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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Crisis in Syria - Monitoring Syrian Domestic Broadcast

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As the crisis in Syria deepens and attacks by western military forces are imminent we turn our attention to monitoring domestic broadcast...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Cherokee SO NXDN or MOTOTRBO?

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Well this is interesting. The Clay system is definitely NXDN but I'm not so sure about Cherokee. A quick check on the FCC website for t...

Welcome to the Digital Age and Paranoia

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As of noon today both the Clay County and Cherokee County, North Carolina, Sheriff Departments are using now NXDN encryption on their primar...
Friday, June 28, 2013

The NEW Monitoring Times Blog Now Online!

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The new Monitoring Times magazine blog is now online. This blog will feature a wide variety of radio related hobby post gathered from a...
Friday, May 03, 2013

K1JT Releases New JT9 Software Package / MT May Issues has Ham Digital Operating Articles

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Joe Taylor K1JT, has released a new version of his WSJT-x (v0.95, r3251) software package yesterday (May 2) and JT9 fans will love it. Th...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Some Personal Thoughts on Government HF Radio Systems

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The other day I got to thinking about the big mess we had last September in Benghazi with the loss of our ambassador and others back in that...
Friday, January 18, 2013

The CHM Inaugural Scanning Guide - now online!

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If you are in the DC Area for the POTUS Inaug on Monday, be sure to get your free copy of the Capitol Hill Monitor group DC Area frequency g...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

N5FPW and the JT9-1 Mode

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After a lot of research, internal testing and more than my share of hand wringing I have successfully made my first two JT9-1 digital mode c...

JT9 - a new digital mode for the MF and LF AR gang

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There is a new weak signal mode in town and if you are a MF/LW amateur radio operator, you are going to like it. This new 9-FSK digital comm...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

'Brighter than a full moon': The biggest star of 2013... could be Ison - the comet of the century

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From the Independent in the UK ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brighter-than-a-full-moon-the-biggest-star-of-2013-could-be-i...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

US UHF Milsat Pirate Busted

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Many of us who monitoring Milsat activity are well aware of the hijinks involving Brazilian (aka Portuguese speaking) pirates transmitting o...

Last Night was a very successful JT65 night on 80 mtrs

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For whatever reason, last night the 706 seemed to beckon me to have an evening at the rig and what an evening that turned out to be. It st...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Las Vegas police dump problem radio system

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By Mike Blasky AND Brian Haynes  LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL It was a multimillion-dollar mistake. And the timing couldn't be worse. ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Official Announcement from GRE America

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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

A "Dream Comet" Heading Our Way?

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Although just spotted a few days ago, Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) has the potential to become a very bright object that will be well placed for v...
Monday, October 01, 2012

NASA Spacecraft Records 'Earthsong'

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Oct. 1, 2012: In space, they say, no one can hear you scream. Nobody ever said anything about singing, though. A NASA spacecraft has ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

A New Kindle eBook - QSLing the World - A How-to Guide Now Available

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Teak Publishing is proud to announce the release of their first Kindle eBook - QSLing the World - A How to Guide by Gayle Van Horn, a Monit...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

DHS Deploys Multiband Radios to State, Local Public Safety Agencies

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Source: Courtesy of the Emergency Management.com website Homeland Security and Public Safety newstaff reports. http://www.emergencymgmt.com/...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

X-Flare - Earth Facing

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UPDATE, 3:30 p.m.: NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) just posted the following: The R3 (Strong) Radio Blackout today at 12:49 ED...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Executive order: Obama grabs communications

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There is this report from the Canada Free Press by: Doug Hagmann & Joseph Hagmann In the event you missed the Friday news dump, Barack H...