[IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA
Hello All, All the reports of TA activity in the east and midwest made me scramble for my ICF-2010 spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first TA audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band eagerly, I noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377 had ghostlike heterodynes at best, but there was a booming carrier on 738 kHz. Turning the ICF-2010 toward the Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne, convincing me that something was coming in from Europe :-) Setting up the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in the back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction (for Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal on 738 kHz! After recording a few minutes of apparent French, I checked the band again for more TA's, finding nothing. Thinking over this bizarre situation, I suddenly remembered that the French voices I heard on 738 were the same ones that were heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then it became clear that this TA was actually Tahiti fading in on its sunset peak (at the same time that Europe would fade in on its sunrise peak), using a European language at the same (reciprocal) loop bearing as Europe on the 9' loop! It's nice to hear Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second time ever), but it wasn't exactly the desired result :-) I hope that this comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to me. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) ___ 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] MW propagation for 24Sept2010 from Masset
Hello Walt, Your Rose Spit DXing adventure with Vlad sounds very inspiring, and I hope that your future Perseus DU downloads will bring some you serious compensation for the pounding wind and shaking truck! Once you and your DXpedition team get set up and reporting, we will all be eager to read of the exotic TA and TP loggings from both Masset and Rose Spit. Guy mentioned that he was flying out on Friday, so he should be up in the area by now-- I'm glad that least one Puyallup DXer can have the chance to chase TA's and TP's from a prime location :-) During the summer DU-chasing trips to Oregon I had great signals from 1017-Tonga and 738-Tahiti, but despite dreams of Kiribati, only 2RN showed up on 846. I thought that it was just another Aussie big gun, but Nick and Guy told me otherwise. 1098 was always an open carrier during my sunrise beach sessions, so I never heard the modulation. I'm happy that you had such great results from Australia-- with some DU mysteries left over from the summer, I'll be eager to read your results. Have fun! 73, Gary In a message dated 9/24/2010 2:38:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, salma...@shaw.ca writes: Interesting times up here in Haida Gwaii, Gary. A huge windstorm with well over 100 kph winds greeted us last night. Vlad and I drove out to Rose Spit on the north east tip of Haida Gwaii, 24 km from the nearest power lines and DX'd from 03:15 UTC to about 15:30 UTC. The truck continually shook as we monitored. Rather eerie! The purpose was to compare results with the cottage. Results suggested poorer TA conditions at the Spit, but this may be due to inferior antennae there vs at home. We put out 3 Beverages (BOGs) aimed to Europe, Asia, and New Zealand/Australia. No terminations, so they suffered from a lot of domestic splatter compared to the ALA 100, QDFA and Wellbrook Array that I have at the cottage. The BOGs were about 275 meters in length. Europe was the poorest of the 3 previous nights with a few stations appearing hear and there, briefly. We then switched over to the Pacific, hearing a huge signal, but low modulation on Radio Marshalls on 1098. Tonga was there a bit on 1017, while Tahiti on 738 was very anemic. Kiribati was pretty good on 846. What really shone was the large number of Australians present, which mostly were absent from the home QTH. We'll have plenty of Perseus files to share (the DC only arrangement worked perfectly with a 12v battery in series with a 6 v to power the computer, and a 6v to 5v converter to power the Perseus itself. Worked flawlessly. The Asians were very strong as well right up to 15:30 when I took in the 3 BOGs, barely able to make headway into the wind and rain (fairly warm though at 10 deg C). The take totalled 134 GB for the nightmuch to play with in the upcoming months. Best to everyone! ...Walt - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com Date: Friday, September 24, 2010 20:40 Subject: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-24 To: ultraligh...@yahoogroups.com, irca@hard-core-dx.com Hello All, It was an excellent low-band morning here for Asiatic TP's, with a few stations like 657-Pyongyang and 738-Taiwan having their best signals of the season so far. 729-China (presumed Jiangxi, according to a tip from Chuck last year) made a rare appearance with good signals very close to CHMJ-730 (a daytimer here), and 666-Radio Mayak was back holding down the frequency over a weak JOBK. That was the general trend this morning here, with all the low-band Asians except the Japanese getting a significant signal boost. 738-BEL2 in Taiwan is now having very serious transmitter issues, with the worst buzzing hum ever heard from a TP (including the North Koreans). What was previously a ragged carrier now sounds like an overmodulated North Korean with a built-in Korean Jammer , as in this recording at 1338 this morning: _http://www.mediafire.com/?8j32pn1ig689894_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?8j32pn1ig689894) . The thumping hum extends to 737 kHz when the signal is strong, as in this 1339 recording: _http://www.mediafire.com/?y2lga5wsqbtjczb_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?y2lga5wsqbtjczb) . This station was having similar transmitter issues this time a year ago, but appeared to have corrected them last October. 729-China was only heard once here previously (last October) and this morning it was all alone on the frequency, with no sign of JOCK or the NK station. It was another indication that the new season is full of surprises, and a good sign that October may be equally exciting. Congratulations again to Stephen (in the Ultralightdx group) for receiving his first TP's (774-JOUB and 657-Pyongyang)) on his PL-380 and SAT, near San Diego. The following
[IRCA] VOA Sao Tome last night
While some friends are enjoying the exotic DX possible in Masset I'm stuck here at home in Alexandria, VA. Last night saw pretty decent TA reception so I left the Perseus recording across the 0300 utc TOH and caught my first logging of VOA Sao Tome on 1530kHz with Yankee Doodle under WCKY! http://realmonitor.com/stations/stp-1530.wav Kind of special for me as I visited the site on Sao Tome while we were still negotiating for a relay station there. It's one of the last IBB MW outlets I hadn't heard from somewhere far away -- most from here in suburban DC ... except for 1575 Thailand which I had to go to Grayland to hear. Watching 'ghost traces' flow down [or up] the Perseus screen on 1548, 1566 and 1611kHz this morning before sunrise in the hope - perhaps in vain - of some audio! It's the 'hope' that keeps you going in this hobby. Bill Whitacre b...@his.com Alexandria, VA Perseus 4 element Wellbrook 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
Re: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA
Did have a very slight het, very briefly, on my south-north wire here at Burnt River, but nowhere close to audio on 738. I was actually hoping for Japan, but no other hets whatsoever. Saul suggestinmg possibly - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com To: ultraligh...@yahoogroups.com; irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:08 AM Subject: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA Hello All, All the reports of TA activity in the east and midwest made me scramble for my ICF-2010 spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first TA audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band eagerly, I noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377 had ghostlike heterodynes at best, but there was a booming carrier on 738 kHz. Turning the ICF-2010 toward the Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne, convincing me that something was coming in from Europe :-) Setting up the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in the back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction (for Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal on 738 kHz! After recording a few minutes of apparent French, I checked the band again for more TA's, finding nothing. Thinking over this bizarre situation, I suddenly remembered that the French voices I heard on 738 were the same ones that were heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then it became clear that this TA was actually Tahiti fading in on its sunset peak (at the same time that Europe would fade in on its sunrise peak), using a European language at the same (reciprocal) loop bearing as Europe on the 9' loop! It's nice to hear Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second time ever), but it wasn't exactly the desired result :-) I hope that this comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to me. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) ___ 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] TA hets in MN
Todd: Try Craig at Kiwa; he may still be doing these. k...@wolfenet.com Regards, Mark Durenberger -- From: todftscytj7...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:24 AM To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Cc: irca@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [IRCA] TA hets in MN Hi all. Time is 0445-0510 UTC using barefoot Sony ICF 2010. Strong hets on 612, 855, 1134, 1206, 1296, 1413, 1512. Weak hets on 666, 675, 783, 945, 1107, 1305, 1377. 2 hets pos on 1566. Car radio hrd het on 550 0330. If anyone knows where to get the filter to modify the 2010 I am interested in purchasing it along with any ant that fit the 2010. 73 Todd in Woodbury MN ___ 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
[IRCA] NE Oregon TPs, Saturday
A late check today. Audio: 567 pop music, unknown, very poor 1343 utc; 594 poor Asian talk with very poor music underneath; 828 very poor/poor Asian; 891 poor/weak Asian with very poor DU EE music underneath 1347; 1566 occasional poor HLAZ; 1701 very poor music 1350. LWBC poor today, Radio Rossii 153, 180, 189, 234, 279 in heavy static 1210 utc. 73, Steve NE Oregon R75, longwires ___ 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: 2010 Sep 25 1806 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 24 September follow. Solar flux 83 and mid-latitude A-index 13. The mid-latitude K-index at 1800 UTC on 25 September 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 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 UTC 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 SFlx 84 84 84 84 84 84 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 A-in 55555512 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 K-in 23333323233221 ___ 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] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-25
Hello All, Asiatic TP conditions were average at best this morning here, but as usual there were a couple of bright exceptions. The Russian-slanted propagation of the past two days was gone-- the Japanese NHK regulars were holding down their frequencies, but the other Asian big guns generally didn't meet expectations, and audio from the Asian best bets on 639, 648, 657, 675 and 738 was down compared to yesterday. 666-JOBK was back at a good level without a trace of Radio Mayak, and relatively rare 729-JOCK was all alone next to 730-CHMJ. Probably the most unusual event was another full-strength TP fade-in when the band had already been written off for dead at 1358, this time from 972-HLCA and a strong UnID Chinese co-channel. This was the strongest that the 972-UnID Chinese station had ever been heard here, a strange event for a TP morning that had seemed very average. Unfortunately, it didn't stick around long enough to provide any identity clues. The TP-DXing session had started off in a bizarre way at 0500 UTC (10 PM local time last night), when vibrant TA alerts from the East Coast and Midwest motivated me to set up the 9' loop in the back yard, in an optimistic attempt to chase some of them (six TA's were received here last season). Nothing much was noted except for a strong heterodyne on 738 kHz, which both the ICF-2010 and 9' loop seemed to be showing as coming from the NE (European) direction. Some French audio was quickly recorded on the 738 frequency, which strangely was the only TA coming in at the time. Puzzling over this and playing back the MP3, I noticed that the male and female French voices sounded suspiciously like the RFO announcers heard on 738-Radio Tahiti during summer DU chasing trips-- then I finally understood that this was no TA at all, but really 738-Radio Tahiti, coming in during its sunset skip period! The ICF-2010 and 9' loop's NE bearing to Europe was at exactly the same position as the reciprocal SW bearing to Tahiti, and Tahiti's sunset peak was happening at the same time as Europe's sunrise peak. It didn't seem so funny at the time, but now it seems totally ludicrous. The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5 loopstick) inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the back yard): 558 JOCR Kobe, Japan Barely above noise level with Japanese music, 1321 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Conversational program at fair-good level, 1323 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Pop music at fair-poor strength; no CC QRM 639 CNR1 (China) In and out of audio with poor signals at best, 1315-1345 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Fair Chinese external program with Russian pop music and Chinese talk at 1319; weaker than previous two days 657 R. Pyongyang, N. Korea Not much strength to the Korean tirades today 666 JOBK Osaka, Japan All alone (no Radio Mayak) with fair to good strength Japanese music at 1352 _http://www.mediafire.com/?lds53qnz7lqr863_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?lds53qnz7lqr863) 675 VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Occasional Vietnamese speech at poor level, 1328 729 JOCK Nagoya, Japan Weak signal holding down this splattered frequency 738 Radio Tahiti (RFO) Mahina, Tahiti Fading in at 0502 during search for TA's; French YL fair above 740 slop _http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9) 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Weaker Chinese pop music signals this morning, but apparent improvement in correcting the strongly buzzing carrier 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Best of the Japanese w/ good speech in KXL slop 1333 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Weak-fair with deep fades from 1315-1345, no CC 972 TP-Mix Bizarre, very strong fade-in of HLCA (Dangjin, S. Korea) and an UnID Chinese after the band was apparently dead at 1358; both of them were long gone within 2 minutes _http://www.mediafire.com/?gspkt0ikftp4guh_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?gspkt0ikftp4guh) 1053 Korean Jammer Nice vibrant humming (with no CC Restaurant Music co-channel this morning) at 1355 _http://www.mediafire.com/?bn396jfh30d8log_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?bn396jfh30d8log) 1134 TP-Mix JOQR and KBS drowning each other out very successfully at 1337 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Fair-poor with Japanese religious program, 1315 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Very poor with occasional bits of audio, 1314 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock ___ 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: 2010 Sep 25 2106 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 September follow. Solar flux 83 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 7. The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 25 September was 1 (6 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 24 24 24 24 24 24 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 UTC 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 84 84 84 84 84 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 A-in 5555512 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 7 K-in 33333232332211 ___ 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] KTRB 860 silent period
KTRB 860 San Francisco is signing off every night at Midnight PDT and returning at 5 AM. In their absence I am hearing XEMO on the SW Ewe, and KPAM and CFPR on the NW Ewe. Albert Lehr Livermore, CA ___ 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] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA
Hi Saul, You probably had a real TP heterodyne on 738 at the same time I had the fake TA audio on the frequency :-) French audio from 738-Tahiti had never been received here previously during our local evening, and was only received once here during our sunrise TP peak (in August of last year). This station (like all trans-equatorial DX) is SO much easier to receive on a Pacific Ocean beach, rather than in this DU-dead zone 90 miles inland. 73, Gary (in Puyallup, WA) French audio from 738-Tahiti last night around 0502 here: _http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9) In a message dated 9/25/2010 4:50:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sau...@sympatico.ca writes: Did have a very slight het, very briefly, on my south-north wire here at Burnt River, but nowhere close to audio on 738. I was actually hoping for Japan, but no other hets whatsoever. Saul suggestinmg possibly - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com To: ultraligh...@yahoogroups.com; irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:08 AM Subject: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA Hello All, All the reports of TA activity in the east and midwest made me scramble for my ICF-2010 spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first TA audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band eagerly, I noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377 had ghostlike heterodynes at best, but there was a booming carrier on 738 kHz. Turning the ICF-2010 toward the Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne, convincing me that something was coming in from Europe :-) Setting up the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in the back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction (for Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal on 738 kHz! After recording a few minutes of apparent French, I checked the band again for more TA's, finding nothing. Thinking over this bizarre situation, I suddenly remembered that the French voices I heard on 738 were the same ones that were heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then it became clear that this TA was actually Tahiti fading in on its sunset peak (at the same time that Europe would fade in on its sunrise peak), using a European language at the same (reciprocal) loop bearing as Europe on the 9' loop! It's nice to hear Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second time ever), but it wasn't exactly the desired result :-) I hope that this comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to me. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) ___ 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 ___ 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: 2010 Sep 26 0006 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 September follow. Solar flux 83 and mid-latitude A-index 7. The mid-latitude K-index at UTC on 26 September was 1 (6 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 24 24 24 24 24 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 26 UTC 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 84 84 84 84 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 A-in 555512 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 77 K-in 33332323322111 ___ 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] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA
Tnanks. It was not long in duration, and very weak during a het bandscan conducted soon after sunrise. I only wish I could tell you I received it on the loopstick-modified Tecsun 380, but in fact it was on the AOR 7030 Plus, and south-north wire. TA hets noticeably weaker tonight, but then again last night's peak here was after midnight local time. Overall cx seem ho-hum... Saul / Burnt River ON - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA Hi Saul, You probably had a real TP heterodyne on 738 at the same time I had the fake TA audio on the frequency :-) French audio from 738-Tahiti had never been received here previously during our local evening, and was only received once here during our sunrise TP peak (in August of last year). This station (like all trans-equatorial DX) is SO much easier to receive on a Pacific Ocean beach, rather than in this DU-dead zone 90 miles inland. 73, Gary (in Puyallup, WA) French audio from 738-Tahiti last night around 0502 here: _http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9) In a message dated 9/25/2010 4:50:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sau...@sympatico.ca writes: Did have a very slight het, very briefly, on my south-north wire here at Burnt River, but nowhere close to audio on 738. I was actually hoping for Japan, but no other hets whatsoever. Saul suggestinmg possibly - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com To: ultraligh...@yahoogroups.com; irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:08 AM Subject: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake TA Hello All, All the reports of TA activity in the east and midwest made me scramble for my ICF-2010 spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first TA audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band eagerly, I noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377 had ghostlike heterodynes at best, but there was a booming carrier on 738 kHz. Turning the ICF-2010 toward the Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne, convincing me that something was coming in from Europe :-) Setting up the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in the back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction (for Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal on 738 kHz! After recording a few minutes of apparent French, I checked the band again for more TA's, finding nothing. Thinking over this bizarre situation, I suddenly remembered that the French voices I heard on 738 were the same ones that were heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then it became clear that this TA was actually Tahiti fading in on its sunset peak (at the same time that Europe would fade in on its sunrise peak), using a European language at the same (reciprocal) loop bearing as Europe on the 9' loop! It's nice to hear Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second time ever), but it wasn't exactly the desired result :-) I hope that this comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to me. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] MW website down
On Friday 24 September 2010 09:42:31 Marc DeLorenzo wrote: It is probably down because its owner, Barry in Ottawa, is working on it. I wish! Not much time lately to update the site, but maybe when the weather turns colder... It wasn't actually down, but it was unreachable because my ISP decided to change its IP address while I was out of town, and the DNS settings didn't get updated until I returned. Barry -- Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, 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] Tonight's TAs
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY SEPT 25 Not much going on earlier, but I have some TA action around 11 PM EDT. By the way none of this is audible on my other wires, only on the new flag antenna. 693UKweak 756Germanyhuge! I usually have some sort of birdie here, but the DLF signal is very strong. 837UNIDweak 855Spain RNEfair 864UNIDweak 909UK BBC fair 1089UK Talksportfair 1107Spain RNE5 // web audio (dead on 1107, no sign of the high side het) 1125UNIDweak 1143UNIDpossibly Spain COPE, still trying to dredge more from this 1215UKAbsolute 1269GermanyDLF // 756 1332UNIDvery weak ___ 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] Tonight's TAs
Tnx for tip, Jim. Germany-756 in well 0327 UTC with folk music //6190 kHz; now at 0328 with man in German. BBC Five Live-693 fair 0320 UTC. ZIZ-555 loud 0300 UTC with soca music lively DJ. Marc DeLorenzo South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts http://www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?t=228 -Original Message- From: Jim Renfrew jrenf...@rochester.rr.com To: a...@nrcdxas.org; a...@wtfda.info; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 11:11 pm Subject: [IRCA] Tonight's TAs Jim Renfrew, Holley NY SEPT 25 Not much going on earlier, but I have some TA action around 11 PM EDT. By the way none of this is audible on my other wires, only on the new flag antenna. 693 UK weak 756 Germany huge! I usually have some sort of birdie here, but the DLF signal is very strong. 837 UNID weak 855 Spain RNE fair 864 UNID weak 909 UK BBC fair 1089 UK Talksport fair 1107 Spain RNE5 // web audio (dead on 1107, no sign of the high side het) 1125 UNID weak 1143 UNID possibly Spain COPE, still trying to dredge more from this 1215 UK Absolute 1269 Germany DLF // 756 1332 UNID very weak ___ 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] KTRB 860 silent period
I know that the transmitter site is generator powered buy generator. The first two ran off of propane now this one is diesel. They may be trying to conserve fuel. Thank you. Derek Vincent Vmedia360...everywhere On Sep 25, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Albert Lehr ael...@comcast.net wrote: KTRB 860 San Francisco is signing off every night at Midnight PDT and returning at 5 AM. In their absence I am hearing XEMO on the SW Ewe, and KPAM and CFPR on the NW Ewe. Albert Lehr Livermore, CA ___ 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
[IRCA] More TAs
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY 2324 EDT 585Spain 594Portugal 729Spain (tentative in slop) 936 het/weak audio 945France EDT 684Spain 1125Spain - seems to be RNE5 - hard to match with web audio - just two guys talking. Hopefully something more ditinctive at the top of the hour. ___ 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] MN 0510 UTC music on 549 kHz
Just a couple s-units weaker than 550, but still can't describe the music. I tuned up to 550 heard something like are you struggling with your distant AM reception? Rather amusing to get a C Crane ad just then. Eton E-1 2.3 kHz LSB with sync off, 8 Quantum loop. 73, George S., MN ___ 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] MN 0037 UTC audio on 999 kHz!
Can't quite make out the language for sure, but a man is speaking. 73, George S., MN ___ 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
