Monitoring Times 2010 Index

FEATURES WBCQ Radio DEC The 11th Annual MT Air Show Guide Obsessed By Time and Shortwave MAR Amateur Radio Radio: Myke Dodge Weiskopf FEB MURS: America’s Hidden Citizen Amateur Radio and Education in Radio Dreams of a Lifetime: Band FEB America SEP Jack K. Neal, W8AQ AUG Amateur Radio Weather Watchers: SW Radio from Both Sides of the Shortwave A National Public Service APR Microphone: Jeff White, Founder An Easy to Build All-Band Loop An Easy to Build All-Band Loop and General Manager of WRMI Antenna OCT Antenna OCT Radio Miami International JUN Chasing DRM: the Elusive Dream Build Your Own 10 Meter Beacon The Thrill of Shortwave Broadcasting: of Digital Audio via Shortwave APR Station MAY Md. Azizul Alam Al-Amin JAN DRM Alternatives: Icom PCR-1000 Hamming it up on the Appalachian APR Trail JUN HF Utility DXing My (mis) Adventures with DIY DRM MARS Operators in Haiti: Providing An Easy to Build All-Band Loop Z (or) Why is My an Essential Communications Link Antenna OCT Hissing at Me? APR MAY For Your Eyes Only: Monitoring Sunspot Cycle 24 Exists! MAY The LBJ High School Experience SEP Secrets of the DX Pros SEP Ten-Tec 1253: A Great First Radio Working Your First Amateur Radio Project OCT Satellite: It’s easier than you think! JAN Nostalgia/Human Interest Whatever Happened to the Wireless? Amateur Radio and Education in The 2010-2011 Shortwave DX Broadcasting America SEP Season OCT An Easy to Build All-Band Loop For Your Eyes Only: Monitoring Antenna OCT Secrets of the DX Pros SEP Technical Chasing DRM: the Elusive Dream Grandpa Walter’s Scott Memories A Growing Interest in 2.650 MHz NOV of Digital Audio via Shortwave APR and Recollections of a Classic All About Antennas (Part 1) APR DRM Alternatives: Icom PCR-1000 1930s Radio Receiver DEC All About Antennas (Part 2) MAY APR Hamming it up on the Appalachian All About Antennas (Part 3) JUN DXing the Medium Waves with a Trail JUN All About Antennas (Part 4) JUL DIY Loop SEP Military Communications & Electronics All About Antennas (Part 5) AUG Inside the Low Power FM Movement Museum JUN An Easy to Build All-Band Loop NOV Nashville Radio and the Great Flood Antenna OCT More AM DX Antennas SEP of 2010 JUL Build Your Own 10 Meter Beacon My (mis) Adventures with DIY DRM Radio Museums in North America Station MAY (or) Why is My Shortwave Radio JUN DXing the Medium Waves with a Hissing at Me? APR The Evolution of a Revolution: A DIY Loop SEP Nashville Radio and the Great Flood History of the Radio Club of America DXing with Small Homemade of 2010 JUL AUG Radios FEB Nebraska Educational Television JAN The Friendly Giant: KAAY, Little More AM DX Antennas SEP Radio Pirates: The Intriguing World Rock, Arkansas FEB Restoring Vintage Broadcast and of Unlicensed Broadcasting JUL The LBJ High School Experience SEP Shortwave Sets JUL Ten-Tec 1253: A Great First Radio Those Wonderful Vintage Radio Sunspot Cycle 24 Exists! MAY Project OCT Dials DEC T.C.A.S. Technology: A low-cost, The Friendly Giant: KAAY, Little Ultra Shortwave America’s Apex no-license, communications method Rock, Arkansas FEB Broadcast Stations of the 1930s DEC revisited APR The Problem Isn’t Demand, It’s Ten-Tec 1253: A Great First Radio Bandwidth JAN Propagation Project OCT TV DX: Better Than Ever AUG A New Eye on the Sun NOV Working Your First Amateur Radio Whatever Happened to the Wireless? Sunspot Cycle 24 Exists! MAY Satellite - It’s easier than you The 2010-2011 Shortwave DX TV DX: Better Than Ever AUG think! JAN Season OCT Winter Shortwave Propagation Outlook: The Sensational vs the First Person Radio Real Story NOV 2011 RADIO BUYERS GUIDE

Amateurs Can Be Professional: (16 Page Special in the November MT) Satellites Ott Fiebel, W4WSR JUL A New Eye on the Sun NOV A Most Unlikely Radio Career: ● Buying Radios for Amateur Satellites Working Your First Amateur Radio Keith Perron OCT By Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF Satellite: It’s easier than you think! CQ at 51,000 Feet and Mach .85: ● MT’s Antenna Roundup JAN Rick Dougherty, NQ4I MAR By Bob Grove, W8JHD

Crystal Set Leads to Lifelong Hobby ● MT’s Guide to Buying a Scanner and Career: Maury Midlo APR Scanning: By Larry Van Horn, N5FPW If You’re Old Enough to Read, You’re Amateur Radio Weather Watchers: ● MT’s Guide to Buying a Transceiver Old Enough to Get Your License: A National Public Service APR By Kirk A. Kleinschmidt, NT0Z Mattie Clauson, AE7MC MAY Beginner’s Guide to Monitoring the ● Personal Radios: CB, FRS/GMRS Life’s Been Good to WB6ACU: Air Band MAR By Ken Reitz, KS4ZR Joe Walsh, WB6ACU NOV For Your Eyes Only: Monitoring ● What to Look for in Portable Shortwave My Half-Century in Radio: Secrets of the DX Pros SEP Receivers By Ken Reitz, KS4ZR Ron Walsh, VE3GO SEP Monitoring the Air Show Experience: Equipment and Prices MAR My Lifelong Fight for Free Speech Radio: Allan Weiner, General Manager Monitoring the Air Show Experience: Monitoring Times 2010 Index

Voltage regulators to protect Filter; 20-meters vs 40-meters REGULAR COLUMNS computer equipment; Required reception distance. SATCOM equipment on ocean OCT AM broadcast harmonics; BROADCAST BANDSCAN going ships. Identifying interference on a (Doug Smith) (Even months) FEB Small dish satellite signals scanner; CO2 alarm triggered by FEB Twenty Years of DX; IBOC interrupted by bad weather; Is 12 ham radio signals; Switching Power Increase; Trans-Pacific volts enough to cause pain?; Roll power supply interference; Litz from the “Wrong” Coast; Analog up loose cables to act as wire; A nanofarad is a what? TV: Dead.Finally; Canadian electrical interference chokes; NOV Armed Forces Radio on SW; Notes; Letters; AM Bandscan Antenna U-clamps larger than 2- Horizontal Antenna Ground Gain; Report. 1/8 inches; Orientation of VHF Rapid signal flutter on HF; Siren APR Going, going, gone . . . (CBC AM boat antenna; Feds monitoring and Piccolo on Shortwave; P-25 stations leave the air); New AM cell phones; Grounding a and the Cops; Cops Above the Stations; New TV Stations; IBOC portable shortwave portable. Broadcast Band; Cell Fones and / HD Power Increase. MAR How did sunspots effect 1939- Metal Roofs; Fluorescent Light JUN Going, going, gone . . . (Part 2); 1945 comms; How should CDs Interference; The Shaking TV Odds & Ends; FM & TV skip and DVDs be stored; Computing Flashlight. season; Letters from Listeners. antenna length and feed line DEC Shortwave radio audio on a AUG With Lots of Watts; Gone or impedance; Are foreign imported laptop; VOA on Shortwave; D- Maybe Not; Interesting Antenna; scanners now legal in the US?; Star comms called skip; VLF The Nashville Flood; Letters from Can I combine two Grove antenna to comm with subs; Listeners; You’ll never know what FlexTennas?; The ban on Antenna spacing to reduce you’ll find at a Hamfest; AM incandescent lamps in 2012. interaction; Wire antenna coax Bandscan Station Report. APR GSM in the U.S.; Why is there a placement; “Superheterodyne” OCT What is the Future for AM? highly-conductive, metal shield receiver characteristics. Disappearing Stations and a on a cell phone board?; Front- Publication. end overload on a YB-550 and a BEGINNER'S CORNER DEC On the Tube: New Jersey & 30-ft wire antenna; Who makes “Getting Started” (Ken Reitz) Delaware; Analog Drop-Dead GMRS SSB radios?; What JAN Shortwave Listening and Art: Date; Unique AM Station to causes signal variations on my Audio Music History; The Artistic Close; “Un-disappearing” Station; shortwave portable as I walk?; Ear of Myke Weiskopf; DIY Letters; Strange ID; New DX Can I use a wooden ceiling beam Transmission ART. Publications; Bandscan Station for a HF antennas? FEB Pansat 9200HD: Keeping Up with Report. MAY Electrical noise on a shortwave FTA Satellite Changes (Satellite portable; Why no HF ham walkie- Monitoring) ANTENNA TOPICS talkies; Uniden BCT-8 a good MAR International TV and Radio JAN You’re Using What for an scanner and can I use a wire for Reception via MPEGII FTA Antenna?: The Tuner’s the trick; an antenna; What is geothermal Satellite Receiver (Satellite Hiding the Evidence; Antennas in energy; Does the law of Monitoring) the Gutter; Go Ahead and Try It!; diminishing returns apply to APR Your Antenna is Up: Now What? Grounding Option. (Dan Farber) antennas; Antenna MAY OTA DTV Update and Finding FEB Stealth Antennas: Now You See recommendations for a wide Entertainment on Shortwave. IT, Now You Don’t. (Dan Farber) frequency coverage receiver. JUN Beginner’s Guide to Field Day. MAR Build this UHF Omni Satcom JUN No new channels added with JUL A Beginner’s Look at Shortwave Antenna (Part 1). (Mike Frye) digital TV; Signals get louder and Ham Antennas. APR The Humble Dipole. (Dan Farber) when I touch the case; Buying AUG Electronic Bargains and Pirate MAY How’s It Hangin? Erecting Wire WiFi for public safety and Radio Mania: IBM Computers Antennas. (Dan Farber) broadcast monitoring; Hose Cheap; C. Crane’s Big Savings; JUN Build this UHF Omni Satcom current raises worms; How to All Electronics Throwback Antenna: Conclusion. (Mike Frye) hear a distant FM next to a local; Savings; 2010 JUL Down to Earth Understanding What are these numbers I hear Annual. Grounding Concepts; AC/D/RF on shortwave? SEP Field Day 2010 Report and Ground. (Dan Farber) JUL Fractal Antenna Designs for radio Hooked on HF Pirates. AUG The Balcony Bent Dipole – hobbyists; Random Longwire OCT Buying Your First Shortwave Compact, Stealth, Amazing Directionality; Antenna on the Radio: What Not to Buy; OK, Performance . (Dan Farber) roof truss; Harmonics 101; What Do I Buy. SEP Antenna Designs for VHF, UHF Advantages of a passive NOV HF On-Air Protocol: What’s the and Microwave (W. Clem Small) multicoupler; Hearing birdies, Frequency? Net Operation; OCT Fun with Loops – Low-Frequency harmonics and IF’s; What is the Setting Up a Schedule; Working Listening Made Easy (Dan difference between magnetic and HF Repeaters. Farber) geo-magnetic poles? DEC Beginner HF Protocol Part II: NOV Stepping Up in the World: Ladder AUG July Column Correction; Test Chasing DX: Just what is DX; Line (Dan Farber) Prod in the AC Socket; Can a Habits of DX; How to work DX; DEC Military vs Consumer Vehicle Spark Occur in a Complete What’s the Frequency? Antenna Performance – Vaccum?; Radio Shack DX-398 Comparison Test. badly Distorted Audio; Two Radio BELOW 500 kHz (Kevin Carey) to One Antenna: switch or JAN Why Longwave?; Mailbag – splitter. Digital TV Picture th ASK BOB (Bob Grove) 1000 Beacon Logged; End Pixelates During Storms. JAN Free-to-Air on a WinRadio; New Notes. SEP Combining Scantenna and digital TV sets vulnerable to TVI; FEB Tuning in to Natural Radio: What cellular yagi antenna; Frequency Emails delayed; Uniden/GRE Can Your Hear; Receiving bands are UKW, KW, LW, MW; scanner sensitivity on railroad Equipment; Books and Wireless electricity; Improving freqs; Operating two scanners Publications for Natural Radio; AM DXing; FM Frequency Notch from one Grove scanner beam; Mailbag.

Monitoring Times 2010 Index MAR Detecting Sudden Ionospheric OCT BOATS: Southern Cross DX; AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: FCC Disturbances; Winter SWL Fest; Loran-C; Fall/Winter VHF Stalled on OTA Giveaway; LG Loggings; What the Others are Listening; Canadian Empress; Introduces Mobile DTV Receiver. Saying; New Book: Radio Nature; KSM in Danger. Public Service: FL Scanner SAQ (17.2 kHz) Broadcast; NOV PLANES: Aeronautical Listeners Being Shut Out; FCC: Loran-C Final QRT. Shortwave: Ionospheric No More 700 MHz Wireless Mics; APR Favorite Bookmarks; Not Propagation; Receivers; The HF Cell Phone Dummies on Parade. Online?; Longwave Websites; Aero Bands; MWARA: Areas, APR Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Loggings; The Future of Freqs, Communications; Chart BBG May Ax Greenville VOA Beacons. Info; ARINC; LDOC; SELCAL; Site; Radio New Zealand Budget MAY Mailbag and Loggings Galore!; VOLMET/Aviation Weather. Threats; Haiti Update; Party Like Active Antennas; Opening the DEC TRAINS: What a difference a It’s 1978. Mailbag – Mystery Beacon; St. year makes! Regulatory Issues; Pirate Radio: FCC Scuttles FM Lawrence Ice Breakers; 500 kHz Speaking of the AAR; Elections; Pirates; Olympics Pirate Closed Puzzler; Intercepts. Back to Basics. in Record Time; Former FM JUN Broadband Loops: Let’s Build Pirates Go Legal. One!; Loggings; Mailbag. COMMUNICATIONS (Ken Reitz) Public Service: IL Bill Seeks to JUL Broadband Loop (Part 2); JAN Amateur Radio/Shortwave: CA Curb Scanner Retrans; Scanner Loggings. Hams Aid in Rescue; WWCR Listener Saves Life. AUG Broadband Loop (Part 3) ; Programs Linked to AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: FCC Loggings. Investigations. OKs Power Up for FM-HD; SEP Broadband Loop (Part 4) ; From AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: FCC iBiquity reduces Fees. the Mailbag; Loggings. Extends LPFM Deadline; Death Satellite: Russian Spy Satellite OCT Longwave Timeline; Mailbag; of Over-the-Air TV?; White Space Crashes in Mexico. Loggings. Network Test in VA. FCC Activity: FCC Outlines NOV Loop Success, Web Tips, Satellite: Space Debris to Ambitious Internet Plans; FCC Mailbag; VLF Radio CD. Increase Mission Cost. Experimental Licenses; WiFi DEC Loggings Galore! First 2200 Public Service: Rescuers Wary Power Amp Cited in Interference meter JA-VE QSO. New Signals of “Yuppie Rescues;” Guard with Case; College Station Fined in Heard: HA-DGPS; Loggings; Scanner Captures Crooks; “Hostile Visitor” Case. Mailbag. Scanner Listeners Aid Police; MAY Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Carjacker Stopped by OnStar. Ham Satellite in Near Miss; BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS FCC Enforcement: Parade of ARRL Spring/Summer Sked JAN BOATS: Retired, Relaxed, Manufacturer Missteps; FCC Change; BBC Budget Cuts Reorganized and Reeducated; Scuttles Pirate Cat Radio; Florida Spares World Service; Military Tools of the Trade; Digital Pirate Fine Reduced; Texas FM Buys Shortwave Tactical Sets. Signals; Listening on HF; CW Pirate: Not Ruled by FCC. AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Activity; VHF; Catch you on the FEB Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Sangean Pocket Portable HD in Net or ‘Net. (Ron Walsh) Utah Hams Aids Crash Victim; AM; WJFK-FM: Sports Fan’s FEB PLANES: What’s up in Chinese Hamsat Launched; Dream Station. Northwest Colorado?: Wide-Area Former Radio Host Charged. Satellites Weather/TV/Radio: Multilateration (WAM); AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Say NASA Launches NOAA’s GOES- FlightAware. (Iden Rogers) Good-Bye to OTA-TV; HD-Radio P; Liberty Media Backs out of MAR TRAINS: In the Dispatcher’s Seat Drifting; LPFM Gets WorldSpace Deal; Satellite with ATCS Monitor. (Ernest Robl) Congressional Boost; TV Tracks Great White Sharks, APR BOATS: “The Times They Are a- Commercials to Calm Down. Strange Saga of DISH, Texas. Changin’!” (Things that have Satellite: Iraqi Insurgents Tap Public Service: Two EPIRB gone away in radio); Amateur Into Drone Videos; EPIRB Saves Tales; Restrictive Illinois Bill Radio Traffic Haiti; KSM; Man from Crocs. Reworded. Seasonal Change; Frequency Public Service: York County FCC Activity: FCC’s “2010 Allocation Changes; Radio Radio Dysfunctional; DHS: No Broadband Vision;” FCC Facsimile (FAX) Broadcasts; More 10-Codes; Navy to Use Broadcast Station Totals. Radiotelephone; Personal SDR; DARPA’s Twitter Success Cell Fone Follies: Smile, You’re Happenings. (Ron Walsh) FCC Actions: FCC Needs More on Candid Cell Camera!; MAY PLANES: What is Ground Engineers; National Broadband Bungling Car Thief Turns Self In; Control?; ATIS; ASDE-X; Closing Plan; FCC Narrowing Freqs; Car Thief Tracked by Victim. Thoughts. (Iden Rogers) Resort Fined for Bootleg FRS JUN Amateur Radio/Shortwave: JUN TRAINS: Railroads Reliant on a Ops. Icom: So Long IC-706MKIIG; Big Variety of Radio Uses. (Ernest MAR Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Sale on vanity Call Signs; Hi- Robl) Radio Response to the Haitian Tech Blimps to U.S. Military. JUL BOATS: Summer Boating by Quake; Radio Prague Bemoans AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: NAB Radio; HF Listening; Amateur End of SW; Radio Evangelist Hits Back at FCC; LPFM Bill Radio Monitoring; On the Down Sentenced to 175 Years. Might Include Ex-Pirates; Side (Loran, Bill Wilson VE3NR Pirate Radio: Pirate Radio 800,000 U.S. Households “Cut (RIP). (Ron Walsh) Update; 3,000 Spanish Pirate the Cord;” Online Listening AUG PLANES: Arrivals and Stations Targeted; IC & RCMP Slumps. Approaches (Iden Rogers) Pull Plug on Teenage Pirate Public Service: Cleveland Radio SEP TRAINS: Notes from a Slow (Literally!); Taiwanese System Disarray; D.C. Radio Summer Month; Small Changes, Government vs FM Pirates; FCC System Flunks Emergency. Big Difference; Automated Cites Rare AM Pirate; Three Satellite: Big Bonanza for Messages; Multiple Tracks; “Hot Bronx FM Pirates Nabbed. Sirius/XM Top Brass; DISH Beats Rails”; “High-Speed” Rail? Panarex in Piracy Suit; TiVo (Ernest Robl) Pounds DISH in Patent Suit. Monitoring Times 2010 Index

FCC Action: FCC Internet Leash to FCC: OTA Swearing OK. . . Rock ‘n’ Roll Star? D.C. 17.5 kHz Yanked; FCC Northeast FM Sometimes. Xmtr QRT. Pirate Sweep; CB Op Cited for Cell Fone Follies: Newbies Advertising on Ch. 19. Caught by Lost Phone; Stylin’ COMPUTERS & RADIO (Brian Wood) JUL Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Limo Thieves Caught. JAN Methods of Rig Control Senate Report: Cuba Media OCT Amateur Radio/Shortwave: APR Making A Better Mousetrap? Campaign a Flop; DRM in the League Warns OK Town on JUL Product Review: RFSpace SDR- News; ARRL Debuts New-Look “Nuisances;” Sudan Ousts BBC IQ Web Site. FM Outlets in North. OCT Digital Signal Processing AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: TN AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Winds Solutions. Floods Hit Nashville Topples 3 WWVA Towers; Broadcasting; Pirate Cat Radio Station Totals Released; Dude, DIGITAL DIGEST (Mike Chace) Gets Adopted. Choppers at 6 o’clock! JAN South American ALE Nets: Public Service: Texas City Shuts Satellite: Satellite TV Viewers Chilean Police ALE Network; Out Scanners; EPIRB Saves Unhappy; DISH Hits Skids in 2Q; Venezuelan Navy ALE Network; Racing Yacht; Railroads to go to DeLorme Ties GPS with SPOT. Ecuadorean Navy Update. Narrowband. FCC Enforcement: Univision FEB Digital Digest without Borders; Satellite: USAF’s X-37B Mystery Fined $1 Million in Payola US Navy Shifts Frequencies; Spacecraft; Solar Eruption and Scandel; EchoStar Cited by FCC Medecins Sans Frontieres; Cable Satellite Mystery. on “Speculation;” QRM from BDA Shedding Light on Mysterious FCC Enforcement: Miami Leads to NOUO; The OLO32. Station Fined for Privacy Complicated Case of Eddie MAR The Forthcoming Budget Violation; FCC Nails UK-based Floyd. Decoder from Hoka; New Signal Phonejammer.com. Technology: DIY Passport RFID for German Weather Service; Cell Fone Follies: Forgetful in Reader; Pandora: 90,000 New International Federation / Florida; Idiots in Illinois; Ignorant Users/Day. International Committee for Red in Iowa; Police and Criminal NOV Shortwave/Amateur Radio: TV Crosses. Bungling; Stupid in Seattle. via Shortwave, Really!; Radio/TV APR Around the World in One Digital AUG Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Marti Director Resigns; Judge: Column; North Korean Diplomatic ZL Op Caught With Way to Much HT not a Cell Phone; FCC to Service; The Tunisian ALE & Power; ZS OP: Threat to US Review Personal Radio Services; PACTOR-II Network; MultiPsk Security; 10 Year Old Boy Works It Pays to Advertise; Former SW Adds Stanag 4285. Satellite, Amazes friends; BBC Talk Show Host Convicted. MAY Telephone Companies Use HF Notes Shift of Listener Habits. FM Radio: Radio Free Austin ALE? AT&T on HF; Venezuelan AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: FCC Scorns FCC; “We-are-not- Navy Surprise. Warrantless Searches on Part 15 pleased” Department. JUN Your First RTTY Station. Devices Questioned; HD-Radio Satellites: XM Slow to Minority JUL The Strange Case of the Mystery to Add Traffic Info. Programming; DARPA’s Mini- Pulser; High Seas Station KMI; Internet Broadcasting: AT&T Satellite Network; Japanese Spy More U.S. Naval Frequencies; Looks to Limits. Satellite over DPRK Down. The Pulser; Iraqi Military on HF. Public Service: Scanner Apps vs Cell Fone Follies: Deja ve Cell AUG The Three Best Modes: CW, Criminals. Phone. RTTY, ALE. Satellite: FCC Gift: 25 MHz from FCC Enforcement: FM Pirates SEP UK Military and Aussie Digital SDARS to Mobile TV; Philly Busted in 6 States and P.R.; Signals on HF. Councilman Tired of Looking at Fined in Florida; Oregon Sweep OCT Digital Utility Listening Tips: Dishes. Nets 3 on 1710 kHz; Another Where to find utility signals; How FCC Enforcement: Crack-down Ship Radio Malfunctions; PA to find utility signals; Identifying on FM Pirates; Another Former CBer Caught with Linears; CBer unknown stations and signals; Pirate Goes Legit. Warned on Gear and Language. Logging digital utility signals; Cell Fone Follies: Quick- DEC Amateur Radio/Shortwave: Propagation tools. Thinking Teen Aids Capture; DRM Finds Inroads; DX Hounds NOV Digital Beginners with SITOR Ringing Stolen Phone; Imbecile Get New Entities; ARISSAT-1 Set DEC Mysterious Pulsers Get ENIGMA Bank Robber Caught. to Fly. Designation; UK Mil HF SEP Amateur Radio/Shortwave: AM/FM/TV Broadcasters: FCC Transmissions; Bulgarian Spies Like Us; Radio Marti’s Big to Ask OTA-TV for Spectrum; Diplomatic Service; Two Makeover; Vatican Radio Clock Running Out on LPTV; Mysterious US Networks. Xmitters Linked to Cancers BTC Wants FM to be (Again); BBC Announces New Competitive; FLO-TV Tanks; EDITOR’S SOAPBOX Board. PBS Ends Analog Satellite Feed. JAN Computers & Radio is Back! AM/FM/TV Broadcasting: Public Service: Police (Rachel Baughn) Ludwig’s Ethnic Radio via HDTV; Radio Pirate Busted. FEB Make a Radio (Ken Reitz) Heat is on for Dutch AM/FM Satellite: Earth-based Radio MAR Seeing is Believing (Rachel Pirates. Garbles Sat Data; Tax on Sat-TV Baughn) Public Service: Kansas Town in Ohio Top Court; Careening MAY Ham Radio is Not Dying (Larry Shuts Out Scanners. “Zomblesat” Still a Threat; Van Horn) Satellite: New DTH Satellite Sirius/XM Defies Skeptics. JUL Your Chance at FCC Reform Service Offers VOD; CCTV9 Now Internet Broadcasting: Sony- (Ken Reitz) English News Channel. Google Internet TV Launch; FCC AUG Uniden Open House (Larry Van Horn) FCC Actions: NOVs for QRM on Wants “Super Wi-Fi” Technology. SEP Banish Anxiety: Subscribe Channel 16; Another SF Pirate FCC Enforcement: Breaker 1-9 (Rachel Baughn) Busted. for Cuts and Washes; More AM

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Monitoring Times 2010 Index THE FED FILES BBC may break out the axe; iPad; Bringing Back Memories; (Chris Parris) (Odd months) Performance Royality Fight gets DZKit Support; Zip Code JAN 2010 Fed Files New Year: ‘blown up;’ O’Meara making Scanning. Roadrunner and Other Strange waves again; OCT Feedback and Quickies; Ready- Vehicles; Federal Railroad makes inroads in cars; GlobalNet made for 160M?; Pick-Up Administration; Pittsburgh G20 Mailbag. Antenna Solution. Summit Wrap Up. JUN Earthshaking Radio – Tuning in NOV Ham Call-In Show; Better than MAR Chipping Through the ICE: New earthquakes, hurricanes and Kindle; Parabolic Experiment; England, , Florida, more; Administration enters ‘pay- Kiwa Loops; MT Rocks. Texas; Mystery Systems for-play’ debate; iPhone;s OS 4.0 DEC Farewell to Skip; Improved Explained: Shenandoah National can multi-task!; Bad news for VR500 Charger; Wrong Rx. Park; UHF Allocations. ‘free’ Internet radio?; GlobalNet MAY Super Bowl XLIV Wrap Up; CBP, Mailbag. MILCOM (Larry Van Horn) ICE and the D-Net Channels; JUL Keeping an Ear on the Sky; TV JAN Military Brevity Codes; Monitoring Getting It Together. Who? TVU!; Real’radio being the Tyndall AFB TRS; Milcom JUL Delivering the Frequencies – The turned off in autos?; GlobalNet Frequency Changes. U.S. Postal Service; The New Mailbag. FEB 2010 Air Show Season Nearly TSA Radios. AUG Internet vs SW: Everyone’s a Here: Base Profiles: Davis SEP Autumn Updates: Justice Winner; Waiting for the IPhone 4; Monthan AFB; Maxwell AFB; Department 25 Cities Project; Finally, Reciva has an app for Eglin AFB; Barksdale AFB; Federal Satellite Systems; VHF that; GlobalNet Mailbag. Dyess AFB; Altus AFB; Shaw “Mystery System” Update. SEP In on the Action – Wherever it AFB; Columbus AFB; Grand NOV 2010 Federal Wrap-Up: On the May Be; Sounds of the Storm; Forks AFB; NAF El Centro; Move with the DEA; USFS Fire Portable Echolink?; IOS4 and MacDill AFB; NAS Kingsville; Channels; CBP Border patrol in Streaming; Subaru In-Car WiFi NAS Key West; Charleston AFB; Arizona; TSA Tracking Things. Hotspot; GlobalNet Mailbag. Andrews AFB; MCAS Cherry OCT Connecting the World with Point; Latest Milcom Frequency FIRST LOOK REVIEWS EchoLink; A new ISP for me; Changes. MAR MFJ-8322 Hand-Held Scanner Royalty Compromise on the MAR Military Demonstration Teams (Bob Grove) Horizon? 2010 Performance Schedule; MT APR Logitech Squeezebox Internet NOV First Annual GlobalNet “Best of” Air Show Resource Guide. Radio (Loyd Van Horn) Awards; RadioTime: A Growing APR The Military Weather Channel MAY FLEX-3000 SDR Transceiver Source; Internet Radio on (Metro Station/Frequency List); Review (Part 1) (Larry Van Horn) iTunes? MARS Changes Name and Fine JUN FLEX-3000 SDR Transceiver DEC Broadcasters Battle the Digital Tunes Mission; U.S. Navy/Marine Review (Part 2) (Larry Van Horn) Devil. Corps MARS Net Designators. AUG Icom IC-R6 Hand Held, MAY Monitoring the Civil Air Patrol Wideband Scanner (Bob Grove) LETTERS (Rachel Baughn) (VHF); CAP and the HF SEP AOR AR5100D Communications JAN Harry Helms (RIP); More on Spectrum. Receiver (Bob Grove) Alfred Vail; Remembering the JUN Are the Ute Bands Really Dead? OCT The Revolution Has Begun: The Regency TR-1; The Buzz. List of Recently Monitored Uniden HomePatrol-1 (Larry Van FEB Crazy about Radio? Or just Government / Military HF Horn) Crazy?; Grundig G-8; Keep It Frequencies. NOV WiNRADiO Excalibur G31DDC Simple; Retro Radio. JUL Profile: US Navy Training Wings SDR Receiver (Bob Grove) MAR Shortwave Coverage in MT; The Five and Six; Major Frequency DEC AOR AR2300 Black Box End of Pirate Coverage?; Tick Changes in Houston (ARTCC) Receiver (Bob Grove) Tock. Houston Center Frequency APR Future of Shortwave Radio: MT Profile. GLOBAL NET (Loyd Van Horn) Assistant Editor Larry Van Horn AUG Where to Monitor the Military; JAN A New Hobby for the New Year; looks at the future of radio; The Digital Side of HF – ALE; WRN: The world in one place; Wullenweber Antennas; In Monitoring Military VHF/UHF HD Radio on the iPhone; Memoriam: Dave Ingram K4TWJ; Communications; How do you “Chumby” the WiFi hesitation John Bryant; Peter Cuffe G0IEP. find new frequencies to monitor? blues; Droid hits the market; MAY Farewell to Passport; Crusing for Table of Major Military Bands. AppleTV adds Internet radio DX; March Corrections; SEP Monitoring Military VHF Low player. Monitoring MURS. Band Communications. FEB Internet Radio’s Rising Star; JUN New Uses for Old Frequencies; OCT Monitoring the Chinese Navy and Mobile Providers to Limit Data?; Rhombic True and False; Enigma M89 Communications MP3 VCR Records Streaming Airwaves are Public!; Flying NOV Monitoring the U.S. Navy Audio; The Wonderful High; Another Source for New SESEFs WunderRadio App; Pocket Old-Time Radio; Longwave DEC Monitoring Aerial Refueling: Tunes. Kudos; Robert Thomas (RIP). Rules for Tanking; Aerial MAR Internet Radio Caught in Royality JUL OTA Online Resource; More Refueling Terminology; Random Debate; PURE-ly Amazing Youthful Look?; Ask Bob; Aerial Refueling Frequencies: Radios; The Much-Hailed Apple Window Dressing; AWA CONUS, Atlantic, Canada; Tablet; What CES 2010 Taught Museum. Monitoring NAS Fallon, Nevada. Us. AUG Putting A Face on MT; SAR: APR What is Internet Radio?: WiFi Sesta Antes do Rescue?; MT EQUIPMENT REVIEWS Radios; On the Go Radio; Music Mourning Passport; KAAY: One JAN Grundig G8 Traveler II Digital Services; Uh-oh, Pandora going for the Books; Both Sides of the AM/FM/SW Pocket Receiver local?; Internet Radio on the Microphone; NASB Annouces (Gary Sargent) iPad; FiOs jumps on IR Shortwave Listener Survey. FEB The MicroR2Receiver (Skip Arey) bandwagon. SEP Vintage Radio; Ham Radio Call- VRX-1 Receiver (Skip Arey) MAY Radio aus Deutschland! In Show; MT Express on the Monitoring Times 2010 Index

Grundig Globe Traveler G3 Hams for Hams; 2010 ARRL JUN International Coverage of Polish Portable (Jay Allen) Handbook for Radio Tragedy; The National MAR MFJ-8322 Hand-Held Scanner Communications-Review. Association of Shortwave (Bob Grove) FEB You Want It … You Got It!; The Broadcasters (NASB); APR Logitech Squeezebox Internet MicroR2Receiver – Review; Recommended Listening; What’s Radio (Loyd Van Horn) VRX-1 Receiver – Review. New. MAY FLEX-3000 SDR Transceiver MAR Hams Lead the Way: Podcasting, JUL Meandering through the 49 Meter Review (Part 1) (Larry Van Horn); Social Networking, YouTube, Band; Alastair Cooke’s Legacy; Jetstream JTPS30M DC Power Blogging; Good Ham Reading: European Business Week – Supply (Bob Grove) Nifty E-Z Guide to D-Star Deutsche Welle; And in other JUN FLEX-3000 SDR Transceiver Operation – Review; Twitter; So, news . . .BBC’s Family History Review (Part 2) (Larry Van Horn) where is this all going? page (Radio and Genealogy). JUL Comparison of Eton Emergency APR To QSL or not to QSL . . . That is AUG The Brave New World of SW Radios (Gary Sargent); RFSpace the Question! Listening (Programs on SDR-IQ (Brian Wood); MFJ-8310 MAY Good Tech Never Goes Bad; The Demand); What’s New?; Radio Desktop / Mobile Scanner (Bob 2009 ARRL Periodicals on CD- Sweden Leaving Shortwave; Grove) ROM – Review NASB 2010 Hamilton, Ontario; AUG Icom IC-R6 Hand Held, JUN June is a Great Ham Radio We Get Letters. Wideband Scanner (Bob Grove); Month; Become a Professional SEP The Magic of Radio; Local Radio MFJ-844 SWR / Wattmeter Amateur (FCC Commercial Radio Goes Worldwide; Children’s Review (Bob Grove) License Preparation Study Programming?; Fred’s Pick – SEP MFJ-9410 Ten-Meter Transceiver Manual Review); A Shameless Deutsche Welle-Hits in Germany; (Bob Grove); AOR AR5001D Plug. What’s New: KBS World Radio- Communications Receiver (Bob JUL New Tricks for an Old Dog; Happy Cooking and Healthy Grove); Kaito KA801 Review’ Echolink; Designing Hams (The Living; Coming in September- Sangean CL-100 AM /FM / ARRL Antenna Designer’s Mark Lamar’s Shake Rattle and Weather Radio (Bob Grove) Notebook Review). Roll; Mr. Troloto. OCT The Revolution Has Begun: The AUG A Ham Radio Camping Upgrade OCT So Long to Sweden on Uniden HomePatrol-1 (Larry Van SEP Back to School: Time to Shortwave; Hallowe’en; Horn) Upgrade, Learn the Code, Learn Thanksgiving, Canadian Style; NOV WiNRADiO Excalibur G31DDC a New Mode, Hands on Learning, Recommended Fall Programs; SDR Receiver (Bob Grove) Learn a New Skill; Read Any We get letters . . . DEC AOR AR2300 Black Box Good Books Lately?; Book of the NOV Spotlight on Music; The Sounds Receiver (Bob Grove); The Month: The International QRP of French Canada; What’s New; British are Coming! Pure Evoke Collection. Programming Advance Notice. Flow-A GlobalNet Review (Loyd OCT October is Full of Fun; Work DEC Festive Programming Around the Van Horn); CCRadio-EP AM/FM While the Weather is on Your World; New Years Programming; Portable (Bob Grove); C.Crane Side; Mobile Readiness, Too; The Modern Radio France FT-007 Stereo FM Transmitter Get Ready for Competition; International; What’s New. (Bob Grove) Special Events; Plan for Winter Solder Melting; QRP Legacy. QSL REPORT (Gayle Van Horn) ON THE BENCH NOV More Power to You: Amateur JAN QSLing in the Year of the Tiger JAN “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part 4) Radio Power Supply Alternatives FEB Who’s on first and who’s on the Anatomy of an Antenna. (Walter DEC Should Auld Acquaintance Be pole? QSL “Bytes.” Lindenbach) Forgot: Back to First Principles MAR Castles and Winter Olympics. FEB “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part 5) (Yet Again); Speaking of Old APR Radio Prague . . . still going Transformers? Why? (Walter Timers; Read a Good Old Book; strong; RFE/RL adds Radio Lindenbach) Fine Old Radios; Heathkit Mashaal to schedule; CQ Con Co MAR “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part 6) Forever; Old Antennas; Fare Island; You asked for Unusual Transformers (Walter Thee Well and Vaya con Dios! Entertainment. Lindenbach) MAY Calling All Hams and Shortwave APR “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part 7) PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT Listeners. What’s a Decibel? (Walter (Fred Waterer) JUN Radio Free Releases Fourth Lindenbach) JAN Shortwave from Canada’s Radio Pioneer QSL Card. MAY “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part 8) Olympic City; Deutsche Welle JUL Firecracker Special One Low-Pass Filter Coming Up Sports Report; United States – AUG Nothing But QSLs (Walter Lindenbach) Sonny Side of Sports; Other SEP September Brings DX JUN “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part 9) Olympic Winners; SW from OCT QSLing the Unpredictable and “Proof of the Pudding” for the Canada’s West Coast; Innovative Unlicensed. Low-Pass Filter. (Walter Programming from Deutsche NOV Fourteen Years and Counting Lindenbach) Welle; Learning by Ears – The DEC QSLing the Close of 2010 JUL “Sky-Wires and Inhalers” (Part Skills to Succeed in Today’s 10) SW and MW Stations Don’t Africa. RADIO RESTORATIONS (Marc Ellis) Mix – or Do They? (Walter FEB The Golden Age of Radio: JAN We Begin Recapping the BC-344 Lindenbach) WWCR – The Golden Age of FEB Capacitors and Their AUG TRF-4 “Retro-Tech” Construction Radio Theater; WBCQ – Amos Replacements: Mechanical/Fixed (Hal Bilodeau) and Andy. Capacitors; Checking Capacitors; SEP Increase the Charging Current for MAR Programming from the Emerald Replacing Capacitors. the Yaesu VR-500 (Mort Arditti) Isle; The Winter SWL Fest. MAR The BC-344 Restoration DEC Budget DX Crystal Radio, Part 1 APR Touring Radio Taiwan Continues. (Dave Schmarder) International; RTI’s brand new APR The BC-344 Fails and 30-minute webcast. Unexpected Smoke Test; Some ON THE HAM BANDS (Skip Arey) MAY Hooray for Hollywood; Social Reader Tips; A Speaker of the JAN A Ham’s Calendar: We Stand on Media; Pick of the Month; What’s BC-344; The Unexpected: A the Shoulders of Giants; Dates by New. Failed Smoke Test; Monitoring Times 2010 Index Troubleshooting; The 6R7 Open Network; Local EMWIN Cathode. Broadcasts; EMWIN via the UTILITY WORLD (Hugh Stegman) MAY The BC-344 Restoration Internet; Skywarn; Cary IL; JAN 600 Meters: Signs of Life; Continues; More from John Stoll; MABAS. Japanese Fishery Radio. Replacing Capacitors; Last SEP Understand the System; FEB Japan Radio: Fishing for Facts; Month’s BC-344 Progress; Understand your Scanner; Hawaii Improved Band Conditions? Pressing On!; Needed – A -- PACMERS; North Carolina – MAR MARS Gets New Name and Contraption. Smartzone and Omnilink; Pro-96 Mission; Utilities Inside Amateur JUN The BC-344 Speaks Again, Software Tools. Bands; Yet More Life on 600 However . . .; Left Over from Last OCT Scanning: A Moving Experience: Meters. Month; Good News and Bad Rebanded; Uniden BCD396T; APR Israeli “Numbers” – A New 20- News; Operator Trouble?; Low Band; 10 Meters; Phoenix Meter Mystery (The E10 Troubleshooting Military Update. Enigma); Bye-Bye Loran-C. Equipment; The MVC Audio NOV OpenSky and Medical MAY What’s the World’s Strangest Problem. Dispatching; OpenSky; OpenSky “Numbers” Station? SK01; Star JUL Starting Out in Amateur Radio – Problems; OpenSky Overhaul; Star Radio Station; But the 1920s Style. Albuquerque, New Mexico; Winner is . . . AUG The BC-344 Operating Nicely: Emergency Medical Dispatch JUN The Strange Wierdness on Stopped by an Old Phenomenon; Codes. 13420 and Other Stories; First Not a Problem After All; Getting DEC Making Do with Tried and True; Vietnamese Numbers; French Back to the IFS; The CW Tulsa, Oklahoma; Flagstaff, Version of the “Russian Man;” Oscillator Adjustment; The RF Arizona; Conventional Scanning Final HF FAX Corrections. Oscillator Adjustments; Radio of a Trunked System; North JUL Making Sense of ALE Addresses; Frequency Alignment. Arizona University. SDO Sees First Light. SEP Change of Pace: A Household AUG Monitoring World Trouble Spots: Radio: Philco 38-62; From Our SHORTWAVE GUIDE (Gayle Van Horn) E10 and Gaza Tensions; Korean Readers. JAN English (24 hours); Spanish Peninsula. OCT Starting up a Vintage Radio 2300; French 0000-2300 UTC SEP Spy Bust Reveals Radio Intrigue; NOV Another New Project: The FEB English (24 hours); Portuguese Translating Vietnamese Majestic Zephyr; Philco project 0000-1100 UTC Numbers; New Chinese Numbers discontinued. MAR English (24 hours); Portuguese Frequency; Quick COTHEN DEC A First Look Inside the Majestic: 1200-2100 UTC Survey. Majestic History; A First look APR English (24 hours); Portuguese OCT New Arctic NAVAREAs Promise Inside; Safety Problem; Checking 2100-2300 UTC; Arabic 0000- Utility Catches; Korean Numbers Tubes; Chat Room Lore: Treating 1800 UTC Update; Russian Spy Update; Asbestos Sheets; Wholesale Cap MAY English (24 hours); Arabic 1800- COTEH Frequency Use Update. Replacement; The “Discontinued” 2300 UTC; Spanish 0000-0600 NOV UVB-76: Is the “Dead Hand” Philco 38-62 Project. UTC Station Dead?; Unraveling the JUN English (24 hours); Spanish “German Coast Guard.” SCANNING REPORT (Dan Veeneman) 0700-1500 UTC DEC Wired Radio: Using Remote JAN Longing for the Simple Life; JUL English (24 hours); Spanish Internet Receivers; UVB-76 Radio Shack Pro-96; Monitoring 1500-2200 UTC Mystery Continues; German 800 MHz; Albuquerque, New AUG English (24 hours); Spanish Water Police. Mexico. 2200-2300 UTC; French 0000- FEB Type 1 Trunking in Ontario; Fleet 1900 UTC WHAT'S NEW (Larry Van Horn) Maps; Orange County, California. SEP English (24 hours); French 1900- MAR Mastering the LTR Frequency 2300 UTC; Mixed - English Plus Books, CDs Search; Rebanding. Other Languages (24 hours) JAN The 2010 ARRL Handbook for APR What’s the Frequency, Dan? OCT English (24 hours); Portuguese Radio Communications. Border Patrol (CA); O’Fallon, 0000-1100 UTC FEB QRP Romps; Free Ham Radio Missouri; Nassau County, New NOV English (24 hours); Portuguese Publication; Ham Radio Award York; Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1200-2100 UTC Program Publication; World MAY Buying Your First Scanner; Lake DEC English (24 hours); Portuguese Radio TV Handbook 2010 Tapps, Washington; 2100-2300 UTC; German 0000- Review (Gayle Van Horn) Conventional Scanning; Trunked 1800 MAR NCVEC Releases New Scanning; Selecting a Scanner; Technician Class Question Pool. Shelbyville, Indiana; Project SKYSURFING APR 2010 Beacon handbooks now Hoosier SAFE-T; Shelby County, FEB HAM SATS: Working Your First available. Indiana; Dayton Hamvention. Amateur Radio Satellite (Part 2). JUN Review of Domestic Broadcast JUN Oldies but Goodies; Merced (Keith Baker) Survey 12th Edition Review County, California; Stanislaus MAR RADIO ASTRONOMY: Pulsars (Gayle Van Horn); South Carolina County, California; Cellular (Jeffrey Lichtman) Upstate Scanner Guide. Prohibition; Scanner Legalities. MAY HAM SATS: Working Your First JUL The ARRL Repeater Directory – JUL Looking for the Easy Button; Amateur Radio Satellite (Part 3) 2010/2011 Edition. Vernon Parish, Louisiana; NXDN; (Keith Baker) SEP Antenna Designer’s Notebook; Christian County, Kentucky; JUN RADIO ASTRONOMY: Antennas 2010 Pirate Radio Annual; Logan County, Kentucky; Belfast for Radio Astronomy (Jeffrey Remote Operating for Amateur Area, Maine; Fast Food Lichtman) Radio; Storm Spotting and Monitoring; New Scanners from AUG HAM SATS: Working Your First Amateur Radio; The ARRL Field GRE (PSR-700/310/410). Amateur Radio Satellite (Part IV) Day Handbook for Radio AUG Keeping an Ear on the Weather: (Keith Baker) Amateurs; The ARRL RFI Book, Scanning Weather; Specific Area NOV HAM SATS: How to Use Linear 3rd Edition. Message Encoding; Emergency Amateur Satellite Transponders; OCT FM Atlas, 21st Edition; NRC AM Managers Weather Information Satellite Status Update. Radio Log. 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NOV Axis Sally – The American Voice of Nazi Germany; 2010-2014 Technician Class Study Guide

Equipment FEB Radio Shack Pro-107 iScan Scanner; C. Crane CCRadio-2. MAR Iridium Unveils Smaller, Lower- cost Satellite Data Transceiver. APR Icom Releases a New Portable Receiver: IC-R6; AOR Introduces AR2300 “Black Box” MAY Jetstream JTPS30M DC Power Supply (Bob Grove) JUN A New Icom All-Around Rig (IC- 9100 Transceiver) JUL MFJ-8310 Desktop / Mobile Scanner (Bob Grove); What’s New at Dayton: FLEX-1500, FLEX-VU5K, FLEX PowerSDR Software; Kenwood TS-590 Transceiver; Yaseu FTdx-5000 HF/6 meters transceivers, Yaseu VL-2000 amplifier; Alinco DX- SR8TE mobile transceiver, Two new Hendricks QRP Kits. AUG A Revolution is Coming Soon! Uniden HomePatrol-1™; MFJ- 844 SWR/Wattmeter Review (Bob Grove); The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, 2nd Edition; Understanding Basic Electronics, 2nd Edition; ARRL;s PIC Programming for Beginners. OCT New Milcom Log Periodic Now Available; SSB LAN-SDR. NOV Desk Top “Noise Away”; MFJ- 1775 Rotatable Dipole; ADS-SRI Simplex Repeater. DEC CCRadio-EP AM/FM Portable (Bob Grove); C.Crane FT-007 Stereo FM Transmitter (Bob Grove)

Miscellaneous OCT New Narrowband Mode Released -- CMSK

Software JAN Scancat Lite-Plus. MAR Need Frequency Allocations Information? There’s an App for that!; New Version of Popular Logging Program: DXtreme Software™; Swift’s Weather Defender 1.1 Alerts Give Weather Enthusiasts an “Edge.” APR Interactive Police Scanner iPhone/iTouch App. SEP SpectraCyber Elite Software

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