[HCDX] AOR
Hello To ALL! I am considering the AOR AR8600 MarkIIB receiver. I would appreciate hearing from anyone with experience with this brand and/or model. I don't wish to spark a ridiculously long thread but I would also appreciate views on what the experienced DXer considers to be a high performance and good value rig. The JRC NRD-545 is a nice looking rig but a bit of a budget buster at $1800. Once in my life I would like a serious dx-ing receiver. I am a long time ham and have just purchased a Yaesu FT-847 ham transceiver and am using it with a new SteppIR dipole. The FT-847 is so-so but suffers badly from intermod from a nearby FM broadcast transmitter and various paging transmitters. This is one of the downsides of living on a ridge and having commercial transmitters as neighbors. I hope everyone is warm and happy and having a HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Hello to Jouko! I lost many emails and addresses so please drop me a line. Glad to be back. 73 Wayne WA6FXL ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is coming out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] KYOS
I used to live in Merced as a teenager and listened to KYOS which had a street facing windowed DJ studio. I lived around the corner on East 17th Street and the KYOS studios were on 18th and G Street if I remember correctly? Brings back memories. I suspect Merced has grown from about 25K population? Best Regards Wayne __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Navtex Link (Sitor-B)
One of the best pages on Navtex stations and freqs and zones can be found here: http://home.cogeco.ca/~dxinfo/navtex.htm -- http://home.earthlink.net/~jaywayne/index.html Instant Message IDs: AOL AIM: konotayee Yahoo: waynejay95458 Skype: konotayee CQPhone: xxx- Digtrx HamDRM: 14233, 21340, 28680 Analog SSTV: 21340, 28680 My MFSK/Hell calling freqs: 3580, 7063/7075, 14063/14078, 18095, 21078/21180, 24905, 28063/28120 Olivia: 7063, 14108.5/14111.5, 18095 21129 ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] 500 and 2182 khz
I've been absent from the hobby for a number of years. Can anyone tell me when 500 and 2182 khz stopped being used as maritime distress frequencies? -- http://home.earthlink.net/~jaywayne/index.html Instant Message IDs: AOL AIM: konotayee Yahoo: waynejay95458 ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] NCDXF/IARU Beacon Location Chart
A very useful propagation tool: http://www.ncdxf.org/Beacon/BeaconLocations.html ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Bable Fish
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ It's from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Air FM Gold and or Voice of Greece
I happened across what I figured to be DX thanks to the rapid QSB. I have Ham Radio Deluxe which includes a shortwave database. It identified it as: Air FM Gold at 9425 time 0347Z Q3/4 S5-7, Windom 132 ft dipole. Obviously Hindi or similar music. Then at 0355Z I heard This is Athens, this the Voice of Greece in English of course. What was I hearing? Bangalore, India or Avlis, Greece. Does the Voice of Greece carry Hindi sounding programs? At the top of the hour playing what I believe to be the Greek National Anthem. I speak neither language, but the female announcer said very plainly in English the station ID. I'm a long time ham but not experienced in SWL. I note that there are extremely experienced SWLers on this list and I'm sure that this is easy stuff. Good DX to you all, Wayne Lucerne, CA USA ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] How deep?
How deep should coax RG-8U equivalent be buried to reduce man made noise? I have a FM broadcast station nearby ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] WHKT 1650 AM
I am slow in getting to list messages so this may have already been answered. First I used Dogpile, yes Dogpile a multiple search engine: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/WHKT and came up with: Radio Disney, Norfolk AM 1650 Their page is located: http://disney.go.com/home/html/index.html?flash=false ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] WHKT in hiding
WHKT is part of the Disney Radio network and hides behind the company website. However, their phone number is: 519-9171 in Hampton Rods, VA. I suspect that you have to go through Disney corporate offices to get a QSL out of them. ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] ILGRadio Database
Online Shortwave Database and more. Try it, you'll like it! Happy New Year! No matter how or to whom you pray to, add the people of SE Asia to your prayers http://www.ilgradio.com/ilgradio.htm#ILGDATABASE ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Logging program
Any thoughts on the best all around logging program for BOTH ham and SWL? Tnx! Happy Holidays ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] DX Tuners.com
I thought the following would be of igeneral interest to all. New to this service is the remote HF transceiver capabilityde Wayne/WA6FXL --- Hi Fellow Member, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Welcome to our Christmas 2004 DXTuner newsletter. The BIG news this season at DXTuners is our Live Transceiver in southern Sweden. Kelly has set up a live ham rig with transmitting and receiving capability. Use of this site will be for licensed ham or amateur radio operators only. The rig is an Icom-718 transceiver, using 80/40/20/15/10 meter loop antenna, putting out 100 watts. Lots more info on the Live Transceiver is at our webpage: Our link is as usual http://www.dxtuners.com Now for other radio site news: Broome: An EWE super antenna, pointing due east to Oceania and South America (long-path to Africa) will be installed here very soon. This will be temporarily hooked up to the current Icom PCR-1000 along with the discone. Later Kai plans to bring another rig online for a new Broome super DX site. Broome is very near Indonesia, and a favorite already with many of our members. Hungary: New Radio site. The receiver used is the Icom PCR-1000, with an x-dipole for an antenna. And, as a bonus, the site-op plans to set up an additional site soon, Hungary FM DX. North Devon: This FM DX site will soon be using a Triax 8-element pointed at Ireland. The Icom R-10 and an FM-dipole antenna are currently in use. We are told that when skip is good sometimes you can hear Spain from here. New Orleans: Site-op here is working on a rotator project for a Super FM site. Southern Louisiana is a hot-spot for long-distance tropo FM skip. Chicago 2: A new PCR-1000 is going to be launched on another location in Wheaton Illinois. More info on this upcoming node later. Pennsylvania: Another new planned site is central Pennsylvania, USA with Icom 718 or TenTec RX-320. East Taunton, Massachusetts (MA): Planned new rig TS-570D. We have not yet developed the driver for this rig yet, but will be in the near future. Kennett, Missouri: Planned PCR-1000. DX Beacon/LW- Sweden- This is a test project, and preliminary tests on the new antenna are very encouraging.The NDB Beacon DX-Tuner is now up and operational with an Inverted L + 10:1 balun. DXTuners would appreciate input on this project, including antennas. Please keep in mind that not only can you listen to far-away beacons here, you can also listen to longwave commercial broadcasts. The low stream audio feature is for the DSP filter, very helpful with the beacons, and the medium stream audio works best for longwave broadcasts 153-279 KHz. Demo HF Professional- This receiver site is now using the Icom R-75 with DSP unit connected to a 20 meter quad. This site is a favorite with ham ops. North Europe VHF- This site was formerly Oresund. One reason this one is in the special category is the discone antenna is very high, 20 meters. The antenna reaches far on any band, but especially on HF, FM, TV audio etc. London West- Radio here now features a slow stream audio which will be helpful to those members with slower connections. We also have possible upcoming receivers in Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Denmark, as well as the Hungary FM Supersite and New Orleans FM supersite. Kathmandu - This is a very remote site, and the 2 site-ops are working to resolve some technical issues. They ask for our patience while they work to get things fixed. On a serious note, we would like to ask all of our fine members to please ask before tuning the radios, and use the chat box. Please respect other listeners. DXTuners has a worldwide network of close to 60 radio locations, and with only 2 sites offline at time of writing, reliability of radio sites is very good. Our site-ops are upgrading all the time. And now DXTuners has a live ham transceiver. It is fun to imagine what 2005 has in store for our DXTuner listeners. DXTuners would like to wish all of our members a joyful holiday season. Have fun and stay tuned. Brad Wall / Editor DXTuners Support Team http://www.dxtuners.com If you do not want to receive our newsletter you can login to your account and select settings above the radio. Just untick Newsletters and press save. ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] ATUs aka antenna tuners
Sean In the ham world we call them antenna tuners. Try looking at what MFJ has to offer. Since you're not going to be applying transmit power you do not need to worry about power handling capability. I would get one with the ability to handle wire and coax antennas. MFJ is not the only option but is a good place to start. 73's de Wayne/WA6FXL http://www.mfjenterprises.com/index.php ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] HF TV
I've been copying SSTV (Slow Scan) on 14230, 21340 and 28680 primarily for the past 2 months. I misread Jouko's comments. I thought he had received a commercial Fast Scan signal. Normally fast scan requires considerable bandwidth making it unsuitable for HF use. But with the advances in computer and signal compression technologies I thought that anything might be possible. Thanks for your response Glenn. de WA6FXL ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] HF TV
So there is HF TV? This in reference to the post by Jouko Huuskonen. What do you use to decode the signal? Tell me more. Are there many other HF TV signals? 73's de WA6FXL/Wayne ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] 60 Meter Amateur Frequencies
I don't remember the exact date, but recently U.S. hams were given privileges in the 60 meter band. This frequencies are in USB: 5330.5, 5346.5, 5366.5, 5371.5 and 5403.5. They are secondary users to government stations. I would be interested in reports of any activity heard, either directly or to the list. I would also be interested in hearing from hams who are operating on this band. de WA6FXL ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Understanding SITOR-B FEC
When a station is transmitting an idle signal, like NMO (USCG Honolulu) on 8428 is anything printed? Or is the only time print is transmitted is during traffic sessions or broadcasts? Can someone suggest suitable software? I'm tuned to this station using a couple of different software packages with nothing printed. ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
[HCDX] Help
I would like to correspond with an experienced digital modes utility enthusiast. I have tried several different software packages with little success. I did manage to tune in a couple French Navy stations in the 8MHZ band on RTTY 75/850. I have tuned in W1AW bulletins in the 20M ham band. Long ago I was a radioman in the U.S. Coast Guard at Pt. Reyes, CA/NMC. But that was in the early 70's. I've been a licensed ham since 1967. Now I'm interested in exploring the digital modes. When I get back on the air I'll be exploring SSTV (slow scan TV) now I just copy the pictures from all over. I have also been successful at copying HF weather fax. KVM70 in Honolulu puts a big signal into Northern California where I live. As hams would say... Best 73's Wayne, WA6FXL Lucerne, CA ---[Start Commercial]- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]--- Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
