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Monitoring Times 2000 INDEX 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
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