[IRCA] Fwd: Walter Salmaniw shared "LW Band from 13h57 9Oct2017_000.wav" with you

[Volodya S]

Steve McDonald, VE7SL has allowed me to share some LW logs heard in Masset
last month.  Some pretty exotic results, too!  Thanks, Steve!   Walt
Salmaniw

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From: *Steve* 
Date: Sunday, November 12, 2017
Subject: Re: Walter Salmaniw shared "LW Band from 13h57 9Oct2017_000.wav"
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Walt - I finally found some time to go over your recording and spent
several hours listening over the past couple of days. I was unable to catch
anything new from Alaska and it seems that almost everything in the way of
NDBs up there, has pretty much been heard down here. There have been a
couple over the years that had very low erp and were never heard down this
way and they were even very hard to hear by one of the ndb guys on a couple
of trips to Alasaka with his Perseus ... but these have been decommissioned
now.

One that was on our group's 'decommissioned' list was GLA in Gulkana,
thought to be gone now for almost two years but was heard on your recording
... very weakly, and looks like another candidate for low erp now either
because of poor maintenance or antenna problems. It will be good to put it
back on the 'target' list! Same story for DA in Dawson City...we will put
it back on the list as well.

10 09 17 1357 437 OG Okha, Russia
10 09 17 1357 316 MAJ Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands
10 09 17 1357 320 AI Aitutaki, Cook Islands,
10 09 17 1357 352 RG Raratonga, Cook Islands
10 09 17 1357 255 MD Manado, Indonesia
10 09 17 1357 343 ML Minami Tori Shima, Japan
10 09 17 1357 380 YU Hualien, Taiwan
10 09 17 1357 248 GLA Gulkana, Alaska
10 09 17 1357 214 DA Dawson, Yukon Territory

YU, MD have never been logged in BC so these are 'firsts' for you. The
others have been heard here before. Both of these are pretty difficult to
hear other than from a nice quiet spot near the Pacific Ocean...well done,
especially in the strong likelihood that they are less than 100W output.

Yes, should be a minute each of a 270 deg W/NW BOG, due N Beverage, NE/SW
> ALA 100, and a 240 deg DKAZ.
>

If your list of antennas follows the same order on the recording, then ANT
#1 was the big winner far almost all of these catches, including all of the
signals from Alaska. The next best one for Alaska and the Pacific was #3
and in fact, MD from Indonesia, was better on #3 than on #1 and had an
amzingly good signal. I noted ML on #1 as 'very loud'.

Two of the usually easily heard beacons from Hawaii (LLD and PNA) were
heard with booming signals but interestingly, there was not even a hint of
the several other ones out there. I have heard some of these others here
before but I certainly would have expected to easily hear them judging by
the strength of the other two.

I checked dozens of other frequencies that known beacons from eastern
Russia and the far east (China etc...) are known to be active and logged in
California but was unable to squeeze out any more for you. Do you recall
the propagation conditions for that morning by chance?

It was fun and I look forward to doing this in the future should you have
the opportunity. It was very handy to have a sample of all four antennas
without having to run a different file to compare signals and one minute
seemed just about right for the most part...of course two or three minutes
per antenna might allow some room for a short fade-up which would be missed
in the shorter time span.

I will forward your log for uploading to the ndb database and as before,
they will appear under your name at Haida Gwaii.

Cheers,  Steve







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Re: [IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Nov 12

[Volodya S]

I was up at 07:00 and noted that 1017 and 774 were both coming in pretty
well into Victoria. 73, Walt

On Sunday, November 12, 2017, Bruce Portzer  wrote:

> A quick check of this morning's SDR files showed a huge signal from Korea
> 972 at 1400.  Aside from that, there were OK moments from the NHK stations
> on 747 774 and 828, and a bit of audio on 1566.  Otherwise there wasn't
> much to report.  But at least it was better than several other recent
> mornings.
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[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Nov 12

[Bruce Portzer]

A quick check of this morning's SDR files showed a huge signal from 
Korea 972 at 1400.  Aside from that, there were OK moments from the NHK 
stations on 747 774 and 828, and a bit of audio on 1566.  Otherwise 
there wasn't much to report.  But at least it was better than several 
other recent mornings.


Bruce


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[IRCA] Miami Trifecta Completed

[Glenn Hauser via IRCA]

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Glenn, The last of the three-station frequency/community of license changes by 
the Actualidad Media group has now been implemented.

The Boynton Beach station, call letters WLVJ, is now on the air (as of last 
Monday) on its new frequency of 1020 kHz.

The previous two changes, replacement of 990 in Miami by 1040, and replacement 
of 1020 in Kendall by 990, have been in operation since last January.

This three station frequency change (although from the FCC's standpoint each 
change was a change in community of license) is, so far as we are aware, the 
only situation like this ever to have taken place in the US. 

The result is far better coverage of the Miami urbanized area by the three, 
including particularly 50 kW day (5 kW night) operation in Miami on 1040 kHz 
with a far more desirable antenna pattern than had previously been the case for 
the 5 kW day and night operation on 990 kHz.

Steve Lockwood of our office presented a nice paper on this project at the 
IEEE-BTS symposium in Orlando last month. These changes all took place without 
any requirements for rule waivers by FCC, since the result was superior service 
and reduced interference.

The project was performed (with much on-the-ground engineering by the client!) 
by the dTR/H Joint Venture, a partnership of duTreil, Lundin & Rackley and 
Hatfield & Dawson. The Joint Venture normally performs projects outside the US, 
but in this case we teamed up for folks who had been long term clients of both 
of our firms (Ben Dawson, Hatfield-Dawson, Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Re: [IRCA] 1540AM ZNS-1 Bahamas Anyone catch this one?

[Niel Wolfish via IRCA]

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ZNS-1 would occasionally show up at sunset after my local CHIN (back when they 
were daytime-only) would sign off.   And CHIN is probably B-T-M's foreign 
language station that he heard in Boston.
Niel WolfishToronto, Ontario

On Thursday, November 9, 2017 6:10 PM, "Stewart, Joseph R" 
 wrote:
 

 
Getting to the table late with this reply (as usual)...
The one and only logging I've ever managed on ZNS-1 was several years back when 
they had a DA malfunction and were running non-directional.  Even then it was 
weak here in southern Missouri, buried under all the other crap on 1540; their 
webstream came in handy that evening to verify what I thought I was hearing.

Randy Stewart
Springfield/Battlefield, MO
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[IRCA] S. AZ LWBC Sunday night 171 good

[Steve Ratzlaff]

171 Morocco with pop music and jazzy vocals, poor/weak (sync det) good 
reception 0215 utc. 252 Algeria very poor talk. Two weak MW hets on 684 
and 711. (171 playing old English language record of "Me and Mrs. Jones" 
currently.)


Steve AA7U

near Sahuarita, AZ

R75; E/W longwire

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[IRCA] Another Surprise

[David Faulkner via IRCA]

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Hi All:
980 KSGM Chester, IL; 11/12, 0615 ID "Proudly serving the river region since 
1947 . . . Classic Country KSGM." First noticed playing "I Can't Stop Loving 
You," then a cw song I didn't know, then "If You Love Me Let Me Know," then the 
ID. Excellent signal by 0615, mixing w/but well atop the usual couble team of 
WTEM, WONE. No WATH slop as they were still on night power, not their PSSA. 
Never thought I'd log this one given the double team.
73David FaulknerAlbany, OhioCCrane Skywave
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[IRCA] November 12 - Victoria B.C. TP - fair with surprises

[R. Colin Newell]

Listened from 1445UTC until 1505 UTC

567 Khz JOIK Sapporo NHK1 - fair to good w/ 100% copy
585 Khz JOPG Kushiro NHK1 - fair to good // 594 Khz (Not often heard)
594 Khz JOAK Tokyo NHK1 - good to very good levels
603 Khz HLSA Seoul KBS2 - fair to good - assuming the pop vocals
666 Khz JOBK Osaka NHK1 - fair with Japanese talk
702 Khz  --various -- NHK2 - poor to fair w/ wispy JJ talk in CBU-690
splatter
747 Khz JOIB Sapporo NHK2 - fair to good levels in the splatter
774 Khz JOUB Akita NHK2 - historically one of the loudest NHK stations on
the band
828 Khz JOBB Osaka NHK2 - 2nd best at fair to good levels
972 Khz HLCA Dangjin Less than stellar signal w/ Korean talk
1008 Khz JONR Osaka - poor - assuming the JJ talker
1017 Khz JOLB Fukuoka NHK 2 -  "   "   "   "   "
1053 Khz Various Mix of Japanese and Korean and NO jammer (have not heard
it this season actually -
1143 Khz Taiwan - one of the best signals this season with solid Chinese YL
talk and music
1242 Khz JOLF NBS Tokyo - fair to good with JJ talk
1269 Khz UNid - in Lang. kicking the stuffing out of 1270
1287 Khz JOHR Sapporo HBC - good to very good in Japanese - often the
loudest upper band Japanese station.
1314 Khz JOUF Osaka (t.) Assuming the poor to fair JJ speaker here.
1386 Khz NHK 2 Syncro's various - in Japanese
1422 Khz Unknown - poor in Asian lang - not enough there.
1503 Khz NHK 1 Various - poor to fair with Japanese talk
1566 Khz HLAZ FEBC - poor to fair in Chinese - not a good Korean morning
1575 Khz VOA Thailand - poor to fair - like the South Asian talk
1593 Khz Mix of Japanese and Chinese

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[IRCA] S. AZ TP/DU Nov. 12--poor/fair

[Steve Ratzlaff]

Poor overall for total signals with audio; Japan mostly missing again 
this morning. After sunrise (1350 utc) the high band came up, at least 
for lots of hets, and 1611 Australia produced some nice audio for 
several minutes. Only 1611, no other expanded band freqs produced even a 
weak het. 1566 produced decent audio after sunrise, and well after the 
1345 utc pattern switch when normally the signal goes away.


603 China? Japan? 1317 utc traces of music

774 Japan 1335 utc male/female talk very poor/poor, not heard again

972 S Korea 1400 utc chime, talk very poor;  1410 utc male talk very 
poor/poor, the best peak noted, very late after sunrise


1143 China? 1338 utc talk very poor

1251 China? 1400 utc chime faint ("C" note)

1278 China? 1400 chime very poor ("C" note)

1314 Japan 1400 utc chime very poor

1413 China? 1400 utc chime very poor ("C" note)

1503 Japan 1400 utc pips and chime, female talk very poor/poor ("A" note 
that Japan and S Korea use)


1557 China? 1357 utc music, talk very poor/poor; 1400 utc chime, talk 
very poor ("Bflat" note)


1566 S Korea HLAZ  1312 utc first heard, choir very poor; 1340 utc 
female talk very poor/poor; 1352 utc male talk poor (sync det) then 
China faded up underneath with pop music; 1408 utc choir poor (sync det) 
lasting to 1411 then fading away.


1611 Australia 1355 utc pop music very poor, fading up to very poor/poor 
with female vocal music--I recognized the tune and artist, can't 
identify it though--lasting to 1403 utc then fading away.


Steve AA7U

near Sahuarita, AZ

R75; FDM S2 recording; west DKAZ + FLG100 preamp


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Re: [IRCA] Cloud storage of SDR recordings

[Russ Johnson]

I don't SDR yet but my rule of thumb for cloud storage is: unless you are
okay with everyone in the world potentially having access to what you store
there at some point , don't. I don't trust on-line security at any
organization/company. Loss of MW recordings or access by others wouldn't
fall into a "critical category" for me.

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:58 AM Mark Pettifor  wrote:

> My problem is I get "greedy" whenever some great conditions are present,
> and I'll make an overnight recording, instead of just TOH / BOH, and
> then I get "lazy" and don't review them right away. After a while of
> doing that, even 4TB starts filling up quick!
>
> I guess too it depends on the software used for recording, and the
> bandwidth recorded. I have an ELAD FDM-S2, and I've found that
> SDR-Console makes the smallest data files, so I use that more often than
> the software that comes with the ELAD.
>
> I do agree with Russ that having more than one backup is a good idea.
> (That's a good idea no matter what the application!)
>
> As an aside, here's what I've noticed in the past for recording using
> different software (bandwidth = 1536 kHz or thereabouts, for the entire
> MW band):
>
> HDSDR: 41.2 GB / hr
> ELAD FDM-SW2: 30.7 GB / hr
> SDR-Console: 22.1 GB /hr
>
> I also like using SDR-Console for recording, not just because the data
> files are smaller, but also because the generated data files can be read
> by all three of the other programs. If I use FDM-SW2, it can only be
> played back in FDM-SW2, and not the other two. Not a big deal, really,
> unless I want to share data files with someone.
>
> Mark
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Re: [IRCA] Cloud storage of SDR recordings

[Mark Pettifor]

My problem is I get "greedy" whenever some great conditions are present, 
and I'll make an overnight recording, instead of just TOH / BOH, and 
then I get "lazy" and don't review them right away. After a while of 
doing that, even 4TB starts filling up quick!


I guess too it depends on the software used for recording, and the 
bandwidth recorded. I have an ELAD FDM-S2, and I've found that 
SDR-Console makes the smallest data files, so I use that more often than 
the software that comes with the ELAD.


I do agree with Russ that having more than one backup is a good idea. 
(That's a good idea no matter what the application!)


As an aside, here's what I've noticed in the past for recording using 
different software (bandwidth = 1536 kHz or thereabouts, for the entire 
MW band):


HDSDR: 41.2 GB / hr
ELAD FDM-SW2: 30.7 GB / hr
SDR-Console: 22.1 GB /hr

I also like using SDR-Console for recording, not just because the data 
files are smaller, but also because the generated data files can be read 
by all three of the other programs. If I use FDM-SW2, it can only be 
played back in FDM-SW2, and not the other two. Not a big deal, really, 
unless I want to share data files with someone.


Mark


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[IRCA] Sunday - Nov 12 TPs Victoria live

[R. Colin Newell]

Not a bad morning - listening since 1440 UTC

Lots of audio - whole band. 

2nd tier JJ. Etc. 

Colin Newell - SYSTEMS UVic - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -- 
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Re: [IRCA] Cloud storage of SDR recordings

[Robert Ross]

On 2017-11-12, at 9:06 AM, Mark Pettifor wrote:

> Does anyone store SDR data files in the cloud for later review? I'm thinking 
> of doing that, even though I'm kinda "iffy" on cloud storage (and I work in 
> I.T.!)
> 
> Mark Pettifor
> Goshen, IN
> en71ao
> KC9DOC


Mark…I just have a 4 TB External Hard Drive and I haven't managed to fill it 
yet. I do a LOT of DXing and Store a lot of ELAD Files for later review. I'd 
like to have control of my own files and have them stored right here at home!

It's amazing how much DX /Files you can store on a 4 TB HD. If you are a real 
Fanatic…just get a Bigger External Drive…they are getting pretty affordable now!

73…ROB VA3SW

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London, Ontario CANADA
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Re: [IRCA] Cloud storage of SDR recordings

[Russ Edmunds]

While I don't use an SDR, the same question could apply to my audio recordings. 
My theory is that the cloud is just another storage medium, and that whatever 
places you store your DX, you need to not rely on only one - you need to have 
backup.


I have my DX audio on my file server at home, on a memory stick ( updated 
monthly ) kept in my file cabinet and on another updated as needed kept in the 
vault of my bank.


Double backup should offset any concerns about cloud storage.


Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

Grid FN20id


From: IRCA  on behalf of Mark Pettifor 

Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 9:06:53 AM
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Subject: [IRCA] Cloud storage of SDR recordings

Does anyone store SDR data files in the cloud for later review? I'm
thinking of doing that, even though I'm kinda "iffy" on cloud storage
(and I work in I.T.!)

Mark Pettifor
Goshen, IN
en71ao
KC9DOC
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[IRCA] Cloud storage of SDR recordings

[Mark Pettifor]

Does anyone store SDR data files in the cloud for later review? I'm 
thinking of doing that, even though I'm kinda "iffy" on cloud storage 
(and I work in I.T.!)


Mark Pettifor
Goshen, IN
en71ao
KC9DOC
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