[IRCA] TP 6 April Victoria version
A bit of a mix of Asian and DU today, with the former dominant mostly, but somewhat down from yesterday pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 612 4QR peaking with man and woman talking DU English, quite clear, though not really strong, 1340UT; Asians pretty much gone by this time 774 JOBB English lessons 1308UT 1566 HLAZ man in Japanese, briefly peaking 1303UT; although audio kept poking through as late as 1415UT, it was very weak. 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 1254UT 828 JOBB English lessons 1256UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 693 JOAB bits of English lessons creeping past the splash //774 1314UT 747 JOIB English lessons //774 1258UT 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) 558 HLQH laid back female vocal //603 which was weaker yet, 1257UT 567 JOIK woman talking //594 1256UT 576 2RN man talking, at the edge of detection in the murk, but //621, 1324UT 603 HLSA female vocal //558 1257UT 621 3RN man talking //576 1324UT, 620 splatter made it difficult 702 2BL ABC news fanfare coming out of the murk, inflection of "ABC news" by man 1300UT 774 3LO man and woman talking, then a patch of instrumental music //612 1342UT 873 JOGB English lessons //828 1303UT 972 emotional female ballad 1303-4UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 711 846 918 1134 1422 1503seemed to be Asian; 891 seemed DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ 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] A little LWBC tonight
Looks like the solar activity is winding down as despite S9 static I'm hearing 171 Morocco tonight, 0410 utc, very poor/poor. Would be better if the static wasn't so bad. But nice to get anything at all. Steve near Sahuarita, AZ R75, E/W longwire ___ 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] Cape Cod DXpedition report passed along from Roy Barstow
--- Begin Message --- DXpedition Report from Roy Barstow - Cape Cod, MA Logging assistance by Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2017 Sites used: MAR 6, MAR 29: South Cape Beach - Mashpee, MA, USA MAR 21-22: Sandy Neck Beach - Sandwich, MA, USA Receiver: Elad FDM-S2 See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/ Antennas: Wellbrook ALA1530LNP See http://www.wellbrook.uk.com/ALA1530LNP-1 Mini-SuperLoop 6 ft. x 12 ft. (1.8 x 3.6m) See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type. == *** TRANSATLANTIC DX *** 531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, MAR 29 2315 - Good with Arabic vocal // 549. [Barstow-MA] 549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, MAR 21 2345 - Loud with hip-hop // 531. + MAR 29 2315 – Good with Arabic pop vocal // 531. [Barstow-MA] 585 | SPAIN | RNE R.1, Madrid, MAR 29 2301 - Good with RNE news. [Barstow-MA] 595 | MOROCCO | RTM 1 & 2, Oujda, MAR 29 2315 - Fair with Arabic talk // 612. [Barstow-MA] 603 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 29 2300 - Fair with 5+1 pips, talk, fanfare, Radio Nacional de Espana ID // 747. [Barstow-MA] 612 | MOROCCO | SNRT Al-Idaa al-Watania, Sebaa-Aioun, MAR 29 2230 - Poor to fair. [Barstow-MA] 621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAR 29 2246 - Good; talk // 855. [Barstow-MA] 675 | LIBYA (t) | Libyan Jamahiriya, Benghazi, MAR 22 0001 - Through WRKO slop; apparent Arabic talk by woman. + MAR 29 2315 – Fair with fast talk by woman, not sure of language. [Barstow-MA] 684 | SPAIN | RNE R.1, Sevilla, MAR 29 2315 - Good; two men in Spanish // (loud) 855. [Barstow-MA] 693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R. 5, Droitwich et al., MAR 21 2315 - Good on peaks with talk about arms sales. [Barstow-MA] 702 | ALGERIA (t) | RTA Chaine 1, Laghouat, MAR 29 2315 - Fair with Koranic chant. [Barstow-MA] 729 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAR 29 2300 - Poor (in slop) with 5+1 pips, news. [Barstow-MA] 738 | SPAIN | RNE R.1, Barcelona, MAR 22 0058 - Fair with “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin, // 855 but not 747. [Barstow-MA] 747 | CANARY ISLANDS | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 22 - Loud with 5+1 pips, fanfare, news intro “Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios informativos.” [Barstow-MA] 756 | unID | ?, MAR 22 - Mideast music through top of hour, then man with a few words at :40. [Barstow-MA] 774 | EGYPT | Middle East R., Abis, MAR 21 2245 - Good peak with Arabic vocal, talk. [Barstow-MA] 774 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAR 29 2300 - Good with 5+1 pips, fanfare, RNE news // 729. [Barstow-MA] 783 | MAURITANIA | R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, MAR 21 2313 - Good with man in Arabic mentioning Allah. + MAR 29 2232 - Good; Arabic vocal by man. [Barstow-MA] 792 | SPAIN | SER, Sevilla, MAR 6 2315 - Weak to fair with filter at 2.6 kHz. [Barstow-MA] 837 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | COPE synchros, MAR 21 2313 - Poor to fair with Spanish talk. [Barstow-MA] 855 | SPAIN | RNE R.1 synchros, MAR 29 2230 - Good; talk // 684. + MAR 29 2359 - “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond. [Barstow-MA] 864 | EGYPT | ERTU, Santah, MAR 21 2300 - Fair with Koranic chant. [Barstow-MA] 873 | unID (SAUDI ARABIA?) | ?, MAR 21 2359 - Seemed like Koran. [Barstow-MA] 909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R. 5 synchros, MAR 21 2230 - To fair peak with English talk. [Barstow-MA] 918 | SPAIN | R. Inter, Madrid, MAR 6 2315 - Fair; Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 936 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 6 2315 - Fair; Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 954 | SPAIN | Onda Cero, Madrid, MAR 29 2316 - Fair peaks; Spanish talk by man. [Barstow-MA] 981 | ALGERIA | RTVA Chaine 2, Algiers, MAR 21 2259 - Fair; Arabic vocal, strings. + MAR 29 2231 - Good; trumpet solo, then man in French. [Barstow-MA] 1044 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAR 21 2300 - Good with pips, man in Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 1062 | IRAN (t) | IRIB1, Kerman, MAR 21 2259 - Sounded like Koranic chanting. [Barstow-MA] 1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, MAR 22 - To good peak (on LSB) through slop; news by woman, slight echo. [Barstow-MA] 1098 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 6 2300 - Fair; Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 1116 | SPAIN | SER synchros, MAR 6 2200 - Poor; Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 1152 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 6 2200 - 5+1 pips, RNE news. [Barstow-MA] 1215 | UNITED KINGDOM | Absolute R. synchros, MAR 6 2300 - Weak. [Barstow-MA] 1296 | SPAIN | COPE, Valencia, MAR 6 2200 - Weak to fair; pips, Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 1305 | SPAIN | RNE R.5 synchros, MAR 6 2200 - Fair; Spanish. [Barstow-MA] 1422 | ALGERIA (t) | R.Algerienne, Algiers, MAR 22 - Poor; 5 pips, talk. [Barstow-MA] 1467 | FRANCE | TWR, Roumoules, MAR 6 2200 - Brief carrier drop-out at top-of-hour then back with Arabic-sounding talk and music interludes. [Barstow-MA] 1566 | BENIN | Trans-World Radio, Parakou, MAR 6 2201 - Fair peak with flute, then a woman and man talking in French. [Barstow-MA] --- End Message --- ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@
[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2017 Apr 07 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 06 April follow. Solar flux 76 and estimated planetary A-index 7. The estimated planetary K-index at UTC on 07 April 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 05 05 05 05 05 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 07 UTC 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 94 94 94 94 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 76 76 A-in 20 20 20 20 810 10 10 10 10 10 10 87 K-in 32122421122321 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
Re: [IRCA] Colorado TP DX Report April 6
Here in Puyallup the same usual big guns (on 594, 693, 747, 774, 972 and 1566) all managed some halfhearted audio this morning around sunrise enhancement (1315-1340), but none of them sounded very energetic. 1134-JOQR and 1593-CNR1 also joined them at times with anemic signals, then bailed once they were noticed. The usual second-tier TP's on 603, 657 and 738 barely showed up at threshold level. Craig, it's almost enough to make a DXer want to take a trip to Hawaii! 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight + 5 inch "Frequent Flyer" FSL (getting ready to fly) ___ Only a handful of hets were heard this morning from 1313 to 1335. Those were: 594, 693, 747, 774, 828, 972 and 1566. Best of DX Craig Barnes Wheat Ridge, CO Drake R8A ALA 1530ln - Original Message - From: "C B via IRCA" To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Cc: "C" Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 6:45:47 AM Subject: [IRCA] Colorado TP DX Report April 6 ___ 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] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2017 Apr 06 1805 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 05 April follow. Solar flux 85 and estimated planetary A-index 10. The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 06 April was 3. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 UTC 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 SFlx 94 94 94 94 94 94 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 A-in 20 20 20 20 20 20 810 10 10 10 10 10 10 K-in 21321224211223 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] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 31-April 6, 2017
--- Begin Message --- 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 All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page56 [over 206,000 views! as of April 6, 2017] All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; ICR-75 E-W longwire Re my 1550 unID last week, whether it could be Mexican, but this week IDed as KMRI in Utah, as in Domestic report, Raymie Humbert, AZ, replied on the WTFDA Forum March 30: ``XENU has not migrated — though it is highly likely to be a new-round migrant so it will probably disappear in the next few years. XERUV is done (permit discontinuity where the permitholder actually will wait to get a new concession!). There's also XEREL Morelia (Michoacán state network, not // FM) and XEBG Tijuana.`` UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 1, at 1159-1202 UT: 774, 693, 594, 828, 1314, all seem from NW but extremely weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- End Message --- ___ 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 MWDX to Enid OK, March 31-April 6, 2017
--- Begin Message ---
All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 UT period
to the previous date by ELT].
Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S
inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; IC-R75
with E-W longwire
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
All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open
access:
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page57
[over 206,000 views! as of April 6, 2017]
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of
USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are
in frequency order
** OKLAHOMA. 930, UT Saturday April 1 at 0453 UT, Spanish here is still WKY,
but it`s sports talk, not music! Long string of promos, jingles from ESPN
Deportes, national feed giving times in Pacific and Eastern, and who cares
about the Great Center of America, let alone the Mountains?? During otherwise
Spanish, the letters ESPN are always pronounced in English to avoid invoking
images of penises, altho such a macho connexion would seem to be apt. How much
coverage of women`s sports is there, anyway?
0457 UT local ads including a Dodge dealer in Midwest City, Goodwill Industries
(in Spanish they should say benevolencia or buena voluntad); PSAs for how to
impress girls, drunk driving. I keep listening for the ToH ID at 0500 UT, which
says ``WKY, Oklahoma City, 930AM, WKY``. The call letters are pronounced in
English, altho they don`t have to be (but doble-ve ka i griega is a bit more
cumbersome, less so doble-u ka ye). {There was never a worse callsign for a SS
station, all three letters being ``foreign`` to Spanish!}
No mention of ``La Indomable`` which has been its brand for eight+ years
already, and back to ESPND. Recheck at 1435 UT, still Spanish sports talk, no
music!
Radio-locator.com still has its format as ``Regional Mexican``, i.e. frenetic
oom-pah-pah music, a staple on our dials for years. The website still exists
under the old name
http://www.laindomable.com/
but all the Noticias on the homepage are about sports, notably including
European soccer games. How much of an audience in OK is there for that, in
Spanish to boot?? But it still plugs at least one DJ program, outdated? `El
Show de Mandril`, L-V 7-12 am (meaning before noon?). Will have to wait until
April 3 morning to confirm whether that still exist. I suspect not, as radio
stations have this all-or-nothing mentality about formatting. Or is this a bad
joke for April 1?
Newspaper ad from November, 2014, DJs presumably jobless now:
http://www.w4uvh.net/WKY930AM-ad.jpg
Their nicknames meant Roadrunner, the Little Doll, the International.
If you search on ESPN Deportes you get stuff about the cable TV channel,
finally leading to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Deportes_Radio
which shows affiliates in only 18 states, of course not including Oclajoma. It
links to website
http://espndeportes.espn.com/radio/index
which turns out to be a File Not Found. Grrr.
Also nothing recent in radioinsight or radiodiscussions concerning WKY
DXLD archives: see
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9004.txt
at the beginning of 2009y for reports on when La Indomable started, after some
shorter-lived format attempts on 930. Refers to ESPND being on KINB 105.3,
apparently a related station, so what`s on 105.3 now? Sports talk in English,
at 1518 UT April 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1872, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
===
** U S A. 1550, April 3 at 0352 UT, ``La Raza, ciento punto uno`` after
music not // 1570 XERF La Hora Nacional, so two clues this is Unitedstatesian,
not Mexican: true dentro-mejicanos don`t need to brand themselves as ``La
Raza``. NRC AM Log shows the only SS on 1550 as La Raza is KMRI West Valley
City UT (SLC), 1/340 watts U1, but nothing about an FM. Then I search the
WTFDA FM database for a Raza on 1550 with any FM, but no hits. Nor does
Radio-locater but leads to its website http://www.larazamedia.com/ which does
display 107.1 only in the form of some listener`s greeting. ``La Raza 107.1 es
la mejor estacion de Utah" Saul Venegas, Salt Lake City UT``. This is probably
my unID of March 27.
To which Raymie Humbert, AZ, replied on the WTFDA Forum March 30: ``
XENU has not migrated — though it is highly likely to be a new-round migrant so
it will probably disappear in the next few years. XERUV is done (permit
discontinuity where the
[IRCA] Colorado TP DX Report April 6
--- Begin Message --- Only a handful of hets were heard this morning from 1313 to 1335. Those were: 594, 693, 747, 774, 828, 972 and 1566. Best of DX Craig Barnes Wheat Ridge, CO Drake R8A ALA 1530ln --- End Message --- ___ 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
