[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 31 Oct 2009

[Nigel Pimblett]

 Well, I hope those of you further west enjoyed a good morning in bed, 
as unless things are very different out your way the TPs certainly 
weren't worth getting up for.In fact, there was no TP audio here at 
all until shortly before sunrise when some of the Japanese big guns 
managed audio at a feeble level more typical of late August.
 Also heard a bit of weakish TP audio on 738 and 774.   That's about 
it, so I'll hope November doesn't start the way October is ending.


73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta

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[IRCA] Arizona TP's for 10-31-09

[Bill Block]

Listened from 1320-1350 ut and not much was heard with only a few weak carriers 
and one with audio JOUB-774.

 

Bill Block

Prescott Valley, AZ

Drake R8
  
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[IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's (The Pitts) for 10-31

[D1028Gary]

Hello All,
 
Nigel was hoping that the west coast DXers might hear some  DX this 
morning, but at least for this west coast DXer, his hopes were in  vain. It was 
probably the worst day for TP propagation this month, and I'm sure  that a lot 
of DXers were scrambling to check their receivers, and antenna  connections.
 
There was moderate audio from JOAK-594, HLSA-603, BEL2-738 and JOIB-747,  
but that was about it on the low band. JOAK-594 had no Korean competition 
this  morning (unlike the last 3 days), and HLSA had no Chinese competition 
(which is  rare this season). My original plan to check for weak co-channels on 
 the NHK frequencies this morning was ludicrous, with the NHK stations  
themselves pretty weak. Despite the warm (58 degree) rainy weather, the  band 
was in a deep freeze.
 
With John B. and Kevin S. at Grayland, it seems like a pretty scary  day 
for the propagation to tank. Sure hope they had better results than Nigel  and 
me, but I'm not too optimistic.
 
73, Gary DeBock
 
Spotting receiver:  Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick)
Main receiver:  Modified C.Crane SWP ultralight (7.5" Slider loopstick  + 
CFJ455K5 filter)
9' and 6' (side) PVC tuned passive loops (in the back yard)
 
 
   
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[IRCA] Halloween TP DX - not many treats in my bag

[Bruce Portzer]

Once again, I let the SDR-IQ do the work while I slept.   After I 
checked the files, I was happy I did, at least with the part about 
sleeping in.


Nonetheless, it wasn't a total bust.  The upper part of band came back 
to life (sort of), even though the lower half was kind of lousy.  There 
were a few interesting items, but the season is definitely showing its age.


Really good audio, most of it understandable by a native speaker at 
least some of the time

Yanbian-1206

Somewhat OK audio, words and phrases could be understood by a native 
speaker, if only for brief periods

594 Japan, weaker than normal
693 Japan, brief periods
747 Japan, weaker than normal
774 Japan, but only briefly, mostly it was buried in 770 splatter
972 Korea
981 CNR1, when the 980 splatter relented
1170 KBS mixing w/KPUG
1287 Japan very briefly
1566 HLAZ, for very brief periods.  Mostly just weak audio despite the 
strong carrier


Marginal audio, could recoginize program content but a native speaker 
wouldn't have understood it

567 Japan?
585 Japan
603 Korea??
639 China
657 N Korea
675 unid music
738 unid music
756 KBS, Korean talk & time pips 1400 w/China in background
783 unid
810 China/Russia time pips u/KGO
828 Music weaker than 747 etc
1278 unid
1323 CRI
1422 Japan
1575 VOA

Carriers with no signs of audio
558 612 621 666 729 792 801 819 837 846 855 864 909 918 1017 1026 1035 
1044 1053 1098 1107 1116 1134 1188 1197 1215 1224 1269 1305 1449 1475 
1476 1503 1512 1557


Bruce in Seattle
SDR-IQ receiver, K9AY antenna





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[IRCA] WKAQ 31/10

[mauritsvandriess...@skynet.]

I hear this morning WKAQ San Juan Puerto Rico  on 580khz , 0627utc  with SS 
talks ,and full adrress .Good for 7 min. fair reception.

73,

Perseus and super Kaz antenna

Maurits

Belgium
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[IRCA] [Fwd: Re: [mwcircle] Asian DX this afternoon]

[Bruce Portzer]

European DXers are hearing lots of Far East DX at sunset today.  It may 
or may not be a sign of better things here. Their sunset DX time 
overlaps with our sunrise period this time of year, so it may not mean 
much, especially with the concurrent crummy conditions being report by 
us Pacific Northwest folks


Bruce

 Original Message 
Subject:Re: [mwcircle] Asian DX this afternoon
Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:36:50 +0100
From:   Christoph Mayer 
Reply-To:   mwcir...@yahoogroups.com
To: mwcir...@yahoogroups.com
References: 





Hi Steve,


Conditions are excellent this afternoon. Right now WYFR is totally 
dominant on 1557 and Korea on 1134 has come up again and Yanbian RGD on 
1205.97 is strong now, too.


This is what I have been hearing up to now:

1521   CRI Urumqui  g  1224 RR Yl, strong signal
1386   Tianjin RGD  f  1226 CC talks
1413   Xinjian RGD  w  1236 Uh // 6120
1205.97Yanbian RGD w/f 1247 KK infos
1134   KBS Kimbof  1249 KK talk
1556.99 WYFR Kohu  vg  1325 CC talk 
819.06unid w  1310 lang=?
1242.44unid w  1322 
1170 DWVA  VoA Poro Pt  f  1323 Cantonese //7390

1377   CNR1 f  1327 // 981 // 4800
981   CNR1 f  1327 // 1377 // 4800
1413 JOIF  Fukuka   w  1331 JJ Yl talk


2009/10/31 mwneditor >





   I tuned to 1521kHz at 1330utc to find an absolutely massive signal
   (over S9)
   from China.

   At first I thought it had to be something else much more local but
   no it was
   Russian and referred to China

   Amazing

   73
   Steve


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[IRCA] TP for 31 Oct from Victoria, BC

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Hmm, in spite of Nigel's and Bruce's comments, this morning in Victoria was a 
large improvement on yesterday, thought part of the quantity of loggings was 
due to spending more time at it.   Hope the guys at Grayland had similar 
conditions. 

One caveat, the strongest signals were heard between 1250 and 1330UT (maybe 
peaking about 1320), and signal strengths tapered off after that point, with no 
obvious sunrise enhancement.   In addition, after 1330, the decline in signals 
was most noticeable in the upper band, which had shown some signs of liveliness 
previously.   Finally, 603 kHz and below was a bit of a gold mine of good 
signals this morning, though nothing new logged.   (also ran the SDR-14 
earlier, and found Mayak chimes on 666//576 at 0959, mystery chimes on 603 at 
0959 and 1359, which I'm  suspecting is KBS2, and 720 had CC pips at 1200UT 
mixing w/KDWN.

(I'm modifying the signal strength ratings to add Bruce's clarifications)

pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least 
briefly): 

279 R. Rossii at 1318UT
531 JOQG //594 at 1319UT (!)
558 HLQH //603 at 1356; 603 much poorer at this time
567 JOIK //594 at1402
594 JOAK , mostly owning the channel
603 HLSA at 1447 //558, w/mx underneath
657 N. Korea at 1317 along with big hum
747 JOIB
774 JOUB 
828 JOBB
972 HLCA


reasonable audio  at  times during the period (much of it understandable by a 
native speaker,
though often battling w/splash or noise):

189 R. Rossii
873 JOGB trading places w/N. Korea
945 CNR-1 //5030, but only briefly
963 CRI w/RR talk
1017 CRI //5965; but later there was pop mx not //6145 or 747, so not sure who 
it was
1134 KBS //972
1251 CC talk (VoR? but no parallels available)
1287 JOHR 
1566 HLAZ
1575 VoA



not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could 
be understood by a native speaker
 
153 and 234 R. Rossii
549 Mayak at 1431, woman in RR //576
576 Mayak
621 CC talk, but not as strong or frequent as recently
639 CNR-1 //5030
666 Mayak w/RR talk //576, but also JOBK //594 at times
711 at 1411UT, likely HLKA
792 a bit of a mess mostly, but pop mx fairly clear at 1422UT
855 strong hum messing up the audio
918 CC, but no echo noted today
936 unknown at 1322 and 1406; this had a strong carrier much of the morning, 
but audio less than I would have expected
981 CNR-1 //5030
1206 likely Yanbian, w/growl on audio; best while 1200 was on OC (ahhh...)
1377 CNR-1 //5030
1475 Malaysia at 1318


Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be guessed at by 
cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in talk or music) :

180 
585 //594 at 1451 so JOPG
648 man talking 1444UT
675
702 hum and maybe NHK-1 per parallel
738 a mess
756 usually a mess; China / Korea?
801
819 seemed //2850 at 1443, so N. Korea
837 seemed //594? so NHK-1
1008
1143
1197 good carrier, touches of mx at 1340UT (while 1200 running OC)
1503 seemed //594 at 1459 so JOUK
1593 seemed //5030 so CNR-1


Strongish het, no audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter):

864, most others, eventually dug out some audio 




best wishes,

Nick



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Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's (The Pitts) for 10-31

[Nick Hall-Patch]

>JOAK-594 had no Korean competition 
>this  morning (unlike the last 3 days), and HLSA had no Chinese competition 
>(which is  rare this season). 

..got to agree with you on those observations Gary, but someone must have 
changed my antenna in the night as far as the other observations.

Sure hope these were "you've got to be closer to the coast" conditions for the 
sake of the Grayland DXers.






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Re: [IRCA] TP for 31 Oct from Victoria, BC

[Bruce Portzer]

Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Hmm, in spite of Nigel's and Bruce's comments, this morning in Victoria was a large improvement on yesterday, thought part of the quantity of loggings was due to spending more time at it.   Hope the guys at Grayland had similar conditions. 


One caveat, the strongest signals were heard between 1250 and 1330UT (maybe 
peaking about 1320), and signal strengths tapered off after that point, with no 
obvious sunrise enhancement.   In addition, after 1330, the decline in signals 
was most noticeable in the upper band, which had shown some signs of liveliness 
previously.   Finally, 603 kHz and below was a bit of a gold mine of good 
signals this morning, though nothing new logged.   (also ran the SDR-14 
earlier, and found Mayak chimes on 666//576 at 0959, mystery chimes on 603 at 
0959 and 1359, which I'm  suspecting is KBS2, and 720 had CC pips at 1200UT 
mixing w/KDWN.
I also noticed better signals at around 1320.  In my case, I was 
recording 30 minute segments starting at the upper part of the band and 
working my way down.  That may explain why 1206 was my best audio of the 
morning and 1170 was one of the best (despite having co-channel KPUG) - 
I was recording that part of the band when everything apparently 
peaked.  That's one of the drawbacks of timed SDR recordings - you get 
snapshots of parts of the band at various times.  You can't tell for 
sure if conditions were consistently good or bad in a particular part of 
the band or if the band in general was good or bad while you were 
there.  That would be mush less of an issue for someone DXing in "real 
time" or recording on a Perseus.


Bruce
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[IRCA] Day ONE at Grayland

[John H. Bryant]

Kevin Schanilec and I were able to get both Wellbrook arrays up on 
Friday afternoon: a phased array of 2 triangular K9AYs and another 
massive new array of two 17' x 60' Super Loops. Both arrays were 
pointed NW and were separated and staggered by about 150 feet.  It 
was quite a job including a total of 6 self-supporting masts and two 
large sets of radials (for the K9AYs.) After one night of testing, 
the Super Array appears to be superior to the K9AY in forward gain, 
and possibly having a slightly narrower front lobe and each rejects 
the backside about equally (which means that the Super Loops are 
actually rejecting things much better given their larger size and 
increased forward gain.) There is a lot more testing to go, and a 
possible decrease in the size of the Super Loops, but things are 
looking REALLY promising.


We were talking over when to get up this morning and remembered that 
this late in the season, things are often better an hour or two 
before sunrise, with dawn enhancement being very mild. So, we started 
out 1220UTC (LSR=1440) and were welcomed by almost wall to wall DX 
with many signals the strongest that I have heard them this season! 
It was exactly like September, all over again: the Japanese, large 
and small were very much favored, with little or no co-channel 
interference from mainland stations. 531 JOQG Morioka, NHK1, usually 
at murmur or, at most, fair level was stronger than I've ever heard 
it. I enjoyed a bit of the Japanese World Series between Tokyo and 
somebody. "Home-uh Run-uh"  Just like in September, 
the Big Gun Chinese and Korean stations were in, too, but the second 
and third tier were missing.


By 1315, still 90 minutes before dawn, the band had dropped in 
average signal about to wqhere we have been experiencing it lately 
and the smaller mainlanders began to appear. There was a bit of a 
boost at dawn, but it was certainly weak compared to "normal," and 
the coastal effect kept the DX coming in until 1540, a full hour 
after dawn.  When we shut down, all of the Big Guns were still 
putting in audio, but the real DX was gone.


The more interesting loggings:

549: Mayak/ Rossii with an excellent signal and a definite echo //279 
which was booming in, itself. The 549 signal was likely 
Vladivostok+Magadan. 576, usually the far stronger Russian, was 
totally missing (and we thought off the air) until near dawn when it 
was noted in parallel.


738//1143 Taiwan Fisheries was excellent much of the time and 1143 
was really strong at dawn.


810 R.Rossii totally dominated KGO at times throughout the morning.

837 In the early going, this was JOQK, Niigata, NHK1, by itself. 
Later, presumed Harbin was on top.


999 early was a Chinese, not CNR1 or 2. Most likely Liaoning. Later, 
it was the Korean Christian station, HLCL


1026, Beijing Economic Radio was in very well and was IDing "FM xx.x, 
AM 1026!"  They did that four times in as many minutes. Is this the 
beginning of the end of AM radio in China??? IDing FM first, 
WOW!  Big change for the Chinese to even have FM simulcast, much less 
ID it first!


1116 JODR, Niigata was the big catch for me this morning. Its a 
relatively small commercial station on the Japan Sea side of Honshu. 
New station for me.


1134 had the JJ and KK on it, but it also had the rare CNR1 in 
Qinghai Province, over near Tibet.


The imponderable of the morning was on 900 at 1500. With these 
antennas, Victoria was largely missing until WELL after dawn. At 
1500, it was beginning to come up. There was another station under 
it, also playing quiet music. At 1500, the CNR time pips were heard 
and what seemed to be the fanfare/anthem and other parts of the CRN2 
TOH routing. If so, this is the OTHER station in Golmud, 
Qinghai  If I had Perseus, I could re-run that at check parallels. Oh well!


So, that is it for day one  Meeting Kevin S. face to face for the 
first time has been fun. Little did we know, but we both go to the 
same barber (our heads resemble bowling balls :>)


More tomorrow!

John Bryant
Winradio G313e + Wellbrook Arrays
Grayland, WA 


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[IRCA] mailing list archives

[Nick Hall-Patch]

On occasion, I've wanted to look something up that I was sure I'd seen posted 
on this list.   But the hard-core-dx archive site can only be searched month by 
month, and hasn't been updated for some time.  

Today, a contributor to the ultralightdx referenced an item posted on this 
list, and linked to http://www.mail-archive.com/irca@hard-core-dx.com

Good grief, an easily searchable archivewhen did this happen?   It's odd 
that it isn't mentioned in the hard-core-dx archive pages.  It's certainly very 
useful, and if someone has already mentioned this, I'm sorry I wasn't paying 
attention.

best wishes,

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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

[Ng1u]

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2009 Oct 31 1806 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 30 October follow.
Solar flux 75 and mid-latitude A-index 11.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1800 UTC on 31 October was 1 (8 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 00   00   00   00   22   22   23   23   31   31   31   31   31   31   
UTC      1800 2100  0300 1200 1500 0300 1800 0300 1800 
SFlx 000071   72   72   72   75   75   75   75   75   75   
A-in 00002817   17   11   11   11   11   11   11   
K-in 00002334000101
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Re: [IRCA] TP for 31 Oct from Victoria, BC

[D1028Gary]

Nick and Bruce,
 
When I first checked the band at 1330 (before setting up the loops in the  
back yard) things did indeed seem more promising than they turned out from  
1400-1445. On the modified ICF-2010 indoors at 1330, I had audio from both  
738-Taiwan Fisheries and 657-Pyongyang. Between 1330 and 1410 the band  
seemed to drop off badly, and the audio from both of those stations fizzled 
out. 
 There was almost no sunrise enhancement noted, and conditions around 1435  
were bad enough to call it quits.
 
73, Gary
 
 
In a message dated 10/31/2009 12:29:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bport...@comcast.net writes:

Nick  Hall-Patch wrote:
> Hmm, in spite of Nigel's and Bruce's comments, this  morning in Victoria 
was a large improvement on yesterday, thought part of the  quantity of 
loggings was due to spending more time at it.   Hope the  guys at Grayland had 
similar conditions. 
>
> One caveat, the  strongest signals were heard between 1250 and 1330UT 
(maybe peaking about  1320), and signal strengths tapered off after that point, 
with no obvious  sunrise enhancement.   In addition, after 1330, the 
decline in  signals was most noticeable in the upper band, which had shown some 
signs of  liveliness previously.   Finally, 603 kHz and below was a bit of a  
gold mine of good signals this morning, though nothing new logged.(also 
ran the SDR-14 earlier, and found Mayak chimes on 666//576 at 0959,  mystery 
chimes on 603 at 0959 and 1359, which I'm  suspecting is KBS2,  and 720 had 
CC pips at 1200UT mixing w/KDWN.
I also noticed better signals  at around 1320.  In my case, I was 
recording 30 minute segments  starting at the upper part of the band and 
working my way down.  That  may explain why 1206 was my best audio of the 
morning and 1170 was one of  the best (despite having co-channel KPUG) - 
I was recording that part of  the band when everything apparently 
peaked.  That's one of the  drawbacks of timed SDR recordings - you get 
snapshots of parts of the band  at various times.  You can't tell for 
sure if conditions were  consistently good or bad in a particular part of 
the band or if the band  in general was good or bad while you were 
there.  That would be mush  less of an issue for someone DXing in "real 
time" or recording on a  Perseus.

Bruce
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Re: [IRCA] Day ONE at Grayland

[Neil Kazaross]

This is good news about the arrays. Once again I will stress that I think 
end fire arrays of two cardioid antennas will be a major step forward for 
those with the room to use them (home users need a good sized yard) and whom 
are only interested in one general direction.


I presume that you were using Wellbrook components for both arrays?  My 
appologies to all for not yet testing the 2 KAZ (delta flag) array here. My 
bad back has returned and is becoming chronic once again. I can cope with 
the pain to lay out wires on the ground and phasing them, but getting up a 
ladder to trees for cardioid antennas is currently out of the question.


Anyhow..I am so happy to see you guys testing two loops !!! I presume that 
both these arrays are basically set and forget and give great back end nulls 
across the entire band? If so then there's all sort of interesting 
possibilities for pattern improvements..ie more narrow main beam or phasing 
something out off to the side of the main beam if you phase one array vs the 
other (although I think you'd space them further than 150 feet apart)


Hmmm Russia clobbering KGO 810.. that sounds like awesome F/B to me!  Your 
Chinese logging on 900 past Victoria indicates a rather narrow beamwidth as 
well !


Looking to read more.. 73 KAZ
- Original Message - 
From: "John H. Bryant" 

To: 
Cc: "Harold Cones" 
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 2:57 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Day ONE at Grayland



Kevin Schanilec and I were able to get both Wellbrook arrays up on
Friday afternoon: a phased array of 2 triangular K9AYs and another
massive new array of two 17' x 60' Super Loops. Both arrays were
pointed NW and were separated and staggered by about 150 feet.  It
was quite a job including a total of 6 self-supporting masts and two
large sets of radials (for the K9AYs.) After one night of testing,
the Super Array appears to be superior to the K9AY in forward gain,
and possibly having a slightly narrower front lobe and each rejects
the backside about equally (which means that the Super Loops are
actually rejecting things much better given their larger size and
increased forward gain.) There is a lot more testing to go, and a
possible decrease in the size of the Super Loops, but things are
looking REALLY promising.

We were talking over when to get up this morning and remembered that
this late in the season, things are often better an hour or two
before sunrise, with dawn enhancement being very mild. So, we started
out 1220UTC (LSR=1440) and were welcomed by almost wall to wall DX
with many signals the strongest that I have heard them this season!
It was exactly like September, all over again: the Japanese, large
and small were very much favored, with little or no co-channel
interference from mainland stations. 531 JOQG Morioka, NHK1, usually
at murmur or, at most, fair level was stronger than I've ever heard
it. I enjoyed a bit of the Japanese World Series between Tokyo and
somebody. "Home-uh Run-uh"  Just like in September,
the Big Gun Chinese and Korean stations were in, too, but the second
and third tier were missing.

By 1315, still 90 minutes before dawn, the band had dropped in
average signal about to wqhere we have been experiencing it lately
and the smaller mainlanders began to appear. There was a bit of a
boost at dawn, but it was certainly weak compared to "normal," and
the coastal effect kept the DX coming in until 1540, a full hour
after dawn.  When we shut down, all of the Big Guns were still
putting in audio, but the real DX was gone.

The more interesting loggings:

549: Mayak/ Rossii with an excellent signal and a definite echo //279
which was booming in, itself. The 549 signal was likely
Vladivostok+Magadan. 576, usually the far stronger Russian, was
totally missing (and we thought off the air) until near dawn when it
was noted in parallel.

738//1143 Taiwan Fisheries was excellent much of the time and 1143
was really strong at dawn.

810 R.Rossii totally dominated KGO at times throughout the morning.

837 In the early going, this was JOQK, Niigata, NHK1, by itself.
Later, presumed Harbin was on top.

999 early was a Chinese, not CNR1 or 2. Most likely Liaoning. Later,
it was the Korean Christian station, HLCL

1026, Beijing Economic Radio was in very well and was IDing "FM xx.x,
AM 1026!"  They did that four times in as many minutes. Is this the
beginning of the end of AM radio in China??? IDing FM first,
WOW!  Big change for the Chinese to even have FM simulcast, much less
ID it first!

1116 JODR, Niigata was the big catch for me this morning. Its a
relatively small commercial station on the Japan Sea side of Honshu.
New station for me.

1134 had the JJ and KK on it, but it also had the rare CNR1 in
Qinghai Province, over near Tibet.

The imponderable of the morning was on 900 at 1500. With these
antennas, Victoria was largely missing until WELL after dawn. At
1500, it was beginning to come up. There was another station under
it, also playing quiet

[IRCA] New logging

[amdxmail]

1290   WJCV  NC  Jacksonville - 10/30 2035-2120 EDT - Bits and pieces 
of Friday night HS football game with tantalizing mentions of Onslow 
County and Jacksonville, barely audible under tremendous signal of WCHK 
Canton, GA, also with HS FB.  Finally a spot (good old-fashioned 
grocery ad with guy rattling off a laundry list of foods and their 
prices) for Piggly Wiggly, ending with the street addresses for both 
Jacksonville locations.  Google confirmed 'em both!  NC # 200, no call 
changes.


Steve Francis (enjoying my first three-newie month since March '07)
Alcoa, Tennessee

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Re: [IRCA] New logging

[Mike Sanburn]

G00D J0B 0N  N.C.  !!! --ms
 
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@nrcdxas.org
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:37:04 -0400
> From: amdxm...@aol.com
> Subject: [IRCA] New logging
> 
> 
> 1290 WJCV NC Jacksonville - 10/30 2035-2120 EDT - Bits and pieces 
> of Friday night HS football game with tantalizing mentions of Onslow 
> County and Jacksonville, barely audible under tremendous signal of WCHK 
> Canton, GA, also with HS FB. Finally a spot (good old-fashioned 
> grocery ad with guy rattling off a laundry list of foods and their 
> prices) for Piggly Wiggly, ending with the street addresses for both 
> Jacksonville locations. Google confirmed 'em both! NC # 200, no call 
> changes.
> 
> Steve Francis (enjoying my first three-newie month since March '07)
> Alcoa, Tennessee
> 
> Sanyo stereo
> Select-a-tenna
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Re: [IRCA] New logging

[amdxmail]

Thank you, sir!  The NC that's 39 air miles away (WBHN-1590) is still 
unheard - a 5,000 foot mountain range between Bryson City and me, 500 
watts and a high dial position are the challenges.  Plus they are 
currently silent.


Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee

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Sent: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 7:54 pm
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G00D J0B 0N  N.C.  !!! --ms


To: irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@nrcdxas.org
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:37:04 -0400
From: amdxm...@aol.com
Subject: [IRCA] New logging


1290 WJCV NC Jacksonville - 10/30 2035-2120 EDT - Bits and pieces
of Friday night HS football game with tantalizing mentions of Onslow
County and Jacksonville, barely audible under tremendous signal of 

WCHK

Canton, GA, also with HS FB. Finally a spot (good old-fashioned
grocery ad with guy rattling off a laundry list of foods and their
prices) for Piggly Wiggly, ending with the street addresses for both
Jacksonville locations. Google confirmed 'em both! NC # 200, no call
changes.

Steve Francis (enjoying my first three-newie month since March '07)
Alcoa, Tennessee

Sanyo stereo
Select-a-tenna


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Re: [IRCA] New logging

[Russ Edmunds]

Those silent ones will get you every time !

;-}


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Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id

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--- On Sat, 10/31/09, amdxm...@aol.com  wrote:

> From: amdxm...@aol.com 
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] New logging
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8:09 PM
> 
> Thank you, sir!  The NC that's 39 air miles away
> (WBHN-1590) is still 
> unheard - a 5,000 foot mountain range between Bryson City
> and me, 500 
> watts and a high dial position are the challenges. 
> Plus they are 
> currently silent.
> 
> Steve Francis
> Alcoa, Tennessee
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Sanburn 
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Sent: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 7:54 pm
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] New logging
> 
> 
> G00D J0B 0N  N.C.  !!! --ms
> 
> > To: irca@hard-core-dx.com;
> a...@nrcdxas.org
> > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:37:04 -0400
> > From: amdxm...@aol.com
> > Subject: [IRCA] New logging
> >
> >
> > 1290 WJCV NC Jacksonville - 10/30 2035-2120 EDT - Bits
> and pieces
> > of Friday night HS football game with tantalizing
> mentions of Onslow
> > County and Jacksonville, barely audible under
> tremendous signal of 
> WCHK
> > Canton, GA, also with HS FB. Finally a spot (good
> old-fashioned
> > grocery ad with guy rattling off a laundry list of
> foods and their
> > prices) for Piggly Wiggly, ending with the street
> addresses for both
> > Jacksonville locations. Google confirmed 'em both! NC
> # 200, no call
> > changes.
> >
> > Steve Francis (enjoying my first three-newie month
> since March '07)
> > Alcoa, Tennessee
> >
> > Sanyo stereo
> > Select-a-tenna
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

[Ng1u]

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2009 Nov 01 0006 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 31 October follow.
Solar flux 75 and mid-latitude A-index 1.
The mid-latitude K-index at  UTC on 01 November was 1 (7 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 00   22   22   23   23   31   31   31   31   31   31   31   31   01   
UTC   1800 2100  0300 1200 1500 0300 1800 0300 1800 2100 0300  
SFlx 071   72   72   72   75   75   75   75   75   75   75   75   75   
A-in 02817   17   11   11   11   11   11   11   111   1
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[IRCA] Fw: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL

[Neil Kazaross]

Subject: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL


Good cx from here to Pac NW tonite. CKST Team 1040 at times overriding WHO 
and even on night pattern KOMO 1000 is under phased WMVP.


73 KAZ Barrington IL E-1 and Phased BOG System at 320 deg 


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Re: [IRCA] New logging

[Neil Kazaross]

How close are you to completing NC, one would think close.  73 and good 
luck.. KAZ
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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: [IRCA] New logging




1290   WJCV  NC  Jacksonville - 10/30 2035-2120 EDT - Bits and pieces
of Friday night HS football game with tantalizing mentions of Onslow
County and Jacksonville, barely audible under tremendous signal of WCHK
Canton, GA, also with HS FB.  Finally a spot (good old-fashioned
grocery ad with guy rattling off a laundry list of foods and their
prices) for Piggly Wiggly, ending with the street addresses for both
Jacksonville locations.  Google confirmed 'em both!  NC # 200, no call
changes.

Steve Francis (enjoying my first three-newie month since March '07)
Alcoa, Tennessee

Sanyo stereo
Select-a-tenna



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Re: [IRCA] Fw: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL

[texas4421]

I check the frequency, and the major thing I cam hear is an open carrier 
with WBBR under it. Willis




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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:31 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Fw: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL




Subject: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL


Good cx from here to Pac NW tonite. CKST Team 1040 at times overriding 
WHO and even on night pattern KOMO 1000 is under phased WMVP.


73 KAZ Barrington IL E-1 and Phased BOG System at 320 deg


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[IRCA] Logging a complete state

[texas4421]

A long this same topic of logging a complete state, How many have tried 
this, of logging all counties or stations with in your state?


I have 13 counties to go with Tennessee. Some I will never hear, as there is 
no radio station in them.


Willis
Old Fort, TN

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Re: [IRCA] Fw: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL

[Chris Knight]

HUGE signal here into Colorado. Some QSB.

73. Chris

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Subject: [IRCA] Fw: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL


Subject: CKWX News 1130 from BC strong in IL


> Good cx from here to Pac NW tonite. CKST Team 1040 at times overriding WHO

> and even on night pattern KOMO 1000 is under phased WMVP.
>
> 73 KAZ Barrington IL E-1 and Phased BOG System at 320 deg 

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[IRCA] KMXA-1090 on 50kW day power (again)

[Chris Knight]

My semi-local KMXA left their 50kW day power (and IBOC) on. Their format is
Spanish with banda music selections and "La Tricolor" slogans. They should
be heard coast to coast with the kind of wattage they're putting out.

 

Chris Knight - N0IJK

Fort Lupton, CO 

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Re: [IRCA] KMXA-1090 on 50kW day power (again)

[Neil Kazaross]

I do believe that those in New England with good westerly antennas may be 
able to pull this thru WBAL. Very good here tonite, but not the enormous 
level of a few nights ago.


73 KAZ Barrington IL

- Original Message - 
From: "Chris Knight" 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 


Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:58 PM
Subject: [IRCA] KMXA-1090 on 50kW day power (again)


My semi-local KMXA left their 50kW day power (and IBOC) on. Their format 
is

Spanish with banda music selections and "La Tricolor" slogans. They should
be heard coast to coast with the kind of wattage they're putting out.



Chris Knight - N0IJK

Fort Lupton, CO



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Re: [IRCA] Logging a complete state

[Neil Kazaross]

I have IA and WI completed and need just a few for IL and IN. I also need 
only 4 northern MN GYers to complete that state. So yes I do try quite hard 
to do so.  I have to take a real good look at those few I need in IL and IN 
and aim a BOG or two S or SE or even SSW and try to pick them off.  73 KAZ 
Barrington IL and noting that High School sports have contributed to me 
landing a few of these that one wouldn't think likely.


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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:51 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Logging a complete state



A long this same topic of logging a complete state, How many have tried
this, of logging all counties or stations with in your state?

I have 13 counties to go with Tennessee. Some I will never hear, as there 
is

no radio station in them.

Willis
Old Fort, TN



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[IRCA] KIML 1270 WY via SSS tonite

[Neil Kazaross]

Only my second logging of KIML 1270 tonite noted often clobbering SSer WKBF 
with WY Cowboys FB vs Utah from about 1903 to 1915 when I think they 
switched. I tried long and hard for others in that part of the band on the 
WY network but struck out. well..if you don't try you don't get.


73 KAZ Barrington IL 


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[IRCA] KMXA-1090 on 50kW day power (again)

[Marc DeLorenzo]

Nothing through WBAL here, Neil, but thanks to Chris & you for the tip. 

Marc DeLorenzo 
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass. 
http://www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?t=228 

- Original Message - 
From: "Neil Kazaross"  
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
 
Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2009 12:04:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KMXA-1090 on 50kW day power (again) 

I do believe that those in New England with good westerly antennas may be 
able to pull this thru WBAL. Very good here tonite, but not the enormous 
level of a few nights ago. 

73 KAZ Barrington IL 

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From: "Chris Knight"  
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
 
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:58 PM 
Subject: [IRCA] KMXA-1090 on 50kW day power (again) 


> My semi-local KMXA left their 50kW day power (and IBOC) on. Their format 
> is 
> Spanish with banda music selections and "La Tricolor" slogans. They should 
> be heard coast to coast with the kind of wattage they're putting out. 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Knight - N0IJK 
> 
> Fort Lupton, CO 
> 

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Re: [IRCA] Logging a complete state

[Donald K. Kaskey]

5-6 years ago when I was still quite active on AM and my noise problems 
had not reached their current horrible level, I had reduced my needed 
Californians to 12.  Considering how many stations there are in the 
state I felt pretty good about that.  However, that figure has risen 
considerably since then.  I did have all of Nevada heard but they've 
added a bunch of stations since then as well.  Back in the 50s dxing 
from NW Iowa I had all of the then broadcasting AM stations in the state 
EXCEPT KMPC in Muscatine on 860.


Don K.
S.F. CA




Neil Kazaross wrote:
I have IA and WI completed and need just a few for IL and IN. I also 
need only 4 northern MN GYers to complete that state. So yes I do try 
quite hard to do so.  I have to take a real good look at those few I 
need in IL and IN and aim a BOG or two S or SE or even SSW and try to 
pick them off.  73 KAZ Barrington IL and noting that High School 
sports have contributed to me landing a few of these that one wouldn't 
think likely.


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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:51 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Logging a complete state



A long this same topic of logging a complete state, How many have tried
this, of logging all counties or stations with in your state?

I have 13 counties to go with Tennessee. Some I will never hear, as 
there is

no radio station in them.

Willis
Old Fort, TN



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Re: [IRCA] KIML 1270 WY via SSS tonite

[Chris Knight]

There is a sort-of reverse situation here. KIML is a pest and overcomes
local KBNO-1280 splat. Although WKBF is regular, it sometimes takes a bit of
monitoring to pull them through.

73.
Chris Knight - N0IJK
Fort Lupton, CO

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Subject: [IRCA] KIML 1270 WY via SSS tonite

Only my second logging of KIML 1270 tonite noted often clobbering SSer WKBF 
with WY Cowboys FB vs Utah from about 1903 to 1915 when I think they 
switched. I tried long and hard for others in that part of the band on the 
WY network but struck out. well..if you don't try you don't get.

73 KAZ Barrington IL 


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Re: [IRCA] New logging

[amdxmail]

good

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Neil, but I'm nowhere near it.  
Still 42 I've never heard.  Only 178 of the 200 are active facilities, 
the others being 13 deletions and nine frequency changers. SOUTH 
Carolina I had down to two (Loris-1240 and North Myrtle Beach-900) at 
one time; four now since Darlington-1400 (ex-1350) and Cameron-1490 
came on in recent years.  I don't know anything about propagation, but 
suspect SC has an easier time getting here because of the absence of 
mountain blockage.


Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee





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