--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00019 Date: 10/05/96 From: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN Time: 08:38pm \/To: HARVEY HARBICHT (Read 5 times) Subj: RE: BCDX Harvey Harbicht writes in a message to All HH> How long have there been more AM BC stations above the normal HH> AM band? I mean 1600-whatever to 1800. About 9 or 10 months now. HH> I heard a station (among the jumble) at 1.660Mhz that came HH> in LOUD and then faded away. All I caught was a little music HH> and "1660 Radio Oz". The DJ didn't have a Strine accent, but HH> he did say "Oz". Could it really have been Australia? No, he said "Aahs" as in the children's radio network that originates in Minneapolis, MN. The station is one of the affiliates or "O&Os" someplace east of the Mississippi as I recall. There are very few stations in that part of the dial yet - because most dials don't go up that far. It takes us folks with SW radios that go down to 1650 to be able to hear these rare BC birds. --- COUNTERPoint 2.3 * Origin: MacRefuge * 612-426-6687 * (1:282/24@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00020 Date: 10/02/96 From: JUERGEN KUBIAK Time: 07:04pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: BBC via MW tx in NZL NEW ZEALAND: The BBC World Service can now be heard over two medium wave transmitters, operated by Worldwide Broadcasting Limited (PO Box 800, Shortland Street, 4 Waipuna Road, Mt Wellington, Auckland). BBC broadcasts are recorded from Intelsat and than each one hour segment is shortened by special speed-up technique, developed by AVW Limited (cuts out longer periods of silence), to a 57 minutes segment before rebroadcasting at the transmitters. The three minutes are filled with local advertising. Since 6th October 95 the first transmitter operates on 990 with an output of 1 kW in the Auckland region and now a new station on 1233 is on the air at Wellington. (BBC 'On Air' via JKB) ... ===== WWDXC - WorldWide DX Club, Bad Homburg (Germany) ===== --- PPoint 1.82 * Origin: Berlin - the city of the dancing bear (2:2410/301.20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00021 Date: 10/04/96 From: MARK HARPER Time: 04:02pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Baycom 1.5\Embaycom\HAMCOMM Modem Proble16:02:5710/04/96 Hi All Hope somebody here can help 'cos this one's puzzling me ! The system DX/2 66 12MB RAM 1GB HDD Baycom 1.5 Embaycom Hamcomm Modem (Standard Pervisell Unit - No Other Mods) Trio R-2000 (With VHF Unit) The Problem Hamcomm modem is on port 2, embaycom is supposed to work with version 1.5 of baycom, but whenever I try and run it, no luck, It will not receive (I am listening on 144.550 and 144.650) Even Pressing + switches it into receive, but it just sits there, no packets nothing ! What should I do, Should I go and buy (Or build the ramsey version) of the baycom modem, or could it be a setup problem. I boot clean each time I want to do any decoding (Hamcomm JVFax etc) and I can receive stuff OK with the other packages I have. Any help greatfully received Mark ... Obi Wan of Borg - "Killing me is futile" --- GEcho/32 1.20/Pro * Origin: ** Mirage BBS North Wales ** +44-1244-550512 - 24 Hrs (2:442/101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00022 Date: 10/07/96 From: RICHARD DALE Time: 08:10am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Cooper debacle COOPER'S REMARKS GIVE PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT A SHOT IN THE FOOT By Ken Reiher I could not believe what I just heard on shortwave radio! On his nightly radio show, "The Hour of the Time," radio talk-show host William Cooper shocked and outraged his listeners on Tuesday, July 2, 1996, at 9:30 p.m. PDT, by openly stating that his counterpart, radio talk-show host Chuck Harder, is -- in Cooper's own words, not mine -- "a Trojan horse" of the American patriotic movement and a "socialist." Furthermore, Cooper -- who is heard on radio station WWCR (5065 kilohertz 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. PDT), had the audacity to accuse Harder over the shortwave band of being "the biggest peddler of child pornography" --- including "snuff" films -- in the United States. Anybody unfamiliar with the phrase "snuff," a "snuff film" is a movie in which the actor or actress -- either adult or child -- is actually killed in real life on screen. This in itself is undoubtedly the most depraved form of sexual gratification humankind can ever imagine. Cooper also stated that Harder was raised in a socialist background and that consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Harder's frequent guest, is, and I quote, "a dye-in-the-wool socialist." These quotes made by Cooper are not only undoubtedly slanderous, but also demeaning and degrading to anybody pursuing or actively employed in the journalism field of any kind -- print or broadcast. First of all, where does Cooper get the nerve to say such a thing? Just because Cooper disagrees with Harder's viewpoints doesn't give the self-proclaimed militia supporter and superpatriot the carte blanche to defame his character. As a listener of Harder's show "For The People," heard mostly on small-town radio stations during the lunch hour (11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. on KRLV AM-1340 in Las Vegas), I can state on record that Cooper will be facing a major lawsuit as a result of airing such defamatory remarks. Also, on Wednesday, July 3, 1996, I will attempt to contact Harder's show (1-800 825-5937) and explain the situation to him on the air. Had the above-mentioned statements contained even an iota of truth, I would still question those remarks, as they are clearly outrageous and farfetched. Also, had I been the manager of WWCR or the radio station that carries Cooper's Arizona-based broadcast, I would have wasted no time in canceling "The Hour of the Time." Furthermore, had my employees pulled such a stunt on my radio station, I would have handed them their hats and instructed them to keep their day jobs -- so long as their other occupations are unrelated to the media field. In short, Cooper and his cohorts better clean up their act on and off the radio, because any further outrageous remarks made by the self-proclaimed patriots would give the patriotic movement a shot in the foot rather than a shot in the arm. Respectfully, Ken Reiher @ Absolut(e)ly Temporary (702) 254-8601 From: KEN REIHER Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO This message is a follow-up to the previous message pertaining to the slanderous remarks radio talk-show host William Cooper made against Chuck Harder on July 2, 1996 at about 9:30 p.m. PDT. Yesterday, July 3, 1996, at 12:45 p.m. PDT, I contacted Harder's studio in White Springs, Fla., and advised the switchboard operator of the situation. She explained to me that once the investigators and attorneys for the United Broadcasting Network and Peoples Radio Network subpoena the taped broadcast in question and verify its content, Harder and his attorneys will file a massive lawsuit against Cooper. If there is any further activity regarding this situation, I will post such on this board. Respectfully, Ken Reiher @ Absolut(e)ly Temporary (702) 254-8601 --- * OLX 2.2 * Back Up My Hard Drive? I Can't Find The Reverse Switch! --- FidoPCB v1.4 [ff013/c] * Origin: Sound Advice - 24 Nodes (816)436-4516 (1:280/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00023 Date: 10/07/96 From: RUSS WUERTZ Time: 07:29am \/To: RICHARD DALE (Read 5 times) Subj: 10 Hz Drifting Pulse I hope I don't get another off topic warning, it seems to be my ignorance. I recieve radio by just amplifying it with a 386 op amp and a 5251 mono amplifier chip. I need no coil at all. When I amplify the ground line, it gives me 1060 AM radio. It is very clear and the ground must filter out everything else automaticly. When I take my jumper leads and put them to my curtain rod, I get a mixture of many different stations and some whinning sounds. To get different stations I put in different capactitors between my clips. All I ever get, is around 1,000,000 Hz and I have tried to get higher freqencies but still get those same stations, even in the 6 meter band with another radio I put together from a kit. The kit said to filter out other stations, with a variable inductor. I'm still looking for Radio free Europe and such... and tried using a little circuit board that had instructions not even to touch it. No luck..... Nothing seems to work as I am told and even the stations I get give me basic parinoia constantly. Any pointers would be appreciated. --- PCBoard (R) v15.21/M 5 * Origin: (1:374/3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00024 Date: 10/05/96 From: RIC CARTER Time: 07:37pm \/To: HARVEY HARBICHT (Read 5 times) Subj: SPECTRUM TABLE -HUMOR > the history echo. I guess we will know when the Anti-Christ > comes along when we pick up a heavy metal, Esperanto station... HH> ^^^^^^^^^ HH> You got something against The International Language? HH> (Not to mention the easiest language in the world to learn). HH> Moving into topic.................... HH> Are there *ANY* Esperanto broadcasts? I've been spinning the HH> dial for almost a year now. I recall hearing some from Finland. Don't know if they're still active. ... Physicists DO IT with tensors. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0GI * Origin: Pacific Online Services ISP/BBS (707.588.0250) www.pon.net (1:2002/2002) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00025 Date: 10/07/96 From: BOB CHANDLER Time: 01:07pm \/To: IAN BAXTER (Read 5 times) Subj: Domestic SW stations from Canada -> a)Is the 96 WRTH TXion time sked for CKZN & CKZU on 6160kHz correct? -> I would like to prove that at 0800UTC that I am hearing Vancouver -> CKZU & not St.Johns. Also from what I'm hearing the program appears -> to be a joint CBC (Domestic?) & Radio Canada International program. -> Could I perhaps be hearing a The way to tell the difference is by time zone. CKZU Vancouver would be running on Pacific time (3 hours behind eastern time) and CKZN would be running on Newfoundland time (1.5 hours ahead of eastern time). So if you hear the main CBC national newscast on the half hour instead of on the hour, you have the St. John's station. The CBC domestic service has been running programming from the World Radio Network in the 1 am - 6 am time slot. I'm not sure if these services are being run over the shortwave outlets though. Hope this is helpfule 73 de Bob VE3SRE --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: The ODXA Listening Post * Aurora, Ont. * (1:250/930) * 905-841-6490 (1:250/930) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: DEC00026 Date: 10/03/96 From: JAN NIEUWENHUIS Time: 10:25pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: DX-Hotline (3/10/96) ==================================================================== This info for Radio-LISTENING amateurs is presented to you by the: BENELUX DX-CLUB, A. van Ostadestr. 106, NL-7944 XT Meppel, Holland -------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING NEWS ("DX-Hotline") - compiled by: JAN NIEUWENHUIS, Vloedlyn 12, NL-1791 HH Den Burg (Texel), Holland -------------------------------------------------------------------- Net-mail (FIDO) : 2:500/202 Email (Internet) : nieuw@nioz.nl