Hi Guy, Thanks for the report. Here in Puyallup there is a weak mixing product of KIRO-710 and KOMO-1000 on 1710 kHz at a bearing of around 310 degrees, which makes an accurate DF of the Russian station at night (which is even weaker) rather tricky. There is no daytime ground wave carrier of the Russian here like Steve and Walt have noticed, even on the new 10' box loop-- just the mixing product. Maybe you will be able to detect two 1710 kHz carriers on your Perseus. If so, you are welcome to borrow any of the large traveling loops here for further investigation. 73, Gary
In a message dated 5/24/2009 8:26:23 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, d...@guyatkins.com writes: Friday through Sunday I was camping in central Washington, north of Cle Elum (N. Fork of the Teanaway River, 47°24'16.43"N, 120°55'54.70"W), and checked 1710 kHz frequently from Friday sunset onwards. I brought along the Eton E1, a 10:1 transformer, coax lead-in, and 100 feet of random wire. I also had a handful of smaller receivers like the CCrane SWP, Degen DE1103, and Eton E100 (all stock). I was going to bring along laptops and the Perseus receivers but at the last moment decided the trip was already complicated enough, and left them at home. The signal of 1710 (~1709.99 as best as I could tell on the E1) was widely variable in signal strength, but the best level was around local sunset on Friday. When I first tuned in, 1710 was at a fair to good level with Russian language religious programming, but dropped quickly to a mere whisper just a couple minutes later. The rest of the trip they were at threshold level to poor, or sometimes just a carrier. As others have mentioned it seems to be a 24 hours operation. I checked occasionally between midnight and sunrise and heard the same very weak signal and programming. Using the radios I had on hand which have an internal loopstick (all but the E1), as best as I can tell the bearing was slightly NNW-SSE (~345/165 degrees). Yakima is a city on this bearing to the SSE. However, I don't have a lot of confidence in this due to the weak signal making DF'ing tough. I wish I had though of trying one of the loopstick radios during the brief period of good signal on 1710 at sunset on Friday. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221322948x1201367184/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=May ExcfooterNO62) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
