Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan t o night!

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch 
It seems to be a British Columbia thing Chuck (I 
know, the nerve...the Columbia River hasn't been 
British for many generations) .   Before I 
started to be annoying, I'd never really realized 
that we often  refer to the coasts here as 
"north" and "south".  It's as if the rest of 
North and South America don't exist.  "west" is 
reserved for outer Vancouver Island.


And of course, Masset is on the north coast of 
Haida Gwaii.   Hence its charm for DXing.   West 
just doesn't seem to enter into it, I'm sorry.


I'll go quietly now, officer.

Nick



 At 05:28 27-01-16, you wrote:

Oops... Make that "can be called any other than the west coast".

Chuck


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behalf of Chuck Hutton 

Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West  Michigan to night!

Are you saying Walt's cabin is not on the west coast

When writing to the IRCA list, I don't see how 
it can't be called the west coast.


Chuck


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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West  Michigan to night!

Ah, but Haida Gwaii is off what is known as the
"north" coast in these parts Chuck.   It
apparently makes a difference to the type of DX
that is heard, to be north rather than west.

And congratulations Tim.

73,

Nick



At 04:17 27-01-16, you wrote:
>Walt -
>
>How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>From: IRCA  on
>behalf of Walter Salmaniw 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!
>
>Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
>coast...73,  Walt
>
>On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp  wrote:
>
> > After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> > I've actually been hearing them sign on at 
0300 UTC for the last few nights

> > with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> > just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> > I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> > himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> > the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> > parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This 
knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> > than I could achieve by using my remote 
null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched

> > to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> > pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
> >
> > Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight 
on a domestic channel was pure DX

> > adrenaline!
> >
> > 73,
> > Tim Tromp
> > West Michigan
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[IRCA] TP 26 Jan Victoria version

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch 
I'm sure I missed a number of things, with the erratic fading and 
all, but easily the most interesting morning in a couple of months. 
All Asian, big guns mostly on the low band  from 1300 to 1515UT, then 
the high band starting popping in and out.   HLAZ didn't completely 
throw in the towel until 90 minutes after local sunrise.



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


594 JOAK two women in Japanese 1446UT, was in quite well as late as 1548UT
774 JOUB English lessons 1517-24UT Japanese child repeating English 
sentences read by an adult

828 JOBB woman in Japanese 1453UT,  in and out until 1540UT s/off
1566 HLAZ choral music 1329UT, woman in Japanese; the Chinese and 
Korean programs didn't quite reach this level, but still pretty good






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


972 HLCA  two woman in Korean 1353UT; man in Korean 1506UT
1557 Taiwan likely, various peaks from 1530UT, the last one about 
1540UT with female jazz vocal
1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese 1539UT; even more interesting was choral 
music 1659UT, 3 and one pips, and man in Korean at 1701UT




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


1422 woman in Chinese 1542UT



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)


693 JOAB end of Chinese lessons //774 1359UT, pips on hour, last one 
cleared the CBU-690splash quite strongly
846 NHK1 synchros, man and woman talking 1441UT //594 which was very 
weak at this time, but improved greatly as 846 faded

873 JOGB Chinese lessons // 774 1355UT
891 JOHK man talking //594 1522UT
954 maybe JOKR; man talking 1508UT and also 1526-7UT, Japanese inflection
1053 Korean jammer 1328UT
1134 man talking, Japanese inflection 1404UT
1143 soft music 1528UT
1323 woman talking 1540UT, Russian inflection? if so, CRI
1395 the mystery of the morning...quite a small echoey carrier 
(though hard to tell in 1380 IBOC), so maybe overmodulated, sounded 
like a swing vocal 1534UT, best on north Flag, slow talk by woman 
1536-40UT, maybe Chinese??

1575 woman talking 1525UT
1593 man mumbling 1529UT, maybe low and high pip at 1530UT, if so,  CNR1


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


918 1098 1161  1179 1314 1359  1494 1503





best wishes,

Nick

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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan to night!

2016-01-26 Thread Chuck Hutton 
Oops... Make that "can be called any other than the west coast".

Chuck


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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West  Michigan to night!

Are you saying Walt's cabin is not on the west coast

When writing to the IRCA list, I don't see how it can't be called the west 
coast.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of Nick Hall-Patch 

Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West  Michigan to night!

Ah, but Haida Gwaii is off what is known as the
"north" coast in these parts Chuck.   It
apparently makes a difference to the type of DX
that is heard, to be north rather than west.

And congratulations Tim.

73,

Nick



At 04:17 27-01-16, you wrote:
>Walt -
>
>How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>From: IRCA  on
>behalf of Walter Salmaniw 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!
>
>Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
>coast...73,  Walt
>
>On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp  wrote:
>
> > After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> > I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> > with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> > just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> > I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> > himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> > the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> > parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> > than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
> > to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> > pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
> >
> > Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> > adrenaline!
> >
> > 73,
> > Tim Tromp
> > West Michigan
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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan to night!

2016-01-26 Thread Chuck Hutton 
Are you saying Walt's cabin is not on the west coast

When writing to the IRCA list, I don't see how it can't be called the west 
coast.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of Nick Hall-Patch 

Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:16 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West  Michigan to night!

Ah, but Haida Gwaii is off what is known as the
"north" coast in these parts Chuck.   It
apparently makes a difference to the type of DX
that is heard, to be north rather than west.

And congratulations Tim.

73,

Nick



At 04:17 27-01-16, you wrote:
>Walt -
>
>How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>From: IRCA  on
>behalf of Walter Salmaniw 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!
>
>Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
>coast...73,  Walt
>
>On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp  wrote:
>
> > After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> > I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> > with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> > just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> > I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> > himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> > the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> > parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> > than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
> > to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> > pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
> >
> > Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> > adrenaline!
> >
> > 73,
> > Tim Tromp
> > West Michigan
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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan to night!

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch 
Ah, but Haida Gwaii is off what is known as the 
"north" coast in these parts Chuck.   It 
apparently makes a difference to the type of DX 
that is heard, to be north rather than west.


And congratulations Tim.

73,

Nick



At 04:17 27-01-16, you wrote:

Walt -

How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
coast...73,  Walt

On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp  wrote:

> After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
> to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
>
> Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> adrenaline!
>
> 73,
> Tim Tromp
> West Michigan
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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread James Renfrew 
I got Sao Tome here on a beautiful night March 29, 2005 when Cincinnati was
off the air for some reason.  I got Vatican Radio and VOA Sao Tome, both
QSLed, too.  There was also a Spanish station, but I couldn't ID that one.
Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Tim Tromp  wrote:

> After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
> to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
>
> Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> adrenaline!
>
> 73,
> Tim Tromp
> West Michigan
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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw 
Oops!  I guess I was thinking more of the south coast and lower 48!  Walt

On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Chuck Hutton  wrote:

> Walt -
>
> How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.
>
> Chuck
>
> 
> From: IRCA > on behalf of
> Walter Salmaniw >
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!
>
> Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
> coast...73,  Walt
>
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp >
> wrote:
>
> > After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> > I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few
> nights
> > with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> > just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> > I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> > himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> > the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> > parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more
> (more
> > than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ
> switched
> > to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> > pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
> >
> > Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure
> DX
> > adrenaline!
> >
> > 73,
> > Tim Tromp
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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Chuck Hutton 
Walt - 

How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of Walter Salmaniw 

Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
coast...73,  Walt

On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp  wrote:

> After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
> to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
>
> Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> adrenaline!
>
> 73,
> Tim Tromp
> West Michigan
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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw 
Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
coast...73,  Walt

On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp  wrote:

> After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
> to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
>
> Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> adrenaline!
>
> 73,
> Tim Tromp
> West Michigan
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[IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Tim Tromp 
After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ switched
to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA

Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
adrenaline!

73,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-01-26 Thread NOAA WWV 
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2016 Jan 27 0005 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 January follow.
Solar flux 115 and estimated planetary A-index 4.
The estimated planetary K-index at  UTC on 27 January 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 25   25   25   25   25   26   26   26   26   26   26   26   26   27
UTC  0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 
SFlx 104  104  104  104  108  108  108  108  108  108  108  108  115  115
A-in 11   11   11   11   4333333344
K-in 11100001111121
Current Solar information available at http://www.am-dx.com/wwv.htm



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[IRCA] CJRU-1280 on the air

2016-01-26 Thread Mike Keval Brooker 
CJRU-1280 aka "the Scope @ Ryerson" now on the air with regular programming
from Toronto's Ryerson University. Successor to CKLN-88.1, whose license
was pulled by the CRTC. Power is a whopping 99 watts non-directional,
putting in a fair signal at my midtown Toronto home. Same as the last user
of this frequency, CFYZ (the glorified TIS from Toronto's Pearson Airport).
They stream online at http://www.thescopeatryerson.ca/


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-01-26 Thread NOAA WWV 
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2016 Jan 26 2105 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 January follow.
Solar flux 115 and estimated planetary A-index 4.
The estimated planetary K-index at 2100 UTC on 26 January was 2.
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date 25   25   25   25   25   25   26   26   26   26   26   26   26   26
UTC  0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100
SFlx 104  104  104  104  104  108  108  108  108  108  108  108  108  115
A-in 11   11   11   11   11   433333334
K-in 11110000111112
Current Solar information available at http://www.am-dx.com/wwv.htm



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Re: [IRCA] opening?

2016-01-26 Thread R. Colin Newell 
Classic carpet pull -

Looked at the NHP fish barrel 1 minute before jumping into my shower
Pulled on my clothes and went down to the shack...
within 1 minute everything was wiped away - not a peep...
the fish barrel displayed a fraction of what it displayed 2 minutes
earlier...

Sometimes I hate this hobby.


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VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada
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[IRCA] opening?

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch 
Things a little nuts on the band right now, mostly low level 
audios1323 1557 1395 1422, sounds like 2 stations on 1566, mostly 
higher band, low band regulars earlier.


N.

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Re: [IRCA] opening?

2016-01-26 Thread coffee_canuck 
Watching this...
>From my shower... :-/

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC

> On Jan 26, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:
> 
> Things a little nuts on the band right now, mostly low level audios1323 
> 1557 1395 1422, sounds like 2 stations on 1566, mostly higher band, low band 
> regulars earlier.
> 
> N.
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