Monitoring Times 1994 INDEX

FEATURES: Air Show: Triumph to Tragedy Season Aug JUNE Duopolies and DXing Broadcast: Atlantic City Aero Monitoring May JULY TROPO Brings in TV & FM A Journey to Morocco May Dayton's Aviation Extravaganza DX Bolivia: Radio Under the Gun June June AUG Low Power TV Stations Broadcasting Battlefield, Colombia Flight Test Communications Jan SEP WOW, Omaha Dec Gathering Comm Intelligence OCT Winterizing Chile: Land of Crazy Geography June NOV Notch filters for good DX April Military Low Band Sep DEC Shopping for DX Receiver Deutsche Welle Aug Monitoring Space Shuttle Comms European DX Council Meeting Mar ANTENNA TOPICS Aug Monitoring the Prez July JAN The Earth’s Effects on First Year Radio Listener May Radio Shows its True Colors Aug Antenna Performance Flavoradio - good emergency radio Nov Scanning the Big Railroads April FEB The Half-Rhombic FM SubCarriers Sep Scanning Garden State Pkwy,NJ MAR Radio Noise—Debunking KNLS Celebrates 10 Years Dec Feb AntennaResonance and Making No Satellite or Cable Needed July Scanner Strategies Feb the Real McCoy Radio Canada International April Scanner Tips & Techniques Dec APRIL More Effects of the Earth on Radio Democracy Sep Spy Catchers: The FBI Jan Antenna Radio France Int'l/ALLISS Ant Topgun - Navy's Fighter School Performance Nov Mar MAY The T2FD Antenna Radio Gambia May Tuning In to a US Customs Chase JUNE Antenna Baluns Radio Nacional do Brasil Feb Nov JULY The VHF/UHF Beam Radio UNTAC - Cambodia Oct Video Scanning Aug Traveler's Beam Restructuring the VOA Sep Waiting in Juneau Sep AUG The "Big J" HF Antenna Riding High with the Cowboys SEP How High and Why? Oct Technology and Technical: OCT Groundplane Antennas Shortwave Broadcasting in Haiti After the Shock July NOV Radio Direction Finding July Countdown to the Crash June DEC Antenna/Receiver Switching So You Got a New SW Receiver Life with Satellites Jan Jan Microwave Monitoring Feb BEGINNER’S CORNER The Dominican Republic Feb Microwave Monitoring—Build an JAN QSLing the Hard Ones U.S.-Cuba Broadcast War Oct March FEB Reading RTTY INMARSAT System MAR Getting Your Equipment Human Interest: LF - The Last Frontier Nov Repaired Aggressive MorotolaStance Nov Monitoring the Military's Satellite APRIL Beginner’s Books A Guiding Force: Harry Dannals Communications Aug MAY Mailbag March OptoScan 456 (Review) Oct JUNE Summer Shortwave A Real Old-Timer Remembers Radio in Cyberspace Nov Alternatives July Secret of Nimbus (satellite sleuth) JULY Local Notions An Old Pirate—Sarah—Blown Away April AUG Uncle Skip's Guide to Jan So You Got a New SW Receiver Monitoring CB - Radio for the People July Jan SEP Reporting signal quality D-Day:Day of Discovery Jun The Spectrum Analyzer May (SINPO) Fifth Anniversary MT Convention Zap Proof Your Radio Room June OCT Kit Building Dec NOV Protecting equipment from Kuwait: Mission Impossible Dec Utilities: theft LAPD: You Better Stay Home Feb Drugs, Spies, and Numbers Oct DEC Guide to Measurements Listening in the Dark May Scanner/SW Networking May Reading, 'Riting & Radio Sep BELOW 500 kHz Repercussions From Cal Quake AMERICAN BANDSCAN JAN Document Your DX April JAN WWYZ-FM 92.5 Connecticut FEB Readers Letters FEB DXer Mika Palo, Helsinki, MAR Hunting for Lowfers Nostalgia: Finland APRIL IF Shift The Medium IS the Message: MAR Moody Broadcasting Network; MAY Below 100 kHz—the Feb Bose subbasement 1st DX Program “Wave” Radio JUNE Summertime APRIL WOJB-FM 89, Wisconsin Strategy,OMEGA update Scanning: MAY The Summer Sporadic-E JULY Tune Into NAVTEX AUG DXing Massassachusetts MAR World of Ham Radio CD Ready SEP Books, catalogs, equip ROM; SCANCAT Version 5.0; SEP Digital Logic Simplified OCT Direction Finding New SCANPRO Teaser OCT Status Indicator/Logic Probe NOV How Low Will It Go? -Rcvr APRIL Comparing Six Propagation NOV Low Pass Filter for CTCSS Specs; Navtex; Beyond Basics - Progs Detection Omega MAY Lowe’s Multiscan 1.81; RFI DEC Pulse Stretcher Circuit DEC Tips & Techniques; FAA help Beacon Specs JUNE SWBC Interval Signals v1.2; FEDERAL FILE HP Dash-board; World 29 v2.97 JAN The Best Equipment BOB’S TIP OF THE MONTH JULY Any Port in a Storm FEB Mobile Monitoring, FAA JAN Help for Electric Fence AUG BUSing Mice, PAKing Ratts & Frequencies Interference, COPYing CATS MAR Top 125 Military SW Freqs; Ducting Detecting SEP AEA PC Pakratt Dept of Justice Freqs FEB Yaesu FRG8800 Display OCT HOKA 30 APRIL Federal Monitoring in the 90’s; Correction NOV HOKA Code 3 and 30 vs DEA, FL Joint Task Force, FBI, MAR SW Antenna Base PK232 Border Patrol freqs APRIL Drake SW-8 Battery Fix; DEC SWL Manager, CD-ROMS MAY The Spectrum Analyzer; US ICOM R72 PLUS Postal Svce and Department of Clock Fix State Security freqs MAY Realistic® PRO-2030 Cell DEMAW’S WORKBENCH JUNE Monitoring a Presidential Visit; Restoration JAN Add a BFO to Your SW Radio Dept.of Labor Freqs; Mode JUNE Realistic® PRO-2032 FEB Inexpensive Ground-Plane Allocations Modifications Vertical JULY Changes at KKN stations; JULY Mobile Shortwave Antenna MAR How to Cut Antenna Material Body Bugs Noise Costs AUG Strange Sounds on the AUG Realistic PRO-2026 Memory APRIL Broadband Sloping-V Federal Channels; surveillance Backup Antenna kits; Center for Disease Control; SEP Ford Taurus Interference; MAY Effective Earth/Radio wildlife tracking Regency 4030 Lockup Grounds SEP National Park Service OCT AR 1500 Look-up Chart JUNE Components: How To Find OCT KKN Stations - Gone? (Miami NOV Cellular restoration on late- Them Complex) model BC855XLT JULY Microphone Impedance & NOV Strange Events in the Deserts DEC New PRO-51 Cellular Mod Amplification (Groom Lake); World Cup AUG Soldering Techniques Security; BLM-Boise Interagency CLOSING COMMENTS SEP Kit Building Fire Center; US Attny JAN FCC Punishes Ham (Chris OCT Dip Meters DEC Federal Trunking; Salt Lake Boyer) for Rescue Call NOV External Antenna Coupling City freqs; Fed Surveillance FEB Canadian Scanner Bans DEC Low Cost Power Supplies (bug) freqs Looms; US Rewrites the Communications Act DIGITAL DIGEST HIGH SEAS MAR In the Public Interest; PSA as JAN Decoding SITOR JAN Back to Basics "Broadcaster" APRIL FAX MAR Florida Licensees on 4125 APR April 26th: The Deadline is JULY Monitoring the French Military kHz Here OCT Decoding ACARS MAY Cruiseline News and freqs; MAY Restructuring the Spectrum Norfolk fax broadcast freqs JUNE Computer BBSs: The New CB EXPERIMENTER’S WORKSHOP JULY Weather Facsimile JULY Objective Review or Self- JAN Build a Solid-State Audio Broadcasts Promotion? Recorder SEP Time Stations and Navigation AUG MT Convention: 5 Year and Playback Circuit NOV Missing at Sea (Caribbean Milestone FEB Hot Glue Tips and Pin-Line search) SEP Scanner Restrictions Get Sockets Worse MAR DC Power Supplies for MAGNE TESTS OCT What Can I Legally Listen To? Experimenters and Hobbyists Caveat: Reprints of Magne Test reviews NOV Signaling Our Punches in APRIL RF Voltage Probe; Fast are not available. Haiti Charge Nicd and NiMH Batteries JAN Sangean ATS 202 DEC MT/Grove Staff Holiday MAY R-7100 Speedup, Homebrew FEB Realistic® DX-375 Greetings Signal Generator Yaesu FRG100 Improvements and JUNE Heavy Duty Regulated Power optional keypad COMPUTERS & RADIO Supply for CB & Ham Radio MAR Grundig Yacht Boy 500 JAN FAXCAP JULY How to Prepare & Install MAY External Antenna for SW FEB Database Programs on a Modification Circuits Listening; Another Keypad for Budget AUG Things to Come & How to Get the Yaesu FRG-100 JUNE Sony ICF-SW100 Pocket Cars; Pirate Pages Returns; OCT Solar Outages Radio What We Are Hearing NOV The 500 Channel Myth JULY MFJ-8100 Shortwave Radio; SEP La Voz del CID; Stern DEC Audio Broadcasting by Better, Cheaper Keypad for Jamming; Haiti Clandestine; Satellite Yaesu FRG-100 Errata; KIWI address AUG Drake SW8 Portatop Receiver OCT RFPI Chases Pirates off SCANNER EQUIPMENT SEP Sony SW7600G; W-J Update 7385; KIWI Still Active; Radio JAN Realistic® PRO-2030 and OCT ComFocus SoftWave receive Tornado PRO-2032 NOV Bolong HS-490 NOV PR Anti-Castro Clan Busted; FEB Tips for Your New Scanner DEC JPS Digital Signal Processors New FFC Chief; Radio MAR Realistic® PRO-2027 w/cell Democracy; Taiwan Pirates; mod inst ON THE HAM BANDS French Pirates; QSL APRIL AOR AR1500 Handheld JAN Audio Aids Controversy Scanner FEB What Frequencies Can Hams DEC Pirates Scatter; Finland Busts; MAY Realistic® PRO-51 Use? Radio Democracy JUNE AOR AR3000A Scanner MAR Something Different From JULY Realistic PRO-23 Handheld Different Locations PLANE TALK Scanner APRIL More Fun Radio Activities FEB ARINC AUG DSP: The Wave of the MAY The W8JK Antenna APRIL Accessorize Your Aero Future? JUNE Building Your Own Rig; Monitoring SEP AOR AR8000 Buckmaster Hamcall CD JUNE How to Get More Out of OCT Realistic® PRO-2035 JULY Good Reading Listening to HF Aero Comms NOV Digitech Loop Recorder AUG Building Your First Station AUG Getting to Know Denver Int'l DEC Austin Ferret VHF/UHF SEP Log-EQF Software OCT Central East Pacific Freqs Antenna OCT Organizers; 160 Meters DEC "Lofty" Lingo (VFR/IFR); (antenna) Radar Separation; Minn/St. Paul SCANNING REPORT NOV Six Meters; Ramsey FX-50 freqs; company freqs JAN Preventative Maintenance for 6m kit Your Shack DEC Christmas Books and PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT FEB Protecting Your Privacy Bargains MAR Travel and Tourism MAR Scanning the Forbidden JUNE Tuning in on World Business Freqs—Phones OUTER LIMITS SEP Science and Technology APRIL Scanning with CTCSS JAN Clandestine Information DEC And Now the News MAY Homemade Scanning Sources, Ernest Zundel and Antennas Voice of Freedom, Bay Area RADIO REFLECTIONS JUNE Vacation Tips Pirates, Equipment FEB Phoenix Pioneer Stations JULY Scanning the Races FEB La Voz Popular Schedule, KOY/KTAR AUG Public Service Monitoring Cuban Clandestines on WRMI, APRIL Beginner’s Guide to Vintage SEP Winterizing; Cellular band Radio Patria Libre, News Items Radio plan MAR CCN Closes Down; Kurdish MAY Making Your Own Radio Parts OCT Finding Frequencies Logs; Radio Pirana; Voice of AUG McMurdo Silver - a Radio NOV Scanning Gifts; Cordless 900 Peace; Radio Free Venice; Enigma Caller ID Pirate News NOV 1941 Hallicrafters Super DEC Scanning the Rails; Capitol APRIL Brother Stair Responds to Skyrider, SX-28 Monitoring; SCA FCC Bust; La Voz Popular, Pirate QSLs Frequency Exchange (in state order) MAY FCC Visits WPIG Studios, SATELLITE TV Please DO NOT request reprints; not WRMI, Radio Pretoria, Radio JAN Getting Better Audio From available Pirana QSL Your Satellite Receiver JUNE FCC Gives Subpoena Powers FEB A Used TVRO Primer City/State Issue to Itself; Radio USA Fine MAR TVRO News Update Fast Food Freqs Nov Upheld; Weine/Fury update; APRIL DBS ERA Major League Baseball June Pirate Radio Insanity MAY Satellite Broadcasting Guide Bermuda July JULY 7385 kHz Getting Popular; JUNE NASA, WXSATs, AMSATs, Blue Angels July Power Radio Busted; Pirate Teletext... 900 Cordless Freq Aug News; New FCC Gadgets; JULY Build Your Own Satellite TV Birmingham, AL March Correction; What We Are System Greenville, AL March Hearing AUG Satellie TV Comes of Age Little Rock, AR March AUG Ex-Alpha 66 Cuban SEP SCOLA/WRN Going Digital?; Phoenix, AZ Dec RebelsArrested; Radio Patria Satellite Radio Guide; AMSAT Bakersfield, CA Feb Libre; Howard Stern Jammed; How to Use Amateur Radio Benicia, CA Nov KIWI Active Again; New FCC DF Satellites; DBS Update Capistrano, CA Jan Los Angeles, CA Feb Houston, TX March Covert Catalog Aug Los Angeles, CA Aug Salt Lake City, UT April Crystal Set Handbook Sep Milpitas, CA Jan Seattle, WA Feb DXpedition Handbook Sep Ojai, CA July Vancouver, WA June DX Propagation for BeginnersNov Sacramento, CA June Milwaukee, WI April Electronic Gateway Sep Sacramento, CA Oct Bluefield, WV July Fisher Newsletter Aug Santa Barbara, CA Aug FM Atlas 15th Ed April San Bernardino, CA Oct UTILITY WORLD FMedia! Oct Montagnes, QB,CN Jan JAN US Navy’s Alligator Frequency Almanac Aug Montreal, QB, CN Sep Playground; Foxes and 10 General Class License BookDec Colorado Sprs, CO May Count RTTY Transmissions Guide to Fax Stations (incomplete) Colorado Sprs, CO Sep FEB QSLing MARS Oct Colorado Sprgs, CO Oct MAR LA Earthquake; Korea Crisis Ham-ROM July Denver, CO June Monitoring;New FAA Freqs; Helping Ham July Connecticut Oct Bayonne Global Station Hidden Ham Antennas Oct Westport, CT March APRIL Why Listen To Utilities; Cuban History of Int'l Broadcasting Oct Fairfield County, CT Aug freqs; Navy MARS freqs; Incredible Audio and Video Projects Mildord, CT Dec Spanish numbers April Brandon, FL June MAY A Visit with the Russian Navy IBS White Papers (SW-8) Nov Orlando, FL Sep including frequencies Intercepting Numbers StationsApril Orlando, FL Dec JUNE NORAD; Coast Guard news; ISWAC Monitoring Awards Oct Punta Gorda, FL Sep VOLANT identified Kenwood R5000 Handbook Feb Walt Disney World, FL (new)Nov JULY North Korea crisis deepens; Klingenfuss’ Guide to Utlities 1994 Atlanta, GA May Bosnia war update; HOS details Feb Atlanta, GA Sep revealed; Japanese UTE Club Logmaster II (software) Nov Carrollton, GA April AUG Wishing Upon a Mystic Star Low Band DXing June Idaho Falls, ID Dec SEP Monitoring Bosnian Conflict Listening In Aug Statesville, IL Jan OCT Who is Nightwatch?; Military Mapzation! (software) Dec Marion Co, IN May Ops Around the World; Master Frequency File Jan Kansas City, KS Dec Recommended Books Metro Concepts Scanner BookMay Wichita, KS Jan NOV Haiti Occupation; Where are Military Monitoring July Boston, MA, Fire Dec Russian comms?; Russian Missing Pieces Jan Lynn, MA April Naval Freq Change, KFS Monitoring the Yugoslav Conflict Baltimore, MD Sep Update April Pittsfield, ME April DEC USAF Global HF System Mountain Sales (fire tapes) Oct Livonia, MI May National Sports & Recreation University of Minn July WHAT'S NEW Freq Directory Dec NC Highway Patrol May Books: NatScan/NESN Merger Oct Fayetteville, NC June A Passion for Radio Jan North Carolina Scanner Freq Dir Sanford, NC Sep Amateur Radio Class Oct May Wilmington, NC July Amateur Radio Resource Directory Ohio Scanner Freq DirectoryMay New Hampshire Dec Aug Official Connecticut Scanner Guide New Jersey Turnpike Oct ARRL Antenna Book, 17th Sep March Amityville, NY Nov Backwoods Solar Electric Systems Official New England Scanner Guide Brome County, NY July June Aug New York City, NY Feb Beginner's Hdbk of Amateur Radio Outer Space Freq Directory May New York City, NY March Feb Packet Power March New York City Fire Dec Beginner's Guide to ShortwaveAug Passport, 11th Edition Sep Suffolk / Nassau Co, NY Nov Beyond Police Call June Patches, We Depend On YouJuly Syracuse, NY Oct BEX Electronics Aug Phone Pirates Feb Yaphank, NY Aug Build Your Own SW AntennaSep Pirate Radio Directory July Cleveland, OH May C Crane Catalog Aug Pocket Frequency Guide Aug Cleveland, OH Aug CAN-DO Video Series Dec Police Call Radio Guide 1994Jan Clackamas Co, OR Feb CB 101 (video) Dec Pop Went the Pirates June Indiana, PA Oct Clandestine Survey Sep Power Up! March Lackawanna, PA April Commonsense Medicine and Practical Antenna HandbookAug Williamsport, PA Oct Emergency CompanionFeb Quebec Scanner Guide Aug Sulfur Springs, TX Jan Communications Receivers May QST Magazine Aug Carswell, TX Aug Communications Technology Radio After Dark (tape) Nov Luzerne County,PA Jan UpdateNov Radio Amateurs Guide to theApril Charleston, SC May County Scanner Talk Feb Ionosphere Corpus Christi, TX March Course in Shortwave ListeningAug Radio Mgr for Windows (Saladino software) Oct Laser Pointer April Radio Stuyvesant (CD) Dec Lescomm GE Scanner Mod Sep Radio Tech Mod Books 6A & 6B Listening to SW Cassette April Feb Magic Eye Nov Rhode Island Scanner GuideMay MFJ-432 Voice Keyer Nov Ridgecrest/China Lake Scanner Book MP-140X Power Inverter Jan Dec 900 MHz Cordless reductionsNov Satellite Times Sep Noise Cancellation Tech Inc.March Scanner Radio Listings: OhioDec Omnicron Elec VLR-4 RecorderMarch Scanning New Hampshire Nov Optoelectronics DC440 Decoder Scannerist’s Street Guide Jan Feb Shortwave Listeners HandbookMarch Optoelectronics OptoScan 456June Shortwave Listening GuidebookJune Palomar Magnetic Balun Nov Shortwave Listener's Q&A BookAug Palomar PD-600 Aug Space Satellite Handbook May Power Flip-Top Battery Jan Sportcat Frequency Guide Aug Radio Shack Frequency Counter Transmitter Documentation Project Jan Dec Radio Shack PRO-2027 March Tropical Bands Survey Aug Realistic® PRO-51 May Tuning In To RF Scanning Aug Realm WHS150 Feb TV E-Skip Maps Oct Reel-Talk Nov US Repeater Mapbook May Scalar Wave Generator Dec Utility Database July Scanventure NY FCC ListsMarch VHF/UHF Frequency Flood Aug SoftWave by Comfocus June W1FB's Help for New Hams Oct The ClipTM April World Calendar June The Road King July World Radio TV Handbook 1994 Transmitter Fingerprinting July March Uniden PRO-340XL CB March WRTH Maps May Uniden PRO 501XL CB Oct Worldwide Aeronautical Uniden Sportcat Feb Communications Frequency Uniholder Holsters Feb Directory Sep World of Ham Radio CD-ROMMarch Wreck Chasing Jan Zapper—10GHz OscillatorMarch

Equipment: Reviews: ACE TSR2400 Scanner May Black Box Antenna Oct Ameritron ALS500M amplifierDec Black Box Antenna, model S (SW) Antenna Booster/PreselectorAug Dec Antlers for Windows July C.Crane AM/FM Mobile Ant April ATI Lightning Charger June Everhardt SW Listening ant Aug Circuit Works Quick-Bond KitFeb Frequency & Intelligence DirJune Classic Clock Sep GAP Multiband Antenna Oct Comm Spec Video Modem Sep Grove SP-200 Sound EnhancMay CopyCode 2.0-Sensible Software Grove No-Tenna June April Optimus Speaker April Deaign EQ Scanner Cases Oct Opto 3300 Freq Ctr Feb DX Daily Phone Service May Ramsey Kits June FBenterprises Freqs MapsMarch Select-a-Tenna April G&G used scanner list Nov SysCalc for Windws Jan GRE/ICOM package (Grove)Dec Trifield Environ Monitor July Grove Filters Sep Grove Interference Filters Feb Grove No-Tenna Feb Grove Preamp PRE-5 Dec Hamtronics R76-M VHF Rcvr Kit March Hamtronics R138 Wefax rcvr kitNov Head Clamps July Hot New Uniden Numbers July JPS NTR-1 Noise Reduction Unit May Kenwood Mods by Int’l RadioJan Monitoring Times 1995 INDEX

FEATURES: Modern Receivers: How we got here BELOW 500 kHz Broadcast: Nov JAN You Tell Us: listeners letters A Logical Future for Shortwave Sep Propagation Modes Oct FEB AWOS Stations; Homespun Loop Argentina: Radio with a Past Jan Revisited BBC Atlantic Relay Station May Utilities: MAR Survey; Wintertime DX; ELF grows Brazilian Voices on SW Mar GHFS: MacDill AFB Feb trees; Tesla books, GBZ tower Eq. Guinea: History & Mystery Oct Greenpeace High Seas Drama Dec APR Beacon Troubleshooting; Fix for Independent SW BC in Canada-I Apr MT Goes Inside NORAD Nov WR-3; using varicaps Part II May Sailing Through the Ham Bands Apr MAY Who's on the Band? Kol Israel: Changing Strategy Jun SAREX: Astronauts on ham radio Mar JUN Name That Sound; Navtex Mediumwave Mini-DXpeditions Jul JUL Summer Strategy "Miraculous" Reception? (MW) Apr AMERICAN BANDSCAN AUG Survey Results; loggings; Mac OKC: The Radio Aftermath Jul JAN Listen in on Remote Broadcasts map function; W7FG Vintage Radio in Botswana Feb FEB Landing that Wallpaper (QSLing) Manuals Shortwave in Latin America Aug MAR Books for Domestic DXer SEP GPS Meets Longwave; unique Shortwave History in S. Africa Nov APR Time Tips for DXing; Expanded beacons; tube intercom as Swiss Radio International Dec Band Broadcasters beacon; seismic sources; new The Course of Int'l Broadcasting Jan MAY Es Skip Time! beacons VOA’s Moroccan Relay Sep JUN Digital Radio - on the way? OCT Trip to Newington (ARRL) JUL International DX - on AM? NOV LF Engineering L-400B Antenna; Human Interest: AUG Who was on first? Longwave in the Pacific Bletchley Park,WWII code-breakers SEP Tower-Hunting Tips DEC A Visit to "Old CC" Dec OCT Mobile Dxing Hooked on Scanning May NOV Recording Your DX BOB'S TIP OF THE MONTH Joe Adamov: 53 Yrs at the Mike Oct DEC DX Tests - what, why, and when? JAN PRO-51 modified again; Hold for Leroy Schum: Homefront Hero Jul RS Freq Ctr; Better Knobs for Scanning Investigator Feb ANTENNA TOPICS BC200XLT Sixty Minutes in Cairo Mar JAN Bilal Isotran resonant circuit FEB Realistic Antenna Battery Saver; Victor Goonetilleke - DXer Sep antenna; Autek Research RF MR8100 Cell Mod When Rescue Fails Aug Analyst MAR SW Reception on Scanner FEB Choosing a Feedline Antenna Miscellaneous: MAR Selecting an Antenna - 1 (antenna APR Upside Down Antennas FEMA's Multiple Radio Vans Jan characteristics); antenna tech MAY PRO-2035 knob fix; Sony 2010 GMDSS: Safety at Sea Aug certification test Grove Expo, Vol VI Dec APR Selecting an Antenna - 2 JUN Cellular Image Reception Low-Power AM Transmitters Aug (bandwidth, tuners, received noise JUL Cable and Adaptor Losses Preparing for the Worst (batteries) Apr vs.signal) AUG Increase IF level on R7000/71000 Russians in the Savannah Jul MAY Selecting an Antenna - 3 (right SEP DX390 and 440 Tuning The FBIS is Listening Jan antenna for the job) Improvements The Internet via Radio Sep JUN Grounds: Real, Substitute, Artificial OCT Full coverage on AR8000, PRO-46 The Shuttle's Mir-acle Mission Jun JUL Using wire radial to improve NOV Reducing Scanner Intermod To ID or Not ID? Oct hand-held reception; Lew McCoy DEC Zap-proof your receiver from book review external antennas Scanning: AUG Utilizing Familiar Objects as Air Boss: Control Tower on Wheels Jul antennas; Baluns and Ununs book CLOSING COMMENTS Cruising the VHF Marine Band Jun review JAN Where are the Trunk-Tracking Edison, NJ, Gas Explosion Mar SEP Diversity Reception; A limp radial Scanners? Emergency 9-1-1! Sep quarterwave antenna FEB One More Anti-Monitoring Law 15 Mistakes in Buying a Scanner Nov OCT Easy-Up Antennas MAR Bits and Pieces Informed Scanning Dec NOV AEA IsoLoop APR Passing of the Clubs Project 25: Scanner Lockout? Jul DEC Survey of Loop Antenna Types MAY Is the FCC abandoning us? Scanning at the Airport Sep JUN Freedom from the Press Scanning Beautiful Bermuda Jan BEGINNER’S CORNER JUL Musings re Tom Kneitel retirement Scanner Collecting Primer May JAN Hi-Tech Learning Tools AUG Internet Phone; Successor to Ham Scanning Kilauea Aug FEB Computer Shows Radio Shadowing Houston's Traffic Feb MAR Parts Procurement SEP A Look Back in Time (good old Trunking: Listeners Keep Pace Oct APR Scanner Books days weren't necessarily better) Trunked Scanning Laws Nov MAY Volunteer Testing OCT Flim Flam Audio Try Searching May JUN Monitoring Skills NOV Is the FCC Worth Saving? JUL Last Chance QSLs DEC Holiday Greetings Technology and Technical: AUG Ham Awards and Contests Antenna Grounds May SEP Battery Operation COMPUTERS & RADIO Antenna Location: Fact & Fiction Apr OCT Radio Hobby Not Dead JAN PC FM Radio Card Backbone in Your Dipole Mar NOV My Alaskan Adventure FEB Grove FCC Database Earthquake Monitoring (EMF sensor)Aug DEC Mobilizing Mobile Mobility MAR Bus Mouse Installation Elements of Antennas Selection Mar APR Optical Scanning Exorcising Computer RFI Feb MAY ScanCat Gold FM-10 Review Jun JUN Radio vs. the Internet FM Kit / ICOM R71 remote system Jun JUL Copycat Pro; Hoka Code 3 Man v. Static Oct AUG Scan Manager Pro SEP Scan Star Pro SEP Scanning the Big Apple; Boise OCT 6 Meter FM; Alinco DR-MO6 OCT Collins PropMan Idaho River Festival, BLM, US NOV 46, 160, 80 m; Antenna NOV Mail: Internet v Hams Forestry Service; Assoc of Am Compendium DEC AEA FaxIII; OCR Revisited Railroads; more hidden media DEC Stocking Stuffers freqs DEMAW'S WORKBENCH OCT Who's where and who s moving - OUTER LIMITS JAN Tape Recorder Interface projected reallocations JAN Frente Nacional Cubano Busted FEB DC Voltage Regulators NOV SWLing the Feds (SW back-up Twice; Pirates on 43 meters; Clans MAR Understanding Transmitters systems) in Russia; Radio Free Berkeley (without a license) DEC Federal protection details, FEB Radio Caiman CIA op?; Radio APR Using Op Amps to Aid Reception presidential campaigns, Olympics, Patria Libre; Radio Democracy MAY SWR and nuclear terrorism QSL; Books JUN Dealing with Man-Made Noise MAR Pirate Activity Record Broken; JUL Looking for Parts? HIGH SEAS Trummel's Black Book; Iran AUG Understanding Your S-Meter JAN New York Harbor Clandestine QSL; Best QSL? SEP Beginning Circuit Design MAR KFS World Communications adds APR FCC Loses one, wins one (Radio OCT Multiband Reception w/Tuned VCT; Visual Morse; m/v Polydoros Free Berkeley, 3 busts); La Voz de Antenna Feeders radioman saves lives Chiapas, La Voz de Guatemalan NOV Using the MFJ-259 Multitester MAY Petroleum Industry Mayan; KIWI DEC Intro to Crystal Oscillators JUL Globe E-mail and telex freqs; MAY Pirate Bust Developments; USCG final CW Eropirate bulletin; Mexican clans; DIGITAL DIGEST SEP The Navy's New Boat (guest Taiwan pirates JAN ARQ Modes feature) JUN Pirate Jams Iran; Aum Shinrikyo; APR Third Shift Cyrillic RTTY NOV Comings and Goings (history of Super DX Edge; So Music Radio; JUL Worldwide Ute News Club; French maritime comms; final column) Spectrum bcasts from Winterfest Forces message JUL "Patriot" Programming; RNI OCT French Forces Naming MAGNE TESTS returns; Polish pirates; Iranian Conventions and Vessel Suffixes Caveat: Reprints of Magne Test reviews clandestines; WRMI E-mail are not available. AUG CID using satellite feed; NASWA EXPERIMENTER S WORKSHOP JAN AR3030 covers pirates; Radio Pirana; JAN Inside the PRO-2035 FEB Best Receivers to Buy 41/43 Meter Notes; more foreign FEB PRO-2035 Extended Memory MAR Sangean SG 789A pirates MAR Tape Recording and Volume APR Sony ICF-2010 SEP Increase in pirate activity; WINB in Control MAY ICOM R71;Satellit 700 price hike; limbo; KIWI still active; RNI quits; APR Battery Backup & Memory W-J HF-1000 difficulties continue; Radio Marti on WHRI; Iran clan Preservation SG 789A antenna heard in Brasstown MAY Easy Datalogger for Home & JUN Drake SW8 Improvements, Drake OCT Chiapas Libre; R Free Berkeley Shack R8A Coming; Sangean drops Fined; SIO Codes; R Pirana JUN Great Circle Spreadsheet ATS-803A; Grundig changes NAm Moves; Black Book e-mail; New JUL Radio Shack and Metex PC lineup; W-J still promises ACE Publisher interface meters; Enhanced improvements NOV Israel BustsPirate; SRS E-mail; Zeromatic for Pro-2004 series JUL JRC NRD-93 41-43m 2-way Spanish AUG Free Space Radio Path Analysis; AUG Yacht Boy 305; News - Drake DEC Iranian Clan loses funding; MAX471 measures battery charge R8A,Lowe HF-250 Mexican clans; Local FM pirates SEP Rolling Your Own Resistors SEP Lowe HF-250 OCT Antenna Switching; Ground-Wave OCT Aroma SED-EDL88C PLANE TALK Propagation Analysis NOV Watkins-Johnson HF1000 FEB Oakland Oceanic Control NOV Building or Upgrading Computers DEC Looking Ahead: Should you buy APR The Black Box and Cockpit Voice DEC Upgrading Computers - Part II now? Recorder; HF Nets serving MWARA; Software offer Final FEDERAL FILE ON THE HAM BANDS Approach JAN Bug Hunting; Border Patrol JAN Propagation Tips; New Videos; JUN LDOC; New HF Datalink HFDL FEB Summit of the Americas; Boston Mini-Regen receiver schematic being tested; Atlanta aero freqs freqs; Strange Signals FEB Straight Key Night - sending good AUG Flight of the Concorde MAR Postscripts (Secret Service at CW; Low Band Activity OCT Brush Up Your Basics; Summit); C3I Data Links; federal MAR Three Short Antennas; Casio Observation Decks; Monitoring the realignment proposal; fed loggings watch for DX tool Comics APR Top Agencies' Securenet System ; APR Ten Meters; observations about DEC San Fran ATC Tower; Oakland Whitman AFB; US Customs; US antennas; homebrew tilt-over Center; St Louis freqs; World Air P.O; seismic monitor freqs; US tower and coil-winder books Carrier Callsign Directory; readers' Geologic Survey MAY New Products: Amateur Radio corrections, additions; LDOC MAY FCC downsizing; Drug Newsline, No Code License verifications Enforcement and related ops Program, Buckmaster Electronics JUN Comms in strange places: Feds on Software Compendium, Power PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT fast food freqs, TV on Part 74, Pocket, QRP Plus MAR VOA Inaugurates Talk Radio Pres on airport freqs; diplo comms; JUN Are You Ready? Field Day, VHF JUN BBC in Transition (split streaming) monitoring UN & A-bomb Contest; Hambrew magazine; SEP Radio on the Internet anniversaries; US So Command Antique Electronic Supply; Atlas DEC Shortwave Simulcasting - KTBN & moving to Miami 400X transceiver WEWN JUL BATF and FEMA frequencies JUL Value of old gear; ICE DigiField FS AUG Summer VHF Activity: backpack meter RADIO REFLECTIONS radios; NASA HQ, Argonne Natl AUG RS HTX-212; Ramsey SX-20 FEB Working at WATT Lab, Arnold AFB, GA Forestry SEP Winter Preparations; Iso-tip MAY 100 Years of Radio (Marconi) Comm, FAA, Amtrak on 900 MHz cordless soldering iron AUG Revive a Five! (restoration) NOV Medical Quackery TV/public safety; list of cell Philadelphia, PA (DEA) Oct restorable scanners Pittsburgh, PA Nov SATELLITE TV SEP Equipment TLC; cellular banned in Potter Co., PA Mar JAN Trade-offs - Choosing a System hospitals Scranton, PA May FEB World Radio Network OCT Trunking; Briefcase Satellite; Laser Wilkes-Barre, PA Feb MAR World TV for Newshounds Guns; New Opto Scout Beaufort, SC Sep APR X*press Information is Ingenious; NOV How to scan during the holidays; Darlington, SC Jul AMSAT 3-D freqs; WRN; KJAZ TV audio freqs; CB channels; Dorchester Co, SC Jun MAY TVRO Shopping via allocation rules & regs Mt Pleasant, SC Feb SASE Satellite;Russian RS-15; Digital DEC Alive and Well - good December Newberry, SC Sep Audio Radio Service; Equip needs scanning freqs; antenna heights; Spartanburg, SC Apr for Inmarsat/Wxsat, & SCPC Tulsa, Okla., case Clinton, TN Dec SASE JUN World Sat Yearly review; SCPC on Alamo, TX Sep 18" dish? Minimum equipment Frequency Exchange (in state order) Laredo, TX Jul requirements for SCPC City/State Issue Tooele, UT Oct JUL Peaking Your Dish Mobile Co, AL Oct Arlington, VA Jul AUG View from Europe, European Montgomery, AL Sep Emporia, VA Jun experimenters; AMSAT news; Brisbane Airport, Australia Mar Fairfax, VA Aug Ingenius update Davis Monthan AFB, CA May Virginia Beach, VA Sep SEP Rebroadcast audio thro your California Coast May Burlington, VT Aug house with FX Wave; DMX Jamestown, CA May Woodstock, VT Dec update, New Old Stock supplier, Los Angeles, CA, FD Apr Green Bay, WI Dec sat talk shows, BBC news feed; Oakland, CA Oct Tomah, WI Jan satellite Stockton, CA Feb Wheeling, WV Mar predictions Toronto, Canada Nov OCT Ethnic Programming; BBC feed; Jefferson Co, CO Sep Other Offers/Freqs Bloomberg on Ku; DigiCipher rcvrs Hartford, CT Mar Blue Angels Apr delayed, etc. Washington, DC (Natl Pks) Jul Cordless Phones Sep NOV 1995 World Satellite Almanac; Dover, DE Mar Fast Food Freqs Sep industry news Dover, DE Nov Federal Freqs Sep DEC SCPC On a Budget New Castle Co, DE Nov Medecac Freqs Sep Smyrna, DE Mar TV Antenna conversion Apr $3 SCANNER EQUIPMENT Dade Co, FL Jan TV Antenna conversion Oct $5 JAN PRO-2035 vs. PRO-2006 Dade Co, FL Oct TV audio freqs Mar $2 FEB PRO-62; RadioMap Hollywood, FL Nov TV audio freqs Nov SASE MAR BC9000XLT Miami. FL Jan 8pp APR BC3000XLT Miami, FL May Treasure Hunt MAY Uniden BC860 XLT Orlando, FL Jan 2 sets Police Call Jan/Feb JUN PRO-2036/BC890XLT Walt Disney World, FL Jun $3 Naval Electronics HTS-2 Mar/Apr JUL PRO-2037 Douglasville, GA Jan BC-III and BC-V from G&G May/Jun AUG PRO-26 Marietta, GA May Scantenna from Grove July/Aug SEP PRO-60 Savannah, GA Jun RG6/U coax Sep/Oct OCT AR 2700 St Mary s, GA Nov Freq list: bugs, fast food, etc Nov/Dec NOV Comparison of scan rates, current Maui, HI Aug consumption, modulation Chicago, IL Apr UTILITY WORLD acceptance beween AR8000 and Danville, IL Aug JAN AFTN almost gone; DCS HF other handhelds; RU2700 recorder Clarksville, IN Dec system; Nightwatch Update; option for AR2700; portable Columbus, IN Jan Hobbyist's Guide to COMINT antenna alternatives Hendricks Co, IN Oct FEB Aero Mobile Band Standardizes DEC PRO-2040 Hutchinson, KS Jun MAR RTTY Numbers Stations; HICOM Topeka, KS Dec gone SCANNING REPORT Wichita, KS Feb APR Single Letter HF Markers JAN Scanning Questions; NOAA Boston, MA Dec Revealed weather; new aero freqs; taxi cabs Aberdeen, MD Mar MAY SECURE system; AF manual FEB Scanning Savvy; cellular newsclips Bangor, ME Dec description of EAMs; 5680 & 5696 MAR Beyond UHF; Qualcom cellular Aurora, MO Apr logs, X-ray codes contract; protection from cellullar Northfield, MN Jan JUN FEMA Support Communications clones; TV bands Havelock & New Bern, NC Jul JUL British Royal Air Force APR Spring cleaning (scrounging); Mount Valley, NH Nov AUG Hurricane Season, NOAA and news clips Atlantic City, NJ May 53rd WRS and related freqs MAY Listening Post Improvements; Ocean City, NJ Oct SEP The meaning behind the EAM cordless mikes; bumper beepers; Las Vegas, NV Sep messages; Navy Tacamo takes on news clips Las Vegas, NV Apr ABNCAP role; Nightwatch nets JUN Challenge: mapping antennas in Cedarhurst, NY Feb OCT US STRATCOM Network Freqs; your neighborhood; briefcase Broome Co, NY Jun Inter-American Air Forces and satellite phone; news clips; Oklahoma City, OK Jul Army communications systems extending cordless range; Oklahoma City, OK Aug NOV Coast Guard Pacific Operations, Goodyear Blimp freqs Roseburg, OR Jun corrections JUL Computerized Scanning; OKC Dallastown, PA Mar DEC US Govt HF Exercises; FAA HF active freqs; bugs in retaurants; Harrisburg, PA Aug radio network; Global Wireless PO scanning; Blue Angels sched; Mifflin Co, PA Apr maritime network new aero freqs Mifflin Co, PA May SASE AUG August scanning (shopping malls, Philadelphia, PA (RR) Feb WHAT'S NEW sat freqs, winterizing); NY Philadelphia, PA Jul Books: Aeronautical Freq Directory (#3) Aug Zenith Trans-Oceanic:Royalty of Rs Hamtronics RWWV kit Jun Air-Scan #6 May Jul ICOM IC-775 & IC-775 w/DSP Jul Amateur Hambook Apr ICOM IC-Z1A HH Transceiver Jul Amateur Radio Almanac Apr Software, Videos, Services, etc. ICOM IC-706 all-mode Transceiver Jul Amateur Radio Encyclopedia Jan Adaptive Sys WAVE (Mac control) Nov JPS NIR-12 Noise Reducer Jun Amateur Radio RV Antennas Sep ARRL Electronic Repeater Directory Lightning Emergency Generator Oct AM Radio Log Jan Nov Kantronics KPC-3 TNCt Aug AM Radio Logbook (NRC) Dec ARRL Publications (catalog) Aug Kiwa BCB filter Nov Antenna Factbook Jul ARRL Radio Designer (soft) Feb Magellan's WaterPocket Jul ARRL Antenna Compendium Jun ARRL Radio Designer (soft & book) Micro Tek Minute-Man SW conv May ARRL Handbook Jan Sep Miltronix R-390 Repair Jan ARRL Intro to RF Design Sep AT&T Language Line Dec Miracle Baby Micro Duck May ARRL Operating Manual Aug BK Precision (catalog) Aug MFJ-114 Clock Feb ARRL UHF/Microwave Projects May Cellular Security 800 MHz mod Nov MFJ-66 Dip Meter Adapter Sep ARRL Radio AmateursWorld Atlas Nov Circ-"IT" classifieds Mar MFJ-1717 Flexible Duck Sep British Columbia Freq Directory Jul Code Red 900 number Jun MFJ-306 World Band Explorer Aug CB Buyers Guide Dec Design EQ BankPac cards Sep MFJ-452 Super CW Keyboard Jan Coll Guide to Antique Radios(#3) Aug Dir of Elec Surveillance Equip Sup Oct Motron Auto-Kall DTMF controller Jul Coll Guide to Novelty Radios Aug FAR Scholarships Mar Naval Electronics HTS-3 Mar Coll Guide to Transistor Radios Aug Fontel Foundation Inventor s BBS Oct Optoelectronics CX12AR Interface Oct Compendium of Am RR Freqs (#13) Geo Jacobs Roboscan 2000 Aug Optoelectronics OptoScan 535 Oct Aug Getting Started in VHF (video) Feb OptoElectronics Scout Jan Computer Support Directory Oct Gordon West Radio School Oct Palomar Magnetic Switch Balun Aug CQ Ham Calendars Jan Grove FCC Database Sep Power Pocket Oct Digital Multimedia Guide Sep Grove Repair Service Feb Powertip May Electronics Pocket Reference Feb Kiwa catalog on Internet May QuickTone CTCSS kit Feb Intro to Digital Video Jan Klingenfuss Modulation Types (CD) Jun Radio Engineers Vector-Finder Jun Guide to Fax Radio Stations (#15) Sep LeProgram, Shortwave Guide Jun Radio Shack PRO-27 Sep Guide to Utility Radio Stations Apr LogOn USA (internet Bcast) Oct Ramsey FM25 FM Stereo Txr Aug Haruteq Ontario Scanner Directory Nov Marbian Productions SWBC skeds Nov Sony ICF-SW1000T receiver Nov Lew McCoy on Antennas Mar MetroWest catalog Oct TenTek T*Kits Apr Listeners Lawbook (#2) Aug Milestone Tech Code Master V Jul Tripp Lite PR-series power supply Aug Low & Med Freq Scrapbook Jan Milestone Tech M*Log Nov Uniden laser radar detectors Mar Low Power Communications, (vol 3) Mr Scanner s CD ROM Nov Uniden PC 76XLW CB Mar Sep New Wireless Pioneers (cat of books)Oct Uniden's new scanners Feb M-Street Journal May Old West Graphics (decals etc) Jul Uniden scrambled cordless phones Mar Mobile Cellular Systems Mar Old West Graphics ID tags Dec Uniden 25-Chan Phones Jul New SW Propagation Handbook Jul PageWatch Apr Viking long-play recorder Feb New York City ATC Jul Palo Alto Sun Clock Dec Wavetek products Sep Norwegian AM Log Book May Probe kit catalog Feb Wavetek digital multitesters Dec Official Massachusetts Freq Guide Apr Quest Electronics(catalog) Nov Ohio/Mich Scanner Freq Dir Dec RCSI ScannerWEAR Soft-control Jun Reviews: Orange Book of Scanner Repair Jun RMA Electronics Co Jun Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra Jun Passport 1996 Nov Rockwell PropMan Jul AOR SDU5000 Spectrum Display May Pennsylvania Freq List Jun Signal Int, Windows Scan*Star Dec CTP DS-49 Descrambler Sep Police Call 1995 Jan SSC PC GOES/Wefax 4.0 Jun Free Radio Berkeley transmitter kit Jun Police Call So Cal Detail Edition Mar State PD & Hwy Patrol Badge Guide Grove TUN-5 Oct Radio Modification Handbook Aug Dec JPS ANC-4 Antenna Noise Canceller Rebel Radio May Vintage Manuals (cat) Mar Aug Remaking of Radio Mar Worldcom Yacht Boy 400 mod Mar K&L Message Tracker Jul Scanners 3 Jan Kiwa MW Air-Core Ant Dec Scanner Planner Dec Equipment: Logic Limited Franklin Converter Oct Schroeder s Antiques Price Guide Nov AEA APRS adapter cable for GPS Apr MFJ-784 DSP Filters Sep Spectrum Guide Apr AEA PK-96 packet w/GPS Dec Naval Electronics HTS-2 vs. -3 Jul Spectrum Regulation Handbook Oct Alpha Delta DX Ultra SWL antenna May Optoelectronics DC 440 decoder Mar Spread Spectrum Comm Handbook Audio Tech CS2000 home theater Dec Optoelectronics Scout 400 Feb Feb Autek Research RF Analyst Jan Optoelectronics Scout 40 Nov The Phone Book Aug BayGen Baylis wind-up radio Sep Par Electronics intermod filters Sep The Shortwave Radio Guide Jun Black Box Antenna Oct Select-A-Tenna vs the Black Box Apr Towers to Eternity Feb Cellular Security Max800 Antenna Feb ZS Electroniques ZSRX Antenna Jul Travelers Guide to Freq Mon (PA) Mar Cobra 93LTD CB Nov Travelers Guide to World Radio Apr Comm Spec TE-32 Encoder Nov Ultimate Scanner, Cheek #3 Jul Connect Systems CD-2 decoder Apr Underground Frequency Guide Feb Datafile Probe software Jan Understanding ACARS Jan Design EQ leather scanner cases Apr Understanding ACARS (#3) Aug DX Radio Supply Power Station Sep US Repeater MapBook Nov Everhardt truck CB antenna Mar Whole Spy Catalog Jul FlatPlug, American Leviton W&C Jan Winning the Global TV News Game Free Radio Berkeley Radio Kits May Dec Gall Universal (auto) Bracket May World Radio TV Handbook Mar Grove Mini-Skywire Sep Your HF Digital Companion (ARRL) Grove SW Converter May Aug Grundig Yacht Boy 207 & 217 Apr Hamtronics aero band rcvr kit Jul MONITORING TIMES INDEX 1996

FEATURES: Shuttle Mission Monitoring Sep SEP Antenna Tuners: Help or Broadcast: Hindrance? AWR Story - 25 Years Oct Technology and Technical: OCT HF Groundplane Antenna BC Bedfellows (WRUL & SW-4A) Aug Absolute Lightning Protection Jul NOV Conformal antennas; Free Radio Berkeley May Anyone for a Fox Hunt? Oct Experimental Antenna Topics Gabon SW Broadcast Profile Jan Bus Bar Grounding Jul and superconducting antennas Guide to Intl BCers on the Net Nov Cable TV Signal Leakage Jan DEC Microwaves; antenna modeling Keeping the QSL Fires Burning Feb Compact, efficient antennas Apr South Pacific BC History Dec 800 MHz Virtual Downconverter Feb BEGINNER'S CORNER Voice of Oromo (intvw) Jun Get in the Mediumwave Loop Nov JAN Roots: Building crystal receivers WGTG - America's Newest SW Jul ICOM's R8500 vs. AOR's AR-5000 FEB Used Receivers Will the Sun Set on RCI? Mar Nov MAR How to Read Hauser, etc. Improved VHF/UHF TV & FM Recep Apr APR Amateur Radio Reading Human Interest: Magic Wand Portable Antenna Apr MAY Stealth Monitoring Barry Goldwater Reflects on Radio Operation Skyhook (putting up dipole)Apr JUN Going Down (LF DXing) Jul Survive a Computer Virus Sep JUL Inspired by Mildew Bug Hunt, Expo Style Oct Vertical Antennas for SW Apr AUG The $100 Ham Station Grove Communications Expo '96 Dec Who's Playing Hell with HAARP? Oct SEP Radio ain't Television (do your Havana Moon remembrance Mar own digging) Next Parish, America Dec Utilities: OCT Uncle Skip Rethinks his The Inventor of Radio ...Stubblefield? Anchors Aweigh for Great DX May Antennas Oct NOV Beyond the Fringe The Subtle Art of Elmering Jan AMERICAN BANDSCAN DEC The Art of Code JAN Internet Resources for domestic DX Miscellaneous: FEB The world above 1600 kHz BELOW 500 kHz 1995 Index Jan MAR Anatomy of an AM Antenna JAN Logging techniques BBC Monitoring Service Sep APR The Telecom Act & DX FEB European longwave Bicycling with a radio Mar MAY TV DX Season MAR Lowfer Update Coordinating RF at the Olympics May JUN TV's Most Exotic DX; Expanded band APR News & Loggings DX Camps Feb update MAY QSLing Your Catch FM/TV DX 101 Jun JUL A Station of my Own JUN Surfing for Longwaves (Web Natl Assoc of BCers 96 convention AUG DX Tips & Tricks; KTRK on Expanded sites) Sep Band JUL Top End Tour National Weather Service Jan SEP Getting on the Air (experimental AUG Is it sound or radio?; Longwave New Olympic Technology Nov licenses); Staying on the Air (new SEP European Beacon Book; Tune in Operation Joint Endeavor FCC regs) NAVTEX Cutback Feb OCT TV by the Numbers (digital TV) OCT Longwave Intrigue (beacon PYD; The Wullenweber Antenna Apr NOV What's in a Name? (origin of station negative keying); new resources Wireless Weather Info Network Aug calls) NOV Portable antenna pick-ups; DEC Clear(?) Channels, history, DXing Cuban NDBs; WWVB Scanning: allocations; Expanded band news transmitter increase; 73 kHz Eyes & Ears on Baby Dec news Fast Food Smorgasbord Aug ANTENNA TOPICS DEC Whistlers, Sferics, & Tweeks, oh General Mobile Radio Service Feb JAN Gain & Directivity with a Sloper Dipole my! Guide to Frugal Scanning Jan FEB Two Classic Antenna Books: old Guide to Inauguration '97 Dec antenna theory vs. today's BOB'S TIP OF THE MONTH Hot Listening in "Hot-lanta" Jun MAR Same antenna, different results - JAN PRO 2042 vs. 2035: is there a LA Fire Dept Op Center Mar effects of earth on patterns difference? On the Road with REACT Jul APR Size, Gain, and Practical Results FEB BC230XLT vs. BC220XLT; keep Scanning Galveston Island Aug MAY The Hydrochloric Acid Antenna coil windings from slipping; shut Scanning the MegaMall Nov JUN Kite-Supported Antennas off PRO43 beep; What are the Scanning the Pres Campaigns May JUL The Legendary Dipole tropical bands? Seat of Your Pants DFing Jul AUG EME: Ultimate Weak Signal Work MAR Wide Freq Coverage on Regency MAY Mountain or Molehill? (unid rptr); 4020? DEMAW'S WORKBENCH Wash DC Monitoring APR Cell restoration on JAN Build a Multipurpose Broadband Amp JUN Gov Surveillance Freqs - To PRO2035,2042; Button FEB Learning to Work with Diodes publish or not to publish? Beartracker Beep MAR Easy Circuit Boards JUL Eavesdropping on Houston's MAY Invisible Antennas APR Minimize Man-Made QRN Mission Control Center; JUN More on Current Flow MAY Build a Noise Squelcher Manchester, KY, federal prison; JUL Those Triangular Towers JUN How to Tune Random-Length Postal Inspection freqs; Disaster AUG Solar Batteries Antennas Preparedness unused freqs? SEP Sony 2010 Battery hints JUL Revitalizing Older Receivers AUG Towers off Key West related to OCT Wireless phone jack system AUG One Feed Line-Three Antennas Fed agency office closings? makes new monitoring target SEP Choosing the Right Capacitor Privacy soapbox; websites NOV Oto Xplorer cellular restoration OCT Simple Receiver for the Beginner SEP Coast Guard to the Rescue; DEC Hand-held radio stand NOV Working with Toroids Radio Shack wireless transmitter DEC Be a Mini-MF or LF Broadcaster sale CLOSING COMMENTS OCT Federal freqs at the Olympics; JAN Equipment: Room for more? DIGITAL DIGEST Feds on INMARSAT; Bureau of FEB The Scam That Wouldn't Die JAN Internet for utilities Prisons; Cactus; Gulf towers (Spectrum Antenna) APR High Seas Hi-Jinx (SITOR msgs) again MAR A Theory of Technological JUL Digital Comms on Air and Sea NOV Telling who's who without a Evolution (DACARS, Russian RTTY, USCG program; Nat'l Forest freqs; low APR The Telecom Act - More System Coordination Net) power freqs protection than we need? OCT Review: Hoka Code-3 Gold DEC Modern Technology Catches Up MAY War of the Web: Round Two (by (K&L Message Tracker); Fed David Lindsay) EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP Protection Agencies; Radio JUN State of the economy JAN Upgrading Computers - Part 3 Traffic at OKC; no freqs off-limits JUL Radio Listeners: Are we really a FEB Upgrading Computers - Part 4 threat? MAR PRO-26 S Meters and NFM K.I.S. RADIO AUG Random Reflections Discriminator Magic MAR Buying equipment (recycled) SEP What the Heck is PCS? APR Ways to Design Circuits - Part 1 JUN CB - The Ultimate Frugal Radio OCT The Pendulum Swings MAY Ways to Design Circuits - Part 2 SEP Mobile Installations NOV Reporting What You Overheard - JUN Ways to Design Circuits - Part 3 DEC Packet for the Penny-Pincher Is it ever legal? JUL Ways to Design Circuits - Concl DEC Greetings from MT staff AUG LED Voltmeter MAGNE TESTS SEP Tone Detector-Decoder (Reprints of Magne Tests reviews are COMPUTERS & RADIO OCT Directional Scanner Beam not available.) JAN SatellitePro (Zephyr Services) NOV ProbeScope from Radio Shack JAN Lab measurements and features FEB Lowe Airmaster 2.0 ACARS DEC Freq Record-keeping made easy FEB Sony ICF-SW1000T decoder (APFTools) MAR Grundig Traveller II MAR Market Watching; Scan Star APR AOR AR7030 Update FEDERAL FILE MAY Drake R8A APR AEA ACARS; ScanCat hardware - JAN Dept of Agriculture; Mineral Mgt JUN Radio Shack DX394 UniVersatile Interface Service; winter resolutions; Army JUL Sony ICF-SW40 MAY CAT squelch adapters (Yaesu, police AUG Drake SW-1 ICOM, universal) FEB FEMA telecommunications; Federal SEP Sangean ATS 909 JUN K&L Message Tracker security, gov't or private? security OCT BayGen Free-Play JUL Predictions / CD ROMs (HamCall freqs NOV Drake's Little Secret: the "SW8A" and Electronic Software MAR Guarding Royal Visitors; Latin DEC Sangean ATS 303 Portable Compendium) American military freqs; Gulfport Navy AUG AEA's new software: Pakratt for Seabee Center; US Forest Service NET NEWS Windows 2.0, Log Windows Calif freqs; lesser-known Dept of JAN Sites that combine technologies SEP WiNRADiO: 0.5 to 1300 MHz Justice freqs; Yellowstone Park FEB How to get on the Internet OCT WiNRADiO: Win-win? APR Alaska, HAARP; Army Corps of MAR Old-time radio on the net NOV News bytes, and Universal Radio Engineers; Wright-Patterson AFB; NY APR No News is Not Good News ACT-1 ACARS area & McGuire AFB freqs MAY Beating our own Drum (Grove DEC Surfing for Monitoring Web Sites site) JUN Audio on the Internet Grapevine returns; Europirate APR FM in Your Backyard - Audio reception Subcarriers ON THE HAM BANDS DEC Need more pirate sources?; R Kudirat MAY TVRO Meets the Internet JAN Using old commercial gear time change; R Patria Libre sked; R (Skylink); Transponder Notes; FEB Surplus Saga Continues; Hamcalc Marti DSS break?; SCPC answers MAR A Computer in the Ham Shack JUN Satellite Broadcasting Guide 96 APR Info Sources for the New Ham PCS FRONT LINE review; FCC supports dish MAY Better QSO's; Games; Vibroplex OCT Emerging PCS Technologies: FCC owners; new channels and Anik Bug; boat mount; Field Day auctions; narrowband; broadband; problems JUN Amplitude Modulation; Phonetic unlicensed, Sprint Spectrum JUL Ingenius' Xchange Revisited Alphabet NOV Cellular history, frequency divisions, AUG Repairing TVRO Gear JUL Going Mobile duplex; why PCS is no substitute for SEP World Viewing (the International AUG Building QRP public service agency trunked radios Channel) SEP Low Band Lowdown, equip and DEC Cellular Signalling; modern-day OCT Universal's SCPC-200 Satellite antennas; Vibroplex key IDed scams Audio Receiver OCT Plotting the MUF (Bandaid); QSOs NOV SBCA Show: Futurewatch NOV Heath HW-9 drift fix and offset PLANE TALK DEC Baylin Pubs: "Miniature Satellite adjustment JAN Volmet weather; City/Airport IDs; aero Dishes," Home Satellite TV DEC Apartment Dweller's Joystick software update Installation & Troubleshooting FEB Commercial Ground Stations; Manual" OUTER LIMITS Domestic VHF Voice Services JAN Quebec Clan; new Black Book MAR Frequently Asked Questions SCANNER EQUIPMENT editor APR The Bay Area TRACON JAN Plectron and Motorola Alert FEB Pirate Radio book; Fundacion MAY 50 Yrs before the Concorde crystal scanners home page; KIWI still heard; FCC (Lockheed Constellation); more FEB Radio Shack PRO-2042 downsizing Volmets MAR Fixing Older Bearcat Scanners MAR '94,'95 Pirate Activity; Weiner's JUN Readers' Corner - City codes; Sea- APR BC220XLT/BC230XLT New Ship; Ham Band Pirate; Tac freqs; "Lifeguard" flights; Dakar MAY IF Compendium Pirate Book Aeradio; aero disk offer JUN Mods & Tips for BC9000XLT APR La Voz del Cid, La Voz Popular; JUL Oceanic Air Traffic Control new (keyboard trick, add jack for Local FM Pirates system CTCSS reader, expand 800 MHz MAY Cuban Clans, Web sites, Texas AUG Airport Ground Control coverage, auto-store strategy) pirate, local pirates, PiPa/FRW SEP SELCAL Directory; Cincinnati and JUL Max Systems discone / merger Louisville freqs; Terminology; contest Beartracker BCT- 10 JUN Micro Pirates Widespread; Radio OCT Radio Navigation: Radio Beacons AUG Control Tape Recorder w/your Alpha jamming RHC; Cumbre NOV Omni-Directional VHF/UHF NAVAIDS Scanner (BMI Nitelogger II) book project; Pirate awards; when DEC NAVAIDS: distance measuring SEP Electra Corporation Lives!; to hear pirates equipment Carrier-activated lamp and JUL Govts Close Community Radio backlight disable switch for PRO- Stations; Clandestine Web sites; RADIO REFLECTIONS 2022; baseband audio tap for Pirate Radio Directory; K-2000 FEB World's Oldest non-US Station; PRO-2042; hot transformer may popular pirate winnter Silicon Valley - hi-tech roots be OK; Yaesu FT50R dual-band AUG NA Pirates Heard in Eur & Asia; MAY The Baron of Homespun - Powell walkie-talkie Bougainville Verie; Europirate web Crosley OCT Radio Shack PRO-2046 Mobile sites AUG SWLing in the Early 40s Scanner SEP Nigerian RDI changes sked; Costa NOV Real Radios Glow in the Dark (re Jack NOV Build a mobile mount for your Rican station arrests; Tasmanian Hofeld of Antique Radio Store) radio pirate DEC AOR's AR5000 All-in-one OCT R. Patria Libre returns; R SATELLITE TV Receiver Democrat Intl; Greek MW pirates; JAN Stealth TVRO: Hiding your dish; RFS mail trouble; KAOS official global updates; MMDS notes SCANNING REPORT QSL FEB Making Connections; updates on JAN Antenna Farms; Curtis ESN NOV New Name for Nigerian Clan; Telstar 402R, Alphastar, DBS race, phone reader; beeper Bougainville pirate? Wellsville HDTV monitoring; antenna safety; IF maildrop replaced; FRN MAR New Satellites; HDTV update; AMSAT explanation update; SCPC answers FEB Staying in Hot Water; Wash & Las Vegas, NV Jan DEC Raymond Callsigns; TACAMO Wear Radio; radar and scanning; Buffalo, NY May assuming Looking Glass role; mall freqs; line repair crews; Buffalo, NY Jul New Royal Air Force Freqs & movie crews; bear tracking collars New York City, NY Dec Desig MAR Scanning at the CES Show; Road- Lancaster, PA May hazard alerting system; Las Vegas Philadelphia, PA Feb WHAT'S NEW freq finding Wilkes-Barre, PA Feb Books: APR Scanning Amplified (preamps); Anderson Co, SC Jan A Basement Seat to History Aug Scanners in Movies and TV; Conway, SC Jan Advanced Television Systems May monitoring trunked sytems; Seattle, WA Feb ARRL Handbook (74th) Dec accurate frequency reports Auto Audio Sep MAY Scanning on the (W-S) Cable SKYLINK Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting Channel; Trunking survey JAN Wireless Publishing Apr JUN Scanning for Information on Line FEB GPS is Everywhere Broadcast Sound Technology Apr (Motorola press releases) MAR Rising Tide of Wireless (AT&T, Sprint, CB Modification Secrets Jun JUL Scanning into the Wild Blue Nexus) CB Audio Jul Yonder (airport scanning); your APR Is Wireless for Real? Clandestine Stations (DSWCI) Jul favorite scanner; convention MAY Let There be Wireless (imminent Cop Speak Apr update; mailbag (Buffalo) developments) Crystal Radio:History,Fund & Design AUG Bunking with Trunking; other data JUN Computer LANs going Wireless Oct activity; trunking in Huntsville, AL JUL Accurate GPS? Maybe someday Crystal Sets (No 5) Jul SEP Searching for school bus freq; AUG Wireless Web Allocations & news Easy Calculator Math for Electronics more scanning on cable TV; end SEP Rising costs of wireless phone Aug of RCMA?; rumor New Hampshire services Electronics books from McGraw-Hill not moving to digital; scanners in Apr movies UTILITY WORLD Electronic Media Law Feb OCT Wanted-Used Scanners; RCMA JAN VOA ute test station; RAF Volmet Emergency Scanning Mar Kansas column; all-time favorite shifts; AWACS callsigns; Mystic Star Essential Radio: Travelers Guide Jun scanner freqs/designators Fla Radio Hobby Clubs Nov NOV Mall Call; drive-through dilemma; FEB USAF MARS Stations Closing; ARIA Global BCing Systems Jan wrong about NH; digital has moved; MOSSAD nets Go Mobile at 500 Watts Oct Olympics?; favorite scanner; MAR USAF MARS; Bosnia IFOR aircraft Guide to Utility Radio Stations 1996 Cajun freqs APR USAF MARS Going, almost Gone; Mar DEC The Great School Bus Caper; Joint Endeavor Follow-Up; Where is Ham Price Guide May short history of shared repeaters; 3E7?; Numbers stations and Internet; Heathkit guide Mar using the direct approach; DoD Flight Info Pubs IC Master Dec scanners on film; scanning in NYC MAY Maritime Safety Broadcasts (NAVTEX Inductor Handbook Sep skeds & freqs) Internet Radio Guide Sep Frequency Exchange (in state order) JUN FBI on HF (freqs & callsigns) Klingenfuss,Radio Data Code Man City/State Issue JUL Monitoring the National Guard; Oct Breckenridge, CO Feb Australian Antarctic Comms; Ute Klingenfuss, Worldwide Wefax Serv Windsor, CT Jan World hits 100 Nov Jacksonville, FL Mar AUG It's Zulu Time - New Zulu designators Lenk's Television Handbook May Sarasota/Bradenton, FL Apr and background; US Customs on HF; Low & Medium Freq Scrapbook Jun Atlanta, GA Jan FACSFAC and Bluestar M-Street Radio Directory Mar Atlanta, GA, (trunked) Mar SEP NASA Aircraft (registration list); Mobile Cellular Telecoms Feb Jefferson Co, ID Jan Esteem Highly and White Pinnacle Monitor America (#3) Jan Hanna City, IL Feb IDed; fire season freqs Monitoring Cellular Phones Feb Jackson Co, GA Feb OCT Who is Herb?; Maritime simplex Monitoring the Feds Aug Shreveport, LA Nov channels; CAP frequencies and More Antennas out of Thin Air Oct St. Bernard, LA Apr callsigns National Scanning Report Nov Massachusetts Bay TA, MA Jan NOV Marine HF Scaling Down; RTTY press NRC Distance and Bearing Handbook Bloomington, MN Jan services leave HF; bad times in Nov Bloomington, MN (revisited) Apr Bangui; troubles in Bahrain; LNZA NRC Night Pattern Book Jun Hickory Grove, MS Feb ID'ed; Aviateca freq; Zulu designator NYC Fire Dept Monitoring Nov Sun Prairie, MT Feb update Official Connecticut Freq Guide Jan Official Conn Freq Guide (pocket) Datafile Probe Version 2.0 (soft) Apr Grove Noise canceling mobile speaker Jul Dynatech Tactical Comms catalog Sep Official Maine Freq Guide Apr Dec Grove parts assortments Jan Official Mass Freq Guide (pocket) Early Days of Radio Society Oct Grove sun visor mobile spkr Sep Feb East Anglian Productions"Don't Touch Grove TUN-4A Feb Official New England Freq Guide Aug That Dial!" Pirate CDs Dec Grove Universal Converter May Official New Hampshire Guide Mar Eddyworks AR8000 Toolkit May Grove Universal Mobile pwr convtr Pager Handbook forRadio Amateur Fire Dept NY videotapes Feb May Oct Grove Expo '96 on tape Dec Hamco Tape Tenna Feb Passport to World Band Radio 1997 Grove FCC CD-ROM v6.0 May Hamtronics R139 WeSat rcvr kit May Nov Harlan Tech Color Slow Scan TV Jan Hamtronics RWX Weather Receiver Pirate Radio Feb Heathkit catalog Jan Sep Pirate Radio Directory Jul Hoka Code-3 Gold Oct ICOM R8500 Jul Police Call Plus Jan Interference Handbook via Web Jun ICOM Improves R8500 Dec Radio Listeners Guide Mar Marlin P. Jones (cat) Mar Jade Prod gell-cell battery controller Radio Programming Sep Message Tracker Feb Sep Railroad Radio Nov MetroWest catalog Apr Jensen Steam Engine Jun Same Time, Same Station Feb Micropower radio news Oct Jensen Tools aluminum cases Mar Scanner Listener's Reference Manual M*Log logging software Jul Kiwa DX-394 filter mods Jan Sep Radio Manager for Windows Sep Kiwa premium filter for 455 kHz IF Scanner Modifications & Antennas Radio Spirits catalog May Aug Jun RAG Electronics catalog Apr Kiwa Pocket Loop Feb Scanning w/the Experts Apr Rocky Mountain VHF+ (newsletter) Max System 900 MHz discone Jun Shortwave Listening on the Road Jun Sep MFJ G5RV antenna Jun Six Meters: Guide to Magic Band Jun SCA brochure from B. Elving May MFJ-462B Multi-reader Apr South Asia Radio Guide Jun SESCOM Constructor's Hrdwr Cat Jul MFJ-864 Watt Meter Jul Spectrum Guide #3 Nov Spectrum Wall Chart Oct Optoelectronics Optolinx interface State PD and SHP Badge Guide May 10-code card Jan May SW Utility Station DXing May Techni-Tool (cat) Sep Optoelectronics Xplorer Jul Transmitter Documentation Project Telecomm&Multimedia Encyc (CD) Palomar P-508 Preselector May Mar Nov Radio Plus Q-Stick & Q-S+ antenna Transmitters, Exciters, & Power Amps The Scanning Club Feb May Dec The Wireman Feb Radio Shack HTX242 Txr Sep Tropical Bands Survey Jun TV Guide Specialists (cat) Jul Radio Shack, new scanners Nov Tune in on Telephone Calls (#3) Jan WeatherBrief (modem & softare) Apr Ramsey FM-10,-25,-100 Aug Ultimate Spy Book Jul R.Scott Com, FM transmitters Nov Visual Dict of Spec Military Forces Equipment: Sadelta CB mikes Feb Aug AEA Halo 6-m antenna Nov ShieldWorks CyberCap, etc. Dec Washington-Baltimore Almanac Feb Aiwa HS-TS500 SW receiver Jan Sony DSS system Feb Wireless Basics Jun American Tech Corp AM Sounds Jul Tucker 2 meter amps Sep When the Big One Hits Oct AOR AR5000 receiver Mar Uniden BCT-10 Beartracker Jan World Radio TV Handbook #50 Mar AOR AR7000 Sep Uniden Pro350XL CB Feb Worldwide Shortwave Listening Guide Bilal Isotron 160C vertical HF ant Nov Universal SCPC-200 Jun Aug BMI Nitelogger II Jan Yupiteru MVT-7200 Mar BMI Nightlogger II Jul Software, Videos, Services, etc. Cherokee AH-27 handheld CB Oct Reviews: AEA ACARS demodulator Jan Com Spec TE-64D tone encoder Dec ANLI RD8H, RD78H, AT-2 antennas AEA catalog Apr Cutting Edge Power Port May May AEA More University (soft) Sep Drake SW1 Jul Caig DeoxIT D5 Mar Buckmasters HamCall CD-ROM Mar Drake SW8 case + mods Aug DXAID 4.5 Feb Business News(USSN,RCMA,Tucker) Dressler ara2000 antenna Mar GAP "Titan DX" antenna Aug Oct Firestik 2MP-4 mobile antenna Sep Grove TUN-4A Jun Business news (from Expo) Dec Firestik no ground plane kits Oct ICOM R-8500 vs. AOR AR-5000 (fea) Callbook-on-disk (UK) Jan Grove Deluxe Mobile Organizer Jul Nov CQ VHF: Ham Radio (mag) Jan (Grove) Genesys G-1 antenna Jul LF Eng SkyMatch Active Antenna CyberHam (mag) Aug Oct Optoelectronics OS535 Interface Jul Sky Scan Desk 1300 antenna Apr Sony SRF-42 AM Walkman Jan

Monitoring Times 1997 INDEX

FEATURES: Upgrading the Ocean Hopper Aug BELOW 500 kHz Broadcast: JAN Resources for Natural Radio An Ear to Indonesia Feb Utilities: FEB 1-Watt Wonders HCJB: Sounds from the Equator Jun Beacon QSLing Dec MAR Odds ‘n Ends (SAQ tx; DXpedition; Hope to Hostages Jan Canada's Maritime Stations Jun AirNav webpage; Satnav vs. Mozambique Mar Marconi's California Stations Nov Navaids Music and SW Radio May Marconi in Ireland Nov APR Ken Cornell, Silent Key; Web Nauen Digital SW Station Nov Morse Code: Down, not out Nov Update Radio Miskut, Nicaragua Jan Radionavigation in the Baltic Dec MAY Beacon Basics: equipment, Radio Netherlands Hits the Big 5-0 Aug Signals from Pitcairn Feb beacons, Art of NDB DXing R Romania Looking Up Nov JUN LDXA Returns Shaking Foundations of BBC May AMERICAN BANDSCAN JUL Who Lurks in the Basement? Shortwave, Sats, & Cyberspace Oct JAN Stations within stations (SCS) AUG Lowfer ZWI; new VLF tape; loggings Visiting the Voice of Russia Nov FEB The New EAS SEP Getting Ready; GWEN; Vintage VLF MAR Did I really hear that? OCT LDXA Winners; DGPS challenge; Human Interest: APR Radio in the Frozen North (CBC) Inside an NDB Al Gross: A master's touch Sep MAY Mixed Bag NOV Reader News & Updates JUN Expanded Band Special DEC Basement Changes, Australian DX, Miscellaneous: JUL Digital News Canadian Lowfers, lowfer internet Confessions of a Cell Site Spotter Sep AUG Domestic DX and the Internet listserver Effective Emergency Coordinator Mar SEP Phantoms of the Dials (images, HR2369: Another Specter Looms Oct harmonics, etc) BOB'S TIP OF THE MONTH Lightning: Global Network Jun OCT Myths of the Domestic Dials JAN Remote Monitoring w/baby manitor Menwith Hill Station Feb NOV Listener's Bookshelf FEB Improving Audio Meteors: Radio out of this World Oct DEC Anatomy of a Radio MAR Bandplanning SW antenna MT at 15: an interview Jan APR Makeshift Antennas Send Your Receiver to DX Camp Aug MAY R8500, R7100, AR5000 Those Terrible (cell) Towers Sep ANTENNA TOPICS Comparison 1996 Index of Articles Jan JAN Prehistoric Radio (rx by trees) JUN Simple stand for portables FEB Is the Sky an Antenna? JUL Painless Trunk Tracking (rptr input) Scanning: MAR Easy-Up Beam AUG MW BC Overload cure; BC- Area 51 - Phantom in the Desert Jul APR Beverage Directional Antenna 3000XLT keyboard trick DMAT - Mobile Medical Teams Aug MAY The Tao of Antennas SEP Build an All-Purpose Battery Pack Emergency Medical Services Oct JUN Antenna Resonance OCT Repairing Smudged Displays Flying with the Angels Mar JUL Where's Ground in a Groundplane? NOV Mobile Extension Speaker Military Aviation - Change in the Air Jul AUG Using a Counterpoise to Aim High DEC Cheap, effective scanner antenna Monitoring Commercial Aviation Jul SEP The Accidental Radio Signal (static, Monitoring Montauk May etc.) Privacy and the Public Airwaves Apr OCT Thoughts on Multiband Antennas CLOSING COMMENTS Racing Freqs: a la CARTe Jul NOV Antenna Routing Panel for Rapid JAN MT:The First 15 Years! Racing Freqs: Charlotte May Switching FEB Will Scanner Listening Take an Scanners at the speedway Apr DEC Half-Wavelength Antennas Upturn? Scanning Techniques that Work Jan MAR Gingrich and the Cell Phone Super Truckin' (racing) Jun BEGINNER'S CORNER APR Opening Statement to House There's Something About a Train Feb JAN Finding Time for the Hobby Subcommittee Uniden Parades the TrunkTracker Mar FEB Bells & Whistles MAY Techno-Terms for the Times MAR Rediscovering the Gee-Whiz JUN The Auctioning of the Capitol APR Websites of Interest JUL Farewell to a Friend Technology and Technical: MAY Mediumwave Moxie AUG Freq Ban Proposal Could End Best Earth for Ground Jun JUN Random Summer Thoughts Scanning Code Practice Oscillator/Morse tests Dec JUL Nontraditional sources for radios SEP What's the Big Secret? (about Garden Galaxy of Lights (FM) Dec AUG Are You Suffering from LMS? classified frequencies) How to Build a Radio from a Kit Feb SEP My Receiver Autobiography OCT Guest ed: America's Cacophony to "Junk-Drawer" Antenna (handheld) Jul OCT When Just Any Q Won't Do the World Multi-Band Resonant Antenna May NOV Undoing a Few Myths NOV Pagers: New Legal Battleground Ultimate Longwave Setup Dec DEC Choosing a Handheld Ham Radio DEC Staff greetings Under $30 Antenna Launch Aug COMPUTERS & RADIO DEC WiNRADiO - PLL Noise; cable SEP Here We Go A-Roving JAN The Best of the Best modem services DEC Tuning in to ATU's (tuners) FEB DXtreme's SWL Log; APRS; websites FEDERAL FILE MAGNE TESTS MAR Top Pick of Decoders JAN US Marshals; Southeastern Nat'l (Reprints of Magne Tests reviews are not APR Is $10 Computer a Bargain? Parks available.) MAY Computer Updates; Websites FEB Nat'l Forest Service; WHCA chan; JAN Sharper Image VA100 JUN Armchair Flights of Fancy (websites More Nat'l Parks; tracking & FEB Becker Mexico 2340 related to aviation; FlyteTrak) telemetry; cemetery freqs MAR Electro Brand SW-3000 Digital JUL Keeping your freqs fresh; ScanCAT MAR FBI on 800 MHz; IRS investigators APR Sony ICF SW-600 Magic APR Antenna Tip-Offs; Freqs from MAY International MT718 Portable AUG Radioraft decoding program Readers JUN International MT798 Portable SEP The Every 2-Yr Computer Blowout; MAY US Geological Survey; Bureau of JUL Icom IC-R8500 CAT Magic Revisited Land Management AUG Drake SW2 OCT Radioraft, SWRL updates; JUN WUNnerful Intercepts; Federal Law SEP Gundig G2000A compact portable philosophy Enforcement Training Center, OCT Lowe SRX100/Target HF-3 NOV CSP Technologies ScannerBase; Brunswick, Ga; Fed Supply Service; NOV Japan Radio NRD345 Kangaroo Tabor WinCAP Wizard Law Enforcement Branch; DEC Grundig Traveller III DEC Total RecAll; Problems w ith Smithsonian security Windows JUL Summertime Skip; Federal trunking ON THE HAM BANDS in DC area JAN Making Resolutions (test gear) DEMAW'S WORKBENCH AUG Fedcom, TrunkTracker radios, and FEB DX for No Code Techs (working JAN A Simple 455-kHz BFO trunkcom; fed trunk sys in Boston, sats) FEB Home-brewed PC Boards border patrol in VT,NY; Customs in MAR Morse Keys (Kitano) MAR Tuning the End-Fed Antenna New England; fed freqs from APR Simple Keyer; ham newsletter; new APR Eliminating Spurious Signals Seattle, Asheville; IFLOWS Novice questions MAY Active SWL Antenna SEP Feds are talking...but where? Freqs MAY New License Structure; domestic JUN LF/VLF Converter from Kansas City, Mo, Siskiyou Natl QSL Bureau JUL Handy Battery Tester Forest, Puget Sound, Camp JUN June contests; W5YI Report; AUG Breadboards on your PC Pendleton; Feds using FRS? SAREX; G4RAW computer board SEP A Simple Receiver to Build OCT "Privatizing" Fed Comms (using schematic OCT Feedline Tips, Equipment Protection CMRS); DEA bandplan; NSA JUL Forward-looking ham radio, Phase NOV Build a Transistor Checker system; New FCC DF vehicles; IIID, Vanity calls, 6 meters DEC Monitor the 6-meter Band Customs AUG AMSOFT's World of HamRadio CD NOV P/L Tones clues to feds in Houston; SEP Simply Delightful Nextel cell/trunked radio; NY Border OCT Lectrokit SP-1B Spider DIGITAL DIGEST Patrol bandplan; examples of modes NOV What's the best HF antenna? (using JAN GMDSS used by feds, Nuclear Transport a transmatch) APR ARINC’s New Technologies Safeguard Net; fed monitoring for DEC Hand Held Hamming JUL Digital Resources: DACARS, newbies; Calif. monitoring LABELADD, APRS, Hoka Code-3 DEC Cape Canaveral monitoring; western OUTER LIMITS Gold Update, Universal M-450, US reports; Washington area JAN Europirate Season; NAPRS; Zaire Universal M-8000, Selcall DOS, observations; Quantico freqs conflict RadFax 0.9. URLs: FEMA, AirNav, FEB Radio Free Speech relays; Active WUN, Globe Wireless GLOBAL FORUM Clandestines; Free Radio Weekly; OCT Major Modes and Protocols JAN Just another month on SW R. Free Lawrence Bust FEB RCI Not Dead -- Again MAR WJDI Power Record; ‘96 activity EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP MAR Why not SW TV? record; R Free Lenawee; web site JAN Easy Record-Keeping - II APR New SW Station for Mexico City APR Pirates using Internet; R Cochiguaz; FEB Tools for the Info Age (MS Works) MAY France Quits SW to NA Huntsville drop; KIWI; Oromo; R MAR Spreadsheet Electronic Design JUN Monitoradio, WRMI, Give Up SW Kudirat, Nigeria; R Tellus; Iowa City APR Squelch Improvement JUL HCJB Must Move out of Pifo Free Radio MAY Radio to Computer Data Interface AUG SW Situation Mirrors the World MAY Micro Pirate Conference; new ACE JUN Memory expansion for 760XLT, SEP Radio Reading Recommendations website; V. of Tibet; Yoder's new 950XLT, 590XLT, 600XLT, R1600 OCT Respect for NA Neighbors books; Numbers Parody; Quello JUL Computer Tools and Utilities for NOV Nigeria Hit by Opposition Radio leaves FCC Radio DEC Problem of "Wooden" Frequencies JUN WJDI QSL; Weiner book; FRN/ACE AUG WiNRADiO's Spectrum Scope web change; Mexican DX SEP WiNRADiO Upgrade Opener K.I.S. RADIO conference; Micropirate activity OCT WiNRADiO - SMT Primer MAR Simple Antenna Solutions NOV WiNRADiO - Sensitivity JUN Beloved Boat Anchors JUL Radio Metallica; IL Micropirates; R OCT Windshear: The unseen enemy DEC Q&As re hear audio on scrambled Butembo; Rep of TX; Carling's NOV The Instrument Landing System video? recommended used pirate links DEC Guide to VHF aero freqs; company receivers? mount dish indoors? local AUG Pirate Loggings Explosion; Metallica freq intercepts nets on sat TV? retiring?; R Free London; Micropirates PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT SCANNER EQUIPMENT SEP Radio Metallica using WJDI txmitter; AUG Culture and the Arts JAN Icom R8500 Cuban clans; Nigerian clans; new NOV Science and Shortwave FEB Radio Shack PRO-2045 FRW address MAR Icom IC-R10 OCT FM Piratesa Increasingly Active; PROPAGATION CONDITIONS APR RELM HS200; BC9000XLT labeling Metallica news; R London returns; R JAN Readers' Choice tip Jemima FEB Reception Against the Rules (skip) MAY Icom 8500 update; fixes for NOV R Metallica moves to ship; Kennard MAR Propagation Modes BC200XLT audio, BCT-7 expanded named FCC chair; Voice of Tibet; APR How do you Slew a Curtain? coverage, BC9000 LCD, PRO2005 ACE address correction MAY Flux and the SSN backlight DEC Holidays Increase Pirate Activity; JUN A and K Indices JUN Innovative Scanner Patents Cuban clan website; micropirate JUL Near Vertical Incidence Skywave JUL BC235XLT TrunkTracker busts AUG Local Broadcasting with NVIS AUG Radio Shack PRO-64 SEP Let's Talk the Same Language #1 SEP Stridsberg Multicoupler; G/Wiz PCS FRONT LINE OCT Let's Talk the Same Language #2 circuit; using FM trap w/Scout JAN Criminal use of cellular NOV Let's Talk the Same Language #3; OCT Radio Shack PRO-67 FEB PCS Modes bibliography NOV Sporty's JD-100 Air-scan; PRO-62 MAR Digital Modes DEC Good Month to Hear Auroras battery save on/off APR Fingers in the Spectrum Pie DEC BC895XLT desktop TrunkTracker MAY Local Service Scramble QSL REPORT JUN The Politics of Encryption JAN Welcome to 1997 - news SCANNING REPORT JUL The Race is On (FCC auctions, FEB The best link sites JAN Rooting for Rotors; Huntsville WCS vs PCS, etc) MAR Try the Diplomatic Approach Trunking Debunking; Sharing AUG Packet switched networks: ARDIS, APR QSLing the Heavens (sat) Scanners RAM Mobile Data, Metricom, MAY Ole Radio Mexico Intl FEB Trunking Scanners Set to Debut; Ricochet JUN Danke Schon Deutschland BearTracker BCT-7 Booster; Tale of SEP Stationary Wireless Devices (new JUL All India Radio Two Scanner Mags cordless phones, unlicensed PCS) AUG Kudos to YLE MAR Massachusetts Police; R-10 Due; OCT The Name's the Thing: CDMA, SEP ODXA @ grove.net scanner story; Police Call Plus GSM, NADC; cellular and GPS OCT Radio St Helena Nears APR In Defense of Scanning; Antenna NOV PCS Showcase(products from PCS NOV Eng Language Programs on Web; check; spectrum auctions; Raleigh, show in Dallas); auction woes; AMFMTVDX forum NC, freqs Reallocation of UHF TV channels; DEC DXing.com internet resource MAY Things Scanner Listeners Wish For; Iridium update race scanning preview DEC Cellular companies fight fraud; RADIO REFLECTIONS JUN Mobile scanning equipment options; pager eavesdropping; encryption FEB Trends in QSLing end-of-winter antenna wrap-up; NE issues MAY Return of the Crystal Set Ga. frequencies JUL More new portable scanners; PLANE TALK SATELLITE TV scanner priorities; Nellis AFB freqs JAN Instrument Landing Systems JAN The 4DTV Gambit AUG TrunkTracker Debuts; Trunkcom FEB Collision Avoidance (TCAS) FEB State of C-, Ku-, and DBS mailing list;; San Antonio TRS; best MAR Air Traffic Trinity MAR DBS Services place to scan? APR GPWS in Alaska; Albuquerque APR Death of T401, Birth of GE-2; SEP Legislating away our freedom? (new freqs; ACARS internet list-server; Alphastar, DISH, and DSS; HITS anti-scanner bills); Alameda Cal, Types of Radar MAY DISH Weds Murdoch; AlphaStar; trunked system MAY Pandora's Clock; Aireports; CD Radio OCT Acts of Congress-II; Seattle Area ARTCCs; TCAS; SW Airlines JUN Digital Music Express Trunking expansion; Honolulu & LA,freqs JUL Galaxy 4: One Versatile Satellite NOV Acts of Congress Part III; ultimate JUN Company Frequencies; Australian AUG The Big Dish Advantage scanner; Cleveland OH aero freqs aviation SEP Lessons from the Field (do-it- as programmed into Regency TS2 JUL Sporty's JD-100 scanner; more yourself repairs) DEC Winter scanner planning, company freqs; FAA safety data OCT Satellite Radio for Your Car: CD equipment, monitoring set-up and online; Houston freqs Radio & AMRC programming options; Atlanta area AUG Separation Anxiety; OEDP; NOV Sat & TV Handbook, Digital Sat TV, scanning (non-trunked) MWARAs GPS Manual SEP Charting the Way; MWARAs TRACKING THE TRUNKS AUG Getting on Track; decimal vs. hex NatScan Fast Food freq list Mar Cutting Edge PowerPort RF-35, 259 Dec SEP Q&As; Cobb Co, Ga, profile NYC/NJ/Phila Scanner Guide Jun Davis WeatherLink 4 for Windows Jul OCT Hex Conversions made Easy; NJ PA directory Jefferson, Clarion Co. Feb Drake R8B Nov State Patrol Police Call 1997 Jan Drake SW-2 Jun NOV Huntsville system profile Police Call So. California Mar Drake TR270 FM transceiver Aug DEC Trunking info on the Web; Radio's First 75 Years Jan Electro 5-band Radio (Heartland) Jul Baltimore's new system; Escondido, Radio Monitoring Apr Firestik Fire-Up 99 Oct CA, trunked profile Radio on the Road Feb Grove SP-200B Sound Enhancer Sep Scanner Listings MI, OH, ON Feb HyperDimensionl Resonator Jul UTILITY WORLD S Asia Radio Guide #10 Sep Icom IC-PCR1000 rcvr Nov JAN Gov Rediscovers HF?; Bayonne Successful QSLing Feb Industrial Test Co Powertron 500A Oct Global on air Shortwave Listener's Guide (UK) Dec JPS Spectrum display for NIR-12 Sep FEB Airline Company HF Freqs; Talkgroup IDs/King Co Nov JRC NRD-345 Jun USSTRATCOM Zulu Desig The Code-Breakers Feb KDKA paperweight Nov MAR National Guard; TX State Guard; Transmitter Documentation Project Jun Magellan MicroCom-M (Grove) Apr Acrobat Wiretap Detection Techniques Dec MFJ-281 ClearTone speaker Dec APR The UK Royal Air Force; USAF Zenith Radio, Early Years (Grove) Dec MFJ Morse Tutor Mar selcals MFJ SlimLine keyers Nov MAY Who's Where in the SW Spectrum Software, Videos, Services, etc. MFJ-550 key Nov JUN DXing the Radio Basement AEA sale (business news) May MFJ 711 TVI filter Apr (overview of what's on ELF/VLF) Air Force One (video) Nov NewsCatcher (AirMedia Live) Feb JUL HF Aero Bands: MWARA, LDOC, Andrew Corp (cat) Nov Nub Antenna (Grove) Aug Volmet, flight test; single-letter AOR-8000 caveat (news) Oct O'Gara Mobilephone (Grove) Sep channel markers confirmed as AOR Hawk software (grove) Dec Opto R 11 Near Field Receiver Dec Russian navy Audioclassics (cat) Nov Opto Techtoyz Micro Counter Nov AUG Scheveningen Radio to Close; Conet Project numbers CD Jul Opto Techtoyz Micro DTMF Decoder Sep Globe Radio Network absorbs KOH, Creative Express ERGO for AR7030 Oct Perry suspenders (Grove) Jan WCC, WLC; Globe freq list; USAF DataFile Probe V3.0 Apr PhoneShield (Magellans) Jul gets new VIP aircraft; Australian Delta Research Deltacomm I-8500 Jan RCA RP-6100,6150,6200 scanners Oct maritime radio cuts Digital Audio Logger (Scan*Star) Dec Radio Shack PRO-90 (Grove) Dec SEP Albrook Global makes final DXtreme SW Reception Log V1.0 Apr Realistic Radio Kits (Grove) Jan transmission; GHFS tones; Electric Enigma CD Jun Sangean SR-77 SW portable Mar USSTRATCOM Zulu Freqs; Mystic Electronics 2000 CD Jul SGC PowerClear DSP Feb Star update FCC prohibits selling modified scan. Sep Skymatch H800 Antenna (Grove) Aug OCT Military Freq Bonanza; Euro military, Firestik 1997 catalog Mar SP-50/FM2 satellite rcvr (Grove) Sep ARCN, MARS in Europe, USAF KC- Grove FCC database V6.0 Apr Starbrite Liquid Electrical Tape(Grv) May 135 Tanker callsigns Grove price drops (news) Oct Svetlana vacuum tubes Jan NOV Aero Off Route Changes How-to-do-it book catalog Jul Uniden BCT-12 Beartracker Feb DEC USAF Global HF System Klingenfuss '97 SW Freq Guide-CD Jan Uniden LRD6599SWS radar detect Apr LPB complains re pirates (news) Sep Universal M-450 Decoder (Grove) May WHAT'S NEW MFJ 25th anniversary (news) Sep Universal whip (Grove) Oct Books: NSA gift shop Dec Vibroplex Straight Key Feb Access to the Airwaves Aug Old West Graphics (cat) Nov Water Sound protector Feb ARRL Antenna Book (Grove) Aug Radio London products (CD etc) Oct WiNRADiO spectrum analyzer Aug Australasian Shortwave Guide Mar Radio Shack (cat) Nov Build Your Own Transceiver Jul SESCOM audio transformer catalog Mar Reviews: Cyber Crime Jun Tiare catalog Jul Alinco DJ-S41 Mar Crystal Set Projects (Grove) Jul Tighter Customs? (news) Jul Avcom PSA65C Spectrum Analyzer Dec DXpeditions - Autumn 96 (NRC) Nov VALCO CBs Oct Darcy SW Booster Mar Global Radio Guide Jun VLF Radio ! (cassette) Dec Magnavox WebTV Feb Heathkit - Amateur Radio Products Jun Wireman Wirebook III catlog May Opto Micro DTMF Decoder Oct Hunting for Treasure Jul W5YI vanity call research service Mar Radio Plus+ Quantum Stick Jan Improv...Counterintelligence Apps Jul Radio Shack FRS-105 Jun Introducing QRP Jul Equipment: Radio Shack FRS-108 Apr FM Atlas (Grove) Aug Alien Abduction Alarm Jun Ramsey SM100 Signal Magnet kit May GMRS Repeater Guide Aug Alinco DJ-X10 scanner (Grove) Jul Scanner Antenna Comparisons Sep Jane’s Police and Security Equip Mar AM Sounds (Am Tech) Oct Uniden BC895XLT TrunkTracker Nov Klingenfuss Gd to Wx Serv #17 Sep AOR AR5000 Plus 3 Nov V-Link 2-way radio Apr Klingenfuss Internet Radio Guide May AOR AR7030 Plus Nov LA DXing #6 Sep AOR AR8000 withdrawn Jun MFJ Antennas, Transmission Lines May Cutting Edge Powerport Jan Monitoring Times 1998 INDEX

FEATURES: Turntable for Loops Apr SEP The Right Antenna for the Broadcast: Use Your Mobile Scanner Antenna Feb Frequency China Radio International Sep Varicap Tuned Receiving Loops Apr OCT Some Hard to Spy Antennas Inside Italy's RAI Nov NOV Why all the noise about noise? Logging FM DX Aug Utilities: DEC Christmas Tree Antennas Mountain Voice (TIS) Aug The Happy Hobbyist (HF scan) Sep Nigerian Clandestines Feb Monitoring FEMA Jul Radio Difusora de Poços de Caldas Unlocking the Mysteries of SW Oct BEGINNER'S CORNER Dec JAN Scanning beyond the ordinary Tropical Band DXing Dec AMERICAN BANDSCAN (scouting out new freqs) WYFR Story Oct JAN A Cool Beverage (antenna); FEB Reviewing the Basics (good Zambia's Christian Voice Sep sporadic-e; Kiwa pocket regen communications skills) module MAR QSLing "the Blanks" Human Interest: FEB What happened to the 10- APR Get w/the Amateur Program Excellent DX Adventure Aug watters? Expanded band news (books) Jamming Wall Nov MAR Digital BCing in Canada; MAY Air Show Fun Real World Radio Jan expanded band news JUN Marine Radio Connections APR Ice vs Towers; call letter changes (collecting) Miscellaneous: MAY Skip Time; Expanded Band News JUL Mobile Emergency Preparedness 1997 MT Index Jan JUN Legal Pirates? AUG Summertime Mediumwave Fun 1998 International CES Mar JUL DX Safety (lightning etc); SEP Planning for SW Season ACE Solar Storm Alert Feb unidirectional antenna?; record- OCT "Spooky" Radio Listening Apartment Monitoring Nov breaking tropo reception (bandscan for the unusual) Art of Professional Dispatching Jan AUG New AM Targets; expanded-band NOV Understanding Radio Waves Car DXing Apr news DEC Listening Tips for the Beginner CIA vs. Saddam Radio War May SEP DX Predictions (propagation); Cryptography Oct expanded band notes; Chicago BELOW 500 kHz Cypress Gardens Radio Museum Aug megatower JAN Lowfer Update DXing on the High Seas Jun OCT 'The Expanded Band Times'; FEB Away from Home (DXing), Euro Future According to COMDEX Feb Australia & UK BC databases on Guide; Low power in Canada Ham Radio for Boaters Jun line, AM stereo page, Denver MAR Pirate Beacons; 73 kHz Now it can be told (Greek Is) Oct news resources Take a SW DXpedition Sep NOV Beverage Questions; Bits and APR 1912 Remembered (Titanic) World-Class DXing Mar Pieces from Canada MAY Hams on Longwave? DEC ¿Habla Español? (IDing Spanish JUN Make Your Own Signals (lowfer Satellites language stations) transmitter circuit) Digital Alternatives in Satellite TV Dec JUL Closer to Getting on the Air (part Inmarsats and How to Hear Them Nov ...AND MORE! 2) JAN Family Radio Service--the next AUG Getting on the Air (part 3) Scanning: CB? SEP LF Exp Source Book; more on Baltimore-Wash Intl Airport May FEB How to be a hometown hero (Ch the Titanic Blue Angels May 9 emergency monitoring) OCT Better Beginnings (converters Close Encounter w/a Twister Jul MAR Helping Traffic w/GMRS and how to use, listening targets Counter Intelligence Mar APR Maxon Sp-100G GMRS HT and directories) Identifying Trunked Radio Systems Dec MAY Cherokee's Terrific FR-465 NOV Tips from Readers: Euro LF, Litz Marine Monitoring on Chesapeake Jun JUN Icom's VHF Marine Transceiver wire, LF loading coils Mother, Jugs, and Speed? Jul JUL Cherokee CB SSB AH-100 DEC Review of Radioscience Trunking Profile for Atlanta Jan AUG Icom's Potent IC-4008A FRS Observing VORTAC Goes the Distance May SEP Motorola's TalkAbout( FRS OCT Kenwood's Easy to use FreeTalk BOB'S TIP OF THE MONTH Technology and Technical: (FRS freqs) JAN Ultrasonic pest controls AM Transmitter Site Apr NOV Radio Shack's Easy FRS Radios FEB Emergency Power Supply Antennas for Emergency Ops Jul DEC Oregon Scientific & Midland MAR Changing ATS-909 Memory Canada's Billion Dollar Boat Jun weather receivers Presets Dealing w/Strong Signals (tuners) Apr APR Preparing Those Trade-ins; More Dual-Band VHF/UHF J-Pole Apr ANTENNA TOPICS on touch lamp RFI; UPS voltages Installing Oak Tree Antenna Apr JAN Antenna faults and how to find MAY Digital Displays for Analog LORAN-C Navigation System Jun them Radios Magnetic Loop Antennas for AM Aug FEB Antenna Faults, part two JUN Using the Select-A-Tenna Quickie, Snap-on Tower Bracket Apr MAR Is Your Antenna Resonant? JUL Listening to Your Remote Control Restoring that old AM Radio Aug APR Building Vertical Antennas AUG How to record from a radio Safe SHOALS Mar MAY You Need dB Aware of Decibels SEP Quiteting theGrove SP-200 Click Simple Battery Discharger Mar JUN What's Wrong with my Dipole? OCT Listen and See your Infrared Splitting a Signal Jan JUL TDR on a Budget control The Ten-Tec Receiver Kit (1254) Sep AUG Design Your Own Field Day NOV The "Power Tip" Scam DEC Using Grove FCC Database with SEP Update on Computer Networking MAGNE TESTS Windows 98 OCT Automatic NiCd Cell Discharger (Reprints of Magne Tests reviews are not NOV Automatic NiCd Cell Recharger available.) CLOSING COMMENTS DEC All-Purpose Op-Amps JAN Sony SW-12/ Sony AN-LP1 JAN Internet Changes Face of Politics FEB Lowe HF-250E FEB Thanks Larry; Welcome Hugh! FEDERAL FILE MAR International R-110; Improve MAR Internuts JAN WH learning to encrypt; midwest Lowe SRX-100 selectivity APR Whatever Happened to freqs--postal inspector system, APR InterNtional WR-689 Hydronics? Dept of Energy; FBI MAY Drake R8B - Part I MAY Taking Credit Where Credit Isn't FEB High seas counternarcotic JUN Drake R8B - Part II Due activities; US Joint Task Force JUL Grundig Yacht Boy 400PE JUN Bits and Pieces Drug Interdiction; Itinerants; AUG First look at JRC NRD-545 JUL Storm tracking could save your Agency sharing; auction snafu SEP AOR's AR5000+3 Receiver life MAR Nextel forces digital switch; fed OCT Sangean ATS404 Economy AUG FCC Proposes More Protective using trunked systems; results Portable Rules using the Opto Scout NOV Kneisner + Doering KWZ30 SEP Media Muddles APR Smoky Mt Monitoring, TVA, Ft DEC (no column this month) OCT Legislators above the Law? Campbell; militay trunking; FEMA NOV The Frequency List and the Grain aux ops; DEA freq; FBI D bank, MILCOM of Salt (guest editorial)_ and HF freqs; Customs SEP Welcome to Military Monitoring; MAY Data Freqs in the Fed Bands; Where do you hear the military? COMPUTERS & RADIO More shared freqs; Natl NOV Atlantic City USCG Station JAN RecAlling a month I'd rather Interagency Fire center; Freqs Opens; Navy fleet tac channel; forget from Readers USN on Inmarsat + callsigns FEB Icom PCR1000 JUN NTIA and other info from internet; MAR Icom PCR1000 (part 2) Presidential trips; scanning in ON THE HAM BANDS APR WiNRADiO 1000i vs IC- Idaho, Houston, Was DC, etc; JAN Yagi vs. Quad PCR1000 more freqs from surplus gov FEB Books to build your antenna by; MAY WiNRADiO Digital Suite radios NZ Beacon JUN C&R Goes to Paris JUL Executive Branch Travels; "Big MAR Sobering ham numbers; use the JUL Fixing Win95 Problems (First Aid Hole" Chatham NC; Black Mt CA media; 6m AM 97, and Nuts&Bolts) antenna site; Nextel iDEN system APR More Ham Software (QST View, AUG Cyberlock Data Encryption AUG Washington goes trunked; Miami HamCalc) Program; Pentium prices falling news; more treasures from trash; MAY Making the Case for Novice SEP Casio's Hand PC and Windows notes from Motorola tour, JUN Classic Gear; Icom IC-T8A CE Facinator radios JUL Contesting 101 OCT First look at WiNRADiO's OCT FBI to Obtain New Radio System; AUG Using a Transmatch; 10 meter WR1500e Dept of Justice andFBI systems; AM NOV WinRadio WR1500e; AirData DEA; TVA SEP Cherokee 6 Meter Handheld Mouse DEC Who Controls Government Milestone Technologies Spanish DEC Ten-Tec's under'$300DSP SW Frequencies?; 162 MHz band key receiver assignments OCT Kenwood VC-H1 SSTV Unit NOV Ham's Christmas Wish List DIGITAL DIGEST GLOBAL FORUM DEC More Good Stuff! (Easy Wire JAN How to forecast propagation JAN A Good Time for Shortwave Antennas, Vectronics kits, Nye conditions FEB FCC accepts Weiner application Master Hand Key, RS stores) MAR SITOR-A Maritime Mode MAR Why Women Don't Like DXing APR SITOR-B APR More Catholic Than the Pope? OUTER LIMITS MAY The First Digital Mode - RTTY MAY BBC Commits to Digital SW JAN R Free Berkeley wins another JUN HF Facsimile JUN Hunt Harmonics with Hauser round; Europirate season; JUL Decoding 3rd Shift Cyrillic JUL Milton Keynes new WRTH HQ interval signals; SRI txmitter AUG Third Shift Cyrillic - part II AUG Nigerian Clandestines Proliferate closing SEP Addressing ACARS SEP The Problem with Digital SW FEB CID moves to WRMI; Jorge Mas OCT Who Uses the Digital Modes? OCT Two Views on Clean Signals Canosa; WGTG on 6955?; SMR NOV Digital Equipment Overview NOV WBCQ - An Alternative SW maildrop DEC Digital Reflections Station MAR Three sources for pirate logs; DEC Norway Cancels English Service Radio San Marino; NA Pirates EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP APR How to Hear a Clandestine; NAB JAN Upgrading WiNRADiO: K.I.S. RADIO vs pirates; pirate freqas; SRS Selectivity MAR Computers in the Radio Shack contest FEB Computer Programming the MAY The Station Engineering Manual MAY Micropirate Growth Creates PRO-64 JUL Survival Communications Controversy; SW Pirate Freqs; MAR WiNRADiO secret files unveiled SEP A Simple Antenna for Shortwave New Pirate Web Sites, maildrops APR Handheld Scanner Backlight NOV Heathkit GR-64 Restoration JUN FM busts, thousands still active; Mods pirate web sites; SW pirate MAY Revisiting the Homebrew LAUNCHING PAD activity ; Mid-America Computer NOV Learning to Love Satellites conference? JUN Network Your Computers DEC Tuning in SW via Satellite JUL New clandestine internet news JUL Digital Data Interface Revisited service; Radio 510 offers relays; AUG Data Decoding and Serial Ports FM pirate protest; SW pirates AUG On the Coattails of Meteors SEP The Digital Invasion; Logic active SEP Make this page work for you trunking; Oklahoma City trunking; AUG Nigerian turmoil spawns OCT Ionospheric Modification NYC trunked system clandestines; SW pirate activity NOV Where to Listen on the Bands OCT Random thoughts on scanning; SEP ODXA expands; R Free Berkeley; DEC How to Spot Santa Claus (OTHR) new FCC service codes SW Relay Service NOV The New Band to Scan; Florida OCT WREC Retires; Millenium R.; QSL REPORT fire comms and Fla. trunking Pirate CD; Free Radio Survey JAN QSLing the X-band DEC Statewide Systems; NOV WBCQ: Pirate goes legit; FM FEB DXing the Bottom of the World Massachusetts Agencies Pirate Busts; Europirates MAR Out of this World QSL (Mir) DEC Voice of the Pig's Ear; Clanny APR AltaVista translation service UTILITY WORLD web sites; QSL sources; MAY Transmitter Documentation JAN Flash Comm HF System; GHFS Europirate skeds Project digital tones JUN DXing the Underground FEB Wonderful World of Utilities PCS FRONT LINE JUL QSLing in TV Land (overview and good-bye) JAN PCS Takes Shape in 1998 AUG Where in the World Is...(M-street) MAR Sea Change in Maritime Mobile FEB The flap over digital decoding SEP China Radio Intl, R Christian Service (CW to GMDSS) (Title III, Walz case), types of Voice, R Finland, AWR APR Does anybody know the time? digital encoding OCT An unbeatable DX Season (WWV and WWVH) APR Marketing Strategies (SM cards); NOV Adventist World Radio; DSCI MAY We've Got Your Numbers; 911 on cellular Tropical Band Survey Mossad loggings JUN Wireless Networks Taking Shape DEC _Alaska Calling (KNLS) JUN Unraveling NATO Identifiers (AMSC, ARDIS, Iridium) LMDS JUL Hurricane Frequencies auction SATELLITE TV AUG US Stratcom Zulu Update; DEA AUG Pinpointing a Cellular Caller JAN Panamsat 5 Flies Joint Task Force OCT Cellular Cryptography FEB China Central Television (final) SEP US AF MacDill Signs Off; GHFS DEC Consumer Choices in the Cellular moves to Scope Command Market SCANNER EQUIPMENT OCT Spook Radio (spy, clandestine, JAN Test Equipment Bargains and number stations) PLANE TALK FEB More Innovative Patents NOV NCS: Swords into SHARES JAN Aero Terminology; Philly and MAR RELM MS-200 DEC Is there life in MARS? Pittsburgh freqs; new magazine APR RCA RP-6150 Scantrak; Uniden FEB QSLing the Airlines BC235XLT glitch? VIEW FROM ABOVE MAR QSLing a moving target MAY RS PRO-2050 Trunk Tracker NOV Keeping an Eye on the Weather APR Tools of the Tower JUN Opto DC442 Decoder DEC Keeping up with the Latest (web MAY Tools of the Trade: Radar JUL Coax Stub; PAR Electronics sites, Operational WXSATs; JUN ATC Center Equipment filters INSAT, Hurricane Georges, JUL Flight Service Stations AUG Sony ICF-SC1PC WaveHawk America's OSEI) AUG Clearing the Way scanner SEP Curious about the Concorde?; SEP Orange Book of Scanner Repair; WASHINGTON WHISPERS airline callsigns; sample flight finding service manuals; tone JAN New FCC commissioners; plan generating test equipment; Internet Tax Freedom Act; FCC OCT Coming to Terms with Radar monitoring ACSB RF Safety guidelines; NOV Radar - Part II OCT AOR AR8200 scanner personalized call signs DEC Aero Freq-for-all (Indpls, Pitts; NOV Alinco DJ-X10T FEB FCC action against Fla Pirates; AF- MWARAs); aero callsign DEC RS PRO-91 Trunking Portable the state of microbroadcasting; (final in series) FCC to move administrative SCANNING REPORT offices PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT JAN Transformation of HR2369 MAR Vermont fights federal FEB Give us 30 Minutes, we'll give FEB Police Call announcement; storm preemption of telecommunication you... watch drills; Winston-Salem tower restrictions; Senate and MAR The Environment codes; Beaufort Co, SC, trunking House bills to allow local APR Eavesdropping on Africa profile enflorcement of FCC regulations MAY Eavesdropping on Africa - II MAR Little-used scanner features; APR Consumers' Top 10 Telecom JUN Play Ball ! calming scanner fears; using Concerns JUL Which Way VOA? VHF beam antenna; CES MAY FCC agrees to examine AUG End of the Year Review overview "Microstations": 2 petitions SEP Make a Resolution to Write APR We We Do What We Do; Regina JUN FCC makes major revisions to OCT SW as a Learning Experience trunking; TrunkTracker tips; Equipment Authorization NOV Tracking the Global Economy programming tips Process; Universal Licensing DEC Holiday programming MAY The New Band in Town (pub System; GMRS deregulations; safety); HR 2369 passes House Congress pushes for earlier PROPAGATION CONDITIONS JUN Incident Scanning(with Trunk- taxation of Internet JAN Diversity Reception Tracker); Summertime Scanning; JUL The FCC: Who they are and what FEB NVIS Propagation in NA (part 1) Sony scanner; reader letter they do MAR NVIS Propagation in NA (part 2) JUL Twister Search '98 AUG How to Participate in the FCC APR HF Propagation Beacons AUG Tornado Chasing a Scanning Process MAY Carrier Current Broadcasting Utopia; Rubber Duckies SEP Radio Free Berkeley Unplugged; JUN Cheap Electricity with LF Vanity license reduced JUL Snow Static! OCT DES broken; spread spectrum to AOR US headquarters Nov Palstar R30 HF receiver Sep be open to hams; cell call BradsSoftware Morse Made Easy Sep Panasonic GigaRange phones Aug location debate; APCO to resolve Citizens Band Review Aug RaceTrac headphones (Grove) Oct interference complaints re pub CONET Project SW numbers CD Jan Radio Shack PRO-74 race scanner Aug safety radio; FCC approved Sky Cyberlock (soft) Oct Radio Works T-4G line isolator May Station; vehicle collision DataFile Frobe Ver. 4 Apr RELM MS-180, MS-200 (Grove) Jan avoidance system gets 4mm ham Defense Reutilization Marketing Svce Replay TV Dec freqs; Space Station in doubt Oct SETI Wow! p;aque Nov NOV What's Behind the Amateur ECONN Gen Merchandise cat Jan SGC-231 automatic ant tuner Apr Restructuring Proposal? EddyWorks AR8000 Toolkit Aug SGC SG-2020 transceiver Jun DEC FCC Restructuring; Compliance EEB closed retail store Mar SkyScan Lightning Detector Jul and Information Bureau; FCC Future Scanning Radiomax soft Jan Sony 7600G upgrade (Grove) Mar move; phone company charges; Get Anything on Anybody (newsltr) Oct Sony AN-LP1 antenna (Grove) Mar Motorola interactice radio bc via GlobeEmail supports new radios Jun Sony SAS-AD4 DSS system Dec internet Grove FCC Database Jul Sony SC1 scanners (Grove) May HamCalc disk Mar Ten-Tec PC Radio Sep WHAT'S NEW Hi-Res Restoration videos Aug Trifield Broadband meter (Grove) Dec Books: Hobby Broadcasting magazine Jan Trifield MicroAlert (Grove) Nov Access to the Airwaves May Hobby Broadcasting magazine Aug Uniden HH995 (Grove) Jun ARRL Repeater Dir (Grove) Oct IPS propagation service Jun Vectronics kits Nov ARRL Repeater Dir (Grove) Dec Klingenfuss CD-ROM Feb Weather Alert Monitor (Grove) Jul Basic Radio Aug LP Comm Listening Post soft Mar WiNRADiO WR1500 and external Communicators Handbook 2050 Dec Maptech Terrain Navigator Nov units (Grove) Jul Communications Receivers (Grove) Mouser catalog on line or CD Jun WR3000i & MS8002-6 rcvrs (Grove) Feb Megatrends Handi-Log Apr Oct Complete SWL Handbook (G) Sep Radio Manager 3.896 soft Mar WR3E VLF rcvr (Grove) Jan Cruiser's Radio Guide (Grove) Feb Satellite Times becomes monthly Feb Crystal Set Building (G) Aug ScanCat 7.20 for 896 (Grove) Mar Reviews: Discover DXing Apr Sescom web site Mar BayGen Freeplay 1 & 2 radios Jul EEM Database Mar Serial control cable for 896 (Grove) Mar Creative Express Corp Ergo 3 soft Mar Emergency Survival Comms (Grove) SETIQuest closed publication Nov Icom IC-T8A Tri-band Transceiver Aug Feb Smolinski SS website (Mac soft) Aug Future Scanning Sys Radio Max Oct Ferrell's Confidential Freq List Dec Space: A Visual History (CD) Dec Kiwa Earth Monitor Nov Haruteq Scanner Bk for Qb, Atl Can Transmitter Documentation website Jan MFJ Gian Display Calendar Clock Sep Dec Transmitter Documentation project Sep MFJ-418 Morse Tutor May Hitler's Airwaves Oct Trunk Manager soft Mar Opto MicroCounter Jan Illegal Police Surveillance Feb VisualRadio soft May Opto RF Detector May IRCA Mexican Log Mar WiNRADiO Digital Suite (Grove) Mar Opto Trakker Jun Jane's Military Communications Oct Palomar Loop Antenna System Apr Klingenfuss G to Ute Stations (Gr) Feb Equipment: Klingenfuss G to WW Wx Services Dec Agrelo RDF system (Grove) Aug Klingenfuss Radio Data Code Manual Alpha Delta hydraulic fold-over mount Dec Sep Klingenfuss SW Frequency Guide Feb American Tech Corp solar-powered Morse Code: Breaking the Barrier May radios & flashflight Jul NRC AM Radio Log Feb ATC FM Sounds miniature radios Aug NRC Station Location Map Book Mar ATC Calculator Clock Radio Nov Palm Beach Co Freq Dir Jun AOR AR-8200 (Grove) Jul Passport to Web Radio Oct Cutting Edge Ent power supplies Jul Police Call 1998 (Grove) Jan Cutting Edge Radio Glove Nov Police Call, So California Feb Davis Wireless Weather Station Nov Practical RF Design Manual Jan Everhardt Trucker's Wx antenna Dec Radio Amateur's Sat Handbook (G) Sep Firestik Trunk antenna mounts Apr Radioscience Observing Jun Grundig Mini World 100 Sep RF Exposure and You Jul Garmin GPS receivers (Grove) Jun Shortwave Receivers Past & Present Icom IC-746 Transceiver Nov Jun Innovative Technology RV/marine Simple, Low-Cost Electronic Projects surge protectors Jun Dec Jade Optically Coupled Regen rcvr Sep South Florida Trunking Guide Jun Kiwa Regeneration Module (Gr) Apr Trunked Radio Syatems (CA) Oct Kiwa Earth Monitor Aug Voices in the Air Nov Magellan GSC100 (Grove) Apr World Radio TV Handbook (Grove) Feb Magellan GPS ColorTRAK (Grove) Oct WW SW Listening Guide (RS) Sep MFJ-310HT window mount clip Apr XMIT_ID free software Aug MFJ-969 AirCore tuner Apr Zenith Transistor Radios Apr MFJ-152 Thermometer Clock May Mirage Docking Booster Jul Software, Videos, Services, etc. MTS Emergency Alert Radio Dec AirMedia internet antenna Mar Nil-Jon VHF/UHF antennas Aug Antennas West closes/lives on May Optoelectronics OptoCom Jul Monitoring Times 1999 INDEX

FEATURES: Time Standard Stations JAN DEC The Popular Half-Wave Antenna Broadcast: Around the World by Radio DEC AMERICAN BANDSCAN BEGINNER'S CORNER Behind the Mic at Columbia Square MAR JAN Bits and Pieces JAN Around the World Yet Again Radio Australia looks to the Future FEB FEB DXing on the Road; expanded FEB Getting Started in Amateur Radio Radio Canada Intl SEP band news; bits & pieces MAR Indoor Antennas and More Song of the Coconut Is (Indonesia) OCT MAR TLSa (three letter acronyms) and APR Great Radio Reads The New VOA AUG other annoyances; applicants for MAY Setting up a monitoring post TIS - Original Microbroadcasters NOV CBC AM channels; expanded JUN Kit Building the Uncle Skip Way Turning Point for Intl Broadcasting JAN band map JUL Special Summer Listening 1998 Shortwave Year in Review MAR APR Beaming In (directional arrays) (weather events, circus and fairs, 193rd Special Operations Wing JUN MAY Domestic DXers Abroad; sports, special event stations and expanded band news; harmonics DXpeditions, random tuning) Human Interest: JUN Book reviews of AM Broadcast AUG Radio Tools from the Office Alone on the Pacific (Mick Bird) MAY Stations, AM Radio Log, FM Supply Store A Volunteer for the CG Auxiliary APR Atlas; Expanded band news SEP Listening 101 Eyewitness at the Solar Eclipse OCT JUL FCC Online; bits&pieces OCT Developing Logging and My First Radio SEP AUG IDing that unID Confirmation Skills SEP New and Improved; operational NOV That Pesky Propagation Miscellaneous: expanded band stations DEC Keep on Having Fun! A Common Date/Time Standard JAN OCT Fading - is it inevitable? Compliance Enforcement at FCC MAY Bits&Pieces BELOW 500 kHz Privacy Bill Resurrected APR NOV Y2k and Broadcasting; US-Mex JAN Nipping the Noise; Beacon agreement on expanded band directory Satellites DEC Crystal Ball; digital TV DX; other FEB Lowfer Update; GWEN gone; GPS and ITS MAY services on 1610 new LF band?; hunting for S118 Join the Search for ET JUN MAR Voice BCs on Low Freqs; active Live Pictures from Mir JUN ...AND MORE! TWEB and AWOS stns; DX Tuning in to Radio via Satellite MAR JAN Maxon's Full-Featured FRS-214 camp results Weather Satellite Primer JUL FEB Cherokee's Potent FR-460 APR Longwave towers; West Coast Whispers from the Cosmos JUN MAR Motorola's New TalkAbout TA280 net APR Motorola's TalkAbout Distance MAY Longwave Online; loggings Scanning: GMRS JUN Ham Band Update; Euro-Beacon DXing the VHF Low Band OCT MAY Cherokee's FR-465plusVW FRS; Guide; logs Guide to Aerial Refueling MAR 47 CTCSS tone table JUL Your FAQs Answered How to Identify FM Skip FEB JUN Cobra's Formidable Line of AUG Surfin' for LW Sites MD State Police Helicopters AUG MicroTalk FRS Radios SEP Natural Radio - An Introduction San Diego Regional Comm Sys OCT JUL Drake FRS Sport 110 Raises the OCT Natural Radio - The Hardware Scanning across the Pond JUL Ante NOV Did you know? IDs; call Scanning in Las Vegas JUL AUG GMRS Rule Changes assignments; FAA beacons; Tracker Tips SEP SEP Maxon's High Quality GMRS 21X splinter freqs; harmonics; Tuning in to the Power Grid DEC OCT First Alert WX-67 homebrew natural radio Vacation Scanning at Yellowstone JUL NOV Oregon Scientific WR-102 Wx DEC A Look Back (letter from a former radio ship radio officer) Technology and Technical: DEC Cobra's Innovative MicroTalk Aerial Magic APR Weather FRS radio BOB'S TIP OF THE MONTH Aiming Your HF Antenna DEC JAN Spool Antenna for Portable Alternative Power Set-up JAN ANTENNA TOPICS SWLing Build Your Own Wx Station AUG JAN The Half-Square Beam; FEB Converting an AM/FM for Back Yard Beverage APR Antennas and Technique for aircraft/public safety reception Construct an L-Band Feedhorn APR Low-Band DXing MAR Hint by the Handful (24 hr time on Filters - the Critical Element DEC FEB What difference does a dB 12hr watch; check Uniden for RS Hey, hey, hey - It’s Y2k OCT make? cost savings; custom cataloging Improvements to the Sony 2010 AUG MAR Handy Tool for Antenna Work MT articles; dust your radios Monitoring Strategies for Y2k NOV (MFJ 259B) APR Synchronous detection and OptoCom receiver review MAY APR What Does an Antenna Do? Digital RF signal generator for Quadraform LF Loop Antenna NOV MAY Direction Finding Techniques and the technically adept Radio Propagation and the Sun FEB Antennas MAY Better reel antenna/Memory Random Length Wire Antenna APR JUN Repeaters and their Antennas, keep-alive while changing Tape Recording from the Radio SEP cavity resonators batteries JUL Vacation with an Antenna JUN Roll your own NiCds Utilities: AUG Antennas Designed for JUL More on the Fat vs. Thin Antenna DXing Latin America by Air SEP Reception Wire; More on License-Free Homing in on LF Beacons NOV SEP What is a "DX Antenna"? Wireless Mike; More on Sony Monitoring the Crisis in the Balkans JUN OCT Remote-Control of Antennas Memory Battery Replacement The Rise and Fall of WCC DEC NOV The many faces of lightning AUG Two radios, one antenna; one MAR Twinplex - SITOR ARQ on the FEB "Anything Goes" Gone radio, two antennas Double; new sequential duplex MAR France Snubs Western English SEP Pocket organizers and PDAs, ARQ system? Speakers Reducing circuit noise in used APR Catch Coquelet-8 before it's too APR Sunspot Peak; BBC Comes rcvrs; Using your car stereo for late Clean about 3-year plan scanner/sw sound MAY Gearing up for complex decoding MAY Antarctica's Archangel on the Air OCT More Sony ICF-2010 Audio JUN Old systems going strong JUN Find it on the web (IBB; SEC) Improvements (better audio, (Havana, Cairo embassies) JUL China Sneaks in Cuban Relay better bandwidth); circuit JUL Computerized Monitoring Aids AUG Arne Skoog 1913-1999 correction for August feature (NSK PC Freq Manager) SEP Thanks to Cuba and China, NOV More earphone audio on BC AUG Robust Romania Jamming Continues scanners SEP Piccolo OCT Deutsche Welle Faces Radial DEC Fixing Intermittent Sony 2010 OCT Two’s Company, Thirty Six is a Cutbacks; Don’t Miss this Radio Battery Operation CROWD; Chinese diplo moving St Helena Day to PSK NOV WBCQ Celebrates One Year CLOSING COMMENTS NOV PSK - HF Digital's Brave New DEC CIDX SW Listener Survey JAN The Millennium Dilemma: Myth or World Monster? DEC PSK - Part 2 HOT NEWS FEB Bits and Pieces (ridiculous JAN Program Changes in a new regulation; Leonid meteor storm; EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP BCing Season (R Prague, R hobby rebound) JAN Mastering the Grove FCC Vlaanderen, R Netherlands, MAR Great Wailing and Gnashing of Database WRN, Polish R Warsaw, R Teeth (The Right to Listen; A FEB Data Decoder Interface for Trunk Australia, R Taipei Intl, BBC New Ham Test?) Following America, WRN-1 APR Radio Waves and the Human MAR Soup up your Computer for Radio MAR Radio Waves, VOA to Africa, Body APR Dual Polarity Power Supplies views of earth from space on MAY The FCC on the Hot Seat MAY 4-Level FSK data decoder internet, Art Bell update JUN Scanner Listeners and the Law interface APR BBC Singapore; DAB portable JUL The Frequencies, They are JUN Modifying the Sony WaveHawk - receivers; ODXA Milestone; a'Changin'! baseband audio, data decoding, EDXP electronic newsletter; AUG In Opposition to "Technospeak" S-meter, AM and WFM baseband Hard-Core DX emailing list; Mac SEP The Results are In - How Do You taps, tape recording, backlight, using SWLs on the increase; Measure Up? extended memory WRN selected programming OCT Y2k - Myth or Monster? You JUL Computer Update: Trends & MAY DW Radio Worlds; Grove free decide. Features stuff; WWCR DX block; ODXA NOV Looking Back as We Move AUG Tools & Techniques (building and Radio Fest; Internet radio; Forward equipping the workbench) sunspot webpage; NOAA radio; DEC Greetings from the MT Staff! SEP Update on Computer Networking selected programs - II JUL Kosovo Crisis COMPUTERS & RADIO OCT Computer Tools, Utilities, and SEP BBC World TV JAN A Reflection on Computers & Tips for Radio OCT Radio Republik Indonesia Radar NOV Electroluminescent Panels NOV SWL Programs FEB 3.4 Million freqs (Grove FCC DEC The End of an Era DEC BBC, RN highlights; new SW database) and the COMDEX WTJC, Newport, NC Report MAR AirNav 2.10 THE FED FILES K.I.S. RADIO APR DXtreme Software's SWRLgold FEB Where have all the fed freqs JAN "Doomsday Radio" V3.0 gone? (Standard Federal MAR Restoring the Hallicrafters S-38 MAY Software radio prospects / Trunked land mobile systems); MAY More Mobile Station Solutions SkySpy ACARS decoding 163-163.9875 allocations JUL Kits to Keep it Simple program APR Nat'l Disaster Medical Sys; more SEP Audio Enhancing Devices (DSP) JUN Interfacing with the Icom IC-R2 on 120.375 MHz; 164-164.9875 NOV Bringing Hidden Treasures to Life (website to build or buy interface, MHz allocations R2 utility program) JUN Monitoring in W. Arkansas; DEA LAUNCHING PAD JUL Get the Picture with RadioCom in San Diego; FF updates from JAN Is this Mess Necessary? 3.52 readers; 165-165.9875 MHz FEB Let's Accessorize! AUG Seeing is Believing with allocations MAR Putting it all together VisualRadio AUG US Fish and Wildlife Service; APR Prosat DVB Digital Receiver SEP Flight Databases Plus v4.0 166-166.9875 allocations MAY Satellite Launch Update; mailbag ACARS Add-on OCT Fed Files mailbag: NC Feds, JUN Multi-Satellite Reception with a OCT AirNav 3 - NOT Just a Revision! More FBI Freqs, US Fish and Fixed Dish; Mail bag NOV The Duality of Life on the Internet Wildlife update, Blue Ridge JUL Touring the Atlantic Satellites DEC The Better Side of the Internet Pkwy; 167-167.9875 MHz AUG Zinwell DVB Satellite Receiver; (Jet Radio) allocations joys of digital reception; Bob DEC Monitoring Y2k the Government Cooper DIGITAL DIGEST Way (by-agency and by-freq SEP Uniden's SQ-590: Last Chance JAN Who's on Where? listings) for a Talented Receiver FEB Who Uses What? Part 2 OCT Hot Tips on Cold LNBs GLOBAL FORUM NOV Your DVB Questions Answered JAN Update on HCJB's Pifo Problem DEC DBS Update: The Latest on JUL A Different Antenna (Hentenna) DEC The Evolution of PCS, Small Dish TV AUG Is It High Enough? Globalstar, Orbcomm SEP Clandestine Radio (compact and MAGNE TESTS hidden antennas); 6-m FM PLANE TALK (Reprints of Magne Tests reviews are not OCT Cutting Your Losses JAN More HF Control Frequencies available.) (transmatch); Mosley antennas; FEB Monitoring Accessories and JAN Grundig Platinum Traveller entertaining hams Activities; western hemisphere Portable; Drake no longer NOV Ike's Santa List MWARAs servicing older models DEC Hamming on the Internet; AM MAR March Madness (humor); ATC MAR RS DX-397 Compact Portable freqs separation standards APR Emergency Radio: Info-Mate 837; APR ATCC simulation; Murphy's Law; Sony introduces ICF-SW07 OUTER LIMITS Delta map and Salt Lake City MAY Sony's ICF-SW07 ROM-tuned JAN Four SW Pirates Busted by FCC; freqs, Minn/St Paul freqs portable Joe Mama killed; Metallica tx MAY Enhanced Traffic Management; JUN Luke DP-976 Emergency Radio FEB SW Pirates adjust to FCC Busts; System; Airport surveillance JUL Latest Version of Japan Radio's R Cochiguaz; Stoneham radar NRD-545; Grundig Yacht Boy maildrop closing JUN A Toast to Air Traffic Controllers 300PE being introduced MAR Pirate Radio at Winter Fest; R JUL Shanwick Radio; Airport AUG Grundig Yacht Boy 300PE Free Vermont vs. FCC; new S Movement Area Safety SEP Icom IC-R75 American address; bust update System(AMASS) OCT WiNRADiO 1500e PC Receiver APR New editors at Free Radio AUG Travel with the Flying Pig NOV Virtual Radio: Icom IC-PCR1000 Weekly; New ACE address; (videos); A visit to Poland's ATC DEC Kachina's Proposed KC-105CRX Europirates audible; clannie SEP Stockholmradio; SF Bay Tower Receiver (a look at Kachina KC- news freqs; transponder code 505 tx) MAY Jimmy the Weasel bust; Radio assignments World endorses LPFM; W807; OCT Airport Hopping - Balt-Wash Intl, Europirates still heard Wash Reagan Natl, Dulles Intl, MILCOM JUN Radio Free Berkeley Returns; Chicago Midway, St Louis KS, JAN Monitoring the E-8 Joint Stars; Radio Caroline; Serb Clans?; S Kansas City Intl; Light Humor Spectrum holes; NJ mil freqs Am Pirates NOV Florida Freqs; Chicago O'Hare; MAR The 1999 Air Show Season, Blue JUL ANARC Net on Summer Wash DC; Murphy's Law Angel and Thunderbird skeds Vacation; Schoech QSL page; DEC Forth Worth ARTCC; book review and freqs; US Army MARS freqs FCC embarrassed; Radio Eclipse Five Miles and a Thousand Feet;; and designators; midwest air-to- wins Poll LAX video available from Flying air loggings AUG Jimmy the Weasel Denies Bust; Pig MAY The Hidden Military Aircraft Band; WBCQ schedule; Radio San What's on 138.925?; midwest Miguel PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT monitoring; Coronet and HF SEP Numbers Station CD Available JAN Learning to Fish - 1 refueling freqs; N. Fla milair freqs (Smolinski); Finn web page; FEB Learning to Fish - 2 JUL USS Enterprise; MCAS Yuma; Radiodifusora Paraton MAR The Literate Listener NG Y2K Exercise; Naval OCT La Voz de Alpha 66 Founder APR OK, Where do I start? tailcodes & callsigns Dies; South American Pirates; MAY One for the Veteran Listener SEP New HF Zulu Freq Found; Mystic Another micropirate bust; Zantow (quiz) Star Update; Randolph AFB; web site JUN Down Memory Lane(answers) 442nd Fighter Wing presets; NOV South American Pirates; JUL Traditional Life Wright Patterson TRS Berkeley Liberation Radio AUG Summer Heat: Sport and (BBC) NOV The Civil Air Patrol; Des Moines DEC Winter Prop Boost Europirates; Controversy Intl and midwest logs; Have Clandestine Radio Watch SEP Music on SW - Evening Prime Quick Freqs; MacDill AFB; OCT Music on SW - Morning Prime Military trunking systems survey PCS FRONT LINE NOV Music on SW - Foreign FEB Protection against cellular fraud DEC Charting a Future for Int'l ON THE HAM BANDS (authentication, RF fingerprinting; Broadcasting JAN You can bet on this Bob-tail; wireless telephone protection act, Building and Using Baluns and subscription fraud, insider fraud, PROPAGATION CONDITIONS Ununs network intrusions); 220 MHz JAN Worldwide Broadcasting Conflicts FEB Restructuring; Radio Shack auction FEB Sounding the Ionosphere repeater; Hiram Percy Maxim; APR Touching Bases: Iridium, MAR Causes and Effects of Ducting email Globalstar, AT&T, Sprint PCS, APR Bibliography of the Sun MAR Let's Talk about Ham Radio; The AirCell; Sony phone warning MAY Bibliography of the Sun - II Internet and the Michigan Mighty JUN Surfing the Web on a Mobile JUN Knife Edge Refraction Mite QRP transmitter Phone -- wireless apps, smart JUL ELF/VLF/LF Prop Modes - I APR W6SAI HF Antenna Handbook; phones, GPRS, Bluetooth, AUG ELF/VLF/LF Prop Modes - II QST archive projects - Pitchfork Ricochet SEP - ELF/VLF/LF Prop Modes - III antenna, checkers on the air AUG Who Pays for that Cellular Call?; OCT Where to Listen in 1999 MAY SWLing for hams; Flight of the new area codes; new spectrum NOV How to Use This Page Bumblebees allocations; Global System for DEC Santa Claus - a Man of Many JUN Adventure Radio Society; Light Mobiles Modes! House Day and other special OCT Iridium Woes; FBI Stalls events; Hamcalc Ver 38; ARRL Satphone Licenses; Dial 911 QSL REPORT web site and Ike's Soap Box Anywhere JAN Nordic SW Center Website FEB Double Dutch Treat JUN CT SP on the Move; Nil-Jon freqs, dates, agencies, callsigns, MAR Sign of the Times? (changing antenna follow-up; contributions nets QSL policies) & queries from readers; Trends in APR Signs of the Times - Part Deux? pub safety comms; news & notes VIEW FROM ABOVE MAY The SWL QSL card museum JUL The Digital Dilemma; open JAN Wild and Wooly Weather JUN You Asked for It (all-reports) airwave policy in Las Vegas; (WXSATs; RESURS; GOES-8; JUL Summer Grab Bag Longview, TX, trunking; NWS STS Orbit plus; Kepler element AUG Hot August QSLs (RTBF) computer-generated voice sources) SEP September, and the DXing is AUG The Bearcat 245XLT - What's it FEB Using Primary Data formats Easy! all about?; Palm Beach Co Fla MAR Watching Iraq; operational OCT QSL VHF Low Band Stations sheriff, fire/rescue, W Palm Wesats; Polar Wesat status; NOV DXing India Beach trunked system SICH-1 and OKEAN-4; GOES DEC Special QSL Cards for DXers(R SEP The Good Old Days (LAPD Y2K tests; GOES-L; solstice Australia and German Maritime comms on Adam-12); Scanner images Radio) Marketing follow-up; Busch APR Scanning the Weather Sats Stadium, Halifax, Portland, MAY So GOES the weather; DMSP SCANNER EQUIPMENT trunked systems image; new products JAN AOR AR7000 Wide Coverage OCT Canadian Digital Scanners; JUN Storms over Yugoslavia; NOAA- Receiver Groton CT Fire Dispatch; 15 Chan 3A,B; NOAA APT FEB Radio Shack PRO-2066 Mobile Promoting Scanners; Calibration markers; NOAA-15 Trunking Scanner; Improved feel Consolidation Continues; Wash data drop-outs; Using NOAA data for Drake R8B tuning knob; State Ops; Southern Linc Blues; JUL Beauty and the Beast - antennas, Download Uniden user manuals Wilmington NC Trunking computer upgrades; operational MAR ICOM RS-8500 Software; PRO- NOV Big Changes in the Big Apple; wesats; new Chinese wesat; new 34 discriminator output scanner marketing follow-up; Landsat launched; new Indian APR Icom IC-R2 Portable Scanner; Wash Co, OR, trunking; new CA imaging sat; first pics from Insat- ITT Mackay Marine 3031A rcvr business licenses 2E; correspondence from India MAY Remote Scanner Monitoring; DEC Uniden's SmartScanner (how AUG Seasonal Satellite Viewing; Longer MX-4000/4200 battery service works); Trunking Report FengYun-1C; Free tracking life; PRO-7A repair (Pinellas and Pasco Co, Fla); software; WxSat launches; JUN Mini-Circuit's ZFSC-4-1 Splitter; Police Call excerpt Vol 8 GOES-L launch delayed more notes on Icom IC-R2; new SEP WeSats Here to Stay: GOES Electra Corp scanner?; Batteries SERVICE SEARCH Wefax; WXSAT emailing list; Plus; Skyway aircraft band MAY Marine Radio Monitoring GOES-L launch delay; more converter JUN Civil Aero Assignments software and updates; images of JUL Racing Electronics RE2000 JUL Gearing up for a Revolution hot weather Alpha Portable Scanner; May (refarming); Stat e Law OCT Way to Go, GOES! NOAA column correction Enforcement Agency Allocations information sites; sources of AUG AOR AR16 portable scanner; AUG Emergency Medical Allocations current Kepler elements Harris RF-590 receiver SEP Forestry Conservation (state & NOV More on GOES-East; operational SEP Uniden BC245XLT TrunkTracker local) WXSATs; short-term outages II OCT Police Service Allocations from GOES OCT Plectron R700 Monitor Receivers NOV Highway Maintenance Service DEC T Build or to Buy?; Operational NOV Uniden BC278CLT Scanner DEC Fire Frequency Allocations WXSATs; Iceberg Imaged; DEC Uniden BC248CLT Scanner EMWIN; GOES-East UTILITY WORLD SCANNING REPORT JAN Rescue Coordination 1999 WASHINGTON WHISPERS JAN Flying and Scanning by GPS FEB Listen for USAF Salinas Global JAN FCC Curbs Violations FEB A Lesson from Boston (GHFS) FEB renter's antenna rights; new WTB PoliceRadio; morals about MAR More Israeli Intelligence Freqs bureau chief; Sony recall; HDTV messing with the media; Police APR Sunspots (solar cycles and how future Call 1999 to interpret solar indices reports) MAR FCC agenda for 1999; coalition MAR Future Railroad Scanning MAY Monitor the Y2K Countdown petitions FCC to let market (trunking debate); scanning JUN More Maritime Changes; determine high speed Internet;; antennas & Nil-Jon antenna Numbers update; HWK7 not e-commerce and reforming FCC review; Massachusetts French Navy on Congress agenda; low power Monitoring (part 2, completed) JUL Are Planes Going Digital? HF FM NPRM on FCC website; 19 APR CES 99 Report; (BC-245XLT ACARS; More New Star pirates shut down; equipment announcement) and no-shows; AUG Globe Wireless jumps the Morse approval system privatized and CT state police update; scanner ship, Global Radio Network streamlined; real estate alliance repair (G&G Comm); Ft Worth, SEP Updated CG Wx Sked; drug war appeals satellite dish ruling TX, public safety sys; Savannah / leaves Panama; web ute APR FCC Proposes Low Power FM Chatham Co / Tybee Is., GA, resources; bogus numbers BCs Service trunked repeater system OCT Spooks around the Clock; More MAY NR514 passes House; Tauzin MAY Scanner MArketing-You tell us; Cuban Strangeness; Spook opposes LPFM; taxing internet Disaster monitoring in Canada; Radio Schedules coming; Fcc shuts down Vibes Utah Co, UT, trunking; NOV US Armed Forces on HF? 89.1 FM , Grizzly Peak repeater, Montgomery Co, PA, trunking; DEC Y2k, the Witching Hour ham operators Ericsson plans in N Calif Approaches - likely activity , JUN Amateur Satellite(was) to Promote Commercial Venture JUL From Information Superhighway CAIG catalog, new address APR Cutting Edge HAM-Pack APR to Super Speedway! ComBox has US office APR Cutting Edge PocketPRO pouch JUN AUG EAS vs EBS; Israeli ATC vs Computer Intl new website DEC Cutting Edge Quick Draw holster OCT pirates; reduced Morse code Counter Spy Shops JAN Damark CellGuard/Safe Guard OCT requirements worldwide; area DataFile's PROBE Ver 5.0 soft JUL Electronic Spec modem protection FEB code shortage; FCC investigating Drake manuals online MAY Everhardt AM/FM/Wx antenna for RVs 10-10 services; FCC reconsiders Due Diligence 2000 (soft) OCT NOV slamming; annoying email violate DW Radio Worlds brochure JUN Garmin GPS III Plus (Grove) JAN US law? Electronics Engineers Master catalog Garmin NavTalk Cellular/GPS AUG SEP Low Power BCing Creates on disk and on line MAR GoTalk II FRS radio (Grove) JAN Uproar Fisher metal detector newsletter MAY Grundig Satellit 800 (G) NOV OCT LPFM Broadcasting not RFI Flighttracking via internet MAY Icom R-2 scanner (Grove) FEB Threat FreeTracker support pulled JUN Icom IC-R75 preview APR NOV The Migration to Digital Radio Hamco antenna catalog FEB Interference filters, AM & FM (G) JUN DEC Reply Comments Pour in on to IC Master on CD-ROM SEP Kaito Self-Powered Multiband (G) DEC Low Power FM Broadcasting Guide to Fed Govt Sales MAR KVH secure Tracphone FEB Hamcalc software disk MAY KVH TracVision LM JUL WHAT'S NEW HamCalc 40 OCT MetroWest Rapid Rechargers DEC Books: Hammall.com JUN MFJ-8121 21 band receiver JUN AM BC Stn Antenna Systems MAY IC Master online MAR MFJ Atomic Clock,monster display JUL Antenna Site Operating Guide APR Icom promotions DEC MFJ field strength meters SEP ARRL Wire Antenna Classics OCT Icom repairs: MalcolmTech Support MFJ Helping Hands kit tools OCT BeaconFinder JUN JUL MFJ Jim Handy Interface MAR Buying a Used SW Receiver FEB IC-R2, IC-Q7A software on line AUG MFJ Ni-MH Batteries OCT Collectors Guide to Vintage TVs AUG Inmarsat mini-M for aircraft JUL MFJ RuffRider mobile antennas APR Compendium of RR Freqs JUN JPS Comms, leaving ham sales JUL MFJ 24-Hr clocks JUN Cop Talk! AUG Magellan Geographix website JAN MFJ shack clock NOV A DXer's Technical Guide FEB Magellan S@tellite Modem SEP Milestone Tech TA-1 CW paddle DEC FM Atlas (18th) NOV Marbian Productions changes MAR NCT ClearSpeech Speaker APR Govt Radio Systems: CA JUL Midland Consumer Radio recall DEC OptoCom available from Grove MAR Hiram Percy Maxim JAN MFJ acquisition of Hy-Gain Ant JUL Optoelectronics MiniScout (G) JUN Home Video MAR MT Express debut (G) NOV Pelican computer case JUN Insanely Great Software WinWeather Oak Hills Research bought by PowerSafe 2000 NOV JUN Milestone Technologies JUL Radio Shack PRO-92, -94, -2052 (G) Int'l Satellite Directory SEP Optocom utility v 2.1 on line SEP OCT Klingenfuss books: Parnass' RadioMaps FEB RadMan RF field monitor JAN SW Freq Guide, Guide to Utilities, Police Call on CD (G) NOV Receivers for dogtracking (G) MAY Radiotelex Messages, Super- QSLs by W4MPY FEB RF Bug OCT Freq List on CD (G) APR Quebec Freq Dir on disk NOV RSM shortwave loop JAN Klingenfuss Guide to Wx Services AUG Radio HF email newsletter MAY Sangean SR-2 AM/FM (G) AUG Ladder Crystal Filters (MFJ) SEP Radio Mali on CD DEC SETI package from Grove JUN Mahlon Loomis, inventor of Radio MAR Radio Shopper magazine JUN Snap-Trak, Inc GPS chip AUG McGraw-Hill Electronics Books MAY Rarities-Exchange.com via sat APR Sperryspectrum analyzer (G) SEP MT Express Debut NOV Relm discontinues scanners OCT TERK clip-on TV antennas JUN NRC AM Radio Log DEC Rich Wells dealer survey site AUG TrackMaster Arrow Tracking Sys MAY NRC AM Station Map Book JUL ScanCat supports TenTec RX320 JAN Tripplite Super10 surge protectors APR On the Short Waves JUN SESCOM catalog and give-away SEP Trudell Dish-pod MAR Police Call 1999 (Grove) FEB Skyvision catalog OCT Uniden BC245XLT (G) JUL Radio Happy Isles DEC SmartScanner service now available Uniden BC278CLT, 248, 244 AUG S Fla Trunking Guide MAY NOV Wavecom W40PC DSP card AUG SW Guide to SE Asia APR Swagur-Timestep agreement FEB WorldSpace receivers unveiled MAR The Covert Catalog AUG Swezey DSP filter for SW DEC Trunked Radio Systems (Calif) JAN TDP available on line AUG Reviews: Trunked Radio Systems (Calif) OCT Timestep PROsat for Windows i APR Active Duck for HH (G) DEC Voices in the Purple Haze SEP Traffic Radar Handbook on line NOV Alpha Delta speaker / Weathering the Storm AUG Ultimate TIS Digest online NOV Icom Q7A Tx JAN WRTH 1999 (Grove) FEB Uniden closures JUN AVCOM SDM42A SDU APR Xtal Set Society, Vol 8 JUL Uniden BC-245 manual online SEP Bose v. Zenith Challenge MAR Your Guide to Propagation MAR WinRadio software upgrades DEC Crane/Sangean CCRadio FEB WUN Frequency Guide CD (G) MAY E-Trax software utility SEP Software, Videos, Services, etc. Yaesu buys Standard AUG EXP-1750 LF transceiver kit JUN Agrelo DF ing distributor SWS MAY JRC NRD545 with VHF/UHF AirNav tracking software FEB Equipment: converter MAY Alinco DJ-195T & DJ-V5T HTs JUL AOR Pocket receiver AR16B (G) JUN Kachina 505DSP OCT aRFive AR5000 software control FEB AOR SDU5500 SDU JUL Klockit clock kits NOV AR7030 improved SEP BayGen lantern (Grove) JAN Kloss Model 88 AM/FM radio JUL Atlantic Ham Radio taken over by BayGen Global SW rx (G) DEC MFJ Deluxe Noise Canceling Signal Radioworld, Inc JUL Bearcat bonanza (G) APR Enhancer MFJ-1026 AUG Australasian SW Digest (sub) AUG ComBox SatStream PC JAN OptoCom receiver (feature) MAY BetaSphere beta testing FEB Craftsman digital multimeter SEP Radio Shack Tuner Control Cleaner & Lubricant AUG Sony ICF-B200 MAR Tigertronics BP-2M digital modem DEC

Monitoring Times 2000 INDEX

FEATURES: Utilities: MAR Of Dropped Shoes and the Future Broadcast: ALE: HF Comms in New Millennium JUNof Ham Radio Antenna Law APR Ham Radio Special Event Stations SEP APR Spring Reading(Pssport, Crystal Canada's Regional Stations NOC Monitoring Pacific Ocean Flights AUG Bldg, AM BC Antenna Systems, DXing the AM BC Band (MW) FEB North Atlantic Crossing AUG Inside Amateur Radio) Far Eastern Rendezvous SEP MAY The Science Fair Crystal Set Guide to Addresses - Asia, Pacific SEP JUN Join the Club Guide to QSL Addresses - Africa OCT AMERICAN BANDSCAN JUL A Great Tale (DeMaw's Tuna Tin Guide to QSL Addresses - S Am DEC JAN Propagation by Groundwave 2) Independence and Innovation VOA MAY FEB Mailbag: AM Radio Log, WTIR AUG Reasonable Recycled Receivers Leo Sarkisian: Music Man of Africa OCT Orlando, Slinky antenna, new SEP New Beginnings for the Beginner's Listening in on Africa OCT 690/940 occupants, FCC auctions Corner Listening In on South America DEC 5 stations OCT Only SWL Antenna You'll Need Regional Music - Asia, Pacific SEP MAR X-Files Radio - oddities and NOV Finding the Perfect SW Receiver San Francisco's Radio Heritage DEC possible causes; 690/940 DEC 10 Meters Makes Commuting Fun! Somalia on Shortwave JUN occupants IDed; applicants for Summer DX Challenge (Baseball) JUN 740; federal use of TIS BELOW 500 kHz TWR on AM from Bonaire (MW) MAR APR Low Power FM JAN Beacons Alive and well; identifying Using Music to ID SW Stations FEB MAY Reference Aids new signals Visit to Spanish National Radio NOV JUN More Low Power FM; new 3-letter FEB Prime Time- selected DX beacons; VOA Cuts European Services APR stn in Canada; daytime DXing; visit to Hammond museum of VOA Special English MAY more on Slinky antenna Radio WCPE: FM Radio for 2000 JAN JUL Popularity Contest (radios used by MAR (Building) A Natural Radio WINB Surviving on Shortwave MAR DXers); new X band stn; skip and Receiver other unusual receptions APR Buttoning up the Natural Radio Miscellaneous AUG That Spotted Ole Sun (solar flux MAY The Great Outdoors (DXpeditions) Antarctica Communications Today JAN and MW reception) JUN Catching Up: loggings, log prog; Index of Articles 1999 JAN SEP It's Back(CBC powerhouse souped-up loop, Loop Antenna Moonbounce NOV stations); First LPFM filings (esp Handbook Atlanta area); MW database JUL Summertime Tips; BeaconFinder Satellites websites; deceptive logging Updates Amateur Radio Survives in Mir JUL OCT Timesharing and End of WMAQ AUG Tuning in to NAVTEX; DGPS Decoding the Russian Navsats-I FEB NOV SRS and SSS (skip techniques); news; Web updates Decoding the Russian Navsats-II FEB new Xband stn in Idaho; station SEP Longwave - Many Hobbies in One Phase 3D JUL sold on ebay; WLS nostalgia site; OCT Season Opener (antenna, receiver Primer on Satellite Groundstations JUL WTFDA concention checks), publications, SatCom North Arctic Expedition AUG DEC New AM Station licenses; LPFM experimental station, video project Space Action on AMSATs JUL news; receivers for MW DXing, NOV News,Tips, & Loggings: LW freq swap in Phoenix websites, manuals, Litz wire; Scanning: Canadian postal abbreviations, Crisis in North Carolina (ham radio) FEB ANTENNA TOPICS Scrapbook requests ,logs from Developing "The Ear" for Radio NOV JAN Antennas and the new century: BeaconFinder Field Trip for the Scanner Listener JUN above HF, trends, in HF antenna DEC Prime Season - Chasing Euros; How Far is "Line of Sight"? MAR work Beacons; Lowfers; going lower NASA/Space Shuttle Guide JUL FEB Vehicular Antennas - I Roadtrip! Scanning I-35 DEC MAR Vehicular Antennas - II BRIGHT IDEAS Scanning Salt Lake City MAY APR Antenna Design Programs JAN Get Organized Scanning Profile of Chicago OCT MAY Multi-Band Antennas FEB Lost and Found Understanding Handoffs Comms AUG JUN Some Antenna Tests and MAR Understanding the Incident Measurements Command System Technology and Technical: JUL Building Your Own Antennas APR Leashing the Internet Bluetooth: New World of Wireless SEP (dipole) MAY Getting Geared up for Summer Budget FM-DX Antenna MAY AUG A Legendary Multiband Antenna JUN Service Search Scanning DX Lifesaver: MiniDisc Recorder SEP (multiband dipole) (discontinued monthly titles) There are antennas and Antennas APR SEP Groundplane Antennas Extending the Range of Quad Loop APR OCT Survey of Antenna Directivity CLOSING COMMENTS NOV Antenna Books: ARRL Handbook, JAN A Scanning Hall of Fame, guest ed 20th Century Nostalgia ARRL Antenna Book, HF by Robt Wyman Ice Cold Radio: The Byrd Exped JAN Antennas for all Occasions, FEB Millennial Musings Forbidden Signals fm Ancient TXer MAR W6SAI Antenna Handbook, MAR Abolish Morse Code Before It's Jasper's Antique Radios JUN Practical Antenna Handbook, Too Late! (Fond Memories and MaritimeMuseum for Monitors MAY Aerials series Harsh Pragmatics) Monitoring with Vintage Ears OCT DEC Noise - The Arch-Enemy APR LPFM: Democracy on the The Radio War over Vietnam APR Airwaves Voice of Tomorrow Clandestine AUG BEGINNER'S CORNER MAY Do citizens have the right to listen Waiting for the Go Code JUL JAN How House Wiring Works to public service? Guest ed by FEB File Box Fun Chris Boyd

JUN New Senate Bill Could End Dec Digital Utilities: Where to Listen, e-Newsletter, Professional Satellite Scanner Use! what to log; new ALE net Repair, smallear.com JUL You'll find me in the flea-market! FEB SWLing with Pictures! Panamsat (Dayton Hamvention) EASY ACCESS RADIO 5; DXing with a small dish AUG Markey Gets His Due, and, Will JAN Sony FRS U-ceiver MAR NSS 806 Intl Sat Workhorse There Be a Digital Scanner? FEB Sharp Wizard OZ-750 APR The LNBF Advantage SEP The Internet: Get used to it, it's MAR Palm IIIe MAY TVRO Time Machine: YUSA here to stay! APR Pryme's PR-460 GMRS HTs JUN Sat DX Equip for Tight Spaces and OCT The Radio Hobby on the Rebound MAY Alinco’s Clear DJ-V5 Dualbander Budgets NOV A Domestic SW Service - Pro and JUN What's New with CB? Cobra and JUL Tuning in SCPC Radio Broadcasts Con Cherokee AUG Easy Satellite Service Tips DEC Holidays Greetings from staff JUL Drake Minitalk 99 FRS radio SEP Your Satellite TV Q&A's AUG GE Sedona FRS OCT The ST-6600 MPEGII Rx COMPUTERS & RADIO SEP Sangean DT-300VW Wx,MW,TV NOV Int'l TV Viewing and Q&As JAN TalkPCR by QROSoft radio DEC 4DTV Saves the Day (Maybe) FEB Plugging & Trunking with OCT no column WinRadio: WR XRS plug-ins, WR NOV no column MILCOM (odd months) Trunking Option DEC no column JAN Military Trunking Systems: Camp MAR Can software Simplify the AR- Pendleton, Fort Huachuca; 8200? AR8200 Workshop; THE FED FILES Motorola mil systems; Fed trunking ARC8200 ToolBox by BuTel; JAN Campaign 2000 (federal protection standard groups ScanCat 7.50 SE freqs); 168-168.9875 allocations MAR Air Show Season 2000 APR Handheld Computer Market and FEB National Interagency Fire Center; MAY HILL AFB Trunking; Buckeye State GPS for Palm Pilot 169-169.9875 alloc (OH) Milair; Armed Forces Day MAY Tune up that whistle with DSP: MAR Mysterious Data Signals in New JUL New Blue Angel Freq; Mil Sat Swezey Digital Filter Prog; England; Wildfires in the Freqs; 113th Fighter Wing/121st GNASP1 Southeast; 170-170.9875 alloc Squadron, 201st Airlift Squadron; JUN More DSP Filter Progs: APR NASA Trunked Systems; 171- Monitoring the Military guide is Chromasound, SR5 Spectrum 171.9875 alloc. back Analyzer V2.0, Analyzer 2000, MAY Intl Boundary and Water SEP Eglin AFB; US Army trunked Spectrogram, Spectran Commission; Wash DC freqs; 172- systems JUL Software for the Ten-Tec RX-320: 172.9875 alloc. NOV San Antonio Fed Trunk Sys Ten-Tec utility,Dxtra, GNR, KF5OJ JUN SHARES on ALE; FBI aircraft, Update; Ft Lewis, Wash; Camp AUG More Programs to control the RX- FEMA freqs; 173-173.9875 alloc. Pendleton; VHF Military Land 320: AT/SWL99, ERGO, N4PY v JUL Postal Inspection Profile; 29.9- Mobile Service 1.04 30.550, 32-33 alloc. SEP When is a PC-Controlled Radio, AUG Feds in the Civilian Aircraft Band; ON THE HAM BANDS Not? PCR-1000, PCRPilot3C, RX- hurricane season resources; JAN Hello, Y2k; Onelist web site; 80 320 Controller Canadian Fed Freq resource; 34- metre direct conversion receiver OCT What to look for in a computer for 35, 36037, 38-39 alloc. schematic radio monitoring SEP Gov't Trunking Systems; 40- FEB Intro to ten Meters - signals, NOV On-Line Freq Files and 49.974 alloc. antennas, gear Databases: SPEEDX; ADDX OCT New Federal Bandplans (Itinerant, MAR Restructuring (a personal Kurier; Prime Time SW; WWW common use, interagency; Gov perspective) SWL Guide; LI Area Scanning Hydro Freqs, Wireless Mics APR What? Still no computer?; ARRL Resource; PeCon; Airport Guide, NOV Scanning the Wild, Wild West; asks reconsideration on WW Airport Path Finder; FCC; Houston, DOE, Idaho; AZ, CO, restructuring; RS HTX 10; band ILGRadio; conversion programs? NV, NM, OR report DEC Can You Teach an Old Dog New DEC Federal Freqs in Alaska; NASA MAY NOGAnaut transmitter; Amateur Tricks? [Radio Max 5.4, Scanner Comms; Pisgah Natl Forest; Fed Radio 101; Sporadic E skip Wear 2.5, ScanStar 7.62, Scancat UHF land mobile service alloc JUN Beacon Peekin'; summer activities 7.5 SE] JUL QRP versus QRO; Flight of the GLOBAL FORUM Bumblebees; Final Final (Ike's last DIGITAL DIGEST JAN All is not well at VOA column) JAN Digital Beginner's Freqs FEB Digital Radio Mondiale AUG Tried the New Mode in Town? FEB Something for Everyone: more MAR Latin Am Music Styles Web Page PSK31 (LVH) beginner's freqs; ALE update; APR This Month's Headlines SEP Welcome to HF Operation Utility Monitoring Central MAY FEBC Dropping English; DX the OCT The Courtesy of QSLing; CQ WW MAR Voice Frequency Telegraphy Internet; RHC on 1700? DX contest; GoldenClassics of Systems JUN Vietnam Gets Canadian Relay Yesteryear; www. APR More on VFT and French Forces JUL Behind "Chiapas, the World tubesandmore.com; QSL Cards by MAY Differential GPS Speaks" W4MPY JUN Ecoutez vous Francais? (French AUG Radio Verdad QSLs NOV The Cult of K2 diplo channels) SEP ZimbabweClandestine DEC All I Want for Christmas (Dec JUL Got Sync? (IDing signals you can't OCT American Forces Network on SW contests) decode); decoders update NOV Yugoslavia Expelled from SW Site AUG Russian Intelligence-Gathering on DEC Silent Countries Now Webcasting OUTER LIMITS HF JAN How to Pirate and Clandestine BC; SEP Aid Agencies on HF Radio LAUNCHING PAD NASWA and Winter SWL Fest; OCT ALE Networks Update JAN Four Best Kept Secrets: Cichiguaz maildrop NOV Digital Meteorology Lyngemark satellite charts, SBCA FEB Pirate Radio programming, Low Power FM MAR DXing Clandestine Radio Stations; OCT African Station Websites DEC Alinco DJ-X2T Wideband Receiver pirate addresses at Schoech site NOV Address Update APR Mixed Reactions to LPFM; DEC S American website directory SCANNER LOGS Mexican Clandestine? JAN Brasstown NC; Chatt TN; Pima AZ MAY WHYP most active NA pirate; RADIO RESTORATIONS FEB Hickory, NC; SC Dept Natural Res; Euros on 19 Meters JAN Hello, MT readers, Starting Out, Ga Dept Nat Res; Dahlonega, GA, JUN Clandestine Web Sites Crystal Sets, Vacuum Tube Army Ranger Trunk sys Reinvigorated; New ACE publisher Detectors MAR White Sands NM; Milair FL; Patrick JUL Peruvian Broadcaster Invades FEB Battery Sets of the 1920s: AFB, Cape Canaveral; New Pirate Band; Pirates Going Legit Regenerative, TRF, Orleans LA trunk sys AUG Mobilization Radio Targets Superheterodyne receivers APR So CA aero; FL milair; MD VHF Washington MAR The First A.C. Sets air-air; Montgomery Co, TX; SEP Current Pirate Radio Programming APR The Screen Grid Revolution Kansas City ARTCC; VHF Lo- OCT Pirate DX Season; WCPE offer; MAY The Radio Becomes a Home Band Skip new web sites Appliance MAY Italian VHF Lo-Band skip; GTE NOV Pirating with Cumbre on the Air JUN Depression Downsizing Airfone freqs; cruise log requests DEC Best SW Radio Site, Clandestine JUL A.C.-D.C. Evolution JUN LAX; Phoenix Air Cargo; Calif skip; Radio Com; Holiday Pirates AUG New Twists on Tuning Florida milair; MD state PD; Italian SEP Your Grounding in Safety skip logs PLANE TALK OCT Equipping your Restoration JUL Avery Co, NC; Mexico VHF JAN Bern Radio; More from BWI Workshop assignments; More Italian Skip FEB Navigational Aids; Ramp rats and NOV Restoring Your First Set logs; Space Shuttle audio/video related activities DEC Digging into the Transitone retransmissions by ham radio MAR Potomac area TRACON; Aero AUG ASCIET 2000 military exercise websites; airline info; software [ROTATING GUIDE] SEP MD State Patrol; Chicago Area updates (AirNav Lite, Xavius) FEB SWL Program Guide OCT (no column) APR Aeronautical Radio, Inc. MAR Internet Radio Guide: SWBC by NOV (no column) MAY Continental Airlines Cruisin’; region DEC (no column) Minneapolis ARTCC freqs APR Int'l BCers via SAT JUN Chicago, and the Funnies MAY SWL Program Guide SCANNING REPORT JUL A Visit to Minneapolis ARTCC JUN Internet Radio: Ireland on the JAN Airborne Scanners, grounded AUG Dallas Ft Worth ATC; France's Internet again?; new band to scan (746- Friendly Skies?;The State of JUL (no column) 806); Wash Co, Ore, trunk update; Aviation in Australia AUG SWL ProgramGuide Maine scanning SEP Baltimore-Washington Intl update discontinued FEB Scanner Industry Keeps on and airline co freq list "Trunkin'" - comparison of BC-245, OCT Welcome to Bay and JFK SATELLITE RADIO GUIDE PRO-94, PRO-92 NOV New York to Kansas SCPC (even ); Audio (odd) MAR CES 2000; Police Call Business DEC Bound for the Northwest: Seattle, Satellite Loading Report: samples (Fla) Portland airports; ARINC HF freqs; JAN Telstar 7 APR Passing of Two Scanner Heroes; Weather Processors Products FEB SBS-6, GE-5 Relm buying Uniden 2-way (ATC) MAR GE Americom Satcom K2, GE-2 business; scanning w/the Palm APR GE-3 Pilot; Optoelectronics clairifcation; PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT MAY Telstar 4, Galaxy 7 245 keyboard lock; scanning films; JAN Charting a Future for SW BCing - JUN Telstar 6 CT cops a digital attitude; II JUL Galaxy 3R, Telstar 5 Hawaiian scanning FEB The Best SW Media Programs AUG Galaxy 11 MAY Some Good Scanner News MAR RNZI Loses Sport; BBCWS Loses SEP GE-1, GStar-4 (Holyoke, Mass); Scanners in the Mind OCT Telesat E2, Telesat E-1, Media; Radio Shack PRO-92 vs APR Don't Overlook These Gems! Solidaridad-1 Uniden BC-245 revisted; Hershey MAY Things learned at the SW NOV Solidaridad-2, SatMex-5 Park (PA) scanning; Mammoth Mt Winterfest DEC Morelos 2, Galaxy 5 (CA) ski resort trunked system JUN The BBC (Yes, Again!) JUN Exciting New Advances in JUL Europe's Summer of the Arts SCANNER EQUIPMENT Scanners; Scanner Master Smart- AUG The SWL's "National" Sports JAN Radio Shack PRO-92 Portable Link; APCO and convention; SEP Live from Australia: 2000 Olympics FEB Yaesu VF-500 Portable Scanner Boston area monitoring; Utah OCT So much for that firewall (VOA) MAR Uniden Sportcat SC-200 Portable Scanning; Kansas City EDACS NOV Ruminations of a Blocked Writer Scanner; MetroWest NiMH battery system; Sparks, NV DEC Half Full or Half Empty?(RN Media pack; Uniden Scanner clock radio JUL Itinerant Matters; ECPA Challenge Network & R Australia) ergonomics Denied; Boston APCO Convention APR Understanding Intermod; PRO-92 - Boston and Mass profile QSL REPORT follow-up AUG It was Great'n in Dayton; Speed JAN QSLing Mediumwave MAY Radio Shack PRO-94 Racer Scanning at Daytona; FEB QSLing Brazilians JUN Radio Shack PRO-2052 Trunk Dougherty Co GA trunked system; MAR Ethiopia - Radio from the Horn Tracker websites for scanning Disney; APR Czech Radio, Past and Present JUL Electra Tiger Scan TSA more on wireless mics; tower MAY Here comes the sun..shine radio AUG Patches, Crystals, and Review proliferation (Turkey) Index SEP News from a Newbie; scanner JUN Get Creative (email QSLs) SEP Radio Shack PRO-2067 suggestions; air phones; Wyoming JUL full column of QSL reports OCT ICOM IC-R3 Wide Coverage monitoring AUG Language Translation Software Receiver OCT Airport Scanning, aero monitoring SEP Asia-Pacific Station Websites NOV AOR AR-3000A in Michigan, more airport trunking, ramp frequencies; California NOV Mailbag Miscellany: (Allentown, launch captured; Los Alamos fire aircraft ground crew licenses PA; BWI, Sullivan Co, TN; from Terra sat (Police Call) Galveston, TX); BC780XLT, RS SEP High Resolution Satellite Imagery; NOV BC780XLT Update (new features); PRO-92. BC 245XLT New Fengyun wxsat; NOAA-L Daytona FL area trunking update; DEC Who's on Where? launch; Op Wxsats; Internet site Jackson MS trunking; Natick MA update comm sys; Plymouth MA info UTILITY WORLD OCT WXSATs: A World of Change; DEC Sunshine State not so Sunny (Fla JAN Solar Peak, the High End is Back NOAA-L Launch; Fengyun-1B; gives contract to Ericsson); MI FEB SW Utility: An Alphabet Soup? NOA-9 whispers; NOAA WXSATs, digital system; W Hartford CT More Panama changes; Cuban a glimpse of the future TRS; Puerto Rico TRS; BC780 Spook Sked NOV Readers Get the Picture: pics from part 2 MAR ALE: The Future Arrives readers; glimpse of the future part APR Black Fax from the Sky; More 2 SERVICE SEARCH Panama DEC Performance Anxiety (NOAA- JAN Public Safety pool MAY More Weather Changes – Air Learly orbit stages; NOAA-126 FEB Public Safety Pool - II Force, Russia, South Africa, infrared; Replacing NOAA-14; Op MAR Bus: Railroad Alloc Greece, USCG; More French Wxsats; Geostationary scene APR Petroleum and Power Alloc RTTY strangeness MAY VHF-low bandplans from Europe JUN US Air Force Air/Ground Net WASHINGTON WHISPERS (Italy, France); UK cordless Takes Shape (SCOPE Command JAN GB's RA proposes spectrum fees; phones ALE system) FCC restructuring; FCC allows JUN Fast Food Frequency Pairs JUL The Sun Sets on Portishead GPS in cellphones; cellphone JUL Amateur Satellite Bandplans Radio; new version PC- ALE buster illegal in US AUG National Civilian Aeronautical AUG Hear the Hurricane Hunters FEB FCC to Reallocate 200 MHz of Band Assignments SEP KPH Rises from the Dead; RTTY Prime Spectrum SEP New Zealand VHF Band Plans; US broadcasting?; Will MARS adopt MAR Ham Radio License Structure Low Band alloc PSK31? Simplified OCT The California Highway Patrol OCT To Catch a Spy; Tracking XPH APR FCC Creates Low Power FM NOV Channel Plan for 220-222 MHz NOV US Military Expanding HF Service Private Mobile Radio Services Services, USAF Weather net; MAY Radio freqs to become a DEC Highway Maintenance Power Control IDed commodity; guard band managers; DEC The Guide to MUF Surfing software defined radio SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT JUN Anti-Eavesdropping Legislation JAN Kaito KA-007 Free-power Radio VIEW FROM ABOVE JUL The FCC Rulemaking Process FEB Receiver News: Watkins-Johnson, JAN Seasonal changes: FengYun-2 AUG FCC Proposes new ultra-wideband Baygen, NASA HF-5E, RN fixed; software updates WXSAT, technology Receiver Shopping List WXTRACK; OSEI team monitor SEP Low Power FM Update MAR MFJ-784B Tunable DSP Filter volcano OCT One-Stop Shopping at Firstgov; APR Wellbrook ALA 1530 Loop FEB What's New in 2000? WXSATs Wm Flippo arrest; Vladimir Petit- MAY Sangean ATS 505 preferred orbits; winter images Fere arrest; Leslie Brewer fine; CB JUN Palstar R30 - Back to the Future? from NOAA; GOES-89 and -10; enforcements; unsolicited junk fax JUL Ten-Tec RX-340 Internet site update enforcement; FCC budget cut by AUG What do those specs really mean? MAR View from the Top of the Century: Congress; FCC puts RF emission SEP Synchronous Detection - What is Non-APT WXsats, GOES captures safety guide online it? the moon, DMSP launch check-out NOV FCC Crates MURS Service; Other OCT What is receiver sensitivity? moves to NOAA; APT images of New CB Services NOV What is dynamic range? Alaska DEC Gov Monitoring Raises Privacy DEC What is receiver selectivity? APR Geoff Perry, an appreciation; Questions Operational WXSATS; software TRACKING THE TRUNKS updates; Internet site WHAT'S NEW JAN Trunking Theory 101 recommendation; new GOES FEB A Trunked System Demo system hardware; (Mayflower Books MAR Tracking Motorola Systems steps) AIB Global BCing Guide Feb (O'Hare; Disneylnd; Arlington, TX) MAY Spring weather, space weather; Amateur Radio - First 100 Years Feb APR Ericsson's EDACS Trunking Operational Wxsats; Sich-1; ARRL RFI Book Mar (Ocean City, MD; Brevard Co, FL; monitoring solar interference; Basic Technology for the Amateur Radio Illinois SP; DFW Airport, TX) EXPLORES program; Contrails Enthusiast (book & video) May MAY Logic Trunked Systems (Chicago, image; GOES-L launch; archival Calypso at Midnight CD Jan IL; Bloomington, IN; Evansvile, IN; pics Earth Rising Apr Marshfield, MA; Rochester, NY; JUN WXsats Turn 40; Fengyun-2A Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbook Jun Milwaukee, WI) ceases ops; GOES-L ops; GOES German Numbers Woman Dec JUN The Case for APCO Project 25 (MI wefax transmissions Gordon West license manuals May state, FL HP, CT state, Mesa AZ, JUL The Launch of GOES-L; Volcano Govt Radio Systems Dec Fairfax Co VA, Baltimore MD) eruption prediction from GOES; Guide to VHF/UHF Amateur Radio Jun JUL Readers Track the Trunks Fire monitoring; Operational IRCA Foreign Log Feb (Evansville, IN; Albuquerque, NM; WXsats, NOAA-12 and 15; Okean- IRCA books Aug Rochester update; Disneyland O Resurrection? AM Slogans List, IRCA Foreign Log, Update; Austin, TX) AUG Surface Events Captured on DXers Technical Guide AUG Figuring Out Fleet Maps Satellite; Operational WXsats; Klingenfuss annual references 2000 SEP Can These Trunked Systems Meteor 3-5 early and late; GOES- J Deliver? 11 working fine; May Shuttle an OCT Multiple Transmitter Site Solutions Klingenfuss SW Freq Guide 2000 Jul Klingenfuss Guide to Ute Stns Jul AR8200 Mark II upgrade Oct Loop Antenna Handbook Apr Cellular Phone Alert Pen Nov M Street Radio Directory 2000 Apr Clear Speech Base Sep Max Research antenna books Apr Cutting Edge TransPorter Jan Monitoring the Military (online) Jul Cutting Edge Radio Badge Apr NRC AM Radio Log Dec Cutting Edge Radio Glove for VX-5 Jun NRC Station Map Dec Cybiko portable intertainment Sep NRC: Loop Ant Design & Theory Apr Fire GPS System Nov Police Call 2000 Apr GeoClock Mar Police Call: So Calif Apr Hammacher Schlemmer map Mar Police Call 2001 Oct Hamtronics kits Jun Radio in My Life ODXA booklet Jan Icom IC-718 HF tx Aug RDI White Paper, Satellit 800 Sep LF Engineering Skymatch,etc, cat Sep Short Wave Guide (EDXP) Jul Mercedes Benz StarTAK cellphone Space Architecture; Frassanito Jul M Speaking of Science Jun ay Southwest FreqDirectory Sep MFJ 24-hr clocks Jan The Logic of Microspace Aug MFJ HT Duck Antennas Jan TV Station Guide Apr MFJ SWR Meter 269 Oct The Voice of the Crystal Jun Midland SpeakEasy FRS Oct WRTH 2000 Mar Miland SpeakEasy 75-517 FRS Nov Midland Weather Alert radio Oct Business news, Software MorseExpress Millennium Key Nov Antique Electronic Supply cat Jan OHR QRP Kit Dec Antique Electronic Supply cat Apr Optoelectronics Multicounter Aug APBnews.com May Radio Shack Optimus Multiband Jun BandTrol & SofTrol for BC895XLT May Ramsey antenna kits Apr Business news MAR Ramsey SW receiver kit May Computer Aided Tech old-time radio Receivers and rumors of receivers Aug broadcast CDs Sep RF Enterprises Pilot Light flashlight Feb DigiPan Freeware for PSK31 Jul SafeTShield (caveat emptor) Nov Ericsson selling priv radio sys; WR1550 Samsung Star Trek wrist phone Jan dynamic range; new name, website for Sangean ATS-505 Apr Watkins-Johnson; Grundig 800 news Small Wonder Labs PSK-20 Tx Kit Jul Eat Anglia catalog Feb Smart Link Reaction Tuner Aug HAMCALC v 43 Jun Sonicbox Feb Hamcall CD-ROM (Buckmaster) Sep SRS Labs WOW Thing Feb Inside WSM/ First 75 Years Feb Super Select-A-Tenna Jun Iridium collectibles? Jul Ten-Tec RX-340 May FTV decoding software Mar Uniden BC780XLT TrunkTracker Feb Kenwood HQ moves to Atlantas Oct Uniden BC780XLT anticipation Mar KLM antennas out of business Jan WinRadio 1550e Jan Magellan/Hertz NeverLost system Jan WinRadio WR-3500, WR-3700 Oct Mr Scanner FCC CD-ROM Sep Yaesu VR-5000 Dec News and rumors Dec Nitelogger discontinued Nov REVIEWS: Palstar 30 Filter Specs Aug AOR Antenna Line Nov Pasternack coax catalog Nov CCRadio vs. GE Superadio Mar Patent Wizard Nov Diamond vs Condor scanner ant Sep Police Call #4 recall Jan Grove FTR-100 Notch Filter Oct Police Call 2000 CD-ROM Mar Grundig 500 sneak preview May Police Call 2001 on CD Oct Hamtronics Aviation Rx Module Aug QRZ.com + Jotter Jan Icom W32A TXer as a scanner Feb Quebec database, Thibodeaux Sep Protek 3201 RF Field Analyzer Dec Radio-Active Shoc database Dec Ramsey FM-100 Stereo transmitter Apr Radio HF closes storefront Aug Ramsey Mobile RDF System Jul Satellite-delivered radio (XM,CDR) Jan Stridsberg FLT201A Notch Filter Jan Scancat Gold ver 7.5.8 Stridsberg MCA204 Multicoupler Jan Scanner Recorder Sep Super Select-A-Tenna Jul Scannerstuff Scanner Prog System Feb Timestep feed and converter for Scott Craig solar data plot prog May GOES reception (from Swagur) May Skyvision catalog Apr Wellbrook Antenna Splitter AS1030 Sep Websites of note Oct WinMorse Aug WR1550 features Apr

Equipment Aiwa Dynamo FR-C151 Feb Alinco DM-330MV power supply Jan Alinco DJ-V5TDC clear HT Apr Alinco DJ-X2T Oct Alpha Delta Coax Switch Jun Monitoring Times 2001 INDEX

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FEATURES: History and Future of Radio OCT JUN Antenna for Low Freqs (active Broadcast: History and Future of Radio - II NOV antenna) Broadcasting in Zimbabwe JUL Linear Loaded Quad for 15 MHz APR JUL Antenna for Medium and High Challenges for Int'l Broadcasting JAN MF Spectrum Loopstick APR Freqs (Marconi) Challenges: Conflict to Cooperaton JUN AUG Antenna for VHF and Higher DXing Mexican Style JAN 20th Century Nostalgia (axial-mode, helical antnna) Hawaii DXpedition MAY Marconi's Atlantic Adventure DEC SEP Some Very Unusual Antennas KJES JUL Marconi's Favored Hand DEC (winner, other unusual entries Listening In On Europe MAR MT Celebrates 20 Years DEC present and past); websites Listening In South of the Border JAN Recreated Baseball Games JUL OCT Some easy, low-cost antennas Listening In On the Middle East SEP NOV Some Basic Antenna Concepts Listening to Baseball JUL Utilities: DEC Antennas Near or Under the Meet WJCR SEP IDing DGPS Beacon Stations MAY Earth QSL Guide to the Caribbean JAN International ALE Nets FEB QSL Guide to Europe MAR Milcom: Most Enjoyable Channels APR BEGINNER'S CORNER QSL Guide to the Middle East SEP QSLing the World (hams) OCT JAN Two Cheap (and easy) Scanner SWLing from the West Coast DEC The Key to the Enigma Cipher MAR Antenna Solutions; Beginner's WWBS: Little Station That Could FEB DIY - The Attic Mount AMERICAN BANDSCAN FEB Your Beginner's Q&A Miscellaneous JAN Good Books (AM Radio Log, AM MAR Wireless Whole House Audio ACARS Decoding and AirNav3 AUG Station Map Book, FM Atlas); APR Satellite TV Update: CB Woes, Guide to the Marine Bands MAY Expanded Band News; Bits & Scheduled Launches, MPEGII Guide to the Radio Web JUN Pieces Report Ham Licensing in Canada OCT FEB Station (tower) Identification; MAY Getting Started in 2 Meters Index 2000 JAN Expanded Band News; Bits & JUN The Readers Respond: whole Monitor's Guide to Maps JUL Pieces house audio, Grove antenna, etc Who's Listening? Wade Langley AUG MAR Stamp Collecting and DX; LPFM JUL The $10 Multi-Purpose Mobile news; New stations Antenna Satellites APR Stakeout! ; Mailbag AUG Motorola's DCII Sidecar (C-band Starband vs. DirecPC FEB MAY Radio Graveyard update and solution to digital JUN Grounded Loop Antenna reception); TVRO Mailbag Scanning: JUL Join the Club; bits and pieces SEP Roll Your Own DXpedition 2001 Fire Season Scanning JUL AUG Regional Roundup (regional OCT Getting Started in Scanning 2002 Winter Olympics DEC channels); DX and crime fighting; NOV The Best Way to Learn Morse 9-11 Infamy Revisited NOV mailbag Code Dept Store Scanning DEC SEP LPFM on the Air; Over the Air TV DEC TVRO Update: MPEGII and Lower Colorado River Authority FEB OCT Bits and Pieces HDTV NH Scanning (Granite State) AUG NOV RDS and Automatic IDs Radio Behind Bars (Folsom) AUG DEC Broadcasting and the NYC Attack Radio on the Radio JUN BELOW 500 kHz Scanning Central Florida MAR ANTENNA TOPICS JAN DX Camp Results; WWVB Scanning Dixie NOV JAN Don't Drink this Beverage! Software; Web Updates Scanning Fla's Spacecoast APR FEB Interesting Aspects of FEB The Band is Hot!; Web Updates; Washington Under Seige NOV Propagation New LF Catalog MAR Antennas Across the Spectrum: MAR Can You Hear the Lowfers?; Technology and Technical: VLF-LF Looking Back; Universal catalog Fix It, Don't Toss It SEP APR Antennas Across the Spectrum: available Folded, folded Dipole for VHF/FM JUL MF-HF APR Pipeline Recption; Mail Call; Web Following Trunked Systems by Computer SEPMAY Antennas Across the Spectrum: Resource Generating Power MAY VHF-Microwave MAY The Way it Was (maritime); HF Trailer Hitch mount APR beacon loggings JUN LF Receiving Antennas: Random DEC Software for the 780XLT: NOV SHARES and FEMA frequencies Wire; Mailbag; Pipeline ScanCat Gold 8 and ScanPro780 DEC Emergency Alert System on HF; Reception Update Operation SECURE; New JUL LF Receiving Antennas -II (loop DIGITAL DIGEST England federal monitoring antennas) JAN More Diplomatic Services AUG LF Receiving Antennas - III FEB Algerian Oil & Gas on HF; GLOBAL FORUM (active antennas) Spanish Diplo Service; N Korean JAN The Clandestine Cranny SEP First Steps (in LF) KCNA FEB Soviet Tests Burned the OCT Besides Beacons (quick tour LF) MAR HF Fax Facts; Baltic States and Ionosphere NOV A/N Range Signal Retrospect; Canadian Forces on ALE MAR WWFV Licensed to Broadcast Longwave Loggings; Morse Code APR High Speed Modem Here (Hoka); Telephony chart ALE network update APR Is Radio Austria a "Sinking DEC 19 Countries on Longwave! MAY Chirps, Chips, and OTHRs Ship"? JUN Bulgarian Diplomatic Service; MAY Allan Weiner at Sea Again CLOSING COMMENTS ALE networks update JUN The Buzz of Digital Shortwave JAN Happy Anniversary! JUL Useful Modes - or Not?; Link 11 JUL Lose a Lot, Gain a Little FEB Dialogue on Out-of-Band System Profile; Tunisian MOI AUG Changes in US Gov't Int'l Broadcasting AUG Mysteries Solved (USCG), ALE Broadcasting (Pals, Radio Free MAR In Tribute (Al Gross, Joe Carr, Bill Update, PACTOR System Profile Asia, Radio Marti, VOA, ex-VOA Orr) SEP Czech Diplomatic Service; Two Bethany) APR The Silly Season - It's All Year More HF Email Services; Clover SEP R Austria Intl Endangered, Peace Long! system profile Radio Website MAY Loss of Another Friend; Spies OCT UMC moving web site; more ALE OCT Top 10 WWV Promotional Ideas Like Scanners Too; FCC network updates; FEC-A system NOV The NASB Agenda Commissioners Bail Out; ARRL profile DEC All Ears on Afghanistan Regression NOV Digital Signals FAQ; Amateur JUN Guest Ed: Should a Journalist digital experiments; new MILCOM (odd months) Head the VOA? Romanian network JAN Inauguration 2001 - military freqs JUL Guest Ed: The BBC Should DEC North Korean Diplomatic Service; MAR Monitoring Military Flight Reconsider more ALE networks; Rhode & Demonstration Groups, air show AUG Guest Ed: LPFM Hypocrasy? Schwartz HF Systems performance schedules and freqs SEP The Changing Complexion of MAY FACSFAC (San Diego & Hawaii' Marketing EASY ACCESS RADIO SoCal Marines; FAA freq OCT Guest Ed: How the 24/7, Up- MAR Icom 's Neat IC-718 changes; Ft Wainwright trunk grade, Hi-tech, Roll-out Life APR Cobra's Professional MicroTALK system Ended 2000WX JUL Airshow Update; Air Station NOV America: Land of the Free MAY Coleman CR-411 FRS Beaufort Profile DEC Christmas Greetings JUN First Alert WX-17 and WX-30 SEP 8971 - A Gem of a Frequency; JUL Icom's Neat IC-706MkIIG - I Van Nuys Air Expo; Happy COMPUTERS & RADIO AUG Icom's Neat IC-706MkIIG - II Hunter Revisited JAN AOR's SDU 5500 and LCD SEP Midland's G-30 GMRS Radio NOV SCATANA's Trial by Fire Basics OCT Cobra's SNAP microTALK (NORAD) FEB AOR's Pocket ACARS Decoder FRS120 ARD-2 NOV Citizens Radio Corps MT REVIEWS MAR Voice Command for Your DEC Tech-Link Walkie Talkies; a bad AOR TDF370 digital terminal DEC Receivers (Game Commander idea from WalMart Avcom Ramsey SDM42B SDU NOV plus RadioMax) Blonder Tongue BTSA-8558C spectrum APR Voice Command for Your THE FED FILES analyzer (and why it's not a Receivers (MS Game Voice vs JAN Fed Agencies at Inauguration communication receiver) SEP Game Commander 2) 2001 Electromagnetic Radiation Detectors: MAY What's After ACARS? FEB Weather on Your Scanner; Plus Guard, EMR Detector, JUN Where Did the Plug Go? EMWIN BC Areas Microalert (@Power Strip, Power Strip MAR Monitoring HUD; DOE Los Emerson Universal Multi-System Video Liberator, Catch-a-Call, Olitec Alamos; FBI in WV; Fed UHF Converter FEB Total Office) Land Mobile alloc. Flight Explorer Personal Edition AUG JUL What is an Internet APR Monitoring a Space Outpost; Fed Hamtronics LNK-WB preamplifier JUN Receiver/Tuner? (iRhythm) UHF Land Mobile alloc 412 MHz Index of Reviews 1994-2001 JUL AUG DeLorme's GPS Receiver MAY Federal Aviation Administration; MFJ-616 Speech Enhancer MAR (Earthmate) and Mapping 413 MHz alloc PAR AM Broadcast Filter MAY Programs (Road Warrior and JUN Summertime (Coast Guard on PAR AM BC Filter ((VLF) NOV Topo USA HF); 414 MHz alloc PAR MON-3 VHF/UHF Antenna MAY SEP Program Help for Pocket JUL Coast Guard on VHF/UHF - I; Sangean SR25V NOV Receivers (RT Systems progs for 415 MHz alloc. SGC SG2020 HF Transceiver JAN Icom and Yaesu) AUG Federal Bureau of Prisons; 416 WiNRADiO AX-31B Antenna APR OCT Son of Propman (Propman 2000) MHz alloc. (chart correction p.89 MAY) and DXLog Ver. 3.0 SEP Coast Guard on VHF/UHF - II Yaesu VR-5000 PMS Scan Fix JUN NOV Software for the 780XLT: OCT A Leaf Lookers Special Profile: WinScan 780 and TrunkStar 780 Blue Ridge Parkway, Smoky Mt ON THE HAM BANDS Natl Park, Shenandoah Natl Park JAN Be it resolved...10 resolutions FEB Books to Grow By (ARRL Center; Oakland, Seattle, Salt JUN Interesting Radio Books: Amateur Handbook for Radio Amateurs; Lake City, Atlanta Centers; jokes Radio - A beginners Guide, Understanding Basic Electronics; Thordarson Transformer Manual, Electronics of Radio; Practical RF PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT Fireside Politics - Radio and the Design; Solid State Design for JAN Breakfast with Shortwave Political Order, Complete Price the Radio Amateur; Intro to Radio FEB It's Your VOA Guide to Antique Radios - Sears Frequency Design) MAR Can Youth be Served? Silvertone Catalogs, Marconi's MAR Going Mobile APR Afternoon Delights Atlantic Leap APR Muscle Cars and Antenna Wire MAY DXing, SWLing, Media Programs JUL Continuing the SW-54 MAY PSK31 on a Budget; Field Day JUN SRI and Other Tales Restoration 2001; KAT2 Automatic Antenna JUL New Media, the BBC, and AUG The SW-54 Plays Again! Tuner Magazines SEP Realignment and Testing of the JUN One Ham's Hamfest Perspective AUG Discovering Lots of Life on SW SW-54 JUL Ragchewing and Other Fun (without the BBC) OCT Firing up a World War II AUG Dog Days in the Great Outdoors SEP An Ear to the Tower of Babel "Command Set" (BC-453, R- 23A (antennas and tuner for portable (non-English programming) NOV SW-54 Conclusion; Isolation ops) OCT RCI, the CBC, and the Role of Transformer [Oct column] SEP Ham Radio Rises Again International Radio DEC Digging Into the Command Sets OCT Easy PSK31 Ops with RIGblaster NOV DX, SWL, and Media Programs NOV Ham Radio in the Real World; DEC Listening to the Tea Leaves SATELLITE SERVICE GUIDE Lower Vanity Fee; FCC number (ways of listening to SW news) JAN Galaxy 7; Galaxy 9; Telstar 7; mandatory; on-air code practic Satcom C3 legal QSL REPORT FEB Galaxy 1R; Satcom C4; GE-7; DEC Picks for the Gift-giving season JAN Latin Websites and more GE-8 FEB (Jan repeated in error) MAR GE-6; Galaxy 6; SBS-6; SBS-4; OUTER LIMITS MAR European Websites GE-5; Satcom K2 JAN Holidays Boost Pirate APR Veri Signers: Are They Worth It? APR GE-2; GE-3; Telstar 4; Anik F1 Broadcasting MAY Increase your QSL Return Rate MAY Galaxy 11, Telstar 6, Glaxy 3R FEB Variety and Quantity Return JUN QSLing Hams on Field Day JUN Telstar 5, Galaxy 4R, GE-4 MAR USA-sponsored Clandestine JUL QSLing Int'l Hams JUL GE-1, GStar-4, Anik F1, Anik E2 Activity AUG Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend a AUG Solidaridad 2, SATMEX-5, Anik APR Zeller's Tenth Anniversary Beam for DXers E1, Morelos 2 MAY Allan Weiner Acquires Ship Tx SEP Adventist Radio Wows Collectors SEP Galaxy 10R, Galaxy 5, Galaxy 9, JUN Kentucky Militia Nixes KSMR OCT DX is back for the Trop Heads! Telstar 7 JUL Do We Need and Unlicensed BC NOV QSLing Beacons OCT Satcom C3, Galaxy 1R, Satcom Band? New ACE Publisher DEC LowFERs and MedFERS C4, GE-7, GE-8, Brasilsat A1, AUG Pirate Radio Thriving (logs) GE-6 SEP Camp Meeting Radio (AWR); RADIO (or SHORTWAVE) EQUIPMENT NOV Galaxy 6, SBS-6, SBS-4, Satcom Clandestine Radio Schedules FEB AOR's AR8600 on HF C1, GE-5, Satcom K2, GE-2 OCT Hear Pirates via Java Radio?; MAR (Mediumwave Equipment) The DEC GE-3, Telstar 4, Galaxy 11 Clandestine Targets Henry Kloss Model One NOV Kirk Trummel: 1963-2001; Biafra APR Yaesu VR5000 on HF SCANNER EQUIPMENT back on MAY MFJ 8100 World Band SW Radio JAN Butel Control Software for the IC- DEC Cuban Spy Used Numbers; JUN DJ-X2000T on HF and Your R2 holidaypirate numbers Letters (NRD-535 Quick Toggle, FEB RT Systems Software for the ICOM R3 Idiot, MT Stock Yaesu VF-500 PLANE TALK (even months) Exchange, Field and Stream MAR Uniden BC780XLT Trunktracker FEB Something for Everyone: nostalgia ad) APR AOR AR8600 Tatosian book review; JUL What are synthesizers and how MAY Yaesu VR-5000 Flightradio.com; airline company do they work? - I JUN Alinco DJ-X2000T freqs; unusual aero comms from AUG What are synthesizers and how JUL Yaesu VR-120 Portable Scanner Bob Bell; MWARA (conclusion) do they work? - II AUG Ask Another Bob: How can I build APR Richmond VA and Sacramento SEP SWLing "On the Go" a scanner? measure scanner CA towers OCT Mobile Solutions - II (using base performance? add alpha labels? JUN Tampa Bay Airspace; Air Traffic stations and in-dash receivers); buy a crystal-controlled air band Cafe website; Chicago Surfing; Sony mobile receiver review XR- scanner? Collectors Corner: Flight Explorer PE C5600X Regency TM-H2 AUG Alphabet Soup (Air Traffic NOV Mobile Solutions - III (converters, SEP Optoelectronics DS1000 Management Glossary); FAA to comparisons, satellite audio) Frequency Counter; Software for Modernize ATC over Oceans; DEC Taking Back the BBC (listening the VR-120 Houston Radio HF Services via satellite) OCT Tracking the Trendsetters OCT Airship Aviation (blimps); AirVan NOV Mobile Scanning in Style ACARS decoding software; RADIO RESTORATIONS DEC Build a Mobile Mounting Bracket airport freqs - Albuquerque NM, JAN Firing up the Transitone Cleveland OH, St Louis MO, FEB Rehabbing an RF Generator SCANNING CANADA Denver CO MAR Recapping and Testing the SEP Welcome to Canada DEC Christmas Bonus: Airline Generator OCT Onward to Ontario: Pearson company freqs; Frewell TWA; LA APR We Realign the Transitone Airport MAY Restoring the National SW-54 NOV Scanning the West Coast DEC Calgary Int'l Airport JUN The Price of Progress: problems JUL Operational WXSATs, with digital and 800 MHz corresondence, thoughts SCANNING REPORT systems; Talk-group patterns AUG Images from NOAA-16; GOES-2 JAN Public Safety in Lubbock Texas; JUL Travel Tips; Project 25 Scanner; to satellite heaven; Polar WXSAT BC 780 Update Part 3, non- Fleet Map Programming; Illinois ops; GOES-M Launch trunking functions STARCOM 21 Update SEP Understanding Weather FEB Jan column repeated by mistake AUG The Digital Side of APCO-25; Satellites, transmission modes MAR Michigan Monitoring; Final Wayne Co, Mich; State of Mich. OCT Understanding Weather Preview of BC780XLT, Motorola SEP To Buy or to Wait?; Digital Satellites, geostationary sats; trunking Modes; Trunktracking scanner GOES-M launched APR Future of Scanners and list; Phoenix; Sawyer Co Wis; NOV Digital Satellites on the Horizon; Consumer Electronics; Air radio Arkansas state police; PRO 91 decoding '90s style; timetable for news; Mississippi Monitoring; update digital WXSATs; WXSATs to Trunking Update, Clark County OCT Palm Beach County Confusion; monitor; pictures WA OpenSky system; Clarksville TN, DEC NOAA-16 and Fengyun MAY Five Wishes for Scanning; Oklahoma City OK, Palm Beach developments Kentucky (Paducah) Trunking; Co FL, Michigan state police Baltimore Trunking; Unique NOV Making the Case for Simulcasting WASHINGTON WHISPERS Trunking Formats (Springfield OH, Cape Cod MA, JAN Special interests still trying to kill JUN Scanning Your Own Back Yard; Anne Arundel Co MD, Fairfax Co LPFM; Alan Fried micro-radio local govt and related freqs VA, Kempsville VA, Lapeer Co system seized; Internet going JUL Scanning for Wireless MI, Saginaw Co, MI, Fulton Co wireless and US playing catch- Microphones; Who's Listening: GA, Dayton OH); Arkansas; up; Congress bill allows local Chris Parris Phoenix, AZ authorities to enforce laws AUG Scanning Smorgasbord (freq Dec Olympic-sized Trunking regarding CB violations data sources for PDAs, Texas FEB Reconsideration Urged on Radio Guide, Dodger stadium UTILITY WORLD MURS! freqs); Dayton Hamvention, Ft JAN Singapore Radio to Close; MAR Low Power FM Radio Crippled Lauderdale Air & Sea Show; Croughton Global Stands Down; APR Stand by for Chnge at the Florida Fires; VHF Wireless Mic More Air Force Weather Republican-led FCC follow-up; editorial policy FEB US Air Force ISB is Back; English MAY HAARP: Ionospheric Research, SEP Canada Calling (scanning Lady is Cuban; What was that? or is it? websites); emergency mgt MAR US Air Force Global HF System JUN Ham Runs Unlicensed Militia agencies (Miami-Dade Co); Jan APR Hugh's Favorite Frequencies: Air Station Fine profile Force, Coast Guard, War on JUL Sealand to Operate Internet Web OCT The Mail and the Media: freq lists Drugs, Fax and teleprinting Sites from readers; common news MAY More US Coast Guard FAX AUG LPFM: Giving a Voice to the media channels; Ken Windyka Changes; KPH on 7414 Voiceless profile; new lower power chans JUN Philippine News on HF Ute; SEP The Digital Battle Against NOV Florida Connection (to 9-11); CODAR Satellite TV Pirates maps and freqs URL; assisstive JUL UNS/Marine MARS Reorganizes; OCT The Cat and Mouse Game of listening devices; Mike Fink and Scratch Incirlik, Welcome Computer Security N Ohio freq list Sigonella; RTTY Harmonics NOV Digital Satellite Comes to BC DEC Closing Out the Year: effect of 9- AUG WLO Marine Bands Network Radio; FCC to Implement 11 on scanning; my bank number (telex, email, voice services) registration numbers; one; Brian Cathcart SEP The Middle East Numbers (E10) preparations for WRC-2003 OCT Understanding Weather Bulletin DEC FCC Adopts SDR Rules SERVICE SEARCH Headers JAN Canadian VHF/UHF Allocations NOV SITFAA: New Life for an Old Net WHAT'S NEW FEB Environment Canada DEC Utilities Go to War; Cuban Weatheradio Numbers are Real Books, CDs MAR US NOAA Weather Radio A Family Affair: RL Drake Story APR APR NOAA Weather Radio (contd) Amateur Radio Explained MAR MAY NOAA Weather Radio (contd) VIEW FROM ABOVE ARRL Handbook 2001 AUG JUN NOAA Weather Radio (concl) JAN A Change in Global Weather?; Australasian SW Guide JAN JUL Military VHF/UHF Spectrum Operating WXSats; Reader's Australasian SW Guide DEC AUG Fixed Base Aero Company Freqs Upgrade Callsign 2001 JUL OCT Major World Air Route Areas FEB The Risky Business of Satellites; E Mass Scanner Guide online MAY Resurs; NOAA-9 remains active; European FM Handbook DEC TRACKING THE TRUNKS NOAA-15 lives! FCC Data database on CD SEP JAN Sorting Out the Systems MAR Eclipse Weather! Freq of Nature FCC database OCT FEB Seeking Frequencies APR No Pics (failures), Snowy Pics GMRS online directory JUL MAR Public Access Trunked Radios (snow cover), and Gulf Pics Grove Federal Freq Directory CD SEP (MPT 1327) (newly-released HRPT images) Grove Military Freq Directory CD AUG APR Motorola Type II Trunking; Illinois MAY Intermittent Receptions; Op Grundig Satellit MAR Starcom 21; NPSPAC WXSats, Future Launches Hobbyists Guide to COMINT JUN MAY Trunking by TETRA; FCC JUN New Beginnings; GOES Users Klingenfuss Publications: MAR Database conference 2001 SW Greq Guide Guide to Utility Radio Stations Guide to WW Weather Services Morse Express Christmas Key DEC Super Freq List on CD-ROM Optoelectronics DS1000 freq cntr JUN Maritime Telegraphy CD SEP Patcomm RX-16000 SW receiver FEB Old Timers Bulletin on CD MAY Phone-Card-Phone MAY Passport 2002 NOV PlusGuard FEB Police Call 2002 NOV Radio Shack PRO-93/PRO-2053 AUG Programming Microcontrollers in C MAY Ramsey Music Lights kit NOV RadioMag MAR Ramsey Van DeGraff generator NOV Radio Stations in the UK JAN Sangean 505 new package SEP PCI Bus Demystified FEB Scientifics Wireless Weathewr Stn JUL Police Call, So Calif edition FEB Sony 7600G vs 7600GR JUN Quebec freq dir on CD OCT Sony software radio (SOPRANO) JUN South Carolina Freq Directory JUN Speco CBS-500 extension spkr AUG Short-Range Wireless Comm FEB Spydercone antenna system SEP SMD Electronic Projects JAN TERK TV35 antenna JUN User-friendly guide to Internet/computer Timewave ANC-4 NOV terms (free) NOV WinRadio USB adapters and telephone VA freq directory on CD OCT interface unit JUN Wireless Spectrum Finder AUG WinScan Ver 2.1 APR WRTH 2001 MAR Yaesu VR-120 APR YES watch FEB Business news, Software Atoc new Alinco US distributor AUG Caveat: Preferred Customers Guild MAR Cityfreq Online Database MAY Cobra/Lowrance merger MAY Garmin MapSource recall AUG G&G Communications now online JUL Grundig 800 upgrades NOV HamCalc 48 FEB Haxial World Time by Computer DEC Immobiliser security for Harleys JAN Kachina discontinues HF products JUL PerCon Spectrum Online MAY RadioCom 5.1 DEC Starband two-way satellite-delivered Internet service JAN TrunkStar 780 JUN Turbo535 Update JUN Uniden developing Project 25 scanner JUL

Equipment Adaptec USB XHub DEC Alinco DJ-X2000T APR Alinco DJ-X3 scanning rx NOV Alinco DR-235 and DR-435 MAY AR8600 receiver FEB Bose Wave/PC System SEP Cellular Pen JAN Cutting Edge Battery in a Bag MAY Cutting Edge Hold-It NEO pouch JAN Cutting Edge multi-band mobile ant JUL Cutting Edge Pouch for FT-817 APR Digisette Duo-Aria MP3 player MAR Electric Fuel zinc-air battery MAY Electric Fuel for PDAs SEP EMR detector SEP Fairhaven RD500VX JAN Garmin, new GPS products APR Grove SP-200C sound enhancer AUG Grove universal telescoping whip NOV Hamtronics low-noise preamps MAY Icom IC-910H tx FEB Midland F-10 FRS radio AUG Midland G-30 GMRS radio MAY Midland, new FRS models MAR MFJ Morse Code Reader NOV Monster car amplifier hook-up kits SEP Ham Radio More Than a Hobby MAY Pirate Hams of 45 MAY BEGINNER'S CORNER Monitoring Radio Landscape of France APR JAN Beginner Questions Answered: Antennas, Scanners, Sat TV Times 2002 AMERICAN BANDSCAN FEB Your First Steps in Amateur JAN Domestic-band radio in Radio Afghanistan MAR Electronic Kits and Gray-Line INDEX FEB Digital TV on the air; GE DXing Superadio; QSL web page; IRCA APR "Killer" Antenna for Low-Band Mexican Log DXing; Intl HF Beacons FEATURES: MAR Nothing is forever-station and MAY Small Dish vs Big Dish: A Broadcast: format changes; TIS DX tests, Satellite TV Primer 65 Years of Radio Prague JAN NYC VHF TV update, new JUN Five Tips for Ham Radio Catching Baseball on AM Band JUL Canadian FM transmitters Beginners China: Behind the Bamboo Curtain NOV APR DX Software (FCC Database JUL Antenna Experiences: "Killer" KTWR Guam Celebrates 25 OCT Reader, AutoDX); no format results on low band; all-band Listening in on India and Pakistan MAR change on WSM, Virgin Is WDHP signal catcher; where to find local Prime Season for Pirates OCT heard scanner freqs; external filtering Radio Aparecida JUN MAY Radio Shootout (side-by-side for SW radios Radio Canada International DEC receiver comparison); new Isle of AUG Basic Toolbox for your Monitoring Radio Okapi Hits SW MAY Mann LW stn, RDS feature on Hobby Shortwave's Summertime Secrets JUL Sangean 909 SEP Kite Lift Antennas; more Q&As on SW vs the Internet? Challenges 6 MAR JUN 24 Hours on 1030 kHz; Mailbag: GTAB antenna; Ramsey FM Tales from Bush House SEP mid-March DX opportunities, transmitter The Anderson/Patriot Radio Story APR Crawford station website OCT Powerful Addtions to Your Tuning in the Longwave BC Band SEP JUL Bits and Pieces: station changes; Listening Post (power supplies Voz Cristiana AUG silent opportunities; cross-border and tuners); mailbag: another targets; mailbag good tool, using glass-mount cell Miscellaneous AUG Television Update: Digital, phone for CB or 2 meter Emergency Communications JAN Analog, and Undecided; A Guide NOV Beginner's Look at Microphones Managing Radio Data SEP to TV Stations; Bits and Pieces and Audio Preserving QSLs FEB SEP End of an Era (WDBL sale); TV DEC Pesky Lead-In Cables; Traveling Radio Direction Finding JUL Distance Record; bits & pieces with a SW Radio Unlicensed DX: Irish Mass (filler) APR OCT Tower Battle (Fordham Univ Who's Who in the Spectrum -LF JAN WFUV-90.7); battle of the BELOW 500 kHz Who's Who in the Spectrum -MW FEB KISSes; Channel Master JAN Try Something New in '02; Who's Who - SW Broadcasts MAR antenna; daytime directional resources and tips; what I use; Who's Who? - SW Utilities APR pattern guide?; MW reception on more on A/N range systems Who's Who? Amateur Radio MAY wideband scanners; ethnic pirate FEB Lowfer Roundup; Coe Hill ON Who's Who? VHF Low Band JUN NOV Moving Day (changing freqs and DXpedition logs Who's Who? VHF/UHF AUG calls); AM changes in Toronto; MAR March Madness: Reader Who's Who? UHF SEP digital radio tests; KDJI QSL Loggings, WWVB power boost Who's Who? Above 960 MHz OCT DEC Make Way for Digital and La Crosse clock; 6-meter Broadcasting; KSPN-KDIS freq propagation beacons Satellites swap; WEBS, WPBS changes; APR New England Beacons; Atlantic Having Fun with GPS AUG KKSU gone 252 format change, Dick Pearce Sky Wars JAN receives awards Surveillance in the Clear NOV ANTENNA TOPICS MAY Good DX from Georgia; new LW JAN Ways in Which Antennas Differ broadcaster Scanning: FEB Antenna Primer !: Definition, JUN Treasure Hunting (hamfests); Canadian Snowbirds FEB History, and Build random-length longwave loggings; averted Civil War Natl Battlefields JUL wire antenna hearing? First Air: Canada's Arctic Airline NOV MAR Antenna Primer II: Antenna JUL New England DXing II; LF Ham Guide to APCO P-25 Systems, 1 DEC Terms, Build a dipole Band How Repeater Systems Work DEC APR Antenna Primer III: Selecting an AUG Surfing the Longwaves (summer Monitoring Camp Pendleton JUN Antenna, Build a Groundplane listening); LORAN Interference- Monitoring Canadian Air Shows MAR MAY What is NVIS and What is it good new hope; Loggings Road Trip: Mass to Dallas APR for? SEP Are You Ready? Printed Road Trip: Mass to Dallas - 2 MAY JUN Fun with Real-Antenna Modeling Resources, Online Resources, Scanning in Paradise (Hawaii) AUG JUL Matching: What, When, and More Code Chart Use Your Scanner to Track Wildlife DEC How? OCT Reader Questions & Comments: Virginia's STARS network SEP AUG Making Your Own Antenna WWVB query; power line Feedlines; the Old-Timers all- carriers; high power LowFER; Technology and Technical band antenna VLF Intercepts; ID Changes in On the Road with WiNRADiO JUN SEP A Brief History of Antennas Canada Portable Command Posts FEB OCT Scanner Antennas NOV New Designations for Single- NOV The TTFD Antenna Letter IDs; Morse Reference DEC The Effects of Earth and Other Chart; LORAN Filter Update; Utilities: Objects on Radio Waves Euro-BC News DEC Miscou '02 - Another Success; guerillas targeted; good-bye, FCC Chooses IBOC; Ray Briem Argentina hams on LF band, low- Communications World Retires; Bob Sherman Dies power SW beacons MAY America's Most Wanted: Anderson and Puckett; Top Cuba COMPUTERS & RADIO CLOSING COMMENTS expert pleads guilty to spying; JAN Bonito's RadioCom 5.1 JAN Will Anyone Be Listening? Merlin involved in launch of FEB Gizmos and Gadgets: soundcard FEB The Internet: Soup to Nuts Envisat; WWV propagation extender, up font panel adapter, (obsolete info, misinformation) format change; Refarming novice GearGrip, @ power strip, Catch- MAR Selling the Spectrum (the fight for CW bands; Cell-phone shields A-Call Gold NetCallerID spectrum space) bunk, says FCC; Pentagon MAR Antenna Design Software: The APR The Con Game: No April Fool's technology projects; LPFM slow Antenna Elmer, NEC, Antenna, Joke (technological scams) to grow; thanks to pirates Antenna Designer MAY Is Shortwave Dying? Not by a JUN Plane-spotting, a misunderstood APR Fingerprinting Transmitters: Long Shot! (fight for spectrum hobby; No in-flight cellular calls; MoTron's TxID-1 space) Hosts of Radio Liberty nervous; MAY Spyware: what can you do about JUN Can Shortwave Broadcasting Be public lukewarm toward new it? Ad-Aware 5.0 Saved? (guest Bob Zanotti) technology; when is "smart" not JUN Freeware Signal Fingerprinting: JUL A Look Back... so smart?; Ernest Cooper dies Xmit_ID AUG Going Wild over Wireless JUL Foxhunting, post-9/11; DC Fire JUL AirNav Suite - Sweet! (AirNav SEP Is Hobby Radio Dying? Two Dept woes; Digital systems still Internet Lite) Perspectives vulnerable; Airline safety AUG AirNav's Decoder Programs OCT Inspector General Audit: Army (Eurocontrol); Ham tower bill; no ACARS & SelCal MARS Not "Operationally Ready" satellite decoding (Canada); SEP Computer-Internet Firewall NOV Are SW Broadcasters Failing Radiationalert (cellphones); Protection (ZoneAlarm); "QSLing" Listeners? United Nations Radio; Off the Websites (My Vital Agent); DEC Christmas Greetings hook (re bugged Chinese plane); feedback on Ad-Aware US Satcom overhaul; RFID OCT Another Look at OCR (Xerox COMMUNICATIONS antennas TextBridge Plus, Cuneiform) JAN Cooper killed; E-911 behind AUG (Radio) Trouble in Paradise; NOV How OCR Can Change Your Life: sked; fight for spectrum space; FDNY New Radios; Radio Hot Testing OCR results using FAA upgrade; Merlin sold; Africa Potato (Cuba); Hobbyist RadioMax 5.22 and Scancat online; WRN moves to Telstar; Discloses Surveillance Pictures; Gold; Update on My Vital Agent World Space acquires Voyager; FEMA to Iron Out Interoperability; DEC Useful Computer/Monitoring Sat TV in Kabul; Radio Free Talk through the Hub (JPS ACU- Holiday Gifts: Keychain hard Afghanistan 1000); Lightning Disables DC drive, Coby MP-R650 MP3 FEB New look at evacuation plans; US Radios; Florida Man Convicted player-encoder considers restricting emergency SEP Radio Honor Roll: rescue of cellphone use; public warning abducted girls and Neil Carlton DIGITAL DIGEST system reevaluated; Sept 11 recognized for innovative classes JAN New MIL-188-110A HF modem radio problems; volunteer tech using radio; Australia Abandons users: Czech diplo service, guard; one year to recovery; Digital System; Spotting a Plane Mexican Navy; Unidentified Tetra system sold to Vatican; Spotter; Troops in Bosnia Adopt networks; China and Egypt Pinellas tests wideband system; FRS Radios; the Phone Tooth; expand systems; Codan system Native Americans go hi-tech Debate over Cell Phone Blocking; profile MAR Tulsa Amateurs restore ARRL Receives Grant; National FEB French Diplo nets, Colombian dispatching; new interest in ham Guard Techies; Stave Mansfield Counter-drug nets; Unid radio in emergency plans; Salt N1MZA, SK Rockwell-Collins mil net; Waffa Lake Co vs Salt Lake City OCT Radio Honor Roll: Scannist nabs Returns dispatching; Court says lawsuit re robber; Cellphone Safety; Music MAR Digital Beginners: choice stations Gingrich tape can continue; no and Cellphones Don't Mix; Music- to hear CW Numbers, Mixed- QSLs from Army MARS; Navy Cellphone Mix; Getting in the mode beacon, SITOR-A, RTTY admits sonar at fault in whale Loop (phone service); Getting CARB, RTTY weather, ALE, beachings; US-made aircraft for Out of the Loop (off the power SITOR-B Chinese president full of audio grid); FBI Scolded by Secret APR Useful Monitoring Tools: Digipan, bugs; Russia independent TV Court; FBI Advises Caution Hoka Code 300-32, Analyzer loses; NASA shuts down Deep (wireless nets) 2000, Baudline, SkySweeper Space 1 probe; Russia NOV Saved by a Scanner (5 stories); MAY Digital Ops from South America, dismantling Cuban listening site VOA Memorial Park; The Other Ecuador's maritime command, APR AFRTS contracted to Boeing; Side of Geocaching; Locationless Brazilian navy; Romanian ALE NOAA Wx radio changing Caches; Satellites vs. Radar net update automated voices; FCC Actions: Detectors; The Human Race; JUN Good Tools and New Targets: 24 GHz power boost, fed freqs "30" to "88" Klingenfuss 2002, PC-HFDL for reallocated, public safety DEC Radio Honor Roll: Rami HF Decoding, Nostradamus broadband; NTIA report on more Mahamid; RDFing Can be OTHR, Some unusual ALE spectrum for public safety; SW Dangerous; Comando Solo networks issues in Liberia, DIY satellite; Leads the Way; Put MARS to JUL HF Decoding satellite hits Egypt; "power" Work for the Holidays; Part of the AUG New PacTOR Mode, PacTOR-III; struggle in Russia; Philippine Problem is People (9/11 report); Russian 1280bps PSK; NATO Two Killed in Tower Collapse; KG84 RTTY SEP Colombian Phone Patches; FAA freqs; SoCal Fred Freq Antennas; The Great Loop Mysterious "055" Net; New Shakeup; various comms Experiment USCG ALE Net; New CIA/State captured on the air; US Forest JUL Thanks for the software ALE Net?; German Police/MOI Service and Bullock fire programming; Dead-end ALE Net; New OTHR frequencies (Coronado Natl reference to RTE; Don't call them OCT Remote Mail Delivery: Bush Mail; Forest) hams; Changes in French Globe Wireless Network Build- SEP Monitoring Independence Hall; landscape; Yoink-yoink-yoink; Out Federal Interagency Freqs; New Las Vegas without a radio; Radio NOV ALE Net Breakthroughs (055 USGS Frequency; Calif Dept of is an education; Closing network, Myanmar net, Saudi NG Forestry Comments net); PSK information OCT Feds in the Longwave Band: AUG Misleading Advice? (re Sony DEC Chirps Ahoy: Chirpview software; TIS/HAR station list 2010); What's the Verdict on British Territorial Army ALE Net; NOV SoCal High Band Fed Freq Shortwave?; FCC Monitoring Mexican Army Net; Coast Station Update; Chicago Fed Profile; Post Telex Lists (Oostende, Berna) Chicago FAA ATC freqs SEP VA Freqs and Request; DXing on DEC Monitoring Houston; Eric Snags a Mediumwave (sports); Blue EASY ACCESS RADIO TIS/HAR; DSCC Columbus; Angels on the air; GPS JAN Midland WR-10 AM/FM Wx radio Unusual Fed Freq (457.6125); OCT Carrier Current Collaboration; FEB Alinco DJ-596 Dual Band HT The First Lady in Texas; Dept of Canandaigua Monitoring Station; MAR Cobra PR 900-DX FRS/GMRS Energy Trunk System Mexican DX Meeting; super APR Radio Shack FRS/GMRS Handi- website; scanner racks Talkie GLOBAL FORUM NOV US Army MARS Response; MAY Audiovox's FRS-1000 Base JAN 2 Militia BCers in Shootouts, one Winterfest Invites Arnie Coro; Station dead, one missing Radio Finland programming; JUN Magellan GPS Receiver - Part 1 FEB Reference Sources on the Web Who's Who a Hit JUL Magellan GPS Receiver - Part 2 MAR RCI Cuts Programs, Staff DEC More Prespectives on Shortwave; AUG Davis Instruments Vantage Pro APR CODAR Radar, Israeli Cuts More on FRS in the Military; MT Wireless Weather Station MAY Russia vs US Int'l Broadcasting; Readers Come Through SEP C Crane's FM Transmitter reorganizing US Intl BCing again OCT Cobra's GMRS/FRS Handi-Talkie JUN US Still Broadcasting in MILCOM (odd months) NOV C Crane's QuickCharger Afghanistan JAN Military Callsigns; US Navy DEC Page Update Weather Alert 2000 JUL SW Preacher Arrested for Sexual MARS callsigns; FL Cruise and Weather Alert Partner Misconduct (Brother Stair); Missile Launch; Vandenberg Spy Remnants Hope Ministry Sat launch; Tyndall AFB freq THE FED FILES AUG Radio Afghanistan Back, in a changes; Metapher HF freqs; JAN 9-11 Aftermath Monitoring: Roundabout Way Pacific NW Gov TS; Havoc on HF FEMA; Post Office in Milair; SEP Coconut-Powered Bougainville MAR Military Demonstration Groups: Austin federal TS; Heard in NA where to listen, parachute teams, Anaheim/Orange Co TS; So Fla OCT "Liberty," Argentina's Psyops foreign demonstration teams, Customs Service loadout NOV New VOA Director in Less than a scanners for milair, 2002 FEB FCC; Wisconsin digital trunk Year performance schedule system in Military Band; Army DEC DRM Easily Jammed, But Could MAY NORAD Combat Air Patrols MARS Freqs be "Killer App" (NYC/DC CAPs); El Centro MAR Animal and Plant Health airshow report Inspection Service; TVA Low LETTERS JUL Robins AFB, Ga; Military aircraft Band system; Cape Hatteras Natl JAN Internet dealers, computers vs callsigns Seashore radio; barrel capacitors; Caddo SEP VHF Marine Band Encryption; APR The Department of Commerce: Parish LA Aircraft Inventory on Cape Cod; HF Emergency Nets, NOAA Ship FEB Salt Lake City Freqs; Life after SE US Intercepts; Milcom Freq Fleet, NOAA Research Labs Sept 11 (several letters); Changes; Table of recently MAY SNOTEL Data Collection Welcome new listeners monitored military call signs Network; United Nations comms; MAR Antenna stumper, Nut, NM; NOV More VHF Marine Band FHWA emergency HF system; praise for satellite radio; more on Encryption; Coast Guard LANT mail call (Detroit MI, Wash DC, military use of FRS; listening to and PAC Designators; CG on HF LaGrange GA); VHF low band Radio Prague in 1968 ALE; Southeast US mil activity; skip APR Church "bell cell tower"; buying Space Coast Update; Military freq JUN Metro Fed Monitoring: NYC (HF, online; thanks for antenna- changes; the lighter side VHF, FAA-JFK, LaGuardia, warehouse recommendation; Newark); Western NY CHiPs on lowband skip; URL for MT REVIEWS/ PROJECT PAGE Immigration and Naturalization Heathkit help; truck-tracking site JAN Magnetic-mount scanner Service; Natl Transportation in Canadian boonies antennas comparison (7 models) Safety Board freqs; Civilians may MAY Winterfest; Channel Is. History; MAR The Miracle Whip be authorized to share freqs in compliments to the staff; QSLing APR Charging an Oddball NiCD Pack DoD spectrum the amateur bands; re editorial on MAY Quebec Radio-Scanner CD JUL Listening to the Feds on HF; outdated material on internet; JUL Radio Shack Indoor AM Loop Monitoring Los Angeles; US new WWV propagation format Antenna Customs Service JUN Mass to Dallas Road Trip; AUG MFJ-1020C Active Antenna AUG The Fed Files Mailbag: FAA ALMIGHTY Risen from the Dead; SEP AVCOM PSA-2400A Spectrum repeaters and miscellaneous Northernmost it's not; Terion Analyzer OCT Grundig FR-200 emergency radio Airport Instrument Landing Field Meter; More Scanner Whip NOV Electrical Safety systems; Farewell to the B727 Comparisons APR Reviewing the Basics: Navigation SEP A Simple Ferrite Loop Antenna ON THE HAM BANDS Aids, Separation OCT A Longwave Band Ferrite JAN New Year in Ham Radio JUN HF ACARS; Sydney Airport ATC Antenna (resolutions); ARRL calls for no- AUG Fly the World by Computer (PC- NOV Tuning into BC Satellites - Part 1 code; contest weekends HFDL Update, Air Traffic Control (history, status) FEB Surface Mount Solutions (kits to Simulation, AirNav Suite 4; More DEC Tuning into BC Satellites - Part 2 get you started) Sydney Airport Freqs (hardware, Panamsat 9 line-up) MAR Fine Old Bugs; getting ready for OCT Monitoring the Northwest; DX hamfest season (as a seller) Atlas; ACARS Log Analyzer RADIO RESTORATIONS APR Picking Up Some Easy Points DEC Airport Frequencies, and Using JAN Books About Restoring Radios (easy Field Day points) Aero Charts and Maps FEB The BC-453 Comes to Life MAY Building Your Parts Stash MAR BC453/R23A Pinouts and JUN Moonstruck (EME) PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT Alignments JUL You're in Good Company JAN I was just thinking...(things I like APR Parts and Periodicals, Manuals (famous hams) and things that bug me) MAY Getting to Work on the R-23A; AUG Creative Club Programs FEB Don't Touch That Dial! (freqs you reader letters SEP Emergency Responders Learn can stick with) JUN Powering Up Your Command from 9/11 MAR I Was 50 Years Ago Today..(a Set; Recent Books from Lindsay OCT Classic Home Brewing: Small look at SWBC in 1952) JUL A VTVM for Your Test Bench Wonder Labs Rock-Mite, MRX-40 APR Thinking Locally; Listening AUG Digging into the RCA Mini Receiver, MultiPIG All Band Globally (local flavor on HF) Voltohmists; New Lindsay CW Transceiver MAY Programs on DXing, SWLing, Publication NOV Ham Radio Sans Computers and the Media SEP Firing Up Our Voltohmists DEC Ham Radio Stocking Stuffers JUN Notes from (DX) Camp OCT Wrapping Up the Voltohmist JUL Yankee Doodle Shortwave Project; Replacing Missing OUTER LIMITS AUG The 1952 Olympics, YLE and Probes JAN Violence hits clandestine radio DRM NOV Tackling a Toughie: Zenith 6-S- (Cooper and Anderson) SEP Yankee Doodle SW: AFRTS 229; VoltOhmyst Feedback FEB Pirates a Focus at SWL Fest OCT Yankee Doodle SW: The DEC Digging into a Dirty Radio MAR Pirate SW BC Activity Explodes Independents APR Finding Pirate and Clan DX Info NOV Progs on DXing, SWLing and the SATELLITE SERVICE GUIDE MAY Blanket Ban on Pirates Nixed; Media www.monitoringtimes/mtssg.html pirate programming CD DEC Listening at Leisure (progs that JAN Telstar 6, Galaxy 3R, Telstar 5 JUN NA Pirates Shifting Freqs; require your attention) FEB Telstar 5 (detailed), Galaxy 4R, Pulaski Co Sheriff Killed; Carl Americom-4 McIntyre Dies; Cuban Numbers QSL REPORT MAR Americom-1, GSTAR-4, Anik F1, Station Court Case JAN Clear Channel QSLing Anik E2 JUL ACE Celebrates 20th FEB Feb Special Event QSLing APR Solidaridad 2, SATMEX-5, Anik Anniversary; Palestine station; MAR Canadian QSLing E1, Morelos 2 No Al-Qaida station; No Radio APR Globe Wireless MAY Galaxy 10R, Galaxy 5, Galaxy 9, Sawa on SW (no logs this month) MAY Celebrating the Queen's Jubilee Telstar 7 AUG Voice of Laryngitis Returns to JUN Radio Netherlands New QSLs JUN Satcom C3, Galaxy 1R, Satcom Shortwave; WBCQ Ship JUL XVII Commonwealth Games C4, Americom-7, Americom-8 Transmitter Project; Radio Sawa AUG Cleaning out the QSL In Basket JUL Americom-6, Galaxy 6, SBS-6, Schedule; Radio Resistencia on SEP DX Season propagation and HGS-5, Satcom C1, Americom-5 the Web supplies AUG Americom-2, Americom-3, Telstar SEP Star Star Broadcasting Station; OCT DXing the Graveyards 4, Galaxy 11 (C-band) Pirate Station Patterns; Radio NOV Do's and Don'ts of China QSLing SEP Galaxy 11 (Ku-band); Telstar 6; 510 Schedule; Radio Americas DEC QSLing - Your Way Galaxy 3C; Telstar 5 OCT Russian "Names" Station Heard; OCT Telstar 5; Galaxy 4R; Americom William Pierce Dies RADIO EQUIPMENT 4 NOV FRN Back After Technical JAN Build a Scanner Repeater NOV Americom-1, GSTAR-4, Anik F1, Trouble; Clandestine Radio FEB Receiving Frequency Modulation Morelos 2, Anik 2 Watch; Radio DAT; Unusual MAR Getting Started in SW Listening- DEC Solidaridad 2, SATMEX-5, Anik Pirate Tactics; Winter Part 1: SW Radios E1, Galaxy 10R Propagation APR Getting Started in SWL - II: DEC Pirate Numbers Station Decoded Where, When, and How to Tune SCANNER EQUIPMENT (Rodent Revolution); New Free MAY Getting Started in SWL - III: JAN Notch Filters Fight Interference Radio Weekly editor; Godzilla Antennas, accessories, and niche (Grove FTR-100, PAR Born on Radio?; Alpha Lima Web listening VHFDN162HT, PAR VHFFM, Site JUN Storm Detection by Radio and StridsbergFLT201A) Build a Highly Directional Loop Feb MFJ-886 Frequency Counter PLANE TALK (even months) Antenna MAR Alinco DJ-X3T Portable wideband FEB Flying with Concorde; JUL Ten Tec RX-350 Receiver rcvr Aeronautical Freqs (Louisville AUG AOR LA350 Active Loop APR Tk8500 Software Project Standiford Field, New York Antenna; ZAP Model 180 Electric (homebrew radio control Center ARTCC, Toronto Centre); programming for the IC-R8500) MAY Radio Shack PRO-2053 Trunk- Heron Bay Country Club. Racing Uniden Digital Scanner Features; tracking scanner; CompUSA PCI freqs: Daytona freq) B780XLT Squelch Modification port adapter JUN Travels with a Scanner (NY/NJ OCT Recommendations from our JUN Tk545 Software Project; airport experiences); Around the Readers: Green Co/Springfield Comparing Scan Rates country (Arlington, VA; Detroit, MO, Comments on Computer JUL Tk500 software for the Yaesu MI; LA CA); using pushpins in MS Control, Antennas; Uniden VR-500; Pager pillow speaker; Streets and Trips, part IV; quiet BC785D and FCC type Spare fuse holder clip frequencies acceptance AUG Tk120 Software for the Yaesu JUL Scanning While Tanning: Miami- NOV The Quest for Interoperability; VR-120 Dade Fair, The Alley-Cats on- Federal Project 25 Network; SEP Tk75 - Software for Icom IC-R75 stage; Elena Machado profile; Colorado State system, Denver, OCT AOR AR8600 Mark 2 Receiver Video scanning Aurora systems; Uniden Radios NOV Tk150 Software for the Standard AUG Ft Lauderdale Air & Sea Show Certified VR-150; Advice on selecting a communications; Jim Westberg DEC Guide to APCO P-25 Systems wide freq coverage, portable profile; Las Vegas PD online continued from Dec feature scanning receiver SEP Gramma in Florida; Rosehill, KS; DEC Scanning and Recording: CCrane freqs; hands-free cell comms thru UTILITY WORLD VersaCorder; Mr Scanner FCC car radio; 900 MHz band Q&A; JAN Cuban Spy Base Closes Database Atlantic City NJ Motorola system; (numbers); US Military HF Detroit recreational and transit broadcasting SCANNING CANADA freqs FEB More Changes on MARS, Navy JAN Edmonton Intl Airport; Canadian OCT FACE-ing the Weather MARS freqs Forces Base (CFB) Borden (CRYSTAL-FACE Project) MAR USAF MARS, FAA HF nets, FAA FEB Saskatoon Diefenbaker Airport; NOV FACE-ing the Weather, part 2 ARTCC identifiers, phone CFB Trenton DEC Three Specialties: Three company emergency net MAR Monitoring Winnipeg, Winnipeg Services (Mark Levine profile and APR Unusual Traffic in the Middle East Intl Airport; CF 17 Wing Winnipeg evolution of EMTs) - unusual numbers; "slot APR Scanning Ottawa; MacDonald- machine" transmissions; US Cartier Intl Airport; Ottawa SERVICE SEARCH Army ALE resources on Internet JAN HF Aero Freqs MAY HFDL Breaks the Sound Barrier: MAY Bienvenue a Montreal: Dorval FEB HF Aero freqs cont'd decoding software from Charles Airport and area frequencies MAR HF Aero Freqs - finish Brain, HFDL freqs; Russian JUN Canadian Hams Monitor Severe listening post closed Weather (CANWARN wx net); TRACKING THE TRUNKS JUN More Russian Numbers Quebec Jean Lesage Intl Airport JAN Encryption for Security; encoding Weirdness; Japanese Maritime JUL ScanCan reaches the Atlantic vs encryption; encrypted voice; Morse; WWV Changes Ocean: Halifax Intl Airport; Motorola; EDACS; on-line JUL HFDL Frequency Update; Scanning Cellular Frequencies - scanner manuals; Tallahassee, Weirdest numbers yet legally (Steve Punter website); FL AUG Russian Channel Markers; airshows in jeopardy FEB Nextel Proposes Restructuring Australian Utility Changes AUG Scanning the Mounties; 800 MHz; Nextel Technology; SEP Maritime Radio Turns Topsy- Newfoundland, St Johns Intl Pro-92 Channel Lock Out Turvy Down Under; Australian Airport; Mansfield VORTAC MAR Digital Monitoring in Sight Distress Comms; ARINC SEP Flying North to the Artic: Iqaluit (Project 25 and Uniden's planned increases Arctic Coverage Airport; Jack Little monitors scanners); ScannerMaster P-25 OCT Weather Changes: New Coast Hamilton, ON digital decoder board update; 400 Guard FAX Again; Freeware OCT The Pope Arrives in Canada; MHz trunking; Ft Irwin CA, Decodes SYNOP Monitoring Resolute Airport Wright-Patterson OH, Kings Bay NOV More Letters from Israel NOV Railroads: North Vancouver RR GA systems ("numbers"); Cuban numbers DEC West Coast Railways; Sad News APR Computer Interfacing Your screw-ups; hams on 5 megs? for Toronto Airport Monitors; Scanner (PRO-92, PRO-93, BC DEC Slot Machine Stations - We found Reader Challenge 245XLT, BC 780XLT) Encrypting the casinos; South Bound II Still EDACS On SCANNING REPORT MAY How Radio Frequencies are JAN Assistive Listening Devices Assigned VIEW FROM ABOVE follow-up; Dr John Braden profile; JUN EDACS Systems; Palm Scanner JAN Ups and Downs of Russian Birds what happens to old freqs Control Programs (Resurs, Okean); NOAA-14 FEB Olympian Scanning (torch relay); JUL AOR's APCO-25 Decoder; FEB GOES-Supported Research Sgt Stephen Casko profile; using trunked system news (South programs Push Pins (MS Streets and Trips Dakota, Nevada, Ohio, MAR Monitoring APT with a sound Software); Houston Area Freqs Michigan); Scanner Antennas card MAR Loading Bank Number One; AUG When to Buy a Trunk-Tracking APR Seasonal Madness: NOA-14 AOPA Expo, more on using Push Scanner; Uniden Scanner fixes itself, GOES-E seasonal Pins Testing; Lightning Strikes DC; improvement, Meteor seasonal APR Gill Lineberry profile; Target dept BC780XLT Computer Control; power-off stores; creating a database with Canton, OH; Summit County, OH MAY Are You Equipped? what's MS Streets and Trips SEP New Trunked Systems needed for satellite telemetry; MAY Scanning at sporting events (golf Underway: Hamilton Co OH, satellite status report frequencies: Doral Country Club, Nassau Co NY, Oakland Co MI; JUN Our Digital Future, upcoming Latin American logs CD Jan Palomar Loop Antenna Dec NOAA-M launch, future launches, M Street Radio Directory Aug Peregrine Falcon remote control Apr digital transmissions, earlier MT 2001 Anthology CD Feb Powerport Radio Glove Aug NOAA WXSATs MT Express in full color May Radio Shack PRO-95 Oct JUL Great Expectations (NOAA-M NRC AM Radio Log Nov Ramsey clock/timer kit Jan packages); Current NOAAs Police Call, S Calif Mar RIGblaster new software CD May AUG A Rising Star: Fengyun-1D; re Rebels on the Air Sep R&S Miniport EB-200 rcvr Apr color pictures in MT RF Components and Circuits Jul ScannerMaster BC780 remote head SEP First Images from NOAA017; Sounds in the Night (Dark?) Jun adaptor Apr WXSAT Frequencies Southwest Frequency Guide Oct Scientifics digital voice recorder May OCT Speak Up for Hobby Monitoring The Shortwave Guide (by WRTH) Aug Scott eVest Jun (NOAA conference); NOAA-14 Tower Site Calendar Dec Sharper Image "Now You Can Find Failure Mode Traffic Radar Handbook Nov It" pager system Nov NOV MSG-1 Launch and WXSAT Tune in the Universe C Mar Tegam RF analyzer Apr Status WRTH 2002 Mar Terk TV antennas Jul DEC Great Progress and More to WTFDA TV Station Guide Jun Uniden Announces BC250D/BC785D Come: GOES-12 to replace APCO 25 scanners Mar GOES-8; Correspondence Business news, Software Uniden BC785D FCC accepted Oct CbandNet sat internet svc Nov Vectronics FM Tx kit Oct WASHINGTON WHISPERS Community Alert Network May Vectronics soldering course Oct JAN Military Tech in the Private DXing.info website Jul WinRadio WD3000 series RDF Jan Sector: Internet, GPS, spread Edmund Scientifics catalog Jul WinRadio WR-G303i SW rcvr Dec spectrum EDXP SW Radio Log net Jan Yaesu FT-8900R quadband tx Nov FEB RFID Tags: connecting people Electronics Australia Today folds Jan and objects FCC policy re pre-type acceptance Sep MAR FCC Acts to Yank Mitnick's Ham G&G Comm new phone Nov License Jade Products closes APR NTIA Report: Energy, Water, RR LLC Technology acquired by Need More Spectrum Butterworth-Heinemann Feb MAY Commercial Use of Ultra- Mapcruzin site Feb wideband Technology Approved MapInfo software packages May JUN Chairman Urges Transition to Metrowest sold to Scanner Master Nov Digital TV Orbcomm tracking software Feb JUL Congressman Slams RadioSpectrumManager RSM5 Jan Broadcasters on Conversion to Replacement LCDs for Pro2004 Jan Digital TV; American Assoc of Sneaker and Investigator spyware May Radio Enthusiasts; FCC Sony ICF-2010 discontinued? Sep Enforcement Uniden BD250D Certified or Not? Nov AUG FCC Announces Changes to Upcoming APCO-25 products Sep Multi-Use Radio Service WinRadio Advanced Digital Suite Jun SEP CSEA Ups Penalties for Illegal Monitoring Equipment OCT (see Closing Comments) Alinco DJ-S40T Pocket HT Apr NOV FCC Mandates Digital TV Tuners AOR New Products (AR8600MKII, AR- WHAT'S NEW ONE, LA350 loop) Jul B&D Scan*A*Mix BX1 Sep Books, CDs Caig DeoxIT improved Apr 2000 Emergency Response Guide Sep C Crane FM Transmitter Jul ARRL 2002 Handbook Feb Degen Designs BBQ (quad ant) Sep ARRL Repeater Directory Jun Dunestar headphone switch Aug ARRL Ham Radio interest books Mar Dunestar remote antenna switch Sep Cell Towers Jan Edmund Scientific sound meter Feb Collectors Guide to Antique Radios Dec GAP Justa Spreader kit Jul DSWCI Domestic BC Survey Oct Garmin GPS 16 receivers Jan DXing 101 Mar Garmin European guides Apr HamCalc CD May Garmin S Am marine cartography Apr IRCA Mexican Log Jan Grove Range-Extend Mag Mount Jun Field Guide to Diesel Locomotives Jul Grove Scanner Beam II Oct Flashlights Feb Grundig Satellit 900 Update Apr FAQ about Antennas & Baluns Aug GuardianLion emergency button May FM Crystal Set Project Nov Icom IC-T90A tri-band handi-talkie Nov Grove Antenna Anthology Dec Kenwood ProTalk XLS Feb Grove Ask Bob Anthology Dec Kiwa Audio Upgrade Kits Jun Grove SW Directory Dec KVH TracVision S3 TV antenna Feb Klingenfuss publications Jan Memorex Scannocular May Klingenfuss MFJ Speech Enhancer Apr 2002 Guide to Utility Stations Mar Neo Jukebox MP3 player Jul 2002 Super Freq List CD Mar Nil-Jon Super-M Upgrade Jun 2002 SW Freq Guide Mar Optoelectronics Digital Scout Aug Monitoring Times 2003 Index

FEATURES Frequency Challenge; IRCA APR Join the Club: A Look at the Broadcast website ARRL Confessions of an Online Baseball APR Music Returns to AM? Sat feed MAY $50 Junk Shop AM Radio Listener Jun error at WCKY; Australian MW Challenge; Tigertronics digital Crisis on the Korean Peninsula Jun DX Group; IBOC test station modem Exploring Papua New Guinea Oct WD2XXM; WMQM-1600 WHTE- JUN ST-9900 DVB FTA Satellite Intl BCing in Times of Crisis Jan 1690 moves; W52CT TV no Receiver Former Soviet Republics May longer just test pattern JUL Getting Started in Ham Radio DX Life as a News Junkie Nov MAY Whither Radio? (digital modes AUG Inquiring Minds Ask Interesting Namibia - Land of Diverse Beauty Mar etc); Sat radio boom box; music Questions (Freeband Ops, Radio in Germany Apr on, music off; experimental stn MPEGII, investing in sat radio, Welcome to NEXUS-IRRS Jan QSL; listening in S TX baseball on internet radio Welcome to NEXUS-IRRS Part 2 Feb JUN Bits and Pieces: IBOC, Psych SEP Field Day Fun; HDTV and Why and How of DXpeditions Feb Over the Airwaves (Iraq), WSM Satellite beginners questions Out to Pasture? Trying old gear OCT Five Tips for Monitoring General for something new; WHOM fire in Beginners Distance Learning in India Sep Feb; watch for FM DX NOV Countering the Beginner's Incident Command System Aug JUL Digital Status Report: Digital Lament (no excuses) Interesting QSOs May Radio, Digital TV; Comings and DEC Multimeter Basics for the Monitoring for the IBB Sep Goings Beginner Provincetown Pilgrimage Mar AUG Book Reports (FM Atlas, AM Urban DXpeditions Oct Radio Log, WTFDA TV Station BELOW 500 kHz Guide); Digital TV DX; equip for JAN Mid-Winter Targets: Low-band Nostalgia/Human Interest low power FM listening strategy, hardware hints, best How I Came to Write for MT Dec SEP Moving Day, Part 3; Expanded bets Listening to America from Down Under Jul Band Countdown; FM Skip FEB DGPS Demystified; Other News My New Old Hallicrafters S38-C Sep OCT Broadcasters that Aren't (not in (setting up remote LF receiver, Parade of the Boat Anchors - I Jul FCC database); more exotic DX; using VLF to detect gamma ray Parade of Boat Anchors - II Aug WHTE move bursts) Roberto Galletti, neglected pioneer Mar NOV IBOC and LPFM Status; B&P MAR Lowfer Roundup; Terry Krey, (longwire; KKOB-770; KN4LF silent key; Loggings Scanning: website; Rev Louis fined; new APR Reader News and Loggings; Become a Frequency Detective Jun 1250kHz Ottawa stn) Canadian beacon reception; Christmas in the Big Apple Dec DEC Go West, Young Man; South Ramsey VLF1; Online ID tool; Colonial Scanning Jul American loggings; Permission to new BeaconFinder available Conventional Look at Ga I-75 May Move; Wants to Move; Going MAY LF Ham Band Near?; UK to AK Guide to APCO Systems, Part 2 Jan Digital in Canada on 136 kHz; LF Loggings Guide to APCO Systems, Part 3 Feb JUN Adventures with NAVTEX Monitoring in the City of Toronto Oct ANTENNA TOPICS JUL Exploring QRSS Monitoring the Army Nat'l Guard Nov JAN Radio Gone Berserk! Intentionally AUG No LF Ham Band; AM Broadcast NE Tanker Task Force Jun Wasting RF Interference? LFE Online; Notification Groups Mar FEB Effects of Frequency and Summertime Strategy Offshore Comms in Gulf of Mexico Aug Wavelength SEP LF Noise: Part 1, Identification On Scene at the Big E Sep MAR Beam Antennas: What, Why and OCT LF Noise: Part 2, Remedies; New Scanning Niagara Falls Jun How Alaska beacon They Put the SAM in Uncle Sam Mar APR Capturing and Keeping Radio NOV BeaconFinder FAQs; Beacon TLC Studies Area 51 Sep Signals (capture area) loggings Tuning in the NJ State Police Jul MAY Effects of Earth on Radio Signals DEC DXpedition Results; TV Rovers and Their Radios Feb JUN Radio Direction-Finding Beaconfinder Updates Antennas Technical JUL A Two-Element Cubical Quad for CLOSING COMMENTS Digital Radio Mondiale Apr HF or VHF JAN Powell Proposes Radical Shift for DXing 2.4 GHz Dec AUG Antenna Testing and FCC - Fred Maia EH Antenna Apr Maintenance FEB No Commercial Market - Dr Paul Mobile Sat Use in Persian Gulf Aug SEP What is a DX Antenna? Shuch Op Iraqi Freedom Sat Monitoring May OCT Standing Wave Ratio MAR Secrecy Infests Shortwave Relay Satellite TV Buyer's Guide Dec NOV A Useful, Easy to Make, Deals - Glenn Hauser USSR's Superpower Transmitters Dec Inexpensive Antenna (random- APR "Midland 1 Listens" - Two Winter Propagation Relief Nov length) Thumbs Up! - Jock Elliott DEC Antennas for Medium-Wave MAY Freedom to Listen AMERICAN BANDSCAN DXing JUN HCJB Abandons North America JAN Pipsqueak in the Twin Cities and Europe vs. FCC Allocates (KUOM-FM); IBOC news; 2 BEGINNER'S CORNER More Spectrum to HF Broad- station changes JAN Broadening Your Monitoring casting FEB Playing the AM Cheatin' Game Horizons, 10 ideas; ham radio; JUL MT Marks a Milestone (Q&A with (nighttime broadcasting); height antennas Larry Van Horn) versus efficiency FEB More Antenna Lead-Ins; Satellite AUG A Bad Law Narrowly Averted MAR Moving Day, Part 2 (Canadian Industry Update (Nevada) AM stns moving to FM); WLW- MAR A Beginner's Look at Radio SEP Rumors of DX Death Greatly 700, WOR-710 IBOC tests; NRC Modifications Exaggerated OCT Can't Lead from Behind (MARS struggling; the Anderson/Rudolph APR Two Diplomatic Nets: MFA update) connection Copenhagen, MFA Budapest; NOV Interoperability: Public Safety's SEP RFPI Under the Gun; Congress Venezuelan Navy River Units Holy Grail Poised to Reverse FCC Ruling; MAY Scrambled Voices (Mystery SSB DEC Holiday Greetings from the staff Record Radiocommunications Transmissions, What does a Conference speech scrambler do?) MIL-188- COMMUNICATIONS OCT Nextel, NASCAR, and Scanners; 110A soundcard decoder; N JAN Scanners and Homeland Security Internet on the Grid in Manassas; Korean Diplo; MFA Algiers Act; Ultra-wideband Killer Roy Neal, SK; The Big Blackout JUN Japanese Diplomatic Service Technology?; Cellphone afterlife not all bad news, Hams a Bright Activity; Tadiran HF Equipment; (recycling); Navy sonar Spot During Blackout; Personal Brazilian Forces Net temporary halt; Echostar merger Views: Toronto During Blackout, JUL All at Sea with CODAR; Mystery nixed; Military relies on What Blackout? PacTOR networks commercial sats; Planespotters NOV court problems with new media AUG Venezulan Army; HMS acquitted; Railfans encounter rules; cellular/public safety Carlskrona (Swedish Navy) suspicion; Internet music interference; jamming with a SEP Decoding Software Upate: compromise reached; Steve Cuban twist; Marti by satellite; Wavecom, SkySweeper, Hoka, Anderson arrested radio drop blocked; Steve Radio Raft, AX.25 FEB Radio Honor Roll (railfan rescuer, Anderson sentenced; NHP OCT Maritime and MFA: CODAR savvy dispatcher, LAFD); DC system to be scrapped; ghostly update; MFA Copenhagen on Public Safety System; Michigan interference HF; Ecuador Navy on ALE; MFA Mess; pilot freq mistake; DEC Radio Honor Roll: Why Scanners Paris high-speed HF Commando Solo back in action; Should Not be Regulated; 73, NOV Listening to Low Freq Utes mesh networks for the military; SK; FCC issues spectrum leasing DEC Digital Winter Mixed Bag: USCG RFE/RL finds new location; rules; High Spectrum Openings; ALE Net on the Move; Brazilian Congo rebels shut independent High speed at high altitudes; Navy; STANAG4285; The station; worldwide index of press FCC raids long-time pirate Morning FAX from Japan freedom; another cellphone station; Commercial pirate; recycler Cumulative RF radiation THE FED FILES (odd months) MAR Plumber/MetroAlert Share JAN The City of Brotherly Love (fed Honors; DW cutbacks; electronic COMPUTERS & RADIO agencies in Philadelphia); EPA billboards in Calif; French JAN New Products from Old frequencies; Strategic Petroleum hobbyist on trial for posting Technology: sun-powered Reserve freqs - the mystery military freqs; VLF antarctic headphone radio, portable solar Texas signals antenna; Nextel pursues chargers, plug-in cigarette lighter MAR Monitoring Phoenix - The Land of spectrum swap; Poptronics, RIP; receptacle, foldable keyboard, the Sun; DOI purchasing APCO Ian Poole honored by ARRL LED light P-25 Equipment; Coast Guard APR Radio Honor Roll (shuttle search FEB The RPR-X340 "VCR for Radio" "Rescue 21" being Deployed teams); More on Shuttle search MAR Monitoring the Planet Jupiter MAY US Dept of Homeland Security: comms; Rota "Bull Ring" antenna (Radio-Jupiter Pro 3.0.23) Main Directorates dismantled; Denver "spy file" APR Monitoring the Planet Jupiter - JUL Homeland Security, Part Deux: cases; Amateur Radio Spectrum radio and antenna requirements; Transportation Security Admin; Protection Act; war threat a boost Radio-SkyPipe 1.1.39 FAA NARACS; NEST moving; P- for SWLing; Waging an MAY Digging Signals Out of the Noise: 25 Activity Found; FLETC Getting Electronic War; Obituaries (H Diamond Cut Five/Live3 Program New Radios; New Encryption Taylor Howard, George Henf) JUN Decoding RTTY, NAVTEX, and Standard; Boeing in FL MAY Iraq war testing grounds for new More (SeaTTY and TrueTTY) SEP Update on Space Center technology; satellite phones act JUL The World in Your PALM: Trunking: More NASA Trunk as beacons?; Cuba may try PCRPilot3C, Palm320, Palm Systems; More gov APCO 25 dissidents; Agreement on 5 GHz RX320, ScanPro780, Palm Uncovered; TIGTA WiFi; Experimental licenses; Wis Emulator NOV NASA Callsigns; Monitoring the drama heard over scanner AUG A Potpourri of Useful Programs: NIICD (wildfires); US gov freqs in JUN Volunteers for Homeland Print Screen Plus, HamCalc ver France; More APCO 25 Comms; Security; NCS becomes part of 62, Ad-Aware 6.0 San Diego Area Fed Freqs Homeland Security Dept; Theater SEP PROBEing with the PCR1000: Freq Mgt; The Shuttle Blackout Datafile's Probe 1K THE GADGET GUY Myth; Enhanced SSB "Extremely OCT Big Help for Tiny Icom IC-R5: JAN Plantronics' CT10 Cordless Inconsiderate"; British Consider CS-R5 cloning software and IC- Headset Phone Changes in CB Rules; Prank R5.com software FEB Icom's Insanely Great IC-T90A Maydays no Laughing Matter; NOV DRM - Who and What is it? MAR Galaxy's DX 2547 CB Base Maritime Safety DEC DRM: Digging Deeper Station Shines JUL Hams win one, lose one w/FCC; (description, software and APR C Crane LED flashlights Broadband over Power Lines hardware to receive) MAY Midland's Excellent GMRS/FRS NOI; Nevada Highway Patrol Handi-Talkie forgets to file; HOKA in Hot DIGITAL DIGEST JUN Midland WR-30 FM/Wx radio Water; Michigan doubles mobile JAN Digital Comms at Sea: Petrom, JUL Cobra's Excellent PR 350- scanning fine Spanish Navy, Russian BEE 2WXVP AUG Controversial FCC media FEB Pakistani and Indian Diplo Ops; AUG Minelab's Fascinating Explorer II ownership rules; FCC too Venezuelan Net; New Node in Metal Detector dependent; ARRL joins Citizen British ALE Net SEP Follow-ups on some worthy gear: Corps; Marine voice goes silent; MAR New Egyptian Hieroglyphics (new Icom IC-706 transceiver, Minelab Commercial Spectrum diplo encryption); Network build- Explorer II metal detector Enhancement Act; Spectrum out at SeaWave; More Mexican OCT Survival Tools: Navitool, I-Quip, management study; NYC TV still military; Utility Monitoring Central Survival Staff NOV Cobra's Sweet-Sounding NOV On Scene at the Big E; Nevada MAR External Antenna Jack on PR4000WX Test Site; Support for Sangean ATS-909; Interference DEC Rokenbok System radio- SpaceCam; Print Screen; Filter for Medium Wave DXers controlled toys Hooked on Radio APR Rotary Antenna System Solutions DEC Proof in Performance (MARS); MAY MFJ's Versatile Noise Canceling GLOBAL FORUM Radio in NYC; License to Listen Tool, MFJ-1025; modifying the JAN Some have a use for shortwave, (air travel tips); DXing Papua MFJ-1025 for AM/LW some don't; link to HFCC files New Guinea; RN Sked; Thanks JUN Software for the RX320 FEB Internet Resources for DXers to Robert Wyman JUL Two Eras of Technology: The MAR Deutsche Welle Drops English to National NC-183D vs. the Icom US; Radio Netherlands MILCOM R-71A Reorganizing JAN The GHFS Net is History (name AUG The Great (TenTec) RX- APR WARC 2003 / HFCC change to HF-GCS), frequencies 320/(WinRadio) G303i Face-Off MAY Where the Buzzes Are (DRM); and procedures SEP Tips from our Readers: FM Band latest WRTH update File; El FEB Monitoring the German Military Preamp for FM Dxing; Roll Your Dorado for LA DXers; DX Signal (Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Own 800 MHZ Quarterwave; site Unidentified) Heatsink Those Soldering Jobs; JUN (see Closing Comments) APR Monitoring the US Army Aviation Save Those Walls! JUL "Monitoring" Shortwave People on HF OCT Tivoli PAL; AlphaLab RF Field (Steve Anderson, Harry Kliphuis, MAY Monitoring Operation Iraq Strength Meter Richard Kotey, RKI Jem Cullen) Freedom; US Air Force HFRB NOV "How a Geek Sets His Watch" AUG Web Resources Broadcasts; Armed Forces Day DEC Debriefing Hurricane Isabel: SEP Spurs, Images, and Harmonics 2003 What worked, what didn't OCT Shortwave Lives! JUN Aerial Refueling Tracks (1) NOV Radio Free Cascadia Intl JUL Aerial Refueling Tracks (2) ON THE HAM BANDS DEC WPE, WDX SWL Call Signs AUG Aerial Refueling Tracks (3) JAN A New Use for DSS Diplexers SEP Milcom Mailbag: Delton, FL; (one cable for two antennas) LETTERS Airshow reports; Spectrum Holes FEB Do ItYourself QSL Cards JAN Ed note re Milcom/Fed File swap OCT Milcom Monitoring in the SE MAR Slinkys in the Sky and Kosovo correction; feedback (MCAS Beaufort, Ft Benning) APR Ham History through the on using electric fence wire; old- DEC Monitoring Fort Leonard Wood; Handbook time hucksters; more opinions on Mil Monitoring in New Jersey; MAY The Well Rounded Radio MARS; Marconi memorial Pilot to Dispatcher (PTD); Recent Amateur pictures Milair Freq Changes JUN When PIGs Fly; Field Day; FEB RDFing the Old Way, Emergency Summer Reading Kit Scanner, Memories of China, MONITORING AND THE LAW JUL Pursuing QSLs Winter SWLfest; listening post MAY Our E Pluribus Unum Radio Laws AUG Power Line Communications picture, pic of KIMF location JUN New York Monitoring Laws SEP Fall Clean-up MAR What's the Law?, Satisfied AUG Navigating Florida's Scanner Law OCT "Manual" control (putting your Satellite User, Railspotters SEP Monitoring Rules Apply to Police manuals on CD) Encounter, Lowband Listening, OCT All Eyes on California NOV Uncle Skip's Holiday List Coro at Kulpsville?, Happy NOV Monitoring Michigan DEC My Favorite Contest (ARRL 10 Associations, unid radio shack DEC South Dakota PD Wants Your Meter) APR "Frequency Matters" correction; Scanner cooking show and MT anthology; OUTER LIMITS Quantum QX Rave; Radio in My MT REVIEWS JAN Holidays Prime Time; Switzerland Life winning essay JAN Wavecom W40PC BCing Situation; Free ACE MAY Winterfest Report; Manufacturers FEB CCRadio plus: The Ultimate FEB Pirate BCing Nixed by FCC should get it right the first time; AM/FM/TV/Wx Band Portable? (statement about FCC policy re SW still source of information; the MAR WiNRADiO WR303i shortwave pirates) silent majority receiver; Delphi's SKYFi XM MAR Iraq War Begins with USA- JUN Volunteer Monitors Needed satellite radio system Sponsored Clandestine (RDFing tagged animals); APR Talon Magnetic-Antenna Mast Broadcasting; Saudi Clandestine; Notification Networks; Internet Adaptor Berkeley Bust; Winter SWL Fest; Radio Linking Project; MT Goes MAY GAP "Hear It" DSP Speaker Steve Anderson Indicted to the Gulf; More on Adjacent JUN TenTec RX-320 APR Iraq War Clandestines Continue; Channels; More on Channel 1 JUL Ramsey Radio Direction Finding Hit Shortwave; Pirate Activity JUL MT Marks LVH Anniversary; SW Kits: DF1 Foxhound; DDF1 Patterns; Arthur in, Helms retires and Going Digital Doppler RDF at ACE AUG TenTec RX-320 Feedback; AUG Grundig Classic 960: Instant MAY Odd Europirate Freqs; UK Gov WCBS Correction, Cost of PS Antique Radio Chasing Pirate ISPs; Kulpsville system upgrades, Junk Shop SEP PAR End Fed Z EF-SWL Pirate Forum; Iraq Clandestine Challenge, Power Line Antenna Info Communications, Skip Arey OCT FRS in Perspective (Midland G- JUN Slight Reduction in Pirate receives award 225) Activity; DXing.info; Information SEP For Love of RS DX-66; GPS NOV K40 RD850 Radar Detector; PAR Radio Jamming?; MT Express; MT Antenna follow-up JUL Information Radio More History Buffs; Pancake antennas; DEC Kenwood's Here2Anywhere Commonly Heard; NA Pirates NJ State Police Update; More on Portable Sirius Kit Shifting Frequency; RTTY Pirate; Michigan Dutch Pirate Busts OCT Jean Baker farewell; Oct Cover ON THE BENCH AUG KIPM Clarifies its Radio Format; correction; Marine Beacons; BBC JAN A New Use for DSS Diplexers Iraqi Communists; European Gone Again; Power Line (one cable, two antennas) Maildrop Addresses Communications; DRM; Morocco FEB An Economical BCB Ribbon photo Loop Antenna SEP Trailer Park Ministries Mystery MAR Tk92 Software for the PRO- Solved; Pirate Frequencies Still 92/2067; ICOM IC-R3 UHF Variable QSL REPORT Interference OCT Finding Humor in Pirates (Partial JAN news and tips on QSLing APR Audio and Visual Amplification - India Radio); Pirate Freqs Still FEB Philately and QSLing GRE Super Amplifier, OptiVISOR Variable MAR It's All About Storage Binocular Magnifier NOV FM Pirate Radio Free Cascadia; APR Prague releases new QSL card MAY Uniden BC250D Portable Arthur J Green photo found MAY Russian Reception Report Forms Scanner; C Crane Versacorder DEC DX Conditions Improving; Talk JUN Don't Sweat It (MW) problem; Become a Scanning Like a Pirate Day JUL Ready for Island Hopping? Renaissance Man AUG 15 Years Later ... JUN Uniden BC785D Tabletop PLANE TALK (even months) SEP The SASE Method Scanner FEB Airport Freqs (New Orleans, OCT Enclosures JUL ICOM IC-R5 Portable Receiver; Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas- NOV Time for a follow-up? Nitelogger II Source Ft Worth, St Louis, Des Moines); DEC Electronic QSLing Sign of the AUG Software for ICOM IC-R10 and AirNav Live flight tracking Future IC-R5 Receivers software; news and jokes from SEP The Tactics of Highly Successful Australia (Bob Bell) RADIO RESTORATIONS Scannists APR Potomac Consolidated TRACON; JAN Continuing the Zenith 6-S-229 OCT Scanner Collector Items; Frugal airport freqs (Wash-Dulles, Balt- Restoration Indoor Antenna Wash; Anchorage; Orlando; FEB The Zenith Comes to Life NOV Aceco FC2002 Frequency Boise; McCarren [Las Vegas]; MAR Aligning the Zenith 6S229 Counter Port Columbus and Ricken- APR A Short History of Vacuum Tubes DEC Radio Shack PRO-96 Scanner backer [Columbus, OH]; Ft MAY Wrapping up the Zenith 6S299 Wayne) Project SCANNING CANADA JUN Recording Cockpit Voices and JUN Our Next Project: The JAN A Royal Visit; Bill 49 a Threat?; Flight Data; Center Weather Hallicrafters S-40A Scanning Whistler, BC Service Units; Anchorage Center JUL The Hallicrafters S-40A: Clearing FEB Into the Icefields, Pemberton, BC Freqs the Decks MAR Ham-Ex, Canada's "Dayton AUG Visiting Texas (Ft Worth ARTCC AUG S-40A Cosmetic Problems North" Remote Transmitter Sites, SEP S-40A Tuning Drive Reassembly; APR World's Largest Shopping Mall, Dallas/Ft Worth Intl, Dallas Love New "Impoverished Radio Province of Alberta Field, San Antonio Intl, Houston Experimenter" MAY Scanning Canada's Lakes; OPP ARTCC remote tx sites); HF OCT S-40A Mechanical Reassembly Still Around Aeronautical Frequencies; West and Tube Testers JUN Digital Police Special; Who's Coast ARTCCs (Seattle, NOV Recapping and De-Modifying the going digital and who's not Oakland) S-40A JUL What's Left to Scan, Eh? OCT Plane Talk about Denver; Denver DEC The S-40A: Still a Restorer's Transportation and school bus ARTCC, Denver International Challenge; EH Scott, The Dean freqs NOV Monitoring the Test Pilots; of DX book review AUG The Maritimes Scanning Site Robins AFB airshow SEP Scanning the Ottawa Valley SATELLITE SERVICES OCT More Analog Police Frequencies PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT www.monitoringtimes/mtssg.html NOV Emergency Management Radio JAN It Helps to Have a Big Brother JAN Galaxy 5, Galaxy 9, Telstar 7, Services; US/Canada (SWBC survival techniques) Satcom C3, Galaxy 1R cooperation; Calgary move to Selected Programs: By Station FEB Americom-7, Americom-8, digital FEB Two international media Americom-6, Galaxy 3R, SBS-6, DEC Reader Contributions; HMCS competitions: NY Radio Festival, HGS-5, Americom-5 Haida The Third Coast Festival MAR Americom-2; Americom-3; Selected Programs: By program Telstar 4; Galaxy 11 SCANNING REPORT type APR Telstar 6; Galaxy 3C; Telstar 5 JAN Refarming at the Movies; MAR Award-Winning International (Ku band) Weather Research Activities; Radio MAY Telstar 5 (C-band); Glaxay 4R; Niagara Falls Scanning Selected Programs: By Day Americom-4; Americom-1 FEB Florida Films and Seattle APR "Gone," but not Unheard (how to JUN GSTAR-4, Anik F1, Morelos 2, Scanning; Matt Cawby profile hear stations not targeting NA) Anik 2, Solidaridad 2 (C-band) MAR An Avalanche of Frequencies Selected Programs: By Station JUL Solidaridad (KU-band); SATMEX- (new VHF licenses) MAY DX,SWL, Media & IT Programs 5; Anik E1; Galaxy 10R APR Vern Modeland profile, Arkansas- Selected Programs: By Type AUG Galaxy 5; Galaxy 9; Telstar 7; Missouri frequencies; move JUN Just Stickin' to 49 (meters) Satcom C3 movie freqs; Detroit PS freqs; SE Selected Programs: By Day SEP Galaxy 3R; Satcom C4; Pennsylvania freqs JUL Summertime Easy Listening Americom 7, 8, 6 MAY The Wireless Metropolis: new 4.9 Selected Programs: By Station OCT Americom 6, 5, 9, 3; Galaxy 12; GHz public safety band AUG Appointment Listening and Other ABS-6; HGS-5 JUN My Head Hurts from Gigahertz!; Tips NOV Americom-3, Galaxy 11, Telstar Advanced Wireless Services; GA Selected Programs: By Type 6, Galaxy 3C (Cband) Dept of Corrections SEP The 30-Minute Radio Magazine DEC Telstar 5 JUL Confirmed AZ frequencies; new Selected Programs: By Day GHz assignment; Eagles concert OCT Monitoring the Voice of America SCANNER EQUIPMENT in Sunrise FL, Masters Golf Selected Programs: By Station JAN Radio Shack PRO-95 Scanner Tournament in Augusta GA, NOV DX Programs: the VOA and You FEB Software for Icom IC-R2, IC-R3, Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego Selected Programs: By Station and IC-Q7; PRO-92A/B, PRO- CA; Houston update DEC "Shortwave" without Shortwave 2067 Squelch Modification AUG Arizona Update; NASCAR and Selected Programs: By Type Nextel; Taylorsville, NC; Gulfport, MS; Emergency Response Exercises; Radio Spectrum APR Monitoring Digital Selective Books, CDs Management; Belmont Stakes; Calling Antennas for Communications CD Dec how to research frequencies MAY US Changes Radio Rules as ARRL DXCC List Sep SEP Palm Beach County Transitions WRC-03 Approaches ARRL FCC Rulebook Oct to Trunked JUN Utilities in the Gulf: Air-ground ARRL Handbook Feb OCT A Guide to Southern Oregon phone Patches, ALE, Weak ARRL Hints & Kinks Aug NOV The NFL Football Report (Kansas Signals; Where is New York ARRL Image Communications Feb City, Phila, Miami); Miami and VOLMET? ARRL Instructors Manual Oct San Francisco stadium event JUL Old "German Numbers" Resume; ARRL License Study Manuals Sep freqs; ICOM PCR-1000 software; FCC Experimental Licenses (incl. ARRL 2003-4 Repeater Directory Jul Homeland Security patient CODAR); NY VOLMET Returns Ask Bob Anthology Apr tracking system; wireless AUG Hilda Global: All the World is Astronomy Demystified Apr courtroom One; coronal holes and geoalert Australasian SW Guide Feb DEC A Fond Farewell; Closing software Bepop to the Boolean Boogie Aug Thoughts on New Technology; SEP WRC-03 Wraps Up; SHARES Crystal Radio Bonanza May Mail (Phoenix/Tempe area Adds 2 frequencies; Geoffrey Dictionary of Earth Science Jun wildfire monitoring) Halligey Dict of Geology and Minerology Jun OCT ALE: Everyone's Getting Linked Domestic BC Survey 5 Sep TRACKING THE TRUNKS (Venezuela, Mexico, unid); Electromagnetics Explained Mar JAN Military Trunks and Radio WWVH FM Atlas Oct Manuals; Cincinnati Airport NOV Long Distance Operational Getting Started in Electronics Sep correction; PA OpenSky update Control; Echo Charlie Gordon West Tech Study Manual Sep FEB Puerto Rico federal trunked DEC Globe Drops SITOR Service; Is Grove SW Directory CD Mar systems; Uniden on future plans Telex Really Dead?; More on Guidelines for Christian Radio Apr for digital card; Phila, PA; Palm Honolulu Weatherfax Inside the Shadow Government Dec Beach Co, FL Klingenfuss HF Publications - 2003 MAR APCO P-25 Family Traits, how it VIEW FROM ABOVE Super Frequency List, Guide to works and which radios can hear JAN Trading Spaces (GOES-9); An Utility Radio Stations, Shortwave what; State of Florida update; eye on NE US Frequency Guide Mar Riverside County, CA FEB To Buy or Not to Buy? (transition Newnes Dictionary of Electronics Jan APR Testing, Testing ...(new systems): to digital LRIT; Current WXSAT Newnes Guide to Radio and Communi- Howard Co, MD; Montgomery status cations Technology Nov Co, MD; Phoenix/Mesa, AZ; MAR NOAA Satellite Conference Now You're Talking! Jul State of Ohio; New York, NY. Report; Starting Out - A NRC AM Radio Log Dec Tracking 9600-bd systems; Radio Beginner's Story; Monitoring On Air - History of BBC Nov Shack digital scanner? Scanner Meteor 3-5 Police Call 2003 May software list website APR WXSAT to Imaging Program; Radio Data Code Manual May MAY Motorola Busting Out all Over: Operational WXSATs SPRAT CD-ROM Library Apr Martin Co FL, Genesee Co MI, MAY A Hobby with Ulterior Motives; Voice of America, History Sep Anne Arundel Co MD, Loudoun Polar Satellite Status WRTH Shortwave Guide 2 Sep Co VA, Fairfax Co VA, Airports JUN Memories of Winter; GOES-12 World Radio TV Handbook Apr JUN Sorting Out Talkgroups in LA; becomes GOES-E; NOAA YASME Expeditions Sep Flagstaff, AZ; Johnson County, Channel Switching; Meanwhile in IN Europe Business news, Software JUL Converting Console IDs, Rapides JUL Digital for All! MSG-1 opened to ATOC Tech. catalog Oct Parish, LA; Jacksonville, FL; amateurs; NOA HRIT and LRIT, Digital Scanner News Jan Anne Arundel Co, MD; impact on GOES WEFAX; Digital Scanning News May Annapolis, MD; Marin Co, CA; NOAA-17 reduces tx power; DXtreme Station Log - multimedia Jun Hamilton Co, OH GMS-5 to GOES-9 transition plan Grundig Satellit 900 May AUG Radio Shack Announces PRO- AUG Digital Weather Satellite Grundig Europe bankruptcy Jul 96; Interference Transmissions - LRIT; internet Railfans Welcome database Oct SEP Radiocommunications on the site reminder Shortwave Report (Dan Roberts) Mar Internet. South Dakota, EDACS SEP Getting Started with Weather Transport-comms newsgroup Oct and the PRO-92 Satellites, Internet Site Update WinscanDP Jul OCT Tracking the Logic of LTR OCT Basic WXSAT Reception (Quebec, Albuquerque, NOV LRIT Testing, Testing... NOAA 14 Equipment Colorado) degradation; NOAA-N status; Ant.Spec. cellular/GPS antennas Jan NOV The Digital Diversity of APCO-25; Hurricane Fabian AOR ARD9800 digital modem Oct new Uniden scanner; Rapides DEC Bang! Crash! NOAA-N accident, AOR Signal Magnet Jul Parish, LA; Cleveland, OH; NOAA 16 Problems; LRIT Test Becker/KVH mobile office Feb Pelham, NH Transmissions Cambridge Soundworks 730 Jun DEC Signs of Things to Come: Wash Cutting Edge QuickZipRadioPouch Aug DC, State of Alaska systems WASHINGTON WHISPERS Cutting Edge Ent. RadioWallet Jan JAN New Technologies Undergo Davis Wireless Weather Station Jun UTILITY WORLD Labor Pains (wireless networking Edmund Scientific power supply Jan JAN Antarctica on HF; Cuban Morse and DTV conversion) Griffin iTrip for iPod Oct from Canada?! FEB SMS: Text Messaging over Cell Icom IC-R5 Apr FEB Is Wireless Email the Future of Phones Jabra hands-free headsets Jan HF? (PACTOR systems), MAR Fugitive Radio Operator Arrested K40 Hi-Performance CB Antennas Jun SailMail freqs; more on in NC Lobeman mini radio Jun Antarctica APR FCC Authorizes GPS-Enhanced MAYAH DRM 2010 Aug MAR A Marriage Made in Cyberspace FRS Transceivers (final column) MAYAH DRM 2010 Nov (Winlink 2000); Even more Monster ConnectAll 200 Jul Antarctica WHAT'S NEW Radio Shack GRE PRO-96 Aug Radio Shack PRO-96 (first look) Nov Radio Shack PRO-99 Dec RIGblaster Pro Feb RIGrunner 4010S Oct Sangean WR-1 AM/FM radio Dec Sangean Travel Pro SW Nov Switch On! electronic bldg blocks Apr SWL IR Remote for Icom IC-R75 Jul TERK TV42/44 clip-on antennas Jan Terk TV Volume Control May Uniden BCi 25D Digital Card Jun Uniden BCT8 scanner Nov Vanu Software Radio Jul Whattmeter Oct WinRadio free S-meter plug-in Feb WinRadio Long Wire Adapter Aug Yacht Boy 550PE AM/FM/SW Dec Monitoring Times 2004 Index

FEATURES JAN Days of a Stormy Sun; Bits and SEP In Search of the Ideal Antenna: Broadcast Pieces - WRLL, KKOB booster, Part 1 - Characteristics All India Radio-Winds of Heaven NOV US gov callsigns, WJZ confusion, OCT In Search of the Ideal Antenna: Annual MT Baseball Line-Up Card JUL new TIS stations Part 2 - Practical Approaches Boy Scouts DXpedition DEC FEB VOA Operates QRO! (Sao NOV In Search of the Idea Antenna: Broadcasting Out of Sri Lanka SEP Tome); Bits and Pieces Part 3 - Practical Transmitting Domestic SW BCing in Russia FEB (Expanded band, Whoizzit? Considerations Radio France International MAR Digital comes to Mexico) DEC Fading and Antenna Systems SW Listeners Field Day DEC MAR Mailbag: power vs height; Xium Tales of Two Frequency Clashes FEB Air Dish empty promises; unusual BEGINNER'S CORNER reception; Freq shifts and JAN 10 Meters: Gateway to the Air General changes, Beverage URL FEB Tuning the FM Band, antenna Monitoring in Croatia JAN APR IBOC Implementation Update; and receiver options Signals from Space (hamsats) MAY Bits and Pieces (legal and illegal MAR Beginner's Look at HF Digital intruders, TIS proliferation) Modes Nostalgia/Human Interest MAY 12th Street Gets Tough (FCC APR Cable, FM Reception, and Sirius Birth of the Radio Networks AUG fines); Verifications; distorted Issues Dave Boyd, Bicyclenomad MAY TIS; Canada catch MAY Putting a Big Signal on the Ham Diode Vacuum Tube Centenary NOV JUN Get Ready for More Crowding Bands Cheap Monitoring Our Earth (seismic) DEC (new AM licenses); indecency JUN Beginner's Questions: FM to Sunday and the Philco MAR fines; liberal talk Satellites: stacked array; Vintage Ham Radio Operating MAY JUL IBOC: The Next Step; Bits and speakers for Sangean 909; Western Historic Radio Museum AUG Pieces: HDTV Ruckus, DX Test CCRadio Plus review; DirecWay QSL, Dead Air for Air America, risky business?; Free DISH Scanning: Openings programming; QSL Tips Air Traffic Control Simulcasting FEB AUG International Notes: Mexico, JUL Keeping a Log: Options for SWLs Beginning Military Monitoring NOV various; Bits and Pieces (WFAN & Hams Calif Airborne Firefighters JAN opportunity; Software Defined AUG New Tricks for Old Dishes Dayton's Biggest and Best MAR Radio) SEP Monitoring the HF Specialty Nets Grand Prix Fire Monitoring JAN SEP Bye-bye, Licenses (Levi Willis OCT Celebrity Hams and E-Logs Highway Maintenance Allocations FEB stations); Bits and Pieces Revisited How Wide Area Systems Work APR (Mexicans move; Loopy TIS) NOV Condo Dishes and FM in the Inside the Austin/Travis Co TRS APR OCT Win Some, Lose Some (Clear Office: Balcony Dishes for Monitoring Logic Trunked Radio DEC Channel news); Bye-bye licenses Condos, Going for the Big Dish; Monitoring the HMX-1White Tops SEP part 2; Musical Chairs in FM Tuning in the Office Cubicle, On Scene at Air Shows MAR Cleveland; Bits and Pieces - New Indoor antenna tips Potomac TRACON JUL Station, High-Band Skip DEC SWLers QSLing Hams Radios and Racing JUN NOV Reading Material (AM Radio Log, Railscanning JAN Pacific Asian Log, Antenna BELOW 500 kHz Red October - Fires still burn OCT Reference); Bye Bye Licenses, JAN Looking for Lowfers: receiving Romancing the River (N'awlins) JUL Part 3; Temporary CHEV tips, QRSS, who's on the air, Salt Lake Center ARTCC FEB Renewal; More IBOC; KGNU selected lowfer stations San Antonio TX DEC solution FEB Try Longwave! Equipment, So California Combat Air Patrols APR DEC Emergency Radio; K,W…and X; identifying; news and loggings VHF Air Band in So Louisiana JUN More IBOC MAR Congratulations, LWCA (30 yrs); Personal Locator Beacons; Technical ANTENNA TOPICS Winter SWL Festival Deep Space Monitoring at PARI OCT JAN An Omnidirectional Scanner APR Mystery Beacon (TRY); AOR- DXing Digital TV JUN Antenna (J-pole) Palomar loop swap; Beacon From Logs to Blogs MAY FEWB Useful Antenna Concepts: loggings; ODXA 30 years; GPS-Location, Location, Location AUG isotropic antenna, real-world summary of Natural Radio Is it Broadcasting or Datacasting? MAR antenna characteristics websites Propagation Myth Busting JAN MAR Learning about Antennas - MAY WWW Picks - Kevin's Top 17; Propagation Outlook for Spring APR resources for learning more Discontinued WX broadcasts Propagation Outlook for July-Sep JUL APR Choosing a Scanner Antenna JUN Super Slow CW Results in Propagation Outlook for Autumn OCT MAY Visually-Friendly Receiving Record; WWVB Trivia; LF Receiving Digital OTA TV Signals JUN Antennas Loggings Save Your Local Airport (SATS) FEB JUN Dipoles: Variations on a Theme; JUL Summer Strategy; SWL Net Talking to Mars JUN Useful Books from LB Cebik anniversary; Online Help for RFI; Timeshift Your Listening SEP JUL Some Rules Were Made to be ODXA Update Twenty-First Century Radio (1) AUG Broken: The higher the better, AUG Giving Something Back (doing a Twenty-First Century Radio (2) SEP Resonance will Improve presentation) Twenty-First Century Radio (3) OCT reception, Half-wave dipole feed- SEP Longwave Timeline; New ID User-Controlled On-line Tuners JUL point impedance is 72 Ohms, Resource High SR causes significant loss OCT Gearing Up: Antennas; Your Utilities AUG Some Vertical Antennas: Vertical Receiver; Read the Manual; Monitoring S America Military FEB quarter-wave ground-plane, Listening Resources MT Hot 1000 HF Freqs (#1) APR Marconi vertical quarterwave NOV Long Wave Challenges; Time MT Hot 1000 HF Freqs (#2) MAY grounded; making a vertical Warp (results w/very old equip); AMERICAN BANDSCAN antenna "Best Bet" Beacons DEC An Invitation: Gearing Up, What Fox Hunt?; Radio to the Rescue; Levi Willis); Study on Television; Can You Hear? Logging Your Rescue by Satellite; Push to Talk Amateur Radio - Emergency Catch. DXpedition logs from dispute; Tauzin Going Volunteers; BPL website; Miscou NB Hollywood?; The Call of the Wild Enforcement Actions; Scanning - (randy ram) Hi-Jacked Frequency; Hoaxer BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS FEB Man Charged after 2nd PLB Pleads Guilty FEB Boats: Monitoring the Great Rescue; New FCC website SEP Schools - School radio stations; Lakes; Equipment; HF gone but interface; FCC bureau teacher uses SW radio. Amateur not forgotten; resources reorganization; nano radio Radio - BPL Team; Hawaii's Gov MAR Planes: Handoff Completed - invented; PA SP consolidating Vetoes Bill. Scanning - Fighting author background; basics and dispatch; Bob Evans Fires with Relm; Satellites - Help resources for aero monitoring MAR ARRL proposes entry-level from Above. Milestones - Con- APR Trains: Lingo of the Rails; New license, code-free HF access; gratulations AWR Global DX; Radio Frequencies Hard Hit for Hubble; You Want John Kraus, Deceased. JUN Boats: Maritime Monitoring Insults with That? cellphone OCT Radio Honor Role - Amateurs Thaws Out; US Coast Guard selective availability system; Respond to Wildfires; Amateurs Chesapeake; Canadian CG logs; Earth's magnetic fluctuation; Respond to Hurricane; Radio Other HF monitoring; Amateur weather alert radio standard set; rules following hurricane. radio nets; portable monitoring; smart watches too smart Amateur Radio - FCC Clarifies VHF monitoring APR FCC Okays BPL Proposal; Emergency Communication JUL Planes: Exploring Your Aero Issues in Broadcasting (BBC and Policy. Scanning - Massa- World; An interesting search across Europe); Amending the chusetts Scanning; Media Rights range; Unicom Freqs; What is a Morse Code; Tauzin to Retire; at Stake in Australia; Frequency CTAF; ATIS/ASOS/AWOS/A DC to Test Emergency Network; Recall in Rockland; Nextel Deal - What?' Airport Identifiers Safety Net Radio Bridge Who Moves next?; Fast Leaner AUG Trains: Radio Modernizes the MAY Broadcasting: Will There be a Mobex. Broadcasting - Canada Rails - the many uses of rail radio VOA; WSHB for Sale; the Power Nixes CHOI; UK Urges Pirates to OCT Boats: Marine Emergency of Radio; Dismay over Ukraine Go Legit; NASB Report on HCJB. Communications; Inside Passage Closure. FCC & Congress: New Technology - Intel Monitoring (Alaska Freqs); Broadband over Power Lines, Announces Radio on a Chip Marine Radio Interference; Local Doing the Nextel Swap, NOV Amateur Radio - Emergency Marine Monitoring (Kingston, Indecency vs Freedom of Training for Hams. Scanners - ON); Australian Marine Freqs Speech. Fines & Forfeitures: Court Decision against NOV Planes: Air Traffic Control for the For Indecency, for Amateur McDermott. Aviation - Hobby Listener Radio Service, Two cases maybe Maintenance not "routine" FCC - DEC Trains: Railscanning. Rail radio closed. Homeland Security: FBI FCC Tower-Siting Rules (historic from Ohio. Freqs from Readers: at Your Back Door. Miscellany: bldgs), Children's Programming Kansas; Wisconsin; Portland OR; US Brain Drain, Your Brain on a Rules, FCC Kid's Zone, FCC Proctor MN; Akron OH; Cell Phone, Noise Annoys Chairman to be Replaced? Snowflake AZ. RailAmerica's JUN Public Safety: Wisconsin "Spacey" News - DW Living in New Regional RR; Industrial Jammer. Emerging Technology: another World? In Memoriam - Yards: BRC Chicago; BS BPL, RFID. Amateur Radio: James O. Page Alabama; Cincinnati Queensgate; FCC omnibus NPRM. DEC Amateur Radio - Hurricane P&N Bolger TX Broadcasting: demise of farm Heroes. BPL - FCC Okays BPL programs, WSNJ sold but keeps Rules, BPL in the Real World. CLOSING COMMENTS country format, "cow whisperer" Beacons - Hurricanes Activate JAN Spend a Little, Save a Lot - collar creates virtual fence. Beacons, Appliance Emergency. Rachel Baughn Obituaries: Joseph Zimmeman, Public Safety - Office of FEB MARS - A Different Perspective - Marianna Cobb, Oswald Villard Interoperability and Compatibility. Larry Van Horn Jr. Other Radio News - ELF Radio MAR Interoperability: Being JUL Radio Honor Roll - 13 yr old Transmitters Shut Down, Balloon Responsible (plus list of non- ham brings radio just in case, Collides with Tower, BWI Opens APCO P-25 systems) - Larry Van Cell phones for soldiers, CBs for Wireless Lot, Flying Wireless. Horn soldiers; Broadcasting: Fla APR Evolution of Technology: It’s Not Pirates Put on Notice; Pirates COMPUTERS & RADIO What You Think - Ken Reitz interfere with airband; gangland JAN Part 3: DRM Monitoring MAY Amateur Radio Restructuring - A pirate; pirate challenges FCC; FEB Part 4: DRM Monitoring Wrap-up Tradition - Larry Van Horn Radio Caroline Turns 40; Radio and summary JUN Broadband Over Power Lines - Luxembourg; Scanning: NY MAR Flying High with AirNav's Rachel Baughn Statewide System; Nextell Swap; ACARS Decoder 2; DRM Update JUL Sharing is Good - Yes? - Rachel Jammer Sentenced; Australia APR Useful Programs for Radio Users Baughn debates media access; (TRX-Manager, SeaTTY) AUG The Future of the Radio Hobby - Emerging Technology: Robots. MAY Replay Radio - "A VCR for Larry Van Horn Miscellany: Tauzin Still Truckin', Internet Radio" SEP The Dismantling of America's Surround Sound (whales), Killer JUN Ham Radio Deluxe for SWLs Voice Abroad - Alan Heil Jr Radio JUL Can Radio Monitors Love a OCT Protecting an "Exclusive" AUG New Technology - GPS; Butterfly? MixW decoder/ Frequency - Glenn Hauser Broadcasting - WSHB Sold to encoder/controller etc NOV Let's Hear it for the Hams! - Bob LeSEA; NASB Elects New AUG A Put-The-Pieces-Together Grove President; Local Radio for Approach for Free (HamScope) America; Local BCers Sweat SEP ICOM's IC-PCR1000 Revisited COMMUNICATIONS Deadlines; Ft Lauderdale on the OCT Protect Your Passwords - JAN SEC at Risk; Firefighting Radio Air; Local Radio in Baghdad; Biometrics and the new BioStik Frustrations; DC System Good to FCC Gets Tough (radio owner Go; WiFi Gridlock Predicted; WiFi NOV AirNav Systems Live Flight DEC Are we high enough yet? High OCT Mystery Antenna in Roswell; Tracker 3 Gear's Altitech2 Hobnobbing with Jay Leno; Lowe DEC AirNav Live Flight Tracker 3 now not shipping to North America; 6 GLOBAL FORUM Down Memory Lane (Intl SW JAN RFPI Loses its Buildings; Listeners Guide), Reader Survey DIGITAL DIGEST Tropical Band Countdown; NOV Bob Parnass Retires from MT; JAN SITOR-A Still Heard; Swiss Diplo Dave's Radio Rx Page Hearing the Hurricane Hunters; Service, Irish Defense Forces FEB Voice of Mediterranean closes Hurricane Evacuation and AM FEB Receiver Matters, which MAR Precision Frequency Radio; Frequency Tips; receiver's best? Measurement Volunteerism (Marconi Museum) MAR Listening Tips; US Civil Air APR Neat New Websites DEC The Spirit of Giving; Time Patrol; Brazilian Navy Update MAY XERMX Gives Up On SW Shifting; Appreciation for APR Gulf of Maine CODAR; UMC JUN Goodbye to Israel, Slovakia, departing columnists website updates; Decoder Round Switzerland Up JUL Information Radio is Back - from MILCOM MAY Domino, Missionaries, & Bahrain or Ships? JAN Mil Monitoring in Las Vegas; Moroccan ALE AUG Radio Mexico Int'l Finally Closes DOE/NV Test Site Trunked JUN Globe Wireless Idle Signals Down; Fire at Radio Habana System; KSC/CCAFS Trunked Revealed Cuba Updates; 104th Fighter Wing JUL Globe Idle Signals Part 2 SEP Shakeup at Voice of America Freqs; Milair freq changes AUG Tunisian Diplomatic Service; Leads to Staff Revolt (various); NATO Daily Callsigns; Israeli Navy's 4XZ; New OCT An American SW Broadcaster's Marine base Barstow CA help Propagation Beacon Perspective (Jeff White, Radio needed SEP Keeping Up-to-Date (sources); Miami Intl) FEB Mil Monitoring in Brasstown; misc Indian Ministry of External Affairs NOV Minivan Radio, New Clandestine freq changes OCT Getting Going with ALE - ALE for Maldive Is. MAR Military Flight Demonstration Redux; Decoding ALE; What's DEC A Modest Proposal for Coping Groups - frequencies, equipment, Out There on ALE? (Brazilian with Jamming show schedules Navy, French Diplo Svc, Mexican APR Military Frequency Spectrum Army; French Navy LETTERS Holes NOV Brazilian Navy Networks; JAN Happy New Year (2004 column MAY Who are the Black Daggers? Brazilian Navy ALE; Estonian changes); Keep Radio Open to Military Frequency Potpourri; Army the Public (Calif fires); Applause NOTAM Freq Changes; DEC Bucharest Calling; Aid for ARINC and MT; Overseas Spectrum Holes Operations in Sudan Purchase Woes; Sun-Struck JUN New Military LMR Band: 380.0- FEB The Evolution of MARS (various 399.1 MHz; Frequency Changes; THE FED FILES perspectives); Fractal Challenge Pop Air Force Base JAN Back to the Basics: equip, MAR Radio Frustrations; Streaming JUL Airshow Frequency Update; 1-2 search, research, tips; Travel Scanners; Scanning in S Dakota; Aviation Regiment; Helicopter Freqs: Denver, Minneapolis, To the Propagation Prof; SWL Training Squadron 8/18; Portland OR, Wash DC Callsigns; MT Covers; Kevin Monitoring Hawg Smoke; New MAY Interoperability-Let's Talk; New Carey's radio shack pic NOTAM Frequencies; Spectrum Interagency Law Enforcement APR Correcting the Record (WR303i & Holes Freqs; Federal Trunked Systems- DRM, Oud vs Loud typo); AUG Sub-bands in the UHF Milair Bureau of Prisons; Changing Grundig Mini 100PE; FRS Spectrum (glide slope freqs, Channels; Listener Logs (Motorola vs Audiovox); Station ARTCC/ATC assignments, FAA SEP Dept Homeland Security - New IDs (Radio Reloj, Radio Diva); spectrum holes) Agency, New Frequencies; US Support for MT (lifetime subs, MT SEP Is HFGCS Switching to Digital Customs; New Fed Wireless Express) Voice? AWACS first on HF email; Networks; Secret Service Super MAY Greetings from Baghdad; Budget Eglin AFB Trunk System LMR Secret? Busters; Testimonials Update JUN Fineware and DRM; Welcome, OCT Catch a Wave and Monitor a Flat THE GADGET GUY Prime Time; Puzzling over new Top! (US Navy Aircraft carriers JAN Cobra Xtreme Street technology; Music without words and their wings) Communicator (RFI); Simple solutions (digital NOV Monitoring the HF Action Bands; FEB How to Survive Any Storm! card problem, producing 4-pt Frequency Changes; Military (book) type) Trunk Systems Update MAR PC NoteTaker JUL Anything for a Sale (Japanese DEC The New Year's Deadline is APR The Well-Dressed First- magazine cover); Bruno the Near! (narrowband); Westover Air Responder (Moore Manufacturing Scanner Dog; Pet Peeves; Bring Reserve Base; National Capital CM Pro radio harness, Hands- Back Radio Dramas; PRO2001 Region P25IP trunk system; Ft Free radio harness; C Crane Voz Still Going Strong; Aid for Iraqi Gordon trunk system; Freq earpiece) Amateurs; My Start in Radio Changes/Spectrum Holes found; MAY Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom Has AUG Missing the FedFile; Lat vs Long; NG HF ALE addresses change; Long Reach CCRadio; Ham Radio Deluxe; NORAD tracks Santa JUN Simmons CaptureView Local Laws; Trivia Time Below JUL C Crane Freeplay Plus 500 kHz; Geocaching; MONITORING AND THE LAW AUG Garmin's Outstanding Rino 130 Bellingham Museum JAN On Air but no longer On Line (re SEP MT Reader has Bright Idea - SEP Setting the Record Straight (MLB streaming audio) Ecustomware.com Luxeon LED baseball line-up; Yagi antenna; FEB May the Law be with You (radio flashlights Japanese magazine cover); Latin confiscation in Adirondacks) OCT Can You Hear Me Now? C Logger's radio shack; SW Online MAR Kentucky Scanners: Use It and Crane's Bionic Ear Forum in Spanish; Old Time Lose It NOV ICOM's Superb IC-V8 Handi- Radio source APR Be My Guest (changing attitudes Talkie and statutory law vs US Codes) MAY Scanners in the UK MAY Over Ham Radio's Horizon (new FEB Culture and the Arts JUN Eight Website for Finding Your technology) Highlights: BBC, Voice of Monitoring Law JUN Uncle Skip and the Meteors Russia, China Radio International JUL New Florida Law; Scanners in (meteor scatter communications) new programs Virginia and West Virginia; Radar JUL Remembering OSCAR; Earth Selected Programs: By Time Detectors in VA; Police Jammer Base MAR Strong Signals (where are they?); gets 8 years AUG Are You Ready? (emergency Religion on Radio Redux; AUG Pranks Result in Federal preparedness using pails) Comfort Zone Redux Conviction under Patriot Act; SEP September Selections (new @ Highlights: Beijing Schedule, Critical Infrastructure Defined CW character; ham radio and Music in other Languages SEP The Bill of Rights - Void Where biking; BPL rejected in Iowa; best Selected Programs: By Type Prohibited by Law? online swap meet; handheld desk APR Random Thoughts (Managing OCT Dumb Radio Laws (Chattanooga, base solution; simulated Traffic; Platform Migration) TN); Finding your own city code emergency tests; put emergency Highlights: Death of the VOA? NOV How High Can You Go? Scanner channels in your tx; VE Selected Programs: By Station antenna regulations anniversary; thank your Elmer MAY DX, SWL, Media & IT Programs DEC Are You Law-Abiding? Or OCT Fun with Forty Meters and Highlights: BBC High- and Low- Ignorant? Googling N2EI (Search Engine light; VOA Cuts More; Sports are Ego Trip) Back MT REVIEW NOV I Get By with a Little Help from Selected Programs: By Type JAN WiFi Plus Wideband Antennas My Friends; Taking Ideas on the JUN Relax...It's Summer! (easy FEB MFJ Travel Tuner; PowerPort Road; Biking Ideas; Take Ideas a listening) GearHarness Step Further Highlights:DW in NA; SRI Cuts MAR Yacht Boy 550PE portable DEC Ham Holiday Wish List and Runs AM/FM/SW receiver; Sounds Selected Programs: By Time Sweet side-by-side speaker OUTER LIMITS JUL Keep Relaxing! It's Still Summer! comparison; Kaito KA1102 JAN Pirate Commentary or Personal Highlights: BBC-The Proms, multiband portable Attacks?; Local Pirates; Andrew Letter; Radio Taiwan Intl; Radio APR AOR’s Top-End AR-ONE Rugg; Argentina Pirate; Euro Slovakia Intl MAY PAR Electronics Stressed Moxon maildrop change Selected Programs: By Station 6-meter Beam FEB Why Do Pirates Operate? Radio AUG The Right Tool for the Job JUN Monitor 4 Geiger Counter Oasen Cut; World Music Radio (buying a new radio, audio JUL AOR WL-500 Window Loop Returning; South American improvements, used radios) Antenna Pirates Highlights: Scandia News & AUG Sirius vs XM: the AudioVox/SkyFi MAR Unusual Unlicensed BC QSLs; Notes Faceoff Iraq clandestine shuffle; pirate Selected Programs: By Type SEP AOR ARD25 Data Receiver; radio at Fest; new Europirate SEP Appreciating What's Come DWM Yo-Yo Tenna address; FL/PA pirates Before (classic radios); VOA OCT Kaito WRX911 vs Grundig APR Radio Free Brattleboro vs. FCC; Needs Our Help Now! MiniWorld 100PE Unusual QSL (Spam Radio); Highlights: The Peacock NOV WiRADiO's G313i HF Receiver Clandestine Radio.com; Project; On SW to NA! DEC WiNRADiO AC-71C Discone Europirate Freqs Selected Programs: By Day Antenna; ICOM SP-23 Noise- JUN Winterfest Produces WMPR OCT The Medium versus the Message Reducing Speaker QSLs; Clandestine QSL via (good programming that's good Internet; CKUT Intl Radio Report regardless of delivery mode) ON THE BENCH staff change; Radio Free Highlights: WRN via WRMI Brattleboro Reprieve JAN A Visit to AVCOM; Another EZ- Selected Programs: By Station JUL Summer Static and Daylight; This SWL Antenna Testimonial NOV Listening to Canada FEB How do receivers work, anyway? year's Fest; WNFC; Local Areas Highlights: DX, SWL, Media & MAR VHF Slim Jim Antenna for 2m Challenge FCC IT Programs APR BYOB - Bend Your Own Brackets AUG USA to Use Aircraft for Anti- Selected Programs: By Station MAY How do CW Transmitters work, Castro Clandestines; Havrilko's DEC The Holidays on Shortwave anyway? ACE Column Highlights: DX, SWL, Media, IT JUN Experimenting with DRM SEP NA Pirates on FM La Voz de la Selected Programs: By Station JUL Audio Amplifiers You CAN Build Resistencia

AUG Meteor Scatter Communications OCT Magnetic Field and Pirate Radio QSL REPORT SEP Setting up a Radio Shack Activity Declining? KFAR JAN National Holiday QSLing OCT Black Light Goes Solid State Burglarized; Braveheart Radio FEB More Holiday QSLing (Nichia UV-LEDs) NOV Radio Moshiach and Redemption MAR Merci, Danke, Grazie, Obrigado, NOV FlexRadio Software Definable on the Web; Voice of Natl Thanks...for the QSL! Radio Salvation Gone; Minivan Radio; APR Tentative Reports DEC Running PowerSDR for the Sudan; Clandestine Web Sites MAY Got QSLs? (ham awards open to FlexRadio SDR-1000 DEC KFAR and Radio Santa Cruz SWLs) Busted; Schoech's QSL Info JUN Award Chasing (NASWA DX ON THE HAM BANDS Page; Europirate Season awards) JAN Happy New Year - more amateur JUL Hot July QSLing ( all logs) radio resolutions PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT AUG The Lure of QSLing Lighthouses FEB Microwaves Ain't Just for JAN Streams of Consciousness: SEP Staying Current on QSLing Cooking language lessons, Sounds Trends MAR The Rarest of DX (top ten Nordic, The Comfort Zone, OCT Location, location, location! hardest logs) religion programs. (transmitters and relay sites) APR Great Ham Radio Reads (ARRL Highlights: RA Feedback gone; NOV Automated Reception Reports Tech Class Video; International Elliott clipped; RN weekend (Radio Free Asia) Antenna Collection; ARRL HF/HF afternoons DEC Ring Their Bell! Antenna Classics) Selected Programs: By Time MAY Uniden BC796D Scanner York Counties, VA; South RADIO RESTORATIONS JUN Choosing a Scanner: Scanning Dakota; Glendale, AZ; Boone Co, JAN S-40A Wrap-up Tips (PRO-92, -2067 flse CTCSS IN; Atlantic City; San Diego Co FEB The "Human Side" of Radio code; how to reset Uniden CA Restoration (RCA Victor 1AX1) scanners; antennas for hand- MAR Choosing a Scanner; Firmware MAR Continuing with the "All American helds; scanner speed-up advice; Updates to BC296D and 796D, Five"; To Recap or Not Recap? spectrum display low IF output; PRO-96; Nebraska; Gaylord MI; APR Book Reviews and Readers equipment repair and San Diego CA; Kosciusko Co IN; Comments (Impoverished Radio maintenance; closing problems; Wash DC Experimenter, Complete Guide to join a club APR Internet-Enhanced Scanning Antique Radios: Tabletop Vol 4, JUL CSI Flex Series Multiprotocol (audio online, computer aided Charles Herrold, Inventor of Decoder; Monitor vs. Scanning dispatch online, putting audio Radio Broadcasting) Receiver online); Monroe Co MI; Westport MAY Finishing Up the "All-American AUG ICOM IC-R8500 Revisited; MA; South Dakota; Southern Five" Uniden Documents Computer Wisconsin JUN The National NC-46 Commands MAY Get a Charge out of Scanning JUL Calling in a Substitute: Reversing SEP Uniden BC80XLT Portable (scanner batteries); Maine; the Owner Mod; Cabinet and Scanner Tippecanoe, IN; Somerset Co, Controls; Enter the Tragic Flaw; OCT Uniden BC898T Scanner MD; Delmarva (Delaware, Substituting the NC-57 NOV ICOM IC-R20 Portable Receiver; Maryland, Virginia); Detroit; AUG Methodical Radio Restoration: 1. Bob Parnass farewell Dayton Hamvention Starting Up Your Project DEC A New Era in Scanning - First JUN Special Temporary Assignments SEP Methodical Radio Restoration: 2. Look at the Uniden BC-246T (GA Public Safety Training Capacitor Replacement (LVH) Center); Indiana SAFE-T; OCT Getting Back to the NC-57 Imperial County, CA; Aurora, IL; NOV Visiting a Major Antique Radio SCANNING CANADA Elgin, IL; Richland County, SC; Meet JAN New Year, New Freqs; Windsor Pawtucket, RI DEC Back on Task with the NC-57 Casino; Toronto Airport terminal JUL New York, New York: New York getting new system, ILS Landing City Channel 16; New York State SATELLITE SERVICES tests, Pearson tight security; System; OpenSky in www.monitoringtimes/mtssg.html Annapolis Royal Police Pennsylvania; Maine Updates, JAN Galaxy 4R, Americom-4,-1 (Ku) FEB Scanning the Railhead, The more Maine updates, and FEB Americom-1 (C),-2; Anik F-1, Orangeville and Brampton interference in Maine Morelos 2 Railway; Can-US freq AUG Reshuffling the Frequency Deck MAR Anik E1, E2R, Solidaridad 2; cooperation 220-222 MHz (NJ-NY freq swap); Arkansas Morelos 2 MAR Ham-Ex Time again; Caledon, (Benton Co, Washington Co); APR SATMEX-5; Anik E2; Loral ON Illinois (state system, McHenry Skynet Telstar 13; Echostar-IX; APR Brampton ON; Lester B Pearson Co, Mutual Aid Box Alarm Galaxy 10R airport’s new Terminal One; More System); Daytona Beach FL MAY Panamsat SBS-4; Panamsat Code an official language? (April SEP Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Galaxy 5; Panamsat Galaxy 13; Fool); HMCS Haida hobby radio Pennsylvania - Phila Air & Sea; JSAT International Horizons-1; sunk Homeland Defense Alerts; Loral Skynet Telstar 7; SES MAY Respond Emergency Phoenix-Mesa; Concert Americom Satcom C3 Communications (Mississauga) Scanning, Boston; PA State JUN Panamsat Galaxy 1R; SES JUN One Busy Megahertz: 30 MHz System, Phila, Cumberland Co, Americom Americom-10, Canadian assignments Westmoreland Co, York Co Americom-7, Americom-8, JUL Digital Frequency Hunting at OCT One Type Does Not Fit All Americom-6 Toronto Airport (clearing up the complexity). JUL Americom-6 (Ku), Panamsat AUG Frequency Hogs in Hogtown Southeastern Texas (STARnet, SBS-6, Americom-5, Americom- (Telus Mike system vs Metro Harris County TX, Montgomery 9, Americom-3, Galaxy 11 C- Toronto PD); Scan Alberta County TX); Houston County GA; band enthusiasts; GeoScanning 80W Fairfax County VA; State of AUG Galaxy 11 Ku band, Intelsat 44N Virginia; Tempe AZ; West Americas 6, Panamsat Galaxy SEP Ontario Gov Mobile Comms Virginia 3C, Intelsat Americas 5 C-band Project NOV Tallahassee and Florida SEP Intelsat Americas 5 Ku-band; OCT Burgers, Busy CD, and Boy Scanning: Tallahassee, Florida audio subcarrier updates Scouts - 30 MHz listening; State, Palm Beach Co; Cecil Co OCT Panamsat Galaxy 4R; SES Quebec Scanning; Ontario Freq MD; Charleston SC; Phoenix Americom-4; NASA News Directory; ScanCan and Boy Updates; New Radio Shack NOV Americom-1; Americom-2; Scouts Scanner AnikF1; Anik F2 (C-band); WCPE NOV Our "Northern" Neighbors - DEC Aeronautical Scanning - general update Kingsville ON; Windsor ON; airport monitoring, plus Lincoln DEC Anik F2 (Ku); Solidaridad 2; Ontario FleetNet System Status NE details. Scanning: SATMEX-5; Anik E2 DEC ScanCan Inside Peel Region Fire Washington DC Metro; Lincoln Dispatch Center NE. PRO-96 upgrades SCANNER EQUIPMENT JAN NCS-3230 Multi-Rx Audio SCANNING REPORT UTILITY WORLD Controller; Yaesu VR-5000 Hint JAN The APCO-25 Snowball Effect: JAN Maritime Public Coastal Radio list FEB Uniden BCT8 Scanner Culpeper County VA; Oakland Co FEB Oceanic Radiolocation, MW MAR Radio bench, test bench, MI; Macomb Co MI; Detroit MI; radionavigation, fish net beacons; portable scanner stand; reader Burbank CA; Louisville KY; corrections comments on PRO-96 Orange Co CA; Utah and the MAR AFRTS/AFN Confusion APR Uniden BC296D Portable future Continues; new beacon oddities; Scanner; Trunkito MPT1327 FEB Sharing the Cost of coastal station list additions Trunk Tracking Software Connectedness: James City and APR Shining Some Sun on 4XZ MAY US Maritime Safety Information ARRL Periodicals on CD 2003 Apr Scanner Master PRO92/95 Case Feb JUN ALE and World Events; NY ARRL Repeater Directory Oct Scanner Master 780 Remote Head Sep Volmet Still Gone ARRL's Vintage Radio Jul Scott solar powered jacket Nov JUL Morse Code Enters the 1970s!: Audio Power Amplifier Design Jan Scott TEC Sport Jacket Jun Havana Harmonics (gurglers) Confidential Frequency List Feb SGC MAC-200 antenna controller Feb AUG Unauthorized Utilities in Amateur Domestic Broadcast Survey 6 Aug Terk antenna for Sirius Radio Mar Bands (unlicensed Pacific Electronic Gadgets for the Terk XMCommander - XM Radio Mar stations, African NGOs, Evil Genius Aug Tivoli Sirius Receiver May government, military, spies) Faces of Railroading Jun Uniden BC-246T Jul SEP A Wandering Blue Star - US Grundig Satellit - All Models Apr Uniden BC-246T coming soon Oct Navy ground station; digital voice Great Grundig Satellit 700 Apr Uniden BC-72XLT/BC-92XLT Jul on USB; BPL threat continues Grove Military Freq Guide (CD) Jun Uniden BC-898T Jul OCT Single Letters Fill the Sky (new Grove Military Freq Directory (CD) Aug Valor noise canceling mobile Enigma codes); National Guard Grove Federal Freq Directory Oct speaker (Grove) Mar ALE; Is HF Going Digital? How to Get Anything on Anybody Jan WinRadio WR-G313i (Grove) May NOV Hearing the Barking Sands; IRCA DXers Technical Guide Jun XACT Communication Sirius rcvr Nov United Nations in Sudan; IRCA Mexican Log Jan Interference on 6224 Klingenfuss SW Freq Guide Mar DEC US Navy Closes "World's Biggest NRC AM Radio Log Oct Station" (ELF); Bern Radio Drops Other Side of the Control Room May Voice and SITOR; New Raytheon Passport to World Band Radio Feb Sea Radars Passport 2005 prepub sales Sep Quebec Frequency Directory (CD) Jul VIEW FROM ABOVE Police Call 2004 Feb JAN Changes in Civil and Mil WXSAT Police Call 2005 Dec Systems; NOAA 12 & 14; NPP Race Scanning Jan testing Radio Propagation: Practice and FEB A Hint to NOAA (to make Principles Jul LRIT/HRIT accessible); More on The Amateur Scientist (Sci Am) Jun future plans; WXSAT equip The New Communications suppliers Technologies Aug MAR WXSATs Plans for the Future; Tower Site 2004 Calendar Jan FengYun over Grand Canyon; VoIP: Internet Linking Oct Non-weather sat tx;Current Zenith: The Glory Years 1936-1945 Apr Wxsat status and freqs APR Weather Satellite Reception Business news, Software Basics; NOAA-16 on the mend; Equatorial Line Diploma Apr NOAA-14 monitoring Galapagos Is DX Diploma Apr MAY A Transmitter for Every Purpose; G&G Communications Mar GOES Users Conference; Snow Ham software for Mac users Sep in Carolinas picture Mayah DRM010 Feb JUN The New NOAA and METOP Medium Wave Circle May Satellites: type of transmissions Milestone acquires AMECO assets Sep and possibility of encryption PRO-2054 and -2096 Feb JUL HRPT Hardware Failing; LRIT Radioelectronics website Nov and LRPT Manufacturer Radioprimera DX program May Comments; GEO and RIG Satellit 800 discontinued Sep meetings in UK Uniden BCT8 update May AUG Weather Satellite Reception - Win96 for PRO-96 Feb Easy to Advanced (special effects); NOAA-N Launch Equipment Postponed; New instrumentation Alinco EJ-47U digital voice module Mar for GOES Alinco DJ-C7T Pocket HT Nov SEP Equipment Ups and Downs; Wx AR5000A+3B receiver Sep Sat Launches 2004-2018; Good C Crane AM Antenna May viewing; full disk test image County Com SW receiver Sep OCT NOAA-12 Power Problems; DWM Yo-Yo-Vee antenna Aug Wallops Command & Data Garmin Geko GPS receiver Feb Acquisition Station; Significant GRE 800 MHz antenna w/swivel Sep Weather Events; WXSAT Site IAC Double Bazooka antennas Mar Updates Icom IC-703 QRP tx May NOV Decoding APT by Ear; HRPT to Icom IC-R-20 Jul APT LF Engineering H-900 Gain Probe DEC Endings. Hurricanes. End of antenna Dec WEFAX. LRIT-HRIT the Cheap Lightning Guard Jun Way. NOAA Polar WXSATs. MFJ 24 Hour Clock 5 time zones Nov MFJ accessories and catalog Dec WHAT'S NEW Morse Express Christmas Key Dec Optoelectronics X-Sweeper Aug Books, CDs PAR pager interference filter (G) Mar APRS - Moving Hams Jun Radio Shack Pro-83 Oct ARRL Amateur RadioToday promo Mar Radio Shack Pro-96 CPU Upgrade Oct ARRL Antenna Book Jan RadioShack Pro-2096 Scanner Nov ARRL General Class Manual Oct Ramsey Bug kit and catalog Dec ARRL Handbook Jan Sangean ATS-818ACS portable Sep Monitoring Times 2005 Index

FEATURES not? Harmonics: Stations that digital TV receiver; DIY radio Broadcast Aren't. IBOC News station; VHF/UHF scanner Beginners Guide to SW Listening JAN AUG State-by-State: DXing the Delta. antenna Bienvenido a Mexico OCT IBOC News; Letters; Stations Birth of a Station (TIS) JUN That aren't; Musical Chairs BELOW 500 kHz Changing World of FM DX APR OCT State-by-State Moving JAN Catching Up, Mailbag, Miscou Cuba's Battle of the Airwaves DEC Southwest; IBOC News; Oops DXpedition DX Games to Play DEC (interference); It's Baack FEB ELF Shutdown and loggings; Hello from Alfa Lima Intl JUN (payola); Moving VA3LK/WA3ZIA SK; new bnd for Making the Case for FM MAR DEC State-by-State: Way Out West; UK? Longwave Timeline The Elusive Part 15 Broadcaster APR Katrina; Rita; IBOC News; New Additions Voices from the Banana Belt (CA) SEP station guides MAR Loggings Galore (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Connecticut) Nostalgia/Human Interest ANTENNA TOPICS APR Open the Door to Good DX On Writing Club Newsletters JUN JAN Alternatives to Elevated Outdoor (closet door loop antenna) Radio and an Old Man DEC Antennas - indoor, underground. MAY More from the Mailbag: RL Drake Company AUG Build an active antenna Longwave in the 1950s; Vintage The Social Side of DXing FEB FEB Antenna Types: Dipoles. Make a Marine Band; Australian folded dipole. Loggings Scanning: MAR Antenna Types: The Marconi. JUN Longwave News. Cruising for Air Show 2005 Schedules MAR Build a ground-plane or two Beacons. 156 Beacons and Andrews: Busiest Air Base in U.S. MAR APR Antenna Types: Loop and Counting… New Hampshire Logs ATL: The World's Busiest Airport NOV Dielectric Antennas JUL Summertime Listening; 500 kHz Disaster on the Gulf - Katrina NOV MAY Antenna Types: Antennas with to Light Up?; Mailbag; LWCA Monitoring Chattanooga DEC Reflectors Dues to Rise Narrowbanding and Your Scanner JUN JUN Antenna Types: Helical Antennas AUG Tune-In to NAVTEX. 6-meter NAS Patuxent River Flight Testing SEP JUL Antenna Types: Mr Beverage's amateur beacons. NASA's Return to Space MAY Wave SEP One-Watt Wonders (LOWFERs) Northrup-Grumman Flight Testing AUG AUG Virtues of Directional Antennas. OCT Getting on the Band; Canadian Patrolling the Palmetto 800 Trunk Build a Yagi-Uda Loggings; Web Tips System JUL SEP Some Basic Antennas for Short NOV Did You Know... ID, Please; It's Scanning the Big Bend of Texas AUG Waves Your Call; What Goes Up; On the Scanning the First State (DE) JAN OCT Liquid Antennas and Other Road Again; Loggings; Mailbag Scanners brings race fans closer FEB Oddities DEC Season Opener: Chasing Euro- State of Louisiana TRS JUN NOV Feed Lines, Waveguides and Broadcasters; Beacons; Their Applications Experimental Stations; Bottom Technical DEC Christmas Down on the Antenna End Sweep Antenna Alternatives APR Farm ("tree" related antennas) Digital Radio Mondiale Symposium FEB BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS Harvester: Signal Intelligence JUL BEGINNER'S CORNER JAN Boats: Cold weather, Hot DX. Harvester: Part II AUG JAN Beat the Sunspot Cycle Blues Great Lakes Fall VHF Traffic. New Comm Modes (IRC, chat, etc) JAN FEB Where are the Bands? Check the Modern Marine Communications. News Feeds and Blogs JUL Beacons! Info from Readers: source for Propagation Outlook, Summer APR MAR Getting Started in Digital SW marine channels, finding cruise Propagation Outlook, Winter OCT Reception ship freqs. Winter monitoring. Recording using RecAll Pro FEB APR A Set of "Cans" for Your Post FEB Planes: Names and Numbers in (R)evolution of Podcasting NOV (headphones); Reader's Tip on Air Comms: Frequency numbers; Short Wave Log program SEP CW Runway numbers; VOR Names; Wireless Networking MAR MAY Ham Antennas for Small Budgets Airspace Fix Names; Visual and Space Landmark names. Aero Chart Utility JUN Out-of-the-Box Success for info and ordering. Every Island Tells a Story (IOTA) May Digital Beginners MAR Trains: Upgrading the Shack, The Digital Ham Revolution May JUL Exploring the World of Satellite Yaesu FT-7800; Various RR Radio Freqs; ATCS highlights AUG Beginner's Guide to Bargain APR Boats: Marine Radio Springs into AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months) Hunting Life; Canadian East Coast; US FEB State-by-State (Best bets for SEP New DX Season: Four Ways to Camslant; Amateur Radio; 5 MHz logging): Maine, New Hampshire, Make it Great; Field Day Beacons; Great Lakes VHF; Vermont, Massachusetts, Remembered Marine Radio License Changes; Connecticut, Rhode Island. OCT ISS: New Opportunity for KPH on the Air WBIX-1060 in trouble? X-band Beginners; Crossword Puzzle MAY Planes: Monitoring Transoceanic News. More Spanish stations. Fans Flights: Where to Tune; Under- Heritage call letters. Transmitter NOV Readers Write: Missing Sat Dish standing What You Hear; on a ship. Manual; Zinwell FTA Receiver Following Aircraft; SELCAL APR Atlantic Seaboard State-by-State; Repair; PRO-9 problems; Checks; Aircraft Photos IBOC Experiences; Only in Resurrecting C-band Gear; JUN Trains: Cold Weather Washington; New Targets; Lost Amazon's Amazing (Terk) AM Railscanning. Chasing the CF&E. Towers; X-Band Activity; IRCA Antenna Carrying Scanners in Indiana. JUN State-by-State Through the DEC Holiday Picks: weather stations; Crossing Whistles. "Hoosier Line" South. DX News. KBXZ pirate or HD FM radio; digital decoder; Railway. Steamtown Historic Site Freqs. Yahoo's RailScan Group. Hamvention Awards. OTHER: DEC Radio to the Max (RadioMax New Milwaukee Channels. Butler ANARC to be Disbanded; Radio 5.22) Co, KS. Firecrackers. Rumors; BBC World Service JUL Boats: New Life for Marine HF Cuts. DIGITAL DIGEST Morse (KSM)l NOAA Research JUN SCANNING: New development in JAN Synoptically Speaking - weather Vessel; Modern Marine Michigan. AVIATION: Flight codes, Synop stations, decoder Communications; VHF Activity; Service Stations. BROAD- software Myrtle Beach SC; US Marine CASTING: Schools Win, Taliban FEB Digital Intruder Watch; Rohde & Radio License; Canadian HF Clandestine Radio, Attacks in Schwarz Profile; Brazilian Navy SAR Frequency Colombia, Radio Cause of Skin and Army Update AUG Planes: Altitudes, Altimeters, Cancer? New Morse Station. CB: MAR Counting Your CARBs (channel Settings and More. Intersections To the Rescue in Iraq. HI-TECH: availability radio bulletin); in the Sky. Preventing RF leakage Maritime Bands SEP Trains: The Detroit and JUL BROADCASTING: Vatican APR Voice Frequency Telegraphy; Mackinac; RailroadRadio.net; Radio, The ITU and the Internet. Measuring VFTs and the Signal Skip; Hot-box Detector; SCANNING: Michigan House Importance of the Pilot; Medecins Voice Train Reporting (VTR) Passes Bill, Doing the Texas Sans Frontieres Update OCT Boats: Marine Meanderings Two-Step (San Antonio vs MAY The Versatile Frequency NOV Planes: Finding VHF Aircraft Wichita Falls). FCC: Analog Manager Frequencies (via scanner, Satellites Obsolete? OLD JUN More on Frequency Manager; AirNav.com, Airport Freq TECH/NEW TECH: Morse Code French Navy Markers Directory, Percon online sub the Champion, Earth Sounds JUL Voice Frequency Telegraphy service, Yahoo! groups, Google, Inspire Students. MEMORIAM: Reprise; Spanish Police Back on Monitoring Times Art Blick, VE3AHU HF; French Diplo Activity DEC Trains: Winter Activities and the AUG HAMS: Ham Call for Back-up. AUG ALE Refresher Yaesu VX-170; basement train STORM SEASON: Weather SEP NAVTEX: Information at Sea layout and receiver review Spotters, Preparing for the Worst. OCT Bye Bye RTTY: Navy Markers Go New Hurricane Resource. LOW High-Speed, French and Italian COMMUNICATIONS POWER FM: Freeze, Congress Navy Markers, Israeli Navy JAN BROADCASTING: FCC auctions Actions. Converts Too, Propagation 288 licenses; Student station SEP HAMS: FCC Set to Remove Markers; Easy ALE Catches grab. TECHNICAL: Design an Code Requirement; Radio NOV HF DataLink; Kiel Radio; Mystery SDR; Short solar cycle? Friendly BPL? SPACE: FSK signals Capricious TV; TV-B-Gone. FCC: Cellphones on Planes? New DEC Morse Utility Signals Wireless highway; Here comes Telescope in the Works; New (propagation beacons and AWS; Nextel/Verizon truce. Signals in Near Space military markers); MMTY and HOBBY: WUN celebrates 10 OCT FCC: The Switch to Digital TV, NAVTEX correction years; AWR Wavescan shifts Appealing to the FCC, FEB FEDERAL: Has the DoD Rebanding, Broadband Policy. THE FED FILES (odd months) FLIPped?, FCC Okayed to SCANNING: New Florida Law, JAN New Year for Fed Comms; Reband 800 MHz; 700 MHz Gene Hughes Retires Police Call Border Patrol update, San Diego Needed After all? Spectrum NOV no column Co CA. Updates: Transportation Efficiency. AMATEUR RADIO: DEC no column Security Agency, Federal Enforcement Actions. HI TECH: Protective Service, Bureau of DRM Sale. BROADCASTING: COMPUTERS & RADIO Alcohol Tobacco Firearms, Drive-by Audio Sampling. JAN DeLorme's Earthmate GPS Justice Dept SATELLITES: Canadians FEB Spectrum Capture using the MAR What's Up with Low Band?; consider sat radio; changes RFSpace SDR-14 receiver Listening in to USGS; US coming to sat rescue systems; MAR Spectrum Lab's PC Based Marshals & Planet Airways; New Hubble needs manned repair; Electronic Construction WHCA comms vehicle; New US Respond uses satellites to deliver APR Wireless PC Lock / Soundbug Coast Guard freqs aid; Record-breaking 55.1-mile MAY Old DOS Radio Programs – Still MAY Flying High with Federal wifi connection Useful? (DX-AID, EasyDX, Communications; Coast Guard MAR HONOR ROLL: Amateur radio LogMaster, Shortwave DX-Log, Aviation; Customs Air and broadcasting response to SWL Logger, QSO Logging Operations; Checking in with the Tsunami. FCC: Powell to Step Facility, Terminat) FAA Down; Spectrum not about Freqs; JUN The SDR-1000 with an JUL "Noteworthy" Fed Files. Florida FCC fines KC station. Solar "Approved" Sound Card Road Trip; TSA Correction; Unrest. BULLETIN BOARD: JUL Vintage Radio Software, Part Federal Trunking Continues; Baudwalking update; Winterfest Deux (DX Comm, Data-Comm, BORTAC Anyone?; Chicago Trip; APR ANTENNAS: "Light" antennas; Communications Manager, SOS Veterans Affairs Medical Centers; When an Antenna Farm TNC, PC Pakratt) More About Roadrunner; FPS becomes a Forest. AUG RxPlus - Just What the Doctor Trunked System; Postal VOLUNTEERS: needed to track Ordered Inspectors; Operation Falcon; MT Indiana Bats. FCC: Nextel SEP ScopeStation - An All-in-One RX- Bulletin Board Accepts FC Proposal; FCC 320 Program SEP Monitoring the FBI - or Trying To; reaffirms cable ruling; House OCT Free PC Electronic Test NASA Update; Searching NY City approves indecency fines; More Instruments NOV The Straight Dope on the DEA. amateur disciplinary action NOV More Updates of Radio Software VA Medical Centers Revisited. MAY SPACE: Shuttle vs Soyuz. FCC: (Spectrum Lab, RxPlus, APHIS - What's That? Martin to least FCC; Software Shortwave Log, RadioMax, Radios Reined In; Software MixW, HamScope; software for FIRST LOOK Radios Hit Snag. AMATEUR RF Space SDR-14 and Flex JAN Three Software Radios RADIO: Military Appreciation Radio SDR-1000) (FlexRadio, RFSpace, Icom) Day; Islands on the Air; FEB The Uniden SC230 NASCAR AUG Embedded Technicians: A New scanner Approach to Emergency Comms MT REVIEW MAR Wavecom W51LAN digital signal (guest editorial) FEB SWL IR Remote control / LF decoder SEP Don't Forget Ten-Tec; Reader Engineering H-900 Gainprobe APR Sangean/RadioLabs Super-909 Raves; EDACS and Motorola active antenna MAY The Icom IC-746PRO as a Type II Update MAR A Poor Man's Ideal Portable- Communications Receiver OCT MT Internet Excellence Award; Degen DE1103; Optoelectronics JUN Radio Shack Pro-2096 Embedded Ham Operators; X Sweeper; WinRadio AX-37 JUL Uniden Raises the Bar Again - BCD396T and Milcom; UHF Beam BCD396T Rebanding APR Tivoli "Model Satellite" Sirius AUG WiNRADiO's External G303e NOV Editorial: The Communications Table Radio / Small Space FM SEP Radio Shack's Pro-97 - Decent Blame Game Reception Solutions: Terk's Artful Performance at a Decent Price DEC Survivor or Victim? (be Indoor Antennas OCT SI-TEC NAV-FAX 200 prepared); Dazylabs URL; MAY AVCOM PSA-37XP Spectrum Communications Receiver resources for Mexican DXing; Analyzer NOV A Radio Revolution - Eton E1XM Closing "Ideas" JUN Nitelogger II; Zap Checker 270; DEC Uniden BR-330T The Versatile Eton E10 MILCOM JUL AOR SR2000 FFT Frequency THE GADGET GUY JAN Denver Area Base Upgrades Monitor APR The Kestrel 4000 Weather Radios (Buckley AFB Trunk AUG Eton/Grundig G4000A Station (final column) System); Robins AFB TRS new SEP The Kaito KA105 - A poor man's freqs; Bradley Going Digital; pocket digital GLOBAL FORUM Rhode Is ANG Profile; 104th OCT Eton FR-300: It's Not Just for JAN Israel Gone? Belgium Going Fighter Wing Presets; Various Emergencies! FEB Shortwave, the Medium for World freq changes; Where to look for NOV Mastech Ms8209 Universal Music Mil Activity Multimeter; Zap Checker 185 MAR The Tsunami and SW FEB DoD Publications/Charts; Milair DEC Tune In International Radio Broadcasting Band Realignment Continues -- Broadcasts with a Small Dish APR Get Out and Visit Your Splinter frequency Sampler (Globecast World TV satellite Shortwave Stations MAR Monitoring Military Flight system) MAY Dr Eugene Scott, R.I.P. Demonstration Groups - 2005 Air JUN Co-ordinate or Get Covered! Show Guide ON THE BENCH JUL Indonesia: Opportunities Lost APR Code Names Uncovered; JAN Build These Timely Additions to AUG Plans for New Progressive SW NORAD Combat Air Patrols; your Listening Post (clock Station; ITU Monitoring Reports VMFA-312 Squadron Common; projects) SEP Trends inTropical Band Raptors on the Air; VAW-78 FEB A Builder's Primer (kits) Broadcasting: Introducing Decommissioning; Military News APR 440 and More for Very Few Shortwavemusic Shorts Pfennigs (antenna construction) OCT Radio/TV War with Venezuela? MAY Aero Monitoring on the Space MAY "Bugs" 2 "Boards" (homebrew NOV Katrina Prompts New SW Relay; Coast; 380-400 MHz DoD LMR ultraviolet box for burning circuit SW sound libraries online Trunk Update boards) DEC New and Reactived SW Stations; JUN Most Frequently Asked Question JUN Those Strange Motorola Type II Radio station email address list; - Answered (how to listen to and Ericsson EDACS Talkgroups Hann Hardonk's DX Page in military air comms). Atlanta JUL Simple Voltage Regulator English ARTCC Frequencies Circuits JUL Monitoring Fort Jackson TRS; AUG Toss the Cheap Earphone! LETTERS Los Angeles 380-399.9 TRS; Packing More Punch in Public JAN Change and growth; Radio stuff Dover AFB on 380-399.9 MHz; Service (fanny battery pack) online; Scantenna takes a lickin'; 380-399.9 MHz Navy Ship TRS; SEP "The Warbler" - PSK31 on a Scanning laws; Reception on MacDill Airfest 2005; Thunder in Budget Amtrak; Chart attribution the Valley; New England Milcom OCT A Better AM Antenna for Your FEB Thanks for your input; Milcom Update; Frequency Changes; Handheld Responsibility; BPL in Memphis ARTCC NOV Electronic Kit Building a Lost Art? Cottonwood; Welcome Jim AUG Monitoring Hurricane Not Any More! (Ten-Tec 1254 kit) Clarke Communications: a bit of history, DEC Start Your Irons! (Ten-Tec 1254 MAR Resources for Used Receivers; aircraft, where to listen. kit, conclusion) Thanks for the Memories; Then Jacksonville ARTCC, Miami vs Now ARTCC ON THE HAM BANDS APR Preserve Analog SW SEP Nationwide Freqs - Real and JAN Applying Your Monitoring Skills: Broadcasting (guest editorial by Bogus; Coast Guard Auxiliary; Prepare, Listen, Tune, A.A.Al-Amin) Northeast US Base Update; Propagation MAY Mystery Antenna (solved?); Two Wash DC ARTCC; New York FEB Some Great Used HF Views on DRM; Unauthorized ARTCC Transceivers Utilities in Ham Bands; Kaito OCT Air Force MARS Shift; Frequency MAR Brainstorms and Daydreams WRx911 Potpourri; Eglin/Tyndall AFB (combining new digital tech and JUN Trains and Transportation Freqs; Army Air Fields AAF; FAA remote control) column; In Sympathy; Ken ARTCC List (Boston, Cleveland, APR Ham Software Free for the Windyka letter to newsgroup; FM Indianapolis) Asking: W6ELProp; MorseCat; Atlas correction; Listening Post NOV Monitoring the Army Ranger Ham Graphics; DigiPAN idea Training. FAA ARTCC list (Ft MAY Waking the Dead, Unruding the JUL Mystery Antenna; Super Shuttle Worth and Houston TX) Rude List; Thanks, But (why'd you cut DEC 50 Years of Tracking Santa JUN Shaking up the Ham Shack: The the selected programming?) (NORAD); SE Milcom Freqs; FAA PC, The Wires, Power, Finishing ARTCC List (Chicago and Touches Minneapolis) JUL Hamming it up on the Weekends AUG Dead Repeaters a Live Issue MAR Challenging Conventional MAR Making a Good Scanner Match (reader response) Wisdom (SW and tsunami); (trunked scanner comparison SEP Back to School Reading: ARRL China Radio Intl; Radio chart); Downriver Mutual Aid, Repeater Directory, TravelPlus Vlaanderen Detroit MI; New Uniden Scanner; for Repeaters CD, QST View CD APR The Spring-Summer Catalog Bristol TN update; Cambridge OCT Low Bands and Loose Ends: Lo (A05) - Part 1 MD; Allegan Co MI Band DX; Parts (Mouser); Crystal MAY The Spring-Summer Catalog APR Understanding Trunking (using Kit (XSS Little Wonder); Drop the (A05) – Part 2 Petoskey, MI, to illustrate) Code to Save the Code JUN The Shrinking BBC and VOA MAY Scanning Florida and NOV Annual Holiday Wish List: Gift of JUL Is Podcasting the an Answer? Tennessee: Broward Co FL; Ft Ham Radio; Christmas in a Kit; AUG Odds and Ends (programming Lauderdale FL; Brevity Codes; Getting on the MAKE: update, my favorite program, Bearcat BCT-8; Memphis TN; DEC Scanning for Hams swprograms email list); and RNZI Personal 2-way Communications; SEP Digital Shortwave Makes Its Dayton Hamvention OUTER LIMITS Move; RTI Revises Program JUN California Scanning (Davis, U of JAN Swiss Leave Shortwave to Pirate; Line-up; A New DX Country? Ca at Davis, Sacramento, Voice of Ethiopian Salvation OCT Award Winning Radio; Sirius vs Sacramento Co.), Michigan address XM; Podcasting Update Scanner Permit, New Scanners FEB Pirate TV Advocacy in Calif; NOV The Pursuit of Information. This JUL Clueless in Wichita Falls TX; Radio Insurgente; Peace Radio Month's Catch. The Passing West Virginia, Parkersburg; Web Site; Old Pirate Confesses; Parade. BBC's Czech Service at Aurora CO. Al Qaeda; Maldives Address; Risk; BBC WS launches DRM AUG Radio Interoperability. Statewide Pancho's QSL Page Europe; Anti-BBC Sentiments systems: Nebraska, Kansas, MAR WSQT X-Band Pirate in DC; DEC How to Hear the BBCWS in North Montana. FCC Paperwork 4065-4070 kHz; New Star Web America (Delaware Co, IN). Antennas for Site?; Shoech's Clandestine Digital Reception. Uniden Survey; Winter SWL Fest QSL REPORT Scanner Upgrades. New Uniden APR The Crystal Ship Returns; KBFR JAN QSL Scanning101 Scanner. and KNOZ Silenced; Radio FEB Postal Alternatives SEP One Size Doesn't Fit all: Luzerne Insurgent Mystery MAR QSLing the Spas?(Czech) Co, PA; Washtenaw Co, MI MAY FM Pirate Busts Continue; Why APR Period Reporting OCT Florida Restricts Scanner Use; 6925 kHz? Eritrea Quasi- MAY A closer look at prepared QSL Ocean County NJ; Selecting a Clandestine Address cards Scanner; BC246T Firmware JUN The Future of Radio blog. Radio JUN Most Wanted QSL List Update Gerbil vs. Radio Azteca. SW JUL July Scorchers NOV Plain Speaking about Ten Codes Radio Africa. Switzerland in SEP September -- Time to DX! (FEMA pushes plain language); Sound. WHBH Returns? OCT October's Holiday DXing Umatilla County OR; Peoria IL; JUL Taliban Radio Resurrected; NOV AM QSL Tips Saskatoon, Saskatchewan CAN Derby Radio Shortwave; Another DEC December DXing DEC Stretching the Communications Zimbabwe Clandestine; Sudan Dollar - Detroit MI; Grand Forks Clandestine; The Corsair RADIO RESTORATIONS NE; Prowers Co CO; Charles Co Transmitter; Australian Pirate JAN NC-57 Electronic Restoration MD; New York update; Scanners Logged Completed and GPS; Scanner Knob Tip AUG Holidays Spark Pirate Activity; FEB The NC-57 Returns to Life Still no Insurgente Logs; Rare MAR The NC-57 - Some Unexpected UTILITY WORLD WMPR QSL; Denver TV Covers Glitches JAN NY Volmet returns to Air; Numbers APR Wrapping Up the NC-57 Project; Canadian Sub Fire; US Coast SEP Florida Law Criminalizes Pirates; Next project, signal tracers Guard ALE Radio Free Brattleboro Raided; MAY Digging into the Signal Tracers FEB HD2IOA: Time from Ecuador; Corsair Transmitter Again; Radio JUN Putting a Signal Tracer Through More Cuban Numbers Changes; Hoa-Mai; WTOU its Paces New Google Radio Resource OCT Osama Bin Laden on JUL Hammarlund Medium-Priced MAR New US Coast Guard Freqs; Clandestine Internet TV; Pancho Receivers Tsunami Freqs; Is WWV's Voice Villa in mp3; Radio Alpha Lima AUG Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! Dead? Links; BPL; More FM Busts A Couple of Reader Finds APR US 2182 kHz Watch Continues; NOV Free Radio Network Redesigns SEP Radio Role Reversal; From the More US Coast Guard; Weird Pirate Radio Web; Human Rights Mailbag; Survey Comments Russian Telemetry Radio Reactivates; WBCQ OCT How Many Volts to Light a Tube? MAY Hear the Space Shuttle Return to Special Mobile Broadcasts NOV The First Broadcast Receivers Flight DEC ACE Ceases Publication; Radio DEC The HQ-120: Picking Up Where JUN Oddities: Is Short Wave Free America?; Schoech's QSL We Left Off; Monthly AM Night Haunted? (squeaky wheel, race Page; Orion Radio; Correction car, Yosemite Sam), Commercial and Update SCANNING REPORT Morse lives JAN Scanning in 2005; A Future for JUL Message Parsing: Finding the PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT Scanning? Bristol TN; West Information; NY VOLMET Again; JAN Here's to New Beginnings. New Chester PA; Chester Co PA; Space Shuttle Audio Again Year Themes; Radio Sweden Cumberland Co PA; Macomb Co AUG Latest US Coast Guard Changes; Anew; RNMusic.NL "Live! MI; Scanner Holders US Military on 10 meters? Online". Non-English Services FEB Scanning San Bernardino and SEP Mailbag: Answering Readers' to N America Beyond. Darien CT; EDACS LCN Questions FEB What is it about France? where is Ordering; Upland CA; San OCT E22: Spooky "Numbers"; Coast RFI; End of "BBC On Air"; SWL Bernardino Co CA; Terre Haute Guard ALE Winterfest. Sundays Without IN; Harford Co MD; PRO-96 NOV Katrina Blasts US Football Upgrade Communications; COTHEN DEC Digital Modes Come of Age: ALE, DSC, STANAG 4286; Katrina Update

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FEATURES HD Radio updatew; DXing with a over air? protecting radio from Broadcast homemade radio; E-QSLing overload w/external ant.; Around the World in 24 Hrs JAN AUG State-by-State: Great Lakes. mounting multiple ants on same Beginners Guide to TV DXing APR IBOC news; EAS false alarm; mast DRM Broadcasts in Europe NOV pirate hijack; X-band activity; MAY Direction-finding Radio Hi-Def Radio Fights Death Star APR Sorrenson obit Republica, What's DSP? Old vs IRIB: Islamic Republic of Iran BC AUG OCT Alaska, Hawaii, and Beyond. new scanner, Electrocution Lithuania Radio SEP IBOC news; RM translators & AM cause shock? Voice IF on sat TV; SW Century Weekend SEP stations; More LPFMs?; More digital TV converters Tuning in to Baseball JUL Exotic Pacific DX; Old Radio in JUN Apartment antenna; scanner UN Peacekeeping Stations NOV the Gem State overload; MURS; signal stalker Venezuela on AM APR DEC Digital Debacle? More on IBOC; range; sat radio on R3? Car radio WWCR - 15 Years on the Air MAR New stations and stations going static; built-in antenna hook-ups away; 750 kilowatts? DX! in new house Nostalgia/Human Interest JUL Satellites freqs?; Discone vs A Visit with Bob Grove DEC ANTENNA TOPICS Beam; how to improve marine- Enigma Coding Machine FEB JAN Factors Useful in Antenna band antenna; how to check for Growing Up with Radio DEC Selection listening devices; how to feed two Intl Spy Museum FEB FEB Antenna Farm in a Suitcase: scanners w/one antenna; is Radio in Belfast, Maine JUN (Antenna modeling, part 1) lightning arrestor necessary? Swan Island: Visitors Unwelcome OCT MAR (Antenna modeling, part 2); The AUG Antenna mounted thru tree; RG- Teenage Radio Amateur MAY Easy Way: HF Antenna Systems 6/U okay for SW too?; outdoor Zenith Transforms the Arctic and useful antenna book ant vs indoor amplified ant; more Amateur Radio DEC APR The Life and Times of a Radio on checking for listening devices; Signal ANC-4 noise canceller trouble- Scanning: MAY Building or Buying Your shooting; identifying purpose of Buffalo Scanning SEP Antennas: Part 1 new ant towers; attaching ant Buying and Flying: MOA/MSP JUN JUN Building or Buying Your directly to radio w/out coax; re Charleston SC Scanning JUL Antennas: Part 2 unscrambling local agency Dallas - A City Shaken NOV JUL Yagi-Uda Beams for HF, VHF or comms Ft Worth TX Scanning JUL UHF SEP Signal loss using 2 scanners on 1 Interoperability Freq Allocations FEB AUG Antenna Wisdom from a Classic antenna; tree contact cause sig Interop in NYC; Comm Vehicle FEB ("Radio Antenna Engineering") loss? How far do various freqs MT's Annual Air Show Guide MAR SEP Catching That Elusive Signal: travel? Fixing non-responsive Scanning Oklahoma JUN Can't catch what's not there; your key. WR303e good beginner "Signal Stalking" at the Ballpark JUL antenna catches noise too; look scanner? Explain USB/LSB. Two-Tone Fire Tones AUG toward the signal to catch it; What freqs do satellite radio use? polarity; placement; A Good All- OCT Blocking interfering station; Technical around Antenna (long wire) combining multiple SW antennas; Band Master software package JAN OCT Emergency Communication baluns, preselectors, and tuners; Gerryrigging a Contact JAN Antenna Readiness: Antennas finding RFID chips; Slinky vs MT Satellite Review 2006 AUG above HF (let's build one); at HF conventional single-wire antenna; Propagation, Space Wx, and You SEP or MF (let's build another TAC still active on SW? can Propagation Outlook: Apr-Sep MAR antenna) soldiers in lock-step break a Propagation Outlook: Oct-Mar OCT NOV Real Grounds, Radio Grounds, bridge? do 2-meter transceivers and Artificial Grounds outperform 70cm? Utility DEC Some Useful Antennas for Your NOV Stacking Scanner Beams; future Hams with a Mission MAY Handheld of SW radio; how to measure Just do it! (Take the test) MAY audio tone on oscilloscope; what To Catch a Spy OCT ASK BOB is RG6-U coax good for?; Can I Working the World on VHF/UHF MAY JAN How to get started in ham radio; hear NASA/KSC trunk system?; 463 MHz use; mobile FM Can I run coax alongside sat TV AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months) broadcasting legal?; DSP status coax? Are spectrum displays in FEB State-by-State: Pacific FEB Digital phone correction; problem wideband receivers real time so Northwest; TV Powers; Canadian w/magnetic base scanner you get instant display? AM news; IBOC news; FCC antenna; antenna problems for 6 DEC Selling a cellular-capable broadcast station totals; really meters; recommended antenna scanner; power supply for old long DX for HF with ATS 909 portable radio; descramblers illegal? APR State-by-State: Midwest; MAR TV set interferes w/SW; wiring jammers illegal? Is CB dead? Lexington NB museum; NRC AM interferes w/SW; using one sensitivity reduced in SW rx? Station Pattern Book; URBONO antenna for two SW receivers; wide-band scanner vs QSLs; HD radios; Wash DC can PAR antenna transmit?; communications rx; acitve vs programming change; Fighting a What is a Zepp antenna? Will passive multicoupler format change new technologies kill AM/FM? JUN State-by-State: Upper Midwest. APR One antenna for 2 radios; BELOW 500 kHz Canada's last daytimer no dead advantages of coax; need all JAN New Tricks in '06: Tips and yet? Two new ethnic Montreal elements of discone? metal mast Resources; What I Use; A/N AM stns; Montreal stn on 940; effects on nondirectional Range systems antenna; BC ID regulations; agencies liable for personal info FEB Prime Time - focus on Caribbean Aging deep space antennas, and S Am stations; LowFER COMMUNICATIONS GOES-N launched listing JAN AMATEUR: Straight Key Night. SEP Predicting Space Weather, MAR Tune into Natural Radio AVIATION: Restricted Air Space; Navigating Galileo, GPS APR Buttoning Up the BBB-4 Radar Malfunction? 390 MHz IF Scramble, Who's Who in Space, MAY Your Logs & Letters - SAQ (17.2 in Canada. BROADCASTING: Ultimate DX kHz), 454 kHz mystery solved, Hard Date for DTV; Low Power OCT Intruders Spotted in Several Logs from Alaska AM proposal; no on-air IDs for Amateur Radio HF Bands; JUN (repeat of May column) football comms; Court upholds National Emegency JUL Summer Fun on LW; Mailbag sentence for "prankster"; Communications Upgrade; AUG Low Band News and Notes: Interoperability problems are Florida Going It Alone; Global maritime navaid changes; AZ people not equipment Ham Radio Emergency loggings; lightning web site; FEB BROADCASTING: Ham Conference; Amateur Radio on NDBs endangered? German broadcast station; weather and Fed's Radar? experimental work on 440 kHz; emergency stations; Va DOT NOV Iqbal Arrest raises First VA loggings considers higher powered Amendment questions; SEP DXing on the High Seas; SAQ station; Emergency Alert System Hezbollah Eavesdrops on Israeli Transmissions, 500 kHz reevaluated; hard date for HDTV; Comms; Pirate Goes Legit; Progress, SC Logs High Definition radio. HAMS: FCC Affirms BPL Rules; OCT Season Opener: Antenna Once- SCANNING: New P25 system at Hams Experiment w/Marine Over, Receiver Checks, BWI; Motorola Blocks Band; Space Adventuress Publications, Online Resources; RadioReference. Obit: ARRL DEC Duplicating Marconi; FCC Cape Cod loggings Staff member Bob Schetgen Passes Omnibus Ruling; NOV Details, Details (data that can MAR BROADCASTING: 75 Years of Planespotters and SBS-1; 800 help your loggings); FAA calls; HCJB; airborne BC to Cuba; MHz Rebanding Freeze?; WW FAA V-shaped antennas; finding Cuban spies use numbers SWL Contest a beacon on your AM radio; broadcasts; Is it a cellphone or hams apply to experiment near radio?; Stern on pirate radio; TV COMPUTERS & RADIO 500kHz; DXer's tense moment calls for help. SPECTRUM JAN Using Band Master with your DEC Successful Miscou 2006 ISSUES: Nextel swap may stall; Icom Receiver DXpedition; ARRL 500 kHz other spectrum swaps; Airfone FEB Words in Time: RecAll-Pro & experiment; 10 meter beacons freqs to be auctioned. Obits: ClocX Radio Moscow's Joe Adamov, MAR SysLabs' RadioControl and FTP BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS DXer Bjorn Malm. Navigator JAN BOATS: Old and New on the APR FCC: Expanded Band, Cable a la APR Syslabs RadioControl, part 2; 45 Marine Bands; West Coast Carte, Budget Increase, Ramsey million mile DX Canada Info; Automatic Electronics Fined. BROAD- MAY YPlog Radio Control and $20 Information System; Digital CASTING: Digital Radio in Memory Device (USB 2.0 Slim Selective Calling; Great Lakes Europe, Cuts for PBC and VOA, External Enclosure) end of season World's Tallest TV Tower. MISC: JUN In the Air and On the Air; Free FEB PLANES: Navaids - non- Western Union Stops Telegram ACARS Decoder & More directional beacons, VOR, ILS, Svc, Stealth Satellite, Low Freqs JUL The ICOM_OKA Free Controller GPS for Mine Safety, On-Scene AUG Spyware: Get Rid of It for Free MAR TRAINS: Railroad Radio's Interoperability SEP HF ACARS with PC-HFDL Golden Years? A round robin; MAY AMATEUR RADIO: Dayton OCT Log Analyser: An ACARS Must- new website for railscanners. Hamvention Awards, Hams "Part Have APR BOATS: Gales, Groundhogs and of Solution", MS Adopts PRB-1 NOV DX Monitor Great DX; Marine Morse; VHF Statute, NC Next?, How NOT to DEC Goodbye Win 98 - Hello XP Freqs; Amateur radio; Lighthouse Deal with Interference, Laws correction; HF Marine; Shack Amended DIGITAL DIGEST upgrade JUN WUN R.I.P.; Cellphones' Danger JAN Digital Utility software Mac MAY PLANES: Tracking Domestic to Aviation no Myth; Trouble with computers (Black Cat Systems Airliners (using FlightAware.com) Towers; A Matter of Time MultiMode) JUN TRAINS: Understanding Railroad JUL STORMS: Hurricane FEB All at Sea - GMDSS and Digital Radio Transmissions preparedness, ham emergency Selective Calling; Automatic JUL BOATS: DX, Disasters, and Duty. courses, storm watchers, Identification System; Ecuadorian Scanning Tips; HF DX; National SOS network. NEWS Navy Emergency Duty; Equipment BITES: Vint Hill Farms closing; MAR XNet Yachting.Email and Changes; Useful Frequencies Congress looks at Telecom Aeronautical Selcals. AUG PLANES: Aeronautical HF rewrite; Night of Nights APR Armada de Argentina; Mystery (VOLMET, MWARA, LDOC) AUG AMATEUR RADIO: Fatal SITOR-B Station SEP TRAINS: Understanding RR accidents, volunteers for MAY Algerian Digital Profile (MFA and Radio Transmissions research, Manassas BPL, Mass embassies, Customs and Border OCT BOATS: Ships, Signals and hamsat launch, Moon Pie launch. Patrol, military agencies, oil and Submissions. DC Everest, Point BROADCASTING: Record BC, gas fields), Swiss Air Force and Vigour, Trieste; Amateur radio DRM 26 MHz service, DRM Navy systems nets and contacts; NY Harbour possibilities, Icelandic AFR signs JUN Egyptian Digital Review; More freqs, McAlpine Dam KY freqs; off, SW in Latvia, NOA studio XNet Mail; ALE-based State Marine Radio Historical Society tour. FCC: Media ownership Emergency Nets; Antenna NOV PLANES: Base Station Aircraft rules, SBCA takes on OTARD, Update Listening Antennas Sat Radio Hijackings, Seeking JUL HF Digital Users from France. DEC TRAINS: Railroads and comments, Satellite report, Air- Welcome, UDXF; French Geography; Narrowbanding; NC- ground auction concludes. MISC: Diplomatic Service; French Navy, DC Scanner Setup French Air Force, French Army; A APR Searching for the Perfect Teenage Amateur; Flex Antenna; Word about IRC Antenna? Wrong conclusion drawn to RF AUG Digital Country Profile: Denmark MAY The Readers Comment - Satellite interference to aviation; Air (Air Force, Army, Navy, Weather, TV Combo, Getting Started w/SW Antics; SBS-1 in Action Coast Stations, Diplomatic Radio, Help for Grove Tunerless SEP Utility World Blog, Call Service), XSS ALE Mystery Net Antenna, Stateside QSL RadioLabs for Super-909, 996 SEP Brazilian Digital HF Users: Navy, Depository Review Missing Text, The Digital Army, Air Force JUN Entry Level Ham Ticket: How Effect (WLW), NTIA BPL report, OCT Which Decoder? Hardware- easy to we have it? QSL Expert based decoders, Software to the JUL Radio Repair: Who Ya Gonna OCT "Spooky" October; Radio and TV Rescue? Final Analysis Call? Museum Thanks MT; Things I NOV What's That Sound? Identifying AUG Take a Radio Vacation Like...; Tip for R20 Owners; New Utility Signals SEP Readers' Choice: Buying a SW MT Blog; Information Please DEC Current Traffic: Indian Diplomatic Radio, Terk's AM Advantage, NOV Thanks (Prog Spotlight column); Service; STANAG 4285 Repairing Broken Antennas A Capitol Mistake (Niagara Falls); OCT Stalking Those Elusive Project Eton E5 Feedback THE FED FILES (odd months) Parts DEC Monitoring Times Celebrates 25 JAN 2005 Hurricanes and Federal NOV The Unintentional Philatelist Years; Bonus Pages for MT Comms; FEMA; FAA NARACS (stamp collecting) Readers VHF; Miami Federal Freqs; DEC The Readers Write: 10 Meter Federal Trunking in So Fla Challenge; MPEGII FTA; FM MILCOM MAR Mysteries: new TSA Freqs? Fed Translators JAN New Year, New Frequencies: US Nationwide Paging? UHF Band Coast Guard move; new 380-400 Reorganization? Feds Going GLOBAL FORUM MHz systems (Ft Benning, Nextel? Pittsburgh Area Trunked JAN Vox Cristiana strong signal; B-05 Seattle area, Los Angeles area; System; Freqs from the West schedule online resources; Ft Meade); Denver and Kansas Coast Condig list URL correction City ARTCCs MAY Federal Fire Frequencies, FEB US SW Stations play "Musical FEB Land Mobile Radio News: new Federal Protective Service, TSA Frequencies"; Upcoming DoD LMR systems; Navy Region follow-up Conferences; historical DX URL Northwest system; J-NCR Phase JUL Search and You Shall Find! MAR Radio Republica Becomes a II contract; Westover ARB FEMA Frequencies; Integrated Major Clandestine Broadcaster update; Milair Freq updates Networks Coming Soon; APR Major cuts at VOA; Libyan MAR Flight Demonstration Groups: Extended VHF Air Band; Fed clannie resumes SW; Online Schedules and Recommended Freq Updates; Travel Searches loggings databases Equipment (Houston, San Jose, and Las MAY DRM Forges Ahead APR "I don't live near a military base.." Vegas) JUN BBC Cuts More English and (N-Cent Fla Logs); Albuquerque SEP Shining Some Light on the Dept Spanish ARTCC of Energy (DoE Hanford, JUL Relay Exchanges Between MAY Hurricane Hunting on HF - US Lawrence Livermore, Bettis Greece and USA Abruptly Coast Guard HF Atomic Power Lab, Oak Ridge Terminate communications; Salt Lake City Lab, Bonneville Power Admin, AUG Push for DRM on 25 MHz; 12th ARTCC NNSA and NEST, DOE SECOM Nat'l Mexican DX Meeting JUN The Military Weather Channel NOV FAA NARACS Reborn; Federal SEP Chinese Invade 20 Meters (Pilot to Metro Service) Trunked Systems in NYC; OCT The Clock is Ticking for Radio JUL Monitoring the Forth Worth Pittsburgh Area Scanning Japan; Armenia; Uzbekistan Military: NAS/JRB. DoD NOV DX Meeting in Peru; Earthview Frequency Changes; Atlanta Fifth FIRST LOOK DEC Daylight Savings Time Expands Runway; EAM LF Broadcast JAN Alinco's DJ-X7T in 2007 AUG DoD Trunk Frequencies FEB A Fresh Look at the TenTec RX- Discovered; Trunk System at the 340 LETTERS Point; Westover ARB Update; MAR Kinetic Avionics' SBS-1 Virtual JAN Second MT Excellence Award; Keflavik Closed; Seattle/Oakland Radar Corrections; Mt St Helens; Used ARTCCs APR The Eton S350DL Equip URL SEP US Military Satellites - An MAY WiNRADiO's G313e HF Receiver FEB Interoperability Issues: New Overview (Super Secret Spy JUN WiNRADiO DRM Decoder Plug- Orleans and Finger-Pointing, Not Satellite Programs; American in for G303-313 series all APCO Systems created equal. Military Satellite Constellations) JUL The Uniden BCD996T 700 MHz for the Birds OCT Monitoring Satellites 101: Easiest AUG Eton E5 Portable MAR Antenna experimentation; BBC sats to hear; West Point Updates; SEP Uniden BCT15 Bear Tracker Guide questions; experiences More Milair Feq Changes; HF OCT Receiving Side of the Icom IC- with repeaters; W0KIE satellite Civil Air Patrol Freqs; USCG Air- 7000 shack and radio station Ground Freqs NOV Ramsey Aircraft Monitor APR Two Views on the FCC; Bringing NOV MilSatcom - The Early Days: DEC WiNRADiO's G305i Wide SWLs into the 'New World' TACSATCOM, LES-8/9, New Coverage Radio MAY MT Sparks Memories; Old CAP Freqs Posted? Search and School versus New School Rescue, Tyndall AFB Freqs, GETTING STARTED JUNE Welcome New Columnist; Space Major Military Comm Bands JAN QSL Mania: The Radio Shuttle Blues;Space-saving DEC The Navy MARISAT Satellite Hobbyist's Obsession Appliance Radio; Reader System; Air Force SATCOM; FEB Deaf PRO-95; DX on the AM Recommended Websites; Eton Army Aviation Comms; Tri Band; A Shortened Beverage; An 350DL Service MARS HF ALE Net; DoD All-Purpose All-Band HF Antenna JULY Winner of SBS-1 and runners-up FLIP foreign pubs removed MAR Slow Scan TV (SSTV) AUG Job well done (Figliozzi final column); Radio Fun; Corrections; MT HELP DESK Yagi; Winegard Sharpshooter OCT Another TechGuide (ARRL Ham JAN NC VIPER statewide system; TV-FM HD Antenna Radio License Manual) and hams digital HF modes; Stark County MAY Heil Clear Speech Speaker at HOPE6 (Hackers on Planet OH public safety info JUN SWLing on the Road with Sony's Earth) FEB QSLing overseas ute stations; XR-CA660X NOV Great Radio in Grubby Times freqs for Arnold Engineering JUL Icom IC-PCR1500 & R1500 (things to do during sunspot Development Center; Alinco D- AUG Comparing the PCR1000 to the minimum) X7 vs Icom R5; freqs for Misawa PCR1500/PCR2500 DEC I've Been a VERY Good Boy! AB, Japan; who will be on 700 SEP MFJ's 932 Mini Loop Tuner: SWL (the ideal station) MHz band? & Ham Antenna Options for Tight MAR APCO 25: setting the record Spaces OUTER LIMITS straight. Series of questions re OCT Build the Hidden Flex-Tenna for JAN Pirate radio resources; British Uniden BR-330T and BCD-396T Wide-Frequency-Coverage pirate crackdown; Dutch pirate scanner operation. Receivers; Flex-Tenna Follow- Alfa Lima Intl Recommended handheld for up; 97-cent Hand-held Pouch FEB Pirate Activity Still High; airshows; How to program NOV The Tecsun R-919/Grundig Mini Shoech's QSL List; Black Arrow EDACS LCN numbers (Hickory 300PE Radio; West Africa Democracy NC system) DEC MT's Digital TV/Big Screen Radio; Providence Maildrop APR More on 700 MHz band Buying Guide Closes allocations; Status on "Morse MAR Fla Hams Oppose Anti-Pirate code" proceeding; 1711-1799 ON THE BENCH Felony Law. band allocations JAN Take Your Scanner Recording to APR Howard Stern Hit by Pirate MAY EAMs on 11175; Canadian Air the Next Level - the iRiver H4300 Relays; Radio Insurgente; Oldest Traffic Control and other aero HF MP3 Recorders Pirate QSL? Airborne Radio JUN Trunking for Carroll Co MD; FEB Scanner Switch for multiple Marti; New FRW Editors sources for MWARA, Volmet, ute scanners on one speaker MAY Digital SSTV on Pirate Band - freqs; mobile ant for mil-air; freq MAR Build the FlexTenna for Unusual Pirate Bust, Oldest round-offs; freq for wireless Wideband Reception Pirate QSL? mouse; mobile unit ID on EDACS APR Digital TV – Truth & Myths JUN (repeat of May in print; pdf has JUL USAF KAWN fax gone?; Do I MAY "Law and Order" on 2 Meters correct column) WRMI and Pirate need a digital scanner? What JUN Cordless Phones - Buyer Beware Cause Interference; Cumbre DX does APCO25 encoding sound JUL Modifying the Uniden BC796D Adds Pirates; Insurgente like? Clarification on Calif. Scanner for Discriminator Audio Mexican Logs; Afghanistan FM scanning law; Gulf Co Fla system Output Radio Battle changes AUG (no column) JUL Pirate Radio Humor for DXers; AUG Where to find local airline SEP The Magic of Radio Radio Insurgente Transmitter? frequencies; where to find HF (rediscovering the magic) Oldest QSL airline company frequencies OCT Radio Direction Finding with the AUG Court Rules Against Brattleboro; SEP Looking for new scanner; How to Adcock Goniometer Project Pirate Hijack WBAB? KCBM Op ID foreign stations? Who is (continuation of Spy feature) A Obit Fastball? What is Skyking? When Compact Adcock Array SEP Elkhorn Pirate Maildrop Closes; are aero comms on HF SSB? NOV You Have What it Takes to Radio Insurgente Times; Oldest OCT STANAG "Noise" on HF; Manual Control Your R8B (using Pirate QSL and EPROMS for M8000 Windows to write a program) OCT FM Pirate Charges with Homicide decoder? Beacon DGPS vs DEC Antique Telephones: Durable, in Florida; New Pirate Blog; WAAS DGPS; EAMs and tactical Cheap & Still Useful! Oldest Pirate QSL callsigns; Help with SIPRnet IDs; NOV FCC Upholds Gibson Fine; Do AFN and VOA relay stations ON THE HAM BANDS Hezbollah TV provider arrested; have callsigns? JAN Don't Just Sit There, Build Laser Hot Hits Busted; FM pirate NOV Can I scan York Co PA M/A- Something! Britcher fined; Clandestine video; COM system with BCD296T? FEB Political Power; Antenna Antics; new clandestine podcast; Part 15 Using a Wavecom receiver to EQSL.org; Logbook of the World; legal BCer; Old Pirate QSLs monitor Inmarsat; How QSL DX Bureaus; hands-free DEC Global Crisis Watch; Old Pirate bureau can find US SWLs to hamming QSLs; Radio Cuba Libre Returns; deliver ham QSLs; How to DX MAR You can Never Have Too Many Jo Walsh a Ham DGPS; Future of 380-400 aero Keys band APR Five New Radio Reads from PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT DEC Spanish on SATCOM freq? what ARRL JAN Compleat Guide to the BBC in scanners are affected by MAY If this is May, it must be Dayton; North America rebanding? USB strong signal on Four days in May; Ham radio FEB Multi-platform broadcasts to 10.050 MHz? headsets; What's so special North America about Special Events?; And May MAR Which Station; Which Platform; MT REVIEW leads into June; 2005 ARRL Which Time? (more listings) JAN Hot and Cold Radio Appliances; Periodicals on CD APR From Under the Southern Cross AOR LA380 Active Lop Antenna JUN Before It's Too Late! (record- – Radio Australia schedules FEB Sangean WR-2 AM/FM/RDS keeping and inventory) MAY The Voice of the Pacific - RNZI Receiver; FRS or MURS - Hype JUL Show Your Stuff (QSLs on JUN (duplicate of May column) or Hot Performance? display) JUL Compleat Summer Guide to BBC MAR Comet CHA-250B Broadband AUG Amateur Radio Synergy: geo- in North America Vertical Antenna caching; APRS; ATV operation; AUG Parting Thoughts; Music of the APR Digital Radio Equipment: dual band vs two radios; mobile World; A Sirius Issue; What of Kenwood EZ500 Mobile HD or handheld? the Future? My personal favorites Radio; Winegard 10 Element SEP The New Tech Test and Learning SEP A Trip to the Balkans Linux OCT Learning the Language APR Illinois - Franklin Co, STARCOM Phone?! Will HFDL Go (language lessons) 21 statewide system; Nevada – Encrypted? Navtex DX Record? NOV Broadcasting from China - Las Vegas, Hwy Patrol SEP DXing Differential GPS Beacons Blurred distinctions (China and MAY New digital systems and Reader OCT The Spooks of October: Num- Taiwan) Feedback: York Co PA, bers and the News (Cuba, Israel) DEC Special Holiday Programming: Cumberland Co PA, Homer AK; NOV Telephone "Numbers" Mystery Lead-up to Christmas, Christmas Freehold Tsp NJ follow-up, Solved! Eve, Christmas Day, Hanukkah, Genessee Co MI follow-up; Civil DEC Updated Cuban Numbers Orthodox Christmas and New Air Patrol freqs sensitive info Schedule; More on Differential YEar JUN Listening Beyond Line of Sight; GPS Michigan State Police, MI QSL REPORT Emergency Mgt; Oklahoma HP; WHAT'S NEW JAN Electronic QLSing grows Uniden Firmware Update FEB Postal Rate Increase JUL Tangled Web of Interoperability: Books, CDs MAR URBONO Stations QSL Cape May Co NJ; Peoria Co IL; ARRL ARES Field Manual Feb APR New QSLing Opportunities Colorado; Federal Report Cards. ARRL Basic Radio Feb MAY Logbook of the World Alameda Co CA ARRL DXCC List Jul JUN Summertime Tentative Reporting AUG Legality, Technology, and ARRL Emergency Power for JUL Scorcher QSLing 2006 Interoperability. Michigan Radio Communications May AUG Follow-Up Reporting Scanner Law, Michigan radios, ARRL More QRP Power Jul SEP Sept Means Better DX Scanner Listener in Texas, ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook Jan Conditions Buchanan County MO, NPSPAC ARRL Repeater Directory Jul OCT Radio St Helena to return to the Interop, VHF and UHF Interop, Crystal Clear Dec airwaves! Wisconsin, Emergency Radio Discover DXing! Apr NOV F/D, N/D, P/D Nets (DCERN & National SOS) Domestic Broadcast Survey 8 Aug DEC MT's QSL Holiday Special SEP Scanning as a Group Effort; FM Atlas Feb Southeast Texas; Programming Getting Started w/Ham Radio Dec RADIO RESTORATIONS Scanners; Birds of a Feather Klingenfuss SW References Mar JAN More on the HQ-120; Receiver (yahoo groups); Coordinated Monitoring Monthly Apr Evolution - the "Three Dialer" Discovery (internet); Washington NRC AM Radio Log Nov Era, First Plug-In Sets County, MD NRC Antenna Pattern Book May FEB HQ120 continuing restoration; OCT Halloween Trick and Treat: Passport 2006 Jan more on receiver evolution Florida Statwide Law Pocket Idiot's Guide to Sat Radio Dec MAR The HQ-120 Comes to Life Enforcement Radio System QSL-Card Calendar for 2007 Oct APR A.C.-D.C. "Depression Radios" (SLERS) operational; NATSAR Radiouser Apr MAY Restoring a Depression Era Frequency; EMWIN weather Radio Sound Effects Jun Silvertone frequencies; Easier to read Six Meters - The Magic Band Jan JUN Taking on the 1933 Silvertone Scanner Manuals SW Station Identifications CD Nov JUL The "Little Fellow" Finds its Voice NOV And Three Chose MA/-COM: Tower Site 207 Calendar Nov AUG More on "Little Fellow" New York (State, Chautaqua Co, World Radio TV Handbook 2006 Mar Restoration Wedstchester Co), Oakland SEP Concluding the Little Fellow County MI (3rd state is PA not Business news, Software Restorations; Radio for the covered here); Radio Shack AM broadcast map Sep Millions PRO-96 Upgrade Audio: The Movie Sep OCT We Take on a Zenith Trans- DEC Mixed Bag from Readers - Ham radiocast podcast Jun Oceanic: The "Universal Lebanon County PA; Dearborn Tempting (but illegal) Products Oct Portable" for 1940, The 1942 Hts MI; McMinnville OR; Studio Universal Portable and Trans- Transmitter Links; Somerset Co Equipment Oceanic clipper; our B600 Project MD Anderson Genderless Connectors Jun Set AOR AR-Alpha Comm Receiver Sep NOV Sizing Up Our Trans-Oceanic UTILITY WORLD Grove FlexTenna Mar (dealing with the mold, front JAN Roma Radio discontinues Morse DD-103 Universal Digital Dial Oct panel, antennas, inside the service; Israeli Navy dropping EFM coaxial lightning protector Apr cabinet); From the Readers Morse; NATO converting to Elecraft KXB3080 option for KX1 May DEC Those Monumental Rider's digital; Russian Beacon changes Ice Zapper sat dish heater Feb Manuals: The Perpetual Trouble FEB CBV Playa Ancha Radio, Chile; Icom IC-PCR1500 coming Mar Shooters Manual, Useful Rider's DX Toolbox; New archive for US Icom IC-PCR2500 Jul Lore, Roadmaps to Rider's, Other Inland Marine Radio MFJ 6-Band Rotatable Mini-Dipole Aug Sourcesof Manufactuere's Data MAR Cuban "Numbers": A Pattern MFJ DC-500 MHz Dummy Load Oct Emerges. More on CBV, Playa MFJ Solar-Powered Atomic Clock Dec SCANNING REPORT Ancha Radio Morse Express Christmas Key Nov JAN Johnson County IN; Knox County APR E22 Revealed as All India Radio; Palm Radio remote keyer Sep IN; Computer Interface Scanning; Cuba Again; HFDL Frequency Uniden BCT15 scanner Apr Florida Scanner Law Updating WinRadio Marine Receiver Apr FEB Notification Networks; Hampton MAY Nazi Messages Decoded; WinRadio VHF/UHF Scanner Aug VA; Philadelphia PA and Pro-96 Teleprinting in Chinese Wrist Crystal Set Kit Dec MAR Recommended scanners for JUN Radio Z-Signals; WUN gone listening in Freehold, NJ; JUL A Hobby in Transition: WUN is Freehold freqs; Cheboygan Dead, Long Live UDXF; Where's County, MI; Genesee County MI; This Hobby Going? Call for Utility Carbon County, PA; Baltimore- Logs Wash Airport; Cumberland AUG Will the Internet Replace County, PA Utilities? Numbers by Internet Monitoring Times 2007 Index

FEATURES (in monthly order by topic) IBOC/HD/Other Digital Radio Select-A-Tenna models; using News; Digital TV News; New TV splitter w/two scanners Broadcast Brunswick DX; Maine DX & new APR Length of dipole for AM/SW; Domestic SW BC in Russia JAN stations reason for coil-wrapped center DXing from Bermuda FEB JUN March 23rd: The Day the DX pole in sat dishes; using cellular 193rd Strategic Ops Wing MAR Died? HD DX; FM translators of antenna for scanner; effect of Radio Tourist in Guyana AUG AM Stations; New SanFran rain on LF signals; 10 amp WRNO Worldwide SW Radio AUG station; New FM&TV stations battery charger as power supply; MW DXpedition to Easter Island SEP AUG HD Radio Rules Released. Weird legality of reading voice mail on Shortwave Roundup: Progs on HF SEP Frequencies (Guam); Canadian opponent's cellular phone; Bizarre World of Pirate Radio OCT AM News; Retro Radio; Radio multiband radio fluttering noise Clandestine Radio NOV Station Starts Forest Fire; DX while tuning Radio Voice of the People NOV from Easter Island; Stations MAY Using discone without top Changes element? Reception distance on Nostalgia/Human Interest OCT Cheaters, or not? (High-power "Close Call"; name for flexible pin A Visit w/Larry Van Horn JAN BCing outside hours); Breaking plug?; unknown RFI spaced Radioslayton & Radio Slang JAN News (IBOC rules published); every 30 kHz; using RR trestle as Aviation Radio in Labrador FEB Mysterious test tones; Bits & SW antenna support?; comparing A Life in Radio - Clem Small MAR Pieces; AM Bandscan Station 2 Yagis; how to use 1 mobile Winter SWL Festival 20 yrs MAR Report antenna for scanner and Future of Radio - Helms interview APR DEC Everything Old is New Again (a transceiver; digital TV reception FM Radio in 1950s JUN look back at AM radio); Nighttime in fringe area Interview - Irwin Gonshak JUN IBOC; FM relays of AM; Station JUN Hooking up AM antenna; Radio on the Road JUN Report Disabling RFID tags; Does VOA's Dixon Relay Station JUN Canadian CG QSL? How to QSL Comms with Amelia Earhart JUL ANTENNA TOPICS Russian stations; Does SSB Happy Birthday, Sputnik! OCT JAN Can You Describe the Antenna travel further than full-carrier A Unique Radio Friendship (TI4NRH You Want? AM?; Do any CB HTs have and Zenith) DEC FEB Popular and Useful HF Antennas SSB?; Optimal wire length for HF Crosley Radio DEC MAR An Abbreviated Antenna antenna Travelogue: An Irish Museum DEC Dictionary JUL Satellite coax okay for scanning? APR Resonant, Incidentally-Resonant, Difference between RG-6/U, Scanning/VHF/UHF: and Non-Resonant Antennas RG6, RF8/X? SW beginner's Scanning Corpus Christi JAN MAY A Pedestrian-Mobile Antenna questions. Would digital recorder Andrews Air Show: Best of Best MAR JUN Should I be Using an Antenna overcome tape hiss? Antenna Annual MT Air Show Guide MAR Tuner? coupler, resistance and NY/NJ Big Three Airports APR JUL Tips on Increasing Handheld selectivity. How does GPS know Public Safety Interoperability 2007 JUL Performance best hunting and fishing times? What Happened to Rebanding? JUL AUG Shocking Experiences: Thoughts AUG Why make scanners w/cellular VBR Prescott CG Radio OCT on antenna safety reception but no ability to Scanning Alaska NOV SEP A Simple, Wide-band, Field- decode? TV antenna okay for strength Meter scanner antenna? Can cellphone Technical OCT Antenna Designs for VHF, UHF be used for emergencies without Radio Freq Identification (RFID) JAN and Microwave buying a plan? What is adequate Get Outta Town! FEB NOV Useful Indoor Antennas ground? Active antenna okay for Propagation Outlook - Summer APR DEC Diversity Reception, Smart AM DX with nearby 2.4 GHz Electronics Industry Goes Green MAY Antennas, and Reliable uplink? How to remove hum Putting it All Together: Engineering/ Communications; Let's make a heard at night using outdoor wire Audience Research at TWR AUG "poor man's smart antenna antennas? Propagation Outlook - Winter OCT system" SEP IDing interference; replacement TWR's Poster Antenna Project NOV antennas for multiband; illegal to ASK BOB view wireless cameras? Utility/Ham Radio JAN How to improve SW antenna fluorescent light bulbs and ZBR Bermuda Harbor Radio FEB reception; Using SW dipoles; interference; antenna swap New Heights for hams (balloons) MAY multicoupler vs T-connector; TV surprises; longer-lasting AA Storm Chasing w/ham radio MAY preamp for scanners; vegetation batteries; apartment dwelling and World of 10 Meter Beacons MAY on power poles; any medical electrical noise on HF Military Monitoring - FL Panhandle JUN benefits to Tesla coil? OCT QRN from cell towers on The ARRL's "Big Project" (kids) SEP FEB Terminating unused ports in scanner; Is it legal to rebroadcast multicoupler; advantages of broadcasts or communications battery-powered SW operations; on the internet? VHF overload AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months) RG-6/U vs RG-8/U; dB gain for from local airport; Is a preamp FEB News Stations and "Criticality": Super Select-A-Tenna vs original advisable for better scanner new stations on the air. model; puzzling reception with reeption? Will narrowbanding IBOV/HD/Digital Radio News; Big active antenna; coupler needed affect GMRS?; Is preselector Sky DX; Golden State DX; New between flat-two-wire and coax? useful for HF/LF? Could Brunswick DX; More from Asia; MAR Understanding house current; interference be causing 2.4 GHz Stations Sold understanding P-25 and trunking; dropouts? APR A Radio Mystery (nationwide push/push buttons; gain for NOV More on fluorescent bulbs; Why signal on 1610 kHz); doesn't lightning melt the rod? Connecting antennas together; Why are cellular freqs still What is lowest freq? How can I Congress approves interop funds blocked? Is home-generated QSL? Warbling tones? Why BROADCASTING: streaming power safe for computers/radios? Canadian beacons start with Y? audio; new VOA director. Which indoor SW antennas are DEC "Our" Season is Here! Chasing PHONES: Study shows cellular best? Euro-Broadcasters; Beacons; phones safe; Blame the sun for DEC More on apartment-dweller Lowfers; Going Even Lower. dropped calls. antennas. Which coax is best? MAR NEWS: FCC and FAA Tower How to ground equipment from BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS Rulings; HCJB is Changing; Free 3rd floor? How to purchase JAN BOATS: Winter, Waves, and Ham Podclass. MT HOME IRCs? Does DRM have a future? Wireless - Antenna Work and FRONT: Antique Radios Does stored gasoline go bad Autumn Reception; Unexpected Auctioned; What's the after a few months? Surprises; Caribbean Freqs; Frequency, Kenneth?; MT Blog Recommended scanner/antenna Rescue 21; Marine Radio hits big-time; Electronic Tutorials for distant NOAA Wx stations? Is Historical Society APR Sat blown into smithereens; R8500 legal for consumer use in FEB PLANES: VHF Aircraft Listening Space Control Center Moves; US? Potpourri. Magic (MAJIC?) in Cycle 24, Boon or Bane?; North Carolina; Quest for a Better Globalstar problems; Hubble BEGINNER'S CORNER Receiver; Better Coax, More loses camera JAN Preparing for the "Good Ol' Days" Interference; Fish Finder; Aero MAY BROADCASTING: VOA English (upcoming solar cycle); More Charts slashed; Webcasting in trouble; Parts Sources MAR TRAINS: Hi-Rails, Track Permits Payola settlement; FCC approves FEB DXing Latin American TV & and More Terminology; Altamont IBOC rules; Zimbabwe Radio via Satellite Press Update; O.S. Reports confiscates SW radios; TV Marti MAR Exercise to Better Health with APR BOATS: Intrigue and Inversions; exec pleads guilty; San Fran your Radio Hobby - biking HF Listening; Historical Radio Liberation Radio appeals. MISC: APR Stormy Weather (lightning MAY PLANES: Airport Information for Spies sentenced; compensation protection); Reader Q&As (SWL Listeners: AirNav, Airport/Facility to consumers? AMATEUR: QSL requests, adding inputs to Directory. Airport Identifiers, Herman Munster's Ham QSO; digital TV receiver, over-air Airport Communications, ATIS ham radio suspended in Iraq; reception of network affiliates); Broadcasts, AWOS and ASOS, Dayton Hamvention; European Tracking Those Elusive IRCs Runway Numbering; Published DX Council MAY How to Start Your Own Procedures, Pilot/Controller JUN FCC and BROADCASTING: International SW Station Glossary, FlightAware, MT Digital Deadlines: cellphones, JUN Do-It-Yourself Satellite Radio Anthologies television, FAA; Let the Bidding JUL DIY Sat Radio: Taking it to the JUN TRAINS: Train Monitor's Begin; One-week LPFM Filing Limit (partial list of radio stations) Paradise - The Powder River Window; CARP vs webcasters. AUG Buying a Dedicated Weather Basin AMATEUR RADIO: ham Radio JUL BOATS: The Changing World of repeaters interfere with Mil radar; SEP General Class: Welcome to HF Marine Radio; Manitoba and Background check update. MISC: OCT The New Ham's HF Station Northern Ontario; VMS; HF info; DX Tuners shuts down; A Wok Check List EPIRBS; Reader Reports; on the Wild Side; Don't Bee-lieve NOV Yard Work and House Work: Kingston Area it! France selects DRM Take Your Radio Hobby Along AUG PLANES: What is "Airspace"? JUL SCANNING: GAO Report on DEC Gift Ideas for your Favorite Radio SEP TRAINS: Denver, the Rockies, Interop; They Hear it on the Hobbyist (You!) and Repeaters - Golden as a Scanner; Hall Co GA encryption. base, Moffat Tunnel. Radio MISC: Canadian "Spy" quarter BELOW 500 kHz Discipline. Same words, different fiasco; David Rosenthal obit. JAN Tips from Kevin for 2007; Tips meaning. AUG DISASTER PREP: Amateur and Resources; What I Use; OCT BOATS: Winter DX and Column Radio; 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Loggings Research; Annual Rush to the Season; QuikSCAT; Emergency FEB Prime Time: Chasing Euro- Sea; HF BCs across the world: Broadcasting; FCC Strengthens Broadcasters; Beacons; Lowfers; Canada CG; Australia EAS; FCC Petitioned to Allow Going Even Lower NOV PLANES: Listening to Small Jamming. MAR New England Beacons: Locating Airports SEP False Alarm (EAS); Hams Part of Your Catch; News Flashes DEC TRAINS: Traveling with a Emergency Planning in Barstow; APR News and Updates: ZM on 187.5; Scanner Federal Court Denies Webcaster Arizona logs; VY1JA beacon; Sky Appeal; AFN Broadcast Detach- & Telescope article on VLF; COMMUNICATIONS ment Transfers Command; Marconi bust safe and sound JAN AMATEUR RADIO: Red Cross Bashkirian company blows up MAY DX Destinations: Location, Volunteers; Natl Traffic System; Russian towers; Build a Better checklist, communications, the Public Svc Activity Report; Ham- Battery contest. Lady Bird Radio big day; Hamfest season band song. BROADCASTING: Owner, Jean Marius Novi JUN Warm Weather Tips. 500 kHz BCers support appeal against WB4ENI, Prime Time Shortwave Experiment News. BPL; Kenya wants equal time; OCT FCC Reconfigures 700 MHz JUL Housekeeping Tasks (some ways TDP Radio; DRM Yahoo Group; Spectrum; Broadband in the to help the author); mailbag KCRW primary audience is "White Spaces"; DirecTV Adopts AUG LF Receiving Antennas (random online. NEW TECH: Cloning BPL; Pirate Reunion wire, ferrite loops); mailbag RFID easy; Wis bans forcible NOV FCC: Digital TV deadline; SEP LF Receiving Antennas (Loops); RFID implantation Rebanding deadlines; automated Loggings FEB GOV & MILITARY: FCC Drops disaster information reporting OCT Antenna Wrap-Up: Active Morse Testing; ARRL Appeal system. PUBLIC SAFETY: CAD Antennas; Pierre SD Beacon? BPL; April No Joke to CHU; interoperabillity; CDE; Air Traffic Loggings Emergency Beacons Prohibited; Controllers protest radio ban; NOV Your FAQs Answered: Best USAF to Replace PLBs; Military Weather Radios recalled. antenna or LF? What is WWVB? LMR system vs garage doors; BROADCASTING: Aggressive marketing in Russian TV; Cuban article; correct one in May FIRST LOOK Radio 85th anniversary; High "Letters"], Czech Diplomatic FEB Kaito KA1102 vs Eton S30DL Adventure Ministries founder Service; Russians on 16023; MAR Kaito KA1102 vs Sangean ATS- dies; SaveNetRadio; Internet DJs Algerian Diplo Service; Moroccan 505P must have license to play... ALE Networks APR Kaito 1103 DEC Radio St Helena; Bloated BBC?; MAY Digital Alligators on HF? Link-11; MAY Uniden BC-RH96 Remote Head BBC Sputnik Challenge; New French Forces 184.6bd ARQ-E; JUN Alinco DJ-X30T Scanner Leak Alerts Al Qaeda; Cell Phone Algerian Construction LE net; Boston Acoustics Receptor HD Company Buys Surveillance Mystery ALE networks radio; Radio Shack's Accurian Band; Memphis ARTCC Goes JUN Venezuelan Navy Network; New HD radio Black; California Fires; Dr Missionary Net? JUL Sangean HDT-1, the Component Richard Wood Dies JUL Hoka Code 300-32; Siemens Approach CHP200 AUG Polk Audio's I-Sonic AM/FM/HD/ COMPUTERS & RADIO AUG Pakistani Navy and Virginia XM/CD/DVD and MP3 Player JAN Monitor Earth Orbiting Satellites - Guard ALE; Hoka Code300-32, SEP Cambridge SoundWorks 820HD The Easy Way. (Heavens-Above Part II AM/FM HD Radio Receiver and other web resources). Digital SEP Digital Utility Myths - Where Did OCT The Radiosophy HD-100 Hotspotter all the RTTY Go? XSS Mystery Philosophy FEB Staying Up To Date: updates on ALE Network Identified; Some NOV GRE PSR-500 Raises the Bar! previously-reviewed programs Old Modes Do Come to Life! DEC Sony's XDR-S3HD Table-Top HD (Spectrum Lab, RxPlus, SWLog, OCT High Speed Digital Radio RadioMax, RF Space Spectra- Communications; 110A vue, FlexRadio PowerSDR, Decoders; 110A Basics; GLOBAL FORUM MixW, HamScope, RadioControl, Frequencies (US Coast Guard, JAN Clearing Frequencies in 2007 RecAll, ACARSD, ACARS Log Venezuelan Navy, Czech Diplo, (Radio Slovakia, Radio Prague, Analyzer, DxMonitor, PC-HFDL, Spanish Navy, Mexican Navy YLE Radio Finland, RUV Iceland, Omni-Rig, YPLog) NOV The Codan 16 Tone Modem; The RFI France, RAI Italy) MAR SDR-14's Real Time Spectrum Codan Chirp; Codan Networks: FEB Radio Canada (Inter?)National Recording Egyptian Diplomatic, Moroccan Remakes Itself APR 91 Modes - Multipsk MOI Network; Greek Network MAR Weeks of DST Confusion; Latin MAY Mac Radio Programs DEC What Do I Need for Digital America SW Radio Lists; 2006 (CocoaModem, MultiMode, Decoding? Brazilian SIVAM on Clandestine Survey DXToolBox, SignalScope, Tone the Air APR India Commits to Domestic DRM Generator X) on Shortwave JUN 2007 Computer Landscape - THE FED FILES (odd months) MAY Missionaries on the March in Hype, Confusion, & Reality JAN Projects, Close-Ups, and a Micronesia ... and Central African JUL Radio Jupiter Pro 3 Contest: MT 25th anniversary Republic AUG Not your father's satellite tracking drawing; Bureau of Prisons JUN Where is Radio Republica? A-07 program - Nova for Windows Frequency Project; Justice Dept Freq Schedules SEP PC Digital Audio Recorder 25 Cities Project; Postal JUL WHRI Usurps Canadian Time Programs (RecAll Pro, Inspectors; Immigration and Signal CHU Scancorder, Sound Recorder, Customs Enforcement (ICE); AUG Radio Budapest, Hungary, Snooper, Audacity) Listener Report from Oklahoma Closed Down OCT Windows Vista Versus Radio City SEP Italy Quitting Shortwave? Austria Programs; Mini USB 1.1 Docking MAR Where is the IRS? Nat Park Stays; Finland Could Come Back Station; Programs tested (Icom Service Moving to Digital; Dept of OCT Pulse Over-the-Horizon Radar IC-PCR1000 V2.2, RadioMax Energy Follow-up; Fed Files Interference V5.17, Talk PCR V2.4F2, RxPlus Myths and Legends (Seneca) NOV Monitoring 190 kHz of spectrum V1.94, YPLog V4.48, Rig MAY A Super Week in Miami; Bureau at a Time Resident V1.1, Ham Radio of Prisons Project On-Line; DEC DRM Frequency Management Deluxe V3.4 b1254, Radio Raft Federal Scanning in Puerto Rico; V3.21, Icom OKA V1.0, HamPort Myths and Legends (Secret LETTERS V1.0 Beta, DX Monitor V1.20) Service "Suit" radios) JAN More Kudos; Ramsey Aircraft NOV Full Spectrum Logging (DXtreme JUL On the Campaign Trail with the Monitor; Controlling the R8B; Software Reception Log); Enigma Secret Service: VHF and UHF Beacon Hunting; New MT update; thoughts on information allocations; WHCA allocations. Readers Website vs knowledge LA Bureau of Prisons update. FEB Congratulations, MT! More on DEC Lynovation's Wireless Bluetooth SEP Washington DC - Federal "Growing Up with Radio"; Radio Interfaces (BlueLync) Scanning Wonderland: US Corrections (Niagara Falls, Capitol Police, National Parks Studio Transmitter Links) DIGITAL DIGEST Service, Justice Dept, Dept of MAR And the Winners Are...; The SW JAN Over the Horizon Radar and ALE Homeland Security, US Secret Debate Continues; Programming Networks: How? Where? What? Service, Misc and Unknown. Spotlight; homebrew motor Italian Finance Guard/Customs Federal Trunk systems. photos; Lost CW Gadget ALE Net; Uzbeck Army ALE Net Encryption. Fed Files Myths and APR Correction to Labrador article; FEB Nigerian Oil on ALE; Mexican Legends (Feds can operate Future of Shortwave; Glad I read Navy; Yacht Email Continues to wherever they want). it in MT; More Parts Suppliers Develop OCT Fed Files FAQs: Who's on this Editorial: It's so easy a caveman MAR Mexican Gulf and Brazilian Oil - frequency? What scanner do I could understand it! PETROBRAS and PEMEX Oil; need? Where can I get fed freqs? MAY Correction to Digital Digest Nigerian Oil Update; STANAG Buzzes and clicks? Where did illustration; MT at Winterfest; 4529 On-Air they go? How can I pick up Harmony on the Ham Bands; APR RFSM2400 MIL-188-110A wireless mics? Hearing a stake- Radio Cats!; Hello from Canada; Decoder Software [note: the out. Arizona Border Scanning. KY Music Hall of Fame incorrect illustration ran with this JUN Antique Telephones; Antique 7257; best and cheapest way to MAY Comparing Four Mid-Priced Scanners; New Tech (wi-fi, DRM, monitor UHF military Portables (Grundig G4000A, G5, computer-hosted radios); DRM FEB Can the BC250 be flash Kaito 1103, Sony ICF- SWBC's salvation, true or false? upgraded to receive P25 9600 SW7600GR) JUL Antennas; Keeping cool (ice field baud system? Uniden BR330T vs JUL A "Mounting" Problem - faxes); Surge protectors 396T vs Yaesu VR-500. Changes conventional; small inexpensive; AUG The World According to Emmitt; in marine channels? Filter to only professional; DIY mobile mounts More on HD Radios. Guest pass 225-400 MHz? AUG Going Mobile with HD Radio Editorial: Evaluating the MAR INTEROP freq pairs; pager SEP MFJ Model 1623 Window/ Emergency Alert System blocking; software for ALE and Balcony Mount Antenna; SEP Going to Great Lengths (John computer control; monitoring EJ NetWorks and NetWorksGo from Musgrave's radio hobby); Johnson Multinet APCO 16 Tivoli Monitoring Sea-Tac; Footnotes system; HF radio nets OCT RadarBox by AirNav Systems (WWII jingle, Godzilla reference) APR Andrews AFB Shark ID; Who is NOV Kaito's Multifaceted KA1121 OCT Tom Kneitel - The Write Stuff; using 360.800?; Equip needed to portable shortwave and more Can you switch DISH to monitor HF-ALE; Who is on DirecTV? More info on 12067 USB? Who is Atlas 310 on ON THE BENCH INMARSAT decoding? 11232 kHz? PC-based scanner JAN Back-Up Power for Home and NOV Feedback: Mystery Radio; Fox equipped for P-25; RTTY on Hobby Scanners; Emergency Battery 9030 kHz; unknown ALE stations FEB On the Technical Side (readers Ops; WRNO Memories; Local on 15867 letters): Going Mobile on SW; A Stations On Line; Antique MAY Free propagation prediction; Poor Man's Wind Sock; Antenna Electricity (Lindsay's Technical which freq in pair is input?; Is Experimenting; Getting Books) USCG signal skip or relay?; Grounded; What's This Gadget? DEC Early FM Radio; VOX; VBR ScanCat/Signal Stalker problem What's That Antenna? Prescott; The Law and Streaming JUN CAP-assigned callsigns; Skynet MAR Operational Amplifiers Audio 5A milsat; Is there a source for APR Solar Power for Eton and MARS stations and freqs? Grundig Cranks; AOR DS3000A MILCOM JUL Government Interoperability discone antenna; No-sweat JAN The FLSATCOM System Nationwide Frequencies antenna radial installation FEB LEASAT - The Fleet AUG How to decode ALE bursts and MAY Getting that Rig Back on the Air Augmentation what antenna recommended? (Icom IC-761) MAR Air Show Equipment and Where is activity on USCG/ JUN Frugal Guide to DRM Reception Schedules 2007 COTHEN nets? What are best JUL Scanner Programming: Getting APR Ultra High Frequency Follow-On prop conditions for best listening? the Most from the New Uniden (UFO) Program Why discrepancy in search Scanners MAY Military HF Comms Alive and ranges for air show monitoring AUG Antennas for BC-Band Crystal Well; Milair Frequency Changes; between MT and Top Secret Sets; Update on INMARSAT Aussie HF Military Network Registry? Which mode best to SEP Model Motors from Scrap JUN The CAP VHF Radio Network - search at air shows? OCT Junk Box Treasures: Shafts Frequencies in Transition; New SEP What is SGLS, who uses it, what DEC Unleashing the Icom PCR-1000 Military Trunk Systems equipment needed? Websites for with a PDA Uncovered A and K indices. Uniden 246T JUL Monitoring the US Army: skips every few seconds. Freqs ON THE HAM BANDS Command Emergency Op Net; for Hawaiian Air National Guard. JAN Something Old, New, and a Few Nat'l Guard State Nets; SHARES Does commercial SSB use Dogs, Too (Icom IC-730 and AT- AUG Ear on the National Capitol similar USB/LSB conventions as 200Pro tuner) Region: Joint NCR System; More ham radio? FEB Ragchewing Revisited (what to 380MHz LMR in DC area; Call for OCT What are FCC's plans for UHF talk about) Monitors; More HF Milcom TV channels after switch to MAR Get on the Bus as CW Goes SEP More 380-400 MHz Trunk HDTV? How to use delay settings Gently Away (CW requirement Systems: Calif/Fla/Ga/Va/Wa. on Uniden 996; Interference gone and FCC Omnibus rulings) New London Submarine Base. problems on radio control APR April Odds and Ends: Chasing 5 Westover JARB Update. New frequencies; Second thoughts on Band WAS; MS Vista; Computers Ohio Guard HF Frequency. Milair Uniden 246T skip problem. Cheap; VHF Contesting; book Frequency Changes NOV More on Propagation; New freqs review OCT US Aerial Refueling Frequencies for Progress Energy; New DoD MAY Searching for an Island with a Changed; US Air Force Trunk systems are what kind? Who or Mountain with a Lighthouse: Radio Systems; New Georgia what is Hilda? Is there a milair Islands on the Air; Summits on Military Net; Milair Band BNC antenna? Is LORAN still the Air; Lighthouses; County Spectrum Holes active (in Searchlight, Nev.)? Hunting. Web site and book of NOV Monitoring the UK Royal Air DEC Did I see a refueling flight and the month. Force: Russian Long Range Air where from? Recommended JUN Having Fun on Field Day; Force; USAF Trunk Systems; utility software/hardware Website of the Month; Software Monitoring Military HF package? Who is Bumpy-22? of the Month DEC The Hidden Military Band (VHF- Who was on 30.6? Recording JUL How Green is My Shack? Power Low); US Army Trunk Systems, active frequencies? to the People; Recycle Part 1 Everything; Website, Book of the MT REVIEW month. MT ARCHIVES JAN Tecsun Green-138 wind-up AUG Collectable Ham Radio; Website, JAN DXing Broadcast Harmonics MW/FM/SW book of the month MAR KAITO KA009 Dynamo & Solar SEP The Ham as Scannist: Know MT HELP DESK Powered Radio Thyself; Know Your Frequencies; JAN What is STANAG 4285 and how APR MFJ 1026/1026 Noise Canceling Know Your Local System; Know to monitor it; Activity on 5680 and Signal Enhancer Your Equipment; Know Your MAY Spotlight on Radio Netherlands; Power Needs and More Other Benelux broadcasters SCANNING REPORT OCT Emergency "What If" Thinking JUN Country Music Worldwide JAN Sheboygan Falls WI Scanning is NOV Promoting Ham Radio JUL More DX Shows: Programs a Life Saver; Louisville KY; DEC Ham Radio's Holiday Gifts Morphed into websites; DX Mississippi state radio network; (contest and special event segments still on shortwave; Jackson MS EDACS; Virginia stations) DXing with Cumbre update Ten Codes; Westport CT AUG Good Listening from the Far FEB Trunking and Talkgroups: Allen OUTER LIMITS East: Radio Japan and KBS TX; Talkgroups; Using the RS JAN FM Pirate Activity Continues Radio Worldwide; Listening to PRO-97; Collin County TX, Plano Despite Busts; Degeneration X Australia during severe weather TX not DXers; Borowitz on Pirates; crisis MAR Choosing a Scanner: CB Radio; Crystal Ship QSLs; Pirate SEP Cruising on the Information FRS & GMRS; Griffin GA; Digital Beacons Highway - BBC World Service; Scanners; Trunking. Suburban FEB Al-Zawraa TV Goes Clandestine New Zealand; South Africa; Chicago Mutual Aid; MABAS; via Satellite. The Future of Radio Canada; Something a Little Des Plaines IL; Naperville IL; blog Closes. Playboy Cover s different. RAE Update. DuPage County Pirates. Daily News covers OCT Romania, Myth and Magic - APR Smart Zone, Smart Net; Morris Numbers Stations; Schoech's Radio Romania International; Co NJ; UHF Trunked Radio; Pirate List. Tokyo Rose Dies War of the Worlds; Halloween Hang Time, Squelch Tails, and MAR Focus on Cupido Radio; Pirates Listening Today Uniden BC245XLT; McMinnville at Fest; Al Muick in Sudan NOV Faith Matters; Radio Australia, OR update APR Radio Ice Cream; FCC CBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio MAY Crossing the Digital Divide: Los Monitoring Web Site; Marti New Zealand, Voice of Russia, Angeles Police Dept; LA Fire Broadcasts in USA; Copyright Channel Africa Dept; Port Hope ON; Encoding and Pirate Radio DEC Yuletide and Year's End: Leading versus Encryption; Dayton MAY Pirate Radio and the Media: up to Christmas, Christmas Eve, Hamvention Global Crisis Watch; Fla Pirate Christmas Day, New Years JUN Matching the Scanner to the Web Site; Mainstream coverage; Eve/Day System: Modern Scanners. Wash New Iranian clandestine; Radio DC Public Safety; Palos Heights Pun QSL REPORT IL; Valentine NE; Parker County JUN Radio Azteca Dominates Fest; JAN LowFERS and MedFERS TX; Chicago IL update. MPT- BLANDEX Returns; Greek Pirate; FEB The Low-Down for Beacon 1327 Systems Odd Numbers Voice; Radio Free Heads JUL Scanning Oklahoma, Oregon, Mt Airy; Homebrew Rigs; Pirate MAR Radio Prague Releases Lookout and Delaware. Tulsa OK; Oregon Goes Legit Tower QSLs Sticker Shock; Delaware JUL Pirate Radio Gets Headlines; APR Higher International Mail Rates; statewide system Harry Helms on Tourism; Greeley SRI Celebrates 70 Years AUG Interoperability on a Smaller "Pirate": Clandestine QSLs; MAY 75 Million QSOs and Growing Scale - Steuben Co IN; LCN and ARRL Attacks Clandestine JUN Word to the Wise DXer on IRCs EDACS; Marion IN; Fulton IL; AUG WHRI Interferes with CHU; New JUL Clearing Out the In-Basket Louisville KY; Port Hope ON FRW Editor; Clandestine Web AUG New QSL Card Series for query; Hawaii recordings Links; Padula Receives 8,145th Collectors (Radio Taiwan, HCJB, SEP Back to Scanner School: trunked QSL; Odd Jammer; Airborne Radio Free Asia), Radio Bulgaria systems, finding control channel, Radio Marti Monitoring Club etc. Henry County VA; Haverhill SEP Cuban Spies Convicted; Pirate SEP Get Ready for MW Season MA; Levy County FL; Battle web sites; British MPs Protest OCT One World...One Dream (China); Creek MI; Val D'Or QB query. Crimestoppers ad; Ethiopian Radio Tirana QSL series; Pirate OCT Mining the Scanner Manual; Clandestine; West Bank Pirates; QSLing Peachtree City GA; PRO-97 Holidays NOV Medium Wave QSLing Memory; Glenwood Springs CO; OCT Halloween a Major Pirate DEC Holiday Listening Canadian Frequencies (looking Holiday; Commander Bunny for for Deux-Montagne information); President; Oldest Pirate QSL? RADIO RESTORATIONS Spring Hill FL North Korean Quasi-Clandestine; JAN More Radio Data Books for Your NOV The Search for Meaning... Harry Potter on Pirate Radio Library Motorola Astro; Astro Trunking; NOV Thanksgiving= Pirate Radio. FEB Back on Track with the Trans- Drummond Is MI; Colden, NY; Pirate reception on internet; Oceanic (print edition had same Finding Freqs; NY Statewide WBNY vs WBCQ; ACE returns title as Jan!) Wireless Net; Chemung Co NY; as web site; BLANDX returns MAR T-O Now Recapped and "Re- Heath OH DEC Commander Bunny's Presidential Rectifiered" DEC Scanning Down Memory Lane Bid; Christmas Biggest Pirate APR Wrapping Up the Trans-Oceanic (reflecting on simple beginnings Holiday; Mysterious Carrier; Odd Project to digital trunking) Alabama Signal MAY Introducing the BC-348 JUN More on the Trans-Oceanic and UTILITY WORLD PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT BC-348: Battery Packs for JAN Cuban Morse "Numbers" JAN Czeching on Slovakia (Czech Longevity; Other T-O Comments; Frequencies; LORAN-C Changes Republic Radio Prague and First Look at our BC-348 FEB Utility Band Deadline Radio Slovakia International) JUL BC-348 Restoration Begins Approaches: Trouble at CHU; FEB Sounds Historical (programs AUG Recapping the BC-348 Changing Weather Fax; US about history) SEP The BC-348 Restoration Changes. The Future (WARC-07) MAR Unforgettable Radio: Memorable Continues MAR ShipCom Frequencies - WLO, Presenters; Today's Classics; OCT The BC-348 Gets a Smoke Test KLB, KNN, WCL, EKA?! Golden Age comes Alive NOV Power Supplies for the BC-348 APR G11: A Numbers Station Returns; APR DX Programs; Language DEC A Permanent Power Supply for Visual DX? Fun radio places to Lessons by Radio update the BC-348 visit using Google Earth MAY CHU Stays Put! Latest beacon New Equipment for 2007 Jan mystery - PUN; This month's Pak-Lite emergency light Dec Cuban strangeness RatTail Antenna Booster Feb JUN HFDL: Everything You Ever Tac-Comm Tactical Radio Carrier Apr Wanted to Know WinRadio AX-81S Active HF Ant Jul JUL US Coast Guard May Drop HF Xtal Set Soc - 3 new kits Apr Broadcasts; Air Force MARS Xtal Set XS-DE Dual-earpiece Change; DX Tuners Closes; headphone kit Aug Cuban PSK Testing AUG Year-Long XSS Mystery Solved SEP PC-HFDL: A Good Program Gets Better; VHF HFDL Counterpart Now Active; XSS is TASCOMM? OCT Spooky Communications - Israeli Phonetic Alphabet Station; Long EAMs Aren't Spooky; Has Cycle 23 Bottomed? NOV Summertime in Antarctica; More Google Earth exploring DEC The Arctic: HF's New Frontier; New Guam LDOC? Cuban Mode of the Month!

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Books, CDs 208 It Was Great Jan 2007 Guide to Utility Radio Stns Mar 2007 SW Freq Guide Mar 2007 Super Freq List Mar A Matter of Destiny Jul ARRL Antenna Book Aug AFFL FCC Rules & Regs for Hams Nov ARRL GPS and Amateur Radio Jul ARRL Handbook Jan ARRL Periodicals on CD-ROM Jun ARRL Repeater Directory Jun ARRL RFI Handbook Jun Collector's Guide toAntique Radios Dec Crystal Radio Projects Jun Domestic Broadcasting Survey 9 Aug FAA Electronics Technician Life Style Sep Foreign Language Recognition CD + RCI SW Club archival programs May Listening to Longwave Jun Music Radio Jun NRC AM Radio Log Nov Passport to WBR Jan Something in the Air Feb The Secret Wireless War Jul Tourist Trains Guidebook May Tower Site Calendar 2008 Nov World QSL Book announcement Sep World QSL Book review Oct World Radio TV Handbook Mar

Business news, Software Eton E1XM Partial Recall Feb Orbcomm Plotter May Popular Electronics Top Ten Dec Soundsnap website Sep Swift WX Professional Apr

Equipment AirNav RadarBox Sep AOR AR-ALPHA Sep Autonet Mobile hotspot Aug GRE announces new radios Jul GRE PSR-100/200 Nov GRE PS-500/PS-600 specs Oct ICOM IC-R9500 wideband receiver May Morse Express Christmas Key Dec NASCAR Nextel FanView Apr Monitoring Times 2008 Index

FEATURES FM HD power increase?; DTV lightning arrestor w/o bus bar? Broadcast converter boxes How do know if gas-discharge High school radio stations JAN AUG What's in a Callsign? Digital arrestor hit by surge? When RAE Goes Gold FEB Radio News; Digital TV News; replace? WBCQ. The Planet SEP CBA-1070 gone; CBU-690 not APR Modified scanner doesn't pick up BBC. More than a World Service OCT going away; Going and away-- cellular; calculating impedance of and popping up elsewhere long wire; What happened to Nostalgia/Human Interest OCT Bandscan Potpourri: Five 50kW Gilfer Assoc? PAR attic-mounted A Shack of My Own FEB stations; Moving experiences; wire vs outdoor wire? digital TV Exchanging Words: WW II FEB Newbies; Incompetene no reception with converter? Does Signal Reports FEB excuse; mixed news and reader paint harm antenna? What is this Art Bell: A Voice in the Night APR comments antenna? MW DXing Retrospective APR DEC Digital TV: Down to the Wire. MAY Speed of electrical current? How Morse Code Still Fun MAY New Publications; IBOC Notes; do light-weight battery chargers QSL Card Legacy JUN KFI-640 back to normal; New work? Antenna to improve 800 Relive WW II via Radio JUL Canadian expanded-ban station; MHz digital reception? How to Bletchley Park OCT How many stations are there? ground apartment radios? Best Tuning in Transmission Art OCT transformer for Jacob's Ladder? 107 Years of WCC NOV ANTENNA TOPICS What is this family heirloom JAN Antenna polarization and vacuum tube? Scanning: practical implications JUN How do CFL bulbs compare with Monitoring Chicagoland's Airports MAR FEB Horizontal Antennas vs Vertical incandescent? Can beam null out The Annual MT Air Show Guide MAR Antennas nearby repeater? How did 3-wire Welcome to Silicon Valley JUN MAR Antennas and the US Navy; Build railroad circuits work? Why do I I Just Want to Listen to the Police JUN a whip monopole hear Howard Stern on car radio? Heart of Dixie, Montgomery AL JUL APR Notes on the Development of Can I modify portable radio to Scanning Lake Lanier JUL Antenna Technology: Concept of receive local wx? Can I add Illinois StarCom21 State System AUG Fields; Early Antennas; Parasitic elements to ScanTenna? Do What's in the Back Room? AUG Beams; Phased Arrays; Long- domestic stations QSL? Sorting Out the Spectrum NOV Wire Beams; Horns; Potpourri; JUL What's happening to standard TV Scanning the Slopes DEC Future on Feb 17, 2009? What freqs do Scanning Chicago DEC MAY Sub-Surface and On-Surface new digital channels use? What's Antennas; Let's make some future for 700 MHz two-way Technical JUN Emergency Antennas a.k.a. Field channels? Was it popular to Power vs the Planet JAN Day Antennas listen to public safety on tube Surround Sound for DAB Radio JAN JUL A Portable, Non-Directional radios? Will preselector help Summer Propagation Outlook APR Antenna for VHF-UHF electrical noise on indoor BC Band Antennas for Suburbia SEP AUG Tough, Flexible Antennas for HTs antennas? Formula for figuring Can MW Listening Still be Fun? SEP SEP Let's Talk About Antennas - I scanning distance? How did early Amateur Radio Operator's Frequency OCT Let's Talk About Antennas - II networks share programming? Guide (Service Search) OCT NOV Let's Talk About Antennas - III What is "squawk frequency"? Fall-Winter Propagation NOV DEC Let's Talk about Antenna Feed- Why don't birds get electrocuted Communications Trailer DEC Lines: wire lines; coaxial cables; on power lines? impedance and impedance AUG Anyone still make coil-wound Utility matching radio backs and what freqs were High-Flying Hams MAR they for? Solution for local AM Working the World with ASK BOB overload? Difference between Ham Digital Modes MAY JAN Is gov able to monitor all cell tuner and preselector? Good This Ham's no Pork (ham license) MAY phone conversations? Antennas coax cable vs audio cable Taking the Technician Exam MAY for tube SW radios? 5-ft antenna between CD player and amp? Fun with Emergency Comms MAY can't hear WWV. Scanner Beam two-way comms in 700 MHz Hamfests and Moon Pies JUN OK for transmitting? Are aero range; Use a wok for a dish Citizens Band at 50; still useful AUG digital links encrypted or on antenna? satellites? Why same filters for SEP Using oscillator to read analog different bandwidths? Do tuned frequency; Best comm AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months) electrical utilities still use power equip for snowmobiling; TV FEB FM, FM Everywhere (non- line communications? Why the antenna splitter used to feed 3 commercial stn filing window poor SWBC reception? CBs; "carpet loop" antenna for results); WNYZ TV station on FEB What happened to preamps? AM; data bursts on 154.470 radio?; IBOC Discone okay for CB? What are OCT DC freqs and recommended APR TV: Countdown to Digital; More sat dishes for at gas stations? scanner. What are speaker AM-FM conversions in Canada; What freqs do police patrol car magnets made of? Antenna and Northernmost and Southernmost video cameras use? Hearing coax comparisons and using a stations; Station testing on 1680 music from CD players on FM splitter. SW reception in US kHz radio; Clothesline poles work for compared to Europe. Reception JUN Minimalist DXing; Powerful SW dipole? IC-R75 has static on of police data links. Graveyarders; MO-to-OH move tropical channels. NOV What's range of WinRadio RDF? off; CBA-1070 move complete; MAR Discone okay for TV DX? Grove Scanner Beam specs. Another type of mystery signal; Antenna for marginal NOAA WX WiFi transmission frequncies. Pioneer AM towers demolished; reception? Grounding on DTV converter for wideband receivers. Digital TV reception on MAR TRAINS: New Safety Provisions= Rebates; Public BCing Cut; portable radios. Why static less New Radio Messages; Main Line Japanese Queasy over HD. PUB on HF than MW. Switches; Derails; Named SAFETY: Copper Theft Global; DEC Digital scanner recommendation. Control Points More on NY M/A-COM Flop; recomended antenna height for APR BOATS: Navtex in Kingston; HF Sheriff's radio on-line. SAT: HITS MW/SW reception. Active Monitoring; Local Happenings Switches to C-band; Spy Sat antenna comparisons and is MAY PLANES: Aviation Weather for deorbit. GPS: Armchair Bear ground needed. Meaning of "5 Aircraft Listeners: VHR and IFR; Tracking; Empire State Bldg over 9" signal report. ATIS/ASOS/AWOS; Flight Delay Mystery Zone Info; EFAS "FLight Watch"; MAY SW: NASB-DRM Confab. BCing: BEGINNER'S CORNER PIREPS; PMSV Metro; HIWAS; HD-Radio Engineers Go Old JAN Resolved: Use Less Power Active Runway; Liver Reports School; Satellite Radio. FEB Small Dish Satellite TV Options JUN TRAINS: Joining Up with CONSUMER: Good-bye to MAR Readers Write: No-tower antenna Operation Lifesaver; Special Portable Analog TV Sets. PUB tower; HDTV reception; WX Agents; Blue Flags SERV: Scanner Listener Busts Radio DX JUL BOATS: Radio, Cruises and Crime; District's DHS Loses APR Getting Started with a New Photography. St Lawrence Radios. FCC: Cell Cos Balk at Language (ham QSOs) Seaway; Arctic HF; West Coast; FCC Back-up Rule; Lame MAY 10 Meters: Beginner's HF Amateur Radio Excuse Pirate Fined. GPS: Bear Wonderland AUG PLANES: Airline Company Fre- Swipes Goat's Tracking Collar JUN Digital Off-Air TV Explained quencies JUN SW: VOA & RFA BC to Tibet; JUL Off-the-Shelf Antenna Building SEP TRAINS: Rail Transit New Target League Slams BPL Hype. BCing: Supplies for Listeners BC Stations Increasing; Denver's AUG Tuning in to the Other Satellite OCT BOATS: Tubes, Travels, and 10-yr Wait for DV; Star-Crossed Radio (DIY Big Dish and Ku) Telecommunications: Seaway Towers; Digital Conversion SEP Coping with DXCC Fever comms, cruise comms, ham Madness. PUB SERV: FCC (confirming 100 countries) comms. AIS receiver and vintage Auction Questioned. SATS: DOJ OCT SW, FTA Satellite and DTV radio OKs XM/Sirius Merger; Russia to Q&As NOV PLANES: TRACONs and Build High-Power Bird; TV NOV Digital TV and Music via Satellite: Northern California TRACON Satellite Short of Orbit. FCC: DTV channel assignment DEC Journalists Portray Railfans in Enforcement Criticized by GAO; mysteries; Music via FTA and Bad Light (Chatsworth CA CB Shop Busted; Sign-Off Relief; other satellites accident); Signal issue; Positive Expensive Light Bulb. DEC Santa's Helper's Little List of train control; Railroad Museums; NOSTALGIA: 60s Pirate to be Radio Girfts. Narrowbanding Movie Theme JUL SW/AMATEUR RADIO: Alaska to BELOW 500 kHz COMMUNICATIONS Test DRM; RFE/RL Complain of JAN News and Views; ITU JAN AMATEUR: Amateur, SW, and C- Cyber Attacks; BPL Declared Conference; Loggings and letters band at WRC-07, Motorola DOA in Dallas; CA Nixes Cell FEB Loggings Bonanza; ARRL News acquires controlling interest in Phone Directory. PUBLIC MAR Focus on New England; Locating Yaesu, new IARU Reg 2 SERVICE: "Rear-view" cameras Your Catch; BeaconFinder II coordinator; BROADCAST: Are pick up private channels; RF- Update we watching HDTV yet? FCC proof schools. AM/FM/HD APR The Range in Retrospect encourages LPFM. PUB RADIO: NPR's "War on LPFM"; MAY Asian Loggings, Q&A; PA Police SAFETY: Cell phone jamming; FCC Guidelines for public. SAT on Longwave? Asian Intercepts dispatcher to scanner-land; TV/RADIO: Satellite Radio JUN Warm Weather Tips. Mailbag. missing police cruiser; radio Merger; In-Flight WiFi services. Beacon loggings at sea. towers help save boaters. FCC ENFORCEMENT: Antique JUL Digging Deeper. Info from IDs; CONSUMERS: Coby Electronics Radio Collector Fine Upheld; info on calls, using harmonics on payer recalled, Toshiba recalls Inept Owner Gets Fine Reduced; FAA beacons, better reception AC adapters, Consumer Reports Phone Solicitors Liable; FCC's tips; New England updates on HDTV sets Chair under Scrutiny AUG Essentials for LW Success FEB Royalties Bite Internet radios; AUG B'CASTING: Calif Pirate Gains SEP New England Update; Mapping Phone-base radio; hams and Following; Webcaster Gets Out Your DX; Homing In; Elmira winter storms; storm trims Callsign. LPTV Stations Benefit; NY Hamfest antenna; Back-ups work at Logan ESPN Radio Offers HD2 OCT What's Happening on Longwave? airport; Idaho agencies go to Programming. PUB SERV: Northern Lights demystified; satellite; GPS wars EU va US; Digital EAS; Ham Aids in Grimeton Sweden transmitter; FracFM antennas; homebrew Rescue. GPS NEWS: Court OKs URLs to understand static; A/N saves county $15k; DIY cops in GPS Tracking; OnStar Finds Range revisited trouble; scanner listeners help Funeral Car; Comms with the NOV Howard Mortimer WB2ZWI; nab suspect; VIPER systems Dead; EPIRBs in the News. DTV ARRL News; loggings helps capture suspect; WRC-07 Transition: Transition Confusion; DEC Winter DX: Euro-broadcasters; on DRM; ham DXing news; IBOC Indoor TV Antennas. FCC: Aviation beacons; Lowfers; Even interference complaint Unlicensed AM Transmitters; lower; Mailbag MAR AMATEUR: Cycle 24 Begins; OR CBer Guilty and Broke gov backs ham net. BROAD- SEP B'CASTING: NPR studies HD BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS CASTING: Radio Piracy on Rise; Radio; UGA Buys TV Station; JAN BOATS: Winter on the Water: $40 DTV Coupon; Sat radio/HD KFTT Going Green; iBiquity Fee. Low Freq DX, Historic KPH/KFS radio hype. PUB SAFETY: Last DTV: Congress to fund LPTV rejuvenated; British Columbia; Ditch Interop; Russian GPS; DTV switch; Make Your DTV Cruising the East Coast; GPS-equipped idiots. TV: Switch Green. FCC: 2 Meter Challenges Plasma/ LCD screens obsolete? Pirates in Mines; Nationwide FEB PLANES: Radar, ADS-B, and the APR SW: WWVH Makeover. BCing: Sweep of FM Pirates; $10k Fine Future Retailers Cash in on Converter for Boston Pirate; Sheriff Busts GA Pirate. SAT/COMPUTER MAY Evaluating Four Laptop Coolers Scanning Update; Federal NAC RADIO: Chrysler Web-based (iXoft Laptop Cooling Pad, Belkin Information (BATF, CBP, DEA, radios; US Broadband F8N044 Cushtop; Antec FBI, SS, TSA) SEP BROADCASTING: NPR studies Notebook Cooler; Zalman MAY US Coast Guard's New VHF HD coverage; UG buys TV Notebook Cooler ZM-NC1000 Channel Lineup. Monitoring station; KFTT-FM goes green. JUN WorldStation V4.2: Part 1. A Super Bowl XLII DTV CONVERSION: Congress to Program Worth Buying? JUL More on Federal Interoperability. fund LPTV DTV switch; Make JUL Worldstation V4.2: Part 2. The "25 Cities Project" your DTV switch green. FCC Multiple Radio and Remote SEP US Coast Guard Auxiliary. ENFORCEMENT: 2 meter pirates Operations Federal Frequency sources; down in the mines; nationwide AUG Radio Control via Voice for $10?! Secret Service channels? sweep of FM pirates; FCC (VR Commander) Political convention preview. Upholds $10K Fine; Sheriff busts SEP PC Tune-Up NOV Listening In on the Political FM pirate. SATELLITE RADIO: OCT Moving to a Bigger Hard Drive Conventions Chrisler web-based radios; US with Acronis True Image Home broadband coverage poor. (plus USB-hard drive adapter) FIRST LOOK CONSUMER CORNER: Radio NOV "Fly" Your Radio (JoyToKey) JAN HD Radio Round-Up (comparison Shack recalls power supply; DEC RadioCom 6 - The "Have it all" of all 7 HD radios) RFID could be hazardous. radio program MAR The GRE PSR-200 desktop/ BALLOON-BASED COMMS: 700 mobile scanner MHz service, ballonn relays into DIGITAL DIGEST APR The Tangent Quattro Table-Top N Korea. Happy Birthday NASA JAN Brazilian Navy Update; spectrum Internet Radio OCT SW/AMATEUR: RNW wants its analyzers MAY West Mountain Radio RIGBlaster history back; ARRL's Big Project. FEB Analyzing PSK with the Hoka Pro digital interface BROADCASTING: Flashback to Code300-32; Mexican PEMEX JUN GRE PSR-600 - A Lot of Scanner the Cold War. SATELLITES: FCC Oil and Gas ALE Networks for the Money OKs Merger; XM/Sirius Top MAR Easy Catches for Beginners (7 JUL Sangean WFR-20 Wifi Radio Brass Bonanza. PUB SERVICE: oldie but goodies); Bandscan AUG Butel ARC-500 Software Tow Truck Heroes; Hacker (9000-9200 kHz) SEP Radio Shack Accurian Portable Scares Clevelanders. FCC APR Russian Forces Signals: LP90 HDTV ENFORCEMENT: El Paso, and MH90 net; PR0nn net; OCT Alinco's DM-330MV Power Hawaii, etc. OBITUARIES: Gene STANAG4197 voice modem; Supply Hughes, Tom Kneitel Russian mil sigs on rise; NOV Kaito's Voyager NOV SW/HAM: SWLers invited to bandscan (5100-5300 kHz) DEC Grund Satellit 750 - Eton's NASB; Alaska DRM Experiment; MAY Digital Smorgasbord: New Flagship Radio Radio Marti covers Cuba during PEMEX Freqs; More Russian Ike; WRN goes DAB+. PUB 75bd; Pakistani NAvy PacTOR; GLOBAL FORUM SERVICE: FCC to Rerun 700 T12 ALE Net; PR0NN Net; JAN No More Freqs for SW MHz auction; NY Emergency bandscan (11000-11500 kHz) Broadcasting (WRC-07) Radio Flop; WV digital system JUN Mixed Bag: PEMEX ALE update; FEB DRM to Invade Tropical Bands crash; stolen Dallas fire dept Pakistani Navy freq; center of MAR VOA Special English Changes radio. BROADCASTING: DTV data or USB?; ITU Monitoring Word List passes first test in NC; HD Digital Service3; propagation research; APR Another SW Stations Coming to Radio alliance; new HD radio bandscan (14350-15000 kHz) Tennessee network; HDTV "smart" antennas. JUL Brazilian Navy Digital System. MAY The Curious Case of Radio Solh FCC ENFORCEMENT: Religious Bolivian Anti-Drug Units; Digital JUN Implications of Chinese Jamming BCer hit with fine; Starband not bandscan (16,000-16,400 kHz) JUL Remember to Call Her Deborah C-band pirate; non-compliant TV AUG MARS on Earth: Navy, Army, Air (Deborah Ray, once Dody sets. Force. Rare VFT Back on Air; Cowan) DEC SW/AMATEUR RADIO: RNW Rare Saudi ARQ-E System AUG Singapore Shutting Down Stops NA BCs; Where's the SEP Digital Activity from Germany: Station; More Stations Imperiled sunspots? RNZ celebrates 60; German Water Protection Nets; SEP What's Happening with DRM in Hams help after hurricane; ham German Weather Service and the USA? rescues. PUBLIC SERVICE: SYNOP Codes. Bandscan (4000- OCT The Complex "Erithiopia" Scanner Listener Thwarts ID 5000 kHz) Shortwave Scene Theft; DTV Conversion. OCT Listening to Your Letters: Tale of NOV Radio Netherlands Cancels SW SATELLITE RADIO: Sat radio Two Link 11s; Decoding the to NA new price scheme. FCC Mexican Navy; Bandscan (1200- DEC Less English from Sweden, ENFORCEMENT: Aero 12300 kHz) Canada, Taiwan interference from TV; false ELT NOV NATO RTTY and more ALE: Iraqi alarm; FCC sweeps Miami Forces ALE Net; Austrian Army (again); San Diego TV fined; 16- Net; New GLN Node; New XNet yr old sends false maydays. Mode CONSUMER CORNER: Sony DEC Getting Going with ALE: the recalls notebook computers. radio, the computer, the decoder, COMPUTERS & RADIO putting it into practice JAN Free Radio Toolbars: Hamlink and HamInfoBar THE FED FILES (odd months) FEB Free help for internet explorers: JAN TOPping OFF the New Year Site Advisor & Sandboxie (TOPOFF exercise); Fed Freq MAR Seeing more with MaxiVista sources; What is an NAC? APR Cool is Hot (PC Wizard 2008; Atlantic City Fed scanning; Antec Notebook Cooler); Federal Reserve System radios Extolling great customer support MAR To Your Health! (Health & (Yaesu) HumanServices); Chicago GLOBALNET (new column) NOV Welcome new GlobalNet APR Welcome to the Exciting World of columnist; Feedback: Bletchley MT REVIEW Internet Audio and Video; Park, WBCQ; More Canadian JAN The LaCrosse BC-900 smart Worldwide broadcasting; web Content? RCA Historical Station battery charger portals; more than just DEC Bletchley Park and Alan Turing; FEB COAA software: OrbcommPlotter broadcasters (countries on the Digital TV Transition; Below & PlanePlotter internet; internet resources; 500kHz MAR COAA software: Radio Clock and "Coast to Coast" streaming on BeaconSee the internet MILCOM APR Com One Phoenix Portable MAY VoIP and Ham Radio: IRLP; JAN 380-400 MHz LMR Frequency Internet Radio WIRES-II; eQSO; Echolink Update; US Army Trunk Systems MAY AOR AR-ALPHA Wide Coverage JUN Scanner Monitoring on the (part 2); HF Military freqs Receiver Internet: Equipment; Scanner FEB Monitoring the Jacksonville JUN Diamond Cut DC7 audio software Portals; Teamspeak; Shoutcast. ARTCC; New York ARTCC; Air - Working digital magic on analog Reader Feedback. Force Tanker Callsigns audio. Part 1 - recorded JUL Monitoring the Aero Bands via MAR Milcom Mail Call: Ft Campbell audio/vinyl records the Net; World Wide Internet KY; Hill Air Force Base UT; New JUL Using Diamond Cut 7, Part 2 - Television Boston gone digital; Milair Live Audio Clean-Up AUG Monitoring the World of Weather Spectrum Hole IDed; McChord SEP Kaltman Creations RF Spectrum SEP Powerhouse AM News AFB TRS; Unknown DoD EDACS Analyzer/Olympus Digital Broadcasters; Public Safety in Louisiana Recorder Scanning via Reciva; Topeka APR Monitoring South Florida Milcom; OCT Performance HF Antenna Public Safety on line Russian Navy Freqs; SkyNet 5B NOV Xtal Set Society Step Attenuator OCT Spooky, Out of This World Audio on the Move; NAF Atsugi Japan; Kit Streams (natural radio, meteors Jacksonville area LMR Trunk & planets) Systems; Hickam/Pearl Harbor ON THE BENCH NOV Are you searching for some Freqs; New Zealand/Australian JAN Recycled Technology: reusing a football? (+ flagship station Military case websites) MAY Milcom in the Pacific Northwest: FEB A Simple Shortwave Tuner DEC Internet radio, through a radio! Dod Enterprise LMR system in Project (Shopping list for wifi radios); Washington state, repeaters and MAR Antenna Switch New radio hobby hangs in the talk groups APR Calibrating Azimuth Mounts balance (music royalty battle) JUN Thunderbirds Use New VHF Using Solar Shadows Frequencies; UHF Frequencies MAY SAFETY- Priority One! LETTERS Change at Boca Chica; More JUN Field Day Bonus Project: "Twin- JAN New Comm editor; no offense Frequency Changes; HF Military Tee" audio oscillator intended (Nov cover); new NRC Frequencies (worldwide) JUL Kick the Headphone Habit with address; data on digital TV; a JUL Monitoring Montgomery Military: Bluetooth grateful Canadian Maxwell ADB, Alabama Air AUG Assemble Your Scanning "Go- FEB Reader Challenge; Powel National Guard. Civial Air Patrol Kit" Crosley correction; Keep Update; New LA Air Force TRS; SEP Builders' Templates Historical articles; Cedar CA Fire Camp Atterbury IN Frequency OCT An EASY Power Supply MAR Rubber-Tired Trains? Kudos; Profile NOV Tracking the Elusive HD FM Battery Charger Caveat; Leave it AUG Monitoring the Hurricane Season: Signal on in Winter; New batteries and Aircraft; Katrina; Freqs/Callsigns DEC Are all 9V Batteries the same? homebrew tubes; Elusive interop SEP USAF Space Command trunk APR Introducing GlobalNet; Use Less system; Monitoring the Military ON THE HAM BANDS Power; Guam LDOC; RDFing a Command Post (1) JAN Back to Basics in '08 (ARRL Low "terrorist" on FRS; Cycle 22, How OCT The X-Files Radio Net; Power Communications) with 40- Good Was It? Monitoring the Royal Navy; m CW Cub tx kit MAY MT's amateur radio edition; Georgia invaded (Georgia military FEB Do You Know How Much You Grove/MT donation; MT at NASB; freqs); US Navy ship decomm list Know? (test yourself); amateur Corrections; High flying ham NOV Crisis Monitoring: ALE freqs and radio continuing education JUN A Challenge to Digital Geeks; addresses monitored from MAR GRAB and GO! Two Questions aboutDigital TV; Brasstown NC; COTHEN APR Teeny Weeny Two Band Rant and Rave; Great DEC Monitoring the Military Command Transmitters; Book of the Month: Propagation; PSK - It's a Post (2) GPS and Amateur Radio Community MAY A D-STAR is Born JUL MT at NASB, Excerpts from MT HELP DESK JUN Field Day Dividends NASB; May issue Kudos; Antec JAN What are the new government JUL Make Your Fest a Festival (tips Notebook Cooler; How I Found land mobile band plans? (VHF-lo, for a better hamfest) MT Express; Art Bell Fan; Used VHF-hi, UHF sub-bands) AUG Helping Those Who Helped Us SW Receiver needed FEB Recording freq with audio; Along; Book Review AUG Thanks for your Generosity; John scanners allowed at Nellis AFB? SEP Communications? or Musgrave's Adventures with the Why new signals suddenly Technology? ARRL Mini Bionic Ear heard? Hoe to monitor FSK or Logbook; the Poqet PC; Palm SEP Welcome to AM DX Season; PSK on scanner. Website to ID PDA; Asus EEEPC. Book review: Internet over Power Line ALE addresses? Will there be a ARRL Hands-On Radio interference; Spec Event Statioin; scanner for OpenSky systems? Experiments HDTV and correction; Antenna What service is on 5550 kHz OCT October Olio: The Last HOPE; Principles; SHAREing Wisdom USB? Road ID wristband; D-STAR OCT Spooks, Spies, and other MAR Problems programming BCT 8 for System Update; ARRL VHF Weirdos; What's happening in 800 MHz Type II; Corpus Christi Digital Handbook CB?: Those for whom internet is signal on 408.325 MHz; Aviation NOV Back to The Mode not an option reference to "crossing Magic"? DEC Simple Gifts OCT Make 'em Laugh: humor MAY The Changing Scanner OUTER LIMITS programming from BBC, Canada, Landscape: New York; JAN Weiner Clarifies Stance on US, and global Montgomery County TX; Pirates; NY Pirate holiday; NOV A Zeal for New Zealand Longview TX; Clarksville TN; Clandestine in English; Indians DEC Sun, Fun, and a Tropical Dayton Hamvention and Yankees Christmas: interview with RNZ's JUN Scanner Mismatches: FEB East St Louis Toodle-oo; ACE Phil O'Brien; Christmas in Asia; in Connecticut; Florida; West Bend clarifies new web site; 1181 kHz Caribbean; BBC, Canada, WI carrier; Belfast zip code Europe and Americas; New JUL The Pros and Cons of Older MAR Pirate Busts Hit All-Time High; Years Celwebrations Scanners. Ontario Canada; Ohio; two non-FM FCC actions Listening to more than public APR Voice of the Voyager, a Pirate QSL REPORT safety;Nassau Co NY Radio Pioneer; FM Pirate Bust; JAN The Future of QSLing (e- AUG Open and Closed Mode Laryngitis Web Site; 1181 kHz methods) Scanning, Control Channel Only; Carrier; Another Odd Signal; FEB It's About Time - QSLing Time & Pinellas Co FL; Virginia Colin Dixon Passes Freq Stations SEP Is it Time for a Change? Bearcat MAY Massive Pirate Radio Bust; Odd MAR Transmitter Chasing BC-92XLT; University of South Pacific Signal; Voice of APR Staying Current with QSLing Missouri; Columbia MO; Mojahed; Omaha FM Pirate; Int'l Trends Alabama; Opelika AL; Lawton OK Radio Report; Family Radio MAY Summit DXing for the Mountain OCT National Emergency Relay? On the Shortwaves Goats and Sloths; Islands on the Communications Plan. Wash Co website Air; ARRL Logbook of the World MD; Jefferson Co WV; Marin Co JUN Pirates Week Podcast from JUN New Cards in Queue CA Ragnar Radio. Pirat Radio Film; JUL Hot July QSLing (logs only) NOV No Free Ride with ESK? EDACS Barretina Website; FCC Cancels AUG The Lure of the Lonely Security; ESK Capable $10,000 Fine; BLANDX Updated Lighthouse Scanners. GRE and Uniden JUL Strom Gets 23 Months in Prison SEP Twenty Years and Counting Updates. Private Network B AUG Atlanta Braves Baseball on Pirate OCT Prime Listening in October ootlegging. APCO Scanning; St Radio Stations; Pirate NOV A country List that Works! Louis P25 System. Transmitter Web Site; Radio DEC Holiday Listening - Reference DEC York County and P-25 Standards; Barretina Closes; Retirements; Books Coast Guard and P-25; New Clandestine Radio Watch York; Monitoring Wildlife SEP Commentary on Pirate Flame RADIO RESTORATIONS War JAN The BC-348 Begins to Talk UTILITY WORLD OCT Pirate Flame War Subsides; FEB The BC-348 Awakens - Sort of JAN Tugs to Teleprinting: 21st Insinger wins contest; Jamming; MAR Aligning the BC-348 Century Maritime Radio - Halloween; FM Pirates APR Finishing Touches for the BC- Crowley Maritime, 500 kHz NOV Pirate DX Season Returns; 348; From the Readers; A Morse, KKL Chinese Pirate!; Brooklyn Pirate Remarkable Video FEB No HF Changes at 2007 Radio Fined; WBCQ Covers Pirates; MAY The BC-221 Frequency Meter - Conference (4-10 MHz decisions; Chavez Shuts Down "Pirates" Our New Restoration Project maritime services; other new DEC Pirate Cat Radio; Antenna JUN Reading the BC-221 Frequency amateur bands); Winter is pirates; holiday pirate DXing; Dials Beacon Time! pirate web sites JUL Power for the BC-221 MAR Get Ready for Solar Cycle 24! AUG Firing Up the BC-221 Cuban RDFT is Back PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT SEP BR-221 Project: It's a Wrap APR Acarsd: Tracking Aircraft with JAN Russia: A Re-emerging Super OCT 1929 Breadboard Transmitters: 4 HFDL Power typical circuits MAY US Coast Guard Continues HF FEB Canada, Eh? NOV Restoring a 1957 Novice Weather MAR A Trip to Germany, Austria, and Transmitter (WRL Globe Scout JUN USCG Information Schedule; Switzerland 680) Good-bye USCG Telex; Hello APR All that Jazz: Poland, Germany, DEC First Look at the Globe Scout 680 eLoran; New US military Contract Russia, Australia, United JUL CAPS: Fly through the Kingdom, China, Canada, United SCANNING REPORT Ionosphere with Me. Cuban Statesw, Cuba. Update on JAN Resolve to Scan Something New. numbers thunder in the morning; Language Lessons. Rushville IL; Illinois StarCom21; Is Cycle 24 a Dud? MAY Science in the Spotlight: CBC, Illinois state police; additional IL AUG Everything You Wanted to Know Radio Australia, DW, Radio resources; BC245XLT; Scanner about Cuban "Numbers" Netherlands, Radio New programming and control; Atlanta SEP E10: Spooky Letters from Israel; Zealand, Voice of Russia, GA PLC Trouble Ahead? BBCWS, Various FEB Scanning in Wisconsin: Racine, OCT North Atlantic Air Route JUN Small Nations, Booming Voices: Muskego, Waukesha Co; Communications, Oceanic Air Radio Prague, Radio Sweden Trunking Types; Radio Communications Intl, Radio New Zealand Intl; Frequency Lists; Bearcat NOV Power Line Networking Battle Genealogy on your Radio; Voice BC796D; Mower Co MN Continues, Limited Protection for of Russia, "Me and My Family" MAR Radio Scanning, Limited. Salem Listeners, US Listeners be JUL Sounds from "Downunder" - OR police scanning (freqs and Prepared Radio Australia and domestics equip); Peoria Co IL chooses DEC East Pacific Aeronautical HF; AUG Rock and Roll Music: Old Time OpenSky system; PA, NY, Pacific VOLMET R&R; More than Just Oldies Oakland Co MI OpenSky SEP Vote Early, Vote Often! (election systems WHAT'S NEW coverage and politics around the APR How to be a Frequency Sleuth: world) Clovis CA; Jasper IN; Dakota Co Books, CDs MN; PRO-2055 scanner ARRL Handbook Jan ARRL HAndbook 2009 Dec ARRL Hands-on Radio Experiments May ARRL HF Digital Handbook Feb ARRL Instructor's Manual May ARRL Low Power Comms Jan ARRL Repeater Directory Oct ARRL VHF Digital Handbook May DSWCI Domestic BC Survey Jul International Callsign Handbook Oct Int'l Callsign Handbook (review) Dec Klingenfuss Radio Data Code Man Aug Klingenfuss Shortwave Freq Guide Mar Klingenfuss Super Freq List on CD Mar NRC AM Radio Log Sep Passport to World Band Radio Jan Pennsylvania Train Stations DVD Jan South Florida Frequency Guide Apr Starting Your Career in Broadcasting Feb The Great Radio Sitcoms Jun World Radio TV Handbook Mar Xtal Set Society newsletters Jan

Business news, Software ARRL National Exam weekends Feb DX Bulletin Reader 1.0 Oct Hamcalc Jun Hamcalc v101 Sep Logger 32 Aug MultiPSK 4.9 Aug Sunair/FlexRadio Agreement Feb

Equipment AOR Releases AR-Mini Handheld Nov Bearcat BC-95XLT Scanner Feb Icom IC-92AD VHF/UHF Tx Apr Icom IC-7200 HF+6m Tx Jul Sangean WFR-1 wifi radio Sep Uniden Updates Scanner Line-Up Nov Yaesu FT-950 HF/50 MHz Tx Feb Yaesu VX-8R HT Jul

Monitoring Times 2009 Index

FEATURES Propagation Outlook Apr-Sep Apr NOV Build Your Antenna Library and a Amateur Radio Stryker Brigade Comms Systems Jun VHF-UHF Antenna Watchful Eye on the Sky Apr Propagation Outlook Oct 09-Mar 10: DEC Tree Antennas for Christmas and NJ South Counties Emergency What will Sunsport Cycle 24 an All-Band HF Antenna Radio Network (D-Star) May Really do? Oct Ten Reason to Get Your License May Expert’s Guide to Buying an HF ASK BOB Amateur Radio: Lifetime Hobby May Transceiver Nov JAN How to find local broadcasters; Freq Coordination in Ham Service May MT’s Guide to Buying a Used calculate element lengths for Digital Software for the Digital Receiver Nov scanner antenna; why are whip Radio World May Expert’s Guide to Buying a Scanner antennas tapered? Jump starting Howard Hughes, Ham Radio Radio Nov a dead battery; blocking RFI from Operator Aug Radio Trends: A Look at What Top Radio neighbors' comms; will grounding Expert’s Guide to Buying an HF Manufacturers are Currently prevent static? Transceiver Nov Offering Nov FEB H-800 Skymatch with Eton E-1? The Expert’s Guide to Buying an What causes global warming? Broadcast Antenna Nov Did QEII receive a WWII Morse New Wave Shortwave via satellite Jan The Big World of Little Radios: Collecting code message intended for QE!? QSLing Brokered Broadcasts Feb Vintage Transistor Radios Dec Adapter for older radios which Turkish Delight Feb have 3 posts? International Radio Serbia Mar Utility MAR CFL bulb wattage equivalent; Radio Slovakia International Apr Monitoring the UHF Military Sats Jan rounded plug vs RF ground; South Pacific Adventure Jun Watchful Eye on the Sky Apr erratic scale readings; converting My Big Fat Voice of Greece Digital Software for the Digital 5-tube AM rx to receive SW; can Website Aug Radio World May unblocked scanners decode HD Radio’s Long and Winding Meet the QSL Mistress – KSM Sep cellular signals? Can old TV Road Aug antennas be used for scanner Radio France International Sep AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months) reception? FEB The Disappearing Radio? Analog APR Repeat of March column. Due to Internet Audio Streaming TV not dead yet? FCC Notes; a layout error we repeated the My Big Fat Voice of Greece Canadian notes; Mexican notes; March column. We apologize for Website Aug Callsign weirdness; Shipboard this error. Grace: A Life-Changing (Internet) DX MAY Hazard of the All American Five; Radio Aug APR Money and Radio; Analog TV: Legality of using a ham HT for Radio France International Sep maybe not dead yet? FCC notes; other services; Power and Canadian notes frequency limits of Grove Nostalgia/Human Interest JUN Ham Antennas and AM DX; Scanner Beam for transmit; Collins 51S-1 Receiver Jan Analog TV: maybe not dead yet? Receiver advantages of D-Day Jun FCC notes; Canadian notes; AM USB/LSB vs SSB; Protecting a Warbirds on Display Jul Bandscan Station Report multiband portable from EMP Grace: A Life-Changing (Internet) AUG And now a word from your local JUN HT Antennas for NOAA weather Radio Aug station . . .; HD Radio notes; reception; Does the FCC bust Howard Hughes, Ham Radio Analog TV: dead, I think; CBers with linear amps; How to Operator Aug Canadian notes improve an antenna for HDTV The True History of Morse Code Sep OCT “Translating” AM and FM; Analog reception; Thermal switches in In the Right Place at the Right Time – TV: Dead; Canadian Notes; AM Uniden scanner battery packs; Bob Heil, K9EID Oct Bandscan Station Report. Spy number station harmonics in The Enduring Amelia Earhart Mystery: DEC Tough Times for “Community” Europe on VHF low band; Could Unidentified Radio Signals Radio; Another Military AM Test; Receiving earth signals on the Provide New Clues? Oct New AM Radio Log; Analog TV: moon; What does Roger Wilco Living the Dream: One ham’s effort to Dead. But what about audio?; mean? update the tradition of kit building Canadian Notes; Letters JUL Aircraft engine bird protection; with a digital twist Oct Difference between dBd and dBi; The Big World of Little Radios: Collecting ANTENNA TOPICS Length of a Beverage antenna; Vintage Transistor Radios Dec JAN Impedance Matching for Which scanner to use for Air Raid on Pearl Harbor: December 7, Antennas and Feed Lines airshows; GRE 3001 VHF 1942 as reported by radio FEB Antennas which neither preamp overload solutions; AC Communicate nor Broadcast vs DC and can I roll my own DC Scanning MAR The Many Faces of a Dipole AUG Alternative energy sources; The Air Show Experience Mar APR It's a wonder they work at all! Jacob’s ladder (climbing spark California's Central Valley Mar (antenna problems and solutions) generator); Tuner help shortwave Military Operating Areas Jul MAY Antennas for the Radio Amateur reception; How do I know if my Scanning St. Louis, MO Jul JUN Antennas, Accidents, and coax is shorted; Are yellow Warbirds on Display Jul Astronomy fluorescent lamps still made? Expert’s Guide to Buying a Scanner JUL Something very different in SEP Radio with Digital TV audio Radio Nov Antennas (small antennas) capability; What does the RG- AUG Antennas and Resistors 174/U coax letters mean?; Technical SEP How to Deal with Received Noise Monitoring telephone calls by the The OBBD Doublet Antenna Feb OCT A Noise that Improves Antenna government; How digital will Bugging Blagojevich Feb Performance effect shortwave listening; How to Computer Security Apr MT 2009 Index test stereo speakers; GRE PSR- DX; The world of Detecting Satellite Now Trash; 500 narrowband filter. communications is changing Sirius/XM Saga: Last Second OCT Battery chargers; Hearing AUG PLANES: Handoffs and Reprieve; DTV Switch Lurching lightning strikes; Neutral and Simulcasting Ahead; Tallest Broadcast Tower earth ground voltage; Diversity SEP TRAINS: Amtrak Photo PolicyL Proposal; R.I.P. Muzak?; reception; Are all gases invisible? An editorial Incomplete Public Files? $7,200; NOV Atomic Clocks on 60 Hz; What OCT BOATS: Marine VHF Winter JUN Harris Corp to Buy M/A-Com; All- should I use for a noise Freeze-Up; Severe Weather; in-One Chip for DRM & HD; antenna?; How often should I Marine Radio Historical Society; ARRL Skeptical of Rural Internet replace my coax and should I Lighthouses. Proposal; LA Parish to rely on replace RG-6/U with LMR-400?; NOV PLANES: “Black Boxes” Cockpit Hams; DTV Conversion (Finally!); Electrical plug-in for outdoor Voice and Data Recorders Orange Co FL SWATs FM Pirate; antenna; Can I use a Slinky® for DEC TRAINS: Narrowband Railroad FCC Gives 1st Responders 4.9 an antenna?; Have emergency Channels; Dispatcher Districts; GHz; Brazilian Bootleggers communications all gone digital? Shared Views Chased off U.S. Milsats; FL DoT DEC Has alcohol replaced mercury in to Use CB for Emergency Info; thermometers?; How much COMMUNICATIONS U.S. Military to Track 800 voltage is in a static electricity JAN ARRL says Nix to DRM on 40; Satellites by October; Sirius to discharge?; Should I use City Forced to Buy BPL System; Augment its Signal; FM Pirate to dielectric grease or an anti- Kitty High Jinks on 40 Meters; FCC: “Not My Signal”; FM Station oxidant on my antenna Action on 600 Meters; DXpedition Loses in Contest with FCC; terminals?; How can I tell if my to Desecheo Island; Rolling Consumer Corner (recalls): RS hotel room has a wall peep Helicopter; CHP vs. Cell Phone Light Rocker switch, Insignia 26” hole?; How do you convince your Ops Revisited; Cell Phone Aids flat panel LCD TV sets, Best wife to let you buy an expensive Boat Rescue; KGO-AM Goes Buy’s Rocketfish portable power scanner?; Are there any DTV Solar; WorldSpace in Chapter 11; supply channels left on VHF? Great White (space) Hope JUL Navy-Marine Corps MARS to FEB 40 Meters, All Amateur All the Disestablish; HR2160 Seeks to BELOW 500 kHz Time; FCC Grants HF Renewals; Help Hams; Poll Rates BBG JAN Let's Get Digital: QRSS FCC OKs Experimental Stations. “Worst Place to Work”; CA FEB Mailbag & News: VLF on Your Scanner Listener Saves Child's Student/Hams Sweep Science PC; LWBC Catches; Best Life; Ohio Multi-Agency System Awards; Windsor Silences antenna?; WiNRADiO on LF Crashed; AM Info Channel Scanners; Cleveland’s Unending MAR Antenna Observations Debuts in Skokie; IBM to Sink Police Radio Quagmire; Boating APR RDFs Revisited Millions into BPL. US MilSat this Summer? Be Prepared; FCC MAY LORAN-C Going QRT Goes on the Blink; Nigerian to reform Am & FM License JUN Your Letters Addressed; Daytime Broadcast Satellite Defunct; Rules; HD Radio Lurches loggings $14,000 for No Fence. Broadcast Forward; the Hidden Dishes of JUL No Sunspots? No problem; Tips Radio's Worst Year since 1954; Cuba; Iran’s Space Woes; Just for better LW reception; LF Internet Radio Changes; Tweeter What Iridium Needs: Propagation Site; SAQ 17.2 kHz Leads Circuit City to Oblivion; Competition; XM Board Smells Schedule; Mailbag Broadcast Related Businesses the Coffee; FCC: WDTI-TV, AUG Summer Survival on LW; Plummet. Where are You? Mailbag; Loggings MAR BBC and DW launch MW DRM; AUG U.S. Couple Charges with Spying SEP LF Receiving Antennas, Part 1; Shrinking Ionosphere; 2008 for Cuba; DRM Portable Loggings Sunspot Flop; Ham Antenna Available; The “Don’t Blink” Solar OCT Underground VLF and Victory; Boston Police Radio; Cycle; GAO/GPS Report Causes Uncovering Noise; 500 kHz Cleveland System Down (again); Media Panic; Is Your Cell Phone Experimental License; Deep High-Tech Knuckleheads.; Spying on You?; Appeals Court Down VLF; Unplugging from the Disgruntled WRIU-FM Listeners; Backs LPFM Community; AT7T Grid, New Book: Demystifying DTV Shambles; The Launches CruiseCast; Rural Radio Frequency Interference; Unemployment Channel; Down- BroadbandL FCC Priority; Smith Loggings. sized CES; Toys 'R' Us Radio Cracks Down on Bootleggers; NOV LF Receiving Antennas, Part 2; Recall. “Destitute” AM Station Fined by Loggings APR Hams Aid Storm Victims; FCC FCC; Consumer Corner: Circuit DEC Through-Ground Radio; SAQ Names Hollingsworth City Rises from Grave, Fluke Broadcast, Dec 24th Replacement; Vatican Radio in Digital Clamp Meters Recalled Local Health Flap; ARRL Seeks SEP Two New HF Stations Granted, BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS to Mold Legislation; DTV Switch WX4NHC’s Amateur Radio Test, JAN BOATS: Cold Weather and Hot Delayed: It’s On, It’s Off, It’s 15 Year-old YL Top Texter, DX! Tuning in 2182; MultiPSK; Both!; OpenSky Woes in Ulysses Shut Down After 18+ Around the Bands; Going Digital; Milwaukee; Glitches Plague Years, DHS Nixes Domestic Boats for Beginners Aging Cleveland Radio System; Spying Program, Sea Launch FEB PLANES: AirNav.com - A NOAA-19 in orbit; Tales from the Bankrupt, Satellite/Cable Bills Resource for Aircraft Listeners Monopoly Zone; Cable Buck Economy, DTV Switch No MAR TRAINS: Reception Range? It Companies Nationwide fined; L-P Pay-TV Payday, NYC Jazz Depends... College Station Flunks FCC Station to Draw One Million New APR BOATS: Radio on the Waves Exam; Radio Stations Win FCC Listeners, Midland Radio Fined MAY PLANES: DXing General Aviation Fines $21,000, GMRS License Fee vs UNICOM MAY ARRL: IBM’s BPL Plans OK; Fine. 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Military frequencies are MAY Let's Build Something Internet!; Internet Radio Bucks changing; Inter Squad radios; JUN The N2EI Power and Light the Trend; One Stream to Rule METRO freqs changing; DoD Company Them All; LAUNCHcast wins milair wideband freq changes; T- JUL First Contact; On the Ham Appeal; New WiFi Radios Hit the Bird VHF freq changes; DoD VHF Bookshelf Market LMR bands changing AUG Summer Solace; ARRL Triple DEC How Much is that Player in the FEB Coast Guard / COTHEN Comms Play; Have you walked your talkie Window?; Apple Goes FM; NPR Merger?; US Navy Logistics lately: Hope for the future; Releases its own WiFi Radio; Aircraft Change Callsigns; Some Speaking of Elecraft rigs . . .; The Senate panel okays royalty fees Air Force Callsigns Decoded ARRL Satellite Handbook MAR Airshow Demo Teams Airshow SEP Time to Amp Things Up, 6 Metre LETTERS Schedule 2009 Handbook review JAN Happy New Year; A Life-Long APR The US Military on HF OCT 10th Month – 10 Meters; The Hobby; Memories of Mort MAY Military Frequency Profile: Fort ARRL Repeater Directory, 38th WB2ZWI; On the Net; Finding Benning and Associated Camps; edition. 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APR Globe Scout: It's a Wrap UTILITY WORLD Equipment MAY An Entry-Level Ham Receiver of JAN Digital Utilities: The Absolute FLEX-3000 SDR May 1939 Beginner's Guide Grundig passive antenna May JUN “Extracting” the S-20R Chassis FEB British Numbers: Cherry Ripe is Icom IC-7600 transceiver May JUL Recapping the S-20R Alive! Keeping time; No NRD- JRC HF receivers gone May AUG August QSL Closeout 555? MFJ Purchases Cushcraft Amateur SEP The S-20R Finds Its Voice MAR Will there EVER be sunspots Radio Antennas Dec OCT The S-20R: It’s a Wrap again? 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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: California 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; Internet radio 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, Los Angeles, 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 Asia 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. Monitoring Times 2010 Index

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

Monitoring Times 2010 Index 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