Re: [IRCA] Speedy verie from Live

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Ah, but were you thinking about sending a report Jim?  (hi)

At 04:34 16-03-16, you wrote:

I can top the speed of your QSL.  I once received a QSL from the Hasidic
station on 1710 in New York City.  I had not even sent a report!  Now
that's fast.

Jim Renfrew

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Nigel Pimblett  wrote:

> Had an unID from DU on 1107 a couple of weeks back, and after going
> over the SDR recording found a familiar song among the mostly 'mumbly'
> talk.   DU options are limited on 1107, so sent an e-mail to Radio Live,
> the likeliest suspect, and they responded back in only 44 minutes
> confirming they played the song at the time I had heard it.
> That's a new catch for me, and certainly one of my quickest
> verifications.
>
> 73,
>
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, AB
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[IRCA] TP 15 Mar Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch]

I think I was more in Gary's camp than Bruce's this morning.   The 
thought of hearing CRI-1044, however poorly, with the present 
geomagnetic conditions seems unlikely...but it happened.



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


HLAZ came close around 1325UT with the Japanese program; even had a 
bit of audio around 1400UT






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



1566 HLAZ peaking 1321-1327UT with man and then woman in Japanese, 
organ music, choral singing etc.





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


774 JOUB man in Japanese 1142UT  //828
1593 CNR1 likely, man in Chinese 1334UT



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 JOAK man talking, another man on phone 1149UT; NHK pips at 1200UT
738 Tahiti likely; man and woman talking, Frence inflection 1246UT
828 JOBB man talking 1143UT  //774
1044 CRI man and woman talking 1351-2UT, Japanese inflection?  CRI 
chimes and fanfare 1400UT clinched it, weak, distorted, definite.




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


675 891 1008 1053 1098 1116  1206 1359 1422  1494



best wishes,

Nick

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Re: [IRCA] Speedy verie from Live

[James Renfrew]

I can top the speed of your QSL.  I once received a QSL from the Hasidic
station on 1710 in New York City.  I had not even sent a report!  Now
that's fast.

Jim Renfrew

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Nigel Pimblett  wrote:

> Had an unID from DU on 1107 a couple of weeks back, and after going
> over the SDR recording found a familiar song among the mostly 'mumbly'
> talk.   DU options are limited on 1107, so sent an e-mail to Radio Live,
> the likeliest suspect, and they responded back in only 44 minutes
> confirming they played the song at the time I had heard it.
> That's a new catch for me, and certainly one of my quickest
> verifications.
>
> 73,
>
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, AB
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[IRCA] Speedy verie from Live

[Nigel Pimblett]

Had an unID from DU on 1107 a couple of weeks back, and after going 
over the SDR recording found a familiar song among the mostly 'mumbly' 
talk.   DU options are limited on 1107, so sent an e-mail to Radio Live, 
the likeliest suspect, and they responded back in only 44 minutes 
confirming they played the song at the time I had heard it.
That's a new catch for me, and certainly one of my quickest 
verifications.


73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
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[IRCA] AM BCB DX……..ELAD Captures………4 NEW Stations

[Robert Ross]

Hi Guys:

 Here is my Report for the last few days DX. 4 New Stations were logged.


RECEIVER.ELAD FDM-S2 SDR

ANTENNAWELLBROOK ALA-1530LNP Imperium Loop

AM LOG TOTALS are now………..1838 Stations Heard

73…….ROB VA3SW

Robert S. Ross
London, Ontario CANADA


*
1300 WKCY  Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA  Mar/13/16  0659 EDTEE   FAIR
Male DJ with ID@ 0659 EDT as "Your Home ?…Studios ??? This is WKCY
Harrisonburg, WKCI - Waynesboro". Into News @ 0700 EDT.

NEW STN   6.4 kW/5 Watts
ROSS, ON.
**
800  KXIC  Iowa City, IOWA  Mar/13/16  0700 EDT   EE   FAIR
Under CKLW Windsor.
Male DJ with ID @ 0700 EDT as "??? in the morning and Sports 
Talk all day - KXIC Iowa City". Also mentioned the "Iowa
Hawkeyes". "FOX Sports Trending" Slogan and into FOX Sports
Talk @ 0701 EDT.

NEW STN1 kW/199 Watts
ROSS, ON.
**
1560  WMRO  Gallatin, TENNESSEE  Mar/13/16  0759 EDT   EE   FAIR
Ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Mentioned the KFC in Nashville Hts
@ 0800. Another Ad for TGIF Fast Fridays in Nashville @ 0800.

NEW STN 1 kW/3 Watts
ROSS, ON.
**
960  WTCH  Shawano, WISCONSIN  Mar/14/16  0658 EDT   EE  FAIR
C/W Music @ 0658-59 EDT. Male DJ with Talk and ID @ 0659 as
"WTCH - Shawano". Into CBS News @ 0700-0702 EDT.

NEW STN  1 kW
ROSS, ON.
***
830  WGUE  Memphis, TENNESSEE  Mar/10/16  1858 EST EE GOOD
OVER WCCO Minneapolis!
Classic Rock "The Boys are back in town" by Thin Lizzy @ 1858-1902 EST.
Male DJ with ID as "GUESS-FM The Greatest Hits".  Into the Eagle's - "In the
long run".

RELOG……But NEW CALLS3 kW DAYTIMER
ROSS, ON.
***
930  WTAD  Quincy, ILLINOIS  Mar/15/16  0659 EDT EE GOOD
Local Ads for Quincy @ 0659 EDT. Male DJ with ID @ 0700 as "Fox News Radio 930
The news you can trust - WTAD Quincy". Into Fox News.

RELOG  5/1 kW
ROSS, ON.
***
1310  WDTW  Dearborn, MICHIGAN  Mar/14/16  2159 EDT   EE   FAIR
ID by Male DJ @ 2159 EDT as "WDTW Dearborn-Detroit - Detroit's New Country
Station". Into C/W Music @ 2159.

Not sure if they were TESTING or what?? Also not sure why they were playing 
C/W??
Is that what they are supposed to return with??

RELOG……Back on the Air??   5 kW
ROSS, ON.


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[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 15 March 2016

[Nigel Pimblett]

My results again lined up with Seattle - lousy.  Had poor audio on 
1566 HLAZ at 1320, and no other audio.  Might have found a syllable or 
two from other regulars if I'd felt inspired to pore over my recording, 
but I wasn't.




73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
Perseus SDR & Wellbrook Phased Array
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[IRCA] Strong 1548-TWR (Moldova) Video During Japanese Ultralight DXpedition

[d1028gary]

For those interested, Hiroyuki Okamura has posted another surprising 
transoceanic DX video made with his 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 model during the joint 
Perseus-SDR/ Ultralight Radio DXpedition to Chigasaki, Kanagawa this week. 
1548-TWR in Grigoriopol, Moldova was received at a strong level before the 
local Japanese sunrise on Hiroyuki's "Science Fiction PL-380" stand-alone 
model. 
  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdbWovCu2b0=youtu.be   
  
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 
  
   
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[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on the Ides of March

[Bruce Portzer]

Conditions were lousy today, with only three of the usual powerhouses 
producing recognizable audio.


GOOD
Nobody

FAIR
1566HLAZ, Japanese talk 1320

POOR
693faint talk in the CBU splatter 1408
774JOUB, time pips 1400, weak talk peaking at 1411

CARRIERS ALMOST PRODUCING AUDIO - 1044 1377 1422 1557
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[IRCA] Is AM Radio Still Relevant?

[Dennis Vroom via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Below is a link to KFI 640 petition to save AM radio. C Crane sent this with 
their regular monthly advertisement. 
http://www.kfiam640.com/features/save-am-radio-1919/ 

Best regards,

Dennis  Vroom, 
Kalama, WA

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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

[NOAA WWV]

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2016 Mar 16 0005 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 15 March follow.
Solar flux 94 and estimated planetary A-index 24.
The estimated planetary K-index at  UTC on 16 March was 4.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date 14   14   14   14   14   15   15   15   15   15   15   15   15   16
UTC  0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 
SFlx 93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   94   94
A-in 444413   14   14   14   14   14   14   14   26   24
K-in 22134544442354
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

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:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2016 Mar 15 1805 UTC
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 14 March follow.
Solar flux 93 and estimated planetary A-index 14.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 15 March was 3.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are likely.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date 14   14   14   14   14   14   14   15   15   15   15   15   15   15
UTC  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800
SFlx 93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93   93
A-in 44444413   14   14   14   14   14   14   14
K-in 22221345444423
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[IRCA] 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 TP-DX for 3-15

[d1028gary]

It was a pretty bizarre morning where the low band was fairly subdued, but 
1044-CRI was strong enough at 1350 to manage weak audio on the handheld 
FSL-PL-380. Besides a temporarily fair signal from 1593-CNR1 around 1335 and 
1566-HLAZ's usual strong run during its Japanese service it was mostly a 
morning for the middle-band CRI stations, with 1017 and 1206 also managing 
threshold levels.  
  
At my 1255 start time only 1566-HLAZ was showing much energy, holding at a fair 
level until it built up strength to manage good peaks around 1315. The usual 
NHK big guns on 594 and 693 made halfhearted appearances around that time also, 
although the other Japanese regulars and 972-HLCA seemed missing in action. By 
1325 the relatively uncommon 1044-CRI was already managing weak audio peaks 
with its Japanese service on the "Science Fiction PL-380," a pretty astonishing 
occurrence for what seemed like a modest TP morning. Ghostly signals on 1017 
and 1206 seemed to confirm the middle band Chinese propagation, although 
neither was strong enough to confirm the identity. 1593-CNR1 came out of 
nowhere to manage a fair signal around 1330, but by then 1566 had fizzled and 
the other high band regulars on 1503 and 1575 were down in the noise. 594-JOAK, 
693-JOAB and 603-HLSA all reached fair audio peaks from 1335-1345 but in 
general the low band wasn't in very good form. The signals from 1044-CRI and 
1593-CNR1 had fizzled by 1400 as Asian propagation lurched toward an early 
demise, with the increasing daylight finishing off the last diehards (594 and 
693) by 1410 here. Best signal of the morning was from 1566-HLAZ (good) around 
1315. 
  
1044  CRI   Jiangsu, China    Weak audio peak during Japanese service at 1353 
(apparent Chinese lessons during the session) 
https://app.box.com/s/uj6g1ivwi7avsuwwhlhsgqs00aodamfh   
  
1593  CNR1   Changzhou, China   Fair-level male Chinese speech at 1335 
https://app.box.com/s/ut30dewaes86oybeve7irppmluu86ay8    
  
73 and Good DX, 
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 
Stand-alone 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight  
   
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[IRCA] NOISE-BEATING

[Mark Durenberger]

I've been involved in recent threads with some of you, regarding common-mode 
noise suppression.


I went to Fair-Rite with a question about suppression on USB cables and 
wanted to share the response:


Hi Mark, Thank you for your Ask the Adviser question! While I am unsure 
as to what is the source or frequency of your common-mode noise, given 
that USB clock frequency is 24 MHz I would say that 61-material would be 
suppressing at too high a frequency (> 200 MHz) to have an major impact.


Instead, may I suggest trying a broad-band material such as 31 (operating 
between 1 MHz and 300 MHz) or 43/44 (operating between 25MHz and 300 MHz).


As for the number of turns, this is proportional to the impedance you 
require (Z ~ N^2) and again depends on the amount of noise suppression your 
system requires - typically one turn (or one pass through the aperture of 
the core) should be sufficient. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Rachael Parker




Cheers!

Mark Durenberger, CPBE
There's SO much I still don't know!

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[IRCA] Arizona TP's for 3/15/16

[Bill Block]

Listened from 1335-1345 UT and conditions was down from yesterday with no audio 
or carriers on the bottom part of the band and the only audio was from 
HLAZ-1566 and one weak carrier on 1593. 
  
1566 HLAZ hrd at 1337 UT with talk. 
  
Bill Block 
Prescott Valley, AZ 
Drake R8 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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[IRCA] TP 14 Mar Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch]

The low band wasn't quite as poor as Bruce found, though it is true 
that the NHK2 big guns were better around 1200UT.   And yes, there 
was a pip heard on 1467 at 1400UT here, but nothing else to hang 
one's hat on.  Generally, there wasn't anything that was consistently 
strong, but JOJK-1224 and RRI-1377 are not to be sneezed at.



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


1386 The NHK2 Big Gun at this time, if only briefly, 1354UT, Chinese lessons





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


738 female vocal pop music 1334UT, but faded before any talk was 
heard; assumed Tahiti.   Taiwan had  a  lady in Chinese at this time 
per the web archive.

1566 HLAZ man in Chinese 1407UT




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


558 HLQH slow male vocal 1403UT, //very weak 603
594 JOAK man in Japanese 1354UT
828 JOBB Chinese lessons 1350UT
1422 JORF  woman and man in Japanese after rhythmic music
1503 JOUK man talking //594 1403UT
1593 CNR1 man in Chinese 1418UT; IDd earlier //6125 when not as strong


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)


531 unID.  Man talking 1406UT, very weak, but not //594
567 JOIK woman talking //594 1355UT
873 JOGB man talking //774 1334UT
972 oriental singing by woman 1322UT; man talking a couple minutes 
later, maybe Korean?

1224 JOJK, man talking //594 1350UT
1242 woman talking, possibly Japanese, though not sure 1407UT; 
followed by rock music, so possibly JOLF
1377 RRI.   traces of man talking, woman also, 1410UT, over to music 
1412UT, preceding web stream by about one minute


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


1134 1314 1359 1458 1467 1512



best wishes,

Nick

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