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internalionaalRADIO LAANDEREN 11. iiIRAMMI Cuban Clandestines Radio International EDXC '93 SINPO Explainet Plus Regular Features Covering Airband, Scanning, Junior Listeners, SSB Utility Listening, Propagation, Amateur Bands, UNIVERSAL M-8000 Long, Medium & Short Waves, Satellite TV Reports, Weather DECODER REVIEW Satellites ... and more. ROBERTS R101 SORTABLE 9 -BAND RADIO REVIEWED 0 9 > 977 3 260 an A Continuous Coverage 100ICHlz - 1650MViz A 1000 Memory Channels A All Mode Reception (including SSB & CW) A High Scan Speed The MVT-7100 is a new handheld sensation with the widest ever frequency coverage! It's sensitive receiver provides effortless reception of SSB and CW using true carrier injection with 50Hz resolution. It can even be hooked up for fax w and data reception (with accessories). The MVT-7100 is a complete communications package in the palm of your hand. Accessories supplied: - Telescopic Antenna, NiCad Batteries, Car Connector, ytirlre17° UK Charger, Carrying Strap, Earphone, English Manual Price £449 ISM Available from your local dealer or direct from U.K. Distributors NEVADA COMMUNICATIONS 189 London Road, North End, Portsmouth, Hants P02 9AE. Tel: (0705) 662145 Fax: (0705) 690626 features VOL. 51 ISSUE 9 SEPTEMBER 1993 Roberts R101 9 -Band Portable Radio Lawrence Harris ON SALE AUGUST 26 10 (Next issue on sale September 23) Weighing Your Catch - SINPO EDITOR: Dick Ganderton, C. Eng., MIEE, G8VFH 13 Don Phillips ART EDITOR: Steve Hunt. Layouts: Richard Gale NEWS & FEATURES Elaine Richards G4LFM Crisis & Credibility at Radio Moscow G. D. Rawnsley BA. EDITORIAL 18 Arrowsmith Court, Station Approach, Broadstor:e, Dorset BH18 8PW EDXC 93 Vive Las Palmas! Tel: (0202) 659910 22George Wood FAX: (0202) 659950 A Visit to Swiss Radio International BOOK SERVICE, SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES ETC: Derek Jasnoch CREDIT CARD ORDERS: (0202)659930 25 (Out of hours service by answering machine) Short Wave Target: 23°N, 82°W ADVERTISEMENT DEPARTMENT 28Gerry L. Dexter ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER Roger Hall G4TNT Universal M-8000 Decoder Review TEL: 071-731 6222 Cellphone: (0850) 382666 FAX: 071-3841031 35 Mike Richards ADVERTISEMENT PRODUCTION (Broadstone) Optoelectronics Interceptor Review Lynn Smith-, (Sales) Ailsa Turbett (Production) 41 TEL: (0202) 659920 FAX: (02021659950 Errata. The Super -Regenerative 0 PW PUBLISHING LTD. 1993. 41 Receiver. July 1993 Copyright in all drawings, photographs and articles published in Short Wave Magazine is fully protected and reproduction or imitation in whole or in part is expressly forbidden. All reasonable precautions are taken by Short Wave Magazine to Do-it-yourself Chart Recorder Part 4 ensure that the advice and data given to our readers is reliable. Richard Noble We cannot however guarantee it and we cannot accept legal 4 responsibility for it. Prices are those current as we go to press. Short Wave Magazine is published monthly for C21(UK) or $45 (USA) per year by PW Publishing Ltd., Arrowsmith Court, The International Red Cross Station Approach, Broadstone, Dorset BH18 8PW. Second class postage paid at Middlesex, NJ. Postmaster. Send USA address 45Broadcasting Service changes to Short Wave Magazine, c/o Permit to post at Hackensack pending. The USPS (United States Postal Service) Dick Moon number for Short Wave Magazine is: 006696. pw publishingltd. Cover: regulars Our theme this month is radio stations. Many cc; broadcast stations are 59 Airband 70 Long, Medium & Short located in exotic places (DERADIO STATIONS 57 Amateur Bands Round -up 6 News - here the Andean volcanoes act as a Callon Clandostlress 54 Bandscan Australia 49 PCB Service cc; Swiss Radio International backdrop to HCJB's EDXC '93 SINPO Explained 80 Book Service 48 Propagation antennas at Quito, Ecuador. 68 Decode 4 Rallies 51 DXTV Round -up 50 Satellite TV News 4 Grassroots 61 Scanning 65 Info in Orbit 2 Services DISCLAIMER. Some of the products offered for sale in advertisements in this magazine 84 Index to Advertisers 56 SSB Utility Listening may have been obtained from abroad or from unauthorised sources. Short Wave 5 Junior Listener 83SWM Subscribers' Club Magazine advises readers contemplating mail order to enquire whether the products are suitable for use in the UK and have full after -sales back-up available. 2 Letters 76 Trading Post The Publishers of Short Wave Magazine wish to point out that it is the reponsibility of readers to ascertain the legality or otherwise of items offered for sale by advertisers in 16 Listen With Grandad 75 Maritime Beacons this magazine. TRADING POST SEPTEMBER 1993 good listening IF YOU HAVE ANY POINTS OF VIEW THAT YOU WANT TO AIR PLEASE WRITE TO THE Mystery Station EDITOR. IF YOUR LETTER IS PUBLISHED YOU WILL RECEIVE A £5 VOUCHER TO SPEND ON ANY SWM SERVICE Dear Sir letters In response to C. Prior's letter, the The Editor reserves the right to shorten any letters for station he heard was Radio Aum publication but will try not to alter their sense. Letters must be Shinrikyo, 381-1, Hitoana, Fujinomiya, SWM SERVICES original and not have been submitted to any other magazines. The views expressed in letters published in this magazine are not Shizuoka, 418-01, Japan. They have a necessarily those of Short Wave Magazine. relay via Radio Moscow and broadcast Subscriptions at 0530-0600 and 2130-2200 on Subscriptions are available at £22 per numerous frequencies. I have heard annum to UK addresses, £25 in Europe Airband Radio them clearly on 11.630 and 11.800MHz and £27 overseas. Subscription copies between 2130 and 2200. are despatched by Accelerated Dear Sir J. Pattison Surface Post outside Europe. Airmail I have been a keen airline enthusiast for a while and Bath rates for overseas subscriptions can each night for about an hour I scan the different ATC stations on my AOR AR-1500EX, with an indoor desk- be quoted on request. Joint Dear Sir top scanner antenna. The problem is I'm not allowed The unidentified Japanese station is subscriptions to both Short Wave to have an outdoor antenna, but that does not stop me. almost certainly Radio Aum Shinrikyo, Magazine and Practical Wireless are My hobby involves me scanning a different station a religious station broadcasting on available at £38 (UK) £42 (Europe) and each night for a month and logging down the airlines some of the transmitters of Radio £45 (rest of world). plus all the usual information. At the end of the month Moscow. I am currently logging it on I calculate the number of airlines received, plus how 15.220MHz from 0430-0500 and 2130- Components for SWM many times I have received the same airline. 22000TC (English language). At the Projects For example, for the month of June, the Top Ten end of each transmission a Radio In general all components used in airlines reported were: Moscow announcement is made and constructing SWMprojects are English language broadcasts of Radio available from a variety of component 1: British Airways 132 Moscow resume. suppliers. Where special, or difficult to 2: British Midland 61 I, too, find the voice of the female obtain, components are specified, a 3: UK Air 32 announcer difficult to understand. supplier will be quoted in the article. 4: Britannia Airways 31 Gerry Haynes 5: 28 The printed circuit boards for SWM Air France Bushey Heath 6: Air 2000 21 projects are available from the SWM 7: Aer Lingus 17 PCB Service, Badger Boards, 87 8: Lufthansa 14 Callsigns Blackberry Lane, Four Oaks, Sutton 9: Shuttle 13 Coldfield B74 4JF. Tel: 021-353 9326. 10: SAS 12 Dear Sir May I thank you for the timely delivery of Back Numbers and The number of planes that I logged was 608, and a your excellent magazine, which arrived Binders total of 67 different airlines. this morning. On turning to the Letters Limited stocks of most issues of SWM Paul M Fineman page, I could not believe what I was for the past five years are available at Kent reading from your contributor W.E. Moore, £2.00 each including P&P to addresses West Yorks. at home and overseas (by surface Dear Sir What a lot of irrelevant waffle! It surely mail). I was very interested to read the letter from Mike Wynn did not merit inclusion. Radio stations can Binders, each taking one volume in the July SWM, concerning the Future Air Navigation call themselves what they want in this country, so long as the title is decent and are available for £5.50 plus £1 P&P for System and possible demise of the h.f. airband. FANS was the subject of an excellent article by the Radio Authority does not object. one binder, £2 P&P for two or more, Charles Tyler in the March issue of Geographical Obviously two stations in the United UK or overseas. Please state the year magazine, which indeed states that h.f. is to be States could not be licensed with the same and volume number for which the completely phased out from aircraft communications. call letters, there could not be two WACSs. binder is required. Prices include VAT Not only that, but the use of Automatic Dependant The USA is administered by the FCC. This where appropriate. Surveillance is intended to reduce the need for pilots country (the UK) is administered by the Orders for back numbers, binders to communicate directly with ground stations, since Radio Authority and they would not and items from our Book Service virtually all navigational information will be processed licence a station that used an illegal should be sent to: PW Publishing Ltd., automatically. I, for one, feel that even if equipment to name. FREEPOST, Post Sales Department, monitor such traffic became available, not being able Any station in this country would, Arrowsmith Court, Station Approach, to actually 'listen' to aircraft going oceanic would be a granted, be foolish to use a name already Broadstone Dorset BH18 8PW, with very poor substitute for the present situation.