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The ANARC Newsletter is published monthly by the Association of North American Radio Clubs. Permission is granted for unlimited redistribution of faithful copies by electronic or other means, provided credit is given to ANARC. Annual subscriptions to the paper edition of the Newsletter are US$7.50 for first class delivery in North America, US$10 for airmail delivery elsewhere. A sample copy is available for 60 cents and a business size SASE in the US, 75 cents in mint Canadian stamps, or 4 IRCs elsewhere. Subscriptions and requests for samples should be addressed to: ANARC Publications PO Box 462 Northfield, MN 55057 USA ANARC also operates a free bbs on radio topics, accessible 24 hrs/day via modem at 300/1200 baud, 8-N-1: 1-509-534-6866 ***************************************************************** ANARC Newsletter -<February 1988>- Vol. 24, No. 2 ***************************************************************** In this issue: * Executive Council Elections * On the Publicity Front * Ray Briem Show * Elsewhere on the Air * Legal/Regulatory Issues * Club News * On the Modem Front * Computer Communications Survey * SWL EchoConference * Other Systems * Do You Know? * The Marketplace Report <NOT INCLUDED IN THIS ELECTRONIC FILE> * *************************************************************** FROM THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: <Robert Horvitz> ----------------------------- So far the hardest part of this job has been riding my bike the mile and a half to the post office to pick up the mail when the sidewalks and streets are covered with frozen slush... Executive Council Elections Underway ------------------------------------ ANARC's Executive Council consists of the Executive Secretary and 6 Council Members elected from among the full-member clubs' Representatives. Those elected to the Council serve two-year terms, staggered so that in any given year, half of them end on December 31st, while the other half run to the end of the following year. Our recent reorganization forced a postponement of elections to fill the three Executive Council slots that opened December 31st. But nominations for those positions were received, and on January 8th, ballots were mailed out to the Club Reps with the names of seven nominees for them to consider. Voting is under way as we go to press. We'll report the results next month. On the Publicity Front ---------------------- The Voice of America gets about 500,000 letters each year from its listeners around the world. Some of them ask for information about radio clubs they can join. With that in mind, Kim Elliott, director of audience research at VOA, asked if we could provide him with ANARC Club Lists to send in response to such requests. No problem, we said. Hopefully, this will increase awareness of, and participation in, our clubs by VOA listeners outside North America. Thanks to the initiative of our new Publicity Coordinator, Mike Harris, ANARC will be organizing this years' "SWL/Monitors' Forum" at the Dayton Hamvention, April 29th to May 1st. Our time-slot will be Sunday morning, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Bob Grove is helping us put together the list of speakers, and with any luck at all, our display table should be somewhere near his. We're asking our clubs to send samples of their publications, so attendees can see what we're all about. Members of the Miami Valley DX Club and the All Ohio Scanner Club have been asked to help us staff the booth. Anyone else expecting to attend the Hamvention who wants to help us should contact Mike Harris (PO Box 294, Pickerington, OH 43147). Ray Briem Show Includes ANARC ----------------------------- Hope you caught the Ray Briem Show's "DX Special" on the ABC TalkRadio network January 9th. No stations in DC carried it, so I had to do some bush-league DXing, switching among WPTF-680 (Raleigh/Durham), WSB-750 (Atlanta) and WABC-770 (New York). They all faded out just before local dawn, but not to worry: the show's producer, Greg Hardison, called then and I got to listen by phone before and after the few minutes I was on the air. A few highlights: Ray asked George Jacobs if shortwave is commercially viable. "The votes aren't in on that one yet," he replied, but KUSW should give us an answer by this time next year. Jacobs told how the Arbitron rating service called him to ask how a station in New Orleans - WRNO - could be showing up in their audience-survey reports from cities as far away as Seattle and New York. "I don't think there's enough evidence yet to give you a concrete figure [on WRNO's audience size], but when it starts showing up in Arbitron, you know people are listening..." He added that WRNO's Joe Costello, Ralph Carlson of KUSW, and the Christian Science Monitor are trying to persuade American car manufacturers to offer radios with shortwave capability as an original-equipment option. Jacobs also mentioned that Hawaii was being looked at as a possible site for a new US SW station, though land there is awfully expensive. And in response to a question about how SWLs on the East Coast were coping with the OTH radar in Maine, Jacobs replied that a bigger threat was the proposed overhaul of FCC rules Part 15. Bob Grove noted that "substantial cost increases" were coming in the next few months for mid-price SW receivers because of the US dollar's decline against the yen. And no sooner had Tom Kneitel started talking about pirate stations when Ray interrupted to say that Allan Weiner of Radio New York International was on the line from Florida. Weiner promised that RNI would return to the air this spring, presumably from a ship moored near New York in international waters. Arthur Cushen announced that New Zealand's government had just appropriated a large sum of money to expand and upgrade that country's international service. Bruce Elving revealed that the 11th edition of his FM Atlas was about to go to the printer, and it would be available soon for US$10.50 postpaid. Order from PO Box 24, Adolph, MN 55701-0024. Other guests that night included Tom Meyer (whose "Happy Station" program on Radio Netherlands is in its 60th year), Ian McFarland, KUSW's Ralph Carlson, Stewart MacKenzie, Paul Swearingen, Radio West's Steve Miller, and probably others after I fell asleep. I was on around 6:30 a.m. EST, talking about ANARC, our convention this summer, the ECPA and our ongoing efforts to deal with the problems it has created. Before I hung up the phone, producer Greg Hardison came on the line to say that there's no reason why discussion of shortwave has to be confined to this one program a year. Ray Briem is on regularly. His phoneline is open every show, and every show touches on issues where a tie-in to shortwave could be appropriate. He suggested that if you want to see shortwave move out of its cultural ghetto and into mainstream awareness, call the Briem show (213-879-8255) and talk about shortwave whenever you think it's relevant. That's an invitation we'd be foolish not to accept. Finally, #1 Market Airchecks (PO Box 568, East Hanover, NJ 07936) is selling tapes of this year's "DX Special" as aired on WABC for US$6. If they handle it like last year's, they'll cut out all the commercials and PSAs. Should be available early in February. Elsewhere on the Air -------------------- Bob Brown, KW3F, coordinates an on-the-air "East Coast SWL Net" which meets Sunday mornings on 7240 LSB, starting at 1500 UTC. Needless to say, you don't have to be a ham to listen in on this lively hour of DX tips, station news, and talk about shortwave broadcasting and utility transmissions. "Before we started this thing I was told that SWL nets have started in the past but died due to lack of interest," Bob explains. "With the renewed interest in SWLing by the general population as well as hams, I really believe that the interest that has started with our net can only grow." Since reception of the SWL Net is poor-to-nil on the West Coast, net regular John Pinckney, WD4EBY, has offered to act as news-feeder and go-between for any West Coasters who want to organize a similar net in their region. Anyone interested can leave a message for John via the DX Newsline (301-953-0777). Anyone wishing to contribute information to the net, who can't air it during the session, can send it ahead of time to Bob Brown, 238 Cricklewood Circle, Lansdale, PA 19446. Or phone it in to the DX Newsline, which someone usually checks just before the net begins. While on the subject of SWL-oriented ham nets, Chuck Zeps says that the Ontario DX Association's ham station (callsign VE3SRE) is usually on the air Sunday mornings 1400-1700 UTC around 7155-60 kHz. Chuck adds that on-the-air nets for discussion of Kenwood and Icom equipment, including shortwave receivers, can be found on 14317 kHz on Sundays from 1800-2100 UTC. And for people interested in longwave, there's the Lowfer AM Net on 1983 kHz. They call in Sundays at 9 p.m. EST, and often on other nights at the same time. This net is best heard on the East Coast and in the Midwest. For West Coasters, there's another Lowfer Net that meets on Thursdays at 8 p.m. PST on 1987.5 kHz, and Sundays at 8 a.m. PST on 3927 kHz. Legal/Regulatory News --------------------- Despite enactment of the ECPA, two courts have recently found that users of car-phones have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The Chicago Tribune reported (Sept 29, 1987) that in a murder conspiracy case, evidence was deemed admissible even though it was obtained by monitoring a cellular radio transmission without a wiretap authorization. Because the transmission was by radio, the judge explained, the communicators could not expect the kind of privacy afforded by regular telephones. On January 11th, the Washington Post reported a similar judgment by the US Court of Appeals in New Orleans. In this case (Edwards v. State Farm), the Post said, a ham radio operator inadvertantly monitored a car-phone conversation. Believing that criminal activity was being discussed, he taped the conversation and gave the tape to the FBI. The car-phone owner then sued him. The Appeals Court panel ruled December 7th that it is not reasonable to expect privacy on a car-phone conversation that can be picked up by anyone with a scanner. The W5YI Report says William Tricarico, long-time Secretary of the Federal Communications Commission, has moved to a new job in another agency. **After January 4, 1988, all public comments and petitions filed with the FCC should be addressed to the new Acting Secretary, R. Walker Feaster.** That applies to comments filed in Gen. Docket 87-389 (revision of Part 15). Remember that the filing deadline in that docket is March 7th. Thanks to RCMA member Mike Peyton, the comments ANARC will file concerning Part 15 will be based on actual measurements of received signal strengths in the shortwave band. Mike is loaning us his Tektronix 492P digital storage spectrum analyzer. This sophisticated (and expensive!) device has a "max store" feature, which records and displays the maximum signal level at any given frequency during a user-determined time period. This provides a more reliable figure than a momentary reading, and will enable us to obtain a visual record of the signal levels found during our monitoring. Club News --------- [We still aren't getting all the newsletters, so we just go with what we have...] After a year of "provisional" membership in ANARC, the *All Ohio Scanner Club* has applied for full membership. The representatives of our full-member clubs are reviewing AOSC's application as we go to press, and we hope to be able to announce their decision next month. AOSC gained well over a hundred new members during their "probationary" period... As for whether their bulletin's new name portends expansion to nationwide coverage, Dave Marshall advises that the "primary orientation to Ohio, with additional dedicated coverage for Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ontario, plus one other column for members living outside of that area, will not be changed, at least for the foreseeable future... The name 'American Scannergram' will just be used to indicate to prospective members that our newsletter does not stop coverage at the Ohio State borders." Indeed it doesn't, with the Jan-Feb issue including some interesting reviews of "New Products," as well as Bob Parnass's gloss on the IFRB's monitoring program to locate shortwave jammers... Kannon Shanmugam's latest "Consumer Guide: Receivers" appears in the January issue of the *American Short Wave Listeners Club's* newsletter. This "watchdog of receiver prices in North America" goes through the latest catalogs from the Electronic Equipment Bank, Grove Enterprises, Radio Shack and Universal Electronics, and publishes a list of the lowest prices in his "ASWLC Almanac" column 3 times a year. We won't spill his beans, but suffice it to say this guide could save you enough money to pay for several years'-worth of memberships in ASWLC... John Wilkins took a few column-inches in January's "DX Reporter" to commemorate his completion of 4 years as the *Association of DX Reporter's* mediumwave editor. Members sent him 6,829 loggings during that time, he said. Not counting ADXR's publisher, Reuben Dagold, William Wyllie achieved the highest individual tally (798 loggings), while "Art Fiore wins the title of Most Reliable Reporter, having contributed to 41 of these 48 issues." Wilkins closed with warm descriptions of NRC and IRCA, the two ANARC clubs specializing in mediumwave DXing. Ahhh, if only everyone saw others with the same interests as comrades instead of rivals... Since December 3rd, Sheldon Harvey, Bill Westenhaver and Richard Casavant of the *Canadian International DX Club* have been producing a live weekly half-hour program called "International Radio Report" on CKUT-FM (90.3 MHz in Montreal, Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. EST). "We are going to be focusing on the larger ethnic communities in the Montreal area and providing the people with details on how to listen to their countries of origin via shortwave radio," Sheldon explained in the Dec 87 issue of the "CIDX Messenger". To get a recording of a sample broadcast, send a blank audio cassette to Sheldon Harvey, 79 Kipps St., Greenfield Park, Quebec J4V 3B1 Canada... The 1988 World Radio-TV Handbook can be purchased by Canadian SWLs at discount prices from CIDX. Cost is CAN$26 for 4th class delivery, CAN$28 by 1st class, or CAN$30 by special delivery. All cheques/money orders payable to CIDX, 52152 Range Rd. 210, Sherwood Park, Alberta T8G 1A5... "73" Magazine's February issue is supposed to feature a report on the 160-190 kHz "Lowfer" band, focussing on the innovative work of the *Longwave Club of America*... The January issue of "The Lowdown" has a list, compiled by Brice Anderson, of names, addresses, phone numbers, & beacon-idents of some 70 of the most active Lowfers.... LWCA's Ken Stryker has published an "Updater to the Aero/Marine Beacon Guide," cataloguing over 800 aeronautical, marine and offshore beacons that came on the air since his most recent Beacon Guide. Price is US$4 postpaid to the US and Canada, US$6 elsewhere. Order from Ken Stryker, 2856-G W. Touhy, Chicago, IL 60645... Bill Carney introduces a new column in the Dec-Jan "Member's Newsletter" for the *Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts*: "Forum" will provide "the chance to speak out on topical issues, or just to introduce yourself to everybody else"... MARE's 14th DXpedition will take place at the Island Lake Recreation Area in Brighton, MI, the weekend of March 4-6. Cost is $6 per night. For a map and preparatory info, send a SASE to PO Box 311, Wixom, MI 48096. Harold Frodge's report on the October outing began with the tongue-in-cheek diagram at left. [DIAGRAM] And speaking of strange antennas, Randall Trapp reports in the *Minnesota DX Club's* December "Newsletter" that he's bought a new, heavy-duty kite designed for winter flying so he can test out a "vertical V-beam longwire" (see diagram). If you want to find out the results, drop by MDXC's next meeting - Feb 12th at the Hennepin County Government Center, 300 S. 6th St., downtown Minneapolis. The meeting after that is March 11th at the home of Bob Morris, 2420 Pierce St. NE, Minneapolis (781-0748)... A large-print edition of the *National Radio Club's* North American mediumwave "Log Book" is now available. Over 150 3-hole-punched pages thick, each copy is computer-generated as orders are received, to ensure the information is the latest available: US$19.95 for NRC members, US$22.95 for others in the US & Canada. Customized "Stations by State/Province" printouts are also available, sorted by city or by frequency. Cost is $1.50 or less, depending what you want. Order from the NRC Publication Center, PO Box 164, Mannsville, NY 13661... Some highlights from recent issues of "DX News," which comes out weekly during the winter: extensive coverage of the controversy surrounding the "Aryan Nations Hour"; a printout of NRC's database on Cuban MW stations (Jan 4 issue); Randy Seaver on the relationship between solar activity, the Earth's magnetic field, and mediumwave propagation (serialized starting Jan 11); and Donald Kaskey's "Summary of Unreported Stations," with a list of 56 AM stations of 100+ watts not reported to NRC or the *International Radio Club of America* during the past 13 years (Dec 7). "These stations may be considered to be the rarest of the DX in the United States and Canada"... The *Ontario DX Association* has a new publication: the "Aeronautical Utility Guide" by Bob Evans, founder of ODXA's special interest group on aero-communications. Contents include: key terms & concepts, transoceanic flights, air traffic control channels, VHF comms, flight-test, search & rescue, law enforcement comms, etc. Printed in a loose-leaf, 3-hole-punched format, the Guide costs CAN$16.50, US$13 postpaid. The AUG will be updated quarterly, with revised frequency lists & new articles. Order from: ODXA, PO Box 161, Station A, Willowdale, Ont. M2N 5S8... ODXA is also now handling distribution of QSLs for Canadian stations CFRB and CFRX... The first four associate (state) editors have been picked by the *Radio Communications Monitoring Assn.* to assist their regional and topical editors. They are Michael Redman (MO), Robert Cooke (SC), Curtis Harbin (TN) and John McColman (VA)... The Jan issue of the "RCMA Newsletter" contains the annual membership survey. This is used to get a profile of members, evaluate the columns in the Newsletter, and gather suggestions for improvements and changes. Questions include: what columns do you always/seldom/never read? what columns would you add/delete? Are you getting more/less than you expected when you joined?... A number of RCMA members new to scanning have written the "Beginner's Corner" editor, John Leth-Nissen, to ask for referrals to more experienced members with similar interests in their area. John saw enough of an ongoing need for that sort of assistance that he's setting up a database for that purpose. He asks new- and old-hands to contact him, describing their interests. Printouts of those responding, sorted by region, will only be available to those included in the list - for the price of a SASE. Anyone can be de-listed on request. If it works, this system could be adapted by other clubs to help their new members... Next meeting of the *Southern California Area DXers* is Saturday, February 20th, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, 1900 E. Carson St., Long Beach, CA. It'll include a planning session for ANARCON-88, so if you want to get involved, drop on by. For details, call Don Schmidt: 213-424-4634... *SPEEDX* got a new Board of Directors January 1st: Richard D'Angelo, Carl Huffaker, Tom Kephart, Peggy Thompson and John Trautschold. Carl, who lives in Mexico, is the first BoD member residing outside the US... The *Washington Area DX Assn.* had their quarterly meeting January 30th at the National Museum of American History, where the Smithsonian's ham radio station is located. Elliott Sivovitch, who manages the station and works in the Smithsonian's Telecommunications Dept., was guest speaker. For notice of future meetings, contact Jay Goldberg (301-258-1012) or Arlene Luskin (301-593-4411)... On the Modem Front ------------------ Bill Krause, sysop of the ANARC BBS has moved to Washington State. By the time you read this, he should be set up in his new home. THE NEW PHONE NUMBER OF THE ANARC BBS IS 509-534-6866. Also new on the system is an area for posting news about ANARC ("ANARC Reports"). Bill Cole, our software maven, says he fixed a "bug" in the XMODEM file-transfer protocol, so up/downloads should be cleaner. And two new high-speed 3.5 inch drives - paid for by the two Bills out their own pockets - have added about 1.6 megabytes of storage to the system. "We challenge you to post material and think of new ways to use all our capacity," says Bill K. All "user write" functions, such as posting xbulletins and sending E-mail, have been moved to the new drives, to reduce online time. Now, the interactive part of this issue: ANARC Computer Communications Survey ------------------------------------ The Association of North American Radio Clubs (ANARC) wants your feedback on how best to use telecommunications in serving you and your club. Please take a few moments to answer this survey and return it to us by March 31, 1987. 1. What type of computer do you use? 2. Do you call noncommercial radio-related BBSs? How often? Which BBSs do you call? 3. How important is each of the following eleven BBS features to you? (Rate from 1 to 11; 11 is highest - PLEASE PUT RATING ON LEFT) ___Uploading and downloading of programs___ ___Uploading and downloading of text files___ ___Sending & receiving E-mail___ ___Posting notes, dx tips, etc. for others to read___ ___Reading notes, dx tips, etc. from other users___ ___Message forwarding___ ___Reading magazine/library features___ ___Reading bulletins/schedules from broadcasters___ ___Conferencing___ ___Propagation indices___ ___Other (specify)___ 4. For the above eleven features, please put a plus (+) to the RIGHT of those you use frequently; put a minus (-) to the RIGHT of those you use occasionally; and a zero (0) to the RIGHT of those you don't use. 5. Are most of your calls to radio related BBSs long-distance? 6. Which of the radio related BBSs and networks do you feel best meet your needs? Why? 7. Do you use BBSs primarily for time-critical information (like dx tips), or for non-time-critical information (tutorials, station schedules, etc.)? 8. Of the various BBS programs you have used, which do you prefer? 9. What features would you like to have that are not implemented on the BBSs you've called? 10. Has your use of radio-related BBSs made you more or less interested in joining a radio club? 11. Should ANARC be thinking primarily in terms of (choose one) (A) operating a BBS of its own; (B) operating a BBS with sub-boards for member clubs; (C) forming a network of club-sponsored BBSs; (D) supplying files and programs to all radio BBSs? 12. Do you call commercial information services such as Compuserve or GEnie? How often? Which ones? 13. When you call an information service, do you pay long-distance telephone charges in addition to those charges you pay to the service? 14. Which of the commercial services best meet your needs? 15. Additional comments: Your name & address: To which ANARC clubs do you belong? Other radio/communications clubs: Mail your completed survey by March 31, 1988 to: ANARC Computer Information Committee c/o Bill Cole 107 Charles St. N. Cape May, NJ 08204 The SWL EchoConference ---------------------- In April 1986, Larry DiGioia, sysop of the "Neverboard" in Pittsburgh, organized a small group of BBSs running Fido software into a network to exchange shortwave-related messages and files automatically every night. This arrangement not only increased the information available on each BBS, making them more interesting for callers, but callers were able to save on their phone bills by accessing the pool of messages through the node nearest to them. From this small seed grew the FidoNet's SWL EchoConference. The basic idea remains the same, and the Neverboard is still the unofficial "hub." But so many BBSs are involved now, and the number of files and messages transferred nightly is so large, that not all participating boards store the same information. Most of the messages seem to be discussions of equipment, reports of recent DX "catches," and questions asked and answered. While there's a definite similarity to the mix of information-sharing and camaraderie one finds in radio clubs, the EchoConference has no analog to club newsletters' consolidated lists of loggings, so useful as tuning guides, and Fido's software limits the length - thus the detail - of message texts. Here's a list of bulletin boards in the SWL EchoConference, based on information provided by Kurt Barnhart, Dennis Diaz, Larry DiGioia and David Snyder. They do their best to keep track of who's in the net, although as proud-papa Larry points out, "Now there are simply too many boards to keep an accurate list": Telephone Name (Fido node) Location ----------------------------------------- 913-677-1288 A*C*E (280/304) Mission, KS 404-546-7857 Athens Forum (18/43) Athens, GA 412-427-4488 AMRG #101 Pittsburgh, PA 414-738-1219 Applegate (139/630) Appleton, WI 216-883-0578 Auer Register (?/?) Cleveland, OH 301-574-1984 Berkshire Board (261/204) Essex, MD 602-742-1551 Bit Bucket (15/20) Tucson, AZ 319-377-0004 Cedar Valley Mill (?/?) Cedar Rapids, IA 312-491-2611 Chicago Business (115/429) Evanston, IL 716-937-3521 The Comm Centre (260/160) Alden, NY 312-630-6282 COPH Mail (115/700) Chicago, IL 616-363-3262 Edge CBCS (120/63) 312-529-1586 Elk Grove Repeater (?/?) Roselle, IL 301-350-1299 Fido's 1st RBBS (109/652) Largo, MD 206-565-1476 The Forum (17/43) Tacoma, WA 602-235-9653 Health Info-Com Net (114/15) Scottsdale, AZ 303-593-0766 Hip Shack (128/19) Colorado, Springs, CO 816-331-5868 Howard's Notebook (280/301) Raymore, MO 603-783-4239 Info Biz (?/?) Canterbury, NH 807-345-3991 M-Net (148/124) Thunder Bay, ON 417-869-5294 The Matrix (?/?) Springfield, MO 303-972-9600 Microlink-B (104/108) 415-752-6172 Midnight BBS (161/201) 414-282-4181 Midwest Communication (?/?) Milwaukee, WI 413-684-2886 Mountain Top (321/131) Windsor, MA 415-651-4147 National Family Forum (?/?) Fremont, CA 412-243-5880 Neverboard (129/17) Pittsburgh, PA 301-454-0360 No Place Like Home (109/711) 718-442-1056 NY Transfer (107/105) Staten Island, NY 319-351-8783 Opus Board (?/?) Iowa City, IA 612-377-3469 PC-Info Exchange (14/321) Minneapolis, MN 306-586-1551 Polestar (140/10) 201-963-3115 Police Station (107/341) 509-487-3900 Red Wolf Opus (343/14) 306-347-4493 Regina Fido BBS (140/19) Regina, SK 202-833-1889 Rick's Fido (109/635) Washington, DC 301-967-3309 Ronnie's Roadies (109/999) 415-659-9169 RSVP (10/425) Fremont, CA 312-394-0071 Samson (115/108) Arlington, IL 808-533-0190 Small Biz Help Net (113/1) Honolulu, HI 306-244-8378 Software Library (140/33) Saskatoon, SK 415-651-4147 Sonshine (161/56) Fremont, CA 408-251-4926 Tranquility Base #1 (143/31) San Jose, CA 312-630-6282 TNT BBS (?/?) Chicago, IL 615-320-6963 The Unknown Opus (?/?) Nashville, TN 413-443-6313 VetLink #1 (321/203) Pittsfield, MA Other Systems ------------- Scott Loftesness, sysop of Compuserve's HamNet, contacted us in mid-December to discuss "more active participation" by ANARC in the HamNet. This resulted in my being named an assistant sysop, working with Radio Sweden's George Wood on SWL and scanner topics. If you have a Compuserve account, check it out. To message us, our user ID is 76210,517. We've also had preliminary talks with Bob Parnass, who ports files on monitoring and radio recreations to Usenet, on ways we can share material with that system. Usenet connects nearly all colleges, universities and research centers in North America, and has one of the largest user-bases on the planet. There's a gateway between Usenet and the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (the WELL). If we can figure out how to take advantage of it, we should be able to gain access to thousands of new people that way. Do You Know? ------------ R. C. McRoberts wrote to Antique Radio Classified to ask: "For years I have watched for the first use of the word RADIO in place of WIRELESS. Who coined the word RADIO?" *************************<END OF FILE>************************** * * Association of North American Radio Clubs * P.O. Box 143 * Falls Church, VA 22046-0143 * U S A * * Compuserve 76210,517