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.