[IRCA] SDRplay Duo reception

[Chris Black]

Having been a DXer and Ham for many years, I am enjoying getting back in the 
hobby and seeing familiar names.
Although the Duo is at the lower end of the SDR price point scale, hearing some 
positives I thought it would be a good place to start.
After running extensive simultaneous reception tests on MW I have been 
underwhelmed by its performance. With some carriers barely above the noise 
floor and not a peep of audio, I hear clear audio, often on multiple station on 
the Icom 7300.
I have made no adjustments to the default ExtIo settings and was wondering what 
other users have found and what settings changes, if any, improved reception.
Best 73 to all
Chris


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[IRCA] Where are they now?

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Do any of you know the present status of the following DXers?: 
Alan Merriman last known to be in VA
Ray Moore last known to be in FL


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Re: [IRCA] SDRplay Duo reception

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Unfortunately both Chuck Hutton and Guy Atkins posted earlier on this 
list (beginning of September) that the Duo's performance was 
underwhelming, Chris, so it seems that your experience is not unique.


best wishes,

Nick

 At 16:00 2019-01-18, Chris Black wrote:
Having been a DXer and Ham for many years, I am enjoying getting 
back in the hobby and seeing familiar names.
Although the Duo is at the lower end of the SDR price point scale, 
hearing some positives I thought it would be a good place to start.
After running extensive simultaneous reception tests on MW I have 
been underwhelmed by its performance. With some carriers barely 
above the noise floor and not a peep of audio, I hear clear audio, 
often on multiple station on the Icom 7300.
I have made no adjustments to the default ExtIo settings and was 
wondering what other users have found and what settings changes, if 
any, improved reception.

Best 73 to all
Chris


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Re: [IRCA] SDRplay Duo reception

[Chris Black]

Hi Nick, that’s good to know. I thought I would check in case any of our 
technical DXeratti had some magical adjustment. But the good news is that I am 
most impressed with the 7300.
Ciao

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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 8:34 AM, Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately both Chuck Hutton and Guy Atkins posted earlier on this list 
> (beginning of September) that the Duo's performance was underwhelming, Chris, 
> so it seems that your experience is not unique.
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> Nick
> 
> At 16:00 2019-01-18, Chris Black wrote:
>> Having been a DXer and Ham for many years, I am enjoying getting back in the 
>> hobby and seeing familiar names.
>> Although the Duo is at the lower end of the SDR price point scale, hearing 
>> some positives I thought it would be a good place to start.
>> After running extensive simultaneous reception tests on MW I have been 
>> underwhelmed by its performance. With some carriers barely above the noise 
>> floor and not a peep of audio, I hear clear audio, often on multiple station 
>> on the Icom 7300.
>> I have made no adjustments to the default ExtIo settings and was wondering 
>> what other users have found and what settings changes, if any, improved 
>> reception.
>> Best 73 to all
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: [IRCA] Where are they now?

[James Renfrew]

I just did a Google search for Ray Moore, Key West and came up with a
Sharon Moore who died in 2015, naming her husband Billy as a survivor,
predeceased by father Ray Moore Sr and Mae Shaw. Same guy?  Jim Renfrew

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:24 Mark Connelly via IRCA 
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Mark Connelly 
> To: nrc...@googlegroups.com, irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:24:00 + (UTC)
> Subject: Where are they now?
>
> Do any of you know the present status of the following DXers?:
> Alan Merriman last known to be in VA
> Ray Moore last known to be in FL
>
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Mark Connelly via IRCA 
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> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:24:00 + (UTC)
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Re: [IRCA] Where are they now?

[Bruce Portzer]

Mark

Alan's ham call  K4GLU is still active according to the FCC database 
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=245508


It's licensed to William A Merrman in Madison, S Dakota

Bruce

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Re: [IRCA] Where are they now?

[Nick Hall-Patch]

My last contact with Ray was about 10 years ago I'm afraid, but he 
was living in Fort Myers then, in good health, and still full of good 
ideas, as well as hearing DX from Australia and such.


best wishes,

Nick


At 16:56 2019-01-18, James Renfrew wrote:

I just did a Google search for Ray Moore, Key West and came up with a
Sharon Moore who died in 2015, naming her husband Billy as a survivor,
predeceased by father Ray Moore Sr and Mae Shaw. Same guy?  Jim Renfrew

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:24 Mark Connelly via IRCA 
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> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Mark Connelly 
> To: nrc...@googlegroups.com, irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:24:00 + (UTC)
> Subject: Where are they now?
>
> Do any of you know the present status of the following DXers?:
> Alan Merriman last known to be in VA
> Ray Moore last known to be in FL
>
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Mark Connelly via IRCA 
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> Cc: Mark Connelly 
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:24:00 + (UTC)
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Re: [IRCA] Where are they now?

[Rick Dau]

I last saw Alan at the 2002 NRC Convention in Lima, Ohio.  Wonder what in the 
world took him from Chincoteague Island all the way to South Dakota?

73,
Rick (Birthday Boy) Dau
hunkered down in icy and snowy South Omaha, Nebraska


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Mark

Alan's ham call  K4GLU is still active according to the FCC database
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=245508

It's licensed to William A Merrman in Madison, S Dakota

Bruce
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[IRCA] DX ALERT - FAROES ISLAND 531

[Sylvain Naud]

DX ALERT - Faroes Islands on 531 KHz with Folk music & talk. // to their 
webstream https://kvf.fo/ 
# 
(21:00 EST)


Sylvain Naud
Portneuf, QC
Perseus + 1475ft Beverage @ 35 degrees
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Re: [IRCA] DX ALERT - FAROES ISLAND 531

[Chuck Hutton]

Nice to see it re-appear. It's  a sign of exciting bottom of the cycle times.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of Sylvain Naud 

Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 6:22 PM
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Subject: [IRCA] DX ALERT - FAROES ISLAND 531

DX ALERT - Faroes Islands on 531 KHz with Folk music & talk. // to their
webstream https://kvf.fo/
#
(21:00 EST)

Sylvain Naud
Portneuf, QC
Perseus + 1475ft Beverage @ 35 degrees
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[IRCA] TP 18 Jan Victoria version.

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Oooog.   Somebody short circuited the ionosphere.




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

pretty darn impossible





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



today, traces of audio would be considered reasonable perhaps, but there are 
standards to be maintained...







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

774 JOUB  pips on hour 1500UT, into man in Japanese, then faded into long lived 
obscurity.  The sign off at 1540UT was barely heard




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) 

828 JOBB sign off music box 1541UT

972 man talking to another man on phone, possibly/likely Korean 1546UT




Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged 
by splatter)
594 603 639  1566  1575 1593 seemed to be Asian; 
612 1017 seemed to be DU  


best wishes,

Nick








Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada  

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[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 18 January 2019

[Nigel Pimblett]

  The up and down week continues, with today being an up day 
(unlike Victoria apparently).   Several of the big Japanese signals made 
a return to audio levels,  and a few Australians also put in an appearance.


594       JOAK    Tokyo, JAPAN    Man in Japanese at 1457

693      JOAB    Tokyo,  JAPAN     Woman in Japanese and English during 
language lesson at 1416


774       3LO    Melbourne, AUSTRALIA    ABC news fanfare at 1400 mixing 
with pips from Japan and woman speaking in Japanese. It was JOUB by 
itself at 1500.


828      JOBB    Osaka,  JAPAN        Time pips at 1400, then musical 
intro to language lesson.


1116    4BC    Brisbane, AUSTRALIA    Popped up at 1414 with oldies 
vocal, then talk by woman.


1422   JORF    Yokohama, JAPAN    Traces of man in Japanese at 1502

1548    4QD    Emerald, AUSTRALIA    ABC news by woman at 1503

1566   HLAZ    Jeju, S.KOREA     Feeble today, but heard traces of 
Chinese talk at 1501



73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array

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[IRCA] Milestone QSL

[Nigel Pimblett]

    Got a QSL from Japanese station 1116 JODR for my MW station #1600 
QSLed.    QSLing any station is getting harder, but Japanese are still 
about the most reliable.   Was happy to get JODR as it took luck to hear 
it given 4BC's dominance of the frequency, and then some effort and 
further luck to even identify it.


73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta, Canada



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Re: [IRCA] 1390 Salem Oregon

[Mike Hawkins]

Phil,

This email reminded me that I won an IRCA DX contest back around 2006,
received a gift certificate and promptly forgot.  I must be getting old!

Mike Hawkins

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 11:54 AM Phil Bytheway via IRCA <
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> Folks,
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> Just so you know, I sent the station a "contact" via their web site. I
> received a phone call very quickly and explained the problem. It was fixed
> by the next day when I was able to log the call letters for the IRCA
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