Monitoring Times 2009 Index FEATURES Watchful Eye on the Sky Apr MAY Hazard of the All American Five; Amateur Radio Digital Software for the Digital Legality of using a ham HT for Watchful Eye on the Sky Apr Radio World May other services; Power and NJ South Counties Emergency Meet the QSL Mistress – KSM Sep frequency limits of Grove Radio Network (D-Star) May Scanner Beam for transmit; Ten Reason to Get Your License May AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months) Receiver advantages of Amateur Radio: Lifetime Hobby May FEB The Disappearing Radio? Analog USB/LSB vs SSB; Protecting a Freq Coordination in Ham Service May TV not dead yet? FCC Notes; multiband portable from EMP Digital Software for the Digital Canadian notes; Mexican notes; JUN HT Antennas for NOAA weather Radio World May Callsign weirdness; Shipboard reception; Does the FCC bust Howard Hughes, Ham Radio DX CBers with linear amps; How to Operator Aug APR Money and Radio; Analog TV: improve an antenna for HDTV maybe not dead yet? FCC notes; reception; Thermal switches in Broadcast Canadian notes Uniden scanner battery packs; New Wave Shortwave via satellite Jan JUN Ham Antennas and AM DX; Spy number station harmonics in QSLing Brokered Broadcasts Feb Analog TV: maybe not dead yet? Europe on VHF low band; Turkish Delight Feb FCC notes; Canadian notes; AM Receiving earth signals on the International Radio Serbia Mar Bandscan Station Report moon; What does Roger Wilco Radio Slovakia International Apr AUG And now a word from your local mean? South Pacific Adventure Jun station . .; HD Radio notes; JUL Aircraft engine bird protection; My Big Fat Voice of Greece Analog TV: dead, I think; Difference between dBd and dBi; Website Aug Canadian notes Length of a Beverage antenna; HD Radio’s Long and Winding OCT “Translating” AM and FM; Analog Which scanner to use for Road Aug TV: Dead; Canadian Notes; AM airshows; GRE 3001 VHF Radio France International Sep Bandscan Station Report. preamp overload solutions; AC vs DC and can I roll my own DC Internet Audio Streaming ANTENNA TOPICS AUG Alternative energy sources; My Big Fat Voice of Greece JAN Impedance Matching for Jacob’s ladder (climbing spark Website Aug Antennas and Feed Lines generator); Tuner help shortwave Grace: A Life-Changing (Internet) FEB Antennas which neither reception; How do I know if my Radio Aug Communicate nor Broadcast coax is shorted; Are yellow Radio France International Sep MAR The Many Faces of a Dipole fluorescent lamps still made? APR It's a wonder they work at all! SEP Radio with Digital TV audio Nostalgia/Human Interest (antenna problems and solutions) capability; What does the RG- Collins 51S-1 Receiver Jan MAY Antennas for the Radio Amateur 174/U coax letters mean?; D-Day Jun JUN Antennas, Accidents, and Monitoring telephone calls by the Warbirds on Display Jul Astronomy government; How digital will Grace: A Life-Changing (Internet) JUL Something very different in effect shortwave listening; How to Radio Aug Antennas (small antennas) test stereo speakers; GRE PSR- Howard Hughes, Ham Radio AUG Antennas and Resistors 500 narrowband filter. Operator Aug SEP How to Deal with Received Noise OCT Battery chargers; Hearing The True History of Morse Code Sep OCT A Noise that Improves Antenna lightning strikes; Neutral and In the Right Place at the Right Time – Performance earth ground voltage; Diversity Bob Heil, K9EID Oct reception; Are all gases invisible? The Enduring Amelia Earhart Mystery: ASK BOB Could Unidentified Radio Signals JAN How to find local broadcasters; BEGINNER'S CORNER Provide New Clues? Oct calculate element lengths for JAN Guide to Tuning the International Living the Dream: One ham’s effort to scanner antenna; why are whip Space Station update the tradition of kit building antennas tapered? Jump starting FEB The Big DTV Switch & School with a digital twist Oct a dead battery; blocking RFI from Club Round-Up neighbors' comms; will grounding MAR Ten Meter Beacon Band Scanning prevent static? APR The Allure of SW Radio The Air Show Experience Mar FEB H-800 Skymatch with Eton E-1? MAY Jump Start Your New Ham California's Central Valley Mar What causes global warming? Hobby Military Operating Areas Jul Did QEII receive a WWII Morse JUN Beginners Guide to Baseball on Scanning St. Louis, MO Jul code message intended for QE!? the Radio Warbirds on Display Jul Adapter for older radios which JUL Shopping for a SW Radio, Useful have 3 posts? Spam, Ham Radio Scholarships Technical MAR CFL bulb wattage equivalent; AUG Eight Common Beginning Ham The OBBD Doublet Antenna Feb rounded plug vs RF ground; Myths Bugging Blagojevich Feb erratic scale readings; converting SEP Better Audio from Your Computer Security Apr 5-tube AM rx to receive SW; can Shortwave Radio Propagation Outlook Apr-Sep Apr unblocked scanners decode OCT Complain, Complain, Complain Stryker Brigade Comms Systems Jun cellular signals? Can old TV (FCC Consumer Protection) Propagation Outlook Oct 09-Mar 10: antennas be used for scanner What will Sunsport Cycle 24 reception? BELOW 500 kHz Really do? Oct APR Repeat of March column. Due to JAN Let's Get Digital: QRSS a layout error we repeated the FEB Mailbag & News: VLF on Your Utility March column. We apologize for PC; LWBC Catches; Best Monitoring the UHF Military Sats Jan this error. antenna?; WiNRADiO on LF MAR Antenna Observations MAR BBC and DW launch MW DRM; AUG U.S. Couple Charges with Spying APR RDFs Revisited Shrinking Ionosphere; 2008 for Cuba; DRM Portable MAY LORAN-C Going QRT Sunspot Flop; Ham Antenna Available; The “Don’t Blink” Solar JUN Your Letters Addressed; Daytime Victory; Boston Police Radio; Cycle; GAO/GPS Report Causes loggings Cleveland System Down (again); Media Panic; Is Your Cell Phone JUL No Sunspots? No problem; Tips High-Tech Knuckleheads.; Spying on You?; Appeals Court for better LW reception; LF Disgruntled WRIU-FM Listeners; Backs LPFM Community; AT7T Propagation Site; SAQ 17.2 kHz DTV Shambles; The Launches CruiseCast; Rural Schedule; Mailbag Unemployment Channel; Down- BroadbandL FCC Priority; Smith AUG Summer Survival on LW; sized CES; Toys 'R' Us Radio Cracks Down on Bootleggers; Mailbag; Loggings Recall. “Destitute” AM Station Fined by SEP LF Receiving Antennas, Part 1; APR Hams Aid Storm Victims; FCC FCC; Consumer Corner: Circuit Loggings Names Hollingsworth City Rises from Grave, Fluke OCT Underground VLF and Replacement; Vatican Radio in Digital Clamp Meters Recalled Uncovering Noise; 500 kHz Local Health Flap; ARRL Seeks SEP Two New HF Stations Granted, Experimental License; Deep to Mold Legislation; DTV Switch WX4NHC’s Amateur Radio Test, Down VLF; Unplugging from the Delayed: It’s On, It’s Off, It’s 15 Year-old YL Top Texter, Grid, New Book: Demystifying Both!; OpenSky Woes in Ulysses Shut Down After 18+ Radio Frequency Interference; Milwaukee; Glitches Plague Years, DHS Nixes Domestic Loggings. Aging Cleveland Radio System; Spying Program, Sea Launch NOAA-19 in orbit; Tales from the Bankrupt, Satellite/Cable Bills BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS Monopoly Zone; Cable Buck Economy, DTV Switch No JAN BOATS: Cold Weather and Hot Companies Nationwide fined; L-P Pay-TV Payday, NYC Jazz DX! Tuning in 2182; MultiPSK; College Station Flunks FCC Station to Draw One Million New Around the Bands; Going Digital; Exam; Radio Stations Win FCC Listeners, Midland Radio Fined Boats for Beginners Fines $21,000, GMRS License Fee vs FEB PLANES: AirNav.com - A MAY ARRL: IBM’s BPL Plans OK; Fine. Resource for Aircraft Listeners Bomb Squad Blows Up Ham OCT ARRL Nails FCC on BPL Issues; MAR TRAINS: Reception Range? It Gear; Indy Cops Gone Wild on KY County Sponsors Ham Class; Depends... 2M; Scanner Listener Helps Nab DRM-FM Tested in Paris; DTV APR BOATS: Radio on the Waves Crooks; Iridium and Russian Coupon Program R.I.P. ; FL MAY PLANES: DXing General Aviation Satellites Collide; Pollution Reading Service Funding Victim; UNICOM Detecting Satellite Now Trash; Recording Artists Seek FCC JUN TRAINS: The Best of Times, The Sirius/XM Saga: Last Second Help; ISS to De-orbit in 2016? ; Worst of Times Reprieve; DTV Switch Lurching New Satellite Finds Earth-like JUL BOATS: Radio waves and water Ahead; Tallest Broadcast Tower Planet; Satellite Messenger from waves; Amateur radio; Summer Proposal; R.I.P. Muzak?; Space; New In-Flight Wi-Fi Gets DX; The world of Incomplete Public Files? $7,200; FCC OK; PA County Fed Up with communications is changing JUN Harris Corp to Buy M/A-Com; All- “OpenSky;” CTA Bootlegger AUG PLANES: Handoffs and in-One Chip for DRM & HD; Arrested; Mall Radio Jammer Simulcasting ARRL Skeptical of Rural Internet Busted; Companies Cited for SEP TRAINS: Amtrak Photo PolicyL Proposal; LA Parish to rely on Selling Illegal Gear. An editorial Hams; DTV Conversion (Finally!); OCT BOATS: Marine VHF Winter Orange Co FL SWATs FM Pirate; COMPUTERS & RADIO Freeze-Up; Severe Weather; FCC Gives 1st Responders 4.9 JAN Trying Out RadioCom 6 (part 2); Marine Radio Historical Society; GHz; Brazilian Bootleggers Goodbye Vista? Already? Lighthouses. Chased off U.S. Milsats; FL DoT FEB Computer Password Security and to Use CB for Emergency Info; Biometrics (Microsoft fingerprint COMMUNICATIONS U.S. Military to Track 800 reader) JAN ARRL says Nix to DRM on 40; Satellites by October; Sirius to MAR An "Atom" Powered PC for Radio City Forced to Buy BPL System; Augment its Signal; FM Pirate to Enthusiasts Kitty High Jinks on 40 Meters; FCC: “Not My Signal”; FM Station APR Unfinished Business: RFPC Action on 600 Meters; DXpedition Loses in Contest with FCC; running an SDR: The Problem to Desecheo Island; Rolling Consumer Corner (recalls): RS with Windows versions Helicopter; CHP vs. Cell Phone Light Rocker switch, Insignia 26” MAY The Tiny USB Muzee Ops Revisited; Cell Phone Aids flat panel LCD TV sets, Best JUN Two free and useful radio tower Boat Rescue; KGO-AM Goes Buy’s Rocketfish portable power applications: FCCinfo and Solar; WorldSpace in Chapter 11; supply ZIPSignal Great White (space) Hope JUL Navy-Marine Corps MARS to JUL Touchatag: RFID for Home Use FEB 40 Meters, All Amateur All the Disestablish; HR2160 Seeks to AUG What’s All the Fuss about Time; FCC Grants HF Renewals; Help Hams; Poll Rates BBG “Netbooks”? FCC OKs Experimental Stations.