Communication Systems - Phoenix, AZ
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:39:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.014218.5526@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
> I'm told that an easy way to identify commercial radio towers is to use
> an aviation map -- they're labeled on it.  Can any aviators out there
> confirm this?

The positions and heights (above sea level and above ground
level) are *ALWAYS* shown.  Occasionally the call letters are
shown, but not usually.

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From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
Subject: Voice of Nigeria interference
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:35:23 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

The last few evenings I have noticed interference on the Voice
of Nigeria on the 7255KHZ frequency. It is AM interference and`
sounds like a Spanish Language Broadcaster. The time is about 0500GMT.

Has anyone noticed this besides me? Anyone have an idea who the
interfering broadcaster is?

On another topic:

How about frequencies for RSA? Does anyone have any recent logs
of them they can share. With all of the problems recently down
there, I'd like to hear what they have to say for themselves.

-- 
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(415) 903-3832 wk  "Get rid of the bums!"   (408) 253 4541 fax
From: martin.briscoe@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: am vs fm in hilly are
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:32:41 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: ALMAC BBS Ltd

JC4which are taller than anything else west of the Mississippi. There isn't
  4a single station on the dial that one can receive consistently in one's car
  4all the way from the north end of town to the south end.

The UK and rest of Europe is using RDS to get around this problem, lot 
of small low power transmitters around the country.  As you drive 
around the radio retunes itself to another transmitter carrying the 
same programme.  Each transmitter puts out a list of "Alternative 
Frequencies" which it can scan around VERY quickly - all you here is a 
short "plop" on the programme as it hunts for a strnger signal.

We have only just got this in one of the company's vehicle and I have 
been very impressed with the way that it coped with the mountains here 
in the Highlands of Scotland.

Many car manufacturers are now fitting these radios as standard, so 
hopefully people will just take it for granted in a few years time 
that the radio does all the tuning by itself

               Martin
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From: ralph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
Subject: Re: BBC Bush House was on fire
Organization: Democrats for Broccoli
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:27:11 GMT

In article <9209070904.AA01350@quickt2.it12.bull.it> Alfredo Cotroneo <A.Cotroneo@IT12.BULL.IT> writes:
>This message to check if anyone was listening to the BBC World Service on
> Saturday Sept. 5, 1992, at around 6:45 UTC, and to the strange things heard
> then.

> they explained that a section of the building (presumably where the news room
> is) was on fire, and they had to evacuate the entire building. The operator

I didn't hear this broadcast, but I have heard two other unusual BBC
broadcasts in the past year or so.  Earlier this summer, I was out
on a Saturday afternoon and tuned my DC-777 to 15260 to hear the BBC
and was greeted by bland muzak, and the occasional announcement that
regular programming would eventually resume.  It turned out that
Bush House had had to be evacuated because of a bomb scare.  A few
months earlier, I had heard a similar broadcast for a similar
reason.  Very unusual.  After the first one, I heard on the BBC news
that it was the first time the BBC World Service had ever been
forced off the air.  This makes three now in the past year.
-- 
Ralph Brandi     ralph@mtunp.att.com     att!mtunp!ralph

I cannot receive mail until the morning of September 8th; mail sent
before then may bounce.
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re:  Hand-held frequency counter recommendations sought
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:42:18 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

I'm told that an easy way to identify commercial radio towers is to use
an aviation map -- they're labeled on it.  Can any aviators out there
confirm this?

-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: SYNCHRONOUS DETECTION - READ THIS
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:51:17 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

IMPORTANT ARTICLE ABOUT SYNCHRONOUS DETECTORS -
HOW TO PUT A SONY 2010 DETECTOR IN ANY RADIO

An excellent article on synchronous detection is the following:

 Gruber, Mike  (1992)  Synchronous detection of AM signals.
    QEX, issue 127 (September 1992), pp. 9-16.

QEX is published by the American Radio Relay League (arrl@mcimail.com).
If you are at a college or university, you can probably get a copy of
this article through your library's interlibrary loan department, by
showing them the reference given above.

Besides explaining the theory, this article describes how to put a
Sony 2010-type synchronous detector (built with Sony parts) into any
radio with a 455-kHz IF. 

A kit to do this is being offered by:
  Steve Johnson
  PO Box 3420
  York, PA 17402-0420
who can be contacted for further information.

(Note: I myself have no further information.  -- Michael Covington, 9/4/92.)
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+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
+ VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
From: Kevin_Deane@mindlink.bc.ca (Kevin Deane)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Japan Radio
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:25:49 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

Are there are any Japanese news stations that post in English...if so please
tell me.  Thanks.

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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
Subject: Re: BFBS on SW ?
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:26:44 GMT

Michael Chace writes:

>Does anyone know if BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting) still transmits
>on shortwave ? If so, what are the frequencies ?

Isn't their Falklands service on shortwave? I don't think they have a
shortwave service for Europe.

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From: pfluegerm@gtephx.UUCP (Mike Pflueger)
Subject: Re: Tower identification (was Re: Hand-held frequency counter recommendations sought)
Organization: AG Communication Systems - Phoenix, AZ
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:48:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.233958.1607@gtephx.UUCP>, pfluegerm@gtephx.UUCP (Mike Pflueger) writes:
> In article <1992Sep10.014218.5526@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
> > I'm told that an easy way to identify commercial radio towers is to use
> > an aviation map -- they're labeled on it.  Can any aviators out there
> > confirm this?
> 
> The positions and heights (above sea level and above ground
> level) are *ALWAYS* shown.  Occasionally the call letters are
> shown, but not usually.
> 
 ...and I forgot to add, if they're shown, it'll show the call letters
and the frequency because AM broadcast stations can be and are used
for navigation.  One needs to know the call letters to verify one has
the correct station tuned in.

In case anyone's interested, a radio called and ADF (Automatic
Direction Finder) in the plane tunes from around 190 to 1800 KHz and
is connected to an indicator (360 degree needle with heading marks)
which points at the station tuned.  In the 190-400KHz range, NDB's
(non-direction beacons) are sometimes installed at or near airports to
be used for aviation navigation.  But they're simple low power AM
transmitters with a CW identifier, so tuning an AM broadcast station
works just as well (except for distant and interfering stations which
are rare with NDB's).

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: BBC Bush House was on fire
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:59:40 CDT


>    One reason why it sounds so mysterious at the time is because I
>think the tape they play is recorded in advance just for such
>situations. So the announcer just keeps referring to "a problem"
>without specifics and leaves us to wonder about what exactly is
>happening.

"Thank you for tuning the British Broadcasting Corporation. All of our
personnel are currently busy. All crises will be handled in the order
received, and someone will be with you shortly. Please hold."

(90 seconds of 101 Strings playing "The Girl from Ipanema" follow...)
From: cessna@kn5f.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Taylor Evert)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Pro 37 Scanner Mods
Date: 8 Sep 1992 18:14:19 GMT
Organization: Loral Space Information Systems

I know there is a scanner forum, but my site doesn't have it for some 
reason.  Would some kind soul please send me any known or possible 
modifications for a Radio Shack Pro 37 Scanner?  It would be much 
appreciated.  EMAIL is preferred.

Mark T. Evert
Friendswood, TX

My opinions are my own.
From: CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Foreign CB bands (Info from Sept. PopCom).
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:54:00 GMT
Reply-To: CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Original_To:  BITNET%"swl-l@ohstvma"

For those folks who are interested in foreign CB bands, the following
is taken from the September Popular Communications, CB Scene Column,
Page 59, by Bill Sanders, SB-295.

  Former USSR.  40 channels but it doesn't say what type of modulation
or frequency.

  Soon-to-be-former Czechoslovakia:  20 channels, AM/SSB/FM, channels
relate to our channels 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19,
20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27.

   Turkey:  4 watt AM on 40 channels.

   Hungary:  40 channels AM/SSB/FM (4 watts AM-FM, 12 watts PEP on
SSB).

   New Zealand 15 watts PEP, 26.330 to 26.760 MHz., SSB.

   Belgium:  22 channels, .5 watts, AM/SSB/FM.  Denmark is similar,
but without SSB, AM/FM only.

   Germany:  40 channels, 4 watts FM, 12 channels 1 watt AM, 22
channels of .5 watt FM, 12 channels of .5 watt AM/FM, and 12 channels
of 5 watt AM.

   Finland 23 channels 5 watt AM, 22 channels 5 watt FM.

   France 40 channels 4 watt FM, 1 watt AM, 4 watt PEP SSB.

   Greece 40 channels 5 watt AM.

   Britain 40 channels between 27.601 and 27.991 and 20 channels
on 934 MHz (remember this?  this is the one they decided not to
have in the U.S.

   Ireland:  40 channels 4 watts FM, 2.5 watt AM.

   Italy  40 channels AM/FM, 4 watts.  34 channels AM/FM/SSB for
business users.

  You probably know these already, but just in case somebody doesn't
I sent it.

Chris Morrison
From: wws@craywr.cray.com (Walter Spector)
Subject: Re: WWCR, Signals, and RTTY
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:21:18 CDT

In article <519@arrl.org>, jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman) writes:
|> ;Anyone up this way ever hear the RTTY on 7435?
|> 
|> I've never heard interference on WWCR's 7435 frequency. There
|> is occasional propagation trouble. As I've mentioned before,
|> 41 meters is a pretty good band for North American coverage.
|> I think satellite TV is spoiling a lot of SWLs!

I can verify the RTTY covering 7435 from N. California.  The RTTY
signal was somewhat lower in amplitude than WWCR though.  It was
very easy to tune out.  (Switching from AM to LSB or simply
tuning a couple khz down on the ham rx tuned the RTTY out completely.
The DX-440 was listenable (but not wonderful) by using 'narrow' and
tuning down 1 or 2 khz.)  Anything with broader filters (or 5 khz
tuning steps!) would have had serious problems.

It is amazing to me that a RTTY operator would have to pick the
exact same frequency as WWCR (or vice versa) when the band
surrounding 7435 is so open.  The only other major frequency nearby
is 7405 (VOA), (and of course, 7415).

BTW, Signals people, keep up the good work!

Walt
-- 
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(wws@renaissance.cray.com)
Sunnyvale, California
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From: sawtelle@mariposa.stonecutter.com (Don Sawtelle)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: comments on $199 VHF/UHF converter for Drake R-8?
Date: 7 Sep 92 23:25:30 GMT
Reply-To: sawtelle@stonecutter.com
Organization: Stonecutter Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4

Has anyone added the $199 VHF/UHF converter to their Drake R-8? I am
very interested to hear your comments, opinions, experience, antenna
setup, what you're listening to with it, & etc., as I am considering
putting one in my R-8, myself.

Thanks!

Don

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From: glh@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Gene A Heyler)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: BBC Internet addresses
Date: 14 Sep 1992 10:13:12 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



   People have been asking for BBC-Email addresses and they (BBC) deny they
support it. However, in a name database, I have run across three Internet
addresses (w/o userids, just node names) in the UK affiliated with the BBC,
so they are definitely on the Internet (albeit maybe not directly, but
through JANET) and these addresses support mail.

Two of these appear to be engineering support, though one is a short high
level address. I would hesitate to post these as some poor Unix system
operator might get inundated with programming requests.

I discovered these by logging onto JANET. 'Nuf said.

Gene

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From: C058SJLX@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: SONY prices.
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:48:47 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo


      This could be of interest to beginners and other
  people shoping for a portable sw radio.  Last week I
  asked to the CITI$HOPERS club the prices of some
  SONY radios, this is what I found.
             SW-55         $345
          ICFSW-7600       $215
            ICF-7700       $173
            ICF-7601       $114
 
       The end.
                       Eleazar Puente
From: sm@cel.co.uk (salim mehta)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Sony SW-77, "old" v. "new" models
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:43:20 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics Ltd.
In-reply-to: cena@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au's message of 11 Sep 92 01:12:56 GMT

In article <cena.716173976@csuvax1> cena@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Kris Cena) wrote:
[stuff deleted]
> 1. The "old" Sony ICF-SW77 has NINE segment whip antenna and
>    a serial number in the order of 30 000.
> 2. The "new" unit has ELEVEN segment whip and a serial number
>    in the order of 900 000.
[more stuff deleted]
> In places like Far East, Australia and New Zealand (and perhaps
> others as well, please advise) SONY is dumping the "old" model

Can anyone advise what the problems with the "old" model are? If it's just
cosmetic and antenna length the "old" model might be a really good bargain.

Then again if the "new" model is significantly better I'd like to make sure
I'm buying the right version.

Thanks in advance

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From: troach@netcom.com (Tom Roach)
Subject: MT Conference : Input please!
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 03:19:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I will be attending the Monitoring Times conference in Atlanta Oct
2-4th.  I know the JRC rep will be there and I would be gald to
deliver any comments (make that glad) to Bob Grove, Larry Van Horn,
Paul Lannuier (JRC's rep), etc.  

One thing for sure, I will stress that major manufacturers should
link up with INTERNET. Also that MT should give even more space
to computer/receiver interface.

Please email me your comments. I will make hardcopies and if
we get enough input, maybe we'll get even more response to 
this great hobby from ISWBC types, etc.  CNN tour is on the 
schedule so perhaps I can drum up some free press there - besides
Fergies intimate cellular phone calls.  Any great anecdotes, technical
suggestions, etc. will be gladly passed on

Tom Roach
From: G06C@UNB.CA (G06C000)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: DX-390 or SANGEAN 818
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:42:40 GMT
Organization: The University of New Brunswick

I am seeking detailed info from owners of this model.
1. How do you like it?
2. How does it compare with previously owned radios?
3. How is the reception in your area?
4. Was your purchase a mistake?
5. etc.?
Phil Newman..............
From: biga@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Kroll)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: 2010--Good vs Bad
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 21:59:23 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

Hi!
I've been looking around for a shortwave radio, and so far as I can tell, 
the Sony 2010 seems to give the biggest 'bang' for your 300+ bucks.  What 
I'd like to know is: what do YOU think?  What, in your opinion, is the 
best feature and/or the worst feature of the 2010?  Is it any good for 
DXing foreign radio?  
Also, I've been thinking of using the $8.95 Radio Shack SWL antenna I've 
heard so much about.  Does this antenna work well with the 2010??  Does 
the antenna clip to the whip, or does it plug into the external antenna 
jack?  Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Andy  biga@infopls.chi.il.us
CompuServ (71231,2316)
Prodigy (TKFG57A)
FidoNet (1:115/108) "Andrew Kroll"

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