SCANNERS The Urban DX’er SHORTWAVE Vol. 2 No.10 Established 1984 October 28, 1998 UPCOMING BCB DX TESTS! Monday, November 16, 1998 - WODI-1230, Brookneal, Virginia will test at KTGG-1540, Spring Arbor, MI will conduct a CPC 0200 Eastern Time for an unspecified period with test Monday, October 26, 1998 between 12:30 and 1000 Hz tones, Morse 1:30 AM Eastern Time. The test will be comprised of code IDs, and . Cajun fiddle music. music, in the forms of marches, classical, and Christian contemporary, plus Morse code IDs. Reports may be sent to: KTGG will be using 470 watts non-directional. Mr. Dave Marthouse, President/GM (N2AAM) During the WODI test, phone calls will be accepted at 800-750-9723 . 1230 Radio Road BUT, QSLs will only be issued following a written Brookneal, VA 24528-3141 report. E-Mail reports may be sent to (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) [email protected] KQTY - 1490, Borger, Texas will test on Monday, Reception reports may be sent to: November 23, 1998 AND Monday, November 30, Mr. Lewis Munn 1998. Code IDs will accompany their normal KTGG-AM top-of-the-hour station ID at their allocated network Spring Arbor College ID breaks at 59:46 past the hour from 0159:46 to 106 East Main 0559:46 Eastern Time on both dates. KQTY is an Spring Arbor, MI 49283 SMN/Real Country affiliate. They will be using their (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) normal 1000 watt non-directional signal. Borger is located 61 miles northeast of Amarillo in the Texas Monday, November 2, 1998 - KLER-1300, Orofino, Panhandle. ID will conduct DX tests between 0300 and 0315 ELT. The test will be comprised of tones and Morse Reception reports should be sent to: Code IDs. They will be using 5 kW non-directional. KQTY DX Reception Reception reports (tapes preferred) may be sent to: Mr. George Grover, Station Manager PO Box 165 Mr. Jeff Jones Borger, TX 79008-0165 Owner (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) KLER-AM P.O. Box 32 Monday, November 30, 1998 - KNZZ-1100 Grand Orofino, ID 83544-0032 Junction, Colorado will ID with voice and code IDs (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) from 0200 to 0400 Eastern Time on Monday. They will using 50 kw non-directional (correct). Monday, November 9, 1998 - KHTK-1140 Sacramento, CA will ID with voice and code IDs on Reports can be sent to: the hour, every hour from 0300 to 0800 Eastern Mr. Dwight Morgan. Chief Engineer Time. KNZZ-AM 1360 E. Sherwood Dr. Reports can be sent to: Grand Junction, CO 81501-7546 Mr. Matt Greer, Asst. Chief Eng. (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) KHTK-AM 5244 Madison Avenue Monday, November 30, 1998 - KEYZ-660, Sacramento, CA 95841-3004 Williston, ND will conduct tests at various intervals (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) from 0105 to 0130 and prior to the news at :00 from 0200 and 0600 ELT. The test will consist of POctober 28 1998 The Urban DX’er 1000 Hz tones of about 30 seconds duration along SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 8 (UPI) Federal with Morse Code IDs during the 0105 to 0130 authorities have seized the equipment of an period, commencing after ABC Network News and unlicenced radio station that interfered with local news, and the code ID at the top of the hour traffic control at Sacramento (Calif.) Executive preceding ABC News from 0200 to 0600 ELT. Airport. U.S. Attorney Paul Seave said today the Their format is C&W music. KEYZ will be on their Federal Communications Commission shut down nighttime directional pattern sending 26,895 watts the operation of Diallo Castille, who was ERP toward 018 degrees True. Reception reports transmitting interfering radio signals on four may be sent to: different FM frequencies. He says investigators warned Castille at the office of Dollars and Sense Mr. Earl R. Gross, WD0APE Productions last Chief Engineer March, but he resumed broadcasting his informal KEYZ-AM talk 410 6th Street East show format after briefly staying off the air. Williston, ND 58801-5552 (Arranged by Bill Hale for the NRC CPC.) The FCC and U.S. marshals responded by seizing his equipment in May, and a federal court declared Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me it had been forfeited to the government this week in know, via e-mail or the the newsgroup! And, if you a civil judgment against Castille, who didn't contest send a reception report to a station, please the penalty. remember to include return postage with your report... The investigation was provoked by complaints that a radio signal was interfering with communications <ELT = Eastern Listening Time, i.e. the local time in on an aircraft's traffic control channel as it flew over the Eastern time zone). Please remember, what's Napa. listed as being on, say, Monday “may” be what you think of as Sunday night!> Later, Federal Aviation Administration radio operators at Sacramento Executive Airport also KCJJ SIGNS ON reported similar interference on several channels. On October13, 1560 KCJJ will sign off for good sometime after 2PM central. On Wednesday the Seave says unlicenced radio transmissions are 14th they will sign on prior to 6:00 a.m. on 1630 khz, particularly hazardous to flight operations because this per Station Manager "Captain" Steve Bridges. the FM band is close to frequencies used for aviation communications and navigation. - 1998 In a phone call today to KCJJ, they have been UPI. testing and have been reported all over the US. Strong reports from Arizona. They are going to sign JR2's SCANNER PAGE on with 1630 KHZ at 0100 EDT 10/14 with the new http://mars.superlink.net/~jcr1434/scanner/index.ht TX ml Here’s another interesting page that offers a NJ SCANNING HUNTERDON COUNTY statewide database sorted by each county. In http://www.eclipse.net/~belcaks/ addition, numerous links to scanner related URL’s If you’re into scanning NJ’s Hunterdon County you are also provided. may want to check out this page hosted by Steve, K3WKM. Steve is a very good friend and co-worker THE “BELL” TOLLS NO MORE! of mine who shares our enthusiasm for the radio PAHRUMP, NV <home of the famous Chicken scanning hobby. Steve’s page is also a mirror site Ranch> - Art Bell, an overnight radio host with a for our newsletter, The Urban DX’er. Like my home following among insomniacs, UFO enthusiasts and page, Steve posts the latest issue each month for conspiracy theorists, quit on Tuesday, citing what instant on line access. While visiting, drop Steve a he described only as "a threatening, terrible event" line and let him know you found his page via the that occurred to his family. "What you are listening newsletter! to is my final broadcast," Bell told listeners of "Coast to Coast" before signing off at about 3 a.m. FCC HITS ANOTHER PIRATE POctober 28 1998 The Urban DX’er Bell, whose program was said to attract some 15 the object was actually a star whose image was million listeners on more than 400 stations distorted by the astronomer's telescope. nationwide, making it America country's most popular overnight radio show, produced his Rumors continued for weeks, fostered by debate on broadcasts from his Pahrump home. His telephone the Internet and publicity on Bell's program. was disconnected Tuesday and he couldn't be reached. Then, in March 1997, 39 people in the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide about the time the Sheriff's Lt. Bill Becht said officers were sent to comet was closest to Earth. They left a message Bell's home upon learning of the broadcast. They saying that the comet heralded the arrival of a found him there, with no evidence of foul play. spacecraft that would "take us home" to a higher plane of existence. "Any threats were not criminal in nature," Becht said. Bell said he was saddened by the suicides but During his final show, Bell, 51, said, "A threatening, never heard of the cult and bore no responsibility terrible event occurred to my family, which I could for the deaths. .....By The Associated Press not tell you about. Because of that event and a succession of other events, what you're listening to RADIO MOUNTING MADE EASY right now is my final broadcast." http://www.panavise.com/comm/indash/indash.html Jacor Communications Inc., the Covington, Ky.-based radio giant that distributes Bell's show, ANTENNEX referred calls to its Los Angeles syndication arm, http://www.antennex.com/ Premiere Radio Network. Do you like to tinker with antennas? Are you looking for some new / different / exotic type of antenna to "We will be playing 'best-of' shows until further address a specific application? If you can answer notice until we find out what's going on," Premiere yes to any of the above than you owe it to yourself spokeswoman Mir Hendrickson said. to check out this page. There’s a lot of info so take your time and go through all the links and antenna Jacor also distributes shows by such personalities as designs. This is a definite addition for your Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Last “favorites” list! week, Cincinnati-based Clear Channel Communications announced it was taking over Jacor DEA UPDATES in a $3.4 billion deal. DEA HIDTA Project (High Intensity Drug Traffic Area) Typical call-in contributors to Bell's show included people who claimed to be kidnaped by space aliens, Output Input Channel had a theory on cattle mutilations or thought the CIA - ------- ---------- ------------------ was following them.