[IRCA] Insomniac DX - 09 May 2013
1370 WCOA FL Pensacola - Heard at 0224 EDT (0624 UTC) with ... right here on News/Talk 1370 WCOA 100.7 FM ... ID, then back into Red Eye Radio network feed. Lots of thunderstorm QRN on band, so signals were only fair. Checked against website - http://www.wcoapensacola.com Heard with my Sangean DT-400W. 73 Good DX, Steve Ponder, N5WBI Houston, TX ___ 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] Poor BOG reception
This sounds weird for a spot as remote as your's was. Hopefully what should be a great and quiet DX spot isn't ruined. 73 and good luck .. KAZ -Original Message- From: Mark Durenberger Mobile ma...@durenberger.com Sent: May 8, 2013 9:18 PM To: neilkaz neil...@earthlink.net, DX-IRCA irca@hard-core-dx.com, DX @NRC a...@nrcdxas.org Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception It wasn't the transient kind of noise one expects from nature but rather a broad and steady high noise floor. There are a good number of gas processing plants and even some fracking going on up there but nothing nearby. Kaz you have an SDR so you'll appreciate the noise floor was in the 70's at 6 khz bandwidth! Today was: tie onto abandoned fence lines that use wooden posts day. Results were underwhelming but not surprising. ...now for an abandoned telephone line somewhere with a strand or two of wire dangling within reach :-)) Mark Durenberger On the Road -Original Message- From: neilkaz Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:19 PM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America ; DX-IRCA ; DX @NRC Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception What kind of noise was it? Perhaps your BOG was aimed into a big T storm cell a few hundred miles away, although I don't recall any. It's always a good idea to check on the car rx or to have a portable along to see if they have the same issues with noise as your DXped antenna. With my western antennas here in IL, if there are major T-storms in NE,KS or the Dakotas my noise level will start increasing soon after sunset and can get to the point that it is unpleasant to DX. 73 KAZ -Original Message- From: Mark Durenberger Mobile ma...@durenberger.com Sent: May 8, 2013 9:13 AM To: DX-IRCA irca@hard-core-dx.com, DX @NRC a...@nrcdxas.org Subject: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception Upon arrival in the Pawnee National Grasslands (NE Colorado) Monday, we laid out 1100 feet of BOG; mostly East-West, on dry ground. The wire did its predicted job of squelching stuff from the sides (for example: flamethrower KOA was down in the mud to the point you could hear a co-channel beat). But there was an abnormally high amount of broadband noise across the MW Band...so the job wasn't a success. Wonder if anyone else had unusual noise problems Monday night...or if it was caused by the many gas-well/fracking operations going on nearby. Mark Durenberger On the Road ___ 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] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, May 3-9, 2013
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only. Or FRG-7, Sony SRF-59 when specified. These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes, utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html ** MEXICO. 650, May 8 at 1135 UT, birthday greetings including to someone in Angostura, 1137 ``Buenos Días, Yarderos`` program ID, i.e. the reliable XETNT, Radio 65, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, the lowband XE most likely to hold up past sunrise which was 1131 UT today; also had one on 710, but not 730. Our earliest Enid sunrise in a month will reach 1114; while our latest sunset in two months will reach 0152 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 990, May 7 at 0604 UT, choral NA from SW or so, and anyway this midnite is an hour too late to be XET in the UT-5 zone. Likely XEER, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, in UT-6, tho there is another beyond it, XEHZ in La Paz BCS, way down there where they also set their clox the same in the summer as we do in the winter; XET soon resurged with music from south vs CBW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ___ 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] Domestic MW DX to Enid OK, May 3-9, 2013
All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; or Sony SRF-59 as specified; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 as specified These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes, utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html These logs are in four sexions, Canada [if any], Oklahoma, rest of USA, unidentified, separated by === Within each, they are in frequency order ** OKLAHOMA. 930, May 5 at 1212 UT, WKY`s Sunday-only token English pubaffs show, `Sunday Morning Magazine` is back with discussion of taxes, need for CPAs, unlike last week when filled by Spanish ads earlier than this. By 1224 however, it`s back to that indominantable (indominable?) Mexican music (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, May 4 at 2102 UT on caradio, KEOR Catoosa is on again with what else but PMS - praise music in Spanish. Continues to be quite sporadic, unpredictably off or on. 1120, May 6 at 1919 UT and rechecked about an hour later, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is on the air again with nothing but praise music in Spanish. It`s beyond me how anyone could or would want to listen to this stuff hour after hour; requires a certain kind of insanity, and I bet no one at the station is listening to it either, as long as the automation is in charge. This daytimer again definitely on at night, and not too embarrassed to proudly ID: May 7 at 0557 UT, PMS and 0559, ``La mejor música cristiana en KEOR, Radio Victoria, 1120 AM, Tulsa``. In KMOX almost- null, making SAH of 3.5 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1668, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1120, May 8 at 0519 UT, KMOX has frequency to itself, no KEOR cheater audible unlike last night. 1120, May 9 trying to determine the schedule, if any, of KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa: still not on the air at 1352 past 1400, but next check at 1427 UT, now on with PMS = praise music in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) == ** U S A. 690, May 2 at 0458 UT, KGGF Coffeyville KS` outro to Jim Bohannon show, but cut to its sign-off announcement, 0458:50 taps start for a minute+, then open carrier/dead air facilitating audibility of KTSM El Paso. 690, UT Friday May 3 at 0459 UT, another check of what KGGF Coffeyville KS is doing: instead of immediate sign-off after Jim Bohannon, runs an ad for a business in Coffeyville-Independence, Utopia(?), and references own website http://www.radioresultsgroup.com plus an Ad Council PSA before sign-off ``until tomorrow``, taps starting at 0500:32 for another minute+ before stopping modulation, but not carrier. Searching directly for a KGGF website, I never found the above, but from it we do find some KGGF stuff among other stations in group, http://www.radioresultsgroup.com/id24.html but still no program schedule. 690, May 4 at 0500:15 UT, taps from KGGF KS ending while the carrier stays on making slow SAH with Fox `news` from KTSM TX. Before 0500, KGGF had a better signal than usual with JimBo, making me wonder if it were on 10 kW day power/pattern. 690, UT Sunday May 5 at 0500, sign-off announcement, 0500.5 UT, taps start from KGGF Coffeyville KS, to be followed by open carrier all night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 850, May 3 at 0144 UT, instrumental hymns, Rock of Ages, Blessèd Assurance, etc., dominant signal, certainly not KOA yet; 0150 fading but tentative ID as KFUO, which I was suspecting, LCMS mouthpiece in Clayton (St Louis) MO. FCC AM Query indeed shows this 5 kW daytimer may now funxion until 0100 UT in May, 0130 in June July, and there is nothing about a PSSA or PSRA in its FCC correspondence folder, but it might be interesting to explore its history cards converted to pdf which start in 1925 or 1927y. Oops, according to FCC Sunset info, and no PSSA, KFUO should have been off the air before I heard this, 0144-0150 UT being correct. Their program schedule at http://www.kfuoam.org/programs/ shows just ``sacred music`` in the evenings, and these different ``Sign-Off Times JAN 6:00 PM FEB 6:00 PM MAR 7:00 PM APR 8:00 PM MAY 9:00 PM JUN 9:00 PM JUL 9:00 PM AUG 9:00 PM SEP 8:00 PM OCT 7:00 PM NOV 5:30 PM DEC 5:30 PM`` I.e. CDT = 0200 UT in May thru August, which doesn`t make sense in the usual pattern, so maybe they do have a PSSA, or influenced by Denver sunset? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KFUO stays on til sunset at KOA Denver which is 0200 UT in May. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ABDX via DXLD) But Denver sunset can`t stay at 0200 for four months in a row, so there must be some other calculation (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) It could
[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2013 May 09 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 May follow. Solar flux 127 and estimated planetary A-index 7. The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 09 May was 1. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 UTC 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 SFlx 129 129 129 129 129 129 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 A-in 10 10 10 10 10 10 77777777 K-in 32211212222211 Current Solar information available at http://www.am-dx.com/wwv.htm ___ 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: 2013 May 10 0010 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 May follow. Solar flux 128 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The estimated planetary K-index at UTC on 10 May was 1. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date 08 08 08 08 08 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 10 UTC 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 129 129 129 129 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 128 128 A-in 10 10 10 10 7777777755 K-in 21121222221111 Current Solar information available at http://www.am-dx.com/wwv.htm ___ 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
