--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGE00005 Date: 12/08/97 From: DON STEGNER Time: 10:08am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Drake R8 with software (price lowere10:08:2412/08/97 ddt.demos.su!f400.n5020!f21.n5083!mail.kit.kz!demos!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howla nd.erols.net!winter.news.erols.com!not-for-mail From: "Don Stegner" I have lowered the price on the Drake R8 to $500. -- *********************************** Don Stegner Maranatha Prophecy Page http://www.erols.com/dstegner dstegner@erols.com Don Stegner wrote in message <66dch8$3s6$1@winter.news.erols.com>... >Drake R8 Shortwave Radio >100 khz to 30mhz plus 35-55 & 108-174 mhz converter installed. 100 channel >memory, RS232 serial interface with cable, MS8 matching speaker, R8PC and >FirstRate software. Also includes Hamcomm interface with software, and >MFJ-959B antenna tuner/preamp. Asking $600. > >email if interested. > >-- >*********************************** >Don Stegner >Maranatha Prophecy Page >http://www.erols.com/dstegner >dstegner@erols.com > > --- ifmail v.2.10 * Origin: Erol's Internet Services (2:5083/21@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGF00000 Date: 12/10/97 From: PAUL YOUNG Time: 12:16am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Transworld 1000 for sale Hi all, I have A Transworld TW1000 HF Transciver for sale. Coverage 1.5 to 30 Mhz RX & TX no gaps 125 watt output USB/LSB 99 programable memories & one for keypad entry LCD Frequency display all solid state 240volt & "12v I think" base station size this is not a toy !!!! These radios are still in use in Airports and by Embassy's round the world... Open to offers or ??? Paul Young G0HWC reply via netmail or call 0802-655066 ONLY --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: Cellular BBS 01604-757777 "4 lines all 33k6" (2:2503/422) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGF00001 Date: 12/09/97 From: DONALD BOWERS Time: 10:49pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Scanner Freqs Anyone out there know of any interesting scanner or shortwave frequencies? Any are OK, but if you know of any specific to the Albany/Corvallis, Oregon area, lemme know!! Thanks!!! --- OLX 2.2 TD This tagline stolen by Off-Line Xpress! ! --- Big Ted 2.0 for Wildcat/5 * Origin: The Computer Hotline! - http://www.klock.com (1:357/1.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGF00002 Date: 12/10/97 From: DON BLEVINS Time: 10:33am \/To: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: Longwave Freq's Thanks! in regards to the tip off re: LW in Dec. '97 iss of MT.Have that added as a X-mas to me...Appreciate it... One Other question...in regards to antennas...( "OH GAWD!...another one!" )...Is it possible to have a dish/directional antenna for rcvg. Distant stations...i.e. 49m band?Or even better would be a directional AM rcvg antenna...in order to listen in on Alaskan satations.Do plans exist for such an antenna and where would I best be prone to find info on this?Mind you the dish and main beam I'm thinking of could be constructed of light wood material... Just a thought.. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Tesla's Tower 5 BBS (1:346/49) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGF00003 Date: 12/09/97 From: RICHARD MEKKA Time: 07:01pm \/To: DON BLEVINS (Read 0 times) Subj: Why no FM??? Hello Don, 06-Dec-97 20:33:26, Don Blevins wrote to All Subject: Why no FM??? DB> On most if not all Shortwave receivers I have noticed the DB> apparent lack of FM coverage.. That's strange. All 3 receivers in my shack at this moment have NBFM. An AR3000 (not really an HF rx), an Icom R72 and a very elderly Yaesu FRdx400. Hang on, I tell a lie. Somewhere is a 60's Lafeyette rx without FM lying under the bench. DB> Isx there something out there That I'm not supposed to hear? No. Ham band stuff tends to have FM, for 10 mtrs. Apart from that and CB in Europe there is not a lot of FM on HF around. Richard Mekka G4AWY --- Terminate 3.00/Pro * Origin: Our man in Caversham (2:254/26.23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGH00000 Date: 12/11/97 From: PAUL YOUNG Time: 09:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: FT900 HF for sale Hi all, I have a Yaesu FT-900 Gen coverage HF tranciver VGC as new cond if you want to know about a FT900 look in any recent radio mag 550 quid Call 01604-601218 Lee "work Hours" or 0802-655066 Paul "all other times" Quite a bit of other Ham stuff for sale HF / VHF / UHF Paul / Lee --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: Cellular BBS 01604-757777 "4 lines all 33k6" (2:2503/422) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGH00001 Date: 12/12/97 From: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN Time: 05:45am \/To: DON BLEVINS (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: Longwave Freq's Don Blevins writes in a message to Scott Christensen DB> One Other question...in regards to antennas...( "OH GAWD!...another DB> one!" )...Is it possible to have a dish/directional antenna DB> for rcvg. Distant stations...i.e. 49m band To be effective, a dish would have to be 10 wavelengths across or more. Let's see, 490 meters - darn near a quarter mile. Hmmm... you answer the question! You could put up 2 or more sticks, each 90 degrees high, spaced at 90 degrees. That would give you a figure 8 pattern in the direction of the sticks. Kind of hard to shift, though... The simple dipole, 1/2 wave total receives from the sides in a figure 8 pattern. Not a bad idea if you string it in the direction where the stations you *don't* want to hear are "off the ends." All in all, a "Beverage" antenna (very long wire (several wavelengths) with the far end terminated through a resistor to ground) would be your best bet. This antenna recieves best in the direction that the antenna leaves the shack. See your library for "Monitoring Times" - last year they had an article on building this kind of antenna. DB> Or even better would be a directional AM rcvg antenna...in DB> order to listen in on Alaskan satations.Do plans exist for DB> such an antenna and where would I best be prone to find info DB> on this? Same kinds of antennas work on AM as 49 meters, they just have bigger elements. 1500 KHz is 200 meters, 750 KHz is 400 meters - just to give you some idea of the sizes you are dealing with... DB> Mind you the dish and main beam I'm thinking of could be constructed DB> of light wood material... It would have to be *heavy* steel to be 1/4 mile high or more! You aren't going to build that thing out of Balsa! --- COUNTERPoint 2.3 * Origin: MacRefuge * 612-426-6687 * (1:282/24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 140 SHORT WAVE Ref: EGL00000 Date: 12/16/97 From: GEORGE WOOD Time: 10:54am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2285 Apparently-to: scdx@get.pp.se From: "George Wood" ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: MediaScan :: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS :: from Radio Sweden :: Number 2285--December 16, 1997 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden. This week's bulletin was written by George Wood. Packet Radio BID SCDX2285 Updated Web edition at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/ All times UTC unless otherwise noted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - There's no radio program to go with this very short edition. I'm busy working on the Radio Sweden part of the rewrite of the Swedish Radio website, which you can expect to see sometime in January. Today we're rerunning the radio program we sent two weeks ago, which features the pilot experiment with TV on Swedish trains, and the Radio Exhibition in Esloev. But there are a few items that deserve mention: RADIO SWEDEN--Don't miss Radio Sweden's English holiday programs: December 24 "Christmas Special I" -- downtown Christmas lights, where does Santa really live, and Christmas music traditions December 25 "Christmas Special II" -- Traditional Swedish Christmas dinner (julbord), Stockholm's best Christmas window decorations, and a restaurant opens its doors to the hungry for Christmas December 26 "1997 in Review" (Political and Social) December 27 "Money Matters 1997 in Review" December 28 "Sounds Nordic Yearend Show", looking back at the interview and music highlights of the year December 29 News + "SportScan 1997 in Review" December 30 News + 60 Degrees North + Feature on "Stockholm, Europe's Cultural Capital 1998" December 31 "Sounds Nordic Yearend Show" January 1 "1997 in Review" January 2 News + Weekly review + Feature January 3 "Money Matters 1997 in Review" January 4 "In Touch With Stockholm" January 5 News + 60 Degrees North + SportScan January 6 Special on "Swedish Film and Film Stars" SIRIUS 2--Sweden's new Sirius 2 satellite is slowly lighting up at 5 degrees East. Swedish Television has started its new SVT Europe service in digital MPEG-2 (encoded in Viacess) on 12.380 GHz. For decoders and subscription details see: http://www.tvextra.se Radio Sweden is also transmitting on this transponder. The settings are: SR 27500, FEC S 3/4, A 0028. Other new channels on Sirius 2 include: TV8 in clear PAL on 12.207 GHz (with the Danish radio station The Voice on 7.74/7.92 MHz) and in clear MPEG-2 on 12.245 GHz. Sci-Fi Channel and EBN sharing 12.322 GHz in Eurocrypt M encoded D2- MAC. As we've reported before, Kanal 5 in clear PAL on 12.476 GHz. ("SATCO DX") BBC--The BBC World Service has announced it is shutting down its Finnish Service at the end of the year. The service, which started in 1940, and currently has an audience of about 1 million listeners, provides news and analysis programs for rebroadcast by radio stations around Finland. BBC World Service in English will continue to be available on FM frequencies in Helsinki. (AP) ARTHUR C. CLARKE--Many happy birthday wishes to space visionary Arthur C. Clarke, who is 80 this week! MEDIASCAN AWARDS--For various reasons, we are presenting the first (and possibly last) edition of the MediaScan Annual Awards: Clueless in Cyberspace: Undisputed first prize in this category has to go to Ticketmaster, which threatened legal action against Microsoft because Microsoft put a link to the Ticketmaster site from a popular Microsoft webpage. (Guys-- getting people to put links to you is what it's all about. Nothing says you have to link back.) Runner-up goes to Sweden's popular PC retail chain Lap Power, which first made headlines here when the authorities tried to ban advertisements featuring a lightly-clad and curvy blond as sexist exploitation. It turned out that the woman in question was Helen Wellton, Lap Power's co-owner, who could hardly be exploiting herself. Now Helen's husband and Lap Power co-owner Claes Wellton Persson says the company has a new technology that will make it possible to transmit 5000 TV channels terrestrially, by putting the equivalent of 1000 TV satellites on the ground, transmitting digital TV on frequencies between 3 and 70 GHz. Wellton Persson says: "How incredible it may sound, no one has come up with our simple solution." There may be a reason for this. The "simple solution" is called "broadcasting", and has existed for a number of decades. And the main problems seem to be 1) these frequencies are line-of-sight only, which is why they are primarily used for satellites, and 2) Herr Wellton Persson seems to have missed the fact that these frequencies are allocated for other purposes by international agreements, and can't just be taken for terrestrial broadcasting. On the other hand, the sole source for this story is the newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet", and they may have missed something crucial here. If Lap Power really is on to something big, we'll let you know! Where's the Beef (Swedish Department): Digital Broadcasting. Sweden has had Digital Audio Broadcasting since September 27, 1995. Nethold/Multichoice launched Digital Satellite Broadcasting to Scandinavia on November 22, 1996 and its successor Canal Plus relaunched the service with a new name (Canal Digital) and on different satellites (1 degree West instead of Astra) last October. Telia launched Digital Cable in Sweden on November 17. Only...you still can't go to a store and buy a set-top converter to listen to or watch any of these. Guys...you seem to have missed the Christmas rush. THANKS--Finally, once again thanks to everyone who's contributed to the program during the year gone by, especially such stalwarts as Curt Swinehart, James Robinson, Richard Karlsson (and his "Aftonbladet" colleague Frank Oestergren), and the incredible "Satco DX Guide" (http://www.satcodx.com)! And Happy Holidays to all of you from Radio Sweden. ------------------------------------------------------------- Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio program about international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since 1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Radio Sweden broadcasts in English: Europe and Africa/Middle East: Satellite: 13:30, 17:15 and 18:30 hrs on Eutelsat II-F1 (NBC Europe -- 10.987 GHz, audio 7.56 MHz) 20:30 hrs (21:30 CET) via the World Radio Network on Astra transponder 22 (VH-1) audio 7.38 MHz To Africa and the Middle East via WRN on Intelsat 707 3.9115 GHz Right-hand circular polarization, Symbol Rate 8.022 Mbaud, FEC 3/4, in MPEG-2, Audio Stream "WRN1", daily at 15:00 hrs UTC and Saturdays only at 00:30 UTC. The latter is also be heard in South Africa on SAfm 104-107. The WRN relays can also be heard in South Africa on the MultiChoice digital direct-to-home service on PanAmSat 4, 68.5 degrees West, Audio Channel 51. Shortwave: 18:30 hrs 1179, 6065, and 9645 kHz (Sundays 9645 kHz only) 20:30 1179 and 6065 kHz 21:30 1179, 6065, and 9655 kHz (weekends only) 22:30 1179, 6065, and 7325 kHz Asia/Pacific: Satellite: Via WRN on AsiaSat-2 on 4.000 GHz, Vertical polarization, MPEG-2 DVB, Symbol Rate 28.125 Mbaud, FEC 3/4 (Select WRN1 from audio menu), 15:00 hrs UTC daily (02:00 hrs AET) and Saturdays only at 00:30 UTC (11:30 hrs AET). Shortwave: 13:30 hrs 9705 and 13740 kHz 14:30 hrs 11880 kHz 01:30 hrs 7265 kHz North America: Satellite: Via WRN on Galaxy 5 transponder 6 (WTBS), audio 6.8 MHz at 9:30 PM EST, 6:30 PM PST Across Canada on CBC Overnight Monday to Friday at 2:05 AM local time, weekends at 3:05 Shortwave: 12:30 hrs on 11650 (or 13740) and 15240 kHz 14:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz 02:30 hrs on 7280 kHz 03:30 hrs on 7115 kHz Each program Monday to Friday, recorded at 13:30 hrs UTC, is available in the RealAudio format at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/sounds/english.ram Our World Wide Web page is at: http://www.sr.se/rs An html version of this bulletin can be found at: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/scdx.htm Earlier versions of the bulletins: http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/media3.htm Contributions can be sent to DX Editor George Wood by fax to +468-667-6283 or by e-mail to: george.wood@rs.sr.se Reports can also be sent to: Radio Sweden S-105 10 Stockholm Sweden Contributions should be NEWS about electronic media--from shortwave to satellites--and not loggings of information already available from sources such as the "World Radio TV Handbook". Clubs and DX publications may reprint material as long as MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers and the original contributor are acknowledged. We welcome comments and suggestions about the electronic edition, Sweden Calling DXers, and our programs in general. The mailing list for the Electronic Edition is now open to general subscription. If you can send e-mail over the Internet, send a message to: subscribe@rs.sr.se You ought to get a confirmation message in reply. To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to unsubscribe@rs.sr.se To get a copy of Radio Sweden's English program schedule, write to: english@rs.sr.se And for general questions, comments, and reception reports, our e-mail address is: info@rs.sr.se