[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

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:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2015 Oct 18 0005 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 17 October follow.
Solar flux 117 and estimated planetary A-index 11.
The estimated planetary K-index at  UTC on 18 October was 2.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.

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Date 16   16   16   16   16   17   17   17   17   17   17   17   17   18
UTC  0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 
SFlx 107  107  107  107  109  109  109  109  109  109  109  109  117  117
A-in 10   10   10   10   9888888812   11
K-in 31211123223242
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[IRCA] TP 17 Oct Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Another underperformer, but a few more weak audios heard, if only 
briefly and erratically.   No Chinese here today, barring CRI 
presumed on 1323, and the only ray of hope is that some of the 
stations lasted after local sunrise.




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


972 HLCA man in Korean earlier, but peaked with pop music at 
1423UT.  Still farily listenable at 1447Utr





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


594 JOAK man in Japanese peaking around 1410UT
774 JOUB man in Japanese 1345UT
1053 Korean jammer 1340UT
1323 CRI assumed with woman in Russian, weakish but clear 1413UT; 
still there weakly at 1448UT



not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or 
noise could be understood by a native speaker:


747 JOIB man in Japanese 1432UT
1287  JOHR woman in Japanese 1413UT
1566 HLAZ man in Chinese 1437UT




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)


567  JOIK man in Japanese //594 1409UT
738 Tahiti? islanish pop music 1413UT
828 JOBB man talking //774 1407UT
864 woman talking , maybe Korean 1438UT
873 man mumbling 1437UT, no hope of parallel
963 laid back female vocals, sounded more like Star than CRI at 1431UT
1017 laid back music 1431UT, complete  mystery
1143 woman talking, Chinese inflection, 1426UT
1242 pop music 1424UT
1386 NHK2 man talking //774, 1412UT
1422 man talking, Japanese inflection 1413UT, brief peak in the splash
1575 man talking, better on north Flag 1415UT



Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or 
ravaged by splatter)


558 954 1008 1035 1044 1089 1098 1179 1197 1269  1458 1503



best wishes,

Nick

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[IRCA] 17 oct tp victoria - live spot.

[R. Colin Newell]

1327 utc - pretty sad -
audio on maybe 3 frequencies...

will stick at it - but if you are in bed... stay there.

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Re: [IRCA] 17 oct tp victoria - live spot.

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Not sure it got much better.   Odd things popped around 1415UT,  up 
like CRI on 1323, and maybe Star on 963, and who knows what on 1017, 
but overall, very dull.


best wishes,

Nick


At 13:27 17-10-15, you wrote:

1327 utc - pretty sad -
audio on maybe 3 frequencies...

will stick at it - but if you are in bed... stay there.

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[IRCA] TP's for Saturday, October 17, 2015 Kalama, WA

[Dennis Vroom]

 Best regards,

Dennis  Vroom, 
Kalama, WA
JRC NRD 545 + Drake R8B
1) NW ewe
2) SW ewe
3) Long wire
4) Random wire
5) Bog NW 280'
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[IRCA] TP's for Saturday, October 17, 2015 Kalama, WA

[Dennis Vroom]

Listened from 1402-1430 UT. Usual suspects this Saturday morning.
594  JAPAN, Tokyo JOAK 1406 good signal with man in Japanese.(3) 10/17/2015
603  REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Seoul, HLSA 1409 weak signal with male speaker. (3) 
10/17/2015
693  JAPAN, Tokyo JOAB NHK2 1410 good signal with piano music. (3) 10/17/2015
738  TAHITI, Papeete, 1413 very weak signal with music. (3) 10/17/2015
774  JAPAN, Akita, JOUB NHK2 1411 good signal with Japanese talk. (3) 10/17/2015
828  JAPAN, Osaka, JOBB NHK2 1412 fair signal // JOUB 774. (3) 10/17/2015
1566 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, Jiliu, HLAZ 1413 fair signal. (3) 10/17/2015 Best 
regards,

Dennis  Vroom, 
Kalama, WA
JRC NRD 545 + Drake R8B
1) NW ewe
2) SW ewe
3) Long wire
4) Random wire
5) Bog NW 280'
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[IRCA] 17 October 2015 TP Victoria B.C. Canada

[R. Colin Newell]

Listening from 1315 until 1410 --

As all of our regulars have pointed out, Saturday morning was pretty dry
going but not without the occasional surprise.

While DXing like Clint Eastwood (one furrowed brow on the Hall-Patch Fish
Barrel radar screen and one eye on
the dial), I noted regular (but not predictable nor very often...) surges
on various sections of the band.

For example, while regulars like 774 Japan, 972 Korea, 1053 Korean Jammer
and 1566 Korea held court without
fail for the entire duration, 2nds and 3rds would appear briefly for
moments at a time - Like 1323 CRI which would
raise its Meerkat head for a minute here and there... this happened on the
following frequencies almost at random
and sort of followed the Hall-patch radar; 558, 567, 594, 603, 702, 738,
792, 864, 1008, 1017, 1035, 1044, 1287, and
1593 to name quite a few. And so gopher like was the reception that by the
time you could focus on that channel
it would duck down and dissolve into the background noise. I can only
imagine that Dr. Salmaniw was having a field day
with this in Masset, Haida Gwaii - with all of this signals easily 15db or
more above my signals.

This was not what I would fall a fun morning - they are far and few between
in this, likely a solar peak time...
but one of more clinical and technical observations.

One domestic source of amusement was a station in the Phase null of KARI
550 Blaine running a seemingly endless
analysis of the up-coming Canadian election on Monday - including an
intimate dialogue on all the candidates with
an impressive degree of depth and analysis (assuming this was an American
station that is...)

Receiver: Drake R8 mated to a Misek/Lankford Ratslaff built Phaser.
input 1: W/NW Flag with VACTROL Fine Termination controller-  input 2:
Wellbrook ALA100 N/S

Project today: Put up a N/NE Flag weather permitting.

Note on the VACTROL: I am using an adaptation of the Mark Connelly Remote
Flag/KAZ/Conti Loop termination controller
using an Opti-Isolation circuit - I have built 4 sets of them so far and
will likely build them for whomever wants a set.
They include an in-shack control box with 10-turn potentiometer (with a 14
- turn calibrated vernier knob) the output heads
out a BNC connector to the outdoor termination box. My run to the
termination of the antenna is around 100' - but you could likely
stretch the connection to 300 to 500' and maybe beyond. It is perfect for
finding that termination sweet spot that is not always 900 ohms
(the typical termination value on a FLAG/KAZ/Conti loop) -- will put a full
article on my website soon.

Good DX everyone.

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DXer.ca  -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV |
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

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:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2015 Oct 17 1805 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
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#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 October follow.
Solar flux 109 and estimated planetary A-index 8.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 17 October was 2.
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.

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Date 16   16   16   16   16   16   16   17   17   17   17   17   17   17
UTC  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800
SFlx 107  107  107  107  107  107  109  109  109  109  109  109  109  109
A-in 10   10   10   10   10   10   98888888
K-in 23312111232232
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Re: [IRCA] 17 October 2015 TP Victoria : Masset perspective

[Walter Salmaniw]

Colin was correct.  Massive signals from Asia today.   Wall to wall, with
many channels having multiple stations.  Good Filipino opening as well.
Highlight being DYRF with full ID at 14:58!  Didn't see that one on the
Grayland master list.  Other Filipinos on 990 and 999.  Fun to hear AFN in
// on both 810 and 1575, both at very strong levels.  Taiwan very potent.
 1557 with continuous music, and not RTI after 15:00.   Bubble jammer on
1467 which I think is against TWR Bishkek, but from where?  So, if there is
a DXer heaven, it must be Masset!  73,  Walt

On Saturday, October 17, 2015, R. Colin Newell 
wrote:

> Listening from 1315 until 1410 --
>
> As all of our regulars have pointed out, Saturday morning was pretty dry
> going but not without the occasional surprise.
>
> While DXing like Clint Eastwood (one furrowed brow on the Hall-Patch Fish
> Barrel radar screen and one eye on
> the dial), I noted regular (but not predictable nor very often...) surges
> on various sections of the band.
>
> For example, while regulars like 774 Japan, 972 Korea, 1053 Korean Jammer
> and 1566 Korea held court without
> fail for the entire duration, 2nds and 3rds would appear briefly for
> moments at a time - Like 1323 CRI which would
> raise its Meerkat head for a minute here and there... this happened on the
> following frequencies almost at random
> and sort of followed the Hall-patch radar; 558, 567, 594, 603, 702, 738,
> 792, 864, 1008, 1017, 1035, 1044, 1287, and
> 1593 to name quite a few. And so gopher like was the reception that by the
> time you could focus on that channel
> it would duck down and dissolve into the background noise. I can only
> imagine that Dr. Salmaniw was having a field day
> with this in Masset, Haida Gwaii - with all of this signals easily 15db or
> more above my signals.
>
> This was not what I would fall a fun morning - they are far and few between
> in this, likely a solar peak time...
> but one of more clinical and technical observations.
>
> One domestic source of amusement was a station in the Phase null of KARI
> 550 Blaine running a seemingly endless
> analysis of the up-coming Canadian election on Monday - including an
> intimate dialogue on all the candidates with
> an impressive degree of depth and analysis (assuming this was an American
> station that is...)
>
> Receiver: Drake R8 mated to a Misek/Lankford Ratslaff built Phaser.
> input 1: W/NW Flag with VACTROL Fine Termination controller-  input 2:
> Wellbrook ALA100 N/S
>
> Project today: Put up a N/NE Flag weather permitting.
>
> Note on the VACTROL: I am using an adaptation of the Mark Connelly Remote
> Flag/KAZ/Conti Loop termination controller
> using an Opti-Isolation circuit - I have built 4 sets of them so far and
> will likely build them for whomever wants a set.
> They include an in-shack control box with 10-turn potentiometer (with a 14
> - turn calibrated vernier knob) the output heads
> out a BNC connector to the outdoor termination box. My run to the
> termination of the antenna is around 100' - but you could likely
> stretch the connection to 300 to 500' and maybe beyond. It is perfect for
> finding that termination sweet spot that is not always 900 ohms
> (the typical termination value on a FLAG/KAZ/Conti loop) -- will put a full
> article on my website soon.
>
> Good DX everyone.
>
> --
>
> *Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com
>  - Coffee.bc.ca  and
> DXer.ca  -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV |
> Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada*
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Re: [IRCA] 17 oct tp victoria - live spot.

[Nick Hall-Patch]

On the other hand, some DX won't go away.  972 still quite readable 
at 1447UT, 1323 recognizable Russian at 1448UT.



best wishes,

Nick


At 13:27 17-10-15, you wrote:

1327 utc - pretty sad -
audio on maybe 3 frequencies...

will stick at it - but if you are in bed... stay there.

--

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DXer.ca  -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV |
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[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-17

[d1028gary]

Despite the lackluster reports from Victoria this morning's session did have an 
unusual offering-- the best signal from the 1035-CNR1 synchros ever received 
here (fair) around 1345. That was a pretty bizarre reception, though, seeming 
to go against the trend of a mediocre morning for everything else. 
  
Two band checks at 1300 and 1330 confirmed the dreary situation that Colin and 
Nick had described, with all the Asian signals subdued. The usual NHK big guns 
and 1566-HLAZ seemed to be struggling, and nothing else was in audio. Figuring 
that the session would turn out to be a clunker I debated whether to set up the 
FSL antenna as usual in the back yard, but after hearing an unusually strong 
carrier on 1035 (with the distinctive, warbling sound of the poorly 
synchronized CNR1 stations) I decided to do so. Around 1345 these 1035-CNR1 
synchros managed a fair peak with Chinese male speech-- their best level ever 
here in Puyallup. Despite this almost no other Asians sounded healthy at the 
time, with the NHK big guns and 1566-HLAZ still struggling, and only the 
1053-Jammer matching 1035 with fair audio. Around 1400 the Japanese on 594, 
693, 747 and 828 finally got untracked, but of these only 594 reached a good 
level (around 1405). 972-HLCA also came up to a brief good level at 1359, and a 
weak mix of HLSA and China appeared on 603. Late on in the session both 
1575-VOA and 1593-CNR1 came out of the noise to reach fair peaks before 
collapsing with the other Asians around 1415. Overall it was a bizarre session, 
without much of interest except the unusual signal from 1035-CNR1 at 1345. 
  
972  HLCA   Dangin, S. Korea   Pop music, KBS ID and 3+1 time pips at good 
level at 1400 TOH 
https://app.box.com/s/ekkl4w09uiunh7jd0bdgxlnrfby2yh61   
  
1035  CNR1 Synchros   Chinese male speech at fair level (with minor echoes) at 
1345-- its best signal ever here 
https://app.box.com/s/v5jqxk8bq2877woy60whnxtkmnnq5kjw   
  
73 and Good DX, 
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 
7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight + 
15" FSL antenna 
  
    
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