[IRCA] TP reception from Kauia for 30Nov2010: not bad!
Had a rather sleepless night here in Poipu, Kauai so got up to DX at 04:55 AM local to DX from the lanai using the Eton e100 modified and found that conditions were much more "traditional" than I've experienced in quite some time. I monitored between 14:59 and 16:37 UTC. Earlier on things were decidedly Asiatic with many JJ stations being present, whereas the final sunrise timeframe swung around to a good Australian opening. Loggings were primarily from the lower half of the band. I'm still waiting to hear 1566 or 1575 here. I started at the top of the band and worked south, and then back again. Here are my results: 1593: poor reception early ?CNR1 1548: 4QD Emerald : good reception right through from 15:03, 15:47 and 16:23 (very good at the latter time). 1530: poor ?who 1512: 2RN Newcastle at poor level early. 1440: JOWF Sapporo at fair level at 16:14 1404: poor reception to NW early 1377: poor/fair reception CC early 1323: poor early 1314: same 1287: poor early, but good reception with music at 15:53 to NW, so very possibly JOHR, Sapporo 1260: fair at 15:15, fair to good at 15:55 with music ?JOIR Sendai 1224: fair with music at 15:16 to NW. ?who 1179: poor, occ fair. Not able to be sure this wasn't 1180 from NAm, though. 1170: good reception from the west with Hindi music at 15:19. Yesterday, VOA was well heard here, but this transmitter is listed in PAL as being in VV at this time, but the music was not at all VV sounding. I still suspect this is the station, but who knows! 1116: 4BC Brisbane: Heard throughout the morning. This frequency should be considered as the bell weather DU station (perhaps along with 1386 Radio Tarana). When DU is open, so is this channel (noted this to be the case as well during my over night DXpedition to Rose Spit with Vlad Titarev back in September). Fair level at 15:20, very good at 15:45, and good still at 16:19 1098: This is a mystery to me. At 15:21 there was audio which varied between fair and excellent strength, and was NOT oriental. Rechecking at 15:58, there was still the same program. No Time pips at the TOH. By 16:36 UTC, there was only an OC. Me thinks that this is Radio Marshalls, even though PAL lists them signing off much earlier. If not them, who else??? 1089: Good reception at 15:23 maximally W, but no details that would enlighten me to the origin. 1035: English talk at fair strength at 16:17 ?// to 1008. probably Newstalk ZB 1008: Poor to fair at 16:17 Either 4TAB Brisbane, or Newstalk ZB 972: fair/good reception to W with pop music at 15:26 ?Korea 963: suspect DU at fair/good level at 15:27 with music. ?Southern Star, Christchurch. 954: poor/fair with music (early) 909: piano music at good level at 15:29. Difficult to know who this is. Could also be NZ Southern Star (Napier)? 891: poor. Poor/fair at 16:14 and seems DU ?4TAB 873: Fair reception at 16:13, DU ?2GB Sydney, or ?Newstalk ZB. Fair to poor at 16:32. 855: 4Q0/4QB Australia at fair level at 16:12, with sl het from N. Korea. Don't recall this one noted very often. 792: poor early, and again at 16:11. English at 16:31 at fair level. 4RN Brisbane. 783: Good to very good CC station at 15:33 with commercial programming. 774: JOUB Akita at good level with English lesson, but not the usual EE speakers that I'm used to at 15:35. //to 747, and 693 765: oriental station at good level, except for splatter. Piano at fair to good level around 16:09 to N/NW 747: JOIB Sapporo at fair level. see 774 747: 7PB or 4QS Australia. Not sure which, but at fair to good reception at 16:09 738: RFO Tahiti, finally at only fair level at 16:09 702: 2BL Sydney at good/very good level at 16:08 // 612 693: JOAB Tokyo at poor level due to splatter. See 774. 675: poor to fair at 16:07 to W, so presumed Vietnam. 666: fair to good at 15:39 to NW. ?JOBK Osaka. Poor/fair at 16:28 657: rumbly audio at 16:06 poor to fair. N. Korea. Fair at 16:27 639: CC at fair level at 15:39. At 16:26, more likely Radio Fiji at poor level. 630: CC (?CNR2) at good level at 15:40. At 16:26, this is ?4QN Townsville // to 612 at fair level. 612: Finally, 4QR Brisbane at good level at 16:08, and good/very good at 16:25. //702. Also // 630 at 16:38. 603: poor early, but fair at 16:04 594: JOAK Tokyo at good/very good level exc for splatter at 15:39 585: poor to fair 567: fiar to good to NW but with splatter at 16:04. ?JJ or KK? 558: fair level at 15:41 to NW. Fair/good at 16:04. ?HLQH 549: very good level ?Okinawa. My notes state JJ or KK (I have trouble telling the two apart, but there are no KK stations listed in PAL and just the Okinawa station listed for JJ, so perhaps them? 540: Samoa with English religious music (Christmas songs, "Happy Birthday, Jesus", etcnoted last year in November to be playing a lot of Christmas music as well at this early date), already at 15:43. Later at excellent level. 531: poor at 16:03 to NW That's it for an interesting morni
[IRCA] TP for 30 Nov from Victoria, BC.
An odd morningI didn't check before 1500UT except in the most cursory fashion as it appeared so dull, but there were a number of low level audios around 1515. The big dog in a pile of little dogs was, um, I think CNR-1 on 945 w/CC talk but no hope of a parallel as shortwave is butchered with electrical noise here these mornings (but not MW thank heavens). As Nigel points out...some TA action this evening, Dec 1, audio snippets from 1215 around 0600UT and following; best audio so far is a brief appearance of woman talking on 1323, presumed VoR at 0621UT; also snippets from 963 at 0605. And, carriers. Of course, was out all evening, hi. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): nothing here either not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker 945 seemed to be CC talk by woman; no // available, likely CNR-1 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) : 594 assumed JOAK 774 JOUB 828 JOBB 954 assumed JOKR at 1520UT 972 HLCA? 1287 JOHR? 1566 HLAZ Strongish het, no audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter): 918, 1098DU, 1332 best wishes, Nick best wishes, 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] Alberta TPs for 30 Nov 2010 (and TA evdience tonight)
Prior to 1430 I was hearing weak audio from Japan on 774 and 747, which, rather than being enhanced at sunrise (1459 UTC), gradually faded away. On the other hand, the upper part of the band, which was just about dead earlier on, had a pronounced enhancement at about 1455, with Korea on 1566, Thailand on 1575, and Japan on 1593 all suddenly hitting audio levels for several minutes. Rather oddly, Japan on 1593 was the strongest of the three. Tonight I'm hearing the most evidence of TAs in some time. Only 1215 hit audio, and only briefly at that, but at least it's more than I've seen of late. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta ___ 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] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10
John Bryant use to tell me about hearing HLAZ on his ULR in Stillwater (about 47km southeast of here). However, I think he was using his Wellbook aerial system. Good DX. Richard - Original Message - From: Nick Hall-Patch To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10 The time's right for their Japanese program, Richardwonder if any was running an SDR recording on the coast at that time where they could pluck out the audio on 1566 to see if yours matches up? best wishes, Nick ___ 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 Dec 01 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 30 November follow. Solar flux 86 and mid-latitude A-index 3. The mid-latitude K-index at UTC on 01 December was 0 (4 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 29 29 29 29 29 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 01 UTC 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 80 80 80 80 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 86 86 A-in 77773333333333 K-in 22111112021110 ___ 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] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10
The time's right for their Japanese program, Richardwonder if any was running an SDR recording on the coast at that time where they could pluck out the audio on 1566 to see if yours matches up? best wishes, Nick At 22:03 30-11-10, you wrote: Gary: Thanks. I'm only listing it as tentative. It's a conflict of I'm sure, but not sure. There was definitely a signal breaking through on 1566. But it was barely audible, fading in and out under the lower sideband of 1570 XERF (100kW). What little program content I could hear sounded like hymnal music followed by man speaking in an Asian language, maybe Japanese. I've listened to the recording several time but it doesn't change anything. 73's, Richard. - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10 Richard, Congratulations on your new logging of 1566-HLAZ, on the PL-310 with the 7.5" loopstick. That's an excellent catch for an Ultralight radio in Oklahoma, especially with the TP season almost over. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) In a message dated 11/30/2010 7:30:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, richa...@perryisp.net writes: TP signals this morning were slightly improved over the past several days. Receiver: Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch loopstick. Local sunrise at 1322 UTC. Listening at 1301-1346, carriers (hets, no audio) were heard on 702, 774, 792, 828 and 972. Barely audible audio was heard on 1566 at 1326-1329. First reception of HLAZ, Jeju KOR, here. Good DX. Richard Allen 36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W (near Perry OK USA) ___ 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 Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10
Gary: Thanks. I'm only listing it as tentative. It's a conflict of I'm sure, but not sure. There was definitely a signal breaking through on 1566. But it was barely audible, fading in and out under the lower sideband of 1570 XERF (100kW). What little program content I could hear sounded like hymnal music followed by man speaking in an Asian language, maybe Japanese. I've listened to the recording several time but it doesn't change anything. 73's, Richard. - Original Message - From: d1028g...@aol.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10 Richard, Congratulations on your new logging of 1566-HLAZ, on the PL-310 with the 7.5" loopstick. That's an excellent catch for an Ultralight radio in Oklahoma, especially with the TP season almost over. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) In a message dated 11/30/2010 7:30:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, richa...@perryisp.net writes: TP signals this morning were slightly improved over the past several days. Receiver: Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch loopstick. Local sunrise at 1322 UTC. Listening at 1301-1346, carriers (hets, no audio) were heard on 702, 774, 792, 828 and 972. Barely audible audio was heard on 1566 at 1326-1329. First reception of HLAZ, Jeju KOR, here. Good DX. Richard Allen 36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W (near Perry OK USA) ___ 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 Nov 30 2105 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 30 November follow. Solar flux 86 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 3. The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 30 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 29 29 29 29 29 29 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 UTC 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 80 80 80 80 80 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 83 86 A-in 77777333333333 K-in 12211111202111 ___ 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] Early TAs
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY 1610 EST / 2110z The usual gang of Brits are in, plus good audio from Croatia 1134, Albania 1394.85 with UNID language, listed in EMWG as Polish, and a strong het on 1457.60, also Albania and needed here. ___ 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] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10
Richard, Congratulations on your new logging of 1566-HLAZ, on the PL-310 with the 7.5" loopstick. That's an excellent catch for an Ultralight radio in Oklahoma, especially with the TP season almost over. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) In a message dated 11/30/2010 7:30:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, richa...@perryisp.net writes: TP signals this morning were slightly improved over the past several days. Receiver: Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch loopstick. Local sunrise at 1322 UTC. Listening at 1301-1346, carriers (hets, no audio) were heard on 702, 774, 792, 828 and 972. Barely audible audio was heard on 1566 at 1326-1329. First reception of HLAZ, Jeju KOR, here. Good DX. Richard Allen 36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W (near Perry OK USA) ___ 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] Oklahoma TP' 11/30/10
TP signals this morning were slightly improved over the past several days. Receiver: Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch loopstick. Local sunrise at 1322 UTC. Listening at 1301-1346, carriers (hets, no audio) were heard on 702, 774, 792, 828 and 972. Barely audible audio was heard on 1566 at 1326-1329. First reception of HLAZ, Jeju KOR, here. Good DX. Richard Allen 36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W (near Perry OK USA) ___ 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 11-30-10
Listened from 1345-1415 utc and the only audio was from JOUB-774 at 1410 utc. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 ___ 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
