Monitoring Times 2011 Index

FEATURES and Photography Tips from an Air Show REGULAR COLUMNS Veteran MAR Amateur Radio Monitoring Disaster ANTENNA TOPICS (Dan Faber/Kent CQ DX from KC7OEK SEP Communications AUG Britain) Monitoring the Air Show Experience Dayton Hamvention: A Rite of th JAN The Great Equalizer How Tuners Passage JUL the 12 Annual MT Air Show Make Life Easier (Dan Farber) How Green is Your Radio Hobby? APR Guide MAR FEB The Great Equalizer: Making Portable Ham Station in a Scanning P25 Digital Systems FEB Your Tuner Work for You (Dan Briefcase JUN The Great APCO Project 25 Faber) Solar Power for Amateur Radio APR Boondoggle FEB MAR Air Band Antennas (Kent Britain) SSTV in the Digital Age MAY Tracking Interoperability Funding FEB APR Up in the Air – Height Above Stealth Operating: How to Overcome Ground vs Antenna Performance Property Restrictions MAY Satellites (Dan Farber) Young Ladies Radio League QRV Since GORIZONT Remembered – Nostalgic MAY No More Excuses – Get Active 1939 MAY look back on monitoring satellite TV on HF NOW! (Dan Farber) signals DEC JUN Construct Super Wide Band Broadcasting Antennas (Kent Britain) DXing the FM Band in a Translator / JUL Vintage Antenna Systems (Dan Booster World AUG Shortwave Broadcasting Farber) Micro-Broadcasting: Getting the most China’s Global Electronic Reach JAN AUG Antennas for AM Listening – Hint: out of Part 15 Radio SEP Clandestine Broadcasting on It’s Not a Beam (Dan Farber) Shortwave Today OCT SEP Six Antennas for 300 MHz (Kent HF Utility Monitoring Holiday on Shortwave JUN Britain) HF FAX on iPad: Yes, There’s an Looking at QSLs and Seeing OCT Active Antennas for Stealthy App for that! SEP History OCT SWLing (Dan Farber) Hunting Seagulls: Monitoring and QSLs Give Life to Radio History DEC NOV Stealthy Little Vertical: The Decoding WEFAX Broadcasts SEP Shortwave’s Unlikely Future: Disco Chameleon V1 (Dan Farber) Palace JAN DEC Vintage with a Vengeance (Dan Nostalgia/Human Interest Wartimes Voices – Early Shortwave Faber) A Voice in a Dream – Roger Klingman Broadcasting on the West Coast JUL K0RMK ASK BOB (Bob Grove) Buying and Selling on eBay: Notes for Technical/Technology JAN Do I need a booster for my the Novice FEB How Green is Your Radio Hobby? APR scanner; MFJ-1046 preselector First Aid for Canada JUN HF FAX on iPad: Yes, There’s an and the new shortwave radio; First Person Radio: A Love of App for that! SEP What countries banned ham Listening - Thomas Witherspoon OCT Meteor Monitoring JAN radio in WWII; Can a whip on a First person Radio: A Baby Boomer’s MT Looks at e-Readers AUG CB radio with a linear amp get Radio Reflections – Eric Beheim DEC NOAA Radio System for all warm’ Crossed diode receiver How Green is Your Radio Hobby? APR Seasons SEP overload protection myth; When Looking at QSLs and Seeing Old School Wind-Powered Farm to select filter bandwidths, History OCT Radios APR passband tuning or noise blanker MT’s 2011 Guide to North American Portable Ham Station in a features on Icom R-75 Radio Museums JUN Briefcase JUN FEB Connecting an automotive battery Old School Wind-Powered Farm Reading MT on the iPad AUG charger; Ionsondes; Mounting a Radios APR Scanning P25 Digital Systems FEB Grove Scanner Beam and Our E-Waste Causes Devastation Solar Power for Amateur Radio APR Scantenna in parallel; Inverted L Abroad APR Taking the Fear out of Your Next directionality; Why no SSB on 30 Taking Out the E-Trash APR Adventure (PLB/EPIRB) JUN meters; Why my discone delivers The Colorful World of Early Plastic The Great APCO Project 25 poor performance to my Radios JUL Boondoggle FEB handheld; A why buy a . . . The Committee to Preserve Radio Those Really Big Antennas OCT question Verifications OCT Weird World of Antennas AUG MAR LEDs and voltage polarity; The Knight-Kit Saga JUL Tunerless all-band dipole and The Newspaper of the Air: Early impedance matching; Choices for Experiments with radio facsimile FEB 2012 RADIO BUYERS GUIDE multiband HF transmitting The Uncommon Life of Charlie Gyenes (13 Page Special in the November MT) antennas; Security compromise W6HIQ MAY of RFID chips and passport; Thirty Years of Monitoring Times! ● MT’s Guide to Buying a New Scanner Advantages to leaving equipment How I Survived Self-Electrocution, By Larry Van Horn, N5FPW on all the time; How to find the Fame, Congress and the Publishing ● Taking Shortwave Listening to Another source of power line noise; Does Industry: Bob Grove, W8JHD JAN Level By Ken Reitz, KS4ZR the US-Russian hotline still exist; Wartimes Voices – Early Shortwave ● The Quest for Power – “Keys” to Learning more about RDF online. Broadcasting on the West Coast JUL Success and the Accessories of Life APR Using an 800 MHz on VHF; Young Ladies Radio League QRV Since By Kirk A. Kleinschmdit, NT0Z Powering a 5 VDC device with 6 1939 MAY ● Finding The Perfect Antenna (It’s not VDC; Who am I hearing from that easy!) by Bob Grove, W8JHD 4100-4300 kHz; Can I use more Scanning than one WiFi radio tuned to different radio stations; Using a An Air Show Monitor’s Portable Listening degaussing coil as a NDB band Post MAR Blue out . . . Ready: NOW! Monitoring antenna; Do photocells wear out; Monitoring Times 2011 Index Do silent dog whistles work and transceiver as HF general Channels; VHF Marine Channels; their freqs; Wanted handheld coverage receiver; analog TV/FM Amateur Radio ham rig for emergencies; antennas for digital reception; AUG PLANES: Aero Frequencies: Crystalfeeler antenna – quackery Grove scanners; Attic loop Clearance Delivery, Ground MAY Antenna System Questions; antennas; preamp placement on Control, Tower, ATIS, ASOS / Radiated power to the antenna; coax line; RG-58/U vs RG-6/U; AWOS, Unicom; TRACON 20 meter antenna for 15 meter lead-acid battery tester Frequencies; ARTCC transmitting; Tuning at lower Frequencies; Airport/Facility power levels, higher SWR at high BELOW 500 kHz (Kevin Carey) Directory power; Low end antenna JAN Celebrating Beacons Old and SEP TRAINS: Passenger vs Freight analyzer useful; Stack antenna New; LF8A Mystery Solved and More Signals configuration; Replacing the FEB Exploring Natural Radio: What OCT BOATS: Easy Tools for Smarter Uniden HP-1 stock antenna; you can hear and receiving gear; Listening; Winter Monitoring Discone in the country. What’s in My Bookmarks? Targets; North American JUN SWR Variations; Digital Software MAR The Aviation-Longwave Bond; Frequencies; Search and Decoding/Collectible SW Other LW Services; Whats Next? Rescue; Amateur Marine Radio; Receivers; Portables and 9/10 Mailbag and Loggings, End Local Acitivty; VHF; Maine Radio kHz spacing switch; Fiber vs Notes Historical Society; Email; Plasma cable; Future of AM IBOC/SW APR Spring Chores; Learn LF Nightmare DRM; Tuner and RF power out Propagation – Free; mailbag and NOV PLANES: Aero Frequencies Part antenna; Prevailing standard Loggings 2: VHF Company Frequencies; DES vs AES MAY Opening Your Mail; Website Domestic VHF Networks; AOC JUL Mobile scanner antenna for Resource; European Broadcast; Message Content; 121.5 MHz; Uniden BCT15X; Weather Loggings; Report from BC; Flight Service Stations; 121.95- broadcast recorded before Crystal Set DX; Rochester 123.6 MHz; Airport FM magnetic tape; Audio synch and Hamfest Frequencies; Changing digital TV tuners; Future of JUN Top-End Talk: Who’s On The Technology; Yahoo Group satellite TV services; Changing Air? Other 500 kHz Users; Going DEC TRAINS: Back to Basics: The the feed point of a random-length Higher: Fishnet Beacons; This Equipment; Finding Frequencies; SW antenna; Poor general Month’s Loggings Other Calls; Looking Good; coverage receiver sensitivity on JUL Longwave in Retrospect; Web System Architecture; Learning AM; Mobile mounted NMO Resources; Loggings and the about Railroads; Fun with Names antennas vs car wash; New Future of NDBs scanners have close call; AUG Information for Free; Longwave BROADCAST BANDSCAN (Doug Antennas in restricted areas Websites; Mailbag; Loran A – A Smith) (even months) AUG Jamming in WWII; Analog Look Back FEB Keeping Record; “Un- scanners and freq above 470 SEP Longwave Happenings; Remote disappearing” Station Re- MHz; Time signals on AM BCB Listening; New LW Station; disappearing; An Unusual w/Morse code ID; ANT-6 Mailbag; Loggings; Natural Radio Petition; Station Report performance on 2-meters; OCT Taking the Mystery out of DGPS; APR We pause for station Wanted - Simple handheld I Heard SAQ Finally; VLF identification . . .; FCC Proposes scanner; Austin Condor antenna Antenna Option – Active Changes to TIS; LPFM performance; MJF-1020C Antennas Restrictions Relaxed; Proposal to performance NOV Tackling an RDF: Project No. 1 – Refarm TV Spectrum SEP Operating 2 HF transceivers on 2 an RDF; Two Standout Websites; JUN Radio, Dead or Alive; FM different bands simultaneously; Mailbag “Translator Stations”; Digital Low-pass filter – before or after DEC The RDF 304: Digging Deeper: Radio: Dying in Canada; IBOC: the linear; Yaesu ham Faulty Capacitor(s)?; Firing It Up; Bad for DXers and Stations, too?; transceivers as a shortwave Mailbag; Loggings Radio on the Road; hello testing receiver alternative; PAR End- 1..2..3..4..; New Community Feed antennas as a sloper; TV BOATS (Ron Walsh), PLANES, (Iden Radio; Musical Chairs impedance matching transformer Rogers) and TRAINS (Ernest Aug Clear-Channel Stations to and continuity between windings; Robt) Return; IBOC Interference: Good Mag mount antennas for ham JAN BOATS: Listening as Winter for DXers?; Scorecard; New AM xmit/scanner receive Settles In; Amateur Radio Info; station in Nashville; Digital TV OCT Land Mobile Band Update (450- NAVTEX; Targets for Winter DX; Mailbag 512 MHz); Replacement antenna Monitoring; Interference; OCT Talk Radio, not just AM Any for the Uniden HP-1 (Part Deux); Dreaming of New Gear More; Dr. Bruce Elving Passes; How does Carbon 14 dating FEB PLANES: References for Aircraft Montreal 690/940; The End of the work; What is a Q-Meter; Listeners “Franken FMs”; The Great Grove/Ramsey PR2 improve MAR TRAINS: Gazing into a Murky Translator Invasion of 2003; reception; 400 foot wire loop vs Crystal Ball Respect or Disrespect for the the electric fence; use NiCd APR BOATS: The Benefits of Radio FCC; Mailbag charger to charge NiMH bats; FM Monitoring; Marconi Marcom IV; DEC Playing Around with the Carrier; indoor directional antenna Working Amateur Marine Montreal 690/940; Frequencies NOV Linear amp by-pass; NOAA Stations; the Beginning Listener Going Begging . . .; Radio frequencies; Inboard vs Outboard MAY PLANES: Flight Delays and History; Arkansas Station Sued; DSP; Ham and public service HT Stoppages New NRC Log; Mailbag combos; Nulling FM signals; JUN TRAINS: Train Symbols and Mysteries Solar cycle mazimum flop; Ballast Dumping Defining RDS, SDR and DSP, JUL BOATS: Becoming an RF Sleuth; COMMUNICATIONS (Ken Reitz) and shortwave intereference South Carolina DX; Finding the JAN Amateur Radio/Shortwave: puzzle Frequencies; Canadian Marine Zimbabwe Police Seize SW Sets DEC Barbed wire fence antenna; Frequency Sites; USCG Weather Ears to Our World Grove SPL01 splitter; Ham Broadcasts; HF Marine W1AW Winter Sked Monitoring Times 2011 Index AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Non-FCC Enforcement: Dozens Limits to Kids; TV Consolidating / Canadian Radio Future Uncertain of NYC Pirates noted Cashing Out Are We Watching HDTV Yet? MAY Shortwave: Radio Nord Revival Public Service: PA Town Wary Whatever Happened to 3DTV? AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Last of Digital Upgrade; FL Paper PTC: More Profanity in Prime Chance to Log Canadian Analog Decries “No-Bid” Contract Time OTA TV Technology: Georgia Tech Satellite: C-Band Programming Public Service: NYPD Radio Engineers find “Free” Energy; Ends (Almost) Still Not Tunnel-ready; TIS May LightSquared/GPS Interference AGs Looking at XM/Sirius Get New Life; National EAS Test Shambles; JetBlue to offer Small Dish Victory over HOA Satellite: Russia Space LiveTV on Overseas Flights FCC Enforcement: Verizon Shambles; U.S. Space FCC Enforcement: Fined $25 Million for “Mystery Shambles; Georgia Readies Sat- Minnesotans Cited for Pirate AM Fees” Tax Violations; Nevada FM Pirate FCC Gets Picky FCC Enforcement: Miami FM cited for QRO GPS Gaffes Pirate Fines $20K; QRO and OCT Amateur Radio/Shortwave: FEB Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Wrong Antenna - $13K; CB Op ARISSat1: Intro into Amateur Radio Marti Tries Chat Show Thumbs Nose at FCC Satellite; BBG Still Making Approach; Shortwave Loses Four JUN Amateur/Shortwave: Hams Waves; RTI’s New English More React to Japan Quake; JJY Time Website AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Station Forced to Close Down; AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Arbitron: Radio Usage Up; NIST Fumbles ARRA Bucks NY State Outlaws Radio Piracy; College Radio Slumps AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Translator Shenanigans; FCC Internet/Smartphones: Fears of Motley Fool: Radio is Dead; Strikes down HOA Rules (Again); Cell Network Collapse; FCC Lays Thieves hit KSL Xmtr Site; Canadian DTV Déjà Vu Out Spectrum Changes; Former FCC Chair Heads Big Technology: CD Disappears Companies Team-Up for Mobile Cable from Ford Dash; Navy vs Garage TV Satellite: Stern Unhappy, Sues Doors; 5 GHz Devices Causing Satellites: Russia Glonass GPS Sirus/XM; Sat-TV Customers Radar Headaches Disaster; Sirius Listeners Gripe to BBB FCC Enforcement: The Crystal Sentenced to 5 More Years; Public Service: JFK Dead Zone Ship Sinks; Couple Blames Spooky X-37B Returns; Rooftop for NYPA Police; Oregon Friend for FM Pirate Station Antennas to Determine Eligibility Rethinks Radio System NOV Amateur Radio/Shortwave: FCC Enforcement: Church FCC Enforcement: Station Fined Hams React to Irene; Scientists Station without Staff: $10,000; for Airing Ads as News; FCC “Hear” Sunspots Chinese Co. Cited for Cell- Throws Book at Cal Pirate; More AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: FCC Jamming Gear; Station Fined for FM Pirates Rounded Up; Science Lops Off Channel 51; CCTV not Reducing Power Teacher’s Revenge Backfires; Goes 24/7 in D.C.; Are You ready MAR Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Finally, Relief from Interference for a New TV Standard? New Amateur Radio Bill JUL Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Public Service Radio: Oakland Introduced; K1MAN Ticket Deutsche Welle Announces Police Radio Problems; Piggy- Referred to Judge Major SW Reduction; Hell Host backing on Motorola System AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: LPFM Ham Program on TWIT; Radio Satellite: DISH, DirecTV Lay Bill Now Law; FCC to Move on Nord Continues MW & SW Tests; Their Bets; Space Debris = OTA DX Partyline Ends “Collision Cascade” Satellite: DirecTV Fined Millions Public Service: Paper Asks PA FCC Enforcement: $25,000 for in marketing Missteps; OH Top to “Pull Plug” on P25 Network Interference on Police Court: Tax the Dishes; DISH AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: FCC Frequency; QRO FM, Two AM Raises Rates (Again); “Zombie- Tallies Broadcast Stations; FCC Pirates Tagged Sat” G15 Recovered Commissioner Cashes Out DEC Amateur Radio/Shortwave: FCC Enforcement: FCC Rounds Satellite: XM/Sirius Adds League Touts Ham Benefits to up the usual CB Suspects; Cell Diversity Channels - Plans Fee White House; HFCC Bets on a Jammer Found at High School Hike Multi-Platform Future; European APR Amateur Radio/Shortwave: FCC Enforcement: FM Pirate Conference Highlights DRM; BBC Budgets Slashed (Again); Busts Galore; Ham Fined for Trans World Radio’s Big New Long-time HCJB Host/Engineer Freeband Operations; Seattle Signal’ Radio/TV Marti Texting Dies Man Charged with Fake Distress Cubans Public Service: Motorola System Calls; WEAK Radio Disappears AM/FM/TV/Satellite “In Shambles;” Open Sky has AUG Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Broadcasting: Radiolab Host is Political Repercussions; Oakland Commando Solo on HF over MacArthur Fellow; FEMA/FCC PD Radio Frustrations; There’s Libya; BBG to “Sunset” Tips on EMCOM; Supreme Court an (Illegal) App for That Shortwave; RNW Budget may look at State Dish Taxes; AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: NY Slashed (Again) FCC to LightSquared: Not so Bill Targets Radio Pirate; Dim- AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Cord- Fast!: witted Thieves Steal FM Station Cutters Growing/Shrinking?; Public Service Radio: Chicago’s Satellite: FCC: Ground-based States Gunning for Big Bird; $23 Million Radio Flop; Bus Sirius/XM in Hawaii OK’ PBS-TV Stations Cashing Out Drivers Clog Motorola System Sirius/XM Seeks Price Hike OK FCC Enforcement: CB Shop FCC Enforcement: Jammer Internet Communications: Cited for Amps and Mods; Beauty Sellers Jammed; FCC Lowers 2 Egypt Unrest & Communications School Cited for Jamming Fines, Increases 1; Jamming Questions SEP Amateur Radio/Shortwave: marine Channel 16: $17,000 FCC Enforcement: Non- BBC Cuts Offer Poor Trade-off; coordinated Repeater Op Cited; Push to Save RNW COMPUTERS & RADIO (Brian Wood) More CB Busts AM/FM/TV/Cable: LPFM Window JAN The Search for Extraterrestrial to Re-Open; FCC Looks at Ad Intelligence

Monitoring Times 2011 Index APR Write Your Own Logging Channels; EPA Radio Channels; DXing; Attached to the Loop; Program Olympic National Forest; Mt. Shortwave Pirate Monitoring; CRI JUL DXLab Suite Software (Guest Rainer Update Strikes Again Reviewer Rick Kile, WA7BNG) SEP The Federal Integrated Wireless SEP Want a Truly EZ-up Antenna? Try OCT Shortwave Listening in Your Car Network; Mt. Baker Snoqualmle a 20 Foot Extension Ladder! national Forest Radio System; Preparing for Everyday DIGITAL DIGEST (Mike Chace) Umatilla National Forest; Mt. Emergencies JAN Digital Modes on the Air; Hood & GPNF UHF Links Update OCT Radio Listening in a non-FiOS Decoding Targets: CW Stations - NOV 2011 Fed Files Wrap Up: P25 Home Russian Intel Numbers Stations, Security Called into Question; NOV Low Profile TV Antennas and PC Cuban Intel Numbers Stations, Presidential Travels; Federal to TV; Amplified Indoor Antennas Russian Naval Warships and IWN Expansion Continues; that Work; Phillips SDV2940 Bases, Baudot RTTY Stations – Montana BLM and BIA Amplified TV Antennas; German Weather Service, Frequencies; North Central Winegard SquareShooter CanForce Halifax, French Air Colorado USFS Radio Systems SS2000; NetGear’s PC to TV Force, NATO Lisbon, Brazilian Solution; The Limits of Navy; ASCII Stations – Bulgarian FIRST LOOK/MT REVIEWS “Unlimited” Diplo Service; Mil-188-141 ALE JAN The Amazing Little C. Crane WiFi DEC Squeezebox Q&A and FiOS FEB UK Mil Ops and UnID “ECO” Net; Radio (Loyd Van Horn) QRM; CBS Radio Disappears; Bulgarian Diplomatic Service FEB GRE PSR-700 (Bob Grove); FiOS Headaches MAR East Digital Listening – SITOR-A, SafeCeiver Mini-Scanner (Bob SITOR-B, PacTOR-I/II/III. Grove) GLOBAL NET (Loyd Van Horn) APR Egyptian Diplomatic Service HF MAR Alinco DJ-11T Wide Frequency JAN What’s Next for Internet Radio?; Ops; One US Mystery Net Coverage Scanning Receiver Pandora Targets Drivetime; One- Solved; Update on the ECO ALE (Bob Grove) Stop Shop for Audio; Streaming Network APR GRE PSR-800 Review (Bob Audio on Your Mac; Build the MAY Bits and Pieces: RTTY “in the Grove) Next Streaming App; GlobalNet clear”?; French Forces ARQ-E3 MAY Going QRP with an SDR – the Mailbag Transmissions; Dominican Navy; FLEX-1500 HF+6 Part 1 (Kirk FEB Doing it for the Troops; IOS Bulgarian Diplomatic Service; Kleinschmidt) Radio Apps Reviewed; GlobalNet Sudanese Diplomatic Service; JUN FLEX-1500 SDR Transceiver Goes Social Possible French Diplomatic Net Review Part 2 (Kirk MAR The Sounds of the Skies, Online; JUN Update on Codan Network: Kleinschmidt) Eyes and Ears on the Sky; United Maltese Forces Maritime Service; JUL DXLab Suite Software (Guest in the Search for Streams; Toyota Unid Codan Network; Moroccan Reviewer Rick Kile, WA7BNG); puts Pandora in their Cars; MOI Codan Network; ECO Net DPD Productions ADS-B Vertical GlobalNet Mailbag; GlobalNet Solved; UK Mil MATELO Returns Antenna (Larry Van Horn); MFJ- Stream of the Month; GlobalNet JUL Mauritanian Police and other 260C 300 Watt Wideband goes Interactive Oddities; French Air Force ALE; Dummy Load (Bob Grove); APR The Digital Voice of the People The Strange Case of the Midnight Science Ultrasonic Dish Aljazeera; The Great Mobile Sudanese Diplomatic Service (Bob Grove); MFJ Lapel-Style Push; Reciva Remote App; Blog AUG Russian Diplomatic Traffic; SPO Speaker/Microphone (Bob Grove) and Podcast Update and friends: Another Mystery AUG Apple TV – Let it change your life MAY Tweak, Pops and Chirps . . . SEP Another Mystery PacTOR (Loyd Van Horn) Online: Jovian Storm Chasing, Network; Update on US NS/EP SEP MFJ-886 Pocket-size Frequency It’s Raining Meteors, Pulsars, ALE Network; US Navy Fleet Counter (Bob Grove); MFJ-266 black holes and sferics, oh my!; Broadcast Update; Canadian Antenna Analyzer (Bob Grove) The broader picture – radio Forces Using STANAG 4825 OCT The Poor Man Investigates . . . astronomy; GlobalNet Mailbag OCT Automatic Link Establishment: the World’s Worst World JUN Breaking News, Online; More Three Letter Net Receiver? (Eric Bryan) Streaming Radio – Voice of the Developments; PacTOR-IV is NOV Sangean ATS-909X Multiband People; Streaming Receivers: It’s Here! Portable Radio (Bob Grove); like you’re there; Scenes from the NOV New Digital Signals: New 4 Tome JetStream JTPS31MB Power Scene Modem’ Finnish Diplo Service Supply (Bob Grove); Jetstream JUL Tracking the Tropics Goes Returns to HF; Sudanese JTPS28 13.8 VDC PS (Bob Digital; Getting storm data – Diplomatic Update Grove) Where is the action?’ The sounds DEC Ecuador’s Naval HF Network; DEC WiNRADIO G33DDC Excalibur of storm; Nonbroadcast Sources; Australian Mil Follow-Up Pro (Bob Grove) Internet Radio Changes AUG Sunshine Radio: Hot Florida THE FED FILES (Chris Parris) (odd GETTING STARTED (Ken Reitz) Action; A smartphone isn’t a months) JAN Beginner HF Protocol Part III: scanner, right?; Is a smartphone JAN 2011 Fed Files New Year; CBP QSL those Contacts the new walkman? Office of Air and Marine; Federal FEB Cord-Cutter’s Primer (Ditching SEP You Can Take it with You: Close-Up – Mt. Hood National Cable and Satellite TV) Internet radio’s great mobile push Forest; Charlotte, NC Federal MAR Whatever Happened to TVRO? OCT The Great Shortwave Migration – Frequencies APR Return of the Portable TV Shortwave still surfing online; MAR TSA Expands Its Reach; Gifford MAY The Joys of Ten (10-meter ham Survey says . . .; Sirus 2.0 – Pinchot National Forest; CBP band profile) What it means for Internet radio Border Patrol in Arizona; Super JUN Loop Your Way to HF DX NOV Clearing out the GN Mailbag: Bowl XLV Success Aero Listening; Apps for MAY Scanning Super Bowl XLV; New JUL Mobile Shortwave Listening Computers; ooTunes; Ear on Nationwide ICE Channels; Mt. Alternatives - Old and Current Florida Weather; News Flash Rainer National Park. Mobile Alternatives concerning Flash; New Airplay JUL Final Four Federal Activities; AUG Postscripts and Addenda: Devices Hit the Market Department of Energy Radio Sirius/XM Settles Lawsuit; TV/FM Monitoring Times 2011 Index DEC 2011 – A Banner year for Internet ON THE BENCH the Brave, Live and On demand, Radio; Smartphones and In-Car JAN Budget DX Crystal Radio, Podcasts, the Scottish Diaspora, Systems; Coming up in 2012; Conclusion Components and Rocky Fortune, What’s New. The Tides are Turning; DX Construction (Dave Schmarder) FEB Cold Wings and Warm Sounds: Challenge or Content? FEB How to Cook a Duck (Device Cuba, Gabon, Nigeria, South Under Caloric Kinesis) (Walter Africa, Australia, New Zealand; MILCOM (Larry Van Horn) Lindenbach) Hail, Fenwick; What’s New – JAN Monitoring the Air Route Traffic MAR Salvaging California Amplifier Voice of Russia; Programming Control Centers; ARTCC Update; Downconverters for Satellite Advance Notice. Atlanta ARTCC RCAG Usage (John M. Franke) MAR March Delight; the Migration to Frequency List APR Cheap DIY Solar Power for your the Internet; Rest in Peace, Carl FEB HFGCS – Always Ready . . . Radio (Ben Jandrell) Watts; The Story of Pop; Hits in Always On! USAF AMC Global – JUN Building a Simple Ham Radio Germany; The New Capitalists; Global Command Net, Global Project (Dave Schmarder, N2DS) Food, Glorious Food; ALE/DSN Gateway Net, Global JUL Those Weird Noises on 1090 Programming Advance Notice Black or NIPRnet, Global Red or MHz (Larry Van Horn) APR China Radio International; Radio SIPRnet, Mystic Star Net, AUG Mode-S – IFF for the 21st Century Exterior de Espana English; SITFAA, DCS HF Entry Net (Larry Van Horn) Speaking of Larry Wayne . . .; MAR Monitoring the Air Show SEP Mode-S and the Message Russian-language Programming; Experience – Equipment and Squitters (Larry Van Horn) Mmmmm, Leftovers; Radio Tips; DoD VHF High Band – The OCT The Future is Now for Mode-S Netherlands Program Guide Hidden Aircraft Band Monitors (Larry Van Horn) MAY Radio in Times of Crisis; Radio APR On Base Air Show Coverage NOV Handy Video Tuning Tool: Your Prague; Radio Slovakia Charleston AFB/International SC; Wireless Camera (Mario Filippi, International; Swedish Radio Seymour Johnson AFB NC; N2HUN); VHF Audio/Video International; HCJB; Beale AFB CA; NAS Corpus Transmitter (Raj. K. Gorkhali – Recommended Listening; What’s Christi TX; JRB/NAS Fort Worth Hetauda, Nepal) New? TX; MCAS Beaufort SC; Civil Air DEC Restoring the Knight Star JUN I Love It When You Talk Nerdy; Patrol Reorganizing HF ALE; Roamer (Mark Haverstock, News You Can Use; What’s New Kentucky CAP Call Signs K8MSH) JUL Change is in (and on) the Air; MAY CAP Sprouting Up Regional Talking to (and about) Nets; Milcom Air Show Military ON THE HAM BANDS (Kirk Americans; How Important is Base Profiles: Andrews AFB, Kleinschmidt) radio?; Recommended Listening NAS Pensacola, NAS Whiting JAN Paradigm Shift; Visual Aids – – Desert Island Discs Field, NAS/JRB New Orleans, Then and Now AUG Take Me Out to the Ballgame; Langley AFB; US Army MARS FEB The Right Antenna Tuner for the Classic Comedy and New ALE Going Regional Job; One Size Doesn’t Fit All; Laughs; Pirate Radio Ship JUN Something New in Monitoring The truth About Tuners; Tuner Nostalgia Military: Mode-S/ADS-B Efficiency SEP Around the World in 80 Introduction MAR Coaxial Confessions; Armchairs; Milestones and JUL Australian Military HF Network HAM2011.03.4 K4AVU2 Crimper Memorable Moments Complete; New HF APR One Loop to Rule Them All; OCT Don’t Look Over Your Shoulder . Military/Government Nets: Horizontal Loops=Superior . .; Halloween Programming; The Lithuanian Military, Maritime SWLing; The Source of My Anachronistic and Unusual; Services of the Armed Forces of Loopiness; Building Horizontal Spotlight on the Economy Malta, US Army NG 875th Eng Loops is Easy! NOV New Programs and News Battalion/43rd WMD-CST, US MAY Horizontal Loops – The Sequel Programs: New Flags Flying; Old Coast Guard Auxiliary, US JUN Portable Power for Field Day and Time Radio Shows; More Government Networks (Agencies More! Unusual Programming; News at it Unknown); CAP Regional Nets; JUL Affordable High-Tech Test Happens, Sort of . . . Military Frequency Changes; Equipment; Q&As: Antenna DEC My Favorite Season in Radio: Milcom Air Show Base Profile: Tuners; Q&As: Loop Antennas Seasonal Fare; Internet-Based Travis AFB AUG Six Meter: Stealth, QRP and Radio Stations; The New Year AUG Navy Training Wing Update; Newbie Friendly! Arrives; What’s New Milair Frequency Updates; New SEP The Magic Band: More Pacific Metro Frequency; Mysterious Than Ever! QSL REPORT (Gayle Van Horn) CanForce HF NAWS Mode OCT The Old-School Performance of JAN QSLing Comes to your Change; Coast Guard Air Miami Open-Wire Line Smartphone Bids Farewell to the Jet Age NOV The Right Rotator for the Job: FEB QSL Mix-Alot, Part 1 SEP Monitoring the Military on The Basics, Installation Types, MAR QSL Mix-Alot, Part 2 COTHEN plus a Milcom Extra: Performance Specifications; APR Old Favorites Still Active! US Customs and Border Control Boxes and Accessories, MAY Special Event QSLing in Amateur Protection Air and Marine Branch Rotator Secrets Radio Aircraft Assets List DEC Anniversaries, Interference and JUN Radio Free Asia 15th Anniversary OCT Base Profile: Columbus AFB, Spicy Coax: Ubiquitous JUL Firecracker Special 2011 Mississippi; Civil Air Patrol Interference; Who’s responsible AUG Palace and Lighhouse QSLing Repeaters: California and Texas for interference?; Clean up your SEP Ready for the medium wave NOV A Profile of Edwards AFB – own act; transmitter-related RFI; season? Aircraft from Concept to Combat RFI: A Guaranteed Eventuality; OCT Chainsaws, Ouija Board and DEC Is the HF Radio Spectrum Really Squirrel Chews From KK Morak (Pirate Radio) Dead? A Special Radio NOV New Stations, New Website, New Frequency List for the Holidays: PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT (Fred QSLs US Government/Military HF Waterer) DEC Holidays and QSLing Freqs JAN Programs to Warm Your Heart: Orthodox Christmas, Scotland Monitoring Times 2011 Index RADIO RESTORATIONS (Marc Ellis) Constitutional Issues, Practical TO THE EDITORS (Rachel Baughn) JAN A Philco and Magnavox Joint Issues, Cracking Keys, Key JAN A New face for the Ham Bands; Restoration Management Antenna Buyers Guide No FEB A Face Lift for the Philco; An DEC Scanning through the Decades: Service; Cannabis or Can ‘a Alignment for the Majestic From Crystals to Synthesis Worms? MAR Reader Mail and More Philco FEB More Power to You; Digging for Progress SHORTWAVE GUIDE (Gayle Van Horn) Discones; Old Times Radios; APR Realigning a Superhet JAN English (24 hours); German Antique Radio Classified May The Philco’s Voice is Heard 1800-2300 UTC; Arabic 0000- MAR MT Welcomes New Writers: Stan JUN Wrapping up the Philco Project 1900 UTC Nelson, KB5VL and Kent Britain, JUL The BC-1206-C Beacon Receiver FEB English (24 hours); Arabic 2000- WA5VJB; Thanks, MT! AUG Power for the BC-1206-C; The 2300 UTC; Chinese 0000-1000 Shortwave on Facebook? AWA Gateway; Coming Soon: UTC Shortwave on Streaming Audio; the Annual AWA Convention MAR English (24 hours); Chinese Internet Radios SEP Firing Up the BC-1206-C 0600-2300 UTC APR The Lighter Side of Radio; OCT Introducing a New Project; APR English (24 hours); Spanish Iceland vs Greenland; Grundig Resurrecting a Garage Sale Find; 0000-0800 750 Critique; Three Questions for Unfinished Business; Meissner MAY English (24 hours) Mike (Frye) Kits; The Broadcast 7 JUN English (24 hours); Spanish MAY Milcom Blog Hits the Bigtime; NOV Addressing the Meissner Mystery 0900-1700 Help Preserve Ute History; Cook DEC Picking Up the Thread: Tube JUL English (24 hours); Spanish a DUCK; Mast Material; MT at 30 Checking and Recapping; Smoke 1700-2300 Years Testing; A Voice from the AUG English (24 hours); Portuguese JUN A Window to the World; Free to Speaker; From the Readers 0000-0900 Air; Additions and Corrections SEP English (24 hours); Portuguese AUG Digital TV Audio?; China and SCANNING REPORT (Dan Veeneman) 0900-1300 Russia; One More Museum JAN Dragged Into the Digital Age: OCT English (24 hours); Portuguese SEP Tell US About You; More Itasca County, Minnesota 1300-2200 Museums; Robert Arnold Coburn FEB Operating the Pro-106/PSR-500; NOV English (24 hours); Portuguese (SK) plus the MT 2011 Reader Minden Parish, Louisiana; 2300-2359; French (24 hours), Survey (Page 5) Louisiana Wireless Information Arabic (0000-0800) OCT Pizza Pan Antennas? More on Network; Radio Shack Pro-106; DEC English (24 hours); Arabic (24 Mobile Shortwave; Farewell to VIPER Clarification – Smartzone hours) Friends (SK): Nada Byers (Grove and Roaming Employee) and Dr. Bruce Elving. MAR Easing In and Out of EDACS; SKY SURFING (Hamsats-Keith Baker / NOV Aircraft Receiver Project; Kudos Mobile, Alabama profile; Radio Astronomy – Stan to MT; Even More on Disc OpenSky Closes Out Public – Nelson) Antennas; Soldering to Stueben County, Indiana FEB HAMSATS: Get Ready for Aluminum?; Digital TV DXing; APR Scanning in the Heartland – ARISSat-1! Apocalypse Now?? Lincoln, Nebraska; Omaha, MAR RADIO ASTRONOMY: Listen Up, DEC Bell+Howell Loggings; Memories Nebraska; Clay County, Sky Surfers! of Radio; Front Row Seat; Minnesota; Fargo-Moorhead MAY HAMSATS: Manned Space and Pictures from Space; Ham App; Services; ARMER Amateur Radio Sangean DAR-101 Review; MT MAY Finding Elusive Public Safety JUN RADIO ASTRONOMY: ACARS; Corrections Frequencies: Idaho; Dayton Satellite Monitoring; Inexpensive Hamvention 12 GHz Radio Telescope; Radio UTILITY WORLD (Hugh Stegman) JUN Steps in the Wrong Direction: Free Zones; Society of Amateur JAN Canadian Navy Closes CFH Kansas; Steuben County, Radio Astronomers (SARA); WEFAX/RTTY; North Atlantic Ice Indiana; Decoding APCO-25 Radio Astronomy at the Movies Season Begins. Encryption – Not! AUG HAMSAT: Spotlight on the FEB What’s Up with Solar Cycle 24? JUL Selecting a Scanner for Japanese Amateur Radio WebSDR Update; Thailand Syracuse; Eliminating Satellites; AO-51 Also Ailing; Radiofax Lives! Programming; Batteries; Stands; ARISSat-1 Update MAR HF Aero Mobile: A Breathless Onandaga County, New York; SEP RADIO ASTRONOMY: Sudden Introduction – MWARA, RDARA, Dispatch Codes Ionosphere Disturbances: RAS LDOC and Volmet; We’re on AUG The Open Sky Misnomer; Palm 40 kHz VLF Radio Telescope; An Twitter Beach County, Florida; West Inexpensive VLF Receiver; APR The World’s Most Accurate HF Palm Beach, Florida; Testing Another way to measure a SID?; Radiofax List; CanForce Halifax Open Sky; West Palm Beach A Dual Jove Receiver Simple Corrections; FEMA Update Motorola System; Kanawha Interferometer; Radar shoots MAY 2011: Sunspots, Trouble Spots County, West Virginia; West down UFOs during WWII?; and Radio: Libya, Egypt, CW is Virginia Interoperability Radio Visiting NRAO’s EVLA – Part 1; Alive #1 and #2 Project (WVIRP) Radio Astronomy in the Movies JUN E10: Israeli “Numbers” SEP Keeping Up with Upgrades: NOV HAMSATS: Spotlight on AMSAT- Broadcasters Gone!; Chinese Huntington, WV; USB Cables; OSCAR 7; ARISSAT-1 Update Strangeness; Vietnam Back? Pro-106 Firmware; Scanner DEC RADIO ASTRONOMY: Visiting Libya Update; Chilean Early Software; West Virginia NRAO’s EVLA – Part 2; Warning Center; Japan Update; Interoperability Project; Verbal Observing the Sun’s Radio Russian Military Shorthand; Derry, New Spectrim; SDR-14 in Operation; JUL Recent Short Wave Military Hampshire National Radio Astronomy Activity; End of WWV GeoAlert OCT Security Problems with Project 25 Observatory; RAS-VLF-1; Radio AUG More Changes at CFH; Arcane NOV The Truth about Encryption: Astronomy in the Movies Military Transmissions?; Finding Washington DC, Jacksonville FL; STANAG 4285; Decoding Media Relations, Impacts to the STANAG 4285 Community, Related Monitoring Times 2011 Index SEP In Search of UVB-76; WWV Geoalert Lives! ONEMI Update; CFH Update; EN875TOC Update OCT It’s Halloween: October “Numbers” Survey; Still Stalking ONEMI; Meet PacTOR IV NOV WLO Begins Public RTTY Broadcasting; Vietnam Mystery Deepens; Hurricane Frequency List? DEC Here Comes the Sun: HF is Back!

WHAT'S NEW (Larry Van Horn)

Books, CDs JAN The 2011 ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications; ARRL Guide to Antenna Tuners FEB 2011/2012 Guide to Utility Radio Stations (Bob Grove); Scanner Digest e-zine MAR Klingenfuss 2011 Shortwave Frequency Guide (Gayle Van Horn); 2011 World Radio TV Handbook (Gayle Van Horn) APR WRTH Bargraph CD Now Available; Hitter’s Radio War MAY New edition of Low-band DXing (ARRL pub); ARRL License Manuals Revised; Police Traffic SPEED RADAR Handbook JUL ARRL Repeater Directory; Domestic Broadcasting Survey 13 OCT Is My Cell Phone Bugged? 2011 Pirate Radio Annual NOV New Dictionary for Hams; NRC AM Radio Log; ARRL’s Small Antennas for Small Spaces; Tower Site Calendar 2012 Celebrates 90 years of Radio DEC The Worldwide Listening Guide

Equipment JAN Microham Digikey II Digital Mode Interface AUG Elecraft KX-3; MFJ-9200 six band QRP transceiver; WinRadio WR-G33DDC; Hygain SPT-500; MFJ-2299 20-meter antenna OCT Bonito IF-Receiver Radiojet 1102S Debuts in Europe DEC New Comet Antenna Analyzer; SolderBuddy® Hobbyist HAM™; West Mountain Radio Rigblaster Advantage

Internet/SmartPhone Apps JUN Aircraft and Ship tracking Go High Tech: Plane Finder/Ship Finder (Pinkfroot)

Software APR New JT65A Ham Software AUG AirNav Live Flight Tracker-8 Released; SSB Electronics Perseus SDR software engine V4.0a; New Icom receiver Software Update Released SEP HomePatrol-1 The New Extreme Version DEC DXtreme Station Log – Multimedia

Monitoring Times 2011 Index