[IRCA] Radio Heritage Christmas 2008 Newsletter
_ Radio Heritage Foundation Christmas 2008 Newsletter _ Bangkok Crisis __ If you were one of hundreds of thousands of tourists stuck in Bangkok in the past few weeks, and told to listen to local radio to stay informed, how would you know where to find a station with programs in other than Thai? Our PAL AM Radio Guide would have directed you to 918 AM for English, French, Chinese and Japanese programs including hourly BBC News. Just one of the benefits of using one of the free radio guide services at our website www.radioheritage.net, and one we know we have to upgrade in 2009 with the addition of our much delayed PAL FM Radio Guide. Floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, coups, riots, terrorists and civil disturbance are all possible in the region, making it so important to know where to quickly find a local radio station with information in English that could save your life. _ Yes we can upgrade our radio guides. Here's how you can help! _ Can we do more to improve our PAL Radio Guides? Yes, we can! Can you help us? Yes, you can! Here's howemail us if you find out of date or plain wrong data in our guides, tell us of new stations and programs in non-local languages for visitors and foreign residents, and make a donation to help us upgrade our guides in 2009. Hello, I'm David Ricquish from the Radio Heritage Foundation, and I'd like to tell you a little about what's shaping up for 2009, and how you too can get involved to celebrate our radio heritage! Thanks for helping in 2008 __ Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone for helping to find a way to keep radio heritage safe, alive and interesting in 2008. Some radio stations have already picked up our 'Ten Top Ways to Save Your Station' tips and we'll make this program more widely available in 2009! Secondly, a special thanks to those who buy books, CDs and merchandise from us, and who have made donations in 2008. We have a very small budget, in fact our income in the year ended March 31 2008 was just US$3774. It goes nowhere near our basic running costs, and I can assure you, even a quarter a day from each of you in 2009 would help us upgrade our services and keep our bank manager from looking too closely at our credit line! ___ Make a donation this holiday season ___ Would you like to make a donation today? You can use your VISA or Mastercard at the donation button on every page of www.radioheritage.net and I can also assure you that 100 cents of every dollar goes straight into protecting radio heritage. Popular Culture ___ During 2008, we've been working behind the scenes to redesign how we tell the stories of radio, people, events, music and places within the bigger picture of popular culture. A bit like Wikipedia, you'll see we have some 'stubs' or introductory articles online about the radio dial in Australia 1931, California 1928, Shanghai 1941, New Zealand 1931 and 1978. If you haven't been to the site lately, go to www.radioheritage.net, look at them and then email us to tell us what you think of them. ___ 'Expanding 'stubs' in 2009' ___ The idea is that these will expand to cover other places and periods, introducing even more stations on the radio dial. In 2009, we're looking to build a volunteer team that will begin to expand these 'stubs' even further, unpeeling more layers of radio and popular culture for us all to enjoy. Have you seen our Art of Radio series? Currently we've got three similar 'stubs' covering Australia and New Zealand, Japan and Hawaii. These are scheduled to finally expand in 2009 and have the capacity to move offline into real exhibitions such as already successfully tested with the Art of Radio Japan Exhibition. 'We want to commission articles' Will you help us in 2009? We already have a number of people standing by to work on several of these projects, but we need more. If you can volunteer research and write about the links between radio and popular culture, we want to commission articles from you. Radio Archives __ You can see that we're more than just another radio 'archives' locked into the past! It's still vital though to collect the audio, images, art work and stories and we've been doing a lot of that this year. Major new collections have added many thousands of new items and we're about to start a major cataloging and digitizing project in 2009. Our funding applications for this will be lodged in early 2009. Our new software lets you upload and send your own materials directly into our new database.
Re: [IRCA] Spanish on 530
Bill - Radio Encyclopedia, _www.racioenciclopedia.cu_ (http://www.racioenciclopedia.cu) features piano rhumbas, snappy 70s renditions and SS FF announcer. Replaced R. Cadena Habana and a couple others on 530, appx. DEC '07 on 530. Developing quite a following here, many locals enjoy format, some aware it's coming outa Cuba, some not. z pv zecchino manasota key, fl In a message dated 12/6/2008 8:33:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill, It's either RVC in the Turks Caicos (heard by many DXers in the PNW) (if it is back up to power) or the Cuban. If it sounds religious, it's RVC. It also IDs. Good catch whichever one you got. Pete Taylor Tacoma, WA 12225w 4719n HQ180 + Kiwa air core loop ICF2010 + DX398; Palomar loop SRF-59 -M37V Eton E100 == bill kral wrote: Thursday evening heard Spanish on 530 on unsteady and rapidly fluctuating carrier.Mexico,The Caribbean or a TP? ___ 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 **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010) ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] Spanish on 530
In fact, with the K indices up, there has been more than the average share of SS stations on the domestic channels. This has been a bit of a long stretch of higher solar activity. The aurora pictures still show an orange coloration. Well, with solar activity up, DX goes down. Hopefully the greater activity will make the winter months a bit more warm. Gotta pull *some* positive aspect outta this! Craig Healy Providence, RI ___ 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
[IRCA] ICOM IC-7000
Has anyone used the ICOM IC-7000 for BCB DX? I'm thinking of replacing the Palstar R30CC in my truck with something that will give me access to the ham bands. But, stellar MW reception capability is key. I like the ICOM as it appears very versatile, and the few mentions of MW use on reviews in places like eham seem positive. I would like the opinion of someone who is doing a fair bit of BCB DX though. Thoughts? Know anyone who has one of these? Craig Healy Providence, RI ___ 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
[IRCA] Arizona TP's for 12-7-08
Listened from 1340-1430 utc and for the first time in a long time I heard no audio. The only carriers were 594 and 774. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 _ Send e-mail faster without improving your typing skills. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_speed_122008 ___ 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
[IRCA] This Morning's TPs from CO
Pretty slim pickens - Threshold level audio on peaks from 774 747; weak carriers on 593, 694 828. I listened from 1250 to 1330. 73. Craig Barnes Wondervu, CO Drake R8A ___ 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
[IRCA] CBI address
What is the best address for sending receptions for CBI? I have at least two addresses here (one in Sydney and one in Halifax), and would like to send my report to the most appropriate one. Bill Harms ___ 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
[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2008 Dec 07 2101 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 December follow. Solar flux 69 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 8. The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 07 December was 1 (09 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date 06 06 06 06 06 06 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 UTC 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 A-in 13 13 13 13 13 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 8 K-in 54224311323221 ___ 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
[IRCA] Hot night for Spain (and other TAs)
The Radio Nacional d'Espagna network ID and talk on 1107 was so strong I was able to hear it in AM mode. Every lower channel has a het, many have at minimum very weak unidentifiable audio. 270 has a very faint voice, no one listed there except Czech Republic. 909 UK, Canaries 1008 with Canary references, 1116 Spanish, Switzerland 765 (pop music incl. Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time, 1053 with Arabic music. 774 Spanish 1134 Croatia, 1521 Saudi strong, 1215 not sure what that was - music but I'm not 10 percent it was Absolute, 1035 had a voice but not sure what language. Normally I climb up and down .40 off-channel and look for hets and then go for the kill. Tonight I'm simply landing right on channel, and adjusting USB/LSB as quickly as I can. Lots of Spain relogs. There are more things in that I can keep track of and wait for voices to get identifiable.This may be my most active TA night here yet. Either that or some of the signals I logged in Newfoundland didn't leave my set. Saul Chernos ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] Hot night for Spain (and other TAs)
Saul, at this end of the country, all I'm getting are weak hets on 1539 and 1575 so far (00:26 UTC) as dusk approaches. I see that the A/K indices are rapidly declining, though..Walt in Victoria At 03:21 PM 12/7/2008, you wrote: The Radio Nacional d'Espagna network ID and talk on 1107 was so strong I was able to hear it in AM mode. Every lower channel has a het, many have at minimum very weak unidentifiable audio. ___ 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
[IRCA] More TAs
The fun continued until a recent drop-off of most signals. 693 Portuguese would be the Azores, France 945, 999 Spain with Koran chant behind it. Saul / Burnt River ON - Original Message - From: Saul Chernos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:26 PM Subject: [Amdx] Fw: [IRCA] Hot night for Spain (and other TAs) The Radio Nacional d'Espagna network ID and talk on 1107 was so strong I was able to hear it in AM mode. Every lower channel has a het, many have at minimum very weak unidentifiable audio. 270 has a very faint voice, no one listed there except Czech Republic. 909 UK, Canaries 1008 with Canary references, 1116 Spanish, Switzerland 765 (pop music incl. Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time, 1053 with Arabic music. 774 Spanish 1134 Croatia, 1521 Saudi strong, 1215 not sure what that was - music but I'm not 100 percent it was Absolute, 1035 had a voice but not sure what language. Normally I climb up and down .40 off-channel and look for hets and then go for the kill. Tonight I'm simply landing right on channel, and adjusting USB/LSB as quickly as I can. Lots of Spain relogs. There are more things in that I can keep track of and wait for voices to get identifiable.This may be my most active TA night here yet. Either that or some of the signals I logged in Newfoundland didn't leave my set. Saul Chernos ___ 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
[IRCA] TA on West Coast
Farda-1575 has had pretty fair audio at 0118 and 0130UT, paralleling webstream, on Gabriola Island near Nanaimo, BCbut there's practically nothing else, yet... ** Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ 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
[IRCA] Bryant's Best Catches during the Ross Challenge
Here are what I'd consider my 20 or so best catches while doing the 7-Day Ross Challenge. I ended up with 132 stations in 6.5 days and had a bunch of fun! All were with the Slider E100 attached to a NW-SE Wellbrook Phased Array antenna. As is usual with most domestic catches, in most cases these are especially treasured catches not because they are exotic themselves, but rather they are small miracles because of stiff co-channel QRM in the region, etc. The times are UTC 1200 UTC = 6:00AM CST 550 KFYR Bismark ND USA11/30/2008 1250 Many ments of Bismark + Local Weather 594 JOAK NHK1, Tokyo Japan 11/30/2008 1317 JJ Talk, Threshold 640 WCRV Collierville TN USA12/1/2008 2200 Fluke in NW Array, null of WWLS. Multi IDs 650 KGAB Orchard Valley WY USA 12/1/2008 1330 Local Talk. IDs as Cheyenne 670 KWXIGlenwood Sprs AR USA 12/1/2008 1335 Family Friendly Radio Religious 700 KHFO Tom Ball TX USA 12/1/2008 1345 Voice of Texas 890 KTXVMabank TX USA12/4/2008 1307 Vietnamese prgmming. What fun! 1040 KCBE Monument/ColoSprs CO USA 12/6/2008 1500 Mixed SS EE Programming, Christian 1050 KLOH Pipestone MN USA12/3/2008 2240 Serving Southwest Minnesota Pop-up 1080 KSLL Price UT USA 12/6/2008 1520 Continuous Christmas Music Local Ads 1110 WTOF Bay Minnete AL USA12/3/2008 1226 Turning Point rel prg announces Mobile 1130 CKWX Vancouver BC Can 12/6/2008 0200 Traffic Report, ments of various suburbs 1140 CHRB High River ALB ALB Can 12/3/2008 1300 's Community Radio CW,finally ID as High R 1200 KFNW North Fargo ND USA12/6/2008 1518 Pop-up ID as KFNW.org 1320 KELO Sioux Falls SD USA 12/6/2008 2200 Fox News, 2 IDs, mix w/KCLI 1570 KVTK Vermillion SD USA 12/5/2008 1303 ESPN, Local ID 1580 Colorado Springs CO USA 12/5/2008 1300 Biz Radio, Local ads 1660 KQWB W.Fargo ND USA 12/1/2008 0300 ESPN John B. Stillwater, OK, USA Rcvrs: Hotrodded NRD-535, Slider e100's Antennas: Wellbrook Phased Array ___ 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
[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2008 Dec 08 0001 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 December follow. Solar flux 69 and mid-latitude A-index 7. The mid-latitude K-index at UTC on 08 December was 1 (06 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date 06 06 06 06 06 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 08 UTC 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 69 A-in 13 13 13 13 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 87 K-in 42243113232211 ___ 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
[IRCA] Cuban mystery
For awhile Rebelde was playing very sharp flute / Latin music, which made it especially easy to // 5025 to several AM channels. Logged 600, 610 and 670, which are relogs. But also had it on 640 for a new catch, and curiously enough very briefly I am sure I heard the same music on 570, mixing in with the all-too-common Radio Reloj. Has anyone logged a Rebelde on 570, or otherwise know of one? Cubans were strong for a short while around 1950-2000 EST but have since dropped down. Spain 621 and 999 and Croatia 1134 were among the last to leave of this evening's TAs. Time will tell if any reappear closer to Euro sunrise. Saul Chernos Burnt River ON ___ 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
[IRCA] Announcing the 950 DX Challenge
Niel Wolfish in Toronto has been trying to pin down a station on 950 he has heard just prior to 0600 EST every morning where a woman sings the SSB starting around 0558 EST and then the station fades into the mud by the time an ID might happen. I thought I heard a wee bit of this here at Burnt River ON this morning. Saturday morning it was solid WWJ MI and WIBX NY so I am tentatively ruling them out. This morning I had WROC NY separately (with ESPN) and am tentatively ruling them out. Possible candidates include stations in OH (Niel deems this most likely) and WV. But who knows... And that's the basis of this little DX game. For those of you who like a good mystery, or have reliable 950s to listen to, why not sit on the channel from 0555-0601 EST, log what you can, and report it. Who knows. Barry McLarnon in Ottawa did this a week or so ago and logged a new station - one in MN, nice and far away! Funny enough, this one doesn't appear to be our candidate, either. So set your alarms, pour some coffee, and join us as we take on this DX Challenge! Saul Chernos ___ 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
[IRCA] Announcing the 950 DX Challenge
Niel Wolfish in Toronto has been trying to pin down a station on 950 he has heard just prior to 0600 EST every morning where a woman sings the SSB starting around 0558 EST and then the station fades into the mud by the time an ID might happen. I thought I heard a wee bit of this here at Burnt River ON this morning. Saturday morning it was solid WWJ MI and WIBX NY so I am tentatively ruling them out. This morning I had WROC NY separately (with ESPN) and am tentatively ruling them out. Possible candidates include stations in OH (Niel deems this most likely) and WV. But who knows... And that's the basis of this little DX game. For those of you who like a good mystery, or have reliable 950s to listen to, why not sit on the channel from 0555-0601 EST, log what you can, and report it. Who knows. Barry McLarnon in Ottawa did this a week or so ago and logged a new station - one in MN, nice and far away! Funny enough, this one doesn't appear to be our candidate, either. So set your alarms, pour some coffee, and join us as we take on this DX Challenge! Saul Chernos ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] TA on West Coast
Farda-1575 has had pretty fair audio at 0118 and 0130UT, paralleling webstream, on Gabriola Island near Nanaimo, BCbut there's practically nothing else, yet... What are you using for an antenna Nick? -- Colin Newell - Editor - Web-Design / E-Commerce / Writing Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ___ 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
[IRCA] First e-QSL
Last summer, a few of us heard a weak unID on 765 kHz. that seemed (by propagation pattern) to be coming from NZ. I think that I may have been the only one of us to finally get just above threshold audio and it was not English, but sounded Polynesian to me. I sent a tentative report to an interesting fairly new station on 765, a Maori station called Radio Kahunguru in the Hawkes Bay/Hastings area of North Island and I never got a reply. Ten days ago or so, I was preparing to send a snail mail follow-up, but I checked with their website again and decided to use their listener e-mail to ask for a confirmation of their snail mail address. I just this minute received the following: Tena koe (It's used as a formal greeting to one person and a way of saying hello in the Maori language) I did receive your letter but I didn't get around to answering it. I'm sorry about that. You are correct that recording you made was off our frequency 765AM which is based in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, which is half way down the East Coast of the North Island in New Zealand. The audio was of one of our link stations this one being based in Auckland called Radio Waatea. There are 21 Iwi radio stations based around New Zealand and we are called the Maori Radio Network. Each Iwi (Tribal region) has a radio station. If you would like to check the radio station's out you can do so on http://www.irirangi.net/www.irirangi.net It's always a pleasure to receive these types of enquires. Please keep in contact. Thank you Patricia Te Rangi Programme Director/Daily Operations/Sales P O Box 2615 Stortford Lodge Hastings 901 Heretaunga St, West Stortford Lodge Hastings Phone: 06 872 8943 Fax: 06 876 4157 Mobile: 027 245 8598 www.kahungunu.irirangi.net I'm really pumped up about this QSL!!! One of my more exotic stations. There does seem to be a problem with the station website listed above In any case, now we know the identity of this mystery station. John B. ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] First e-QSL
What is the problem with the website? Paul B. Walker, Jr. www.onairdj.com On 12/7/08, John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last summer, a few of us heard a weak unID on 765 kHz. that seemed (by propagation pattern) to be coming from NZ. I think that I may have been the only one of us to finally get just above threshold audio and it was not English, but sounded Polynesian to me. I sent a tentative report to an interesting fairly new station on 765, a Maori station called Radio Kahunguru in the Hawkes Bay/Hastings area of North Island and I never got a reply. Ten days ago or so, I was preparing to send a snail mail follow-up, but I checked with their website again and decided to use their listener e-mail to ask for a confirmation of their snail mail address. I just this minute received the following: Tena koe (It's used as a formal greeting to one person and a way of saying hello in the Maori language) I did receive your letter but I didn't get around to answering it. I'm sorry about that. You are correct that recording you made was off our frequency 765AM which is based in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, which is half way down the East Coast of the North Island in New Zealand. The audio was of one of our link stations this one being based in Auckland called Radio Waatea. There are 21 Iwi radio stations based around New Zealand and we are called the Maori Radio Network. Each Iwi (Tribal region) has a radio station. If you would like to check the radio station's out you can do so on http://www.irirangi.net/www.irirangi.net It's always a pleasure to receive these types of enquires. Please keep in contact. Thank you Patricia Te Rangi Programme Director/Daily Operations/Sales P O Box 2615 Stortford Lodge Hastings 901 Heretaunga St, West Stortford Lodge Hastings Phone: 06 872 8943 Fax: 06 876 4157 Mobile: 027 245 8598 www.kahungunu.irirangi.net I'm really pumped up about this QSL!!! One of my more exotic stations. There does seem to be a problem with the station website listed above In any case, now we know the identity of this mystery station. John B. ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] First e-QSL
Paul, I keep getting some nasty security alert that I've never seen before that won't even let me go to it. Can you see the site??? John B. At 09:10 PM 12/7/2008 -0600, you wrote: What is the problem with the website? Paul B. Walker, Jr. www.onairdj.com On 12/7/08, John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last summer, a few of us heard a weak unID on 765 kHz. that seemed (by propagation pattern) to be coming from NZ. I think that I may have been the only one of us to finally get just above threshold audio and it was not English, but sounded Polynesian to me. I sent a tentative report to an interesting fairly new station on 765, a Maori station called Radio Kahunguru in the Hawkes Bay/Hastings area of North Island and I never got a reply. Ten days ago or so, I was preparing to send a snail mail follow-up, but I checked with their website again and decided to use their listener e-mail to ask for a confirmation of their snail mail address. I just this minute received the following: Tena koe (It's used as a formal greeting to one person and a way of saying hello in the Maori language) I did receive your letter but I didn't get around to answering it. I'm sorry about that. You are correct that recording you made was off our frequency 765AM which is based in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, which is half way down the East Coast of the North Island in New Zealand. The audio was of one of our link stations this one being based in Auckland called Radio Waatea. There are 21 Iwi radio stations based around New Zealand and we are called the Maori Radio Network. Each Iwi (Tribal region) has a radio station. If you would like to check the radio station's out you can do so on http://www.irirangi.net/www.irirangi.net It's always a pleasure to receive these types of enquires. Please keep in contact. Thank you Patricia Te Rangi Programme Director/Daily Operations/Sales P O Box 2615 Stortford Lodge Hastings 901 Heretaunga St, West Stortford Lodge Hastings Phone: 06 872 8943 Fax: 06 876 4157 Mobile: 027 245 8598 www.kahungunu.irirangi.net I'm really pumped up about this QSL!!! One of my more exotic stations. There does seem to be a problem with the station website listed above In any case, now we know the identity of this mystery station. John B. ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] First e-QSL
I can see both sites you linked in your email.. both work fine for me. I wonder if there's an issue on your end ebcause the website isn't in english, so maybe your ISP or virus stuff thinks it's spam? Paul B. Walker, Jr. www.onairdj.com On 12/7/08, John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, I keep getting some nasty security alert that I've never seen before that won't even let me go to it. Can you see the site??? John B. At 09:10 PM 12/7/2008 -0600, you wrote: What is the problem with the website? Paul B. Walker, Jr. www.onairdj.com On 12/7/08, John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last summer, a few of us heard a weak unID on 765 kHz. that seemed (by propagation pattern) to be coming from NZ. I think that I may have been the only one of us to finally get just above threshold audio and it was not English, but sounded Polynesian to me. I sent a tentative report to an interesting fairly new station on 765, a Maori station called Radio Kahunguru in the Hawkes Bay/Hastings area of North Island and I never got a reply. Ten days ago or so, I was preparing to send a snail mail follow-up, but I checked with their website again and decided to use their listener e-mail to ask for a confirmation of their snail mail address. I just this minute received the following: Tena koe (It's used as a formal greeting to one person and a way of saying hello in the Maori language) I did receive your letter but I didn't get around to answering it. I'm sorry about that. You are correct that recording you made was off our frequency 765AM which is based in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, which is half way down the East Coast of the North Island in New Zealand. The audio was of one of our link stations this one being based in Auckland called Radio Waatea. There are 21 Iwi radio stations based around New Zealand and we are called the Maori Radio Network. Each Iwi (Tribal region) has a radio station. If you would like to check the radio station's out you can do so on http://www.irirangi.net/www.irirangi.net It's always a pleasure to receive these types of enquires. Please keep in contact. Thank you Patricia Te Rangi Programme Director/Daily Operations/Sales P O Box 2615 Stortford Lodge Hastings 901 Heretaunga St, West Stortford Lodge Hastings Phone: 06 872 8943 Fax: 06 876 4157 Mobile: 027 245 8598 www.kahungunu.irirangi.net I'm really pumped up about this QSL!!! One of my more exotic stations. There does seem to be a problem with the station website listed above In any case, now we know the identity of this mystery station. John B. ___ 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
[IRCA] KPNW/1120
There was somebody questioning this the other day. I just heard them with 2 audio feeds at the same time. One a talk show, the other spots. It's definitely them. -- Leonard Hyde Weed, CA Realistic DX-440 6 foot shielded loop ___ 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
[IRCA] west coast TA
At 02:42 12/8/2008, Colin wrote: Farda-1575 has had pretty fair audio at 0118 and 0130UT, paralleling webstream, on Gabriola Island near Nanaimo, BCbut there's practically nothing else, yet... What are you using for an antenna Nick? Testing a Wellbrook Phasing Unit, Colin, 2 delta loops, about 16m circumference separated 40m, and pointing due north. The DX Fishbarrel was in use, so when 1575 was up, I was there, tuning into it. Unfortunately, nulling to the south yields electrical noise, some of it from the cable modem here. It's usually powered down, hence the late reply. Audio traces on 1215, maybe 1089, and a number of carriers; this isn't a DXpedition, so quality time was being spent elsewhere. Nick ** Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ 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
[IRCA] Slider Loopstick Cancels Out Image Reception
Hello Guys, Doing further investigation on a discovery made by Steve Ratzlaff and confirmed by John Bryant, some testing was done on a Slider E100 tuned to an image frequency of local pest KSUH-1450 (on 540 kHz). Without the coil peaked on 540 kHz, KSUH-1450 was blasting in on 540 kHz, sounding like a local. When the coil was peaked on 540 kHz, however, KSUH's image signal went completely down in the noise, barely audible way under legitimate 540 kHz signal CBK in Saskatchewan. The KSUH image was completely inaudible except when the Slider loopstick was broadside to the pest, in which case is was barely above the noise level. The discovery has major implications for those DXers who love the classic Sony ICF-S5W, but dislike its congenital image problem. With a Slider loopstick, the ICF-S5W would not only drop the images, but have a huge sensitivity boost as well. The 455 kHz Murata CFJ455K5 filter can also be transplanted into the ICF-S5W, like it has been in the E100 to provide razor-sharp selectivity. Sounds like an interesting winter coming up. 73, Gary DeBock **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010) ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] First e-QSL
Congrats John. Radio Kahungunu is not new though. They have been around since 1989, per my QSL from 1992. They replacd the old Apple Radio, 2ZK. In the late 70s, early 80s, 2ZK was common here on the coast, but I don't hear Radio Kahnugunu near as often as I used to. Asians seem to cover the DU's a lot more than they used to. Great going. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ 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
[IRCA] TP's for evening of 12-07-08
-- Good Evening, A couple LWs and one MW in at the 11 PM hour. 153 RUSSIA, 0724 weak with man in Russian. 279 RUSSIA, 0725 very weak with man in Russian. 774 JAPAN, JOUB 0723 fair to good with woman in Japanese and music. Dennis, Salmon Creek, WA JRC NRD 545 ewe NW ___ 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
