Monitoring Times 2000 INDEX

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Monitoring Times 2006 Index FEATURES
Broadcast
Around the World in 24 Hrs JAN Beginners Guide to TV DXing APR DRM Broadcasts in Europe NOV Hi-Def Radio Fights Death Star APR IRIB: Islamic Republic of Iran BC AUG
Lithuania Radio SEP SW Century Weekend SEP Tuning in to Baseball JUL UN Peacekeeping Stations NOV Venezuela on AM APR WWCR - 15 Years on the Air MAR
Nostalgia/Human Interest
A Visit with Bob Grove DEC Enigma Coding Machine FEB Growing Up with Radio DEC Intl Spy Museum FEB Radio in Belfast, Maine JUN Swan Island: Visitors Unwelcome OCT
Teenage Radio Amateur MAY Zenith Transforms the Arctic and
Amateur Radio DEC
Scanning:
Buffalo Scanning SEP Buying and Flying: MOA/MSP JUN Charleston SC Scanning JUL Dallas - A City Shaken NOV Ft Worth TX Scanning JUL Interoperability Freq Allocations FEB Interop in NYC; Comm Vehicle FEB MT's Annual Air Show Guide MAR Scanning Oklahoma JUN "Signal Stalking" at the Ballpark JUL Two-Tone Fire Tones AUG
Technical
Band Master software package JAN Gerryrigging a Contact JAN MT Satellite Review 2006 AUG Propagation, Space Wx, and You SEP
Propagation Outlook: Apr-Sep MAR Propagation Outlook: Oct-Mar OCT
Utility
Hams with a Mission MAY Just do it! (Take the test) MAY To Catch a Spy OCT Working the World on VHF/UHF MAY
AMERICAN BANDSCAN (even months)
FEB State-by-State: Pacific Northwest; TV Powers; Canadian
AM news; IBOC news; FCC
broadcast station totals; really
long DX APR State-by-State: Midwest; Lexington NB museum; NRC AM
Station Pattern Book; URBONO
QSLs; HD radios; Wash DC
programming change; Fighting a
format change JUN State-by-State: Upper Midwest.
Canada's last daytimer no dead
yet? Two new ethnic Montreal
AM stns; Montreal stn on 940; HD Radio updatew; DXing with a
homemade radio; E-QSLing AUG State-by-State: Great Lakes. IBOC news; EAS false alarm;
pirate hijack; X-band activity;
Sorrenson obit OCT Alaska, Hawaii, and Beyond. IBOC news; RM translators & AM
stations; More LPFMs?; More
Exotic Pacific DX; Old Radio in
the Gem State DEC Digital Debacle? More on IBOC; New stations and stations going
away; 750 kilowatts? DX!
ANTENNA TOPICS
JAN Factors Useful in Antenna
Selection FEB Antenna Farm in a Suitcase:
(Antenna modeling, part 1) MAR (Antenna modeling, part 2); The Easy Way: HF Antenna Systems
useful antenna book APR The Life and Times of a Radio Signal MAY Building or Buying Your Antennas: Part 1 JUN Building or Buying Your
Antennas: Part 2 JUL Yagi-Uda Beams for HF, VHF or
UHF AUG Antenna Wisdom from a Classic ("Radio Antenna Engineering") SEP Catching That Elusive Signal: Can't catch what's not there; your
antenna catches noise too; look
toward the signal to catch it;
polarity; placement; A Good All-
around Antenna (long wire) OCT Emergency Communication Antenna Readiness: Antennas
above HF (let's build one); at HF
or MF (let's build another
antenna) NOV Real Grounds, Radio Grounds, and Artificial Grounds DEC Some Useful Antennas for Your Handheld
ASK BOB
JAN How to get started in ham radio;
463 MHz use; mobile FM
broadcasting legal?; DSP status FEB Digital phone correction; problem
w/magnetic base scanner
antenna; antenna problems for 6
meters; recommended antenna
for HF with ATS 909 portable MAR TV set interferes w/SW; wiring interferes w/SW; using one
antenna for two SW receivers;
can PAR antenna transmit?;
What is a Zepp antenna? Will
new technologies kill AM/FM? APR One antenna for 2 radios; advantages of coax; need all
elements of discone? metal mast
effects on nondirectional
antenna; BC ID regulations;
agencies liable for personal info over air? protecting radio from
overload w/external ant.;
mounting multiple ants on same
mast MAY Direction-finding Radio Republica, What's DSP? Old vs
new scanner, Electrocution
cause shock? Voice IF on sat TV;
digital TV converters JUN Apartment antenna; scanner
overload; MURS; signal stalker
range; sat radio on R3? Car radio
static; built-in antenna hook-ups
in new house JUL Satellites freqs?; Discone vs
Beam; how to improve marine-
band antenna; how to check for
listening devices; how to feed two
scanners w/one antenna; is
lightning arrestor necessary? AUG Antenna mounted thru tree; RG- 6/U okay for SW too?; outdoor
ant vs indoor amplified ant; more
on checking for listening devices;
ANC-4 noise canceller trouble-
shooting; identifying purpose of
new ant towers; attaching ant
directly to radio w/out coax; re
unscrambling local agency
comms SEP Signal loss using 2 scanners on 1 antenna; tree contact cause sig
loss? How far do various freqs
travel? Fixing non-responsive
key. WR303e good beginner
scanner? Explain USB/LSB.
What freqs do satellite radio use? OCT Blocking interfering station; combining multiple SW antennas;
baluns, preselectors, and tuners;
finding RFID chips; Slinky vs
conventional single-wire antenna;
TAC still active on SW? can
soldiers in lock-step break a
bridge? do 2-meter transceivers
outperform 70cm? NOV Stacking Scanner Beams; future of SW radio; how to measure
audio tone on oscilloscope; what
is RG6-U coax good for?; Can I
hear NASA/KSC trunk system?;
Can I run coax alongside sat TV
coax? Are spectrum displays in
wideband receivers real time so
you get instant display? DEC Selling a cellular-capable scanner; power supply for old
radio; descramblers illegal?
jammers illegal? Is CB dead?
sensitivity reduced in SW rx?
wide-band scanner vs
communications rx; acitve vs
passive multicoupler
BELOW 500 kHz
JAN New Tricks in '06: Tips and
Resources; What I Use; A/N
Range systems FEB Prime Time - focus on Caribbean
and S Am stations; LowFER
listing MAR Tune into Natural Radio
APR Buttoning Up the BBB-4
MAY Your Logs & Letters - SAQ (17.2 kHz), 454 kHz mystery solved,
Logs from Alaska JUN (repeat of May column) JUL Summer Fun on LW; Mailbag AUG Low Band News and Notes: maritime navaid changes; AZ
loggings; lightning web site;
NDBs endangered? German
experimental work on 440 kHz;
VA loggings SEP DXing on the High Seas; SAQ Transmissions, 500 kHz
Progress, SC Logs OCT Season Opener: Antenna Once- Over, Receiver Checks,
Publications, Online Resources;
Cape Cod loggings NOV Details, Details (data that can help your loggings); FAA calls;
FAA V-shaped antennas; finding
a beacon on your AM radio;
hams apply to experiment near
500kHz; DXer's tense moment DEC Successful Miscou 2006 DXpedition; ARRL 500 kHz
experiment; 10 meter beacons
BOATS, PLANES, and TRAINS
JAN BOATS: Old and New on the
Marine Bands; West Coast
Canada Info; Automatic
Information System; Digital
Selective Calling; Great Lakes
end of season FEB PLANES: Navaids - non-
directional beacons, VOR, ILS,
GPS MAR TRAINS: Railroad Radio's Golden Years? A round robin;
new website for railscanners. APR BOATS: Gales, Groundhogs and Great DX; Marine Morse; VHF
Freqs; Amateur radio; Lighthouse
correction; HF Marine; Shack
upgrade MAY PLANES: Tracking Domestic Airliners (using FlightAware.com) JUN TRAINS: Understanding Railroad
Radio Transmissions JUL BOATS: DX, Disasters, and Duty.
Scanning Tips; HF DX;
Emergency Duty; Equipment
Changes; Useful Frequencies AUG PLANES: Aeronautical HF (VOLMET, MWARA, LDOC) SEP TRAINS: Understanding RR Radio Transmissions OCT BOATS: Ships, Signals and Submissions. DC Everest, Point
Vigour, Trieste; Amateur radio
nets and contacts; NY Harbour
freqs, McAlpine Dam KY freqs;
Marine Radio Historical Society NOV PLANES: Base Station Aircraft Listening Antennas DEC TRAINS: Railroads and Geography; Narrowbanding; NC-
DC Scanner Setup
COMMUNICATIONS
JAN AMATEUR: Straight Key Night.
AVIATION: Restricted Air Space;
Radar Malfunction? 390 MHz IF
in Canada. BROADCASTING:
Hard Date for DTV; Low Power
AM proposal; no on-air IDs for
football comms; Court upholds
sentence for "prankster";
Interoperability problems are
people not equipment FEB BROADCASTING: Ham broadcast station; weather and
emergency stations; Va DOT
considers higher powered
station; Emergency Alert System
reevaluated; hard date for HDTV;
High Definition radio.
SCANNING: New P25 system at
BWI; Motorola Blocks
RadioReference. Obit: ARRL
Staff member Bob Schetgen MAR BROADCASTING: 75 Years of HCJB; airborne BC to Cuba;
Cuban spies use numbers
broadcasts; Is it a cellphone or
radio?; Stern on pirate radio; TV
calls for help. SPECTRUM
ISSUES: Nextel swap may stall;
other spectrum swaps; Airfone
freqs to be auctioned. Obits:
Radio Moscow's Joe Adamov,
DXer Bjorn Malm. APR FCC: Expanded Band, Cable a la Carte, Budget Increase, Ramsey
Electronics Fined. BROAD-
CASTING: Digital Radio in
Europe, Cuts for PBC and VOA,
World's Tallest TV Tower. MISC:
Western Union Stops Telegram
Svc, Stealth Satellite, Low Freqs
for Mine Safety, On-Scene
Interoperability MAY AMATEUR RADIO: Dayton Hamvention Awards, Hams "Part
of Solution", MS Adopts PRB-1
Statute, NC Next?, How NOT to
Deal with Interference, Laws
Amended JUN WUN R.I.P.; Cellphones' Danger
to Aviation no Myth; Trouble with
Towers; A Matter of Time JUL STORMS: Hurricane preparedness, ham emergency
courses, storm watchers,
National SOS network. NEWS
BITES: Vint Hill Farms closing;
Congress looks at Telecom
rewrite; Night of Nights AUG AMATEUR RADIO: Fatal accidents, volunteers for
research, Manassas BPL, Mass
hamsat launch, Moon Pie launch.
BROADCASTING: Record BC,
DRM 26 MHz service, DRM
possibilities, Icelandic AFR signs
off, SW in Latvia, NOA studio
tour. FCC: Media ownership
rules, SBCA takes on OTARD,
Sat Radio Hijackings, Seeking
comments, Satellite report, Air-
ground auction concludes. MISC: Aging deep space antennas,
GOES-N launched SEP Predicting Space Weather, Navigating Galileo, GPS
Scramble, Who's Who in Space,
Ultimate DX OCT Intruders Spotted in Several Amateur Radio HF Bands;
National Emegency
Communications Upgrade;
Florida Going It Alone; Global
Ham Radio Emergency
Conference; Amateur Radio on
Fed's Radar? NOV Iqbal Arrest raises First Amendment questions;
Hezbollah Eavesdrops on Israeli
Comms; Pirate Goes Legit;
HAMS: FCC Affirms BPL Rules;
Hams Experiment w/Marine
Band; Space Adventuress DEC Duplicating Marconi; FCC Passes Omnibus Ruling;
Planespotters and SBS-1; 800
MHz Rebanding Freeze?; WW
SWL Contest
COMPUTERS & RADIO
JAN Using Band Master with your
Icom Receiver FEB Words in Time: RecAll-Pro &
ClocX MAR SysLabs' RadioControl and FTP Navigator APR Syslabs RadioControl, part 2; 45 million mile DX MAY YPlog Radio Control and $20 Memory Device (USB 2.0 Slim
External Enclosure) JUN In the Air and On the Air; Free
ACARS Decoder & More JUL The ICOM_OKA Free Controller AUG Spyware: Get Rid of It for Free
SEP HF ACARS with PC-HFDL
OCT Log Analyser: An ACARS Must- Have NOV DX Monitor DEC Goodbye Win 98 - Hello XP

DIGITAL DIGEST
JAN Digital Utility software Mac
computers (Black Cat Systems
MultiMode) FEB All at Sea - GMDSS and Digital
Selective Calling; Automatic
Identification System; Ecuadorian
Navy MAR XNet Yachting.Email and Aeronautical Selcals. APR Armada de Argentina; Mystery SITOR-B Station MAY Algerian Digital Profile (MFA and embassies, Customs and Border
Patrol, military agencies, oil and
gas fields), Swiss Air Force and
Navy systems JUN Egyptian Digital Review; More
XNet Mail; ALE-based State
Emergency Nets; Antenna
Update JUL HF Digital Users from France.
Welcome, UDXF; French
Diplomatic Service; French Navy, French Air Force, French Army; A
Word about IRC AUG Digital Country Profile: Denmark (Air Force, Army, Navy, Weather,
Coast Stations, Diplomatic
Service), XSS ALE Mystery Net SEP Brazilian Digital HF Users: Navy, Army, Air Force OCT Which Decoder? Hardware- based decoders, Software to the
Rescue? Final Analysis NOV What's That Sound? Identifying Utility Signals DEC Current Traffic: Indian Diplomatic Service; STANAG 4285
THE FED FILES (odd months)
JAN 2005 Hurricanes and Federal
Comms; FEMA; FAA NARACS
VHF; Miami Federal Freqs;
Federal Trunking in So Fla MAR Mysteries: new TSA Freqs? Fed Nationwide Paging? UHF Band
Reorganization? Feds Going
Nextel? Pittsburgh Area Trunked
System; Freqs from the West
Coast MAY Federal Fire Frequencies, Federal Protective Service, TSA
follow-up JUL Search and You Shall Find!
FEMA Frequencies; Integrated
Networks Coming Soon;
Extended VHF Air Band; Fed
Freq Updates; Travel Searches
(Houston, San Jose, and Las
Vegas) SEP Shining Some Light on the Dept of Energy (DoE Hanford,
Lawrence Livermore, Bettis
Atomic Power Lab, Oak Ridge
Lab, Bonneville Power Admin,
NNSA and NEST, DOE SECOM NOV FAA NARACS Reborn; Federal Trunked Systems in NYC;
Pittsburgh Area Scanning
FIRST LOOK
JAN Alinco's DJ-X7T FEB A Fresh Look at the TenTec RX-
340 MAR Kinetic Avionics' SBS-1 Virtual Radar APR The Eton S350DL
MAY WiNRADiO's G313e HF Receiver
JUN WiNRADiO DRM Decoder Plug-
in for G303-313 series JUL The Uniden BCD996T AUG Eton E5 Portable
SEP Uniden BCT15 Bear Tracker
OCT Receiving Side of the Icom IC- 7000 NOV Ramsey Aircraft Monitor
DEC WiNRADiO's G305i Wide Coverage Radio
GETTING STARTED
JAN QSL Mania: The Radio
Hobbyist's Obsession FEB Deaf PRO-95; DX on the AM
Band; A Shortened Beverage; An
All-Purpose All-Band HF Antenna MAR Slow Scan TV (SSTV) APR Searching for the Perfect Antenna? MAY The Readers Comment - Satellite TV Combo, Getting Started w/SW
Radio, Help for Grove Tunerless
Antenna, Stateside QSL
Depository JUN Entry Level Ham Ticket: How
easy to we have it? JUL Radio Repair: Who Ya Gonna
Call? AUG Take a Radio Vacation
SEP Readers' Choice: Buying a SW Radio, Terk's AM Advantage,
Repairing Broken Antennas OCT Stalking Those Elusive Project Parts NOV The Unintentional Philatelist (stamp collecting) DEC The Readers Write: 10 Meter Challenge; MPEGII FTA; FM
Translators
GLOBAL FORUM
JAN Vox Cristiana strong signal; B-05
schedule online resources;
Condig list URL correction FEB US SW Stations play "Musical
Frequencies"; Upcoming
Conferences; historical DX URL MAR Radio Republica Becomes a Major Clandestine Broadcaster APR Major cuts at VOA; Libyan clannie resumes SW; Online
loggings databases MAY DRM Forges Ahead
JUN BBC Cuts More English and
Spanish JUL Relay Exchanges Between
Greece and USA Abruptly
Terminate AUG Push for DRM on 25 MHz; 12th Nat'l Mexican DX Meeting SEP Chinese Invade 20 Meters
OCT The Clock is Ticking for Radio Japan; Armenia; Uzbekistan NOV DX Meeting in Peru; Earthview
DEC Daylight Savings Time Expands in 2007
LETTERS
JAN Second MT Excellence Award;
Corrections; Mt St Helens; Used
Equip URL FEB Interoperability Issues: New
Orleans and Finger-Pointing, Not
all APCO Systems created equal.
700 MHz for the Birds MAR Antenna experimentation; BBC Guide questions; experiences
with repeaters; W0KIE satellite
shack and radio station APR Two Views on the FCC; Bringing SWLs into the 'New World' MAY MT Sparks Memories; Old School versus New School JUNE Welcome New Columnist; Space Shuttle Blues;Space-saving
Appliance Radio; Reader
Recommended Websites; Eton
350DL JULY Winner of SBS-1 and runners-up
AUG Job well done (Figliozzi final column); Radio Fun; Corrections; Teenage Amateur; Flex Antenna;
Wrong conclusion drawn to RF
interference to aviation; Air
Antics; SBS-1 in Action SEP Utility World Blog, Call RadioLabs for Super-909, 996
Review Missing Text, The Digital
Effect (WLW), NTIA BPL report,
QSL Expert OCT "Spooky" October; Radio and TV Museum Thanks MT; Things I
Like...; Tip for R20 Owners; New
MT Blog; Information Please NOV Thanks (Prog Spotlight column); A Capitol Mistake (Niagara Falls);
Eton E5 Feedback DEC Monitoring Times Celebrates 25 Years; Bonus Pages for MT
Readers
MILCOM
JAN New Year, New Frequencies: US
Coast Guard move; new 380-400
MHz systems (Ft Benning,
Seattle area, Los Angeles area;
Ft Meade); Denver and Kansas
City ARTCCs FEB Land Mobile Radio News: new
DoD LMR systems; Navy Region
Northwest system; J-NCR Phase
II contract; Westover ARB
update; Milair Freq updates MAR Flight Demonstration Groups: Schedules and Recommended
Equipment APR "I don't live near a military base.." (N-Cent Fla Logs); Albuquerque
ARTCC MAY Hurricane Hunting on HF - US Coast Guard HF
communications; Salt Lake City
ARTCC JUN The Military Weather Channel
(Pilot to Metro Service) JUL Monitoring the Forth Worth
Military: NAS/JRB. DoD
Frequency Changes; Atlanta Fifth
Runway; EAM LF Broadcast AUG DoD Trunk Frequencies Discovered; Trunk System at the
Point; Westover ARB Update;
Keflavik Closed; Seattle/Oakland
ARTCCs SEP US Military Satellites - An Overview (Super Secret Spy
Satellite Programs; American
Military Satellite Constellations) OCT Monitoring Satellites 101: Easiest sats to hear; West Point Updates;
More Milair Feq Changes; HF
Civil Air Patrol Freqs; USCG Air-
Ground Freqs NOV MilSatcom - The Early Days: TACSATCOM, LES-8/9, New
CAP Freqs Posted? Search and
Rescue, Tyndall AFB Freqs,
Major Military Comm Bands DEC The Navy MARISAT Satellite System; Air Force SATCOM;
Army Aviation Comms; Tri
Service MARS HF ALE Net; DoD
FLIP foreign pubs removed MT HELP DESK
JAN NC VIPER statewide system;
digital HF modes; Stark County
OH public safety info FEB QSLing overseas ute stations;
freqs for Arnold Engineering
Development Center; Alinco D-
X7 vs Icom R5; freqs for Misawa
AB, Japan; who will be on 700
MHz band? MAR APCO 25: setting the record straight. Series of questions re
Uniden BR-330T and BCD-396T
scanner operation.
Recommended handheld for
airshows; How to program
EDACS LCN numbers (Hickory
NC system) APR More on 700 MHz band allocations; Status on "Morse
code" proceeding; 1711-1799
band allocations MAY EAMs on 11175; Canadian Air Traffic Control and other aero HF JUN Trunking for Carroll Co MD;
sources for MWARA, Volmet, ute
freqs; mobile ant for mil-air; freq
round-offs; freq for wireless
mouse; mobile unit ID on EDACS JUL USAF KAWN fax gone?; Do I
need a digital scanner? What
does APCO25 encoding sound
like? Clarification on Calif.
scanning law; Gulf Co Fla system
changes AUG Where to find local airline frequencies; where to find HF
airline company frequencies SEP Looking for new scanner; How to ID foreign stations? Who is
Fastball? What is Skyking? When
are aero comms on HF SSB? OCT STANAG "Noise" on HF; Manual and EPROMS for M8000
decoder? Beacon DGPS vs
WAAS DGPS; EAMs and tactical
callsigns; Help with SIPRnet IDs;
Do AFN and VOA relay stations
have callsigns? NOV Can I scan York Co PA M/A- COM system with BCD296T?
Using a Wavecom receiver to
monitor Inmarsat; How QSL
bureau can find US SWLs to
deliver ham QSLs; How to DX
DGPS; Future of 380-400 aero
band DEC Spanish on SATCOM freq? what scanners are affected by
rebanding? USB strong signal on
10.050 MHz?
MT REVIEW
JAN Hot and Cold Radio Appliances;
AOR LA380 Active Lop Antenna FEB Sangean WR-2 AM/FM/RDS
Receiver; FRS or MURS - Hype
or Hot Performance? MAR Comet CHA-250B Broadband Vertical Antenna APR Digital Radio Equipment: Kenwood EZ500 Mobile HD
Radio; Winegard 10 Element Yagi; Winegard Sharpshooter
TV-FM HD Antenna MAY Heil Clear Speech Speaker
JUN SWLing on the Road with Sony's
XR-CA660X JUL Icom IC-PCR1500 & R1500 AUG Comparing the PCR1000 to the PCR1500/PCR2500 SEP MFJ's 932 Mini Loop Tuner: SWL & Ham Antenna Options for Tight
Spaces OCT Build the Hidden Flex-Tenna for Wide-Frequency-Coverage
Receivers; Flex-Tenna Follow-
up; 97-cent Hand-held Pouch NOV The Tecsun R-919/Grundig Mini 300PE DEC MT's Digital TV/Big Screen Buying Guide
ON THE BENCH
JAN Take Your Scanner Recording to
the Next Level - the iRiver H4300
MP3 Recorders FEB Scanner Switch for multiple
scanners on one speaker MAR Build the FlexTenna for Wideband Reception APR Digital TV – Truth & Myths
MAY "Law and Order" on 2 Meters
JUN Cordless Phones - Buyer Beware JUL Modifying the Uniden BC796D
Scanner for Discriminator Audio
Output AUG (no column) SEP The Magic of Radio (rediscovering the magic) OCT Radio Direction Finding with the Adcock Goniometer Project
(continuation of Spy feature) A
Compact Adcock Array NOV You Have What it Takes to Control Your R8B (using
Windows to write a program) DEC Antique Telephones: Durable, Cheap & Still Useful!
ON THE HAM BANDS
JAN Don't Just Sit There, Build
Something! FEB Political Power; Antenna Antics;
EQSL.org; Logbook of the World;
DX Bureaus; hands-free
hamming MAR You can Never Have Too Many Keys APR Five New Radio Reads from ARRL MAY If this is May, it must be Dayton; Four days in May; Ham radio
headsets; What's so special
about Special Events?; And May
leads into June; 2005 ARRL
Periodicals on CD JUN Before It's Too Late! (record-
keeping and inventory) JUL Show Your Stuff (QSLs on
display) AUG Amateur Radio Synergy: geo- caching; APRS; ATV operation;
dual band vs two radios; mobile
or handheld? SEP The New Tech Test and Learning Linux OCT Another TechGuide (ARRL Ham Radio License Manual) and hams
at HOPE6 (Hackers on Planet
Earth) NOV Great Radio in Grubby Times (things to do during sunspot
minimum) DEC I've Been a VERY Good Boy! (the ideal station)
OUTER LIMITS
JAN Pirate radio resources; British
pirate crackdown; Dutch pirate
Alfa Lima Intl FEB Pirate Activity Still High;
Shoech's QSL List; Black Arrow
Radio; West Africa Democracy
Radio; Providence Maildrop
Closes MAR Fla Hams Oppose Anti-Pirate Felony Law. APR Howard Stern Hit by Pirate Relays; Radio Insurgente; Oldest
Pirate QSL? Airborne Radio
Marti; New FRW Editors MAY Digital SSTV on Pirate Band - Unusual Pirate Bust, Oldest
Pirate QSL? JUN (repeat of May in print; pdf has
correct column) WRMI and Pirate
Cause Interference; Cumbre DX
Adds Pirates; Insurgente
Mexican Logs; Afghanistan FM
Radio Battle JUL Pirate Radio Humor for DXers;
Radio Insurgente Transmitter?
Oldest QSL AUG Court Rules Against Brattleboro; Pirate Hijack WBAB? KCBM Op
Obit SEP Elkhorn Pirate Maildrop Closes; Radio Insurgente Times; Oldest
Pirate QSL OCT FM Pirate Charges with Homicide in Florida; New Pirate Blog;
Oldest Pirate QSL NOV FCC Upholds Gibson Fine; Hezbollah TV provider arrested;
Laser Hot Hits Busted; FM pirate
Britcher fined; Clandestine video;
new clandestine podcast; Part 15
legal BCer; Old Pirate QSLs DEC Global Crisis Watch; Old Pirate QSLs; Radio Cuba Libre Returns;
Jo Walsh a Ham
PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT
JAN Compleat Guide to the BBC in
North America FEB Multi-platform broadcasts to
North America MAR Which Station; Which Platform; Which Time? (more listings) APR From Under the Southern Cross – Radio Australia schedules MAY The Voice of the Pacific - RNZI
JUN (duplicate of May column) JUL Compleat Summer Guide to BBC
in North America AUG Parting Thoughts; Music of the World; A Sirius Issue; What of
the Future? My personal favorites SEP A Trip to the Balkans OCT Learning the Language (language lessons) NOV Broadcasting from China - Blurred distinctions (China and
Taiwan) DEC Special Holiday Programming: Lead-up to Christmas, Christmas
Eve, Christmas Day, Hanukkah,
Orthodox Christmas and New
YEar
QSL REPORT
JAN Electronic QLSing grows FEB Postal Rate Increase MAR URBONO Stations QSL
APR New QSLing Opportunities
MAY Logbook of the World
JUN Summertime Tentative Reporting JUL Scorcher QSLing 2006 AUG Follow-Up Reporting SEP Sept Means Better DX Conditions OCT Radio St Helena to return to the airwaves! NOV F/D, N/D, P/D
DEC MT's QSL Holiday Special

RADIO RESTORATIONS
JAN More on the HQ-120; Receiver
Evolution - the "Three Dialer"
Era, First Plug-In Sets FEB HQ120 continuing restoration;
more on receiver evolution MAR The HQ-120 Comes to Life
APR A.C.-D.C. "Depression Radios"
MAY Restoring a Depression Era Silvertone JUN Taking on the 1933 Silvertone JUL The "Little Fellow" Finds its Voice AUG More on "Little Fellow" Restoration SEP Concluding the Little Fellow Restorations; Radio for the
Millions OCT We Take on a Zenith Trans- Oceanic: The "Universal
Portable" for 1940, The 1942
Universal Portable and Trans-
Oceanic clipper; our B600 Project
Set NOV Sizing Up Our Trans-Oceanic (dealing with the mold, front
panel, antennas, inside the
cabinet); From the Readers DEC Those Monumental Rider's Manuals: The Perpetual Trouble
Shooters Manual, Useful Rider's
Lore, Roadmaps to Rider's, Other
Sourcesof Manufactuere's Data
SCANNING REPORT
JAN Johnson County IN; Knox County
IN; Computer Interface Scanning;
Florida Scanner Law FEB Notification Networks; Hampton
VA; Philadelphia PA and Pro-96 MAR Recommended scanners for listening in Freehold, NJ;
Freehold freqs; Cheboygan
County, MI; Genesee County MI;
Carbon County, PA; Baltimore-
Wash Airport; Cumberland
County, PA APR Illinois - Franklin Co, STARCOM 21 statewide system; Nevada –
Las Vegas, Hwy Patrol MAY New digital systems and Reader Feedback: York Co PA,
Cumberland Co PA, Homer AK;
Freehold Tsp NJ follow-up,
Genessee Co MI follow-up; Civil
Air Patrol freqs sensitive info JUN Listening Beyond Line of Sight;
Michigan State Police, MI
Emergency Mgt; Oklahoma HP;
Uniden Firmware Update JUL Tangled Web of Interoperability:
Cape May Co NJ; Peoria Co IL;
Colorado; Federal Report Cards.
Alameda Co CA AUG Legality, Technology, and Interoperability. Michigan
Scanner Law, Michigan radios,
Scanner Listener in Texas,
Buchanan County MO, NPSPAC
Interop, VHF and UHF Interop,
Wisconsin, Emergency Radio
Nets (DCERN & National SOS) SEP Scanning as a Group Effort; Southeast Texas; Programming
Scanners; Birds of a Feather
(yahoo groups); Coordinated
Discovery (internet); Washington
County, MD OCT Halloween Trick and Treat: Florida Statwide Law
Enforcement Radio System
(SLERS) operational; NATSAR
Frequency; EMWIN weather
frequencies; Easier to read
Scanner Manuals NOV And Three Chose MA/-COM: New York (State, Chautaqua Co,
Wedstchester Co), Oakland
County MI (3rd state is PA not
covered here); Radio Shack
PRO-96 Upgrade DEC Mixed Bag from Readers - Lebanon County PA; Dearborn
Hts MI; McMinnville OR; Studio
Transmitter Links; Somerset Co
MD
UTILITY WORLD
JAN Roma Radio discontinues Morse
service; Israeli Navy dropping
Morse; NATO converting to
digital; Russian Beacon changes FEB CBV Playa Ancha Radio, Chile;
DX Toolbox; New archive for US
Inland Marine Radio MAR Cuban "Numbers": A Pattern Emerges. More on CBV, Playa
Ancha Radio APR E22 Revealed as All India Radio; Cuba Again; HFDL Frequency
Updating MAY Nazi Messages Decoded; Teleprinting in Chinese JUN Radio Z-Signals; WUN gone JUL A Hobby in Transition: WUN is
Dead, Long Live UDXF; Where's
This Hobby Going? Call for Utility
Logs AUG Will the Internet Replace Utilities? Numbers by Internet Phone?! Will HFDL Go
Encrypted? Navtex DX Record? SEP DXing Differential GPS Beacons
OCT The Spooks of October: Num- bers and the News (Cuba, Israel) NOV Telephone "Numbers" Mystery Solved! DEC Updated Cuban Numbers Schedule; More on Differential
GPS
WHAT'S NEW

Books, CDs
ARRL ARES Field Manual Feb ARRL Basic Radio Feb ARRL DXCC List Jul ARRL Emergency Power for
Radio Communications May ARRL More QRP Power Jul ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook Jan
ARRL Repeater Directory Jul Crystal Clear Dec Discover DXing! Apr Domestic Broadcast Survey 8 Aug FM Atlas Feb Getting Started w/Ham Radio Dec Klingenfuss SW References Mar Monitoring Monthly Apr NRC AM Radio Log Nov NRC Antenna Pattern Book May Passport 2006 Jan Pocket Idiot's Guide to Sat Radio Dec
QSL-Card Calendar for 2007 Oct Radiouser Apr
Radio Sound Effects Jun Six Meters - The Magic Band Jan SW Station Identifications CD Nov Tower Site 207 Calendar Nov World Radio TV Handbook 2006 Mar

Business news, Software
AM broadcast map Sep Audio: The Movie Sep Ham radiocast podcast Jun Tempting (but illegal) Products Oct
Equipment
Anderson Genderless Connectors Jun
AOR AR-Alpha Comm Receiver Sep Grove FlexTenna Mar DD-103 Universal Digital Dial Oct EFM coaxial lightning protector Apr Elecraft KXB3080 option for KX1 May
Ice Zapper sat dish heater Feb Icom IC-PCR1500 coming Mar Icom IC-PCR2500 Jul MFJ 6-Band Rotatable Mini-Dipole Aug
MFJ DC-500 MHz Dummy Load Oct MFJ Solar-Powered Atomic Clock Dec
Morse Express Christmas Key Nov Palm Radio remote keyer Sep Uniden BCT15 scanner Apr WinRadio Marine Receiver Apr WinRadio VHF/UHF Scanner Aug Wrist Crystal Set Kit Dec

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