Happy New Year!
Auroral activity extrapolated from NOAA/POES is displayed on the Web. “Instruments on board the NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) continually monitor the power flux carried by the protons and electrons that produce aurora in the atmosphere.” Northern and Southern pole maps show the breadth of the current auroral zone, especially interesting to watch when there are solar disturbances.
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Greetings and welcome to the SCOREBOARD once again. This issue the SPOTLIGHT is on North America. Remember to update at least once a year to remain listed on the SCOREBOARD. Next time the SPOTLIGHT will be on Oceana. CH = Countries Heard and C/V = Countries Verified. Country Counts are by the Official NASWA Radio Countries List. Thanks to all our contributors, now, on to the totals.
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Hello and welcome to the last PIRATE RADIO REPORT of 1998! I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving. Now it’s time for Christmas.
If you’ve been tuning the pirate bands over the past few weeks and haven’t heard anything, don’t worry. It’s not bad propagation, a broken radio or antenna that’s the cause.
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This has been one of the most fun-to-use receivers I have ever tested — I think that any SWL with a computer would love to have one of these radios! Since the radio’s control functions and most of the signal processing are done via software, the radio has a fantastic price to performance ratio, with a price of $295 plus shipping. The Ten-Tec RX-320 is a 3 x 6.25 x 6.5 inch black metal box that plugs into a serial port of a personal computer running Windows 3.1 or 95. The computer must be a 386 or better and have at least one megabyte of free hard disk space available. The DSP functions are handled by a chip in the receiver, so processor speed is not important for receiver performance. I used a 200 MHz Pentium and response to commands was almost instantaneous. The receiver is supplied with a 9 pin (DB9) serial cable, AC adapter, a patch cord for connecting the receiver’s audio output to the computer’s sound card line input, control software on a 3.5 inch diskette and a telescoping whip antenna which screws into the radio’s circuit board via a hole in the top cover. Provision for an external antenna (RCA phono connector) and an external 4 ohm speaker (1/8 inch jack) are available on the radio’s rear panel.
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Greetings once again from Radio Library Central. This month we have a guest review from fellow NASWAite Peter Bowen from Toronto Canada. Without further grumblings on my part. Allow me to turn the job over to Peter for this month so I can begin to work on my holiday book picks for next month.
History of International Broadcasting
by James Wood
258 pages
$62.00
London: Peter Peregrinus, 1992
ISBN 0-8634-28-5
Review by Peter Bowen
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| 2310 | AUSTRALIA | VL8A | 10/9 1045 mx variety show (Ripp-VA) |
| 2410 | NEW GUINEA | R Enga | 9/27 1226 EG pops, fair (Line-KS) 10/9 1059 ID, lang nx, peak at 1102 (Ripp-VA) |
| 3172.7 | PERU | R Municipal | daily 0900-1300 & 2300-0400 Quechua w/folklore & comunicados, sometimes as R Marcawana, FC. Addr: Plaza de Armas 124, Paucartambo (TIN-JP) |
| 3210 | COSTA RICA | REE | Relay 9/14 0301 ID (Rout-GA) |
| 3210 | MOZAMBIQUE | RM | 10/11 0335 muddy anmts, piano mx (Clar-ON) |
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