The DX band scan forms are back!

[oldradiotapes]

After them having been MIA for several years, I finally found my password for Mistman's server and FTP'd the radio band scan forms to the network for the whole world to use again:

http://mistman.pdp10.org/pub/scanforms/radio/
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http://archive.org/details/BandScanForms

Included forms are:
mw9khz.txt 9-kHz mediumwave scan, 504-1710 kHz - use in ITU region 1
mw10khz.txt 10-kHz mediumwave scan, 500-1710 kHz - use in ITU region 2
oirt.txt 10-kHz OIRT scan, 65.8-74.0 MHz - use in former Soviet contries
vhf100.txt 100-kHz VHF/FM scan, 76.0-108.1 MHz - use everywhere
vhf200.txt 200-kHz VHF/FM scan, 87.5-108.1 MHz - use in ITU region 2

Download or print them out and fill them in on your next Dxpedition!

 

[oldradiotapes]

The copies of the forms hosted on Mistman's site are gone, in fact it looks like his whole site (what little there was, anyways) is gone but for a few files. I'm going to leave the link up anyways for historical record and because they may suddenly reappear without warning, but you should get them from the archive.org link instead ("TEXT" download option), which will probably also be updated far more often than the mistman directory ever was.

If I make any new ones, archive is where they will debut.

 

[Kelly A]

AM band scan in D.C. area: noise...hetrodyne...Right Wing Talk...noise...hetrodyne...commercial fading in and out...noise...hetrodyne...something about Jesus..electrical crashing noise...hetrodyne...

 

[kenglish]

AM band scan in D.C. area: noise...hetrodyne...Right Wing Talk...noise...hetrodyne...commercial fading in and out...noise...hetrodyne...something about Jesus..electrical crashing noise...hetrodyne...

Are you sure you weren't listening in Midvale, Utah? At mid-afternoon we also add the Big-Scream TV's and bitcorn miners. Then, there are the 24/7 Fitness Sinners, with the millions of LED lights, so people can see you sweat.
Something down the street (possibly a huge UPS) radiates a gattling-gun noise over the lines for several blocks.
😢😡

 

[Kelly A]

Are you sure you weren't listening in Midvale, Utah?

I think it's safe to say that most major metropolitan cities and nearby towns suffer from similar AM band results. You should try DX'ing, let alone taking field measurements in the Middle East. For the remaining MW stations, it's a huge mess of high power co-channel stations together with electrical noise from failing utilities.

 

[oldradiotapes]

Looks like Mistman put his site pack up at the end of last year (along with a slightly cheeky .htaccess message at the bottom of the directlry listings!) along with the forms. From the looks of it he simply restored it from the backup I made for him just before the Trumpheads were installed in DC. So both links work, but any changes will be published on archive before they get to Mistman.

And if you're into obsolete tech do have a poke round elsewhere in the pub/ directory, there's lots and lots of old stuff there to learn from. (Try to guess who contributed a lot of the philes in pub/phone/ and pub/radio/...... 😉 )