SCA Additional Thoughts on SCA Reception: As I recall, the setup described by Bob Parnass (I think that was who it was) was to hook a VLF receiver to the output of an ordinary FM receiver to pick up SCCA (sic - I always call it that, Sports Car Club of America, when it should really be SCA - Subsidiary Communications Authorization or something!) transmissions multiplexed on ordinary FM broadcasts. To understand what is going on, you need to know what the FM station actually transmits. Let's do it in "top down" fashion. All you computer jocks out there should relate nicely to that. First of all, the FM station has a "composite audio" input - this is just the input on which SOMETHING (consider it a stub subroutine to written later) is fed in to the modulator. From the FM modulator's point of view, what you put on this input is just the MODULATING SIGNAL which you want to Frequency Modulate (FM) the station's carrier. Intuitively, you can think of the station as putting out a "pure" carrier at frequency F when this modulating signal is zero. When it is NONZERO, however, the instantaneous frequency of the transmitter is changed. Say the modulating signal value, in volts, or whatever, is M. Then the transmitter output frequency is set to F + K*M where K is a sensitivity constant which is unimportant except that whatever maximum value of M is applied to the FM modulator input should result in a maximum "frequency deviation" K*M which is just about the maximum that the FCC allows. CONTINUED IN FILE SCA.1