[IRCA] Awesome 693-Bangladesh Video During Japanese Ultralight DXpedition

2016-03-13 Thread d1028gary
For those interested, Hiroyuki Okamura of Yokosuka, Japan has posted an 
outstanding video of his S9-level reception of 693-Bangladesh on his "Science 
Fiction PL-380" stand-alone model during a combined Ultralight/ Perseus-SDR 
DXpedition to Chigasaki, Kanagawa tonight. The exotic station is pegging the 
PL-380 S/N readout at the 25 maximum at various times during the video  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRjuMVhmdk&feature=youtu.be   
  
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)    
  
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[IRCA] TP 13 Mar Victoria version

2016-03-13 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Here, it was also pretty poor right up to 1400UT, when things started 
to open up a little bit.



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



1566 HLAZ erratically fading, but woman in Chinese peaked to this 
level first at 1357UT, then returned to this level several times over 
the next 15 minutes or so.



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


594 JOAK pips 1400UT, woman in Japanese
774 JOUB woman in Japanese 1400UT just after pips
1575 VoA man in SE Asian talk 1359UT, VoA fanfare shortly after, then 
heard a "VoA" jingle 1403UT






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


747 JOIK man and woman talking //774 1343UT
1593 CNR1 likely with woman in Chinese 1409UT, man in Chinese 1413UT; 
erratic peaks, and also had traces of NHK2 //774 as well.



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 1403UT
1269 JOFM/JOHW occasional bits of music //1287 would rise out of the 
murk 1413UT; reaching here a bit, there wasn't much else, hi

1287 JOHR woman talking sounding Japanese 1412UT, laid back music //1269
1386 NHK2 man talking //774 1416UT
1503 JOUK woman in Japanese //594 1403UT


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


738 828 1242


best wishes,

Nick

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Re: [IRCA] Current NW rain and wind

2016-03-13 Thread Bruce Portzer
I almost never lose power, even during the worst of windstorms.  Today, 
however, it was out for 5 hours. I did a brief bandscan on the Tecsun - 
the locals stayed on except possibly 1230 and 1400.


Bruce

On 3/13/2016 9:12 PM, Pete Taylor wrote:

Pretty blustery here in Tacoma this afternoon but it has calmed down 
considerably. A semi got blown over on he Narrows Bridge. My wife drove over to 
Bellevue but came back rather quickly lest the bridge closed before she 
returned. A few blinks earlier but no power outages for us. Apparently there 
are about 45,000 peeps up north who weren’t so lucky. If our power goes out, I 
hop on 1350-1370 since if ours goes out, KKMO’s does too. It is about a mile 
away.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380







On Mar 13, 2016, at 5:51 PM, coffee_canuck  wrote:

Victoria B.C. Currently get whacked by strong winds and rain - gusts appear 
between 60-90 mph.

How are the folks in Seattle, Puyallup and Seaside doing?

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




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[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 13 March 2016

2016-03-13 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Fair-good audio from HLAZ 1566 and VOA 1575 was already coming in 
when I started at 1325, but that was about it.   No sunrise enhancement 
noted.  Not a lot of inspiring carriers, and the lower band was 
downright dead.




73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
Perseus SDR & Wellbrook Phased Array
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Re: [IRCA] Current NW rain and wind

2016-03-13 Thread Pete Taylor
Pretty blustery here in Tacoma this afternoon but it has calmed down 
considerably. A semi got blown over on he Narrows Bridge. My wife drove over to 
Bellevue but came back rather quickly lest the bridge closed before she 
returned. A few blinks earlier but no power outages for us. Apparently there 
are about 45,000 peeps up north who weren’t so lucky. If our power goes out, I 
hop on 1350-1370 since if ours goes out, KKMO’s does too. It is about a mile 
away.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380






> On Mar 13, 2016, at 5:51 PM, coffee_canuck  wrote:
> 
> Victoria B.C. Currently get whacked by strong winds and rain - gusts appear 
> between 60-90 mph.
> 
> How are the folks in Seattle, Puyallup and Seaside doing? 
> 
> Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
> 
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[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on MArch 13

2016-03-13 Thread Bruce Portzer
The upper part of the band was moderately enhanced just after 1400 
today.  Otherwise, it wasn't a very exciting morning here.


GOOD
774JOUB, Japanese woman 1256, theme music 1259:40, then pips
1566HLAZ, Chinese woman 1406


FAIR
693JOAB, pips & Japanese woman 1200
1557Music 1406
1575VOA, theme music and Asian talk 1401, Yankee Doodle on chimes 1402

POOR
594Faint talk 1314
1386NHK?, 1410 faint talk possibly //1602
1422JORF?,  weak talk in splatter 1404, sounded Japanese
1503JOUK, pips 1400, then Japanese talk
1593Occasional syllables nudging their way through KLFE splat 1406, 
likely China

1602bits of talk and/or music 1409, sounded //1386
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[IRCA] Best portable and Ultralight Radios for Domestic DXing?

2016-03-13 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message ---

Until someone comes up with a portable radio whose antenna pick-up pattern is 
cardioid instead of figure-of-8 (or switchable between those two choices), 
these radios are not a serious game player here in the New England states.


NYC is opposite to TA's we want to hear.  The antenna HAS to handle that 
problem.


Spectrum storage - something typically not found in portables - is a DX power 
tool few of us up here would want to take off the table.  That's as applicable 
to domestic DXing as foreign DX.  Many of us operate successfully "in the 
field" with SDR's and suitably directional antenna systems to knock down the 
pests.  Granite Pier, Tonset Rd., Quoddy Head, and Cappahayden are some sites 
you've likely read about.


But in many places the situation may be different.  Certainly in recreational 
and business travel, as contrasted with DXpeditioning, portable receivers fill 
a niche and help to gather information that builds up the DX knowledge base.  


Some of the better portables I've used include the Kaito KA-1103, Sangean 
PR-D5, Tecsun PL-380, CC Radio Skywave, and Sony ICF-2010.  


Non-digital-readout ones worth a mention: Sony ICF-S5W, GE Superadio II, and 
several '60s and '70s Realistic TRF models.
http://chowdanet.com/markc/doc/trf.htm


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA


<<
I wonder if we could start a discussion thread on this topic. (I just did by 
changing the subject line) 


What are the best portables you?ve used for domestic AM (medium wave) DXing? 
Please list both portable (meaning battery powered, any size) and ultralight 
(must fit in a pocket). 


73,


Les Rayburn, N1LF
121 Mayfair Park
Maylene, AL 
EM63nf
>>
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-03-13 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2016 Mar 14 0010 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
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#  Geophysical Alert Message
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 13 March follow.
Solar flux 93 and estimated planetary A-index 4.
The estimated planetary K-index at  UTC on 14 March 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 12   12   12   12   12   13   13   13   13   13   13   13   13   14
UTC  0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 
SFlx 94   94   94   94   95   95   95   95   95   95   95   95   93   93
A-in 23   23   23   23   15   13   13   13   13   13   13   13   44
K-in 23133112111001
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Re: [IRCA] Current NW rain and wind

2016-03-13 Thread Patrick Martin
PS. We are now getting sunbreaks and patches of blue. A bit of a surprise!

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager

> From: coffeecan...@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:27 -0700
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: [IRCA] Current NW rain and wind
> 
> Victoria B.C. Currently get whacked by strong winds and rain - gusts appear 
> between 60-90 mph.
> 
> How are the folks in Seattle, Puyallup and Seaside doing? 
> 
> Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
> 
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Re: [IRCA] Current NW rain and wind

2016-03-13 Thread Patrick Martin
After our monster storm last week with 90+ MPH winds, we lucked out here with 
gusts of 52 MPH, but it is pretty much gone. Cloudy now with only showers and 
light winds. I heard the winds were going to be stronger to the North. I hope 
you do not have any damage.  (Hopefully) later in the week the weather is 
supposed to turn out nice for a few days, I can get my antennas back in order, 
even I cannot get them hooked up because of the tree in the way, at least they 
will be ready to go once the tree in moved. My big dish needs some alignment 
too.

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager

> From: coffeecan...@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:51:27 -0700
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: [IRCA] Current NW rain and wind
> 
> Victoria B.C. Currently get whacked by strong winds and rain - gusts appear 
> between 60-90 mph.
> 
> How are the folks in Seattle, Puyallup and Seaside doing? 
> 
> Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
> 
> > 
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[IRCA] Current NW rain and wind

2016-03-13 Thread coffee_canuck
Victoria B.C. Currently get whacked by strong winds and rain - gusts appear 
between 60-90 mph.

How are the folks in Seattle, Puyallup and Seaside doing? 

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

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Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11 (Cont.)

2016-03-13 Thread d1028gary
Chuck, 
  
<<>> 
  
For some reason unknown to me, the ferrite antenna nulls on NW pest stations 
are not as clean and distinct during TP-DXing propagation as they are during 
stable daytime ground wave propagation. Both 560-KPQ and 750-KXTG can be easily 
nulled into the noise around local noon, but during sunrise propagation they 
typically chop up 558-HLQH  and 747-JOIB, with only a minor reduction in their 
splatter when the end of the FSL is directed at them. My guess is that there is 
both a ground wave and sky wave component in their signals during the sunrise 
propagation, resulting in less than optimal nulling results. When nulling 
Seattle pests during ground wave propagation, for example, it's possible to put 
them completely down in the noise if you know both the horizontal angle and the 
vertical arrival angle of their signal (neither of which ever change). During 
TP-DXing propagation the vertical angle seems to be all over the map, making 
the nulls seem much less effective. 
  
Gary 
  
  
   

- Original Message -

From: "Chuck Hutton"  
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
 
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 1:31:13 PM 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11  (Cont.) 

Hi Gary: 

Wenatchee is about 77 degrees and Seoul about 310. So why not just null KPQ? 
That puts Seoul very close to the peak of the antenna. 

Chuck 

 
From: IRCA  on behalf of d1028g...@comcast.net 
 
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 7:49 PM 
To: America, Mailing 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11  (Cont.) 

Hi Nick, 

 

Actually 558-HLQH has had pretty good signal strength here as well, Nick, but 
it suffers greatly from 560-KPQ splatter at this location. As you are aware the 
ferrite-based antennas have no back side rejection here such as they would at a 
solid rock ocean cliff location like Rockwork, and even with the modest DSP 
selectivity currently offered in Ultralight radios the signal from 558-HLQH 
routinely gets plastered by KPQ splatter here. 

 

73, Gary 



- Original Message - 

From: "Nick Hall-Patch"  
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
 
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 10:09:15 AM 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11  (Cont.) 

Hi Gary, 

Do you receive HLQH-558 particularly at your 
location?   I've been finding this season that 
HLQH is usually considerably more readable than 
HLSA-603 here, as if the latter is 
undermodulated.   I don't think there is a new 
noise source around 600kHz drowning it out. 

You've usually had better signals overall on the 
low band Asians, but I haven't seen much mention of  HLQH. 

best wishes, 

Nick 


At 11:29 12-03-16, you wrote: 
>...The MP3 of 603-HLSA at 1337 was far and 
>away the best signal that this tiny stand-alone 
>model has ever received from the station. 603  HLSA Namyang, S. Korea 


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Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11 (Cont.)

2016-03-13 Thread Chuck Hutton
Hi Gary:

Wenatchee is about 77 degrees and Seoul about 310. So why not just null KPQ? 
That puts Seoul very close to the peak of the antenna.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of d1028g...@comcast.net 

Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 7:49 PM
To: America, Mailing
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11  (Cont.)

Hi Nick,



Actually 558-HLQH has had pretty good signal strength here as well, Nick, but 
it suffers greatly from 560-KPQ splatter at this location. As you are aware the 
ferrite-based antennas have no back side rejection here such as they would at a 
solid rock ocean cliff location like Rockwork, and even with the modest DSP 
selectivity currently offered in Ultralight radios the signal from 558-HLQH 
routinely gets plastered by KPQ splatter here.



73, Gary



- Original Message -

From: "Nick Hall-Patch" 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 

Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 10:09:15 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11  (Cont.)

Hi Gary,

Do you receive HLQH-558 particularly at your
location?   I've been finding this season that
HLQH is usually considerably more readable than
HLSA-603 here, as if the latter is
undermodulated.   I don't think there is a new
noise source around 600kHz drowning it out.

You've usually had better signals overall on the
low band Asians, but I haven't seen much mention of  HLQH.

best wishes,

Nick


At 11:29 12-03-16, you wrote:
>...The MP3 of 603-HLSA at 1337 was far and
>away the best signal that this tiny stand-alone
>model has ever received from the station. 603Â  HLSA Namyang, S. KoreaÂ


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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-03-13 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2016 Mar 13 1810 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 12 March follow.
Solar flux 95 and estimated planetary A-index 13.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 13 March was 0.
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date 12   12   12   12   12   12   12   13   13   13   13   13   13   13
UTC  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800
SFlx 94   94   94   94   94   94   95   95   95   95   95   95   95   95
A-in 23   23   23   23   23   23   15   13   13   13   13   13   13   13
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Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11 (Cont.)

2016-03-13 Thread d1028gary
Hi Nick, 
  
<<<   Do you receive HLQH-558 particularly at your 
location?   I've been finding this season that 
HLQH is usually considerably more readable than 
HLSA-603 here, as if the latter is 
undermodulated.   I don't think there is a new 
noise source around 600kHz drowning it out.   >>> 
  
Actually 558-HLQH has had pretty good signal strength here as well, Nick, but 
it suffers greatly from 560-KPQ splatter at this location. As you are aware the 
ferrite-based antennas have no back side rejection here such as they would at a 
solid rock ocean cliff location like Rockwork, and even with the modest DSP 
selectivity currently offered in Ultralight radios the signal from 558-HLQH 
routinely gets plastered by KPQ splatter here. 
  
<<<   You've usually had better signals overall on the 
low band Asians ...  >>> 
  
In comparison to large broadband single-loop antennas the FSL's seem to perform 
relatively well on the lower MW frequencies, so I think that this has some 
relationship to what you have observed in the daily TP reports, Nick. Similar 
results have been obtained during DXpeditions on the Rockwork 4 cliff, where 
the small broadband loops + Perseus-SDR's dominate on the high band while the 
monster FSL's + Ultralights dominate on the low band. Bruce lives only about 40 
miles from me, and both he and you routinely report various high band TP's that 
never show up here. Maybe the grass is always greener on the other side? 
  
73, Gary 
  

  
- Original Message -

From: "Nick Hall-Patch"  
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
 
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 10:09:15 AM 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11  (Cont.) 

Hi Gary, 

Do you receive HLQH-558 particularly at your 
location?   I've been finding this season that 
HLQH is usually considerably more readable than 
HLSA-603 here, as if the latter is 
undermodulated.   I don't think there is a new 
noise source around 600kHz drowning it out. 

You've usually had better signals overall on the 
low band Asians, but I haven't seen much mention of  HLQH. 

best wishes, 

Nick 


At 11:29 12-03-16, you wrote: 
>...The MP3 of 603-HLSA at 1337 was far and 
>away the best signal that this tiny stand-alone 
>model has ever received from the station. 603  HLSA Namyang, S. Korea 


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Re: [IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX Recordings for 3-11 (Cont.)

2016-03-13 Thread Nick Hall-Patch

Hi Gary,

Do you receive HLQH-558 particularly at your 
location?   I've been finding this season that 
HLQH is usually considerably more readable than 
HLSA-603 here, as if the latter is 
undermodulated.   I don't think there is a new 
noise source around 600kHz drowning it out.


You've usually had better signals overall on the 
low band Asians, but I haven't seen much mention of  HLQH.


best wishes,

Nick


At 11:29 12-03-16, you wrote:
...The MP3 of 603-HLSA at 1337 was far and 
away the best signal that this tiny stand-alone 
model has ever received from the station. 603Â  HLSA Namyang, S. KoreaÂ



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