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STATIC FROM HQ If you haven't noticed, our favorite publication is larger than normal this time. After being off for a week, we thought we'd give you something to keep you busy. Thanks to all who contributed. And, would you believe we still have at least 20 pages on hold!

Unless something comes in after our normal deadline, we have gone from feast to famine in the CPC test department. Keep sending those letters and maybe we'll still have a few tests to close out the season with. Chuck Hutton asked that we give a report of TRF purchases and shipments, so here goes: Shipped - Mountain, Nowak, Ponder, Doherty, Eisentraeger (order #1), Arvin, Freed, Adamson, Legler, Tuthill, Reed, Sampson, Stilwell, Hagan, Smith, Paulsen, Cave, Satterthwaite, Wong, Yentema, Cantrell, Whittier, Greenlee, Monroe, Madzelonka, Nitshe, Lamb, Leamy, Mcintire, Snow, Bennison, Quaglieri, Wurtzel, Dimmick, Shiels, Foltz, Sluka, Gray, Recco, Valdron, Griffiths, Hahn, Messenger and Bedoya. To ship mid-April at latest: Eisentraeger (order #2), Taylor, Allen, Kazaross, Lou Ferrigno .. out of filters because Radio West is sold out ... will ship when filters arrive. Also, Chuck has three and only three TRF's left on a first come/first serve basis. His address is at the top of his column inside and additional info on the price, etc. is found in past issues of this fine rag ..... The Three Mile Island DX Assn. (no foolin') asked us to pass on the follow­ing: The First Annual Pennsylvania DX Get Together will be held Sunday, June 15, 1980 at the picnic grounds at Penn State, State College, PA. All DXers and SWLs and Radio hobbyists are welcome, regardless of residence and area of interest. For more information send a SASE to Don Moore/Box 157, R.D. #5/Bellefonte, PA/1682J. In order to avoid any additional problems, we include the balance of the DX News schedule which appeared in the November 26 DXN on page 191 April 7 - #22 May 26 - #25 July 14 #28

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April 21 - #2J June 16 #26 August 11 May 12 - #24 June JO - #27 August 25 Deadlines in Louisville are 10 days prior September

September 8 - #Jl 22 - #J2

///////NOTE//////////NOTE//////////NOTE//////////NOTE////////NOTE///////// A slip up between ERG and us resulted in listing tne wrong date for Dave Yocis's turn at Musings. Not only that but the two-word-city Musings dead­line is also changed. The correct date for Dave's column is M-a-y 12. Send your Musings to Dave at 502 West McDonel, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824 Important .... important .... important ... Dave's deadline is: APRIL 28. The two-word-city Musings deadline is now Monday, April 7 in Provincetown.

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LOOK INSIDE DDXD .• , .................. , .•...... 2 IDXD ....................... ,, ..... 8 Selectivity Modifications--TRF .... 20 Zonal Analysis Approach to

Pan American DX .......•....... 21 Graveyard DX Achievements .....•... 25 International DX Achievements •.... 29 Broadcasting in Germany ........... JO Humpler 4NK8 Receiver Review ...... J7 Strong Signal Handling ............ 40

Verie Signers ..................... 45 Musings of the Folks .............. 46 Good Mews ......................... 58 A-Musing Members .................. 60 April Fuel .....•.........• , ......• 61 LPG Resignation Statement •.......• 65

Happy EASTER from the Bunch in LOU-AH-YUL!!!!

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We ' ve got alot of info this week , thanks to all who sent their items in. ~hen sending tips , please keep your info to one side of the paper, t yped o r written, ELT. etc . Here we go:

DX TESTS

WMLP - Not Heard by DS-DE. KMNS - No t heard by DS- DE . WKSI - Heard by SRS-IN, TT only ERC-!'U , DS - DE . WJAZ - Heard by WPT-DC, TT only DS- DE, Not heard RA-MA. WliOM - Heard by SRS-IN, JF-ON. '::J':TL - Heard by SRS-IN, MF- MI. WNJR • Heal'li by RA-MA, WPT-DC. Didn't try-DS-DE . YGIG - Not heard by RA-MA, MF-MI. Didn't know DS-DE!

1-4-7-10 only?)

IDCIA 1110 W'l'RH IH Sal-~ Still noted off the air 3/4 (SM•MA ) f260 WW01t FI. Miami, New address per v/l : 2741 N. 29th Ave.,

Hollywood, FL 33020, (RA- MA)

llON MUSCO pho nes in the info that the new stations f o r Greenfield , Mass. (1520J,. Vernon , Conn,{1170). and Richfield, Conn . (850) are still not yet on the air. I understand the Greenfield station is having problems findin& a transmitter site.

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FROST.BURG - 3/ 6 1245 no ted· at v e ry good level w/ C':! mx w/ WFIL null~d. (DS-DE) ' DULUTH - 3/8 1850 very strong w/Top 40 , new. (J:a-NY) SPRINGFIELD - 2 /27 21 2 9 Female DJ w/C':! mx, ID . (GM-TX) TYLER - 2 / 27 1930 noted w/Top 40, ID . (GM-TX) "I INSTON-SALEM - 3/2 2 106 on top w/snow c ancellations due t o bad storm , rather rare here. (JB-NY) (EB-PA) KA'.lSAS CITY- 2/3 2203 C'·; mx, ID, many mentions of KC u/'·!J.P , MIA'.llI - 2 / 2 1 2300 ID w/•some place for sports," theJl.. of teams aired on s t a tion. ( EB-PA) SCRA:<TOll - 3/2 1730 r a ther weak w/nx. (JB-NY ) TI:~MON~ - 2 /23 2253 fair in CFTR null w/rP,, ID CrtARLESTON - 3/8 1822 fair in CFTR null w/ n:1, jing le . (J .d- !IY ) I f'O" ,.,,.lllL..' :>!OBIL.t: - 2 / 20 1935 noted w ID u " n• "~' LMARILLO - 2 / 20 19~0 noted w/market

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. 0 DAUPHI N - 3 / 9 2 147 Dep t . of Hi ghways ex rpt . , ID then into Gordon Lightfoot son g . Goo d signa l . \MK-MI) CHESTER - 3 /9 171 5 covering CBL w/religion , rare here (JWB), 3 /9 1750 very loud in CBL null w/mx & promo "Insights for Living ." S/off w/"ring i ng of the bells in the o l d court ­house", 11,663 day of b'casting . First time on RS . (JS- OH) HUNT I NGTON - 3/9 1801 s /off right after WVCH, no SSB (JS-OH) NE~IPORT - 3 /9 1802 - 1820+ jazz right after WGS M s / off (JS-OH) MT . AIRY - 3/9 1805-1 815 o/u WNO P w/nx . \JS- OH) TEXARKANA - 2 / 27 1940 w/CW mx , a top freq·. at LSS . (GM- TX) HOUS TO N - 2 / 27 1944 w/ s pots for Houston & Apo l los, ID (GM-TX) s . MI AMI - · 2 / 9 18 14 Xlnt signal w/local baseball , gone a t pattern cha nge . (EB- PA) JOHNSON CI TY - 2 / 23 1806 ·spot f or loca l group , jx, .. good (EB) CREWE - 3/12 1805 noted w/l ocal bank spot, nx , insuranc e compa ny in Victoria s pot. Go od. (EB- PA) MIL;·/AUKEE ~ 2/28 1738 fair w/soul mx , I D "Radio 86 , WNOV" (SRS ) ITHACA - 3/8 1651 r arel y he.a rd here , noted w/MOR/ BFL mx . Usua lly nothing but '.•ICBS- 880 s plash here (GW- PA) MIL':/AUKEE - 3/2 1836 go od w/promo for Easter Seal s Dance (JB) BURL I NGTON - 3/12 1830 Xlnt w/ s /off, no SSB.' (EB-PA)

· FAI RMONT - 3 /1 2 183 1 XLNT w/wx , many mentions of Marion county and Community College ·BKJ3 team. ( EB-PA) HUNTINGTON - 2 / 3 22 15 many ID' s , Top 40 mx, o / jumble . (EB- PA) HOUSTON - 2 / 20 18 15- 1830 noted w/Pop mx , loud. (EM-FL) FAYETTEVILLE - 3/9 1710-1730 + noted w/ T.exas / NC .BKB w/local

· ~GaP nul l ed . (JS- OH) . VH ENTUIE - 1/26 1820 fafr in partial C:3M null w/loc a l b ank spot . (JF- ON) . . . SHELL 'LAKE - 1 /26 17 46 good w/ s / off by fe a ml e, mention of ';.' GOM- FM . (JF- ON ) .. FORREST . CITY - 2/24 18 35 ·act for local Holiday Inn , then loca l rrx . ( E3- PAJ · · · PRESTONJ3URG - 3/ 12 1845 good 0/1.\FIR w/ s / off w/mention of FH on 105 . 5 (EB- PA) ROANOKE - 2 / 21 2235 noted w/promo & ID (EM-FL) ROGERS '.:HY - 3 / 2 1837- 18 45 very s trong til s/off w/no SSB , my 1000th s t a tion , little slop from local ·v/BBF- 950 (.TB-NY) MADISON - 3 / 2 1850-1 900 w/ 11 Great Decisions" program, then s /off , o/u WMAY. {NZ-NE) . Should send a v/f , Neil. (DS) LOUI SVILLE - 2 / 27·1952 "97 \'la ve" · ID , wx , po p mx . (GM-TX) , 2 /20 2249 Top 40 mx , ID, local 11'FLA nulled. ( EM-FL ) ':I ASHINGTO N - 2 / 2 1 22 46 t a lk show in progress, ID (EM-FL) MEMPHIS - 2 /1 3 1830 ad for t a x s ervice , "Wam Public Se rvi c e " then PSA·. ( EB- PA) ' SOME RSET - 3 / 8 18 14 1s t time w/s /off, FM mention (GW- PA) ALTAVI STA - -3 /1 2 18 18 many mentions of Altavista , ID then talk. (EB-PA) .. HUNTSVILLE - 2 /11 175 1 spo t for local home center & bowling a lley then faded . ( EB-PA) " PEORIA - 3 / 9 185 9 s /off read over " Amazing Grace", s emi-local KDKA nulled . (JS- OH) -' . .· ·· CARBONDALE - 3 / 9 1900 s /off right after \·/PEO, no SSB (JS- OH) STEVENS POINT - 1/26 164 5- 1700 fair o/u CFRB w/l ocal spots , CW mx, UPI nx . (JF- ON)-· . NEY/ PORT - 1/22 1745 s /off weak u/KYW. (JF-ONJ (JB-NY) McCLEANSBORo · - 3 / 3 18 19 in w/ "Salute to · the Ameri c an Farmer" PONTIAC - 3 / 3 1820 in bri·efly w/ good ex to Ill. \J:S:-NY) HUNTINGTON - 3/9 164 5-1700 first time here, in well w/WEEP nulled. (JS-OH) · . BERLIN - 1/25 1745 good w/CKKW w/CW mx to quick s/off . \JF) WAUPUN.:. 2 / 29 182 1-'1 829 w/salesmans' job for WLKE spo t ; CW mx , promo for " SE- ':.' IS C. offica l wx r a dar warning station" (NZ) MARATHON - 2 / 6 2 11 0- 22 00 atop w/aurora ex, SS t a lk, s/off w/Yankee Doodle . (GM- MD) SAGINAW - 3/7 1833 Top 40 mx, ID, o/u \•iCAU . (WPT- DC) FERUS FALLS - 1/17 1742 weak o/u mess w/CW mx , l ocal spots . Verie mentions CP i s on. (JF- ON) I ND I ANAPO LIS - 3 / 8 22 03 nx, I D, time check by mal e annc'r, fair s i gnal. \ '.~ PT- MD ) CHRI STIANSBURG - 3/16 1829 qui ck s/off noted w/no SSB , mention of " Ro ck in Stereo, V-1 05 ", their FM . (DS- DE) MAUSTON - 2/6 171 6 fair o/'·.' XYZ w/promo for EKE game to be a ired on '-:RJC- FM . (JF- ON) WYTHEVILLE - 3/16 1827 noted w/ Fox Uld ' s mx til s/off . Now on 2500 watt s . Loud . 0:-lAHA - 2 / 27 2 111 in mess w/To p 40 , ID.

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·no SSB. tEB-PA) BEAYER DAM - 1/23 1734 weak u/CKFH w/long wx then sx. _(JF-ON) POINTE CLAIRE - 1/24 1740 fair o/mess w/all nx, reports from other Canadian cities.. {JF-.ON) MALDEN - 2/16 1847 weak in mess w/s/o.ff, mention of Tri­Coun'ty B'c·asters. .(JF-ON) i'lARION - 2/16 1828 weak but al-one w/s/off. (JF-ON) '1/AUKES.HA -- 3/8 1855-1859 s trong at s/off, no SSB (JB-NY) BRYAN - 2 /2'7 1737 fair w/CW mx., antique show mention, w/~iKVI. -(SRS-IN) MAYVILLE - 2 /14 1820 .strong w/':lKB\1 encting 11 '.forld Today" program, ID then local nx.. l-JF-ON) ':! EST CHESTER - 3/8 132 3 ""11, C. 1.s only radio . station,," go·od on tape" (GW-PA). 3/9 1800 top.ping .freq. w/nx, wx,ID(J'.VB) CHAPEL HilrL - 3/1 1820 good w/SID "Top of the country from the top of your dial 11 • '(EB-PA) Eeeech'! (DS )

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pocwe:r then .SS-B at s/off. -(EB-PA) _ . . . AL ONEOTA .;. 2/18 11329 xlrrt at s /off w7mention of studio &

x 1·mitter i·o-cat·ion~ :(..EB-PA) PITTSFIELD - 2/20 1844 fair w/s/of:f, mention of t ·uning to FM 97. {SRS-IN)

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BRIDGEPORT - 3/9 0055 noted w/ID, mentions of BridgelJOrt, weak. (GW-PA) Try them durilrij the day, George, (DS) JAMESTOWJr - 3/9 0201 in well w/ru:., (JB-•Y)

~?~~·~WDAF PHILADELPHIA - 3/10 0145 noted on PoP this AM w/TT/OC, ID at 0200 mentioned off til 0500. (DS-DE) 3/10 oif this MM but ·noted 0410"returning to the air after brief period

.of maintenence, • (RA-KA) · MO KANSAS CITY- 3/10 0150-0205 noted w/CW mx thru WIP OC/TT,

•61 Country,• #5 on 610 here, (DS-DB) COLUJllBUS - 3/10 0207 noted w/Top 40/oldies in WDo\-7 fade.(DS) MILWAUKEE - 3/10 0242 noted w/promo o/WHBI:, first time in years, (D8-.DE)

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CO . DDVER - 3/10 0200 local like signal, o/WJW ET. (JWB-P.A) 3/10 0400 good w/ID then talk, {DB-•Y)

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high school contest. (EB-PA) . NC JACKSONVILLE -- 3/3 0300 super loud w/ID, into J,.,.·P ru:., then

CW mx, (JS-OH) . FL MELBOURNE - 2/17 0335 xlnt w/ID, time check & r•quest, (EB-PA) FL JACKSONViLLE - 2 /17 0600 weak o/u WBEN w/s/on w/ISSB. Log

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"Country 97 11 ID's, (JF-ON) WA

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SEATTLE - 3/ 3 0440 ET/TT, -clear ID 0500 then more TT, fight­ing WVWI SSB & a/on at 0458. WVW I 1st time since '68 (JS) MASON CITY - 2/29 0205-0210 ET w/TT & orie ID noted, (NZ-NE) QUEBEC - 3/15 0552 noted way atop KYW w/FF talk. (DS-DE) SARNIA - 3/6 0010 spot for local car vainter then Big Mac spot, many !D's, fair signal. (EB-PA)

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DALLAS - 3/17 0151 loud, equal to WTIC OC w/CW mx, Larry Scott show. (DS-DE) · CLEVELAND - 3/10 0120 noted off this AM in passing. (JS-OH) CHATTANOOGA - 2 /17 0350 xlnt w/ID, James Taylor record (EB) FORT WAYNE - 3/13 noted a/off 0206 w/SSB, to return 0500, Mentioned on 3/14 that off the past week and a half for xmitter work. (DS-DE)

CHTN PEI CHARLOTTETOWN - (No date-DS ) 0151 noted w/female DJ, Top 40 ( SDM-MA ) 3/10 0 2 15 first time this season, great signal.(~NB)

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TRENTON - 1/25 0130-0200+ excellent w/CKO Maple Leaf Hockey, w/\\'SPR, \'I XYZ nulled. (JF-ON) SIOUX FALLS - 3/11 noted on ET 0124-0 127 w/OC,TT, ID. (NZ- NE) NEW ORLEANS - 2/10 0319 noted w/tele-talk, many ID's (EB-PA) NEW CASTLE - 2/10 0328 w/American Top 40, u/WGSO (EB-PA) GARDINER - 3/9 0115 noted w/ad for Judy Collins concert at Augusta Civic Center , 1st time here. (G\'1-PA). Nice! (DS) PITTSBURGH - 3/10 0045 fair to poor w/rr. (SDM- MA) GREENVILLE - 3/9 0106 wx report w/Jim Jefferies, then contest promo , better than usual. (GW-PA) FINDLAY - 2/16 0602 most wanted, s trong w/s/on w/ISSB then mention of 0 & O'ed by Findlay Publishing Co. (JF-ON) CLARKSVILLE - 2/16 0658 st rong w/ s /on w/ISSB , mention of PSA power, KCAR, Inc., o/WS LR . (JF-ON) PORTSMOUTH - 3/3 0047 in well w/talk show about foot of snow area just rec'd (JB- NY ) STE- MARIE-DE-BEAUCE - 3/10 0128-0206 good at times in WDRC null & UNID TT w/Pop mx in EE & FFt male annc'r speaking in FF, ID before nx at 0200 (RA-MAJ 3/10 01 35-0 155 OC/TT during CJVL reception, ID at 0154t w/call letters &"loca tion only, unreadable. Sounded like WFMW or WLAW, any ideas? (RA-MA) · HARTFORD - 3/4 0054 Xlnt Top 40 mx w/AM/FM ID's . (EB-PA) ROCHESTER - 3/6 0030 Rochester wx, EZL mx, a/others (EB-PA) MANCHESTER - 3/1 0037 rr mx, ID, PSA . (GM-MD) MARKSVILLE - 2/16 0700 very weak w/s/on w/ISSB, mention of •Avoyelles Broadcasting Co. (JF-ON) SASKATOON - 3/3 0142-0200 on top w/CW mx , spots. Seems to have changed formats from MoR listed in NRG Log. (NZ-NE) 3/3 0100-0430+ ET w/TT, no ID's at legal times, smashing WSPD . (JS-OH) PARKER - 3/1 very weak TT noted on/off at right times, but no ID's, tentative. (JS-OH) 3/17 0230 somebody very strong w/religious mx o/u WBNX while sitting for WMLP DX which didn • t show, local WAMS nulled (DS) LANCASTER - 3/3 0122-0128 weak u/WFBL w/ID's, mx, promos (RA) SYRACUSE - 3/4 0100 Top 40 mx, ID o/WLAN. (EB-PA) ARLINGTON - 3/3 0142-0149+ ET w/ID/OC/BBD mx. (WPT-DC) NEWARK - 2/22 0127 noted w/tele-talk, ID then Mutual nx, fair (EB-PA) 3/10 0115-0132 strong w/TT, ID at end (JWB-PA) 3/10 0200-0430+ loud o/CKFH/WIRE w/TT, one ID given during only fade. Tape replay sounds like WLSA but nothing listed, looping E/W. Another 2t hours wasted, @I&**! (JS-OH) 3/7 0112-0140 ET w/non stop '30's big band stuff, vocals, etc. ID at end sounded like WXKS. (DS-DE) MYRTLE BEACH :.. 2/23 0325 w/beautiful ID atop all then gone(JS) NEW BRUNSWICK - 3/3 0106 on top of the mess w/ s/off SSB (JB) CHATTANOOGA - 2/17 0228 xlnt w/CW mx, many ID's, nx. (EB-PA) HAMPTON - 3/3 0102 fair/good atop pile w/instr. MoR mx, then nx w/mention of blizzard. (WPT-DC) MIDDLEBURY - 3/8 0600 while trying for UNID s/on, popped atop w/ID then CBS nx & gone. (DS-DE) 3/17 0250-0330+ somebody here playing non-stop religious vocals, audio somewhat distorted, w/no ID's heard. Looped E/ W, way atop WCZY at 0300. (DS-DE) SHERBROOKE - 3/ 3 0044 noted w/ FF talk, male annc'r, fair o/WLAC. (WPT-DC) DALTON - 3/10 0215+ very loud on ET w/rr, used to test every MM a few years back. (JS-OH) Like WMOO does now-hi! (DS) GREENSBURG - 2/4 0133 f air o/u WPTR w/ ET/TT on new freq., ex-1550. Don't know if fulltime yet. (JF-ON) TRYON - 3/9 0558 s/on w/pra¥er, mention of 500 watts, wiped out by CBE a t 0559. (DS-DE) MOBILE - 2/ 27 0120 ET w/ID & Gospel mx. (JS-OH) New policy : we 'll list them when they're NOT on! fi~ure them on every MM, or at least it seems that way-hi! (DS) WINSTON-SALEM - 3/3 · 0315-0335+ loud but fadey w/ET/TT/mx, several beautiful ID's, ex-WPGD. (JS-OH) w. FARGO - 3/1 0315 unusually good w/Top 40, al s o gives I D's for FM "Stereo Z-98" (JS- OH ) That 1 s unusual! (DS) PADUCAH - 3/10 0108 s /off w/ SSB , good s ignal. (MK-MI) ABERDEEN - 0108- 0127 3/10 believe a/off mixing w/ WPAD , then ET, alone . ( MK- MI) B~ERSFIELD - 3/10 0307 s /off noted w/ SSB , poor s i gnal, in noise level. (MK- MI )

1570 ',n QB MI FLI NT - 1/12 0600 weak w/CFOR/CHLO w/s/on, mention of . 750 watts (?-DS) and 178 watt PSA, ex-WCZN. FF-ON)

CFOR ON ORILLA - 3/10 0011 fair u/CKLM w/s/off w/GSQ SDM-MA) 1580 KLOU LA LAKE CHARLES - 3/10 0220 loud again w/AT-40 u/CBJ TT (DS)

3/3 03 10-0328 very loud ET/TT then into aoae automated UNID CW mx, off w/no ID. Looped S, format fit WSRF (JS-OH) It was probably them. (DS)

CBJ PQ CHICOUTIMI - 3/1, 3/ 3 more of their almost daily ET/TT/OC which goes AN . Wonder what they 're up to? (JS-OH) TRAVELLERS REST - 3/1 0205-0223 clear on ET w/TT/OC, one \'!BBR SC I D noted. Y/f rec'd. (NZ- NE )

1590 WI XK 'I/ I NE'.'! RICHMOND - 3/5 0245-0258 ET fair to good w/rock mx, s /off for testing, etc. (NZ-NE)

WETT MD OCEAN CITY - 3/1 0250-0310+ all over WAKR w/rock/disco. Call s s elf "16-Wet". (JS-OH) 3/10 0024 fair-good, etc. w/ID noted. (SDM-MA)

UNID 3/7 0013-0015 TT w/ID at end, caught •complete'a radiation tests.we'll return at 6 AM." Sounded like an f/c. (DS-DE)

WE ' YE BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU, THIS TIME, BY:

JF-ON Jeff Falconer, Clinton, Ont. DB-NY Dan Bartek, Rochester, NY WPT-DC William P. Townshend, Wash., DC WPT-MD Bill Towns h_end at J. Millers, GTG., EM-FL Ed Mitkus , Tampa, FL MK-MI Mike Knitter, Cambridge, WI . (thought

JB-NY Jerry Bond, Rochester, NY SRS-IN Steve Shaffer, Hammond, IN GM-MD Greg Monti, Silver Spring, MD GM-TX Greg Monti, Richardson, TX MF-MI Martin Foltz, Lans ing , MI GW-PA George Walton, Easton, PA SDM-MA Steven D. Miller, Boston, MA NZ-NE Neil Zank, Lincoln, NE JWB-PA Joe Brauner, Punxsutawney, PA RA-MA Ray Arruda, Acushnet, MA SM-MA Stan Morss, Bradford, MA ERC-MA Ernest R. Cooper, Provincetown, MA EB-PA Eric Breon, Middletown, PA WH-CO Wayne Heinen, Colorado Springs, CO DS-DE Dave Schmidt, New Castle, DE

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Collins 51-J-4, SM2 R-390A, SM2 TRF

TRF, ICF-5900, SM2 it was Mich., sorry!)

DX-150B, Dx:..300, LW 1939 RCA 86T, GB TRF, LW TRF TRF TRF

RF 2200, Sanserino loop RF-2200 HQ-180A, TRF A2515 , LW, loop sx-122, 12 oz. beverage HQ-150, HQ-180A, SM 1 & 2 R-390A, HQ-180, SM2, Loop TRF, BCR 101, LW RBB4, MW1, LW, Loop HQ-180A, TRF, Loop

Anybody have any station logo's from envelopes that they'd like to part with? we can use them here to help decorate the column. This should Just about catch up on everyone's loggings from the change over of editors, so from now on anything over 5 weeks old won't be used, we'd like to keep things up to date i f possible. After all, this column can't look like one of PAUL MOUNT's Mus ings-hi! Thanks to DAN BARTEK who phoned in his items. For those interested, I work a very s trange schedule for CONRAIL in Wilmington, which goes something like Wed. 11p-7am, Thurs. & Fri. 3p-11p, Sat. & Sun . 7a-3p with the WCHE work on my days off. So, methinks it'd be better to s tick with the mail unless you have some real hot info to phone in. Again, thanks to all who s ent in their items this week!

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Foist, a Radio TV Maroccsine schedule current ss of 1/80, vis Rick Carr:

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Yariaa de Sonor EJ'Daato Coopar1 770 Panaaa HOL47 Chitre v/l from "Servicio Otioial d.el Katado Panaaano, DG-No. ~naaa 5, Panama, v/s Lorenzo B. Sancl:ws-Galan, Director General de Sarvicio Kacional de Radiodifusion. 531 Svitsarland v/q, v/a D.O. Chisholm, card haa Alpine scene

Raf Crawford,Invarcargill NZ reports the following: )ZE Ashburton comm­enced on 12/1/79, 24 hra w/commercial pgms daytime and Tonight Show wJ COll&lorcial Jetwork 0700-1200 1 days a wook. Relays RNZ National Pgm 1200-1700. (No -frequency mentioned Ray, but if memory serves me correctly thia is on 87). Correct? CH) 4EB Briabane on 1485 started 12/1. Hes ethnic pgma. S/off at 1400, a/on unknown. Power 100 watts. 2ST on 999 in Kovra has a rolay on 1215, both 24 hours. )EA Melbourne is now using a 5 kw Dltr, noted toating tho ond of November. 2EA on 801 in Sydney has a repeater on 1485 in Wollongong with 100 watts and alsi in New­caatlo on 1584 with 100 watts; both have ethnic pgms 2000-1400. Rey's recant verioa include Cuba 1430 with letter and LV de Cubs full detail card. JOIK and JOIB with cyclostyled letters from the stations. CBS Taiwan 750 and 1200 with what would have to be the nicest QSL cards­large bluo diploma-sized cards with gold lettering.

A note from Bengt Ericson, Vaxjo Sweden: "The 719 logging in DX ~ 18 ia intoreating. WRTH-80 lists Canary Islands, Nigeria 50 kw, Tanzania SO kw. EBU frequency liat of December shows only Azurere off the 720 freq. Azurare is the only pp stn here. Nigeria closes around 2305-2315 OKT. Ivory Coaat is not included in their latest publication for 720

~ Radio Shack is closing out both the DX-160 and DX-300. Close out price ;l for the DX-160 is about $119 and for the DX-30? about $245. Two new models

will be coming out. The DX-200 ($229) may be in stores by the time this l appears. A DX-302, priced at $399, will be out "shortly" . Also Chuck tells ~us the new version o! the TRF is in Radio Shack warehouses and in limited

Canadian and US store:i·. He tried one and it works "roughly" like the old TRF but has only 1 sliding control.

~Hz. I put ~ g~ess for Nigeria. That is Owerri". (And a reasonable guess indeed . But it is so hard to be sure of what is really on the air and what is not, particularly for Africa and Latin America . The lists (in­cluding EBU) are not so good sometimes because they are not aware of everything- only some things. Often we DX'ers are able to best them st their own game-CH)

Veries from Hank Wilkinson: .§.2.!. and .l.Q.J2 Radio Thailand, Bangkok, v/s Ramyong Sakorn Pan, Chief , External Services. 1206 China, no location specified, v/s Ma Ruiliu, English Section, RadiO""Peking. 1206 DWWA,

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Quezon , Philippines, v/s Johnny Alabazo, Ra dio Engineering Dep 1 t . ~ TIPJ Heredia, Costa Rica, v/s Emilio Piedro Jimenez, Gerente Propietario. Address: Apartado 76. 1206 (HJW 1 s favorite freq-CH) 2GR Grafton, Australia • .1...Q.hlt Radio Peking for 47i"4/79 report • .2.!_§_ )YZ Greymouth NZ for 9/22/79 report • .2..§1 )YC Ghristchurch NZ for 9/20779 report • .§.2.!. Radio Thailand, Bangkok for 9/14/79 report. 662 JOPK Shizuoka w/N HK card. £fill: 2KP Kemp-sey Australia w/ABC card. ~OIK Sapporo w/NHK card . HLKF 2£1. w/personal letter verie. ~ JOGK Kumamoto w/NHK card . 1000 HJAR LV de Cartagena verie from Or lando Figueroa s ., Director in 3 weeks for 1/14 report. ~ 2NC Newcastle ABC verie card in 2 weeks for 1/23 report. :ll]_ 2ZA Palmerston NZ verie letter and RNZ verie card in 2 weeks for 1723 report, v/I Michael Lawrence, Supervising Technician.

In reference to some of the speedy replies from some of the above stations Hank says he has gone to enclosing a 3X5 photo of his den and equipment plus sending mint air mail stamps instead of IRC's. He thinks this is really the way to go . I agree, particularly with the stamps; IRC 1 s are a lot of extra trouble and some times I know that I am tempted to just throw them away instead og going to the PO to redeem them-CH)

World DX News from Arctic Radio Club: Colombia RCN broadcasts "El Mundo de las Noticias" Mon-Fri 0430-0500 according to " Candilejas". 1380 HJLM R. Rumbo ex R. Indistrial. 1460 HJNA LV de la Amistad heard here by Scandinavian DX'ers . Most likely has changed frqs with HJZU R. Narino, who is now on 1340 . Venezuela news from Radio Rumbos is relayed on many stations, including 600 YVQB R. Sucre, 740 YVNC R. Maracaibo , 940 YVNW R. Punto Fijo, 960 YVQM LV de El Ti gre, 1060 R. Barcelona, 1100 YVSW R. Angostura, 1110 YVQT R. Carupano, 1250 YVPZ R. Puerto Ordaz, and of course 570 YVLX and 670 YVLL, both R. Rumbos. England 1458 BBC R. Manchester now 5 kw. Q§..2B. in the Estonian radio magazine "Radioleht" the Estonian stations are as listed in WRTH Bo except 612 is listed as Tallinn. Must be many kw as this stn is a local in Stockholm. Wallis ~ Futuna (new MW country as mentioned in previous issues od IDXD-CH) operates on 1090 1900-1100 with 1 kw from Futuna; 1166 is from Wallis with 1 kw and same sked. Address: FR) , Pointe Matalaa, Mata Utu, Wallis et Futuna. (Has been heard in New Zealand but so far no definite recep­tions in the US-CH) South Yemen Aden's Informati on Minister said 11/23 a 400 kw MW xmtr had""i:i'iiei1 inaugurated . Thi s must be the 1168 xmtr. Yugoslavia Radi o Zagreb's night service is now aired on 11 25 and 1134 from OOOS-0500 except Thursday/Friday night . Radio Os ijek is on the air on 1557 from 1400-1730( Xon-Sat) and 0900-1400(Sun). Transmissions are in Serbo- Croa tian and Hungarian 1715- 1730(Mon-Sat) and 1330-1400(Sun). Power 20 kw. ~ 756 is no longer airing the EE pgm. It is not clear whether they have left the freq or not. Saudi Arabia 648 Jeddah now in full operatimn 0400-2200, ditto Jeddah 1512:"""1521 Duba now has domesbic service 0400-0600 and 1500- 2400. s3ain EAJ51 R. Manresa is now 5 kw. (And has been wandering around 157 - CH ) Transkei the new Capital Radio on 603 has been tentatively logged in the UK by Barry Davies. Some information reaching Sweden says that they are using 604 nights and 603 days! (Seems extremelj unlikely! Why would t hey do that? CH) Sked is currently 0500-2400, but soon to increase to 20 hours a day. (As men- . tioned a few issues ago in IDXD, lightning struck their MW xmtr the first day of operation. However, that has been repaired. Unfortunately (via information fr om Pete Tayl or, Richard Ginbey, et al) the signal from their 500 kw xmtr is so poor that they are not able to reach all of their target audience. The situation is so extreme that engineers have been flown in from the US to analyze the situation and find out why the signal is so poor. When this is resolved, perhaps NA DX'ers will have something of a chance to hear and log SA-CH) West Germany 756 is using 200 kw in many lists but the acbua l power is"""405 kw according to technicians at the site. 626 Hanover is still 20 kw, not 40 as reported earlier . 936 Bremen is using only 10 kw at night. 972 Hamburg is now 450 kw. Hungary Potofi Radio has plans to go 24 hours. They plan to move the JOO kw xmtr on 539 to 1341 to accomplish this. Holland 1006 the superpower Flevoland xmtr is on the air from 0900 s/on. The night pgm is on this freq now instead of 675. Power 600 kw.

® Iraq 603-a new .xmtr is on the air from al Hamadaniyah carrying Voice of the.Masses'. 11 97 Arbil is now carrying the Dommestic Service 0330-0030 wit~ ~n i ncrea~ed · power. S~me sources say 300 kw. Ireland RTE will not use it s LW assignment of 2~4 before 1981 or 1982. Klnya the follow­ing xmtrs are ready for commissioning: 981 or 1044 Vo i w 100 kw and 702, 900 or 11 07 Meru w/100 kw. Libya a new xmtr is on the air ~n 711. Has been heard around 0730 in Czechoslovakia; perhaps a Libyan noted recently on.701 that is drifting. Bulgaria is now using 711, ex (OO. The 981 H?rizont ::antr is~'~ being h~ard. ~ anyone wishing to place an advertisement in the Chinese Radio One and Two is asked to contact Chinese Broadcasting Service Company, Broadcasting Building outside Fuxing Gate, Peking. Phone is 868S81 ext. 2S22. (Any takers? You can a~ways call on Sunday rates when it's Monday morning business hours there, hi-CH) Cr'rus R. Bayrak has bought new crystals for 109S anu 1SOJ . ~ 77 and 1S7S are the freqs for the Middle East Program (commercial) now from 1300-2400. Gaboh Africa Number One has been reported by a German DX'er .at 001S on 11/13. ID's were heard in FF/EE/II/GG with the usual address in Gabon. ("The usual address" is the address for the new Africa Number One, which came on the air late last year with several powerful SW xmtrs. Perhaps they have a powerful MW xmtr testing, wh ich should make Gabon a lot easier than trying for 1SS4-CH) Wallis Islands S/off is at 1100 with La ~arsellaise. News in vernacular~815. Portugal a bill allowing private broadcasting to return ·under govern­ment control has been vetoed by the President. Solomon Islands 1386 is the planned freq for SIBC 1 s new xmtr, location Kijakira, expected on the air in 1980. Another station planned is Craciosa Bay with 2 kw in 1981. Spain 13S9 R. Peninsular de Barcelona ex 1S39. Morocco Moroccan Radio plans to have Radio Tetuan back on the air before June or July 1980. South Korea SS8 Pohang 2SO kw w/EE pgm 1200-1230 and 0030-0100. 603 w/ SOO kw is Nemyang w/2nd pgm. 711 SOO kw is Sorae w/SOO kw. 7S6 100 kw is Suweon w/1st pgm, ex HLSR prog. 918 SO kw is Yeoncheon w/1st pgmi 972 1SOO kw ~/Education Pgm is Dangjin w/Social Education Program to No•th Korea. 1134 2SO kw is Gimpo w/ist pgm. 1143 w/2SO kw is J ·eju w/ 2nd pgm. 1170 SOO kw is Gimje w/Eduaation Pgm 2 to Japan and South Korea, ex 972 KHz; JJ 1200-1430, EE 1100-1130 and CC 1130-1200. 1269 10 kw is Yangju w/1st pgm. 1341 10 kw is · Gimpo w/ist pgm. 1008 w/domestic pgm is Sogcho SO kw, ex 1170. 1st pgm is 2100-1900 in KK. 2nd pgm is 0600-0100 in KK and EE. Social Education 1 is 0600-0200 in KK. Social ·Education 2 is 1100-0600 in KK, JJ, EE, end CC. Kuwait S40 and 1134 carry 1st pgm in AA from 032S-2310. 1341 2nd pgm end Foreign Language Service from 0300-2200 sked is: 0300-0600 Koran, 0600-0900 EE, 0900-1100 Persian, 1100-1700 2nd pgm in AA, 1700-1900 Urdu, 1900-2200 EE. Micronesia 940 KSAI Saipan here, nominal 936. 10SO WSZE Saipan here niminal 10S3, 1602 WSZC Truk here ex 1300. Papua~ Guinea 1S93 R. West Sepik opened w/10 kw on 12/4. China 873 Gensu People's Broadcasting Station announced use of this freq.-;zl7900 Heilongjiang PBS in Harbin announced a sked of 2040-0630 and 0830-1S30. On Thursdays the First Pgm ends at OS10. Pgms are CC except KK from 0300-0400. 738/1S30 Jilin PBS operates here 20SO-OS30 and 08S0-1SOS. 891/1287 Ningxia PBS sked is 2210-01SO and 03S0-0600 and 0920-1S3S. Colombia 1390 HJrY R. Avenida ex 1370. SylSi the Western/Tarkish pgm from Damascus is nov hears on 872, 1070, 4, and 1484 as follows: 0900 FF, 1000 EE, 1100-1300 Western music announced in AA/EE/FF, 1400-1 SOO Tu.bkish, 2000 RR, 2030 GG, 2100 FF and 2200-2300 EE. Damascus also broadcasts in Hebrew to Israel 0600-0730 and 1S00-1630 on 782. This service alsi includes other languages from 071S-072S as follows: Bulgarian (Sun), French (Mon/Wed), SS (Tues), AA (Thur), GG(Fri), and RR(Sat). Nigeria skeds: 621 Anambra BC, Enugu OS30-000S, 638 Bendel BC , Benin OS)O-OOOS, 711 Radio Benue, Makurdi OS30-000S. 721 Imo BC Owerri 0500-2400. 729 Kano State BC, Keno OS30-000S. 756 Radio Oye , Ibadan 0400-0100. 809 Radio Kwara, llorin OS30-000S. 900 Ogun BC Service, Abeokuta OS00-0100. 94S Ogun BC Service, Abeokuta OS00-0100. 1017 Con~ola BC ,_Yola OS30-000S. 1313 Plateua BC, Jos OS30-000S. 1367 Cross River Radio, Ualaber OS30-000S. Federal Redic Corporation Stations heard: S93 Kaduna OS30-000S, 827 Enugu OS30-000S ex 621, 1088 Lagos 0~30-000S not 918. ~pain the following RNE stations will go on the air soon: 639 Almeria 20 kw, 774 Orense 20 kw, 8SS Pomtevedra 20.kw. 1467 EAJ38 R. Gerena ex 148S. 1S39 R. Huesca here ex 1602 . Colombia 1S30 liJDN LV del Cine ex Radio Cine. Uruguay 8SO CX ~ 4 R • . El ~specta~or n?w bO kw. Dominican Republic 1300 HIFV Radio Chihuahita is new in Chihuahua. Power is SOO watt s . Luxembourg reowrked its antenna ~ystem .r~cently, ending up with a 4 mast system-one mast les s ~han before. 1his means sligh tly less gain towards the northeast. During darkness they are ~

ewer (600 kw) plus a 2 mast \ wave ae rial sys~e~ to northwest thus g ~iv ing 6 dB less gain to the southea st as required by tne Geneva Plan,

~ JJ has been heard on 1466 from 0030-004S, probably not regular. Morocco Sidi Bennour has been reported running the full 600 kw but European DX 1 ers doubt that power is correct. Oujda is back on its nominal frequency of S94. Sbain EAJ1 R. Barcelona now broadcasts 24 hours Mon-Sat. ~ Saba 9 0 is now using the full 200 kw. Thailand 927 xmtr is used from 0030-15SO with EE 0030-0300 and 1200-1255.

Via Distance: Argemtina LRA13 S60 now 2S/6 kw. LRA4 690 now 2S/S kw. LS1 710 now 50/10 kw. LRA7 7SO now 100/10 kw. LR6 790 now S0/10 kw. LRA8 820 now 2S/S kw. LH3 9SO now 90/30 kw. LRA1S 1030 now S0/10 kw. Brazil ZYHS7 640 is on 640 with 2S kw 0900-0400, ZYK276 720 now 100 kw. ZYJ738 now on 620 ex 15bO with SO kw. ZYK687 840 now So kw. ZYKS22 R. Record on 1000 is now 200 kw. ZYK693 on 1040 is now 200 kw. ZYK694 R. Globe 1100 now l SO kw."""ZYK274 1120 is now SO kw. ZYK:SZO 1200 now S0/2S kw. ZYJ4S8 1220 R. Globe now 1SO kw. United Arab Emirates current skeds: 728 Abu Dhabi 1500 kw 0330-2230 in AA:-B09"°Abu Dhabi SO kw 0330-0700 AA, 1000-1300 EE, 1300-1400 FF, 1400-1 500 Urdu. 1S7S Sharjah SO kw 0330-2230 AA. (other skeds eliminated-unlikely to be heard-CH) Mexico XEABC 770 says it will soon start EE and SS on SW and MW. Gambia R. Syd 909 broadcasts mainly in EE but GG, Swedish, and vernaculars ere also carried.

From New Zeeland Radio~ teague: Barbados 900 sent this revised sked: Mon-Fri s/on 0928:-slOff o oo. Sat s/on o4oo and then 24 hour program un­til 0400. Sun S/on 0400 with Late Date for 2 hours to 0600 a/off. Then back at 0928 to 0400 s/off. (A very strange skedl Cii ) Mongolia Ulan Bator domestic service 2200-1SOO on 882 end 827 w/news from 14Q0-1420.

Medium Wave News information: Dominica S95 is using only 1 kw due to iii:iiTICane damage. ~ Lucia 840 was also badly damaged by hurricanes. As of 10/18/79 it was expected to be off the air for many months. United Arab Emirates rep orted heard twice on 1482. (Can any of our Euro­pean members tell us for sure whether they are on 1481 or 1482? CH)

Our first in formation from Vienna Medium Wave News: Malta address for reports to the Overseas BroiidCiiSting ServICe"of"the Libyan Arab Jama­hiriyah via Malta is: PO Bo& 17, Hemrun, Malta. The sked for Tripoli via Malta 1S57 with 600 kw is 0700-0800 AA, 1800-1 8SS R. Meditteranean, 2130-2330 AA. (But this does not seem to be correct as after Malta . relays Deutsche Welle 0300-0400 they carry Libya-CH) AngBTa R. Nacionel hes closed 1367. ~: R. Cairo general pgms on MW are 9, 87S, and 1197. Second Pgm 10o1-sked 1630-2000. Foreign Lang Service SS7 sked OS00-2200. People's Pgm 711 sked 1200-2300 . Middle East Pgm 774 sked 1200-2300.Voice of the Arabs on 621, 711, 1107 sked unknown. Palestine Ser­vice is on 621 and 1107. Sudan Corner is on 711. Holy Qur 1 an stations ere: 1161 and 1341, sk3d 0300-0900 and 1200-2100. Ivory Coast hes finally moved from 1493 to 1494. Lesotho sked on 891 is 0400-203"57ll'Qzembigue

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@ is inactive, 1580 XEVAB Valle de Bravo ,25 kw new. 1600 XEGEM Toluca 2 kw new. XE ,, SLP, SLP 1xw new, 1600 XE,, El Higo, Ver, , 25 kw new, Colombia 1280 LV del Rio Suarez is now 2,5 kw, R, Sutatenza 1 s new address is Carrera 10 No, 19-64, Piso 20, Bogota, HJZV 1160 is now 10 kw,

And more information from MW Special Club of FRG: France France Inter is 24 hours on 164, 675, 1161, and Nice 1350, Sked"""'I"Sli!j:30-2100 on all 1071 outlets, Toulouse 1161, Ai~ccio 1161, Nancy 1350, Tours 14e5 and Toulon 1584, All France-Culture xmtrs sked 0428-2300 except Sunday s/ob 0600, (Toulouse 945 may s/off at 2200-this is in German and I can't make it all out-CH) Languages currently carried on France Culture from 0430-0600 are PP, AA, Turkish, Serbo-Croat, SS, II, Laotian, Cam­bodian, and Slovak,

Alm?st the end,,,,,, more Arctic information: Belgium BRT intends to begin broadcasts to England on MW sometime this year, Bul~aria Varna is using 981 with 150 kw. ~ Cairo 4 is using 936, heard p EBU in England and Italy, Port)Wal the Third Program is now called Radio Comm­ercial, Azores 1570 CSB 1 is still using this freq,

Says Glenn Hauser in March 1980 FRENDX: "There is nothing to prevent Radio Moscow from reaching a US AM band audience", Not a bad prediction; the 600 KHz xmtr is now carrying R, Moscow in Cubsl

More from Listener's Nobebook in March FRENDX: Colombia R, Mira on 6015 was destroyed by the 12/12 earthquake, (And assumedly 1190 also-CH) Hawaii KAIM 870 is to go to 50 kw, El Salvador the YSKL net announced ~hat members of the "People's Revolutionary Army" had seized 21 radio stations temporarily, They used the opportunity to announce that their own station would begin broadcasting in the central departments of the country on 1600 (local time?? CH) between 1400 and 1600 KHz, Later the inaugural broadcast was heard on 1600 KHz; it does not have a fixed sked and does not broadcast every day, On 1/26 listeners were advised to tune in on Tuesdays or Fridays at 1830 or 2400,

Mike Worst was in Lima, Peru 12/27 to 1/20 and checked the MW dial, All stations are as per WRTH 79 except: 560 R, Programmes del Peru ex LV de Orienta, 930 R. Moderns ex R, Central, 985 Estacion X ex R, Impacto et al, 1060 R, Exitos ex R, Mil Sesenta, 1080 R. Nacionel Mil Ochemta off the air. 1130 Radio de Futuro ex R. Selects, 1470 R, Frequencia ex R, Inca del Peru, Also, 1040 Onda Popular was having transmitter and financial trouble, Oddly enough, about half of the mx was US, usually in EE,

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.!!!ilQ ·r A w/the same typical type of soft m.x that's carried AN by many Europeans 0157 and 0205. Faded across the hour. I suspect Holland and not Yugoslavia as this (the best low end TA opening ever noted from a non-coasbal QTH) did not seem to include· eastern Europeans. Any ideas? (Kazaross) Can 't be Yugoslavia WRTH says they s/on 0400 but every time I've heard them s/ob' it was 0430 or 0445. I say Holland because the new superpower xmtr from Flevoland is supposedly on the air-CH 1'..Q.!iQ! Nuku'alofa 3AZ very strong on 3/9 from 0951 to 0955 with female speaking in Tongan. (Wilkinson) · WEST GERMANY poor w/GG talk 0203 3/9. (Kazaross) To good peaks w/Muzak 2232 3/8. No sign of the Turk. (Connelly) ENGLAND ~iping out ~ megawatt Russky w/5 kw as far as I know. Pgm was Love Notes" and if you want a song for lovey-dovey, the address is BBC Radio Two, London, W1A 4WW. Re al mellow stuff. (Li ttek) NEW ZEALAND 4ZB Weilington fair 1150 3/16 w/pop m.x, male DJ . \Brown) HAWAII KPOI Honolulu 2/17 1220 good w/automated oldies and K-poy ii)'T8'j"""about all they ever say. (Brown) ~ GERMANY poor w/GG mx then female anncr 0003 3/9. (Kazaross) MOROCCO Sebaa-Aioun good w/man in FF o/SAH and m.x from East Ger-· many 2331 2/29. (Connelly) Poor w/pop mx including c&w hit "Lucille" 0537 3/8. (Connelly) VENEZUELA YVKZ R. Nacional noted on MM 2/18 when I tried for WMNzis regular check, with WHN off, o/u another SS, seemingly a Colombian-no sign of XEG. (Cooper) l!!!!.QQ either XEG or .lED in EE giving a Los Angeles telephone number and PO box as a contact for a counseling service on MM 3/10, w/WHN again off-XED would seem more likely ta me as Tiju­ana is not all that far from LA whereas Juarez is way around Texas. (Cooper) ROMANIA running // 855 0443 2/25. (Littek) PORTUGAL Azurara/Norte badly drilling daytimer WGTR w/fierce hat 2140 2/27. Good w/PP talk oJheavy het 2227 2/28. (Connelly) UNID normal Denmark destroyed by screaming het 2248 2/24. Ttittek) WEST GERMANY/USSR a microcosm of the real world here, Russky slopping lilierlcan (AFN) here so that neither is useful. Figures, doesn't it? Politics gets into everything these days. (Littek) (But somebody interferes with everybody in Europe •••• Besides AFN is low powered-HR UllID (heard on car rx) talk w/muffled audio, pebhaps AA-three Ch!iiies were sounded, then more talk in foreign language 2225 2/29. (Connelly) YUGOSLAVIA Tovarnik perhaps the one w/man in unid lang 0419 3/19 at fair level. (Eckman) COLOMBIA HJKO Barranquilla ta Vaz de la Vtctoria is now AN SM 1 s, fairly easy with WRVA off SM's and not a trace all season of Dave Gleason's Once-Q WQII. Noted weakly on SM 2/17 at 0702. (Cooper) Don't feel bad, I haven't heard WQII since 1976-CH SOUTH KOREA Jeju KBS powerful stn w/pgms in EE (sometimea with KK) on-weeiCdays from 1100 to 1200. Male anncr mentioned "Korean Broadcasting Service", "558", and 11 1143 11 frequenc:i.es at 1100J (Wilkinson) SLAV noted 2300-2402 on evening of 3/12 with a healthy signal till about 2345 when it began to fade away-eight note IS at 2330 and six one second apart time pips from 2359 :50 to 55 , then a pause and female anncr. (Cooper) Got your tape and have played it once; there seems to be a fair Radio Rodina ID-CH FRANCE Strasbourg et al poor to fair w/man and woman in FF ~/8 . (Connelly) SPAIN the big Swede is asleep at 0159 of 2/22 so 2 Spaniards w;;r:e-fighting it out. Neither ID 1 ed. (Littek) WEST GERMANY VOA suspected w/instrumental band m.x 2350 3/1 8 . (Kazaross) . UNID man . and woman shouting, possibly in AA; Morocco suspected 2226 2/28. (Connelly) · CHINA Chinese stn believed to be the Yanbman PBS (M• verie 'ijie!Is it Yanbien) heard very well from 0957-1 004. (Date ??CH) Beautiful stringed m.x until 1000 then some beautiful chime-like music for 25- 30 seconds, then male and female anncts. Slow march-like m.x followed by male and female anncts alternating (news?), all in cc. (Wilkinson) FRANCE Bordeaux loud w/FF' talk 2219 2/29 . (Connvlly) Very good w/man and woman in FF, heard well despite heavy WCAU splash 0523 3/8 . (Connelly)

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® ENGLAND BBC synchros fair w/cl m.x 2328- 2330 3/8. (Connelly) ~ apparent SS talk by man, heavily slopped 2320 2/29 . (Con) BELGIUM weak here in FF //621 2306 2/24. (Littek) LIBYA creating a wicked het as usual, but lotsa audio 0215 2/22. ~wicked het again, about 1 KHz but no audio this time. (Littek) WEST GERMANY Neumun&ter poor w/Muzak in CJCB slop 2332 3/8. (Connelly) CZECHOSLOVAKIA Praha-Melnik fair w/soft cl m.x 2318 2/29. (Connelly) Probably the carrier noted at 0330 3/11, fair signal but no audio noted. (Eckman) .!!!ilQ woman in FF, poor in bad WLOB slop 0450c 3/9. (Connelly) ~ tentatively, monotonous tropical instrumental mx, then anthem. OC after s/off 0457-0500 3/9. Signal fair to poor. (Connelly) Poor-fair w/soft m.x 0455 3/8 during unusually bad LA ex. Not noticed after 0500 so must s/off then. (Kazaroas) Right, CH l!!£f Rome fair w/cl m.x 0515 3/8. Fair o/u WEVD slop w/cl m.x woman in II who mentioned Radmotelevisione Italians 0505-050B and up loud w/harp m.x and religious choral mx at 0514 3/9. (Con) Presumed the carrier here 0450 3/9. (Eckman) NORTHERN IRELAND Lisnagarvey BBC fair to good w/British EE anncr and light m.x 0516 3/8. (Connelly) Very poor, furst audio here 0500 3/18. (CH) ~ Valencia here w/pop m.x 0020-0028 , conversational newscast afterwards. Took a long time to ID this sucker, third network, RCE, Radio Cadena Espanola. (Littek) ~ GERMANY Berlin to good peaks; initially I was confused when I heard an SS male pop vocal but the identity of the stn became evident when a woman anncr came on w/GG talk; this was followed by a Strauss waltz 0523 3/9. (Connelly) COLOMBIA two Colombians in/out with WFEA here on one of the very few AU mornings of the season, Friday 2/22, circa 0720-0740-­HJBO R. Piloto and HJKX w/RCN ID 1 s, the latter unn. (Cooper) FRANCE Lille in w/big het, some FF talk; stringer than 1375 , 2223 2/29 . (Connelly) Good w/female AA vocal, flutes 0512 3/8. ( Connelly) Good at 2223 3/10 even w/St. Pierre but little audio discernable. (Eckman) ALBANIA Lushnje good w/ woman in GG 0510 3/8. (Connelly) Good 2222 w/mx. Internationale 2256 . Relatively early fade-in for this time of year. (Eckman) COLOMBIA HJAS Barran~uilla noted usin* two slogans-R. Libertad and R. Universal on 'Colombia morning MM 2/11 at 0850 , in/out with myriads of domestics. They've not been heard since as ex have turned extremely un-auroral, negating all the fancy pre­dictions of a year or so about ex this season. (Cooper) They a re not just fancy predictions; each and every sunspot cycle peak has a corresponding peak in geomagnetic activity. We just happened to have a rather unusual year-CH GUINEA Conakry loud w/AA chanting , slight het present Olll high side 0530 3/9. I could not accurately measure frequency w/the HQ180A dial; possibly Guinea wasJOn 1403.5a and the high side het was f rom 1404 Europeans. (Connelly) WEST GERMANY Saarbrucken fair w/hard rock 2316 2/29. (Connelly) POOr w/pop mx, heavy SAH from someone else present 2330 3/5. Fair to good w/man in GG 0500 3/8. (Connelly) LUXEMBOURG the monster puts in a good groundwave signal to Ham­burg (30 dB over 1 uv/m). This was first disturbed by skywave at exactly 1601 GMT on 2/23 . 1840 2/23: tell me European radio isn't confusing! Radio Luxembourg broadcasting in II doing a special on Liechtenstein. EE pgm followed at 190.0, ID' s as "Britain's #1 all music station". No kidding. (Littekl They have a good audience in England, so I'm told-CH ITAL~ likely the one w/soft mx 0556 3/ 8 during good high end TA'"CX. (Ka zaross) RUSSIA I fell asleep when this guy signed on, but must have 'fieeiiCi300. (Littek) UNID carrier noted at good level (OC?) 0340 3/11. (Eckman) UN ]D maybe Albania-FF sounding talk by woman, poor o/SAH 2315 2/ 29 . 1395 had strong OC at the time. ' ( Connelly) TURKS AND CAI COS AFRTS has moved to FM 91.1 only. (Clark) TURKS 'AND CA'fCOS Radio Truks and Caicos ex 1550 with a new power Of""2~ust a freq change only! Not a new stn as per news on VSI. (Clark)

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MONAC O honte Carlo xlnt w/EE preaching , London mailing address '2'31'1+"2/29 . ( Connelly} ultra-loud w/choral mx, GG talk 0457 3/8 . ( Connelly) TWR very good 2221 3/10 w/man in unid lang . Good w/religious mx 2311 . ( Eckman) AuSTH IA Wien-Bisamberg OR? poor w/Alpine mx in bad WJIT/WSAR slop 2337 315 . ( Connelly) Xlnt w/pop mx (some US disco) around 0405- 0500 3/9 . Xan in GG at 0500 . Also good w/OC 0350 J/11 , man w/pre sumed s/on at 0400 in GG . (Eckman) ~ fair thru WTOP slop w/piano mx, female and male Polish anncrs 0420- 0430 3/9. Only weak carriers on 1368 and 1305 . (Kazaross) Very good 0408-0500 3/9. Chopin IS noted at 0459. Also noted w/OC 0355 3/11. IS noted at 0358 w/fair signal. (Eckman) ENGLAND these low-powered Limeys, again. This one //1458. Hust be more than 500 watts. The big Polack was asleep 0014 2/25 . ( Littek) CZECHOSLOVA!.IA fighting it out w/Wh. 3W slop w/bouncy instrumental mx 0450 3/9. (Kazaross) Dominant w/no sign of Saudi Arabia (unusual) 0330 3/18 .(Hut ton) Very powerful w/light mx 0410 3/9 . Time pips at 0430, man in unid lang followed by IS (which matches Hvezda IS listed in WRTH ). (Eckman) SAUDI ARABIA Duba very, very powerful w/AA chanting at 0314 37fr." Better than WKBW at the time. Still powerful at 0333 w/AA mx hut faded somewhat by 0345 . (Eckman) Totally overwhelming WKBW on car rx-male AA chant, then AA talk 2240 2/29 . (Connelly) ~ARABIA (out of order- CH ) Jeddah likely the source of strong OC at 0245. Weaker at 0305 but slow, monotonous Koranic religious chants were audible on peaks until fade at 0326 3/9 . By 0331 not even a trace of carrier remained. This stn is lo­cated on the Red Sea about 400 miles below Duba and has been op~rating w/nearly a full sked. The s/on time (0300) and the fade time plus the pgm material strongly suggest Saudi Arabia . (Kazaross) The sked on page two of this week's IDXD says 0400 s/on but I think you had Jeddah anyhow. Very recently this stn suddenly popped up in loggings . and informs ti on columns from Europe so I think they went full power and extended their sked. Noted here very weakly a couple of times in the last two weeks- CH UNID female in unid foreign lang heard fDr a couple of seconds several times in WCKY fades 0405- 0447 3/9 . Lang not SS . Is Vatican on this early? (Kazaross) I forget, they extended their sked about a year ago and I don't remember th• new one-CH WEST GERMANY Mainflingen noted w/male GG vocal, poor in heavy WPTR slop OS55 3/9. (Connelly) . ENGLAND one of the UK locals briefly noted w/British EE anncr atop a graveyard-type pile of signals and some CBE slop 0557 3/9. (Connelly) UNID presume one of the UK outlets here 0316 J/11 w/fair carrier blit"n.o audio. (Eckman) FRANCE Nice fair w/man and woman in FF 0606 3/1. (Connelly) i50iii'iriiint and good despite WQ.XR slop; man and woman in FF, app­arently a radio drama 0448 3/8 . (Connelly) MALTA Cyclops fair w/AA-type mx 0252 3/11. (Eckman) 'MEifieo XEVIP Mexico City noted w/EI> CBS nx 0600- 0606 on l'.N ~hen s/off message also in EE . They;ll be easier when we go on DST , being on an hour or more after WQ.XR s/off.( Cooper) AUSTRALIA 3NE Wangaratta 2/14 11 44-1 202 fair w/vocal i'\oR, male DJ, local mentions and TC at top of the hour . (Brown) TUNISIA all over this channel now that Switzerland is asleep. Talk about Allah, Tunis 0041-0045 , but no moaning. Thank God ! This 2/25 . (Littek) Fair 2325 3/8 w/usual distorted audio. (Eckman) Fair w/AA talk in slop; low-pitched low side het also present 2312 2/29 . (Connelly) Strong w/female AA chant 0444 3/8 . The 1575 Tunisian reported by someone was not heard here . ( Connelly) Who reported a 1575 Tunisian?.! don't remember seeing it and would like to get the details- CH

·:<"··::··::·1575·:>-:HHHiiAILAND BenPachi VOA 3/5 1145-1 202 w/nx in EE just before the top of the hour, then "this news has come to you. fro~ the V?A in Washington" . Single beep , no Yankee J?odle , tne~ n:it o unid ling o. Reappea re d 3/2, 7 , 13, 14 , 15 during same 15 monute

; :)93 per i od . ( Br own) Tremendous lll CH WO:ST GERhA;;y Langeni:Jerg blasting in w/ woman in GG 0604 3/1 . ( -:onnel l y ) Xlnt/like a local w/!'.uzak, then woman in GG 0440 3/6 . J ood out starting to fade with sunrise at first skip point lJ'7 16 3/9-haard w/ GG ta l k . ( Connelly )

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and lastly •••••• 1090 CuoA new unid R. Uuama outlet f irst noted here 3/4 at 0230 ,

'P'Q"Wer estimated at 1 kw . ( Hutton)

'i'his long , long column was caused by:

Richard Al len David Arbogast huss br own Ri cha rd t: lark Mark Connelly

Ernie Cooper Eric Cruser

Richar d lickman

Ed c isentraeger Chuck Hutton

iiei l .O.azaros~ Ar i Littek

Bruce Sportster

Mike Stonebridge Hank Wi l kinson

Billings, Okla. Root stown, Ohio Stevensville, Ni. Puerto Plata, Dom. Rep . 3i llerica, Ma . W. Yarmouth, Ma . Provincetown, Ma ss. Lakehurst, NJ

Phil ly, Pa ,

Rockford, Ill, Decatur , Ga .

Pawtucket, RI Hamburg , w. Germany

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Fox Creek, Alta . San ta Rosa , Ca .

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From t he looks of things, 3/ 9 was the TA night of the year so naturally 1 missed it . Oh well, not too likely t& hear anything new this year except new xmtrs. 3/1 8 GMT (3/17 EST ) must have been on the same level as 3/ 9 , just ha ve to wai t and see what kind of reports I get . Down gere there was a TA or t wo on just about every channel , including the usually not-t oo- good bo ttom of the band. 'r ried my best to get some sort of ID out of b21 Canaries but it wasn't to be this time. Every last BBC major outlet was in, including 1341 which had 1nt made it previously. 1008 had a sggnal on it again toni ght so it looks like Holland has the super­powe r cranked up and in regular use. So much stuff up and down the dial but 1 don ' t think Pat wants me to re-cap it all here •••••

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SELECTIVITY MODIFICATION FOR THE TRF

About a dozen DX 1 ers have inquired as to how to install ceramic filters in a TRF, so rather than responding to each person individually I am writing down the procedure here .

Basically, this procedure inv olve s removing the emitter bypass capacitors from two IF stages and replacing them with ceramic filters . No other parts are added or subtra cted . 'i'he only difficulty involved is s imply the physical operation of cutting away the capacitor body and soldering the filters to the capacitor leads in somewhat cramped space.

The filters I used were Vernitron TF01A 1 s, available from Radio West at 2 for $5 . A couple of Murata filters were also used , but their mini­mum mail order of $100 discourages most people .

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Some comments on TRF's with these filters installed (from happy pur­chasers of TRF's via me): "I am impressed with its performan c e and look forward to many years of DX 1 ing with it" ; "Frankly I am impressed! Ex­cept for readout it is every bit as good as my Gilfer 4 KHz FRG7 and in fact I'm not so sure the TRF selec tivity is not sharper"; and from a long-t ime owner of Hammarlunds and Collins "the improvement in selec­tivity is immediately noticeable!". One fellow has ordered his secong rxl Here in Atlanta Karl Jeter could not hear 1470 due to local WYZE 1480, 1460 being clearly r eadab le with a semi-local 4 0 miles away . Well, Karl tune d his newly-modified TR F' to 1470 and thought he was on 14 bO because there was a ni ce , readable signal there. 1 1 ve tried out many of the TH~ wi th f ilters and have heard s evera l TA1 s a nd a handful of Latin splits, including the new Radio Haiti-Inter on 1 325 .

I think you will be very happy witn a THF modified as per the above . Any questions, problems, etc . I will be most happy to help with.

Chuck's expert drawing i s over here . guy s . <;nuck nutton

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ZONAL-ANALYSIS APPROACH TO PAN-AMERICAN DX

by Mark Connelly

The purpose of this article is to enable DXe rs in the northeas~ern s tates to DX Latin America in a systematic manner, based upon checking "pilot s ignals" from different areas . The methods employed are similar to those used in the recent "Zonal Analys is f or TA DX " article. Of course, DXing the LA ' s i s quite a differen t ballgame from TA-chasing .

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LA splits can be heard on most n i ghts; on the o ther hand, domestic stations must be aurorally-weakened somewhat to permit large- s cale DXing of LA's o n 10-kHz. channels . The DXer should recognise the difference between short-skip a nd long-ski p openings for LA's, just as these differences are observed in domestic DX. A DXer,who no te s Dominican Republic stations over-riding normally- heard high-power co-channel Venezuelans & Colombians, should r efer to the zonal chart a t the e nd of thi s article and exploit the s hort-skip LA opening for other stations within 2000 miles. During such an opening , South Ameri can- chas ing is b e st bypassed, to be re-attempted at ano ther time. This situation i s ana l ogous to that of a domestic DX e r in Boston who realises that, when WCBS-8BO i• loud on skip & WLS-890 is weak, it makes more sense to try for r egionals & graveyarders in the NY-NJ-PA area than trying to get similar stations from the Midwest.

Frequ ency-dependence of open·ings must be considered: many nights have ·::xhibi ted au r ora l conditions with weak domestic skip & good LA'' s be low 1200 kHz., whilst yield i ng str ong short-skip d omes tic s & poor LA's above 1100 . Instead of formu l ating one band- wide "pla n of a ttack" for · LA DXing, the DXer s hould genera f e 3 plans of a tta~k : one for l ow-ba nd (500-900 ~Hz.), a second for mid-band ( 900 -1200 kHz.) , and a third f or high-band (1200-1700 " Hz.).

As we are dealing with north- south paths, the DXer must be aware of sunset and sunrise times at both the transmitter and r ecei ver sites . These times the ms elves are reasonably accurate for fade-time predictions: the difference i n s unse t (or sunrise ) times between those of the first ionospheric control point and that of the nearest g r o und point of interest (transmitter · or · receiver) , when a north- south path is cons idere d, is nowhere n e ar as great as the difference in sunset (or sunrise) between ground-site & control-point on t he east-west routes encoun tere d in TA & TP DX.

The s unse t /sunri se tables .I previously published should be· your guide to LA path viability. The DXer should first determine what LA's are capable ~ f being heard at his hometown sunset & s unrise times .

In December, a DXer in Boston at local sunset can hear LA's having s unset ear lier than 2112 GMT. On l y the eas tern tip of Brazil has an earlier sunset , however. Under norma·l conditions, domestic QRM will have already overta~en 10- kHz. -mul tiple LA's by the time they en t er darkness . An aurora . at thi s time of yea r could prove to be very benef i cial : with domestics knocked out , a DXer could selective l y tune for LA's far to the east · (e. g, Brazil ians ) shortly after s unset with no QRM from the Venezuelan & Colombian pests. Mid-December sunset for Venezuela doesn't occur until 2210 GMT. To me, far-east LA openings are far more rewarding than routine YV/ HJ-chasing. North-coast Brazilian reception generally goes hand-in-ha

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Summe rtime LA DX at sunset is c o nsiderably diff e rent. The aforementioned Boston DXer has a mid-June ·local sunse t of 0017 GMT. At that time , all of South America and the Caribbean i s l ands are well into d·arknes". Even in Costa Rica, s uns e t has occurre d 23 minutes earlier . Therefore, before domestics from the west start t o skip in, a considerable chunk of Lati n Amer i ca is "open" for intensive DX ing , without the nee d for AU CX. Of cou:se, auror~ will s till enhance one ' s possibilities by ex tending domestic-free LA DX we ll into the evening , by which time Mexico a nd western Central America will b e in the dark. The drawback ·to summer LA DXing (other than QRN) is that stations such as Fortaleza, Brazil on 760, 1200, & 1300 will be covered by stronger Venezuelans/Co lombians as soon as they begin to propagate in. During an aurora l winter opening,the DXer could "sit on " 640 kHz. and get Brazil, then Surinam, followed b y Guadeloupe &

@ Ve ne z ue l a a s the s unset l i ne move s wes t wa rd, not reaching Cuba until l~ ho urs after Boston sunset. In s umme r, the Cuban pe st surfaces immediately afte r Boston sunse.t.

Because domes t ic s ki p is usually very strong up until east coast sur.ri se , th e sunrise LA termination times a re pri nc i pa lly of inte rest to eas t e rn a xers d uring disturbe d c ondit ions . At s unrise in Decembe r, the Boston DXe r ma y he ar Mex i c o, we ste rn Cuba , and wes t e rn Centra l America: the se have ·sunrise time s late r than 1 216 GMT. Othe r LA' s have faded e arlier that ·morning (Rio de J a ne iro, Brazil sunrise ; 0810; Venezuela/ Co lombia / Caribbean are a s unri se a bout 104 S-llOS). Jun e s unri s e in Bo s t o n pe rmi ts DXing of countri e s with s unri se a ft e r 091 2 GMT: thes e include all Latin Ame r ican are as exce pt the fa r east of Brazil.

The sunset & sunrise case s of the winter & summe r solstices r e prese nt the extreme case s: other times of the year range be tween these extre me s in t e rms of the a mount of are a "o pe n" f or DXing a t LSS / LSR. The DX e r should procee d to the following zonal-analysis, keeping in mind the ne cessity to 11 follow 11 the suns e t & sunrise t e rmina tors from e ast · (group 1) to west (group S). Individua l s tation schedule s must also be considered: ·the Wor·ld Radio-TV Handbook and the international DX column updates are your refere nces.

Group .1 I 14S0

- 160° (E of N) These ccan be isolated from the interfe rence o f •more westerly 'LA

stations by exploi·ting autumn/ winter s un s et auroral openings. Salt water in the direction of de s ired-station pickup is advisable·: this should be within the first 10 ·mi.les from the receiving ·site as the signals of inte r­est will be arriving at low ang.les, .skimming the surface of the e arth. Africans shou.ld be DXed s .imultaneously . Surinam on 725 .is the heavy hitter of group 1. Other Surinam stations on 600, -640, 820, & 914 ar.e likely to be heard. "Hi11di-cu·1ture programming forms an important part of the broadcasting scene in Surinam·: ·the exotic East Indian ·music will defini t_. l y help you ·to locate the non-split Surinam s tations. 760 is .worth checking as there is ·a station in Fortaleza, Bra·zil here·; also the more-common Guyana station shouhl show . These are sandwiched between Africans (rare

. Sao · Tome on 7S9 .& powerhouse Senegal on 76S) . A tough one is the French Guiana outlet on ·1070. 960 is your be st be t for Be rmuda; this i s favoured by short-skip openings, rather than by heavily auroral conditions. Barbados is frequently heard on 900 during the conditions that give decent group l reception. Rio de Janeiro on 860 & 1220 are general"ly best just before Rio sunri·se, rather than at east coast US sunset .

Grou.Ps 2 & 3 I ,160° - 19 s0

Within these --groups are many o f the Caribbe an is.lands.: a ve rita ble mother lode of potential ·countries to b e e f up the axer ' s totals. The s pl i ts may be heard .. most nights, even when domestics are strong. The be st "pilo~ signal·s" are from St . . Kitts on 126S & SSS. Antigua - 11"65 i s al s o super ­easy; non-split .ZDK-'1100 is somewhat more of .a challe nge be cause of HJAT/l'IWWE \.)RM. Haiti offers 1035 as a n easy s plit; 895_, 1325, & others a are more difficult. Tougher Caribbean splits include Grenada - S3S, Dominica ·- 59"S, St. Vincent - 705, Montser rat - 885 , a nd Angui.lla - lSOS. 10-kHz.-chanffe l stations heard nightly include Ne the rla nds Antille s - 800, Venezuela - 120·0, Colombia - 1100, & Dominican Republi c - 650-0f course, auroral conditions will gre atly incr<ease the quantity and the quality o·f DX heard; the r e ader is encouraged' to read the rece nt "DXing Latin America ·& the Caribbe.a·n - Country by Country' " -a r ticle, the IRCA foreign logs, and the international DX column s for a mo r e in-de pth examination ·of the e normous numbe r of pote nti a l targe ts . A h i ghly-rewarding aspe ct of 'DXiffg Colombia & Ve ne zue l a i s the r ecep tion o f s tations on the US regional & g rave yard channe ls f rom 123 0 t o 1490 kH z .

Deep-Sou th-Ame rica n Hunt~ This is a speci a l bree d of DX which i s both s a t is fying and

fru s t ra ti ng . The DX e r s hould c heck Ec uadorian sp l i t s (605 , 7 3S, 9 45 , 995 , & 14 65 fo r sta r t e rs) as a p r e l ude t o DSA DX at t e mp t s . My e x peri e nce i s t ha t the 0 300 - 0900 GMT time slot is mos t p r oduc tive . Spring & ~utumn are the s eason s p r efe r red by s ome a xers , altho ug h, th e ore tica ll y , DSA ,; 11• ,· 1 l •I \I( • DX-ab l e a ll ye ar . Pe r u - 8 5 4 (a 11d a lso 880 c'! u rin CJ WCBS S P) a nd I 1 1 ti · 1 · 1.i , ·- G4 S come ne x t o n my DSA ta r.g e t li s t . I f the s e a r e f o und, by t l l me a ns, d i g f or more : Arge n ti na , Chi l e , Bo l iv i a , Uru g uay , a 11d (th e u l t imat e ) Fa l kla nd s I s l a nd s 011 53 6 . Bu0nos Aj rcs o n 8 70 a nd Ri o de J a neiro on 8 6 0 ma y s er ve as propag a tion- vi a b i l ity-indi c a tors .

Group 4 I 19S0 - 2200

Bah a mas o n 810 & 1 540 are r e gul a rly he ard wi th the Alba ny, NY area stations on the ir channe l s disposed o f with a good loop or auroral ex.

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Cuba is loaded to the gunwales with pe sts with which we're all too familiar. Thos e seeking unusual low~power Cubans should consult Schatz's recent list. Cayman - lSSS i s a "regular"; 1205 is s omewhat less commonly heard. Jamaica - 700 may be f ound with WLW looped or phased. A short-skip LA night i s be st to minimi s e YVMH/ HJCX QRM. Be li ze - 834 and the Costa Rican splits(on S7S, 67S , 725, 77S, 82S, e t al) provide eff e ctive propagation beacons to the Central American isthmu s . Central America is generally best from 0400 - 0800 GMT; additional targe ts are note d in the recent LAD>< article by Kazaross, Connelly, & DeLore nzo.

Group S I 220° - 2500

Mexico is the country of interest he re : S40, 730, 900, 940, 1000, 1050, 1220, lSOO, 1560, & 1570 have all been heard in New England. Early morning (from 0600 z to sunrise termination time) is the most efficie nt time period for DXing Mexico. During that period, the high­powered Colombians & Venezuelans start fading, leaving Cuba & domestics to QRM Mexico. Moderate, rather than severe, auroral conditions are best. The lowest-latitude "Down-Under" DX paths pass through Mexico & the US southwe st: unusually-loud Mexicans & SW domestics could signal the . tantalising possibility of South Pac ific DX making it to the northeastern USA. Tahiti - 738 & Tonga - 1017 wo uld probably be the first heard.

Russ Brown ha s gotte n TP/DU DX from Michigan; Gordon Nelson heard Tonga on 1020 in the '60s f rom MA. Despite the ne w splits, Ne w England axers have not r e c e ntly heard TP/DU sta tions. Increased all-night dome st i c ope ration is the "villain" bla111ed for thi s by many DXers.

Other relevant article s : DXN DX News DXM = DX Monitor

Comments Title

Cuban Stations

Zonal-Analysis Approac h to TA DX

TA DXer's Guide to Sunset/ Sunrise Time s

DXing Latin America and the Caribbean

DXing Latin America and the Caribbean Comments/C orrections

Author(s) Where found

Schatz DXN, 2-25-80

Connelly DXN, 3-10-80 DXM, 2-1 6 - 80

Connelly DXN, 2-4-80 DXM, 2-23-80

Kazaross/ Connelly/ De Lorenzo

Foxworth

DXN , 12-28-79 DXM, 12-22-79

DXN, 1-21-8 0 DXN, 1-28 -80 DXM, 1-26-80

Deadly accurate

Intro. to Zonal-Analy­sis; Applied to TA DX

Useful to predict recept­ion path termination times for both LA's & TA's

A detailed look at LA DX targets for all 46 countries, arranged in order of difficulty

Additional info to the above arti cle

LA DX fr om the Pacific P ortzer Northwest

DXM, 12-29-79 The Westerner's Version of the DXing LA · article referenced above

LA Splits

Terminator Transit Mechanix

Your First 20 NA/SA Countries

Hutton

Schatz

DXN, 2-19-79 Slightly dated, but still generally correct & use­ful."

DXN, 11-12-79 The definitive work DXN, 9-24-79 analysing the relation-DXN, 3-5-79 ship of sunset & sunrise DXN, 10-9-78 to DXing

Edmunds/ Old NRC Reprint Info is dated but DX Page Taylor available from techniques therein are

Mark at addres s still valid. Of below hi s torical interest.

The reader is also advised t o refer to the !RCA F oreign Logs for other articles pertinent to LA DX, TA DX, and medium~wave propagation in general .

Mark Connelly, JO Wil l iam Road , Billerica, MA 01821.

NOTE FROM HQ:

Tom orrow , April 1 marks the beg inning of LPC's 4th year. We're n ot sure how long LPC can last but we are appreciative of the past support ~ou out there have given us, th e editors and other workers. Thanks from the LPC.

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22 0° - 250° 1 95°- 220° 175°-19 5° 1 60°-1 7.5° 145°-16 0° ~

500-lOOOmi . USA - TN - - - Ber mud_a 805-161 0km.

B I l 000-1 500mi. USA - MS USA - FL - - -1610- 24 1 5km. Bahamas

Cuba

c Isoo- 2ooomi. USA - TX Be l ize Dominican Angui lla -2415-3220km. Jamaica Republic Ant igua

Dominica Haiti Guadeloupe

Mart i nique Montser r at Puerto Rico St. Kitts St . Lucia Virgin Isl.

D 2ooo-25 oomi. Mexico Costa Rica Neth. Grenada Barbados 3220-4025km. Pan ama Antilles Venezuela

Honduras Nicaragua Guatema l a El Sal vador

E 25 00- 3250mi. - Galapagos Colombia Brazi l French Guiana 4025-5232km. Isl. Ec uado r Mana us Guyana

S urinam

F J250-4000mi. - - Peru - Brazil 5232-6440km. Natal

G 4ooo-4750rni. - - Boliv ia Paraguay -6440-7647krn.

H 4750-SSOOmi. - Easter Isl. Chi l e Argentina Brazil 7647-8855krn. Urug uay Rio de J .

I 5500-sooomi. Tahiti Pitcairn - Fa l klands -

'3B55-12880krn. Isl. Isl.

J New Zealand Antarctica , - - ->sooomi. Mc Murdo

>12880km .

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GRAVt;YARD DX ACHlt;Vt;Mt;NTS

BILL HALE 1451-B FAITH DRIVE RANTOUL, IL 61866

\1e11, friends and neighbors, gals and pals (as Bozo S"¥s), here we go with another star­studded edition of Graveyard DX AIShievements. I want to S"¥ •welcome' to all the new reportera{ 1 thanks 1 to them and all the established reporters who are making this the well-received column that it is. Each time GYllXA appears, the total of stations gets bigger, as the blank spots are being filled in fast. Here• a how 1490 looks •••

!station and location

*** 1!12Q kc 1 before Jan. 11 1260 *** DXer and location ~stance

:WAJF Decatur AL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1985 \d!BS lfllntaville AL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2005 :WHBB Selma AL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2040 WTBF Troy AL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2110 KWJB Globe AZ Nonn Maguire Albuquerque llM 250 . KTYL Mesa AZ Gene Allen Vallejo CA 680 : KTKT Phoenix AZ Nonn Maguire Albuquerque lllM :JX) KYCA Prescott AZ Stan Morss Bradford MA 2100 ' KAIR Tucson AZ Gene Allen Vallejo CA 765 ' KFFA Helena AR Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1060 KXAR Hope AR Nonn Maguire Albuquerque llM 710 ; KDRS Paragould AR Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1765 i KOTN Pine Bluff AR Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1715 ' IOOilf Russe l ville AR Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1755 ! KDIA Aubu= CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque liM 800 i KAFY Bakers field CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque llM 700 '. KPAS Banning CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque liM 555 : KOWL Bijou CA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1J) : KWIK Burbank CA Hank Holbrook Chevy Chase MD 2:JX) f KICO Calexico CA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 535 ~ KXO El Centro CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque llM 520 : KYOS Merced CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque liM 755 KAFP Petaluma CA Don Kaskey Galva IA 14J> KBLF lied Bluff CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque llM 9J> '. XXOA Sacramento CA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 55 iVOE Santa Ana CA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 2475 KllB San ta Barbara CA Stan Moras Bradford JU. 2450 . KSYC Yreka CA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque llM 9J> KBOL Boulde r CO Nonn Maguire Albuquerque JM J4D WNLC New London CT Nonn Maguire Eo Hartford CT 40 WTOR Torrington CT Nonn. Maguire E. Hartford CT 25 WTRL Bradenton FL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2440 WSB Crestview FL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2110 WBS DeLand FL Nonn Maguire Albuquerque liM 1475 WKAT Miami Beach FL Nonn Maguire E, Hartford CT 1180 WEAR Pensacola FL Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2080 WSIR Winter Haven FL Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1050 : WRDW Augusta GA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 735 . VIMGR Bainbridge GA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 10J) WM.JM Cordele GA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 1)40 WKMA Quitman GA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1015 WWNS Statesboro GA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 10J) KTOH Lihue HI Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 5000 KBLI Blackfoot ID Gene Allen Vallejo CA 6J) KCID Caldwell ID Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 765 W'1MV E. St Louis MD Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1745 WGIL Galesburg IL Nonn Maguire Albuquerque liM 965 YIKBV Connersville IN Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 590 KBUR Burlington IA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1680 I

WKBB Dubuque IA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1695 KRIB Mason City IA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1565 KVOE Emporia KS Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1420 WFKY Frankfort KY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 20J) WKAY Glasgow KY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2000 WOMI Owensboro KY Nonn Maguire Albuquerque lllM 1120 WSIP Paintsville KY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2155 KVOB Alexandria LA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque lllM 680 WIKC Bogalusa LA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 970 KE1JN Eunice LA Gene Allen Vallejo CA . 1600 !!IJIL Houma LA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1900 .

@ r ® 810 WATO Oak Ridge TN Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2115.

KPLC Lake Charles LA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM KNOW Austin TX Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1540:

KRUS Ru.ston LA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1720 KDlL Beeville TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1585

Wl'OR Portland ME Frank Wheeler Erie PA 500 KBST Big Spring TX Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1675i

WTVL Waterville ME Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 355 KHUZ Borger TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1175: WCUM Cumberland MD Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT JOO

KNEL Brad;y TX Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 16101 WLOE Boston MA Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 200

KGFI Brownsville TX Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1700: WHOB Gardner MA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 60

KEEW/KVAL Brownsville TX Nonn Ma;;tuire Albuquerque NM 800: WHAV Haversville MA Charles Martin Springfield Gd!1s NY 220

KGKB BroWlllllaod. ~ Charles Martin Springfield Gdns liY 1535: WBEC/WBRK Pittsfield MA Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 55 KEYS Corpus Christi TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1620 WJBK Detroit MI Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2095

KTLC Houston TX Charles Martin Springfield Gdns liY 1395: WESK Escanaba MI Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 1225

KSAM Huntsville TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1615: WMPC Lapeer MI Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 670

KPAB Laredo TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 15JJI WKBZ Ml.uikegon MI Nom11 Maguire Albuquerque NM 1225

KVOW Littlefield TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 11601 KDAL Duluth MN Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1000

KPLT Paris TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1535: KBzy Muskegon MI Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 1105

KGKB Tyler ~ Gene Allen Vallejo CA 158ol KYSM Mankato MN Nonn Maguire E 0 Hartford CT 1045

KVWC Ve=on TX Gene Allen Vallejo CA 132o/ KLGR Redwood Falls MN Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 895

KVOG Ogden UT Gene Allen Vallejo CA ~~~. WLOX Biloxi MS Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1990 KCSU Provo UT Gene Allen Vallejo CA

WNAG Grenada MS Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 895 WSYB Rutland VT Nonn Ma;;tuire E. Hartford CT 1~~ WLAU Laurel MS Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 1020 WIKE St Johnsbury VT Nonn Maguire Albuquerque :IM

\IMIS Natchez MS Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 945 WVEC Hampton VA Frank Wheeler Erie PA ~ WHOC Philadelphia MS Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 980

WRTD Richmond VA Nonn Ma;;tuire E. Hartford CT 35Q; WELO Tupelo MS Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 970

WOOV Roanoke VA Nonn Ma;;tuire E. Hartford CT 465' WVlM Vicksburg MS Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1830

KBBD Bremerton WA Ron Schiller Avenel NJ 2375 KmO Carthage MD Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1540 KELSjKLoo Kelso WA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque BM 111'> KGIZ Grant City MO Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 1065

KTBI Tacoma WA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 61'> ' KTTR Rolla MD Charles Martin Brooklyn NY 965 :KENE Toppenish WA .Nonn Maguire Albuquerque JiM 1045 KBOW Butte MT Nozw Maguire Albuquerque NM 800

KWWB Walla Walla WA E=ie Cooper Brooklyn NY 2200 : KCNI Broken Bow NE Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1230

KPQ Wenatchee WA E=ie Cooper Brooklyn liY 2275 KBON Omaha NE Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1425

Charles Martin Springfield G<lns NY 2275 KGKY Scottsbluff NE Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 1535

WGKV Charleston WV Nonn Maguire Albuquerque JiM 1490 KWRN Rene NV Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 790 wvvw Fairmont WV Nonn Maguire Albuquerque JiM 1570 wuss Atlantic City NJ Charles Martin Long Beach NY 85

WLOH Princeton WV Nonn Ma;;tuire Albuquerque JiM 1495 !'VER Albuquerque NM Gene Allen Vallejo CA 895

WIGM Medford WI Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1720 KWEW Hobbs NM Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1150 wosa Oshkosh WI Nonn~ Albuquerque liM 111'> KRSN Los Alamos NM Gene Allen Vallejo CA 900 · KIML Gillette WY Nom Maguire Albuquerque liM 660 KRTN Raton NM Gene Allen Vallejo CA 985

KRTR Themopolis WY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 835 IIBTA Batavia NY Nom Maguire Albuquerque NM 1620 KGOS Torrington WY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1000

WNBF Bing:bamton NY Nom Maguire Eo Hartford .CT 175 KWOR Worland WY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 860.

WMBQ/wCNW Brooklyn NY Charles Martin Brooklyn NY 25 WECW Meyaguez PR Gene Allen Vallejo CA )600

WKNY Kingston NY Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 85 CFRG Kingston ON Frank Wheeler Erie PA 2JJ

\IMIL Long Beach NY Charles llartin Springfield Gdns NY 8 CJIC Sault Ste Marie ON Nom Maguire E. Hartford CT 675

WLBX Long Island City NY Charles ,Martin Sprit)gf:i,e:J,.d Gdna NY JO CHLP Montreal PQ Nom Maguire E. Hartford CT ,380: WOLF Syracuse NY Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 140

XEDR Glla3JllUS SON Gene Allen Vallejo CA 985 WWR1 Woodside NY Nom Maguire E. Hartford CT 105

CMOX Havana Cuba Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2605 WOON Boone NC Nom Maguire Albuquerque NM 1375 WllNC Durhan NC Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 490 ***1490 khz. after or on Jan 1, 1960 *** WLOE Eden NC Frank Wheeler Erie PA 330 WGTC Greenville NC Nom Maguire E. Hartford CT 495 'WAJF Decatur AL Robert Kramer Chicago IL 510 WSTP Salisbury NC Nom Maguire E. Hartford CT 530 WRLD Lanett AL Jerry Starr Youngstown OH 605 WSVM Valdese NC Frank Wheeler Erie PA 515 WliBB Selma AL Rich Eddie St Louis MO 465 !afDc Hettinger ND Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1160 KCUZ Clifton AZ Rick Carr Bloomington IL 1225 WSRS Cleveland Hts OH Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2175 KAIR Tucson AZ Michael Hardester NAS Miramar CA 68o WBEX Chillicothe OH Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 1300 KTLO Mountain Home AR Nom Maguire Albuquerque NM 765 WOHI East Liverpool OH Frank Wheeler Erie PA 125 KJlRS Paragould AR Larry Van Ho= Millington '.Ill 6o: \olMllN Marion OH Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2110 KOTN Pine Bluff AR Carl Dabelstein Lincoln NE 510· KWRW Guthrie OK Nom Maguire Albuquerque NM 480 KARV Russell ville AR Carl Dabelstein Linooln NE 4JJ KBIX Muskogee OK Nonn Maguire E. Hartford CT 1285 KWAC Bakersfield CA Blll Hardy Aberdeen WA 755 KBKR Baker OR Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 890 KOWL Bijou CA Pete Ta_ylor San Francisco CA 160 KRNR Roseburg OR Gene Allen Vallejo CA 370 KTOB Petaluma CA Nancy Hardy Aberdeen WA 51P KOCO Salem OR Nom MP.guire Albuquerque NM 1100 KBLF Red Bluff CA Mike Hardester NAS Miramar CA 190 WESB Bradford PA Norm Maguire Albuquerque NM 1590 KDB San ta Barbara CA Bill Hardy Aberdeen CA 800 WAZL Hazelton PA Frank Wheeler Erie PA 230 KOWL Seu th Lake Tahoe CA Dave Margri tz CElaha NE 1~5 WARD Johnstown PA Norm Maguire E. Hartford CT 330 KBOL Boulder CO Gene Allen Vallejo CA 925 WMRF Lewistown PA Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 1500 KGUC Gunnison CO Nonn Maguire Albuquerque liM 260 WBUD Morrisville PA Norm Maguire E. Hartford CT 150 KIIQ Manitou Springs CO Carl Dabelstein Lincoln NE 485 WPEN Philadelphia PA Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 78 WGCH Greenwich CT Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher fill 610 wwsw Pittsburg PA Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2275 WNLC New London CT Chris Lucas Fairfield CT 61 WMBA Newport RI Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 145 ; WTHL Bradenton FL Alan Impreacia Hew York NY 1010 WGCD Chester SC Frank Wheeler Erie PA 515 WKE!M I.mmokalee FL Ernie Cooper Provincetown MA 1225 WLAT Conway SC Norm Maguire Eo Hartford CT 595 WMBM Miami Beach FL Jeff Kosnett Evanston IL 1170 WAKE Greenville SC Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2235 WMOG Brunswick GA Ron Musco Windsor CT 900 WCRS Greenwood SC Nonn Maguire Eo Hartford CT 690 WM.JM Cordele GA Don Davis Wa=er Robins GA 5Q KJ)SJ Dea dwood SD Nonn Maguire Albuquerque NM 695 I WAJF Decatur GA Bruce Winkleman Man WV

~~ KORN Mi tchell SD Charles Martin Springfield Gdns NY 1240 I WMOA Marietta GA Frank Dailey Preston CT

J. WOPI Bri stol TN Gene Allen Vallejo CA 2210 WSNT Sandersville GA Ernie Cooper Provincetown MA 990 WJJM Lewisburg TN Gene Allen Vallejo CA 1980

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@ WKRO Cairo IL WDAN Danville IL WESL East St Louis IL WOPA Oak Pa :i::k IL WZOE Prince ton IL WKBV Richmond IN KBUR Burlington IA WllBQ Dubuque IA KBAB Indianola IA KRIB Mason City IA KKAN Phillipsburg KS KTOP Topeka KS WFKY Frankfort KY WKAY Glasgow KY WOMI Owensboro KY WSIP Paintsville KY

KRUS Ruston LA WTVL Lewiston ME WPOR Portland ME WTVL Waterville ME WARK Hagerstown MD WHAV Haverhill MA WMliG Milford MA WTXL West Springfield MA WABJ Adrian MI WTIQ Manistique MI WMPX Midland MI WLRC Whitehall MI KXRA Alexandria MN WLOX Biloxi MS WOC Philadelphia MS WTllP Tupelo MS

. KTTR Rolla MO

. KiiRo Sedalia MO : KBOH CElaha NE ; WEKJ Laconia NH WUSS Atlantic City NJ KRTll Ra ton NM: WCSS Amsterdam NY WBTA Batavia NY

WKNY Kingston NY WICY Malone NY wm.c Port JerVis NY WOLF Syracuse NY WSSB Durham NC WLOE Eden NC WFLB Fayetteville NC WRNB New Beril NC WRMT Roclcy Mount NC WHSL Wilmington NC KNDC Hettinger ND KOVC Valley City ND WBEX Chillicothe OH WJMO Cleveland l!gts OH WOHI East Liverpool OH WMOA Marietta OH WMRll Marion OH KOKC Guthrie OK KBIX Muskogee OK KBzy Salea a& WESB Bradford PA WAZL Hazleton PA WBCB Levittown PA WM!lF Lewistown PA WMGW Meadville PA WNBT Wellsboro PA WMRB Greenville SC KORN Mitchell SD WOPI Bristol TN WDXB Chattanooga TN WDXL Lexington TN KNOW Austin TX KBST Big Spring TX KlJOK Tyl er TX KVOG Ogden UT

Russ Edmunds Glen Rock NJ Russ Edmunds Parsippaizy NJ Paul Mount Nelsonville OH Weyne Heinen Buffalo NY Rich Eddie St Louis MO Rick Ca= Bloomington IL Carl Dabelatein Oma.ha NE Weyne Heinen Colorado Spnga CO Dave Margri tz Oma.ha NE Carl Dabelatein Lincoln NE Carl Dabelstein Overland Pk KS Dan Phillips Clinton TN Tim Kerfoot Weston ON Rick Ca= Bloomington IL Paul Mount Nelsonville OH Jeff Falconer Clinton ON Andy Rugg Waterloo ON Carl Dabelatein Lincoln NE Dave Yocia Fairfield CT Tim Kerfoot Weston ON Russ Edmunds Paraippaizy NJ Andy Rugg Montreal PQ Jerry Starr Youne;stown OH Chris Lucas Fairfield CT Jerry Sta= Youngstown OH Andy Rugg Montreal P Q Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher NB Russ Edmunds Paraippaizy NJ Rich Eddie St Louis MO Russ Edmunds Paraippaizy NJ Bill Hale Shalimar FL Jerry Sta= Youngstown OH Ralph Sperry Fairfield CT Karl Jeter Atlanta GA Carl Dabelstein Lincoln NE Jerry Sta= HUbbard OH Jerry Sta= Youn. 3town OH Delira Ridden Orlando FL Mike Heppe Houston MS Bruce Conti West Warwick RI Dave Yocis Fairfield CT Chris Lucas Fairfield CT Morris Sorensen Toronto ON Dave Fox Reading PA Chris Lucas Ithaca NY Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher NB Andy Rugg Montreal PQ Russ Edmunds Parsippaizy NJ Tim Kerfoot Weston ON Dave Fox Reading PA Andy Rugg Montreal PQ Tim Kerfoot Toronto ON Gene Nix Bil.lings MT Morris Sorensen Leaf Rapids MB Paul Mount Nelsonville OH Chris Lucas Fairfield CT Tim Kerfoot Weston ON Paul Mount Nelsonville OH Chris Lucas Danbury CT Carl Dabelstein Overland Pk KS Rick Ca= Bloomington IL Mike Hardester NAS Miramar CA Chris Lucas Fairfield CT Andy Rugg Montreal P Q Mo=is Sorensen Toront o ON Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher NB Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher NB Chris Lucas Fairfield CT Robert Kramer Chicago IL Rich Eddie St Louis MO Andy Rugg Montreal PQ Carl Dabelstein Lincoln NE Tom Sundstrom Willingboro NJ Bill Lackey Kingsville TX Bill Lackey Kingsville TX Gary Atkins Louisville KY Gene Nix Billings MT

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1ilKVT Brattleboro VT Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher NB 480 WFAD Middlebury VT Chris Lucas Fairfield CT 195 WIKE Newport VT Rodney Valdron Peti.t Rocher NB 370 WYKR Wells River vi Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher liB 395 WCVA Culpepper VA Andy Rugg Montreal PQ 525 WVEC Hampton VA Andy Rugg Montreal PQ 605 WilB Weyneaboro VA Ron Musco Windsor CT 430 KVAC Forks WA Robert Wien San Jose CA 765 KLOG Kelso WA Mike Hardester NAS Miramar CA 590 WXIT Charleston WV Rodney Valdron Petit Rocher liB 1030 WLOH Princeton WV Jerry Sta= Youngstown OH 220 WOOB Sutton WV Stephen Mcintire Dea Moines ll 675 WEZ Beloit WI Jeff Koanett Chicago IL 75 WLCX LaCroaae WI Jerry Sta= Youngstown OH 580 WIGM Medford WI Carl Dabelatein Lincoln NE 430 WY'l!L Oshkosh WI Sharon Wate:man Southwich MA 800 KIML Gillette WY Gene Allen Vallejo CA 985 KO.JO Laramie WY Carl Dabelatein Lincoln lllE 455 'olMDD Fajardo PR Rank Holbrook Chevy Chase !ID 1600 CKMV Grand Falla NB llodney Valdron Pllti. t llocher .llB 110 VOHF Hamon Field liFLD llodney Valdron Petit Rocher JIB 410 OKEN Ken tville NS llodne;r Valdron Petit Rocher El 195 CKAD Middleton NS Chris Lucas Tro;r NY 495 CHIM Kitchener ON B:cyan Lee Broolclyn CT 415 CFPS Port Elgin ON Dave Fox Reading PA 410 CKLR L'Annonciation PQ TiJR .Xerfoot Weston CW 280 CKBM Mon1magey PQ Tim Kerfoot Weston CW 470 CJM) St-Anne-des"'*>nta PQ llodne;r Valdrcll Petit llocher Jill 100 CJSN Sbaunavon SA Morris Sorensen God' a Narrows MB 510

There it is, Graveyard fana. If you have aizy other GY achievements which would equal or surpass the ones shown in the past six colUlllWl, or, if ;you have ~ to add, send. thea in. Next time the Grand Totals collll!D'.l will appear. So get your GY totals, by frequanc;r in

to be included for that collll!D'.l, the last of the season. Until next time.•• 73

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R. Crawford New Zealand B. Dangerfield Pennsylvania H. Gustafson Florida R. Anderson Virginia H. Robie Massachusetts R . Schiller Texas D . Reynolds california N. Maguire New Mexico E. Cooper Massachusetts H. Wilkinson California G. Allen california A. Rugg Quebec R. Leamy Ohio R. Sperry Connecticut S. Dellit Australia R. carr Texas R. Kenneally Ohio F. Wheeler Pennsylvania w. Powis Virginia P. Swearingen Kansas R. Eddie Missouri K. Rychalsky Connecticut N. Wolfish Ontario P. Mount Ohio

Countries FOR. T.V. North America - Best VAC

161 VAC 1329 1474 357 YSCF El Salvador 1155 lkv ll7 VAC 353 430 ll5 R. Antigua 644 108 VAC 310 856 68 WXLS Greenland 850 1 kw 105 VAC 514 1448 227 AHO Puerto Rico

90 148 263 62 HOK Pan...., 250w 86 VAC 381 2166 260 ACE Puerto Rico 1200 50w 85 YAC 493 1368 279 R. Montserrat 8S5 250w 83 VAC 560 3126 289 ACE 1470 50w 78 757 4132 527 HP5B Panallla 730 lOOw 78 VAC 456 482 138 St. Pierre 1275 1 kw 65 VAC 544 2895 337 WUMS Ohio 1560 5w 60 179 1483 76 WKFE Puerto Rico 1550 48 ll6 317 86 R. Montserrat 885 250w 42 249 1669 216 ACA canal Zone 37 218 362 109 KBBR Ore. 1340 250w 36 169 ll75 154 R. Anguilla 1505 30 127 805 100 JBC Jamaica 700 24 189 1707 179 KFAR Alaska 660 10 kw 23 208 312 17 CBK Sask. 540 50 kw 18 53 420 42 R . Jumbo Dominica 540 15 55 1028 51 R. Paradise St. Kitts 12 48 262 46 R. Belize 834 ll 10 235 9 ??

6 25 225 22 WKAQ Puerto Rico 580

Welcome to Ray Crawford and to the return of ERC. We have many other NRC members with good totals and would like to have your listings. VAC = Verified All Continents . T.V. = Total veries. Next issue will feature Asia totals and best veries. Hank Wilkinson continues to pull them in and extract veries from the stations. This time, he added a new country with a verie from Truk in the Eastern Caroline Islands. Good DXing and good health. 73,

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® BROADCASTING IN GERMANY

Arnim Littek

For those of you in North America who are avid TA DXers, this country per­mits plenty of opportunity for your reception of Europe. Perhaps some German stations are the easiest Europeans . With that in mind it would likely be worthwhile if the system of broadcasting in Germany were explained.

Everything is different. First cf all, the Post Office in Germany is like a combination of Ma Bell and the FCC, in addition to its mail business . It licenses the frequency assignments within Germany, and also sells broad­casters their audio lines, for transmitter links, for news bureaus or special programs, and other sundry reasons.

Then there is the ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) which is a re l atively loose organization binding together most (not all) of the broadcasting units in Germany . The members of ARD are:

BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk HR - Hessischer Rundfunk NDR - Norddeutscher Rundfunk RB - Radio Bremen SR - Saarl11ndischer Rundfunk SFB - Sender Freies Berlin SDR - SOddeutscher Rundfunk SWF - SOdwestfunk WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk

DLF - Deutschlandfunk DW - Deutsche Welle

RIAS-Berlin - Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sek tor

The first nine companies were either brought into being by individual state governments, or, as in the case of NDR and WDR, have contracts with the states which they serve. DLF and DW were founded by the national government in Bonn. RIAS is an associate member of the ARD .

Commercial radio, as we in North America know it, does not exist in Germany . Every radio and television set is taxed annually, under a relatively complex set of rules. Currently, the monthly rate is 3.80 DM for a radi o, 13 . 00 DM for a television . No extra charge is added for radio and television and the monthly fee goes no higher than 13.00 DM per household. The funds are collected by the GebOhreneinzugszentrale, who turns it over to the ARD . The money is then split among the Rundfunks according to the number of radios in each region of land . The smaller Rundfunks, such as RB and SR receive disproportionately large divisions of the income, in order that they can make realistic contributions to ARD programming.

Another of the major functions of the ARD is the running of the program switching center in Frankfurt. Programming, both radio and television, is frequently shared among Rundfunks, and it i s all sent over land lines . Because of the prohibitively high cost of a complete network among all the Rundfunks, a center was created in Frankfurt, through which all programming is switched. It was a huge expense, but so high are the costs in Germany for landlines that it very nearly paid itself off in its first year of operation (1975).

Most of the Rundfunks have more than one program. In North America it is relatively common for a station t o have two programs, one for its AM transmitter and one for its FM transmitter. A standard number in Germany seems to be three . Not all have three programs; for instance, RB , which is sufficiently small that they produce only one program, but most have more . I shall take NDR for example, since I know it best . All three pro­grams are mainly FM networks. NDR has virtually blanket coverage of its region with 17 transmitter locations, each with three transmitters (one for each program) . In additi on , in Kiel , Harz and Hamburg , there is a trans­mitter for a fourth program. This program , in various foreign languages , is for the many foreign workers (Gastarbeiter) in Germany . See map.

The foreign language program is of little concern for the MW DXer. NDR program 1 is the only program also transmitted on medium wave, from locations in Hamburg, Ki el , Hannover and Flensburg. That seems to be the case with most of the_Rundfunks in Germany. One of their programs is made mono and sent to their MW transmitters . Almost as an afterthought .

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•SWF shares the duties with Saarl11ndischer Rundfunk (SR). SR does the night show once every four weeks . For 1980 the schedule for SR is : Jan, 19/20, Feb . 16/17, Mar. 15/16, Ayr. 12/13, May 10/11, June 7/8 , July 5/6, Aug. 2/3, Aug. 30/31, Sept . 27/28, Oct . 25/26, Nov. 22/23 and Dec . 20/21. . '. . .

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In North America, it has become something of a common practice for some stations, especially in larger cities, to employ an aircraft for audience information of traffic developments. The Germans have a different approach; the Verkehrsstudio.

Most, if not all the auto radios in Germany can be fitted with tone decoders, which, when they hear a certain combination of tones, perform a function, specifically that of switching the local radio program to its Verkehrs (traffic) program, to inform the driver of the local problem. This system employs FM subcarriers. Traffic information is an integral part of every newscast in Germany also, but the tone decoders are used to switch a net­work newscast to a more local traffic news studio. It is also used when an emergency occurs, or a problem occurs and no newscast is imminent. In these cases, it can just override normal programming. A different combination of tones switches to a different region. This way the Verkehrs­studio in, say Hamburg, can get out traffic reports to each of the major cities in its domain. Aircraft are used too, but mainly to inform the studio. All information must first be confirmed by the police. A bit of extra German bureaucracy, but its only- formality.

DX' ING GERMANY

There are advantages and disadvantages in this for the North American DXer chasing down European~. The biggest advantage is the transmitter power race that is always going on. In Europe, · the AM band has turned into a very large . propaganda instrument. In Gerinany, the powers go all the way up to a ' aaximum of. 1200 kW, that's 2.4 times the power of Bonaire, and almost. everyone in the NRG has heard that!' That makes i 't hard to DX here, but easier to hear Germany in North America. After all, 800 kW on 159J kHz should get out fairly well .....

The difficulties though, are numerous. Non-couimercial radio has a lot less identifiable detail. Less stuff like telephone numbers, store advertise­ments unique ·- to a city, and such like. With the non-commercial radio comes a · laid-back CBC-type of attitude to radio. IDs are not pounded out every 5 : m.inutes. If fact seldom more than once an hour, and it is quite possible that that is · skipped too.

•adulation levels are generally lower her too. That means audio is harder to pull out of a carrier. There'Bless audio processing in Germany, too, especially compression. Compression makes the sound seem louder. It' s hard to explain so briefly, but a compressed signal is. more easily heard than a "natural" signa:I.

And then, of course, there's language. Europe is a disaster area for languages. In one twist of the wrist, I can tune 25 languages. And to compound the problem; ''you might get ,;This is Radio Moscow" or, "Govori t London" : Since a lot 'of these transmitters are propaganda instruments, they very· frequently ,broadcast in non-native languages. For. DXing in this situation I can only suggest WRTVH, two aspirin and a heap of patience.

On Jllli, fortunately, the Germans tend to stick to their own language. Except for the Deutchlandfunk (DLF). But since there are so many German speaking people in Europe ( Swi t ·zerland, Austria) the language is popular among the international propaganda set. So, be wary .... German does not. aly;ays mean German stations.

CREDITS

ARD - Tonstudiotechnik - editor: Michael Dickreiter, June 1977, Schule ftlr Rundfunktechnik, Ntlrnberg.

NDR - H~rfunk und Fernsehsender in der Dundesrepublik Deutschland und Berlin (West) - collected by Measuring and Monitoring Station Wittsmoor -editor: Walter Fiegerbaum.

Rundfunk Sender· im Langwellen und Mittelwellen Bereich (taken from "Final Acts of Regional Administrative LF/MF Broadcasting Conference, Regions 1 and J, Geneva 1975"), version Nov. 2J, 1978.

Logbook from Norddeutscher Rundfunk Mess und Empfangsstation Wittsmoor, Jan. 8-28, 1980.

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5Jl Greifswald DDRI 10 Leipzig DDRI 100

549 Nordkirchen DLF 100 Thurnau DLT 20

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558 Neubrandenberg DDRI 10 Ro stuck 10

567 Berlin SFB 100 576 Schwerin DDRI 250

Stuttgart SDR JOO 594 Frankfurt HR 400

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Meissner HR 100 60J Koenigwusterhausen DDRI 20 6JO Dannenberg SFB/NDR 10 657 Neubrandenburg BRF 20 666 Boderseesender SWF 180 684 Hof RIAS 40

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801 Dill berg BR 50 Mtlnchen BR 420 ( 450 kW days) 810 Berlin BBC 5 (German) 828 Frei burg SWF 40 Hannover NDR 5 (40 kW days) Kiel NDR .5

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To Pat Hartlage, Esq.

Thank you for your r e c e p t i o n report of our transmission

on 730 KHz at 0700 GMT, on 18"' February,1980,

We have pleasure in verifying your report which is much appreciated.

Date 6"' March, 1980, Engineer-in-Charge

RECEIVER REVIEW ® HUMPLER 4NK8

over the years, DXers have all wished, at one time or another, that someone would build the "ideal" BCB receiver. Until now, many attempts have been made, but none have been thoroughly satisfying. Now, we are happy to announce the Humpler 4NK8 . Packaged in a hands ome corrigated cardboard carton, this set is only available by mail. It operates on AC/DC; it's self-contained, has rechargable batteries or operates from its own solar panel. (If the user wishes to DX at night , he can then unfold the self­contained sunlamp and reflector in order for the solar cells to operate with the added benefit of allowing the user to obtain a suntan while DXing Florida) .

seriously, upon first seeing one, the impression one gets is like that of seeing the Grand Canyon (or, Cl eveland) for the first time. The sleek, silver-grey plastic housing is accented by a "black-out" dial, a light blue control panel, masculine chrome knobs, and grille-cloth by Halston. There are several trap doors on the top of the cabinet . These doors contain the shielded ferrite antenna, a collapsable whip, the solar panel, and the sun­lamp. On the back-side, there are the usual output jacks and a couple of "new" ones (which will be described later), and an indentation where the power cord comes out (the cord itself is on a retractable reel, similar to those found on vacuum cleaners) . The whole set rests on four rubber feet and weighs in at 14 pounds (metric is not used on this set as it would look rather silly resting on four rubber "meters") .

Manufacturer's specifications are:

Band coverage

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Signal/noise (all stages, total)

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500 - 2000 kHz (in one band)

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Additional features : Built-in graphic equalizer , noise limiter/blanker, oscilli scope tuning/panoramic display, clock, digital frequency readout to O.lkHz, programmable call-letter display , BFO , built-in antenna (shielded ferrite and whip to make use of the altered reception pattern obtained by using whip and loop), solar panel , sunlamp, am/ssb dectector, display brightness control, tape output, external amplifier output, IF output, headphone jack, and 5" acoustic suspension speaker .

With spec's like those, we couldn't wait to try it out. We decided to use the built-in, rechargeable battery ' pack. No need to flip any switches as the built-in circuitry automatically switches power sources to whatever supplies the most power: for instance, if the set is plugged in and there's a power failure, the set will automatically switch to batteries. We hoisted up the antenna (a 15" shielded job on a hydraulic-dampted, telescoping swivel mount) and depressed the power button (which promptly lit, indicating the set in operation). The frequency readout and call-letter readout came on in a bright green , fluorescent glow, and the oscilliscope instantly came to life. Unexpectedly, a rich, mellow sound came out of the 5" acoustic suspension speaker . Wow ! Sound like that only until now, found on expensive stereos and " state-of-the-art" consoles from the late 30's. Something was wrong, however. The testing session was right in the middle of the day, and, according to the frequency, we were tuned to Denver, only receiveable here during the night. It was coming in like a local! Frequency readout said 750.0kHz, the graphic equalizer was set for "flat", bandwidth was "4kHz", noise filter/blanker was "in", and the clock said 1323:05. Incredible!!

We played around with it a little bit more and found it was no mistake: t~e set performs as well during the day as all the other sets perform at night! The dual-conversion Rice i.f. strip (based on Uncle Ben's principle) really does the trick. The near-perfect i.f. rejection eliminated all slop

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fr om l ocals. The l ogi c - con troll ed r . f . ~overl oaded, avoiding the need for an attenuator. The 50 :1 tuning rati o made tuning a breeze, and the gr aphic equalizer brought those ID's right out in the open.

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The antenna system i s rather unique. It uses the principle RDF's use. Basically, there's a l oop and a whip. This combination allows the user to actually control the pick-up pattern of the antenna, by adjusting the "antenna balance" control, which i s dual- concentrically mounted with the tuning knob . One tunes in a station, rotates and tilts the loopstick, twiddles with the balance knob fo r best reE.ul ts, and merrily logs new sta­tions. The significance here i s when there are two stati ons on the same frequency, 180 degrees apart , and you can't null either one out. By adjust­ing the balance control , it is possible to re-shape the pick-up pattern to actually null out one of the stat i ons : the net neffect is that you have a "cardi od" pick- up pattern . The only problem is that the side nulls loose depth, but with the set ' s fantastic sel ecti vi ty , that is really no problem.

The oscilli scope indi cat or is a real boon to DXing. In "panorama", the display shows a bandwidth (horizontal axis) of JOkHz. The centerline of the scope shows where the set i s tuned . The f r equency tuned appears as a peak in the center . If there happens to be any adjacent stations, they will show up, also, as peaks, however many kHz they are away from the tuned frequency. This makes tuning a snap . Just wat ch those peaks. Also, the vertical axi s indicates relative strength of the signals.

Pu shing the "clock/call" button , the cl ock becomes a call -letter indicator, which the user program s to readout the appropriate call-letters for any given frequency . This operates in a similar fashion t o an expensive FM receiver currently on the market . The alpha-numeric display is good for all 26 letters of the alphabet and numbers from 0 to 9 ,

And speaking of fashion, the grille- cl oth by Hal s ton will certainly allow this set a pl ace i n any living r oom .

The control s f or adjusti ng the osci l li scope and f or programming the clock/call -letter display are behind a hinged door under the oscilliscope. Bandwidth controls , display controls , "am/ssb " switch , noise-limit switch, "cal l /clock " swi tch, oscilli scope funct ions, and power switch are all mounted in a neat row across the front of the set between the blackout dial and the control panel .

So, just how good does the set operate? How does it compare to anything else on the market? In the words of i ts producer, Ewell Hwnpler, "Just ask any April Fool!"

Is this reelly necessery?

EDITOR: In a few days. the U.S. govern­ment will meet in Buenos Aires 10 con­vince South Americans to convert to 9 khz AM spacing. They will claim "bad inter­ference" if we don't switch, claims based on theoretical projections that don't s·eem to th reality.

Note that Europe has been on 9 khz spacing through three sunspot minima already. and there is no record of inter­ference occurring in the Northeas t due to European signals. It 's equally improbable that harmful interference will occur in South America due to African inter­ference . not ing Africa went to 9 khz spac­ing at a 1966 Geneva conference and for the past decade no interference to general listeners is reported except for one or two freak occurrences.

In the absence of a pressing need of their own. is this vague threat of inter­ference by itself enough to convince other Region 2 govern ments to make a change that many North A merican broadcasters don't wan t?

It 's ironic tha1 no attention is paid to the real threat to good reception quality on AM-poorl y designed TV receivers that radiate sweep oscillator harmonics. and noisy electrical machinery. This accounts for prac1ica lly all the noise pollution on the AM band. This is the real technical threat to wider-bandwidth AM radio's attempt to catch FM . and to AM stereo, and I ques­tion whether the newer detectors for AM stereo can handle this noise problem .­Robert Foxworth, New Yorh.

Open~Mike Bro1dcuhng Mir 3 1980

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HAPPY

® STRONG SIGNAL HANDLING

Chuck Hutton

. In the.October : 975 issue of~ ~1 James Fisk makes a statement which I think contai~s the most important principle needing consideration b:'( the MW DX ' e:: se ~king a receiver suited for his somewhat unique nee ds . His ~t~t~ment is:. Why design a hi gh frequency receiver for extraordinary sensitivity when · its performance is limited by external noise over which you ~ave no control? A very sensitive receiver is more prone to intermod­ulation and cross - modulation effects, and these may be more important" .

Indeed fo r ~he broadcast band DX ' er , strong signal handling is likely to be the most important quality of his receiver . To those accustomed to judging a receiver in ~erms of sensitivity and selectivity, this may come as somewhat of a surprise . In order to explain the wisdom behind Mr . Fisk ' s words ~nd justify the above statement, let us now take a look at just what dictates the reception of a station at MW frequencies .

I. Selec ti vi ty If you were to install a mechanical filter in your rx or purchase a

receiver with an excellent crystal lattice filter or mechanical filter , you would expect top- n otch selec tivity and the accompanying ability to DX up close to the locals . This is n ot guaranteed, howeve r. When consid­ering selectivity, two major factors-tend to be ignored: ultimate rejec ­tion of the filter , and where in the receiver (electrically) the filter is located. Ultimate rejection of a filter is defined as the greatest amount of signal that will be rejected; this value is a function of the charactistics of the filter and the amount of signal that leaks around the filter and appears at the input to the next stage . Figure One is a diagram of the selectivity of a good quality ceramic filter, an average crystal lattice (8 pole) or mechanical filter , and the best quality me ­chanical filter available . One can easi l y see that the ultimate rejection of (a) is around 40 dB, of (b) around 70 dB, and (c) around 90 dB . Now what does this mean in terms of practical performance? As the average S-meter is calibrated to a standard of 6 dB/S- unit, filter (a) will t o­tally reject only an S7 signal, (b) only a s9+16 dB signal , and (c) a S9+36 dB signal . As we are interested in strong signal handling , we can see that (a) will handle no locals, (b) might handle the weaker ones , and (c) wi ll handle most of them . We will discuss the importance of this situation a bit later on when we devote our attention to strong signal handling by itself. Let us now return to where in the receiver (electrically) our filter is located. The chief COriSTderation here is the old adage " place maximum selectivity in front of maximum gain ", or , 11 put the selectivity as close to the antenna as possible" . Why? Because the more stages that are exposed to a large number of strong signals, the more the receiver wi ll suffer the effects caused by strong- signal overloading . Ideally , the s ele c t .ivity should come at the first mixer output that is at the center freQuency of the filter . Therefore , one stage may precede the filter in a receiver with no RF stage and sTngle conversion , or as many as six stages in the case of a dual RF stage, triple conversion receiver"""With the filtering located after a stage of amplification at the final IF . Receivers have been built with both ex­tremes! With t he latter scheme, the strong signal damage is done be -fore the sharp filter get s a chance to do its j ob and remove the un­wante d numerous signals . Th is particular situation is even more un­desirable than it sounds because certa in types of distorti on caused by strong signals increase 3 dB as the strong signal level increases by 1 dB; therefore if we have 30 dB more ga in in front of the filter with the 6- stage scheme , we may possibly have 90 dB more intermodulation · distortion (a term to be explained later) .

II. Sensitivity Briefly in the discussion on selectivity, we touched on what happens

when there is an excess of gain in front of the filter . This situation may also occur if the receiver has too much sensitivity for Ml-I DX. Im­possible , you say? The more sensitiVTty-;-the weake r the signal that can be heard? You are thinking in terms of a si gnal that does not have to compete with either man- made o r n atur a l noise , both of whi ch a re at very significant leveis at MW frequencies; t h ese levels in fact are higher · at MW frequencies than at s~ fre quencies . The required sensitivity of a I' W re c eiver wil l be , on the averag e , almost 2QQ times less than that re qu i r ed fo r DX on t he 10 meter ham ban d at 29 mHz . A g ood range of sen­a it i v ~ t y fo r MW DX i s the 10 - 20 uv area . A full discussion of why this

is the case would take up too much space and bog the article down with figures and g raphs; the interested re a ders , . can find all the information needed on man- made and atmospheric noise levels in the material refer­enced in the appendix . Particularly useful are the Fisk article , the CCIR report, and the Skomal book •

If you are using a receiver with "good" sensitivity by modern stan­dards (less than 1 uv), you should be thinking hard about what Mr . Fisk had to say at the beginning of this article . Your situation is the dan­gerous one he refers to , with even more emphasis , as what he had in mind of course refers to situations likely to be encountered on the ham bands. The MW situation is much more difficult; while a ham might complain if he lives within a mile of a few friends running the 1 kw l egal limit, we must contend (assuming an -. urban location) with 50 kw NSF locals and a total of perhaps 20- 30 stations all running the same power or more than the ham is allowed . In addition , the MW DX ' er i s often interested in hearing a station only 5 or 10 kHz away from a very strong local . The ham can exercise the option of moving his frequency away f r om the interferenc e . Hardly a viable option on the BCB •• • • We are thereby in an unfortunate position : the MW DX 1 er needs better strong-signal hand­ling than possibly anyone else , but also suffer s from a great dea l of unneeded sensitivity that is detrimental to str ong signal handling.

III. Strong Signal Handling So far we have made reference to two parameters that may make a re­

ceiver handle strong signals in a poorer fashion than the receiver is basically capable of . Or rather, then the mixer(s) i s/are capable of . It is in the mixer that most unwanted effects are produced . The RF stage (if used) may contribute to the problems to be outlined below but this is usually secondary as the sign al levels are higher in the mixer(s) and this leads to a greater con centration of problems , in addition to the fact that by nature , the mixing process is prone to p r oduce certain unwanted products . To describe the basic strong-signal handling of a receiver, let us launch into a basic description of some terms that are applied to mixer performance.

When a non- linear device (a mixer as opposed to an ideal amplifier) is presented with two frequencies , the unfortunate by-product is a com­plicated assortment of new f r equencies . For exampl e, take f 1 of 750 kHz and f

2 of 790 kHz . Intermodulation distortion (the process referred to

aboveJ will produce a plethora of unwanted signals at f r equencies re­lated to the originals with definite mathematical re l ationships . The third-order intermodulation products will fall at 830 and 710 kHz , the frequencies where I note an unfortunate jumbl e of audio from super­local WSB- 750 and l ocal WQXI- 790 . The importance of third-order IM products is that: as the desired frequency levels are increased, the third- order IM products increase , but for every 1 dB increase in the input level, the IM level at the output increases by 1 dB. Takin g that f act into account , it becomes appar ent that as the input l evel to the mixer increases , a point will be reached where the level of the undes­ired IM products will be egual to the level of the desired input freq­uencies. This point is referred to as the third-order intermodulation level intercept point . A mouthful of a phrase indeed, but a very im­portant term to become acquainted because it is the internationally recognized standard of performance for mixers and an excellent way for the DX ' er t o evaluate the strong-signal handling of his receiver •. A top quality receiver will specify this data , as the manufacturer will be aiming for a market that both wants and understands strong signal handling. An average receiver is not likely to include this data with its advertising specs because the intended mar ket is not likely to be familiar with such terms.

Figure Two illustrates the process by which .t~e third-ord~r IM intercept point is establ ished. As seen by e~amining.t~e portio~ of the graph near the intercept point, a ~eal-life.am~lifier goes int? a condition known as "gain compression befo:r:-e i~ is actually pos~ible to establish the intercept point. Interpolation is used to esta~lish the intercept point once the data at o~her levels ha~ been obtained . Gain compression is mentioned because it has a practical e~fect .on DX ' ing ; when your receiver is tuned to a.wanted , weak st~tion near in frequen cy to an unwanted, strong station, the result is an appa~~nt weakening in the level of the weak station . An ~xample wou~d be DX ~ng for R. Melodia , Quito on 735 kHz while ~SB-750 is ?n the air . Melodia appears quite weak while WSB 's carrier is on the a~r , not because WSB is interfering in a direct sense , but be~ause WSB is so s~rong here that their RF is exceeding the bias on ~ither the RF ?r mixe:r:- stages . This drives the g rid into conduction whic~ reduces gain and.increases distortion. When discussing gain compression, the standard_ is the 3 dB compression point ; this usually occurs 10-15 dB below the intercept point .

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@ Cross modulation is yet another type of amplitude distortion caused by strong signals . It is defined as the transfer of modulation from an undesired signal to a desired signal that the receiver is tuned to . Cros s modulation i s unrelated to the desired-signal level, instead being proportional to the square of the undesired signal level . A pleas ­ant effect of this relationship is that if you can afford to place 5 dB of attenuation in f r ont of the receiver (an RF attenuator such as supplied on the FRG7) cross modulation will be reduced by 10 dB . With a sensitive receiver (and therefore too much gain for the MW band) it is often quite feasible to do just this. Cr oss modulation can be re­lated to third- order IM intercept point by the equation

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This formula is included in order to allow interested DX'ers to compare third-order I M intercept point (the usual standard) to cross ­modulation levels (sometimes specified instead)

The last strong signal concept to be discussed is dynamic range. This is an attempt t o specify the range of signals that the receiver is capable of handling . In other words , the range from the we akest sig­nal that can be used to the strongest signal that can be handled. It is an important value to specify because it demonstrates the abilty of the receiver to handle both situations ; a receiver may be able to handle extremely strong signals simply because it has very little gain (and therefore less sensitivity) ahead of the mixer . A receiver that handles a 100 mv signal by applying it straight to the mixer is ob­viously inferior to a receiver that can also handle a 100 mv input signal but also sends it through a stage of amplification before it proceeds to the mixer.

IV. How.!£ Achieve Strong Signal Handling So far we have touched on the above in r elation to RF stages (don ' t

have more sensitivity than you actually need) and IF stages (use filter­ing that will be effective against strong locals) . Our discussion of the heart of the matter-the mixer(s)-has been limited to terms used to quantitate mixer performance . Back- t racking a bit, we should also take note that at MW frequencies, the RF selectivity can be very im­portant to the mixer. A large number of h igh-Q tuned c ircuits ahead of the mixer is going to prove beneficial to the receiver . A practical example is the R39 0A , which features an elaborate network of mechani­cally tracked tuned circuits of high Q and moderate loss . This sit­uati on is excellent for MW DX, as the mixer(s) are thereby protected to some degree from manv unwanted strong signals .

The heart of the matter is the performance of the mixer itself . Differen t mixers have third order IM intercept points ranging from - 40 dBm to +)OdBm. A -40 dBm level mixer will manifest itself in a MW band full of cross - modulati on , third order intermodulation , and slop from locals. A +)O dBm level mixer will provide performance al ­most totally free from said effects as it will prove close to imposs ­ible to overload s u ch a mixer . With no RF stage ahead of the mixer (not only possible but desirable for MW and most SW frequencies) we are talking a b out close to a volt of RF before performance is impaired . A mixer like this is obvious ly no ordinary mixer; it is a double ­balanced Schottky diode mixer developed for specifically this purpose . A poor mixer is typified by a bipolar transistor and a fair mixer by a tube or good FET design . A balanced FET design (such as used in the FRG7)will yield improved performance over that of a single semi ­conductor , but performance will still fall far short of a double bal ­anced diode mixer. This type of design has been incorporated in many new high- performance receivers such as the Drake R7 , the Dymek DR series, the new RACAL receivers , and the Rohde and Schwartz receiver . A good way for you to ge t a feel of what this type of mixer can do would be to proceed to the nearest ham outlet that carries Drake equipment and give the R7 the once-over .

You may have noticed that these receivers carry hefty price tag s. This is not because of the mixe r s! Basic double balanced mixers start at less than $5 to the experimenter , with the high - performance types ranging up to $25 . Considering the price reduction manufacturer s of receivers will obtain , it is likely that in the very near future, we will see moderately priced receivers featuring these mixers .

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on strong signal handling is to ob tain good r eference s and read them at the pace correct for your in ter est and knowledge . The material listed is not overly technical and should al l ow the r eader to go f arther t han is possibl e here .

References

1 . "Receiver noise fi gure, sensitivity, and dynamic range-what the numbers mean ", Ham Radio, October 1975 . A thorough and knowledgabl e digest of r eceiver parameters . By all means obtain a copy of this

· article t hr ough your local librar y or the back issues available from HR .

2. "Man Made Ra.die Noise" , Edward N. Skomal , Van Nostrand Press, 1978 . For thps e wishing to pursue further the subject of atmospheric and mah-ma«:le nois e· in order to draw conclusions about receiver sensi­tivity needed on the MW band. Contains many excellent graphs.

J. "Atmospheric Noise and Re ceive r Sensi t ivity", 9.[!'., November 1969 . Introduc es . the reader t o the CC IR charts and receiver nois e fi gure.

4·. "Receiver Sensitivity", 9.[!'., September 1969. A compani on article to the above .

5 . "World Distributi on and Characteristics of Atmospheric Radio Noise" , CCIR Report 322, Internati onal Radio Consultat ive Committee (C CI R), 1963. The bible for those ;i..nterestea in Atmospheric and man- made

· .. no_ise • . Comprise<:; of _ chart·s. of noise leveis f or radio frequencies ,_ ~ by .locatio_n,, time,_ __ and " season. . -. .·

6. "Get the Most From Mixers", Mini - C_i.rcuits Laboratory, Brooklyn , NY . An incredibly informative pu_blication giving detailed data on the double-balanced diode mixers.

In add.ition, there have been a good number of article s published in the amateur press over the past 5 years that deal with receiver front ends. The best single source of these is Ham. Radio; t he yearly rece i ve r issue is worth the cost of a subscription alone.

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DXI1G UD VI 3ITING FAV L ldvU..· T - 35~ We st ~olumbus ~treec-:.-reTionnlle, Ohio - 45764

At the end of my N.J. vi s it X saw CiiRio HA~~U< on the way down to Bill ¥ourtzel•s. dill lent me his 5uperadio & I s poke on the phone to BILL BERGAD~NO who keeps log ~ing sta­ti ons I need from N.J . & is closinL in on my Teaneck total. I drove back 1ew Year•s Eve and hit 1980 i n Athens, O. Did anyone tape r.J, BC at midni ght sayin G good-bye to fads and trends of the 70•s? ll!.!l.lN , Yi Va. is my unID l4-9 Z. VoThU-ll30 1elsonville•s to•er is up just 5 of. school 2roq.irt¥.tbut no one seems to know anything else about it. 1;1.1- Talking to a partyer at the;-ftouf~t"oledo radi o it turned out he knew all about DXin g, QSLs, TV Fix, etc. so we drew yagi plans wh i le the others partied. Around here I•m always thrilled to meet anyone who's tokenly DXed . l / ll-13 I vioited GEORGE GREENE and JOHN $ALLY on my first we ekend trip any.here in IJhi o. 1111 l / 13 t was up to 5am but no DX l ogged, just typing Forums an d li sten-ing for program content on Superadio. 1/ 16- WLFA-1590 Ga . loud in car 5:47-5:56pm w/r-40. WEYY-1580 fair !l 6 w/long s/off u/ CBJ, leaving Paul Ha r vey NX. l /20- l':NDE- 1260 local-like ,; 1Z:57aa. WBT-lllO s/ off s l leaving unI :J BFL. WI l / Zl- 1590, s&me here & N .J. - V;AKR and "16-¥'et". C<llDJ>aring the TRF & Superadio I found the Space Magnet (inductively coupled) works much better w/the TRF than the GE .~ that the 200mm AM antenna on the GE was no more sensitive extended than pushed in. However the two tone controls on the GE are a dream ~nd are used as selectiTity controls for co-channel stations and t he overall s ound quality is much bet t er. r1BC~l440 is back to old calla from \Ill.DD, ANing as "l4-4o Ra di o, the Kew WBCI.!," w/ T-40. WI ST -1240 N.C. good 1139 w/ IUST School of Broadcasting spot. WFIR-9 60 has AT-40 Sun. lOpm to Zam IOI. I heard a F record collector in NYC call in on KMOX-1120; i!lteresting, ·as Y.NEV;-ll30 was or. per call to East Coast. l /ZZ- WAOK-1380 & WCSC-1390 good 1 :15-1: 30. l/Z6- FF.ANK i.IERF. ILL visited me at i\I.GN and GEOR GE GREBNE came to Ne l s onville the next day - n i ce to see them again. Laundry is done and so is this Muse. 73.

DAVE' S ARRB.1GED A TEST FROM wPIC-790 DAVE ARBOGlST - 3851 Porter Road - Rootstown, Ohio - 44272 216-3Z5-Z807 before midni ghtELT

Hi y•all! On the local radio scene, WGFT-1500 is runni ng a p rogr am where Junior Achi•Tement people ce&e in. about 15 or 16 years old. and run an hour radio show. com-plete With spots and all. I like listening to it. To DX1 • That•s ri ght, zilcho. ?or s ome excitement, I started to DX Fii & TV. ·;,ith TV i t's a pain, •cuz I can't go to the kit chen for food durin g the spots, hi! This past week I went to WSTB, a non-com.'!lercial sta-tion at a local High School, to see their operation, so we can get an idea on ho·N to set up our radi o station when we get it. Right now, though, we need money. Anybody got Z5 gra!!d to g ive awa.y. hi? Next week I'll be going to 'i1KTL, another non-comm, for the same rea s on. !i.y COllll!Unicat i ons club will be going to tour 3Y•E in Cleveland, and hopefully \':UAR also. I'm arranging both tours. I talked to 3Y•E•s Gl.i a few weeks ago, ~ he said they don • t s/ off when they do maintenance, they use their AXR. They don•t like to s/off •cuz they d on •t own the to~er they transmit from! Don•t that beat all? I talked to PAT c.ART L'.GE yesterday . I got the info on my TEST of Y.PIC straightened out. It•s Monday. I called the CE of \'ol'IC, Charles Ring, and we found otit I -s looking at an old ca lander when I wrote the CPC hltterl v;ell, that•• all for now. I may see you at YAD - all depends on whether I can get a ride. 73's and here's hoping all NoPers go off this Monday .

LYllll' S Gc:tr vOl!E L\.TE L;;,TA ON FLORIDA STATIOKS LYNN GILLIS - Box 105 - Blo&nfield, KentuckY - 40008 3/3 180

Here• s the second Mus e coming to you from Central Florida. The !:Arch l or s o llid-South blizzard delayed our return till noon today. lli 3/ 3 , I overslept" got up ;i 3 : 15 am. The session 119.s a bust with only one good one, KCMC-740, ,i. 3:45am good enough for a r e ­port. I have decided to verify my best catch only here, which is the above. Chi ef l~nd (near the Gulf about half way between Ta llahassee & Tampa , more t oward Tamp~ ) is definitely super-ior to Lake ·1:a1es as a DX site . F la. i sn 't a very goo d n;\ .site unles s you 're near the Coast ·Nhere I am not. :t.e re' s some changes noted: s crne new, s O!J\e not. WLEE- 790 , J~-PF. -1390 t · '.'II?C-1280 are on the F la. ~et . On Mi;tua. l is -r;AKA-13'10 &. 'l·HV-1080. 'i.1!0F - 900 is AP &. . 'o'·1'HL-ll90 '· llA1'.T -10b0 are usin g the newish calls . Y"AJl.T i s defini te ly K.A t, L J ETEit •s & EkNE.i i' ClJOi-El': • s unIC s in the 12/a:J DX l.EY.3 . WIPC-12130 i s E:Z L ;. A~ . probably with the U- Z 1,0001500 CP they app lied f or. \·1AK.A-1390 wa s heard w,lh.OK i n mi :: _afternoon. I 've be e n bu sy with re~eption re-port backlog~ c p: TEoT requests. If I &et it back , CJUB-680 will be my best verie s o far f rom Kentucky. ¥ee you nextish fr om the ~ewe st rebul~r kuser. 73 1 s.

\';EVA - P6 0 ~1. s ~ KE:::c l.AR FRH: '.:~1" CY C~E C K 111..\.h T H . !- ULTZ - 1112 I.e s t Fo:undl e Avm Ue _ i.ansinG• l'tlichi gar.. - 4A9 10

~ ome more c;; ooci [})_ heard late l y s o ar_other 1\·:u~ e. 2 / 3- Y.EVA-860 cau f; ht on end 0f f/c N/mx &- ID 1Z:l5 . Unn XEWO took over w/R<: L p ro,; ram after that. Z/4- :'·inally a def-in i t e lo g or. ~·. tt~ : - 750 w/ 1'- 40 6 :0 ~2-6 :15 i n ·.1.!;E nu l l , ~ tate ...,~ a r.d fir s t new one in f ive or .;i x yea r s . 2/ 6- HDX- 7 50 i n '" c/w 5 :4 ?- 5 : '07 , K'i•i-..T- 1 °1:'0 ir. 6 :lb - 6: 30 s/off, no SoB. 2 /10-;<:.J, _ J.? 70 i n ., '\Ja. nd rr.x i n i .AYo null 12 :20 ; Ecua dor-9 '1 ' • tryi ng t o :ntl ke i t 12 :45 but too

® (Martin Foltz, con• d.) wea~. 2/ll- ~ o 'i•GIG-1440-Ti:.~ T but a new one in WH':'Y-1440, KLI.P'-ll90 IN Fair wjr-40 ·-' 3149. Z/ 24- Local YiCEF.-1390 testing wioc 'TT & the s ong HO~'EY, H01"EY , re-eated. Z/25- 'iiJl'IL-900-TEST heard in CE14LI XEW null :al l:O': -l1 Z5 for State #45. States

~till needed are , .. aine, Nevada, Idaho, Alaska & Hawaii. Veries1 v/ l- "llEVA-860, v/ q V.RFD-880, y,J!EB-750. \\EVA said r / c first Sunday shortly after midni ght. Y,REB said "no equipment tests up-coming." 73' s •

A WESTER!: PENi, SYLVAli IA "1Al\ D SCA!i

JuSEPH li . BRA U1;ER - R .D. l - Box 153 - Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania - 15767 3 15/80 'f{ith DX just about nil, how about a bandscan for Ground-Hog Town? The

c odei None, good dependable signal. 1- Weak or Qli.14. 2-poor, not heard daily. 540-YIARO. 550-wGR. 56o-Y.FRB. 570- l'llCBN. 580-H!P . 590-V11'!BS . 6oO-i'.F'lilii. 6 10-Vi'IYN-l, CJITB-1. 620-YiHJB. 630--lll!AL-l· 640-VlliLO. 650-WSJ.l-Z. 660-l'•NBC-2. 670- F . .AC_- Z. 680- WISR, 690-WZAP-Z. 700-YiLW-l. 710-lYOR-2. 720-·i~GN-Z. 730-WPIT. 740-CSL. 750-? 76o-YiJR. 770-ViABC-Z, 780-VlA.B3-l, 1\BB:ll-2 • 790- \\PIC. 800-CKL\'I. 810-Y•EDO. 820- :'.0tiU . 830-l','CC0- 2 . 840-?? 850- liJAC. 860-ll'YJZ-CJBC Z . 870-7? 880-l'11l.FD-Z. 890-Y;LS-Z. 900-Y,CPA. 9 10- 'i.AVL. '720-Y;KVA. 930-WF14D-l, YcBEN-2. 940-111..S.\jviGRP. 950-¥.KCC . 960-YKZA. 970-W~<JW. 980- CFPL. 990-\'.VLC. 1000-Wo!Jll-l, .... -roo-Z. 1010-cFJ<ll-l, i"INS-1. lOZO- ;.DKL 1030-1? 1040-?? 1050-,.BUT . 1060-KY't";-l, 'liQI0-2. 1070-WKOK. 1080-~iE_.F -l, YIQRO-Z. 1090-VBAL-2. 1100-l\Yii•E. 1110-WJSll. ll20-WViQL. llZO-WASP . 1140-1\BZY. ll50- WKPA-1, V.HUN-2. 1160-?? 1170-Y.IW,\. 1180-Y•HA!ol. 1190-Y<ANN . lZOO-Kix. 1210-WCAU. 1220- YvGAR. 1230-WCRO. 1240-1,TtTJ.. l Z50-YiTAE 1Z60-¥1l'HB. 1270-WCEC-l, YJlLD-2. 1Z80-¥,KST. 1290-V.FBG. 1300-l\l\CH . 1310-Y.1!.\E , v.BFD-2. 1320-WKTQ . 1330-YiRIE. 1340-WTRN • •• cvr. 1350-v.-.iBR. 1360-l'iIXZ. 1370-V.-KllC. 1380-1.ACB. 139Q-1ffl.!J. 1400-WK!lI-ViAliQ. 1410-KQV. J420-l'ICED. 1430-Y<'VAJI. l44o-V,1!HJ!. 1450-WDAD. l460-'"1o!BA , 1470-Whl.IL. 1480-WCKS. 1490-Y'JNL. 1500-ll'GFT lately, used to be Y.'TOP-Z. 1510-WAh'T-l, CKVf-Z. l5ZO-WKB\i'. :!5 30-1'BCV.· . 1540-'!'!l'l!E\!\ 1550-1,FFI!. 1560-Y.QXR- Z. 1570- YQTY.:. 1580-l'iEND . 1590-1.l'GW, r;cB G-Z . 1600-WAYC , WNEU-Z. 73, goodDX.

T01"ES, TO!IES, AJ:D o:CRE T01ES FL·RE" T E. ossou; - Z02 North Jackson - Hooker~oii8-=-73s45 3/ 6/80

Fi r st off, thanks to MIKE JEZI~S KI for I Ding my Q- COUntry on 1570 as CKLQ in Erandon. I had figured that it had to be 'but didn't count it until the help in Mus­ings. r•ve got. lots more unIDs and appreciate any and all help. Lis tening time has been scarce but here is the lowdown: G'l'! 1 116 ~ 8 13lpm ELT, CKD!.::- 73:> with ad for Jiiary J ane shop in downtown Daµ phin . On l /Z l ~ 3:llan, unID TT u / b AI-1360; .Jl 3:ZO XEV-1390 R. Fiesta, Chi­huahu'l, on top as usual for the l ast few 1veeks. From 3:32 to 3:45, TT on 1480, possibly KGCX i.iont.; also KRLD-1080 was teo·ting earlier on 1/ 21 w./oc TT ~ ID .; z:57am . On l / Z8 lots of tones - .~ z:4oam, TT on 1390; Z:56 TT on 1150, then Ai NX l- 3am. At 3:04 a buzz-tone on 900 u/two So stations. At 3:1Z a carrier on 735 suddenly went off the air. At 3:14 a het on 747 looping E/1'. but faded out. At 3:35, soul mx on 1510 u/v.-J..AC, possibly unn KDKO, Colo. At 3:36 TT on 1530, off ~ 3:37, on > 3:39 , then TT & I L ; 3:48 as ~Tl!l.i, Lapeer, Mich,, TT off/ on until at least 3t51 (l\CKY also testing with cifferent tone). At 4:o6, CFF.B-1010, Toronto, on top. 4110, varyin,; tone on ll50. At 4:3Z, i\CKY-1530 w ' ID & OC. Cn l / 29 9 4:34am TT off & on on 550; from 4145 to 4 :55 TT &: buzz alternating on 1010 lopping N/S . (;n l / 30 .Ql Zam TT u/KFH-1330; TT on 990 from 3132 to 41lZ, ~ 4115 KRDS-1190 fro~ Tolleson, Ariz, finally IDed. un 2/13 > 1:26am varying tone off & on on 1600; TT on 1490 from 113Z-1145; At 1:49 , Caribbean mx on 675, probably Costa Rican . At 1151 SS on 7Z5, also hets on 765, 775, 1005, llZ5, l Z05. At 2:10am TT & ID of IITYK-1430, Minot, N.D. At Z122 dial to!'.le in null of IBB-1220, J>OSSibly WABF Ala. On 3/3 $ Z10Zam KXLF-1370 s/off; ~ 2:36 TT o/tiSAI-1360; @ Z:4 l KAAM-1310 w(TT & an­nounced a s aru:ual FoP; ~ Z: 5lam TT on lZZO, sweeps ; 2 :55 o/ i.GAR , also ,,; Z:5 1 tones on l;tlO &

1210. wo_~I back on ;. z ,57. At 3:03, tones on 1350 i · 1370. At 3106, KPJIC-15 60 s/off an-nounced off unti l'~: 30am" , SSB ~ 3:08. TT on 1550 from 3113-3115. 3132, KCJJ-1560 w/ ID and l<oR. At 4am, KZZP-1310 J.iesa, Ariz. with new ca ll, ex..~ ; _; 4 :05 KOKY-1250, ex.. KL\.Z, ¥.AW, etc. w/APk n :. On 3;4 ~ 1:39.._"' TT&: ID "Th i s has been KI KZ-1250 in Selllinole, Te xas" . At 1:50 TT u/ KLEO-il:.eo, unreadable ID ·' Zam, more TT; ~ 3:5 7 TT off / on u/KCNVi-1386, At 4: ZO TT/ CC on 1310. Cm 3/5 f rom 2129 to 2 , 4 2, TT off/ on o/ l'ililAQ; ;13ar.i TT went off on 1390, no ID. At 3:17 "V,QXR, N.Y. tetting" o/ KP.l!C piano mx on 1560; 8 3:Z5 TT off/ on u/i:SIX- 980 , ~ 3130 WY .. on KMBZ; ll 3:33, TT-1240 lo:·pin r, l!/S . Al s o on 3/ 5 - 1:57pm KCR0- 66o ex- Kt'WE; Clnaha, w/REL program. As you car: see, lot s of TT & very fe · .. r IDs, but a new 01'e pops through every once in a while. Since beginniI:g to DX seriously in the last 4-5 year s , I have IDed ri ght at 900 on the EQ-150, SX-99, Zenith Royal 500, clock radios & car radi os, s o I can't complain too much. It•s cer­tainly a hobby that can go wherever you go & the }'RC helps you get there. Eow about more lLusings from Okl•., Kan,, Tex., Col., & N.M.? I need all the he l p I can get, hi. 73 to all.

HOV. AEOl'T SOME CEEE!iY MAIL TO MARTY? >'ART~ Yv!dGHT _ 1913 Jeanet'feline #7 _ Springf i eld , Illinois - 627oz

Just a short iiiuse to let you all know why I have not answered s ome of your letters, etc. I just got out of the hospital where I got s onw> bad news. I have cancer _ liver, lung, and spleen_ and it's left me pretty weak ~~th not much time at the dials, or the strene;th to r ep ort or !.!use. I am no longer at °i'. CVS. Recepti on r eports shoulc now go to Robert IUller, Ct.. I did manage to catch eic;ht minutes of the 1:JViL..900-TEST, only be -cause the CID and the '' c lose encounters " beacon though. CIDiL was very strong Q.RM ost of the tin1e. I hope to get better with the chemo-therapy treatments "nd Ji;use more often in the future, and I always look forward to DX 1'EWS and readi ng about what the re st of you a re doing.

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@ C!AN-14BQ IS ON

Dn.J.AJ.1 unJ..rr.u~ - :.r.J "cuuus-!in nu11.u - J.oron-co. Ontario - lt5M 3J5· 3/ l / 8J It•s been a long ttme eo a re-in t ro. I'm 37 and have been DXing on/ off

over 20 ;rears & been an 11lC member since 1973. The following Fel>ruary DX was all done w/ a TRF. 2/6- \'ilLY-121. 0 Ill. 5136pm NX & l'iX - no sign of WCAU; KKJu-1550 i.io. 7100pm ID "KKJO St. Joseph, it's six o•clock", then pattern change. 2/ 10- l: 59am chimes & IA Voz de Cuba ID in WGR- 550 null. WLKE-ll?O Wis. local NX a 6 10lpm. 2/ 14-KGHL.9al Jlinn, local U then s/off @ 2am, well on top. 2/16- 'llJ.YB-149 0 Va. 5149pm detailed WX & cal ling themselves "Beautiful R&dio for the Shenendoah Valley". <Vl8- WCRJ-1530 Fla. s / off ·~ 6115 mentioning . to s/ on 7115 am. l'ISJC-810 l!iss. @ 6143pm with s pot for Allan& Radar Range outlets in Mc Comb & i>'.agee, mix.. ture of T-40, AOR & mellar rock, Wide World of Sport at 6145, lost ~ 6:4%! pattern change. This one at last after trying many times. Strangely WCPC-94o wasn•t strong at the time but no sign of ICMO enabling ll'SJC to get thru with WGY nu lled. 2/28- l'RIS-1410 Va. 6102pm s / off mentioning FK-93.5; daytimer WIJID-900 Md. 6 :38-6 :45pm on with mx & snow-related clos ings. As ot 2/28 C!All-1480 Ont. on RS but still having XR problems. Call to station 416-898-1100 confirms they were on night pattern, 3-4pm 3 ~. 73's .

NIEL' S IN TOO CH l'ilTH SEVEr.A L .l.'RCERS NIEL WOlflSH - 15 D<lllwooda Gron - Toronto, Oritario - .ID:iN 2)(4 3/ 6/ 80

S.llo once again. Bef orl I get to the point of this J.luse I must slightly ch&Jlll• a line ot llline from my first .lluse. I meant earlier that I would like to hear from Toronto and Ontario DXer1 (and others too t ) by mail. Phoning me makes things rather diffi-cult. HoweTer, I &lwaya reply to letters promptly. Right, JdAPJr; ;; TRICKERT, STEVE SHAFFER, PAUL MOUNT, BRYAll GRIFFITHS, GEORGE GREENE, DOUG MI SD, & GREG WILSON? Well, unfortunately, Cl:Qll-1400 ii now on, with .liloJ! type prograaming 6 till midnight ( since 2/ 28) & is· rather ama­teurish right now •• i.e. ~ aiased record & commercial cues. La1t Friday DOUGLAS J.!ISKE, KICBAEL BOUTHO (not in NRC) & I took an evening trip North ill , le_. ch of CKAN in Newmarket. ••ended up settling for mailing our reports. (I'd like to receive the first verie) at the »•-rket P.O. The address• ii Box 1480 w/ a IOY 4xl poetal code. After Newmarket, a hop, •kip • a jUllp took ua to Burlington to Tisit rlth GREG Y.ILSO!i. The following evening, ~GI: GREEl1JI (ot no fixed address) waa in town, so we gotj:o look at hi• fBlllOU• photo album again (I ean pick your picture out now with eaae, ERC) (after seeing the album only four tim .. )I Iell, on the DX front, I'll start at the present and go backwards. 3/3- WlS and CJCH tinally. 2~- llJDX. Verie in from France-1557 and ViIBN-570 plus an SW one {Niger). I ll01I' ban 13 heard on 9a> -Iring it •Y best regional ahead of 1480 (12) and 980 (lo). All tim fa..-ouritH are still l2llO (12), 1490 (23), 1550 (28) and 1580 (31). That's out of 6ITT heard. Well, 73&• till wbeJMnr.

1llOTHSR !W'PY PURC!U.SIR OF A SUPERADIC Till URJ'OOT - l&;I CedarTW.l• b•ue - lpt. 505 - formrto, Ontario - ~C 411

Te1terda7 I purcha1ed a G.E. Superadio, and it appears to be a very good re­.ceiT•r tor lit' DX. It nstly autpertonu the TRF in this apartment. I have made one new catch on i) 10 tar1 3/9- llBIX-1370 ® 5159 s / orr, but not enough for a report. I have re­oeind ane 1111• nrh, cr.llB-1410. New local Cllll-1480 is now on the air. Concerning the queeti., of whether Canada ii d .... atic or foreipi, I find that distintion ve ry irrelevant for DX purpo1e1 and do llO 1egregete my catch•• on thar bas is. I just keep an aggregate to-tal. llhy, tor exaaple, is St. Pierre-1375 considered foreign when it is so close to New-foundland, but WewfoundLand consider•• dome stic? For sts tistical. purpos es I would much pre-fer aggregate total•, but if questioned on the matter I would probably consider Canada a s domestic and e..-erything else foreign. 73.

BILL ATTE~DED A WADXA GTG IN BA LTillORE 3/9/ 80 BILL TOflliSBEl!D - 4500 Connecticut Avem.1e N .W. ~I - Washfiigton, D.C. - 20008 a> 2-966-8046

I made the 'llJ.D:U GTG at JERRY llILLER's pad i n Crabtawn (Baltimore) last night. TOil Y;filTE -• the only other NRCer there - he will be hosting the next TIADXA GTG at hi• i.rlingtan, Va. pat on Sat. 5/lo. J erry's DX shack was not aa impressive as t hat at t he ROUSI'• home, but he had o..-erhead wires strung up in the back of his living room. SW & l!W DXing were hlmpered around 19:J) due to a cold front T-storm and its QRN, whi ch knocked the t-perature down to sin frO!ll 73ot/ 23 oc, exectly a week after a major s l!owstorm (7" , tei:iper-atur• 14oF/ -looc. The <iTG was c ri;;i r.c.~ ly ;> l~i>'1o d Cor ~ l but thanks to ArlRne Lu ski:'l' s ( 1he i• a WAD:U coordinator) trip to S .C. ( she wa s snowbound there in the Carolin a s ), the GTG wa1 aet back to la1t night. I•d t ake T-Storm QRF t o trave l i ng in the falling 1tars {not the kind oeen at night, hi) with howling winds . I caught both DX TESTs last week {f"NJ R-l'i30 and WJAZ-960) & talked to Sam Dudas, WJAZ's CE in per son . He said t ha t s i nce I had c onclu sive proof, despite hea..-y QRll {WNJR had QRll, too) of heari ng his station {audio TT coange d on t he TRF as Sam fiddled with the audio os c ill"tor ) , to expec t a ba r rage of ~:J ~. · p rOl!lo mat e rial (T-shirt, bumper sticker, etc.) whi ch I may au ction off at the !RCA Convention in Derbytown (NRC HQ) in August. !Jue to hi gher costs of air travel to the 'NC I may pass up t he Conven ­tion i n L.A. over IAbor Day {I may go to Virginia Beach f.or fun & sun l nstead) and the ANARC a eeting in mid-July. Local yokel VIDON-1540 has changed for.nat from T-40 (it """ Cl/lo! for a while) to religious. I used to hear Don Dillard ' s Oldi es show S-5:30pm weekdays aroul!d 7 156.. 7 :59Pm (o.l•o Ja)' Perre on WEAll-1390 around t hat time ) with lot s of F.& B soun ds , "Do-Wop" and rockabilly pieces on these stations. J a y Perre u sed to be on Sa tur d!l.y n i ght s 9pm to midnight. I still like such mx. c l' N 28 . 73' s de WPT.

~extAde~fline in ~rov~ncetown i s April 7 , t hen we l eave t he weekly sch edul e . he pri 7 d~adline is for the April 21 issue date. Af ter April 7 s end

y our next.Musings_ to Dave Yo cis, 5 02 West McDonel, MSU, East Lansin MI 48824. His deadline will be Monday , Apr i l 28 . g ,

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'.JEOHGE ~.'\ !il Vl\ - 7.1.Lf. ilL ~!l ~'-'.l'O'O i.. - .C.Cl..D V V.ll. 4C'Ill1Sylvania. - 18042 3/ 10/ 80 Hello member•. Big news here on Leap Year Day, Feb. 29, 1980, the arrival

of my daughter, J ennifer Lou ise. Both her and Ei leen are fine and in good health. Unfor-tunately, her birthday will only fall on ce every fou r year s , hi. DX has been rather sparse ..mat with a lot of trips to the hospital, et c . However, what I did catch has surprised me as C! have been excellent sinc e November with 107 new s tati ons. Most have been caught on the iF-2200 & the Sanserino Loop. My old THF}uiit" continues b gather dust u it is rarely .., sed. Ch by the vre.y, ERC, why not have a special l!usings is sue of DX l'EliS for those people wtiose last name s start wi th the letters A..Z inclu sive? Hi. On to some DX now. WllOO, Mo-bile, was heard on ET along wi t h WGOE in Ric>-Jnond on l ,"27. 2/3 finally saw the arriTo.l of '!HOO or as they call themselves, 1'1-0!! e hundred . It•s been a long time trying to bag this one. My mo st 9.!llaz i ng cat ch of the month .,... s KSTP- 1500. What is amazi ng i s the fact that 'llTOP is so s trong here. Sun3et on 2/16 yielded WORI, Oak Ridge, Tenn. & JrnIM in Maryville, )lo. KF!?t has to be O!le of 'II1/I finest c•.~c heo ever as the lei; shows them to be only 250 wat ts ~ they are 1,008 mile s all'B.~· t The V.RC• TEST was ca•1ght here weakly u/WOR . A Teri• came back very quiokly to my report. bhortly after the TEST VP4RD i n Fort of Spain, Trinidad, came booming in on 730. Telecon with J OEN EUEHLE~ s hows that he heard it also. Anyone else? ('.".hat's •Telec on??' -ERC) SSS on Feb . 28 a l s o produced KSO-l46o in Des Moines & WVOV, Hunts­ville, Ala. On 2/20 VIFI L was successfully nulled enough to let 'l;l!BQ, Memphi s , to come in. On Feb, 26 l1RD, Lake ?lac.id, 1' .Y. was heard at about 9pm. The log shows them to be dayti .. or.ly. l'io.s there a change or were they just i n the Olympic spirit like the rest of the coun-try? (They had a special permit to broedcas t evenings during the Olympics, with ,,0 .... tta -EltC) }.\arch 7 produced WAIT-820 ir. Chicago. Another surprise, bees.use usually WGY-810 slops over. Eliminating ~owerful s t~ti ons on adj a cent frequencies seems to be very hard for me to do. On brch 8 SSS proved frui tful agsi n a s 'l.JBG, CJcean City was finally 10;:: 0 ed along with v.vsc, Some rse t , Pa. on9')0. And on ~1ar. 9 I cau i;;ht #3 from Maine with WABK-1200 in Gardiner. Enough for n ow, come onJ everyone - MU5E1 731 s.

BILL• & ~OVED FROM LOUISI ANA TO IOWA BILL SKIT~ - Route 2 - Box 116 - Reinbeck, lows - 50669 319-345-2982 3/ 10/80

ifter a recent move from Loui sie. '1a to my net i ve state, I am in the process of once establishing a ra c io loc a t i on t ha t I have sought for nearly Jl yes.r s . I 11'8.S able to convince my wife that we needed a far.nstead for our new home & was then successful after a six week search i n locating the place, the only farm within one mile, on a hilltop rlth full 36o degre e hortzon and t he only po""r line within one-half mile is that which feeds the farm-stead. Thus far I have completed the inside work, wiring the racks for the HQ-lBOAX and FRG-7. I have yet to begin the outside antenna work on the five acres, but with the a1sist­s.nce of CHUCK HUTTON have deta nnined how to locate fou r Beverage antennas for lllf whi ch will also serve through 60 meters. So far I have up only a long random-length wire, but the re-sults have been most encouraging. Certainly it i s nice to have a deep rural location with very minimal noise. There are many, many s i gnals down in the low noise level. Re cently I receiTed from Jlr. Hutton one of his modified TRF s ~must report very satisfactory perfonoanoe . ~~r llW selectivity I would rate it close or equal to that of a 4 kHz modified FRG-7. The sensitivity certainly i s no prob le~ . Beliie-834 is good copy most e..-ery night on the TRF, e qual to the FR G..7. I•d also be intere sted i n per sonelly meeting any other 1111' DX butt in this ge~eral area, East Centra l Iowa. Regards. {Please double- s pace, Bill?t -ERC)

KA.RL' S G<.'r '!'E!: A PI LE OF UEl'I VER IES KAhL FORTH - 2714 North Lec laire : -Chica go, Illinois - 60639

Not much BCB DX in February due to a change in work hour s to 3pm.-midnight and generally sub-par SRS ex. On 2/1 much-wante d KSDN- 9 3:> was heard fair '1 4108am w/ IDs & pop mx, heard at same time next day. 2/3- WKllT-1520 w/ s .1on ~ 7115s.m \ Sunday morning). 2' 5-KRR~l36o poor u/l'r~A I/V:G!IB w/ r / c-TT & CIDs .~ 2 :02am for N.M. ifJ.4. 2/10- !NIX-1580 noted on night pattern w/ fa i r s i gnel at l 107am w/PSAs, spot s , C&W mx for r eport. 1111 2/18- Unn ll'ROK-710 ho.rd on DX TEST for tape a nd. r eport . 1111 2/25- WJi\'L.900-TEST heard fair w/"73 to the ~RC WJViL" CIDs & the first five notes of e. movie theme fran l:02am. 3/ 1- WXSK-580 or. w/ f / o poor u/llCHS/ CKPR, best .;: 5 :57am w/ ID, WEVA-860 w/ ID & into UPI NX 2' 6:15am in CJEC null. Alli 3/3 found good CX to the NW, nothi ng new but r eports for CKJS - 810 & Kl4TX..950, whi ch was bomb­ing ii: on their r / c through KIMN@ 3:32am. 3/9- Unn WCRL.1570 noted u/C!U.Q/ CFOR w/ID & TT -~ 1107e.m while looking for Cl!:TA. Then a bi g s urprise .! 5•59am w/llACE-7,, w/ s / on, the?! CBS NX through WGN s l op & CJ~ll, thanks ROB KRAMER for this tip. Veries1 v/ q- KG.\-1510 for f/up, v./ cm CJWM-980. v/ 1- CKAP-580, VFL0-670, W.ffX-970, M CR-1050, WISS-1090, IOIJJ-1140, CJOC-1220 ~CHK-1°?90 V.TilT.J.50 (Thanks EAF.LlfI GGINS for v/s ), ·::BKV-1470 3: KNIX-1 ~80 bringing totals to 2,096/ 1, lll. 73 & have a nice Spring.

" SID' S STILL PULLIN3 1EM IN - I D!"Ey E. l.IARSHALL _ ??24 Pam Drive _ llillington, Tennes se e - 38053 3/1/80

Only a few notes to r eport due to being away frOl!l the dials for seTeral ~sys this past week, due to my work s ked. On 2 124 @ 6 :32pr.i Y·'KCM-ll4o Ky. came in on top of ~VA with full s/off announcement being he a r d . New one• fr~m thi s state are tough to land

•o I was real pr~d to land th is one \ Al s o on 2124 , aft e r a long dry spell, I finally bag-~~d anotr.er new one from Canada by hearing CKOC-ll50 at 7 :03pm. It was il! w/a very strong ~h&nal for about t en minutes with several I Ds , cash give-away promos, mx, TCs, and more mx. hen on 2129 At 6:30pm WPID-1280 Ala. came i n weak but clear, u /\li"PT, with full s 1off being hes.rd. Du r \ng t he mon t h of Feb ruary I landed 31 new s tat i ons, bringing my total to 714 .. ~ard since April 179. As I will be off from work on Ml4 3 '3, I plar to be up to try for ""g-144o, Ga . & ViNJR-1430, N .J . TESTs as li s ted in the la st minute Flash Tips in the 21 23

@ Sidney i>:!&rshall, con 1 d.) DX Monitor. I 1 d really like to hear \HIJR as the only other N . J. I have is WPAT-930 whi ch I landed £. 3am 6 / 16179 while in the hos pital in Memphis , •ome 18 mi. S of my home. I hoar d WOWO-ll90 Ind. announce they will be signing off every night at mid­night during tho week of 3/3 for renovation work s o I may lose s ome sleep trying for WLJB & 1EX en this frequency. Hold it\ While writir. g this ~use I•ve been camped on 1190 & just heard another now one\ VfYAD, Ala . -• just in good w/ ID cl: y,)( :; 5:11pm 3 'l. (1.!use #2) ·1.1y DXing ti.,. OTer the past we e k and a calf has been greatly r educed due to my work sked cl: there ho.Te been a few daya that I didn't get any time at the diale at all. In s pite of the l imited time at the die.la I have managed to pick up a f ai r amount of new ones to push my total up to 725 heard in the last 11 months. Ji¥ how time f lies as it will soon be a full year I•ve been back in DXing &with the NRC! You'll have me for another year as I sent my membership rene11'8.l in a few day• ago. Now sinc e earlier ihlse1 On 3/ 2 8 5 116 pm EFBD-1270 .llo. -• in w/a good signal wjliX, temperatures in seTeral cities within the state, mx, & promo for their FM. On 3/3 wXTY-580 Wis.-• in briefly ;J 7109pm. Then on 3/4 I got three new ones as follows1 TiMrS-8lo Tenn. @ 7108am, ll1lHC-126o A.rk. ;i 12152pm (I was surpriled to hear this ane at mid-day I), & V.l'ITl-1390 Ill. 3 7pm 1/ off. On Y6 KTP.A.-1370 Ark. s 71l4pm w,lwx & s/off. Ylith this one I han now 77 .Uk. 1tation1 logged. Thon on 3/9 :al 6130pm I caught tho s/off of WAGY-132> K.C. !!ad it not been for my new l111uho .A.udio Proceasor I don't believe I would ho.Te heard this one\ ?hen on lll y10 I wa1 ho.Ting difficulty sleeping so I turned on the RF-2200 & caught a couple of new cme1 that I•m real proud of1 .A.t 2114am XPMC-1560 Cal. was in for several min­ute• w/a 1trong signal & later $ 2,1;2 I added another new one from Canada, CKI.Q-1570. On the enning of 3/ 10 @ 6135i:a liERH-970 .A.la . -s heard for a couple of minutes to c lose out a very good MGllday. So till my next l!use good DXing to all.

STEVE BAGS SOME BEAUTIES STm FRillCIS - l.620 lodge street - Alcoa, lellllHSH - 3 //01

Long-sought WCNB-1580 Ind. -• te sting w/ rr & a fine signal 2/21, ID ~ 3:08. Jll 2/25- Unn lfJllL...900-TEST heard w/ ID around 1116, 111Jcho TT but no more IDs, so I tuned out • 11}0. 2/27- The laat II C. station I eTer expected to hear - ll'EEB-990 - was in like a rock at it• 7aa s / on-SSB, thank• to lil!OX being offtbr some reason. They•ve be.en going off .,; lat lat•lJ, but theJ nearly al-ys return between 5 & 5:15; slon this .U! wa s 7:02. The channel ii a ah: of CBW 'ITRll'xBT/DDI llHOO in l'.'llOX•s ab1e nce; now if only somebody•d c ome on with !ID

ftl .. op•, out& order1 lll 2/25, unn lQliB-1550 N.D . was heard pretty much on top w/ rr -ob'ViOllllJ., d&J ri& for•- reason - twixt 4:10 & CBE•s s 'on ~ 5. They were drowned out -'el~· u .. bJ s- lc:lnd of rlabling h•t, but nre easily atop WOKJ 'NAAY. Del. & N.D. 'ile - lli~l 3/1- Unn l!ISl-580 TIST auumed the one w.ITT cl: ID ., 5:55, I wasn't a-ke e-~ 1-' b •hll tile ID. 1111 3/3- Unn Vi!IJR-1430-TEST poor u llJRB WIRE 1:05-1:34 w 'rT & Ille -•U•in& 6ea 1/rm.. .A. couple of years• worth of persistance paid off on 950 this morn-1 .. w1'1> reoeJl*i• of ti. r/c fro• DITX, Helena, Mont. They break the TT for 4! seconds ev­er, 1- ....... tor an ID; ol the 23 ID• lletnen 3130 & 3,45, three ""re faintly audible u/ ti. WWJ/lll&l;Xlf J QIUI. They all c..., at times when the TT wa.atop the Q!Ui; the IDs were YeJ7 peerl;p ....iuiated compared to the tone. I noticed their switch from the usual ID-eTery­tiYe..aind•• fo1"9&t to the preaent one back in December & knew I'd luck out with one of those tnqu-t ID• aoaner ... later. DITX lll&kes kontana 'if2 in the logbook here. Speaking of !Ding every 1- 1ecCllMl•, the UJlll 11.U.Z-96<>-rEST on 3/.i -• heard poor/ fair doing just that between tile rT • lll'll Ql!ll. If thh ii some kind of fad catching on among CE ' s, it has my whole-.. arte• .. pport, hi. 6•20&Jo, the R. Cadena H~bana relay on 1120 was in fair u/ KliOX, a Pau l llaC&rtae7 record aade for an eaay //with the poftrhouse on ll6o. A.rtemisa is the site for lla> per RCll SCH.A.TZ' s Cuban list. lll 3/ 10- "l!OX was off again, s o I parked on 1000 .!l 3am, alled a couple of . unID U.1, cl: started a continuoua tape runr.ing. The ob ject was to try & ••& an ID frca IOllO on one of their day rig OC ETs. Since RIC! KENNEALLY' s reception -s m 12f'l, I knew by counting up the alternate MM• since that th'is was an "off

8 week for them .

Suoce11\ .A.t 3128, a nak "KOMO in Seattle" we.a heard about even w;the Spaniards. Those of JOU fortunate enough to have this fine channel usable every JI( shou l dn ' t have ~uch trouble bagging UJ((). Outa space, 73 til l next time. Don't forget the pre-6am s/ ons in Apr i l from 11a11y dayti .. rs in the 1.!id and North Atlantic states\

llilE' S DXING AGAIN - AND MUS ING A'.:AIN\ lllD INlr?ER - 2159 Circle Drive - Cambridge, v;isconsfo - 53523

Hi everybodyl Let•s see, it's been quite a while,. a year or bro, siJlce my lo.it ~ling, so I guesa I better get on the stick. First off, we moved from S . D. to here a-bout two years ago. Ylould you believe I'm still ur.packing boxes? For n ow I r eckon e. short re-intro is due 1 I'm 28 , have a wife and a beagle (a house dog, not a hunter). I work for GTI Telephone Co. Having moved I•ve started over with my log book .~ station countir.g. Eut l'Te geared up a gain, since Nov. '79, I'm up to a big 288 stations. Eut I've also log ged •- froa Central & South America. This is a first for me\ Vie ll, maybe I should say the split• are a big first! I heo.rd PJB-800 & C~Q-640 before . But my other new ones TIRll-575, Beli••-834 (do they have call l..tters? ) & Cl!Ti-600 are ones I've never heard before . I•ve been hearing the Russians up here,.the past couple of days,_usually around lOpm ELT, they "'.'lk all over ~'llT with ease . The wife got me a DX-300 for Christmas. Aside from the overload ing it work• okay. Anybody out there know how to cure the overload problem aside fran getting a new RX, hi? If so le t me knDW' p lease. Al s o .iri the . "shack" is a DX- 150 B, a Sony TC-270 reel­to-reel recorder, ca s sette recorder, this typewriter, & a timer I use when too tired to stay up Mlle. The re e l re c orde r I like becau se I can record Wi.V on one chanr.el & "live pf on the other. Thanks to MARK oTRICKERT f or the acknowled ge on the sticke rs - I wasn't expect ing it . Also I'll keep looking for those other ones, they are probably in one of those boxe s I have­n •t unpacked yet. Latest he re: KSUD WJViT CKBI \'iJ'ioL V\AAX KBHS KY.AA . (been after that one quite a while. That•s all I can th i nk of, so ti ll later, maybe next month, good DXing to all . 73 1 s.

Jol.J.l) i.,,t. '.i:i.,ili; .;.Hii. c .. ar .. ;.. fu,,l,I,;, wC,i,J;Ji. ® Jili y,AwcE - 3786 Q.uince Orne - Apt. E - c olwubas, Ohio - ti3eee

Some intere s tin~ things have been happening in radi o locally. 1!y old employer 'd!Tli in neath, is no longer b roadcasting on 1000 kP.z . 6ince 2/25 , it• s been on 790. I •m not sure what the ne·w pat t ern is, but its 500 watts comes into Columbus better than the old

250w. A;parent l y , WHTH is still operating dayti:ne only, a lth ough I expect it to eventually

co fulltime, because that was the main purpose f or the move. \'·ith 1000 clearer at SRS and $ss , I've lo t; e;ed a fer. new or..es there: Y·.'~PF, Eickory, N.C.; 7tGOG , ?\'alhalls., S . C., l Vi"lCYE , ;emlngwa;' , S . C. l)RFD- 880 is losir.;; its CBS affiliation 6/1 to YC OL-1230. v;RFD has a state­Kide signa l, but Y.C OL is NSP , apparently a stronger factor for CBS. WRFD says it will g o to ;_pR NX. Ironically , WC CI. is cuttint> back on it s loca l news and has fired two reporters. In other netrs of radio news , WOSU- 82) is now a ll news cl: public affairs. F rom 7am to noon, it is broadcasting "!Uoni ng Edition" SX, which is a combinati on of 1'"PR1 s 11.Morning Edition" and ~ .USU •s own news. The afternoon c onsists of most ly public af f airs with a ten-minute newscast at 1:50 & APR NY. -: 3. WC5U' s "Afternoon ;:,d i ti on " news rur,s from 4-5pm, folo by the best radio news program in the nation, NPP. 1 s "Al l Things Considered. " At 6 :30, a German course airs f or 15 minutes, folo by various pub l ic affiars pro grams to s/off. 6aturdays are basic&lly the same 85 before• a mix of publi c af f air s , news , & classical mx. Sundays feat ure big band and j azz music from ?am to 5pm, then "All Things Cons i dered" until 6 . I'm up to 1,134 stations logged & 251 verified, . That 's almost 200 new stati ons this season. I hope some of you heard the ;;JAZ-960-TE~T 3/5• I and fe llow Co l umbus DXer DAVE li!l>lhlER, heard it, but PAT FIJU'AGAN fell asleep in his chair and missed it. 30. (:le s l ept through the St. Pat•s iswe too, Jim! - ERC)

HE' 5 LOCKING FC.RWARD TO TI:'.E !'hOJECTE[; DAY PATTERN BOOK KEN uNYSCEUK - 239 Fi r - Park Forest, Illinois 3/9/80

I probably missed the 2-9 year member issue, but here goes anyway. Sat. 3/1 I mailed out let t ers req uesting BB radio networks to Mi lwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Bost on, Philadelphia, Toronto, CinciLnati , dt lanta, Houst on , Texas, Kanea• City, San Diego ~ Minne-sota. Thru Sat. 3/8 , I've gotten three back, inc l ud ing a ve ry nice lllt te r from the Detroit Tigers. The 1980 ·:.hite oox network is VllBM-780. The Cubs will mail theiie to me this week. Locally, I hope a lot of re gi onal DXe r s can hear my loc'il V:CG0-1600. iJltely, they've been !Ding much more of ten than in the past, say every five minutes or so. Also, I understand the WJPC - 950 night phase r i s st ill at the Quincy, Ill. manufacturer. At least 950 is still safe here . oti ll '/;SPA can be a pest . I saw that 540 kc. day pattern map in DX NEWS. A nice j ob by JEP. :.Y RC•BERT ", ON . I hope he conti?o.ue s the work on the re s t of the Al! dial. I think it•s worth a good $10, roughly. I•d also want to say that I use the IRCA Almanac re g­ularly. It's a valuab l e book, and what I want to know, it•s got it. Also JO:'!li CALLARMAN did a heck of a job on that update. It's al s o a heck of a job getting all that info in my Log Eook, hi. Can anyone s upply me with the rea,t of the network stations tha ~ carry Ray Dur-kee's syndicated oldies pro bram, " ::>unday at the Memories." I've heard i t regularly since C·ctober on '-KAN-1320 from ll 115am to 2: 15pm. I like the music very much. It originates from California. (.,aybe "-J(AN "kar." get it for you , Ke r. - EF.C) Continuing, last Sat. 3/ 1 I read &­

bout the E~ broadoasts of R. Moscow on CMCA- 600 Cuba. So I tuned in and there it was, in very good. So r ed. night after bowling league, I came home :t taped fiTe minutes of it and brou ght it t o work. It surprised a lot of peopl e. Also, I finally IDed that CB 3 stati on on 610 at b>S. After ,.TVJ. •s pattern change, looping V.DAF. I could barely hear it before its pattern change. Sat. 3 8, after the Colle ge Bowl, KDAL Duluth-~u ~ erior IDed, then ran CB . KX ~ 7 but r.ever IDed before pattern change a t 7:15. I had to catch it before 7 or for-get it. Then after I looped KDAL, in like a local, CHNC ~ount Iaurier Que . in FF. (CHKC is hw Carlisle , Ken~ .. t. Laurier is CKliL - EhC ) I spent a long V,inter, working a lot (5-7 days) every week trying to stay healthy and keep my !!ova going . I enjoyed a lat of Hie;h School BKB on y,I BV-1260 , Y<JOL-1340, \'iTAQ-1300, ~ many Fliers. I went to several games. No time for DX TESTs unfortunately , but I had to get my s leep. Right n ow I'm nursing a sore ri ght shoulder I hu r t at work. Gotta go . 73.

~ 0 T H B A L L M E M 0 R I E S CHAPTER CIDVm - OPENHiG l'lGHT-OK WAVE- - - - - - - - - - - - -by PETE KEJ.!P.

---- Radi o Station V:J.VE in Loui sville cosmnenced operati on on December 30th 1933 with 1,000 watts on 940 kc/ s ., a,r,d a 339 ' antenna atop the Brown Hotel. The station con-sisted of four of f ices, two studios, and a contro l room locate d in the NE corner of the 15th floor of the Bro'm Hotel. Its premier broadcast was from the Brown's Crystal Ballroom and part of an hour-long salute to ;",:AVE from the NBC Net,.ork. NBC announc e r Ford Bond was 1.1.C . Its opening statement read, "Louisville, Gateway to the ~ outh , is on the air over the National Broadcasting Company. Station l'.Av"E is presenting its fir st prog ram. WAVE , a new stati on , dedicating itself to the service of radio listeners, to the betterment and enjoyment of the people it serves . Programs of national importance, programs of local interest, music 1

sports information ••• and all the arts which are vocal ••• will be yours at the twi st of the dial on this wavelength granted by the Federal Communications Commission to the aasociated station of the National Broadcasting Company i n Louisvil l e , Station WAVE." On November 3, 1940, Y,'AVE increased power to 5,000 watts and on ..arch 29 , 1941 changed its frequency to 970 kc ·s. Also in that year they moved their transmitter site to Jeffersonville, Ind. and its !tudios to 334 East Broadway. In 1959 V•AVE moved its studios again, this time to 725 6outh .. loyd, in downtown Louisville .

P . S . from ERC 1 WAVE • s predecessor on 94E> wa s old VIFTIY, "Hopkinsville in ~le Kentucky" _ •twas my fi r s t-ever verification, logged 12/26/32! 1•EXT ISSUE _ BRAD LOVETT will tell us of hi s boyhood memories of WOWO, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

~' S :.AKE o\I RE VtE DELUGE DAVE YOGIS Y.ITH LCT S OF J.'US I!IGS WHEN HE OBSERVES HIS :MAIDEN VOYAGE > J.IUSING S PACK - UP EDITOR . HIS ADDRESS AGAII'; 502 ll. J.!cDonel - MSU - East Lans ing, MI L.88;l+.

DEADLINE: JdONDAY APRI L Wlf

® . DAVE m; SCF. I BES CU.3TAL DX EF i'8CT ~

DAV:; YGCIS - 502 \\est !.!cDonel - filU - East LAnsing , Michigan - 48824 517- 373-1503 (this time: 85 Vesper Street - Fairfield, Connecticut - o6430) How lucky I happened to be home when this deadline for t he ocean-front states

came aroundt Although you won't believe it from the ~:x, this i s "Spring " break & we have some DX from Connecticut for a change! Deta ils will be ir. the various columns , probably not till next issue, though. V1hile I'm here let me tell all you l and-locked people what it•s like to have a sea path in at least one direction. lfzy home here is a little over two miles from Long Island Sound, at 25 milo s from the true Atlantic. ¥;e have an excellent path to the South & a number of excellent catches can be made . Spanish even in normal CX is heard on quite a few channels (it•s about l,100 miles to Cuba, and it s stations have amazing consist­ancy, even 5,000 watters). On Auroral evenings, all the lower part of tr.e ue.u! (t. low ')OOk) is virtually all in SS. PJB-800 often has the strongest signal on the band, exc•pt for WICC-6oo. The NYC clears who have their XRs i r. New Jersey are often overcome by Lo.tins (al­though i'NBC & WCBS, who have their XRs on Long Island & therefore also cone in over a sea path are not b~thered t oo lllJch ) . We also note domestics all along the coa3t, but an inland reception of a low-powered domestio Oil sunset is relatively rare. In milder Auroras, F·lorida offers good reception. V:GT0..54o has been heard on 25Qw, ¥.FTP-1330 on 500. The Delmarva Peninsula blocks similar eff ects that others notice from Georgia & the Carolinas. Ground conductivity in all other directions is quite poor & so daytimers from the South dominate . Other new11 TJ.•a finally made it to ltichigan. Weak hets from 719 .5: 782 were noted on 3/ 1 2am iST, precisely Lisbon sunrise. liow if I had only been listening a little earlie r! In closing, I remind you tlat ERNIE COOPER, a la Johnny Carson, will be having a ;;uest editor (yours truly) & I hope that EVERY01'E will drop a line or two (but not more than 36, hi) by J.pri l Z~1'1 73.

OOPS - WRONG SECTION - l!ANITOB.l !!AS A SEA CvAST! MORRIS SORENSEN - Box /(;4 - tut Rapids, lliriitoba - ROB IGO 3/5/ 80

lly only new DX catch since my last report came on Ml.! 2 18 wheri I logged the IURL-730-TEST ,..ak, -.l.>md w/CILG. CKDll was off. !Ast week I W"&S in Brandon with part of our High School Track Tell.Ill & took the TRF along. Brandon's about 135 miles VI of Winnipeg or: the Trani-Canada Highway. The city haa two locals, C][J{,...1150 which is ~oR & T-40 with a lot of "oldie•" & CXLQ-1570, a c / w station which often IDs as "Q-1570". Both stations carry a lot of liT11took reports reflecting the rural ba1e of the carurunlty. Strongest semi-locals in­cluded Ir!li-550, CrDK-730 & CJRB-12a>. I didn't do a lot of listening a s the kids were al­.... y1 borro"1nc my radio but .,.,t or the Winnipeg stations were audible during the day. On the 1ubject of whether Canada•• d111111tic or foreign (or from a Canadian vie~, whether the U.S.A. i1 dameatlo or foreign) I get around the problem by keeping three totals - Canadian, U.S. & foreign! 1-af Rapid• i1 haTing its annual Winter Carnival this weekend & I have been aalmd to 1et up a display D9 Dl.ing for the hobby •how. I will exhibit my RF-2800 (the HQ-150 h too big) plu1 n.ri0111 Q.SLa, pennants, & DX publications including DX NEWS and the Domestic r..o,. By the way I hope this makes it in ti""' for the i1sue featuring states and provi nces with 1eacoa1t1. If you don•t belieTe that llanitoba borde rs on salt water you'd better dig out your J.tlasl (By goll.y 1 he's right - this •h011ld have been in with the c oast~l ..iusingsl

- and also the Ontario ~usings t ool -ERC)

l.OIJGS FOR KuRE WJSINGS FID14 IOWA STEPHEN J. KcIN'l'IliE - 222!¥ l•1lw 3Lieet - Des llD1neo, !Oft - 50317 3/ 11/ 80

Not auch DX to report, a1 my parents have gone off to Florida for the Winter. leaTing me in charge of the ne11Bpaper. As a result. mucho work & not mu ch des i re or opportunity to DX .. New since last time1 lOI 12/ 10- KRNT-1350 had one of their irreguB. r SPs & I oaught lIDN Colo. 3 3:25 which I heard many yeara ago as KICAM. The KE GG-1560-TEST was in late but very 1"911 3150 on wjmore [CJJ than usual as others noted. 12/21- A lonb-sought ·sss target finally came in, KSGL-900 Kan. 6116. JOI 2/ 18- Pre sident•s Dey - a legal holi day here th111 no paper to put out & a rare chsnce for a good JQI session. 7.JiOlli-710-TEST in well o/ u WOR wjlreB luckily off. l!:URL-730 -• heard tentatively w/ weak TT & one good sweep tone; v / l back in less than two weeks confirmed it was t hey. Veries al s o from KE GG (a very nl ce per­sonal T/l) & 1\'ROll. KR1''T was off this morn again & KIDN was heard aga.in; no s i gn of lusted­after liXCL . A real surprise -• YiJDX..620 Mils. in so stroni;l y I thoughtlt was 1' TMJ or l\RJ Z 3 2,43 . Ill 2/ 25- Only one catch (aybe) but if it holds up it' s the highli ;;ht of the season. During V.JWL-900 TE5T time, the "alien s ignal" from "Close Encoµnters" was heard during the 1110-1120 peri od along with what sounded like weak CID• (no good for me , I don't read code) . A tentative sent, if it checks out, it will be State t,·48 heard (w 'K .H. J: Vermont left) & 447 verified (llaine & D.C. are heard but not veried). I too bought a TRF from C!!l'C K HUTTON, though it waa a used one but with filters added & realigned. It seems les s select i ve tha n my other TRF or the f.F-2200 (due to i nsertion los s no doubt, though it might jus t have weak audio) , but the selectivity is very good. I •ve only really checked it out on one SSS ses s ­ion, but at that time I heard KCTA-1030 quite well with t he antenna poi nted strai ght at ·mo. If I tried that on my other radios, I• d be lucky to be able to hear some t hing on 1070 as ',',} lO

i s only 12 mil.es away with their super-eff icient tran smi ss ion system . I'll be back for the "two word" issue w/ news of the Des ~oine s radio scene & I hope to see s ome other Mu sings from De s Moines and Cedar Rapids, as I' re t ired of bei ng a bout the only ~u s er from Iowa . 73 and see you in the City of Angels.

PLEASE REl.:'.EliBER; ONLY ONE J<it'S ING PER I SSUE FER i.iO!B ER Nov· TP'.AT ""E ARE Off OF OUR WEE KLY oKED. SO PLEASE OBSERVE THE DEADLI NE DATES SHOVIN ELSEWEERE IK THI S ISSUE. ALSO PLEA SE PUT YOUR Nil:E. & ADDRESS ATOP YOUR ~mSI N·'.l , AK D PLEA SE DOUB LE- SPACE v:E HO!'E YOU• hE ENJOYIN '.; THI S ISSUE.

·v ;!ERE TEEY ARE - THE ITG EO!T OPE!'ATORS, DE:::P SEA DIVERS, FI S!:EP.l<EN• SWI.11.uERS, CUii. ;~GGERS, su~: 'i.ORSHI.PPERS, LOKGSEORJ;Jilli , S. UGGLERS, Al:D "Nr'1.T HAVE YOU - THE llE:..BERS WHO

IVE IK A SEACOAST STATE OR PROVINCE! L A NORT H- l'ESTERN BArD-SCAN GL'Y KUD~'YER - 1314 City View f,I - ~ugene, Oregon _ 97402

Howdy . I read with interest a l\:using in the 2/ 25 DX NEWS by MARK CON?-'ELLT

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discussing Twilight Rush Hour DXing. Intrigued by this thou ght, I attempted to log some exotic DX on the radio in the ol• Pick-up Truck while conmruting homeward. The results were not surpri s ing - not e. single TA was heard. rot ?ranee, Albania, Maurlte.nia or even a groundnve from Y.'ABC. Not even anything as "easy" as -e:r.egal-765 . "Someone• s handing me a line", I conclude d, as I drove along fe eling depressed and eejected, hi. Then I stopped & considered a fe11 pertinent f a ct s : # 1, TA's don 't make it this far ~'.'est under any circumstances with any predictability; #2, my "commute" is oz:ly ten minutes to gome; #3, I get off from work .i ~:30pm. (The sun doesn•t ever. go down till 4:~in the heart of Winter, and this time of year, it 1 s approaching 6:30). After"'COilsiderir.g all this I felt much better, & decided I'd put that idea to work next season, only in reverse _ TF's & FSA stations on my 1110rning com­!lllte. Thanks, ~ark, f or the idea - it 111Ust be nice to log such difficult (from here, anyway) stations with ease. Now, keeping with the current trend in DX NEVIS, I submit a "Eugene, Ore. 3raundwave Study". All stations noted were logged on a Sunday All in late January, 550-!06.C. 570-weak unID (KVI?) • 580-weak unIV (KCKX?). 620-KGW. 630-KWRO. 670-.l!llOI. 690-XRCO (plus unID w/ cl mx); 710-KilW; 720-KDl'.11; 730-KBOY; 740-KCBS: 750-KXL; 770-KXA; 780-XCRL; 790-!0fIL; 800-KPDQ; 810-KGO; 850-KTAC; 86o-K~HA; 900-unID (Canadian7}; ' 1)?<J-KGA.L; 930-.UGI ( plus unID, KSY.B?); \40-K'IJlC; 950-KYES; 960-I<.AGO; 970-KYTE; 990-KRKT; 1000[()00; 1080-KWJJ; 1150-unID (KKEY?); ll9u-KEX; 1220-KCCS; 1230-weak unID (KTDO or KHSN?); l24o-lFLY; l26o-KCYX; 1300-KRVB; 1310-KEPT; 1330-UnID (KUPL?); 134o-KLOO; 1370-KFIR; 1380-UnID (KBCH?); 1390-lSIJI; J.400-!GiliD; J4lO-KPAlo! (plus an unID); 1420-KYNG; 1430-KGAY; 1440-UnID (.Kl.lED?); J.460-KROW; 1470-KDI!~; lliBO-T!nI J (KARO or KRED ? ); 1490-KBZY; 1520-KYXI; 1550-KGAR; 1580-UnID. All other fre­quenc i es were ·either blotted Ollt by locals or completely dead. I hope sQIDeone out there finds these i ntere sting. Question & Answer time1 I rr.ay be the world's most uninformed DXer, but does anyone know the story on KSUB (or whatever is) that was •'1pposed to be an by this t ime w/ 50kw from St . George, Utah? I•ve been trying for that one for a long time. BILL !!ARDY, I will get around t o answering some day , 6: yes, PETE KOIAll , I an still alive. Adios.

sn; :;s THE PF.AiSES CF P.AJ.L.AHUND l!Q-180' S F.ANDY TOMEI'. - 1038 11th Street - Arcata, Cali! ornia - 95521 (postmarked 2/'<!/, rec •d 3/4)

This Irish llusings issue is definitely the most ridiculous ploy the ~IRC has come up with yet to drum up a few extra ~uses, but it did get me to dig 011t the typewriter & come up with e. ~use, which is long overdue from this DXer. I guess I oan qualify even though my last name is Dutch, since I have ~ classic •rish mother, t I•Ye been known to put aW"&y my fair share of Cld Eushmill • s I rish l.hiskey at times! ~:1th the coming of St . Pat'• Day WC DXers sho)ild be am.re that DU' s will als o be coming in with increasing strength and quantity, and the Eastern DXer rr.ay get that long-awaited first Aussie. DX for TP'• has been on the upswing here, with quite a few foreign stations noted during late February, see IDXD . I'm now living right in downtown Arcata (since August '79) & the noise leTel here is horrendous, limiting my DX somewhat, so I often drive Ollt to the waterfrcnt a mile from here where it•s very quiet , & DX with the - ~-2 set on the dash and the FRG-7 plugged into the cigar light er . I also have e. good DX site se t up in the boondocks . Jly house trailer i~here and a couple of 250' LW•s; it's a pretty good r:x location but is 12 miles from here. The recent articles on Hamnarlund receiver s were i nterest ing, it's 600d to see continued interest in these fine machines, in spi t e of all the new stuff that•s coming out. I wonder how many DXers use the "slot" filter in their HQ-l80•s effectively? Here•s my method1 Set the selec ­tivity to a fairly wide position, then turn the EFO to"CW" and r;ero beat the desired stati on. You will then hear a strong beat note on the unde sired si gnal; adjust the "slot frequency" control until thi s beat note disappee.rs. Then return the BFO to the "All" position & switch the selectivi t y to a narrow pos ition. Although it's no miracle worker, the slot does make a noticable improverr.ent when Q)lM io 2 kHz or closer t o the desired signal. Overall, I find that the RQ-l80A leaves little to be de sired as a DX rig, guess YD'l could say I'm a "Hammar-lund >Ian." Several CM'llers of F.amrnarlund SP-600' s feel they are superior to the RQ-180, that•s saying quite a lo:t for the SP-6oO. A good repairman on the WC for older tube receiv­ers is Frank Glass of RQ Service Center , 14910 Los Ge.tos Blvd., Los Gatos, Cal. 950~; if this gµy is in your vicinity, your R.~e s will be in real good shape! .

KEI.J;Y MIS; ED TEE I~I S~ I SSUE OF MU SINGS TOO KEIJ.,y ANDREWS _ 1800 l~indsong Trail - Richardson, Texas - 75081

Even though I' m probe.bly an issue late on the Irish Musing, I thought I'd ••nd in a ;.:u se jus t to let everyone know I' m still alive ~ trell. I completed the move f rom Richmond to Dalla s curing the last week of Cctober, but very little DXing has been done from the new site . Probab l y the most productive aspect of the move W"&S the opportunity to st op by stations that had been hold-outs & get some long-awaited verifications by W'&Y of a personal .. 1sit. '3 uch a t echnique was used with \".FCG , Cobmbus, Ga ., '/l'YVI, Montgomery, Ala. , V.TQX, l•lma, Ala . ~ KOKA, Shreveport. All were ver y fri endly , offered a tour of the facility and Cndicated they do verify as a rule; it's amazing how people .re spond to a personal visit. •nly DX from Texas was the morn of 2118 with WW11'Q-l430 :Im a lam s / off f ollowing ABC }<1{, IDing

a.a 3l1Q-Panama City, Fla., & KURL-T~O-TEST under heavywei~ht XEX wiTT; veries back on l:oth of ;heae. Only prob l em is I don 't have the time, patience or money to start all over on veri­l'ica.tion totals even though this DX scene is totally different from what I was used to in ' .c. & Va. Current totals from all location s are 829 verified in 45 state•> ·eight provinces

® (Kelly Andre,..., con •d . ) + 31 co"ntrieo . : still Willia!llsb10 r g , ~' ; anybody a b le to offer any he lp? 9\f'l; fo r the pas t f our year~. 73 .

!leed veries f r om CH'liO-Oakvi lle and V.EZJ­Retur!l rercer..tage here is runnir1g around

HIS GTG VJ>.3 5NOVIED OUT! 3. '7 / 80 BI LL cOLE.l:AK JR . - 1 14 Ci rcle-u;::r-ve - hocliY Mount , No rth Carolina - 27801 /919-443-7282

f,ell, I had to cancel t he .:arch l & 2 DX ge t - /be st llpm-4am daily/ b gether, or rather the SNOV! storm we had cance l ed it for ree , hil Twelve inches ·in my back-yard I Kind of disappointing, but we•re goin g t o try a gain soon in the near future. If anyone has a better date/ time, etc., p lease s uggest i t whenever you write. I heard the '.'.ROM-710 2/18 TEST, real strong s i f;Dal here, and well ove r pest ¥."OR, "The Big Bore ", hi. Excuse my poetry! Local ~'RllT-1490 was off the a i r Sat. 3 11 due to the s torm, nobody showed up to re­lieve the man who had already been workir:g 12 hour s (s o I understand). They usually s/off '> 12: 05am daily. Only stat ion around he r e that s tayed on wa s the Fii of " CEC-elo, wF'lla-100. 7. I called the C! & asked if they ""re going to keep the All on due to the snow emergency, & he said he 1"la only keepi ng the lrFlla on, didn •t s ee any need to ke ep All on AN as they di d the Fii . I guess only daytime stations with 10 Fil service ca n stay on, somebody please verify this? (CAlr local WVLC-1170 atayed on when a hurricane threatened in '77 & they have an Fii -ERC) Oh, I almost forgot to 111ention, WCEC-810 will start using CBS network NX on :..arch 17th. He y, any of you guys up on .Ills with any DX tips, g ive me a call . J• m a night owl, and I•m usually up till 4aa, so fee l free to call . The phone doesr. •t ring here , but only a . li gh1'i'lashes, so it doean•t wake anyone else up, h i . That goes for other mornings, tool So make a note of my nwober as i t •s non..publiahed (liated abOTe ). Any amateurs who are C.W. buffs, please write & we'll aet pp a sked, on Ci aode. iily call is KA.4DAP. I use a Yaesu FT-lOlZD on banda 80, 4o, 15, 10, & a Drake TR-7 tra.naceiTer, and an Info-Tech video display. Correspondence, phone calla alwaya wel come, eTen eapecially from our f oreign country members. I also exchange caaaettea of air checka, etc. Peace. 73•s.

IET•S ALL SUPPORT DAVE• S DDID COUJllN ! DAVE SCB)IIDT - 42 Chelwynne Road - Cutle Hilla - New Cutle, Delaware - 19720 3/ 4/80

I hope thia •ake• it in time for the "Seacoaat Special." Although I'm not near the coast, we've still got one in the Di amond State! DX1 2/20- ClTB-610 12 157-l,09am w/ c/wmi, CJQR-1'11 ID•s, WIP nulled, o,N. WIOD. This is only my fourth 6 10 logging i n 15 yHra or lhtening! 2/25- ' !GOC-1090 12,44-12:57am w/PoP (thanks ERN IE COOPER for the tipl), ll'liTS-1590 1135-2ut • / REL mi, "The Spirit of Life", o/fiAlR. 2/'26 - 'ffiGl-1050 51'56-6:09pm w/ RIL aturt, before Y1!111 Ht in. 2/27- WJllA-1340 6,03..6,12pm w/NX, then lloR. 3 / L The TT t'rOll the llISl-580 TEST snuck u/l'i!!P 5:49-5 , 59..,., 1IHP is exceptiOilllly strong here at night. And a t'/ up -nt to YIB:IV-930 tor an 11/18/79 report. Verha: T/ 1- n:llG-1520, WlilA-1130. v/ f-11RCIL710-l'BS!. !otal1 1,019. Thanka to all for their support to DD:xn, it's appreciated. And I hope you•ll be able to keep the support up as waw done for ll!Y ARRU!ll, who did a nry good job. More aa it hits the wire! 73•s .

L(X} S IOB-770 ~ CKII-1140 IK SPITE OF A EROJ<EN l\RI ST EDWARD i. COTTLal - 4106 Second Street - Chesapeake, Virginia - 2332i

Well, here goea my first llusing of the year. No excuse, except I broke my wriat a few W9•ks ago when I •lipped on some ice, left behind after a record snowfall. So far thi• yt11.r ha• been one giant snowfall, a n all time record for us of 41. 9 i nches, so far. I got hold of thi1 typewriter and have been practici r:g so here goes. This season h&sn•t been too bad DJ;..wiae. J•ye logged 80 new stations. and three new states. The states were Wy C111 ing with XTl'iO on lD/30/79 u/TIBZ, New llexico with KOB u/vABC , heard t wice this seas on, and Nevada with XllJJ also heard twice with 'llRVA off on Slls . en 1/ 20 CKXL was heard in good w/ rr mx. All have Terified except KOB which is out now. I have been concentrating on ve rif ying all the three-letter cails. So far out of 35 heard I have verified 25 , 18 of them thi1 season. · Verie-1ignera are being sent to EIU;IE COOPER. CX seem t o have gone kaput like they di d last year at thia time. No new stat ion s in over two weeko. Domestic totals, station•; 897/85; 1tate11 43/39· Well, that's it for noy, a lluse just to let everyone know I'm still here. I hope Ernie will excuae the typing; I haven 't been typi ng long and this is one-handed and left-handed. ~o long and 73 's.

LET US NOii' 1\'J:LCCla A NV I l!D.BER U El'GlAND EEfill llOll NTAIN - 528 4'th1U1 Road - Blackpool, Lanoo., England FY4 lQY 0253-44808

Although I joined the N .R .C. in Decembe r of '79 I have not had time 1o Muse until a few days ago, which in themselTes ""re taken up DXing, bringing five newies and sever­al . unID• (Reports s ent 1n to DAVE SCHllIDT) . To i nt rodu ce myself, I'm a r e cord shop owner and ho.Te been DXing for over 15 years but have never t aken the hobby seriously enough to join a club before. I haTen•t found out yet whether or not I 'm the only Limey in the NRC, hi. ~ipment here is a Panasonic RF-2800 itth J oystick antenna and Joymatch tuner. I have also on order a TRF fran CHl'C lr HUITON. The ground wave situation in this area is amazing, with 14 pi rate stations fran t he Republic of Ireland and other re gu lar English weelcenders. )los t reg-ular North Amer ican here i s CJYQ- 930, more oft en audib l e than not. I am l is tecicg to it while I write thi s. I• m looking forward t o Musin g agai n s oon and meetir~ many new friends through the NRC . 7} . (They'll be moot welcome, He r b! - Ef.C) (There is one other Engli sh liRCer - KEK BROWNLESS , 7, The Avenue_ Cl ifton , York . - ERC )

PLEASE ltE;.iEl!Blli ALY.'AY S TU SEKD RETURN POSTAGE TU STATIO!iS l'f. EN ltEQl~STIKG VERIFICATIONS . IT IS, AFTER ALL, A FAVt,R TO us - ;; o TEE I.Eit:;T WE CM: r;o I S TO PAY THE COST CJF THE POSTAGE! BE :;UltE TO REPOJ..T TO UR T!WiK ALL STATIOl.S LI STED n THE ;?ECIAL TESTS SECTION o~: PAGE 11

JEJii\Y f.AD A (i (N.; DECK.B Eit ® B.<viY bOl;D - .145 ~urwell i-. oaa - r.oche s ter, - } :;,-w- Yor k -::-146 17 3/ 3/80

J Long time no llus e & with quite a bit of DX to r eport this season, I think it' s t out tiir.e l se:-.t & r .-)::or l; i•L I 1 ve . been swamped with work the past r.?Or..th or two but I•m

:till DXin~ a 11-tle - most l y on weekends . Here ' s what I •ve been hearing si nce my l ast Muse saversl :nonths a bo• 12/15- This was an unusual ~ft~rnoon f or Quebec. I noted CJFP-11.oO o/ Y.YSL as early a s 2 : 38pm !.< frorr that point unti l '-1 :30pm FF shtions just dominated the ri ials. cFLP-1000 was the only new one l obged a l t:t ough there were tr.any I t hink would have been new had I got te!'l. s ome ID • s . ·"~'1other r..ew l o t:; _€, i ng that afternoon wa s WGUY-1250 w/ a J immy Fund Telethon ~ 3 :49pm . 12/21- A~ o th e r ;;ood day f or Quebec - this tiir.e around sunrise. CK.311-1220 wa s logged f or the fi r st time frorp. 8 :10-B:3 58J!l vrit!'l Chr i stma s mx 6- I als o hea r j CJS0-1320 strong a s late as 8 :45run . FF was a l s o n oted a round A13C-8 :45 on 1230, 1B50 , 1;60, 1270 ~ severB.l other fre~uencie s. Then on l '.:) /24 I logf;ed a coup l e more new or..e s while having breakfast - V. BI0-1310 ~ 7 134 am with loM l SX & ~F.UC-1 230 , 7 :45 w/ a promo for a spe cial "2C hours of Ch r istmas" s how - 6pm tha t evening . C•r. l?/29 I didn • t log anythlr.g new but I noted ;<;CRV-1580 at the i r 4:30pm s/of f. They said that the FCC prevents them from full time opera­tion and they u r ge d lt steners of ".' CF.\T who miss t ha st'1t.! on after sunset to \ivr i te to the sta­':ion &- t hey will f or-.rard t he l ette rs t o the FCC . <n 12/30 I caught t he pirate ?RN on 1620 from 12 :32 t o 12:40am !: they ~nnounced they '"ere p l aying a ta;:e of their 11/ 12 79 broa dca st i n Nhich they t a lked about how to get ~& L' s f rom them . They were coming in fai rly we ll with s ome dee p fade s. I noted' the"' later ~ 1: 25am but a bad het prevent ed me from making any-thing ou t. SSS .on 1'2/ 30 wa s ~retty ,;ood - or.e r ew l oggi ng taken in l'Y1'3-ll50 '-' 4: 19pm. Al so noted were V:HViB-1000 .> 4:15pm & niTY- 990 ~ 4 :16 s/of f .,/no SSB. Both are quite rare here. !he fina l da y of the yel:i r provided s 1me exce llent loggings. F·irst of a ll I heard an ET 'TT on 1060 ~ whe n t he station I Ded t!":ey said it was W--- in ?!.ebane , N .C . This was ~ 2: o4am. 'I~ e call s ounded like Yl\HI - not "/.''.(Y1X which is lis ted i n the log. (It ' s V\HNI, ac o:ordi r.g t o updatf.lr i:i - EEC ) I s ee whe r e they ha'7e ap pl ied f or the call !\l\IiI s o I gue ssthey have c~ · ar.ged. 11..ny bo dy know f or sure ? Another r-e w lo c;e; ir;g on the mor ning of 12/31 wa s WOOF- 56o wh\oh was not ed w/ an ID " 3:26a m ~nnounci r.g t~e end of an ~T . Then J 4 :o6 I caught KllBZ-980 in v9ry st rong with e.n edi t or ia l i n which t!·iey pr a ised "themselve s as being a great station. l '.)79 really en ded on a good no te D~(- 1tis e . I 'll r eport on my ea rly 1980 DX r.ext time. 73.

• :IBEU..:i T ·~c!::t-i iC .,.L i~L- : ~\(... .. S i' ::.~ BOHAC ti Dt.1 EART:;;K JF< . - 4 !lanf orn.ay - ' airport , Few York - D.1450

It' s been a lonb ti~e s i nce I mused; at le~st six months . Fir s t. thanks to 1-"U ::uEHLER & famil y f or the gr eat Convent ion at :> t. Louis l ast year. Also thanks to \\'ALT BREliI LLE and famil y f or the use of thei r " A11 fra.."lle house; ::s tate; and beverage . I had a good DX chat wit h rtu}: oCEi>TZ after DZi'1g . P.is t~lk or. the LlCA # 1 & 2 was very interesting. I alW9.ys wo:r..de r <?d hOw anyone coulrl DX down there ~ I neve r tried it 'here though; as no luxury loop . I ' m not su r e where to c onnect lon~wire i~put to ~~- 2. Anythin~ 's better that what I have r.O'N! I r:eed technic~l ~e lp p l ease . :..r. Bohac or .lli-. Truax. The dia l on 1!f!J '10 seems to lock u p a t . 0 56 . 5. (Thanks ver y much, !:iICK TRUAX), It 1ti ll not rotate any lower (i.e. to .000.0 ) . Any he l p wou l o be ap c·r eciated. Sl ugs ( Cores) look to be moving freely (No, I didn't t ouch them ! ) Ee s t DX to da te: ' . E . 800 kEz , TFE , bonnaire, fetherlanda Antilles, 22ll miles . ll\'.: 1400 kl'.z, Burns Lake , B. C. , Cc ill, 1, !+00 n ile s apF ro ximate ly. SW1 WBAP- 820 Ft . r:orth , 820 mile s . •1; , 7'HO-lol+O I'e ' Moines, a bout 950 mi l es . I shou l d have done better. I hetd a ; r eat thrill -nee ti ng the "T-shi rt '"an" (1.r. COOP ER) . Thanks for all your year s of unselfi ~h he l ? ·Ni th ~usings , E ~TI:~ . 73 ' 3 . (Tl"~ere's no "mister" he re , Dan - just ERNIE1 -ERC ) F. : .. . - :\'ho te s ted 3 / 3, ,;, i dr:i , ht pa s t 1 :'15ac. or. ·:;60, over- riding i"FIR . Any he lp? Thanks much!

Cul CLl'D ix::; P.I ::: TAU: o: His l.'.O S~ l'NUSUAL DAY !_-\.J-:.:, J.::,Ul\ ?IEi-:CE REEL III - 1 23 'l oodlawn ·P._ve:DUi - :,ar9.toge .:.p r1 ng s , New Yor k - 12866

(c on •d f rol'.l la st i s su e) 't\!J1H wa s strong ,_ a lor.e on 1350, whil e ;,1'.:. r; wa s way o,A~.:. f7.-1270. \I.AHA i 'i.~Vh were cio ing batt l e on 1320, while '.""AI'R was r.ot t o be heard . 13 10 belonged t o ; QB.C, & t he lont;- s ought :Laine & Conn . stations were not there. The gospe l pro~ramme on 126 0 he.d to be 3ost on, ~ ·;.,.;...;.E ·.va s with -i°1KER. & ~iiGUY on 1250. 1220 wa s ·11-~ I E/hL?K , ~ 111! I1',. c omple t e l y 1fR lloped ·,\Uh'l! on 1110 . Does 9.nyone kJ;low what became of ·r.VNH? (They ' re c~rrent ly s i l ent - E:7.C) The GYs were :ns.dhouse s, every one t 1230 was ridi cu lous . It was worse t ha:: a ni c;ht of excellent skip . 12·'-0 was s o jarmned that semi -loca l ww~·.n was get­ting bur ied. 1340 wa s a me s s , ~ 11100 ha d ·.LL':' dominatin g, wi th spot s for a s tation at 99 . 5 . ~··A.BY wa s bn ried . lh50 was i mp ossi b l e too . a s wa s 1490 . I tried the " t;raves" a ll afternoon, & could n ot f Osi-:ive l y ID any s illg le station e xc e pt "ti LL.ll . Then . as has been the case a ll Week. as sunset arp roached , the skid faded. then d ied completel y . Now the GYs ha d or. ly . the usual sta t ions helird duri n g the day l abso l11 t ~1 no c o- channel interference on either 3111m or ·.\AEY, eve n i':hen nu lled t 1490 was 1'.CSS , ·N/E n.D unde r, t he same a s during t he day. l,1,"ri"SC wa s alive !.· we ll on JlJ~O . 7rhile •· T,'O~'T ,. 11 -SP. !' ~at•· l~d i"': ou-1: f,,r co~t r1'1 of 1~40 . On 1230 tt"HuC was •till i n thei r on groundwave, 74 mile s a way '. I cou l d r.ot even hear the Lat i ns I s onetimes €•t when domestic ski p Ci e s . The skip above 1500 started to open up s li ghtly a bit late r , & 1•KB\'i wa s t he r e a loe ~ with ?'QXR ~ 'l:QQW. WDR was in ev ide!lce as a 3kc het on WQCW , but not sufricient in strength to s ur face al one. ?:o other TAs c ou ld be heard at 9.ll. so e ven t hat A.spect wa. s po or . Y~hen skip i s this poor , my pocket ra Cio doe s one thing str ange: i t picks Up l i t ... l e i mage s of strong 5¥1' station s t lit!l no s ta t ions oi; Af/, to figh t them off. these l it ­tle ima bes surfac e all ove r the Cia l. Annoying i s a kir:d desc rip n ogl Last we ek I reported hearb ;; WCHE te stinf; on 15 20 ai 1 /29 . Today I recei ve d my v erifi cati on f rom CE DAVE .> CllllIDT . You will rec~ ll ! told y ou that the te s tWas unu s ua lly clea r wi th c ou rt i ous I Ds, given s lowly & distin ct l y , ; o as to be ea s ily r ead under su~e rpower ~' KE \" . Now I su spect why: DAVE is one of Us \ I wonder 1vhy he di:l not give the 11< C advanoe notice of the TE ST, or did he? (Re did '.)

- ERG

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5TEVE KE1l·!;DY - Box 23 1 - Immoko.le e , Florida - 33934 ·-- - - -Eowdy fro!U the Ear of the Everg lade s . Lots of r:ev:s . 2/24 , F-:ON SCl"ATZ, MAFK

STRICKER T, ~TODD h-Y LER c11J11e up f or e. day of eat s , DX gab , 1': even sC!'.le DX . At 6 :04pm we were all &.!!lazed t o hear R. Moscow r e lay via Cuba on 600 kHz t \'.;e believe we cou l :i have been the first to hear this , as it wa s n ' t r..otic ~ d 2/22 . Fossibly ~his is the Jl'C' s '; p owe ; f u l stat i on!.~ North America, as on 2/25 ·<' 4pm I wa s 9.ble to hear it ~~ !llY car r'tdio wi':i: 9. wbdshield anten-nat Back to the fir3 t I rmnoka.lee NRC '1T1; Kon , };~ark, .1_. Todd ~rrived about ll:;bam to .meet D!e at ~'KEM . After the nickel t~J r of the place , we went out f~ r l unch , f! c~ed vp ~ six- pack of beer, 1': to my tiny place. Much o tal k about ~X • NRC. Ron 5- I !'" " tocether al! I,'.; CA frol". what parts were ava il~b le ••• thank.s , Ron, for the parts ••• and p layed eround wi th it. ~\ e .:il'g out a couple of Cubans I had never heard befor e. L13 was appro~ching, ~ Ron Cemonstrated how TXM works, ~:e star ted with a het on DBC- 595, bt•t we started t o scan the c.<« l ~ ran into R. !l'oscow via Habana. I checked for SY..' //s , & onl~, heard the USSR Y-P. , so -...;re C' Or.. c l ud ed th is is vi'l sat ­ellite, By 7pm all were getting the hungries aga in, sc we pile~ into Ron 's car x ran off to a restaurant that speciali1ea in Me-xicaJ'I f ood _ no Cuban re sta u. r11nts up here . ~t)rry the food wasn•t so hot fellas, I know they car. do a bet t er j ob. I eat there ~ 1 1 the time. After a hearty meal, we bade adios hasta luego. All in a ll, I really enjoyed the mir.i -GTG, + really appreciate fellow NRCers who will drive over 200 !Diles round t rip jus t t o vi sit my l:ull!bl e 9. bode, e specially wi th the price of gas these days . Due to my ~isi on , my wife would have to driTe if I was able to reciprocate the yi s it. Again Ron, Todd, & Mar k , t hanks & l!'l.l.".':ho gr e.oi a s. By the time the next season begins I will have a working L::>CA to die out DX - ri &ht now I om rounding up parts. :I; look• definite now I will finally be able to get an FRG-7 - 'Nhen Uncle SLll returna ay taxes. J ust to show I sti ll DX - r.ew for log 1 ~. Cadena Habana-116o, CMGB-920 R. ieloj, Cardenas, Cuba (u-1560)J CMXF- 580 ii. Rebelde, Baracoa, u/ :;DBC, all daytime heu'd here. •t night, HIJ B-830 Sto. Domingo, CMJX, R. Moron, Cuba; '· Cd. A$ramonte-1577v, Santa Cru• del Sur, Cuba1 new domestic TiRCG-143:> {Oll- 'loRBL); 4VV1-1325 R. Haiti-Inter. Ylho says Flor­ida i• poor for DX? It•a grest if you want almost unlimited IA DX , especially South Flori da. Right, Ron? Let's haTe NRC-•81 in Ft. Lauderdale\ This Summer, pl9.ns inc lude possible GTG, plan• tor an •lligator J.lley Beverage Party next linter, & a 50. !' la. groundwave su rve,,, That•1 it for now - till next time, setenta-tre s (73). {IF YOU'RE SERIOl'S , STEVE, P11T YOl'R BID FOR THI 1981 JIBC CONVElITION IN WRITING & SE!ill I1' TO N.R. C. HQ -EF:C)

l>l!O COUill BE l!ORE "Ct.A.STAL" THAN A COASTGl'AF..DSJtA.11? ROD 0 1 CCllJIOR - USCG Group - 259 High Street - South Portland, MBJ. ne 3/11/80

Oreetint;• fellow NRCere. Very little DX to add to these pages, but since this ii an hwue tor ue "Coastal DXers" • ·I would be nut s t o miss it, especia lly since I missed laint Patrick'• Day edition. Finally on the air, after ir.uch de l ay , i s V'DC I-1590, Gorhan, .... •lthough the newa item I furnished for DX }lEl'IS a few weeks Lack indicated a s/ on cf s ome tiJlit betwooen Chriat .. a & New Year •s, WDCI didn't make it until t!le fir s t we ek in March. Their tour ·410• towers are oriented in an E/lf direction, with most of the signal coming right into Portland. lloat likely they could be p i cked up quite vrell ac ros s t ee C.,; l f of l!o.ine through .. ch ot JonL Scotia. In fact, I imagine they could squeak down to Cape Cod. ( You heard •em ;yet, ll!CT) (Clnoe, <S ~h30aa -ERC) W'SIJIN would be quite an obstacle though. Next Muse, I will tr;y to get their operating hours. I am pretty sure they are r.:utual w 'NX on the hour, other llaine news 1 W~)i-560 ls now APR NX, having dropped UPI. I n the l e.st DX }JE',VS (3 13/ 80) :JAVE RUUIOSII mentioned hearing WSBG-95 .3 FM from Southampton , L.I. , N .Y. which us ed to be V',YRJ. They are a Class A Fll station 1': cannot ocerate ove r 3kw. As it i s , they only put out 2 ,35ow. acoording to 111f FM At las. I tried to get a job there a few Sumners tack whil e s t at io~ed i n l.'TC, but didn't get it. The y used to play real "Shrnaltzy" type mx to ;;o with tre "Beautifu l People• crowd out in t he HamptOt!s. I am get ting ready fo r JUir11ner i; round-wave VX on the beach, despite the faot that now it i• atout 15 c ;nth 30 knot s of wi nd makinb it feel l ike -250! Good DX to all.

AROUKD TEE V.ORLD OF' RADIO PETB IEllP - 5 Greenwood J.nnue - Bethel, Connecticut - 06801 W!3l?ZX

ISTP'• radio listeners, with links t o 1'.'EBC 6: FGR, we r e treate d to live radio oov­erag9 ot the Aioerican-Ru>sian Olympic Hockey 6ame. Y.!:TP r eceived the fe ed and f ull coopera­tl .. froa Canada's CTV network. Edwin Howard Armstrong , inventor of ~he superhete,?dln e r • ­cdnr, h&e been inducted i n the J;ati onal Inventors !!all of Fame . He was a lso known as the father of FM radio. Bill Edward1en, of WQB K in Al bany , received a ca ll an the ai r fro m a l is ­te11er in Singapore, about 10,IX>O miles away. J o it wa sn•t DX, just a re ~ular touring t he

.f'v .... ,. Yankee Baseball, in Albany, has switched from WOKO to l\RCW. WCFll is going t o ear~ the i...tual Rad i o Theater from llpm to midnight. H&rvey, ~ .D. has been gr ant ed a 500--\ter on 154o. There are now 4 , 558 c:mmteroi a l radio stati o"s or. the air in the t• .o, De­spite the recent FCC ruling that third class ra<l ioteler hone li ce~ses woulc' not be r ec; : red for logg1n1, etc . Third claas licenses are still avai lable but no broa1ca ot er.dor semer.t s (e le -.. nt 9) will be is sued or renewed . Cuba's new 600 kEz ha s bee" heard many time s here in COllnecticut despite WICC in Bridgeport. Complaints have already started pour iLg in the fC C offices concerning i ts i nterference. Art Fl emming , fo r me rly the r. ost of TV' s "Jeor~ rcl y" is now an afternoon voice on KMOX. Dow J ones &: Co . is putting together a fir.an c i a l r.ews '1ti r e seni ce. They plan to p ro gram 17 l ive musiness r eport s dai l ;y, Mo:')!"ldey t hru Fr) day . Th'9 se rvi ce will be carried ove r Associe.ted Press sa tel li te :. r 9.nspo:r:de ::s. Marv Eitt.ennan hA.s been approTed a s the new hear of the VOA. So ~uch for now . ~

Watch for Dave Yocis ' deadline in East Lansing--April 28 . Give him a work­out! Remember only one Muse per issue (any extra ' s will be held! ) so watch your deadl ines . In Provincetown, the next deadline is April 7 and then May 13.

® A ~IT u;· " ""IL .. Ix. l·P l{ARL v. JETF.R - 3:''70- C ClubhouseGfrcle East-::.-Decatu.r, Ge orgia - 30032 - C·r eet ings . A strar.ef:! story start s l"Jff tl".is r.~us e: 1::y copy of DX !'E\i.'S # 17 didx: •t show up ir: the mai l box , but the next v.eek, ;1 18 arrived intact. THEN , about three asy s after # 18 arr ived , t he re W9.S the erran t # 17 ! If that was r> •t enough, {Thanks , USPS~ µa lf t re i s< ue wa s up ide down - =st •ve been a. topsy-t.urvy trip, hil On to DX , llhi ch has be•n quite t, ood here . Goint; back to 2/18 , weak TT w/"Sweeps " noted on 730 dur i:i:g t he sked J'l'fL-TEST, tor.e s st rongest ·" 2:22am, mu ch XE >: , a t entative report sent. Thi s would be Jtont. f l for me. 2/ 19 , j ust after local l\'YN X-1550 s/off , ViEHC in {;Cod w/ SS s/off !: EE legal ID at end. Thi s e. long w/ unn V.'CTVl-1550 in l ater with li ght rr ~ l'Y. On 2/23 a semi-daytime r ecep­tion, w .. NiPl'V'-ll160 heard well w 1rr 8 105- 8 :07a,.. w/semi -loca l O\DYX r.ulled . 2/23 PM, r eport token on \'i!iAL-1400 v' 'Ford dea l er ad .' 6:29pm. v:JWL-900-TEST not defir.ite, I hear d some TTs around 1:42 , no ID, natch. 2/29 , I noted a het on 13<Dk , and was s urprioed to hear Radio Haiti-Inter or. 1325 , xlnt s i gna l 9 i c~ -9:39pm {unusual, as at fi r st they seemed to be SS , then by 9:40 or so were in fast FF). Best SSS reception of lat e wa s on 3/1 to get March of f to a good start: V.V>C-990 wa s ir. ni ce l y 6 :05-6 :08~m w 1NX, lo ca l & state, f or first t ime Pa. -s ever heard '~ SSS as I remember . PlU of 3/2 also wa s i;OOd: I got KMUl-lli40 good o/:.mrr et al 6,;6-6a42pm w/ rr. later , several s/of fs on 1~40 , cne ~ 7pm was \\'BNL, Boonville , Ind. {2501r) then @ 7,15, a s/off w/K-call, but not sure, they had FM mention . Still later, another new­ie, when Kv.~D-1580 was heard to s/off 0 7:42 w/FM melO.ti on . My TEST bad- luck continued on 3~ w/ only sCllle TT noted 110l-l 1o4am on 1430 for l'NJR . And fir.ally, 3;1+ PM, I was Tery sur­prised to hear ol' He rbie ·Roeflicker •s beacon, Kl'IDY-1 570 at s/of f .;;; 7:45pm. Good ol' Herbie was met by me & sever a l pals on the way to the '77 Linco l n Convention when we stopped at KJ;1)Y. He was really nice, but he won't answer my reports \ A few verles in ,Feb. but none in ¥.arch so far: KSRB-1570, WNPC -lo60, VIGl\'R-1'60, WCIR-1V70, l\'BOL-1560. 73's for now.

LONG¥1A VE TA'S ARE IU.KING IT INTO JERSEY ERIC Vi. CRUSER - 1 I.Ake Shore - Liikehurst, New Jersey - 08733 Ti2DYR

He llo again from Ocean County, in the Pineland• of New Jersey, which does have a long shore line on the broad Atlantic. I'm still doing a bit of DXing & found CX very good the fir st day of ~arch on the low bands wi th several signa ls from Europe, including1 W, Genuany on 151 & 180, France on 164, Droi twich, England on :ll O, :Corocco on 209, Jlonte Carlo on 218, Poland on '2'21 & Alge ria on 251. Recent addi tions of internationals heard on the reg­ular BCB are YVKS-750, Caracas, HJAJ-760, Colombia, Senegal on 765, Freeport, Bahama• & HJCY, Bogota, ColC111bia on 810 kH%. A carrier with-low audio wa s heard on 885 kH% @ 61~0pm Feb. 18th. lly l 1rTH shows only Saudi Arabia on that frequ ency (could be·??) Other new logging• here are liYRE-810, YiLVV-c;i.iO, V.'Lffi- 730, YICPC-<:40, Voice of Cuba-6oO, f.'HBQ-560 {'11\lile VtF IL was off)~ KOJ.-850. Receivers i n use are a Drake 2B wit h home brew conTerter, s:z42 and a TRF . Antenna• are ham band IJVs. Until next time, 73.

TRAVEU~ G BUT NOT DXING BRYAN I.Ell - Box 69 - Brooklyn, Connecticut - 06234

Well it•a about time that I M\lse again , I guess. Since my last ltu•e around No-vember er December, I h&ven• t DXed at all. None - not even a sinple bandacan. l'T• been struck by DX-boredom, I haTe it bad, too\ During February T&cation, fra. Feb. 17-24, I went along with IrY father to Arizona (after having a six hour delay in Boetonl). On the 21st, 'IN

flew from Phoenix to J.lbuquerque, N.M. and droTe down to Sooorro, H.K. where I waa born and •here my father went to college. I did some recording in both Phoenix and Albuquerque. The beet recordings being from J.bq due to a misunderstanding with my tape recorder, hi. Not much in the lraY of s c•a , actually aa far as getting SC'• wo.s concerned, the trip -s a disas­ter due to the flooding in Phoenix. Tie stayed in Tempe & to get into Phoenix required a five hour wait to get acros s either of the two bridges open over the normally dry Salt River. It .,.. i:i:terestir:g enough though. Phoenix--r5 a beautiful city, but they laok any knowledge of good bridge building, hi! l<iaybe l' 11 Muse aglin, socm, I hope! (We do too, Bryan -ERC)

ill & TV DX IS GOOD; RICHARD F.AS A NEl\' RX RICHARD CI.ARK _ Apartado 113 - Puerto Plata, DC111inican Republic

Hi everycne , here is another report from Pto. Plata in which 'l'V DX has been really gr eat & making ithard for to DX BCB. My new RX, an NRD-505, ls the best radio I ever had; much better than the R-390, SPR-4, HQ-180 & SX..62A. It has a video readout of RTT Y, CV/ in Which I really l ike on SW. The se l ectivity & sensitivity is ve;J good and it does not 09erload on locals! This radio is li ke the R-388 a.nd the higher cla•• radios that cost t2,000-plu s . I am very happy with Gilfer in getting me this r adio . NOlr for llOIDe DX news here: 1261 HI •• I.A Vo• de Cibao is on the ai r , location unknown, but I can say it is ·not I.A Vega, Santi ago, Puerto Flata , and so it has to be in Monte Cri sti or Nagua area. A very poor leTel here with HIT nu ll. R. Turks & Caicos is on 1460, e:x..1550, not a new station ae per r:ewo on VSI, just a frequency change only\ AFRTS - 1460 is n ow FIC only . I\, Exitos, YYTB is now on 800, ex-980 & was heard 2/10 w/pJB on top. Another pest on 800 for me, PJB 'rVTB ICKIJV

'XEROK Ir R. Exitos-Panama\ For now, 73•s.

STJJ. MORSS _ Route 3 - Bradford , Massa chusetts - 01830 "Harrisonburg Nie;ht" tonight - WKCY-1300 & ViHBG-1360 both on top @6pm. 6:05

•aw WEGP in the clear on 1390, then, wonder of wonders, WLll! off the air - top dog was Wl!CS w/ cjrr & CJFP in as I turned the SM-2 but t r y as I mi ght,no YILTN (no sign of WBRL e ither -lllaybe they are off for real. 1 ViUl! came back on ,,; 6:35 & ..... ak:e r than usual, J111ybe only one

transmitter was on?

GET THOSE !.'US INGS REPOhTS OFF TO DAVE YOCIS FOR HIS APJUL 28th DEADLINE\ DOUBIE SPACE!

® STATIC OJ: TlOE UChEA~E - DX, Tv(;I

EENIE CC.vPER • "The Village Idiot" - 5 iUlthony ot. - Provincetown, Mas s . 02657 617-487-9337 ~hree ver ies made it in this fortni ght: v/ 1- '."!)CI-1590; v/ l-CM : CKTA-1 570, &

v/ q from a tentative, WOKE-1340. Let•s statt by aelrnowledging phone calls from the se good fri ends in liRC1 MARK COl~N ;:LLY, GAEY WVEGREN , ~TAN JLORSS, FRANK MERRILL, DAVE FOX, cl: ex..l!RCer Bill Viurtzel. )ljj>I 3/3 was a very noi sy one, bu t t'X was good! cTnID ETer vr 'oc TT on 1370 0 I

WFEA <l 1125-plus. Unn Y•EVD-1330 was runni ne; late, w/ a program in Yiddi sh, noted o / l':Dl}I · ~ 1137. Unn ~liBF-1290 was still going on RS J 1:40am. An unID TTer on 1280 didn't ID, 1:40-1146. I took a third report on CK0-1470 hoping for a v~rie, they're runnil'g !Oe out of Can­adian stamps; any Cana dian member willing to send me s ome 17-centers for U. ~ . money or stemps? Then a lucky one a s I caught a test ID from l'iBF'J-1550, "Vlinston-and- Salem" N. C. <l 2:34am for a newle. Then .£1 3127am I noted some "home-spun " hymns on 1590, cl: figuring I had i··.NT S, I hung on, took a report, cl: e;ot an ID "WDCI in Gorham, waine" {also new)! STAN ~ORSS says their RS weekday s/on is 4130 so this must•ve been a test. They've just begun RS, contrary to what a non..!ffiCer said who "heard them on RS" back i n November. Add to the Larry King Thing1 WJON-1240, JiDXI-1310, KCllJ-1010 .!: KA.US-970 - oyl 3/5- lio sign of ll'JAZ-96o TEST. CHUI! cl: Y.liN-1050 about even this .u.!, C!IlJll's array mu•t be awry. Unn WULB-1550 Conn. TTinb ~ 12140-12 153, o/ CBE. Another pattern is esk:ew; that of CHRl!..1290 as suddenly they're on top here All• AN. 3/6- UnID TT-1330 a li09o.m u/ PiDU'I. 3/8- i'ili00-1550 another of their frecpent ETs ~ 1:07-1117. UnID TT wjlrOR-710 ~ 1125. Longtime no-heard CFAC-960 actulily topping that spot ~ 2115t 3/ 9-0n 1150 u/PIBIJE, CHSJ giving a-y a weekend in h w England _ I wander where they'd send ir.e if I won, hi! SOlllebody off freqency on 612a giving CST TX cheeks 3 2109; a verr weak signal. On 567, Ireland • / cl 111X ~ 2127o.m. Unn CKCY-93) in WJAR•a null ~ 2:52 • .1111 3/ 10- Unn 'llNCT-1070 a/off % li07. CKKW-1090 noted this Ali ANing & using llLFll ID CKKW/ CFGA. TTer on 610 3 2112. At 3, on 1500, two unna, 11'.STP cl: WCZY fighting weakly - o. bant1.11-weight bout, hi. llRX0-680 orr by 3, w/C~CFTR there . Old friend El llundo in on B6o for the first time this aet.aCll - that•• Bro.&11. MDl-1050 -s off; in EE, 911meone giving a Los Angel•• phone number tor counseling - XB:l, or IEDT n:o• s quite near L.A. 3/11- TT-1400 @ 2133 .!: 2148 on 580 . 3/14- Ro.in, wind, noisy but DX goo4. UnID TT-15·30 u/wClY _; 2127, then newie WOTQ-1550, ex­liBVJI, Utica, ET-e/ir !Ding frequently 2 146-31o4 cl: an. 3/15- I got the s ixth .!: last member of the FFC Appalachian net today, 2:42-3109; CJIP-123), Disra~li, P.Q. SM 3/16- TTer on 990 2136-2 142, I'1 unID c/ir ago.in topping J.4oo, still no announcements caught, 2:48-3107-plus. WPC1'-l4lc had his SP earlier today; they came back Oil at 3o.m. I•ve got at least two re-quest• for a Provincetown daytime bandsCSlJ I'll try to comply next Musing. C U N 7.

Hold the presses ....• the following was received in Louisville just before we went to press.

GOOD KElrS of the memb<>rs James Fe:nimo·re· Cooper editor "FLYING HIGH AGAIN" or "THE PLANE, THE PLANE" (apologies to "Fantasy Islaad") NELSON CONNWORTH - 765 Transatlantic Drive - Clamagansett, MA. 02673.1416 Well today I felt that it was about time to report my DX doings for the past winter. The big development here was the new computer-controlled DX'ing machine with a telemetry-operated MW receiver in a radio-controlled model plane. The plane receiver is coupled to a portable shortwave transmitter which broadcasts back the audio from MW signals received. On Christmas, I sent the plane off to Sweden to see what DX was like there. I had excellent signals from many Russians; India was good at sunset. At Swedish sunrise, several American signals were heard, but they were just the usual powerhouses . like WOCB-1240. 'ocb was noted taking Finland/France-1242 to the cleaners, absolutely stomping in with ads for Hefty Blooper's Lower Cape Used Car Lot. On New Year's, I sent the plane to Tahiti to see what Pacific DX was all about. Aussies ' Zedders were in like locals and I got a charge from hearing hometowners like WVLC-1170 mixing in with local Polynesian signals. Sitting at home and vicariously travelling the world with my model DX plane has given my enthusiasm for DX'ing a whole new lease on life.

"FREAK TP OPENING" (or should I say "Freak TV opening?"-ed.) CHUCK ECKAROSS - Wouff Hong Rd. - Turret Lathe, NJ I got bored with the TV show I was watching, so I turned doWJI the aud.i.o on the boob tube & walked over to the R390A across the room. Then I connected up my new Pooper-Scooper 13-J loop which had just arrived from Radio East. When I heard all the hets on my receiver, I nearly fell off my chair. I was getting hets that had to be TP's, because it was 5 in the morning EST. My countries total to that point was at about 90, all TA's & LA's. I knew that bagging all these TP's would push my total over 100. Carrier around 819 -has to be lYZ in New Zealand! Gleefully logged for country #91. Something on 567 - JOIK in Sapporo, Japan listed, so here's #92 . Whee! I took a quick break to have coffee & watch the farm report on TV. The price of manure shares was up sharply. After flipping the TV off, I returned to the R390A. But, alas, impending sunrise had apparently taken its toll on the DX. All the hets were gone & I uttered a choice curse. But I'll be at it again tomorrow morning, searching for those elusive TP's.

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•GET-TOGETHER A SUCCESS" j{oYl!ARSTOOL - 4 Guinness Way - Budbury, MA 01776:

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~TG here last week was a resounding success-. Delirious Credenza, W T. Infirmary, and Transmogrified Paul Hatch brought their receivers. T;ansmogrified's HRO ran circles around the other rigs, primarily because of the built-in '57 Chevy engine. F Stop Fitzgerald brought his Nikon to make a pictorial record of the event. Chopped Mutton, editor of , Interplanetary DX Digest, brought an impressive pile of veries. The helium­balloon-supported mile-long vertical aerial over the salt marsh & pitch-pine grove out back worked like gangbusters, but *@#!*! Urumchi overloaded the front end and produced spurs which covered up the better DX. Pest Falklands on 536 was in like a lorryload of liverwurst. Nelson Connworth brought a VW Microbus filled with. computer-simulated strip-chart print-outs analysing the strengths of WBZ vs. KTWO on the moon for a whole 11-year sunspot cycle. Will Pretzel, also known as the "Mid-winter Anomaly", brought a tape of his latest DX, WABC-770. He also brought his new comedy record called "DX'ing been belly belly good to me". All in attendance enjoyed the traditional wolfing-down of pizza & guzzling of beer while DX'ing on the vertical Beverage; plans were drafted for two phased mile-high helicopter­supported verticals for next year.

•ANOTHER REPORT FROM THE COLLEGE OF FORMATOLOGY" DELIRIOUS CREDENZO 5 Grid Drive Gordonville, OH Signals fading in & out, operator "slightly looped". Format news: - The conflicting application problem regarding the new 1450 outlet in Provincetown, MA . has been resolved. Cooper Enterprises' bid was rejected; a religious outfit led by Anita Bryant & Carl Mcintire has been granted the licence. FCC said that the Bryant/Mcintire-run operation would more accurately reflect the character of the community. WCAS-740 has taken a different approach to the 'SOs revival. WCAS calls itself "The Voice of Beatnikism". Cool jazz is played & old taped interviews with Jack Kerouac & Richard Farina are run. A new all-Arabic station is on the drawing-board for the Bronx; a competing application from a Jewish group was summarily dismissed. Ian Oury & Frank Zappa records are now featured on the new tl station in Salt Lake City. Coptic Church services on Jamaica-700 are now sponsored by "Smokenders". A pro-breast-feeding group has asked for equal time after the Milkman's Matinee oh WNEW. Don't forget to petition for a 1610 - 1800 kHz. "bootleg band"! LX XIII & remember to 'stay delirious'.

" '70s INSIPIDITY AWARDS CONFERRED" HIRAM PERCY SLEDGE - "The Old Buzzard"- Dental Floss Rd. - Flapjack, Montana April Fuel? What fue l, bah humbug! I'm free~ing my appendages off! Here are my "Terminal Insipidity Awards" for the '70s : I've conferred them upon : stations on 1270 that ID as AM-13 or 13-q . DXers who report the shortwave spurs on their cheapie mult i band portables to the international MW columns . Reception reports that state "If you don ' t verify, all I have to do is make o ne phone call to the Mafia ... . " Receivers that need an exorcist, not an engineer, to repair the m. Loop antenna kits with missing pieces. Anyone who calls himself an "Ayatollah". Daytime stations that have to go off during the ninth inn i ng o f a tied baseball game. DJ's who talk over records, especially when you a re trying to put the record on tape. Musically narrow- minded pe ople who think it' s impossible t o enjoy bot h disco & hard r ock (no t t o mention classical, country, jazz, fo lk , e t c . ). Radio stations that aid & abe t the " rock vs . disco battle" by staging demonstrations a t which fights break out . Light dimmer gadgets tha t QRM DX. Stations that throw carriers & test t o nes without ID'ing . Receivers and tape decks wi th l abels reading " no use r- s erviceable parts inside", thereby assuming that a l l users are semi-moron s with no electronics knowledge .

Preacher shows that ask you to " reach deeeeeep into youi; wallets ! " "LA VOZ DEL YANQUI EN LA AMERICA LATINA" ~ F. KLUTZ - Owsley Blvd . Dayglo Beach, FL What a drag it was getting to work today! The Transit Mechanix were on ~trike because the services of two of them had been terminated. New con~ests

0 : the '80s : Contest *l - Log Swan Island on as many channels as possible, using an "LSCA" antenna. Contest #2 - Log all megawatt Costa Ricans. ~he first listening block will be on 1 April 1980, tuning 624 to 626 kHz.

0 ntest #3 - a precision frequency measuring test. Over the next month, !~e7ial pirate stations operating ne ar 1160 will broadcast non-stop Caribbean

.sic (Jimmy Buffett records & reggae tunes). Every hour an address will be i~ven to which your reports may be sent. Closest PFM wins a bottle of Uncle

7 ~del's Cuban rum, confiscated during the Bay of Pigs invasion. de RonAldo McDonAldo. ~ T. BARNUM - Watergate Hotel - Washington, DC .Y motto is "There's a sucker born every Monday morning." My partner Bailey ~s on safari, using Beverages to lure rare African beasts. Good DX ex. today .

1eara from work: WTOP-1500, easily getting by CKAY. Heard from tunnel on M - 95: WRC-980, generally better than co-channel Arica, Chile. Heard from t~Donald's: WMAL-630 demolishing KJNO. Heard at home: WWDC-1260, topping

e synchronised Russians. 73 (square root of 73 squared)

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YOU GllESS i~o - No addrees given Vol. 65 No. 7 Hil How•s DX...er-ingT we1i, in this neck of the DXing woods, everything is just

"great", hi• I just got my 8,473rd GYer - CXXX-1490, in Elsa, Yukon Territory, at llr38am on 13/37. Signal was fair-to-fair-ly good, with lotsa "(ISB". Did anybody notice that 'local" WBZ operates w/50kw now? Another newie was XEJ.lP in l58C in Leland, MS at 3135a.m. I guess a call change fran WESY. ~by don't more of you contribute to DX NEIJS and DX Monitor? I noticed that JOE~. CITIZEN in downtown Peoria, Ill. hasn•t Mused in over five years. ~bat•s the problem, Joe? Congradulations go out to IRCA•s pub staff for getting the bulletin out on time last week, excellent job, fello191• Well, that•s about all for now and I'll be back, probably in Vol. 35 No. 17 or 18 w/another of my fascinating Musings I P.S.: I ·just sub­mitted 17,839 clips to ~ at !RCA for publication in DX Monitor. I.oak for them and I hope you enjoy reading them! One tells how many radio stations operated on AM and FM in Teguci­galpa, Honduras in this past year, yep, you guessed it, 1979. Let me know what you think of it and write your opinion a Musing or Forum. Y!ell, gotta go and til next tim!l, good DX-er-ingl

NO NAJIE OR ADDRESS - Shawmut, lfaasachusetts Vol. 65 No. 8 Hey did everybody hear about the Great DXing Switchofft It seems that

lPC will be editing Arctic Radio Club in Sweden, Bruce Port&er will become editor of the Viorld. Radio-TV Handbook, and Nancy Hardy• s pet dog Spot will become editor of Southern DX Digest. All other poeitions in the club are open! So get your applications in right away! Peraonally, I•d like to edit International DX Digest, even though I don't know anything about foreign DXing. (I even mistake WOSU-820 for Cali!) but I love NRC and it•s my #12 hobby overw.11. (!RCA is #189). Unfortunately or "shuccs" hi, I don•t know who I should apply to since lPC just moved to Stockholm. Anybody out there in DX-er-ing land who knows please write me at the above address.

(The above -re .· sent in unsigned1 we believe they are the work of DAVE YOCIS. -ERC)

IWil CONNELLY - 30 William Road - Billerica, llaaaachsetts - 01821 2/15/80 An APRIL FOOL'S WSEt "TV Showa I'd Uke to 1l19e." A "l!.A.S.H." episode

depiota the radio op. in lore& tweaking a loop to get KFI. Bostonian Major Winchester says he won•t do any surgery until he hears WBZ. On "Lou Grant", 'Animal• comes in late on Monday morning and eaya that he waa up until 3 that morning trying to get a DX TEST from an Alaskan Graveyarder, whereupon Grant ships him to a graveyard in Alaska. Ernie Cooper ~isits Fantasy Island and wants to DX in 1935, but with an R-390.A & a Sanserino Loop. The experience ··i.&••• hia double-1paoed. A call cane• in to the police desk on •carter Country" about s..,e nu\ trca Deoatur, Ga. 1tringin.i a ail• ot wire through a local farm, turning off the milking •chinu, and hUllllling the Paraguayan )lational Anthem. An epHode of "WXRP in Cincinnati" deal• with a DX TEST by WIRP and a aub1equent controversy over whether or not to verify re­port• ••nt in. Saaple report•, good and bad, are read. In another 1'1KRP Show, Phil Boersma tt.1tta1 Oftr the 1tation and pl••• ncm-atop Iggy Pop. In Los Angeles, a recepcion-report rin&• 1elling report• on -•tern 1tationa to eaetern DXers, i• broken up by an intrepid SWAT t•- im "Rooktord Filu." A man apprehended in Central Park carrying six bulky portable raclioe ii brought into llYC Police HQ 1211der 1uspicion of burglary. He says he uses the ra.dios tor Dnng and -ight-litting. Barney llill•r and the other cope agree to let him go after they are eubjec1;ed to an hour of continuou1 poetry. Public Television does a documentary on "70•1 Culture": di1oue1ion include• Wee Boyd'• mid-70'• Domestic DX Digest column credits about looped & 1toned DXer1. "6o llinutes" does an expose: "The Swan Island Story•. A DX Quia game show i• started; pri&es include Kcl•y-Dymek DR33'•, Drake R7 1DR7•s, and KNBR bumper 1tioker1. The grand prise, a Heald Travel Agency DX..pedition to the South Pacific, is won by a Watertarn. If&••· conteatant who correctly explains the Etiology of Quasimonthly Ionos­pheric Periodicity and its Effects on DX and Fishing.

DAVE RUKAKOSKI - RFD #1 - Box !i09 - Brooklyn, Conneoticyt - o62~ (rec'd 3/25/80 _ year late! -ERC) Laet Sunday I held a little GTG in a

namp four milD 1 N of Galla tone. We (Eeks Ray, Ann R. Sea, Juan Xerf, and Coco Hammarlund) set up a 127 ,000 foot longwire, in a SSW to NES ~irection, avoiding quicksand, and other obatructiona. Vie all DXed w/a fairly new GT-8~C-730A Static Splitter All Wave Signal Searcher. Results were very dieappointing\ PestCFFB-1210 splatter was totally destroyi ng anything from ll70-124o, and a great loud spur on 750 dimmed the chance of hearing the much wanted w511-750. Only new wtations heard were WART-1530, WANG-980, WSOB-1110, and CUTE-362436 w/a nice figure ••• er, signal, hi. Just got a verie from YiROT , in the form of a ecribbling thank you letter on their bumper sticker! By the way, I was just handed the early morning slot (midnight to 6am) on radio station YIQRll-1240: that is every morning, and I'll play anything loud, no, not tones, hi. WQRJl •s.· signal is heard pretty far, for lOkw, what do you expect? That does it for now, detailed GTG report in next ABUSINGS column. 73 and NSP\

SOME DAFFINITIONS : A Nervous Po•tman : A very wary Verie Fairy. A Two-Way radio bought from VIISN.ll~O, »which doesn't work: A balky Milwaukee Walkie Talkie. A directioLal pattern out of whack: An awry array. Clear Channel: A frequency whe re it never rains. Co11111unications Receiver: A set the store writes you about when you miss a payment . Frequency Counter: ~bat•s the difference - who needs one? There are exactly 107 frequencies .

N.R.C. Loops N.R .C. Conventi on :

Everybody knows the.ti A swingin' antennat An excellent way to los e y our ~urnmer sunt~n. -ERCooper

i>"R IL FUEL ----------- -by QAVE SCFJ.!IDT ® Did you hea r a~out ";he girl who war.ted to ~ oin the Navy as a pilot? She said she wanted ·to be i~ the Air vave ~ .

~id ; 0~ ~e;r-abo:t-the-sta~i~n-i;. ;e~cht;e~,-G;.-.that ;~ ~ Dx-TEsT? Everyone ·heard it but the.Y reported the audio .. beir-'t; a 1 i ttle fuzzy.t

;id;~ ;,·e-~r.-a~~t -t~e- ;t~t -io~ in-3;it·i;h-c~:i::m~i~ ~ f- at was so hard· up fo·r cash they ;pons·ored a salmo.r.. ra.ce?

-~e ic~; ~o-a-r.~w-:n~m~e; in-F;r:~s~nic~ ;e~ Je.;s~y-_-R;y-nio~ -- - - - - - - - - - -j·evr R.ece.iver - Ripley Radiot Once you ·hear a. atation. you can 'b.elieve it or not t

- - - -:::ihOW me a man who's a. disc jo·ckey and ! 1 11 , show you a man •ht>'s on spins and needl:est

~ho• me a man with a song in his heart&: I'll show yoo. a man with a pac·emaker made by Hammarlund

~i~e; ;f;fe;i;.g-a-"ko~k-a:~d-R~ll ~..;;d;i~; = th~t~s--a-b:;.,-~th ;ebble; ~n-it\- -

- - - - - - - -The inver:.tor of AM. St.er-e'O was re-c·ently stck - came down -with a case of m.ono·t

!)eri~iti~n-of ~ DX;r---a-p;r;o~ ;;h~ lets-his-mind ~o-rlg~t-d~ th; tube:!- -

i:ext week on the XE!S lllystery Playhouse -we' 11 find out .why no one knew.the garbageman was hiding in the closet unt.il the wir.d chan~ed. ... - - - - · - - - - - - - - - ·- - - - -=-Send a l'lrge SA&; to Flywheel anc !;et b return •.•• 99 things to. do with turnips, 75 illegal .•

The. A;;riculture Department ·has offere·d a .report ·on Everything •You always wanted to know about Lettuce but didr. 't hav-e the head t o ask.

The ~11.:; "!--.as a profe-ssor i"r: 1 ts :rr'.embership Who .designed .a new .pattern ~tor argyle socks - n()w t~·!e.t's a _real kr..-\.t-... wi·t 1•

XE:; recent.ly offered a new book whtch was !iutognphed by the author-. l!any ·were dissatisfied v:hen they re ceived the -book and .found nothir.g but a b1g X "insid·e. It was later lea·rned that the 'iuthor couldn't write a:nd ·he cH:lnr:t write the book - he t_yped ltt

!·!on .• here are s ome people ·Ne' C 'like 'to see Larry King have on his show:-: .: !..ORI-A. :.)T::.!rYi"A-Y - fer.iale a:.ct-ivist e·ne;a : ed ir. equal ri ghts f .or ·pianOll: ·. d:IKU ILAL ... Famous blg game hunter :f;r.-om :Yiallingf.o·rd., Pa-. 31R.O -RI::Y~O'LL .S - Famous actor· ·who sleeps in ·tree·s .• 5J::RT .:::~n. F:KS - Famous -person who starts a lot 'Of ·rore·st ·rir·e·s'\ flEEY VIHAJ=: - Fopuli..r sine;er :.,ho is the son .Of Julio Ga.llo·. 6:-lA.-?iA-tOOK - A famous 50 1 .s sinEinc; g·roup fr·om Fa-i'~banks ., Alaska .• .JA?-::: EOl\Uk - Famous .Je:pa-ne.s.e actress ·with good mileage.

,\;.u.T:E l'UtiOJ~LLG - F&.1< ou.s pe.r son who ·stni;s in seven ·flavors and can·•t 0keep ·•ti ·ll·.

0ne .of our m'<no· all night stat ior.s was :rec.ently -0ffering Lucflle Ball P&r.ty Hose • not only jo they get r 1..::'ls,. th~,y get re-rur..s '·

''.un our r..ext talk sh·ow, we wil1 t~lk to -a professor who is tr-yi.ng to de"t ·ennine ho• long America. Wt:t.S l·:)St be·fore C: o}·.imbUS fOu::ci i't .'"

Ur:e all D:ight talk shaw r ecently interviewed 11 scientist wlro as tryin& to d·etermine l ·f the Eifff!l Tower .. reel ly c!id ce>nt&ir: any Eiffel 1

t:ext ·week, WXEG will be ir.terviewi11i; a fanner ·who can garg.le in S•paifish·, •Ind tell us about how he took. the burp::. oJ,tt of t -urr:irs., ar.d the new book he ·r.P.c.en't-1) pu·blis·hed-"> "Something you can do Vlit.h Par~dey."

- - - - - - - - ~ -~'id J'Ol: know that tte fir·s t Putilic Servic~ Ar.:.r.ounceraetit ever -ru:n .-;n TadtO wa·s f ·o·r a .party to be held or: the Titanic for the "It Couler.•t Eai::pey, fr- a Mi.Ilion Years Club.t"

~ hat :naker was rer:ently turner. dowri as a prospectiv e person to be 1nte!·viewed. r.e WS.R too much of' e. pu-t-t>n.

They said

: or: 't forget to wri t.e for your free p"mphlet for :o thinr;s you can do with 3-in-l oil - all tif· them Cisgustir1c, 1.

:.ew F-.eceiver _ Bagel t.aG.io - just set it or: a station and it ~locks- 1 it iI: l

Lr: a-r;c;r;~ ~o~ t~r:~ - p;o~r~m: ;1: - &:it~m~tiiJ~ ~e~h;r.ic-r;p~r~ed he-~s~rt feelin g well. rt '«a~ fir,p,Jly dete.rn: i r:ed he V.'8.S two q•J.art s low.

.::.;:t.~ci f:..l ~otj e:e _ the Ir,or1thly rr. f-:e~·. ir (.. o f the Vic [•arr.one Fan Clu t has· bee n canceled due to boredO

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A new re1 1orter to Lu sin r; s repoet s t r.at he's goin e; to ma ke a lot of mon e y t h is year ••• he just l ought a pri nti ng rres s 1

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -A ~~ew York clot hinE, dealer recent l y ran a n a d on ar. s. rl ni c:ht ~h ow, " Ee a real hor..ey , brl q'.; us more money' We t a ke ca sh , che cks , credi t cards ar..d hosta r;e s wher. you don' t hav e the fir st t hreet

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -A r.ew membe r who recen t ly joi ned t he Cl u b reports he car. make h:mf e lf a dire ct ionHl loop by just puttir1g hi s hand s on his s ide. Te l c ome t o Arm s Akimbo.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -There was on ce a r:xe r who bou ght a bunch o~ very hi eh priced r a. dj os i n the h ope that it would make him a better DXer, It didn't help but t here wa s one th ing that no one c ould take away - hi s New York accentl

XERF -is ;;o.; offering -a -special -book: """liy -trip fo - tfie -zoo" liy>!arii t'f Fefkniir. - -

Then there waa the NRCer who got a job at a p l ayg round _ says they gave him the swing shift.

Recent l y an all ni ght · talk show had ar. interview w_ith a man who like s to race motor cyc l es. Only thing wa s , he cou l cn•t fig ure out why they always beat him l

Then there were two twin brother s who recently j oined the Cl ub-. Thei r fl r.s t !..!usiq; stated they worked in an ice cream parlor and were known a s "The Double Dips."

Than there ""s the DXer who had a date with a print e r 's daughter . she ""sn•t hi s type.

It didn't work out - said

'PIKBW recently ran, o.n a d for BUFFALO CLEA!:ERS \ It wa s a Pub ll c Service Announcemer.t for the street . department who were lookirg for street swe epe r sl - ~ · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -On . a~ recent ca se . o.f the ViABC Divorce Co urt of the Air - a dentist and a manicurist were r e-centiy seperated. They werealways fii;htiLg , tooth and nai l. - - - - - - - - ~ - - ~ - - - - ~ - - -YiBT ·rece_ntly played_ a ; ong dedicated to a ;,,eat cutter - "Bttcher Arms Ar ound l.le . "

--..,, --· - ·---~-Did you heo.r o.bout the new beauty queen the r ec ord··industry picked? with •asu:remepts of_ 78 - 45 ' - 33jl .

They chose a gir l

News flashes: Share croppers in Iowa ref us e to share- their crops I State of Maine revokes Frost's poetic li cense. ldini atu re c ow in IndianL gives fi r st quart of condensed milk. Battle of Bands in--Boston injures 35. Details on the f arm sha.-1

- - - - .- - - - - - - - - - - - -· - - - - -· - - - - - - - - -There was a DXer who c laimed his radi o wa s wo:rth a million dolla r s ·. Hos ever, t ha t . same person -• recent ly arre sted when he tried to cash in the kno·bs from. hi s T?.FI

- - - ~ - - - ·- - - ~ - - ~ - - - - - - - - -XERF .. ie advertising a n~w fast f pod re.stau r a.nt - Arno' s Internati on·a1 Eouse

- . - - - - - (si gned) DAVE. SCE'.:IDT - · ·- - - - -- - -And - now , by Poor

.picked ·up a newie the other Ml.! - "Ra dio Kylon" . They announced they have their record _library . Ko wonder t hey had s)ich a s oc k !

of Spam\

Old .Erni • Cooper. been sto cki ~g up

And , thi s ~nnounceme.nt j u s t in fro_m Louisville. In order t o helf save energy , the r ati onal &sdio C1ub- will fr om now on be c losed on Sundays .

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ·- - - -Y• ith all the new relibiou s.-oriented ra dio s ta.'4: ions, we . don 't see ar.y" im-Isn't it funny?

provement in pe op l e . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ·:- - - - - ·- - · - - - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - - ~ -Bu t we like WGOR -1520' s new s logan . Wes tern Ohio - "Holy Toledo. "

You know - t he y 're the re l i"t'.; ious station in r orth-

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -· -Vie s ee t he.r e 1 s an applJ ca t i on in for a new s tation ir. Dedhare , Mass . They want l,000 / 250 U-1 on 14; 0 - a nutvr:a l for that city , on a graveyard chann e l.

i ;e~e~tly- c ~ lied ~p-a-c;r~ain-s~a~i~n-whi~h-~s-r.~t;d-o;. ~b~ut i?41-o~ it: ~N- s how. The eng;i r:ee r-or.- Cuty exr la i ned , "Oh, you see , l' ve just smoked a j o:.n~ and we' re a li tt l e on the hi gh s id e t "

:! ~u s t r.earC a vt:i ry hurr.orous r ec ord on a n .:; :::; st9."t i on . a t least i t s ot• r. de C. furr.y t o rr.e.

At lee.st I t h:..nk it wa s humorous -

As s.n e x-re s:!.den t of Eroo kl ;yr:. , r e ;·; York Ci.ty , : ca n t. ru t t fu]l y say ''D>:i n c i n Fun Ci t y is a ".:: out as rewsrdi ne as a deep-sea fj :: hi r1r; t .dp t o V.yomi nt: . ''

:\ r. d r eme mber , you D). e rs ·Nho ·Ne a. r g la sse s - don 't wea r t h en ou :: - take t h em of f when y ou 1 r tt r:ot look i: g at tr. e C i al. :: or. s erve t

A P R I L N C t S E N S E --- ·------------ -by tnn: cooPBR ® ;·,e just chanEed the name of this section _ like eveeybod:y elae

0 we juat J'Ul

~ -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- ---- --- . - - -. --. ;Ct , we•re now heatir.r; this barn thus'y: The living romn with hot tempers. the radio llfi th hot m~sic 0 and the kitcher. with hot cross buns.

~~Fil~;.t; ;,,-r;c;i;ed :rte; ia;t-y:a;,; ~oi~-h;s-n~hi;g-~ do-.t'tn i.t; -thi• year. What was that number, you ask? Ever hear ot (blank) lloateU

re happy ;e~e~tiy-t; ;e~elv;; ii.,;i~g-f;o; ;u; ;T;a;lln; ;_;.;;.;r~e-~;n;.·.; Ht; visit to Akron.

- -- - - - - - - - - - - - -liRC Traveler from Ohio. Frank lferri 11. of its residents?

---- - --. . . . What is there •bclat (lhlo ~

- - --- --- -- - ----~ , if you try to be obnoxious. you'll likely succeed.

fi\; ;.,t t~e-_-Y;..-d; NoT ;.e;d_a_1;.1n;..;_di:1-t; ii;~n to-~e-litgh~·,,;t~·w. ·"' ----- - -- - - -- - ---- -- - - - - - -l DXer missed the entire World ~eries iast October.

tile Pirate• on 1620. He spent o.11 the tiM loolltllg

- - ----- -----. - . --11&1'1! an interview With a praninant football coach, who proudly r.nn0tmoed he 11&8 Jltft> J'9d a si x- f oot-eight-inch Wide receiver! Wonder if it was o.n R-390lf

• - 4 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 - - - • • • • ~ - • -lUplier is a marvelous go.dget. l'ihy juat the other evening r tunel\ 1• ll'J'M-~·

I turned on the Q-llult, and prestos The next Ith "21J-4t•

oanr.ot get Telephonitis if you ha._ a lot or· hang-ups.

- - --- - ~ -- -- - - - --- - - --- - ~ - - - - - --. -. . . ~ recall a while back I had troubl• with it takillg ages fOJ' the re-cehM' ff,... • .

l4Jlan Ryan could ft1'm up before my set •• ready tct go - and he•d be WOl'king Gill l:f• l'trilceCNt by the time the thing turned onl

-.. got a chari;e out ot this selection. recently heWrd on a local FJl 84lation1 "'!'lls. ftft'6c Your ~aee" - by the Ca:rpenters.

:•• - -- - - - - ------------., - -- - -- - - - - - - - --- .. -· --- ..... 14 ...,rybody screaing about.- w:tth the proposed llin.- k!'s sepen.tion plan? Jun tMe: .. B\likY station will be 01' "' split chanmll Wow! l'lhat DXI'

~~\:ck to-the-Q:ih:lti~lle; fo;: ;.,;,,~t: - Y~ kn;;~-t; ;;..;.-the-v;i;• 111-)'CN pi ck up a station with • fem le LJT Put your Q-llnlt on "Broad" I

m:y radio was- on the bum • but it •s the other -y around - the bmi

- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 -a :recent discovery th&t you can enhance the perforunee of' a TRI' 111

~ your fillger on_ the exteri:or anterma· post. And new we ho.ve a way to- •n tlia-t 1ll6o ctional antenna - Just hire yourselr « llhirling d.nislll· ------------

1t a Venes"elan frequency check. Tliey•re 'fiery easy to piclr out - just listen to-r & cycle note with a Spanish accent.

-----------------of Royalty. ae is • Prinlf• • •11. lie must be - his bl'Other

V-e have two lawyers in the Club an¢ they are going to' try o. cue at one another, a case inYolvicg the suit of a "lady ot the evening" by the wife ot one

customers. So one NRCer agair.st another as barristers - The Lawyer for the tion vs . the Lawyer for the ProstitutiOlll

·e a new retired ex-Army officer joinlrg the Club _ llajor Factor. He lives 1n Tab, 'W'C of ?epsicola, Florida.

thi• -j~s~c;,,,; ;;,,;r-the-t;l;f~nke;_- St;p-a;.d-sho; is merging with the A & P.: t o call their super markets: s top & Pl

a call on the hot lir.e t he ot•.er morning. a1>d the ;;uy . said, "I'd commit suicide, but robably live t o regret it! "

lt i• ti~e to leave you f or anothe , year - but just so the ZI of you who complained "Old Faithfu l" {the ancient but reYered old L.C.Smith typewriter of Musings fame) -

mad a t you, ar.d she refused to do this sectio1>I And as s he sits over there sulldng .. bar.e; away o r: this one , it • s s o long, and enjoy the next 366 days till next April 11