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REVIEWED THIS MONTH Sony WA -8800 ten -band cassette recorder YESTERDAY'S SPY SET The 128 Set Revisited BUILD THE LONGWAVER LOOP ANTENNA INDEX TO VOLUME 49 Regular Features for Airband, Scanning, Junior Listeners, SSB Utility Listening, Propagation and Broadcast Enthusiasts Extra Wideband Scanning Power New Models With Even More Facilities! JUST RELEASED. NEW HP2000 Now with continuous coverage featuring a completere -design and new p.c.b. layout Frequency coverage:- 500KHz- 1300MHz with no gaps * 1,000 channel memory * Receives AM -FM- Wideband FM * Search steps selectable from 5KHz to 995KHz * Keypad or rotary tune controls * Switcheable 10dB attenuator Each set is supplied with:- * Full set of high power NiCad rechargeable batteries * UK spec. charger * Three antennas- VHF, UHF, short wave telescopic * Carrying case, belt clip, shoulder strap * Dc cable for car cigar adaptor supply * Earpiece for private listening £269 NEW Nevada MS1000 Mobile/Base Scanner An exciting new scanner with all the specifications of the HP200 aboveplus:- * Switcheable audio squelch * Tape recorder output socket * Automatic tape recorder switching circuit switchestape recorder on when a signal is present * All metal case for improved EMC compatibility £279 Awilable From Authorised Dealers Throughout The UK- t Nevada Communications, 189 London Road, North End, Portsmouth. P02 9AE Send in £2 now *r our LATEST CATALOGUE with full details ofour complete product range (includes a £2 voucher). CA=e5)zr_727x arro VOL. 49 ISSUE 12 DECEMBER 1991 ON SALE NOVEMBER 28 10 Speedbird Concorde Zero One Peter Rouse GU1DKD (Next Issue on sale DECEMBER 20) 12 A Basic RTTY Receive -only Terminal unit - EDITOR: Dick Ganderton, C. Eng., MIEE, G8VFH Part 2 ART EDITOR: Steve Hunt Bernard J. Greatrix G4ICZ NEWS & FEATURES: Elaine Richards G4LFM TECHNICAL ARTIST/PHOTOGRAPHER: Rob Mackie 21 Radio Times - Poem & Competition EDITORIAL David Leverett Enefco House, The Quay, Poole, Dorset BH151PP 22 Educational Software for Basic Electronics - TEL: (0202)678558 Part 10 FAX: (0202)666244 J.T. Beaumont G3NGD CREDIT CARD ORDERS: (0202) 665524 (Out of hours service by answering machine) 25 Brief Thoughts on the ATU ADVERTISEMENTDEPARTMENT Paul Essery ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER Roger Hall G4TNT 27 Sony WA8800 Ten -band Radio Cassette TEL: 071-731 6222 Recorder Review FAX: 071-384 1031 Mike Richards ADVERTISEMENT PRODUCTION (Poole) Marcia Brogan TEL (0202)676033 34 The LongWaver Loop Antenna FAX: (0202)666244 Richard Q Marris PW PUBLISHING LTD. 1991. Yesterday's Spy Set - The 128 Set Copyright inall drawings, photographs and articles 38 published in Short Wave Magazine is fully protected and June Stirrat reproduction or imitation in whole or in part is expressly forbidden. All reasonable precautions are taken by Short Wave Magazineto ensure that the advice and data given A Short Wave Crystal Set & Competition to our readers is reliable. We cannot however guarantee 40 it and we cannot accept legal responsibility for it. Prices Roger Lapthorn G3XBM are those current as we go to press. Short Wave Magazine is published monthly for $40 per year by PW Publishing Ltd., Enefco House, The Quay, Poole Dorset Index to Volume 49 BH15 1PP. Second class postage paid at Middlesex, NJ. 79 Postmaster: send address changes to C & C Mailers International, 40 Foxhall, Middlesex, NJ 08846. REGULARS Cover: Long Medium & Short Concorde is 53Airband 63 29 New Book one of the most 48 Amateur Bands Round -up 44 Bandscan - Australia 6 News beautiful 74 Book Service 42 Propagation aircraft flying 60 Decode 4 Rallies today as well 51 DXTV Round -up 45 Satellite TV News as being a 2 Editorial 54Scanning technological 4 Grassroots 2 Services miracle. Peter 58 Info in Orbit 43 SSB Utility Listening Rouse recalls 76 Index to Advertisers 30 SWM Subscribers' Club his trip to New 5 Junior Listener 69 Trading Post York at Mach 2. 2 Letters 65 Watching Brief ...GOOD LISTENING Radio Programme Crystal Set Trading Post Coupon Dec. Coupon Dec. 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We had a Components for SWM fantastic two weeks 9500 a success, as was Weather largest issues ever - 100 Projects feet up as the guests of Watching, which we pages, if you count the In general all components used in HCJB and, from what you published earlier in the year. covers! constructing SWM projects are have told me at rallies, you With the International Radio All that remains is for me available from a variety of component enjoyed the account of our magazine in the October to wish you all the best for suppliers. Where special, or difficult adventures. issue and What Scanner in 1992 on behalf of all the staff Our PC Special issue was November we had the two here at Short Wave Magazine. to obtain, components are specified, a supplier will be quoted in the article. The printed circuitboardsfor SWM projects are available from the SWM PCB Service. Back Numbers and Dear Sir Binders Regarding the attitude taken would send me a 120 minute have more chance of success Limited stocks of most issues of SWM towards listeners' reports by cassette. if you keep it brief and always for the past five years are available at broadcasting stations, my own How could I give my full enclose a stamp or IRC. £1.80 each including P&Pto addresses experience may interest your attention to two hours of John Longden at home and overseas (by surface readers. uninvited information, often Uxbridge. mail). Recently returned to the delivered in halting English hobby of short wave listening Binders, each taking one volume and recorded at an odd speed and readership of SWM after with inaccurate tape azimuth of the new style SWM, are available retirement from 43 years as a setting? Dear Sir price £5.50 plus £1 oneP&Pfor, binder, BBC engineer, my penultimate Even more problematical I have recently purchased a £2 P&P for two or more, UK or post was as Engineer -in - were 3 or 5in reels of domestic unit from J&P Electronics overseas. Please state the year and Charge of BBC Radio London, standard 4 -track tape recorded Ltd of Kidderminster. The volume numberforwhichthe binder is where for several years we ran at one and seven eighths p.s. unit was to give me packet required. Prices include VAT where a programme called Sounds on all tracks, which our receive and transit, plus appropriate. Good. professional tape machines multi -mode receiver for the Orders for p.c.b.s, back numbers, Originally intended for hi-fi were quite unable to cope Spectrum, all on EPROM. I binders and items from our Book enthusiasts, we included a with. Eight or ten -page hand- had problems getting it to Service should be sent to PW fifteen minute slot for radio written letters were not work properly, and after a hams. This attracted a large unusual either. few 'phone calls and a visit Publishing Ltd., FREEPOST, Post Sales postbag, particularly as Reception reports and to their premises the Department, Enefco House, The Quay, enthusiasts were taping the programme comments are problem was found to be Poole, Dorset 8H151PP, with details programmes and posting always welcomed by staff, but my Spectrum, which was of your credit card or a cheque or copies to friends all over the don't get upset if you don't get put right by them. postal order payableto PW Publishing world. Reception reports and a prompt reply. The chances I found them most Ltd. Cheques with overseas orders programme comments began are that your report and letter helpful and very patient must be drawn on a London Clearing to pour in. We received letters, has been much appreciated sorting out my problem. It Bank and in sterling. photographs, maps and tapes and probably pinned up to the is nice to know that in this Credit card orders (Access, by the sackful. station notice board, but no- day and age you can still We were totally unprepared find a company who still Mastercard, Eurocard or Visa) are also one sufficiently qualified has for this and had few suitable been available to write to you. care about their customers. welcome by telephone to Poole (0202) staff to deal with such When writing to a Many thanks J&P for 665524. An answering machine will specialist mail. I dealt with as broadcasting station, always your help and excellent accept your order out of office hours. much as I could in (rare) off - remember that you are product. duty time, and answered some indulging in your favourite Bob Taylor G6XN0 of it over the air. The worst hobby, but they are doing Bristol offenders were those who their everyday work! You will 2 Short Wave Magazine, December 1991 Dear Sir One of the problems that many a broadcast listener experiences when receiving a programme schedule is that Dear Sir by the time it reaches them its At the RAE course held at Henley College, Coventry, I have a 'shelf' life may be near to hand-out for candidates for guidance regarding distress IF YOU HAVE ANY POINTS expiration.