[IRCA] Hams on Medium Wave

[Karl J. Zuk]

>From the ARRL - Now you can become your own medium wave DX! - Karl Zuk  N2KZ

 The Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications 
and Information Administration (NTIA)
 -- the spectrum regulators for United States private sector and 
government users, respectively -- have agreed to support a secondary MF 
allocation to the Amateur Radio Service at 461-469 kHz and 471-478 kHz 
at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12),
 to be held in Geneva, Switzerland from January 23-February 17, 2012. 
FCC and NTIA officials formally presented the proposal at a meeting of 
the Second Permanent Consultative Committee (PCC.II) of the 
Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), held August 30-September 3 
in Fortaleza, Brazil.

 According to ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, the 
proposal reconciles two widely divergent proposals for WRC-12 Agenda 
Item 1.23, adopted by consensus of the private sector and government 
users. Agenda Item 1.23 calls on WRC-12 “to consider an allocation of 
about 15 kHz in parts of the band 415-526.5 kHz to the amateur service 
on a secondary basis, taking into account the need to protect existing 
services.” The FCC’s WRC-12 Advisory Committee (WAC)
 had adopted a proposal for a secondary amateur allocation at 495-510 
kHz, but the NTIA, acting on the advice of government maritime 
interests, initially supported no change from the status quo.
“I am pleased that the United States is taking an affirmative 
position on Agenda Item 1.23,” Price said “While the proposed frequency 
bands differ from both what the ARRL proposed and the private sector 
supported by consensus during WAC deliberations, it is gratifying that 
government interests have backed off a no change position.”

 Some maritime interests, both domestically and internationally, have 
expressed opposition to any amateur allocation in the range 415-526.5 
kHz, citing existing narrowband direct printing applications at 490 and 
518 kHz, as well as future plans for the band that have yet to be fully 
characterized, Price explained. To the extent future maritime uses of 
the band have been discussed, the focus has been on the 495-505 kHz 
segment. Despite the lack of plans for the remainder of the range under 
consideration, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
 has adopted a draft position of “no change” and has communicated this 
position to the ITU. IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH, has met with IMO 
officials in efforts to soften this position.

 “The road to a favorable outcome for Agenda Item 1.23 at WRC-12 
remains treacherous,” Price said. “The IMO is a respected organization, 
and their opinion carries weight. It’s up to us to continue to make the 
case that a secondary allocation can be made while protecting existing 
services, both to the IMO and to the ITU Member States who will make the
 decisions at WRC-12.”
Technical Relations Specialist Jon Siverling, WB3ERA, represented the
 ARRL on the United States delegation to the CITEL PCC.II meeting. From 
that meeting, he notes other matters of concern to the Amateur Radio 
Service:

Regarding Agenda Item 1.14, considering an allocation to the 
radiolocation service between 30-300 MHz, the United States proposed 
that no change be made in ITU Region 2 and suggested that changes in 
other regions should be addressed by country-by-country footnotes to the
 ITU Radio Regulations. Proponents appear to be focusing on 154-156 
MHz.Regarding Agenda Item 1.19, considering regulatory provisions 
for software defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio systems (CRS), 
sufficient support for a United States proposal of “no change” was 
garnered to have the proposal deemed a region-wide Inter-American 
proposal. The status quo reduces the risk of provisions in the Radio Regulations
 that could curtail experimentation in SDR and CRS by the Amateur 
Service and reduce the portability of equipment across international 
boundaries.




  
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Re: [IRCA] ULR DX.....WEIRD ONE on 1710 Khz.....OLDIES..."The BIG Q"????? Need Help with this one......

[Karl J. Zuk]

Robert:
 
I listened to 1710 on the way to work today in the NYC area - 0515 to 0600 ELT.
 
Above the usual mish-mash was the Bronx Latino station - but no sign of oldies.
 
Karl Zuk  N2KZ  FN31eh





 
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 04:22:10 -0400
> From: va...@rogers.com
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> Subject: [IRCA] ULR DX.WEIRD ONE on 1710 Khz.OLDIES..."The BIG 
> Q"? Need Help with this one..
> 
> Hi Guys:
> 
> Just Logged a Weird one on 1710 Khz, and need some help ID'ing this.
> Details of logging are below. If anyone knows who this is..I'd be
> grateful!! A quick check on the Internet comes up blank.
> 
> It seemed to be oriented EAST/WEST of me here in London, ONTARIO.
> 
> Radio Used..SONY SRF-T615 ULR Barefoot
> 
> 73...ROB VA3SW
> 
> Robert S. Ross
> London, Ontario CANADA
> 
> **
> 1710 "The Big Q"?? UNID E/W of me Sept/05/10 0318-0400 EDT EE Fair-Good
> Continuous OLDIES MUSIC. Songs included "Sunshine Lollipops", "GTO" by The
> BeachBoys, "Come Tomorrow", "Jennifer". 60's/70's Oldies mainly.
> Male DJ Spoke after every 3 Songs or so. At 0353 EDT he said..."If you can
> hear this broadcast...you must have a Radio near you". At 0357 Male DJ said
> "Crankin' out the Monsters on the BIG Q" ? Still in with OLDIES after
> 0400 EDT.
> 
> Don't know if this is a Pirate, Part 15 Station, or what??? Somebody may
> know
> who this is??? Maybe it is LOCAL to you??? Any help appreciated!!
> 
> ROSS, ONT.
> ***
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [IRCA] Status

[Karl J. Zuk]

Phil: 

I've had four heart procedures and seven stents...and survived!
You should be in good hands.
Doctors really work miracles these days.
My prayers are with you.
Hang in and take it easy.
I'll wait to hear from you on the other side of your adventure.

All the best, Karl Zuk






> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:56:38 -0700
> From: phil_te...@yahoo.com
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> Subject: [IRCA] Status
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I'll be going in to hospital tomorrow (Tuesday) for an angiogram.
> After a series of tests last week (I didn't pass), this is the next step. 
> There 
> is a portion of my heart that is "in question." and I've been feeling very 
> weak 
> for the last week or so.
> 
> So, I will be "out of action" for a couple of weeks max... maybe I'll get 
> some 
> DXing done, if I can stay up late enough, hi.
> 
> Please support Eric for his first issue of DXM next week.
> 
> 
> Phil Bytheway
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[IRCA] WRVP 1310 Mt. Kisco NY back on air

[Karl J. Zuk]

After at least three days silent, WRVP 1310 Mt. Kisco (Westchester) NY back on 
air with Radio Vision Christiana programming (Christian in Spanish.) Sunday, 
3-28 1600 ELT Karl Zuk  N2KZ  FN31eh




  
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[IRCA] WRVP 1310 Mt. Kisco NY Off

[Karl J. Zuk]

1310 NY Mt. Kisco  WRVP (formerly WVIP) noted off the air 3/25 1200 and 
continuing for a long period of time. I don't check this frequency often, but 
it is one of my most powerful AMs now missing in action. 5,000 watts 
directional daytime, 33 watts night. (Yes, I can hear the night signal at about 
5 miles or so away.) Format: Christian in Spanish as 'Radio Vision de 
Christiana' parallel with 1330 WWRV NY New York. I wonder if anyone else has 
noticed that it's silent. Usually the 1310 station in Ottawa (CIWW) will appear 
when local WRVP is off. Another one bites the dust? - or are they just slow to 
repair it?  Karl Zuk  N2KZ  FN31eh
  
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[IRCA] Saul Decoded

[Karl J. Zuk]

Track one:

NG UNTIL THAT GIVING DAD 2  35 TC  LY  NG  PAL  NH  NGT THE  D ASSOCIATED WITH.
GARY IM NOT TO  NUEY  MN  OUT ON YOU CIGEEXRE  A

Track two:

QSO PARTIES?  K

Track three:

U THE CLASSIC EXCHANGE 5 ABOUT UN C ONE QSO WAIT Y N ON FUN  YOU LIKE N LD GEA 
GM TSCKOT MANY.
TNX FER DE 

Like I said, sounds like ham radio to me, Do you have any more on track 3? It 
sounded like he was just about to send a callsign.

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Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] unID morse code 1710

[Karl J. Zuk]

Saul: It sure sounds like amateur radio to me. On one listen to each of the 
three clips, I pulled out the name Gary twice and the word classic and some 
business about a QSO. Maybe a powerful 160 meter operator getting enough signal 
into your front end to break through (some sort of product, maybe?) This might 
explain the high note of the code, too. I'll listen more carefully when I get 
home. I'm at work right now. Karl Zuk  N2KZ





 
> From: sau...@sympatico.ca
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> amfmt...@mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:48:17 +
> Subject: [Amdx] unID morse code 1710
> 
> 
> On Tue Dec 15 in the evening, on 1710, on south wire, I heard two streams of 
> rapid and prolonged morse code. Three recordings are online if anyone wants 
> to listen. The code is too fast for me to copy, and it doesn't seem as simple 
> as a three or four-letter beacon.
> 
> www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?p=11030#post11030
> 
> I have seen no real reports of anything like this.
> 
> The unID site is maintained by the WTFDA, by the way.
> 
> Saul Chernos
> Burnt River ON
> 
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Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] 1310 Spanish unID

[Karl J. Zuk]

May I suggest 1310 WRVP (the former WVIP) Mt. Kisco New York which IDs with 
"Radio Vision Cristiana" parallel with 1330 kcs in NJ.

 

Karl Zuk





 
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> amfmt...@mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:01:04 +
> Subject: [Amdx] 1310 Spanish unID
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Have spent a fair bit of time on 1310 lately trying to nail several 
> Spanish-language stations. I did nab a "Mega" ID with Latin music on 1310 for 
> WEMG Camden NJ. But I cannot seem to get anything solid on a Christian 
> Spanish-language spoken word station. I'm attaching several clips from Dec. 
> 17. 
> 
> We're likely talking about the east side of the continent - I was on my south 
> wire, from just north of Toronto.
> 
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?p=11031#post11031
> 
> 
> 
> The unID site is maintained by the WTFDA, by the way.
> 
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[IRCA] Far North Daytime Only AMs

[Karl J. Zuk]

A question:

How does the FCC handle daytime only stations who are very far north?

If you are licensed to a town that experiences 'midnight sun' or close to it,
are you allowed to operate until local sunset - or maybe 24 hours a day - 
if the sun never sets?

Do these stations need to operate only very short hours during the height of 
winter
or are their concessions made for this circumstance?

A broader question: Are there any daytimers located that far north to begin 
with?

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Re: [IRCA] Personal Introduction - Hello

[Karl J. Zuk]

Hey Patrick:

 

Welcome back to the club!

 

I actually have a copy of your book.

It's a great little keepsake.

A beautiful job well done!

 

I'm fascinated with your resume.

Sounds like quite a diverse and exciting life.

 

I hold an Extra as N2KZ and am a former president of IRCA.

 

Hope to see your loggings soon!

 

Karl Zuk





 
> From: antennawiz...@hotmail.com
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> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:43:48 -0700
> Subject: [IRCA] Personal Introduction - Hello
> 
> 
> My name is Patrick Griffith. I live in Parker, Colorado in the USA. Parker is 
> a suburb of Denver. It is located about 20 miles southeast of Denver at an 
> elevation of 5,868 feet above sea level. Parker is home to the KOA/850 
> transmitter which is about 2 miles from my house.
> 
> I have been away from the IRCA list for a few months due to some personal 
> issues. So, to some, this is a re-introduction of sorts. To those who 
> previously communicated with me please note the change of my e-mail provider 
> from the somewhat problematic Webtv to a more conventional Hotmail account.
> 
> I grew up in rural northern Illinois where I became an avid DXer in 1965 at 
> the age of 13. I migrated to the Denver area in 1981. I am a retired 
> firefighter/EMT. I actually retired at the rank of Fire Investigator. I have 
> also had previous careers as a police officer, burglar and fire alarm 
> response officer, 911 dispatcher, broadcast engineer, and radio producer. I 
> presently work as an armed security screener for the Arapahoe County court 
> system. 
> 
> Since 1965 I have also been an intermittent disaster response employee for 
> the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). I am one of the founders of 
> Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) CO-2 located here in the Denver area. 
> This team responds to large scale medical disasters and also pre-stages at 
> events with the potential for large scale medical emergencies nationwide. 
> This team is also designated as one of four National Medical Response Teams 
> for Weapons of Mass Destruction. As a member of the management support unit 
> for these teams I have responded to a number of incidents ranging from the 
> bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. 
> In 2003 I was recognized by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge as a 
> Founding Member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
> 
> I have several professional certifications from the Society of Broadcast 
> Engineers and I am a General class amateur radio (ham) operator - call sign 
> N0NNK. In 2006 and 2007 I helped to construct and proof the present 
> transmitter site for the AM 1510 station located here in the Denver area. It 
> is a 4-tower directional array. 
> 
> I have also done some writing having published a small book and 14 magazine 
> articles. The book that I published (in 1998) was titled AM Broadcast Station 
> Antenna Systems - A Basic Guide. It was written primarily with the AM DXer in 
> mind. 
> 
> My primary receiver is a Drake R-8 and my antenna is a Kiwa 12-inch air core 
> loop. I am an avid collector of AM and shortwave QSLs. I presently have 6 
> binders filled with the QSLs that I have collected since the 1960s.
> 
> I am happy to be back on the IRCA list. I have always found it to be an 
> excellent source of information. I hope all are well and I wish you and yours 
> happy holidays. 
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[IRCA] Really Odd AM Reception

[Karl J. Zuk]

OK. This may be completely psychological, but it is unnerving.
At the risk of sounding like a Coast-to-Coast AM caller, something weird is 
going on.
I live 31 miles from High Island where WCBS and WFAN transmit from (NYC area.)
The New Jersey swamp stations are slightly farther away. 
As the crow flies, these stations are really close by.
Only in the last two weeks or so, I have been experiencing deep fading and 
especially phasing of the NYC clear channels to the point of almost complete 
obliteration.
This is not just at my home QTH, but driving to and from work within a 
reasonable radius of my house.
It is reminiscent of what you would expect at SSS/SRS on a regional or local 
channel. 
I've been an active DXer since about 1958 or so and I've never heard the big 
boys (NYC's 50 kWs) bend in the breeze like this.
Unintelligible speech and sometimes nulling so you can actually hear weak 
stations behind them? Really weird.
These stations are usually so rock solid that all the nulling in the world 
can't squelch them.
My regular out of town biggies don't bend anymore than usual. 
In fact, even distant 50 KWs like WHO, KMOX, and WWL are unstoppable and live 
long past sunrise. 
Am I the only one who is experiencing this effect with backyard locals?
BTW, the across-the-pond hets have just been enormous.
When I can hear Arabian chanting and loud 1 kHz howling over WWKB Buffalo day 
after day on a car radio, you know conditions are good.

Thanks for listening (pun not intended)  Karl Zuk  N2KZ




  
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[IRCA] 1030 AM UNID

[Karl J. Zuk]

Heard on my Sony SRF-59 this morning just north of NYC: 
Strong oldies station with zero local content, no IDs and computer playback. 
Overnight DJ was Larry of Late Night. 
After 6 am, it was a guy and girl team but I never heard their names.

This station sets a new standard for squeaky clean computer playback.
All the songs sounded like they had come from the same studio.
I heard a phoner during the guy and gal show that sounded like they were
using a voice extra for the call-in guy.
Songs were all the ones you know by heart:
You've got a friend
Light my fire
You get the idea.

Is this West Virginia's WBGS on full power by mistake?
Is there someone out there I haven't heard of yet?
Big, big signal and about 45 degrees off of WBZ's peak in nulling.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

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[IRCA] For EDXR

[Karl J. Zuk]

1470 WJDY MD, Salisbury In strong at 0530 EDT with CNN Headline News. Possibly 
on day power? Really dominant this AM. (KZ-NY)

 

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[IRCA] For EDXR: CKHJ 1260 NB

[Karl J. Zuk]

Strong CKHJ 1260 from Fredericton, NB today around 530-600 am Eastern Monday, 
September 21.

Well-done country format, with many mentions of Canada, using the ID of 'KHJ'

They ID as a three city station with low power FMs on 95.1 and 103.1.

This was a new one for me. This frequency is occupied by local WSHU, 

Sacred Heart University, with NPR programming dayside. WSHU is the former WMMM

from Westport, CT on the shore of Long Island Sound.

 

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[IRCA] Canadian Broadcasting History Web Site

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A nice interesting site with lots of information about Canadian broadcasting:

 

http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/

 

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Re: [IRCA] "The All New 97.1 Frank FM" on 1310- Who?

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Possibly WLOB Portland, ME 1310 5 kW with a new simulcast arrangement? 
There is a Frank FM in town on 97.1.

Karl Zuk  N2KZ






> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:06:02 -0400
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> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com; ultraligh...@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IRCA] "The All New 97.1 Frank FM" on 1310- Who?
> 
> Heard this ID "The All New 97.1 Frank FM" on 1310 at 2245 but couldn't
> get a TOH ID, just this liner.  Google is coming up blank.  Any idea
> who it might be?  Probabaly East Coast or New England.
> 
> John Cereghin
> Smyrna DE
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[IRCA] Sony SRF-M37V new version

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A very good friend of mine sent me a Sony SRF-M37V ultralight to audition. 
I liked it enough to purchase a second one. 
The latest version of this unit no longer includes TV sound reception.
This is unfortunate since I still receive Canadian TV audio. 
The AM reception is amazing, as many of you know.
The FM reception is just OK.

My question is: 
Does anyone have a Sony SRF-M37V that has a working weather band? 
Both units I have tried only produce a jumble that sounds
like front-end intermod overload on 'DX' and nothing at all on 'Local'. 
I've tried listening to weather band at several varied locations with the exact 
same results. Any ideas? 

If the AM reception was not so spectacular, this would be a quite 
mediocre radio.

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Re: [IRCA] Long-term Breakdown of the Sony SRF-59 Tuning Capacitor

[Karl J. Zuk]

I had the exact same experience with a unit considerably older.

Keep perspective: This is a $15 item. Enjoy the magic while you can (or don't 
change frequencies!)

Karl Zuk  N2KZ






> From: d1028g...@aol.com
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:24:53 -0400
> To: ultraligh...@yahoogroups.com; irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@nrcdxas.org
> Subject: [IRCA] Long-term Breakdown of the Sony SRF-59 Tuning Capacitor
> 
> Hello All,
>  
> A problem that presented itself occasionally among new SRF-59 units in late 
>  2007 has now, unfortunately, become somewhat of an epidemic.
>  
> The "scratchy tuner" problem was originally observed in about 10% of new  
> SRF-59 units in late 2007, which is caused by the breakdown of the dielectric 
>  material inside the tuning capacitor. The problem only was evident when 
> the  SRF-59 was tuned on AM, especially when tuned quickly from one side of 
> the band  to the other.
>  
> Evidence now strongly indicates that this SRF-59 issue is congenital, due  
> to a low quality tuning capacitor used by Sony to cut manufacturing costs. 
> My  original three SRF-59 units from late 2007 were all free of this problem 
> when  purchased and aligned, but all three have now developed the "scratchy  
> tuner." This includes the unit which received JOAK-594, JOIB-747 and 
> HLCA-972 in  November of 2007, which motivated me to write the SRF-59 review. 
> Apparently over  a period of several years, the SRF-59 tuner component 
> inevitably breaks  down
>  
> The Sony SRF-39FP and other Sony analog CXA1129N IC chip-based radios  
> apparently do not have this tuning capacitor issue, due to a higher quality  
> tuner component used in manufacturing. For those with an SRF-59 enjoying  
> great 
> DX, you may wish to secure one of these other Sony analog units for a  
> backup.
>  
> 73, Gary DeBock
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[IRCA] WCBS 880 off

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WCBS-AM 880 New York City is off the air tonight from 0006 to apx. 0400 for 
maintenance. Karl Zuk N2KZ

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[IRCA] Ernest Cooper QSL collection

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Does anyone know the fate of Ernie Cooper's amazing QSL collection?

It would make a fascinating book or museum piece.

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Re: [IRCA] Spanish Pirate on 1710 QRMing the Croele Boston area pirate

[Karl J. Zuk]

Neil:

This pirate must be somewhere in New England. I hear it, especially on early 
weekend mornings before and during SRS, north of New York City, with fair to 
good signals way above Brooklyn's pirate. It doesn't seem to be in NYC, since 
the Jewish station clobbers it. I'll try to listen more closely to see if they 
give any hints to where they are. They play lots of dance music and sound like 
many FM pirates in the NYC area.

Karl Zuk  N2KZ






> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:36:22 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: [IRCA] Spanish Pirate on 1710 QRMing the Croele Boston area pirate
> 
> With this being Friday night and the Lubavicher Sabbath, that Brooklyn pirate 
> is off, Earlier this evening I was hearing clear Spanish religious oriented 
> pgmg messing up the Boston area Croele pirate.
> 
> Anyone know where the SS comes from ?
> 
> 73 KAZ Grafton WI
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[IRCA] CBA DX Test QSL full info

[Karl J. Zuk]

Hey Mike:
 
Stacey Foster
CBC Radio New Brunswick
250 University Avenue
P.O. Box 950
Moncton, NB E1C 8N8
 
main - 508-853-
Stacey - 506-853-6634
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
Stacey is a really nice guy. 
I had a good chat with him regarding CBA and its history. 
He handled my QSL and also sent me a refrigerator magnet and a couple of other 
trinkets.
See: http://www.cbc.ca/informationmorningmoncton/events.html for coverage of 
the shut down event. 
 
Best of luck and Happy Thanksgiving!
 
Karl Zuk  N2KZ> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:37:55 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [IRCA] CBA DX Test QSL?> > Does anyone have 
either an e-mail address or snail-mail address for > the person that conducted 
the CBA Test back in April?> > I made a copy of my tape and used an address 
that was posted online > (P.O. Box 950, Moncton, New Brunswick, CANADA E1C 
8N8), and sent it off > "First Class Airmail"(as the USPS calls it), but 
nothing to date.> > Still have my original tape (no idea how to convert it to 
CD) and > can resend, but just wanted to check with whomever regarding > 
receipt/non-receipt of my original tape/report.> > Thanks. Mike> > 
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Re: [IRCA] CBE-1550 Windsor ON applies to move to FM (97.5, 3.2 kW)

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There goes my last firm grip on CBC on medium wave.

Is the frequency going dark or will someone else take it over?

Karl Zuk  N2KZ






> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 
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> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:19:12 -0700
> Subject: [IRCA] CBE-1550 Windsor ON applies to move to FM (97.5, 3.2 kW)
> 
> CBE-1550 Windsor ON has applied to the CRTC to move to FM (97.5 MHz,  
> 3.2 kW, 130.1 meters)
> with a second transmitter at Leamington ON 991.5 MHz, 6.1  kW, 58.7  
> meters).
> This will replace the never implemented nested FM relay on 102.3 MHz.  
> CBE will go
> silent after the usual three month simulcast period. Excluding a few  
> 40 watt low power relay transmitters
> this is the last (assuming that CBI will also actually move) English  
> language CBC station
> on AM between Manitoba and Newfoundland.
> 
> 
> 
> 31.
> Windsor and Leamington, Ontario
> Application No. 2008-1352-8
> 
> Application by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to convert radio  
> station
> CBE Windsor from the AM band to the FM band.
> 
> The applicant is also proposing to establish a new FM transmitter at  
> Leamington.
> 
> The new station would operate on frequency 97.5 MHz (channel 248B)  
> with an average
> effective radiated power of 3,200 watts (maximum effective radiated  
> power of 19,000
> watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of  
> 130.1 metres).
> 
> The Leamington transmitter would operate on frequency 91.5 MHz  
> (channel 218B1) with
> an average effective radiated power of 6,100 watts (maximum effective  
> radiated power
> of 10,400 watts with an effective height of antenna above average  
> terrain of 58.7 metres).
> 
> The applicant is requesting, pursuant to sections 9(1)(e) and 24(2)  
> of the Broadcasting
> Act, the revocation of the licence of CBE effective at the end of the  
> simulcast period.
> 
> The applicant has indicated that it will apply, within 30 days of the  
> implementation of
> the proposed FM transmitter at Windsor, for the revocation of the  
> authority granted in
> Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-101 for a nested FM transmitter on  
> the 102.3 MHz frequency in Windsor.
> 
> The applicant has indicated that it will launch both the Windsor and  
> Leamington
> transmitters within one year of the approval where, at which time, it  
> will operate
> in simulcast mode for three months. Following this period, the  
> applicant is also
> requesting, pursuant to sections 9(1)(e) and 24(1) of the  
> Broadcasting Act, the
> revocation of the licence of CBE Windsor.
> 
> 73,
> 
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Re: [IRCA] Antenna for LW

[Karl J. Zuk]

Hey Dennis:

Long Wave is everything medium wave is just more so.

The most important feature about long wave is nulling out noise, but signal 
strength is a challenge too. You would like to get both. If you have the real 
estate try to phase long wires. Make sure you have a huge ground system. The 
more radials the better. This band is driven by ground wave. Don't forget to 
capture it. Using just a ferrite loop might be OK, but you'll need quite a lot 
of taps or capacitive tricks to make it tune the entire band well. My best 
advice is to head for a quiet park, find a place where there is a good ground 
(like a water fountain) and work from there. All the electrical noise in an 
apartment will make your LW catches difficult if not impossible. Check out the 
Long Wave Club of America. They have great reads about this region and they are 
a great bunch of guys. www.lwca.org.

What are you using as a receiver?

Karl Zuk  N2KZ




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> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:54:59 -0700
> Subject: [IRCA] Antenna for LW
> 
> What can an apartment dweller do for an antenna for LW? Will a stock ferrite 
> bar antenna do much down there?
> 
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[IRCA] Ray Baurenhuber

[Karl J. Zuk]

Ray lived fairly close to me in College Point in Queens. We go back a long way. 
We got to know each other while I was still editing EDXR back when the GE 
Superadio was a new item. Back then, I visited him and installed an outdoor 
antenna for his ICF-2010. It was his first real antenna. What a difference it 
made! I had to devise a coupling system between the antenna and his rig. Direct 
connection was way too powerful! We worked together for years on continuous 
improvements to his DXing shack. Ray always wanted to make his reception better 
and better. He recently installed an Alpha-Delta trap array that he was quite 
proud of. I nearly begged Ray to get his Technician amateur radio license, but 
Ray was quite satisfied being a great BCB DXer and SWL. In the very beginning, 
his loggings were simple and basic. His skills improved continually and his 
fraternity with our group made him a celebrity. Everyone knew Ray and felt his 
enthusiasm. Ray loved radio and he loved his family an!
 d life in general. He fought illness for many, many years always with a smile 
on his face. No matter what difficult obstruction stopped his life, he would 
always eventually come back for more. He never gave up. He took great bitter 
with little sweet yet always had an extraordinary positive attitude. He served 
the IRCA in many ways and always took his positions quite seriously. I talked 
him into running the elections and he actually wound up enjoying it! He always 
made lemonade from his lemons. Ray was a great, great guy. We should all learn 
from his approach to life - to squeeze every joy possible out of every minute. 
God be with you, Ray. I hope his loggings from above will be as amazing as his 
life on earth. I'll miss our conversations and I'll miss his spirit. A better 
man you will never meet. Rest in peace, my friend!  Karl Zuk  N2KZ

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Re: [IRCA] SDR-IQ Files of TA MW Reception - from Mark Connelly

[Karl J. Zuk]

Where can we see Mark's files?

Thanks, Karl Zuk  N2KZ




> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:30:03 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] SDR-IQ Files of TA MW Reception - from Mark Connelly
> 
> > I have uploaded three of Mark Connelly's SDR-IQ files of Trans-Atlantic MW
> > DX reception (180 kHz segments) to my Web storage space:
> 
> And I downloaded all three files.
> 
> Good heavens. Life on the East Coast!
> 
> These files are mind boggling.
> 
> Anyone with a PC out there and a good connection to
> the net should download these files - if only
> to see how the other half DX!
> 
> Thank you Guy for making this possible!
> 
> --
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[IRCA] CBA sign off pictures

[Karl J. Zuk]

Stacy Foster at CBA has posted some pictures of the final sign off.
 
See: http://www.cbc.ca/informationmorningmoncton/events.html and follow the 
link.
 
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Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] WTWK 1070 Plattsburgh, NY

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It appears to be really intentional to me. Produced programming, heavy in 
commercials.
I replied to the person who e-mailed me. Let's see if I get a response!  Karl 
Zuk> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:20:29 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]; irca@hard-core-dx.com> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Amdx] 
[IRCA] WTWK 1070 Plattsburgh, NY> > I still don't think that would allow them 
to be on before 6am at this time of year. PSRA starts at 6am to fill the gap 
between 6am and "power-up" or sign-on in the darker months. As someone pointed 
out, they may have been testing, but the engineer seemed unaware of it. I think 
they boo-booed. > > 73, BC> > Russ Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 
Bruce Collier wrote:> > > And according to Radio Locator, they are 
daytime-only, no night power> > or anything else that I can see that would 
allow them to be on before> > 6am at this time of year. Methinks CBA going off 
has exposed some> > pre-sunrise shenanigans in Plattsburgh> > > > "Karl J. 
Zuk" wrote: > > This morning, from 520 to 600 am, I heard WTW!
 K "Eve 1070" talk from> > Plattsburgh, NY blending in with country CHOK from 
Sarnia, ON.> > > > I don't see a PSA for WTWK on the FCC's AM Query. How much 
power do> > they run before sunrise?> > > > They had a pretty good signal down 
here mentioning Plattsburgh and> > St. Albans, VT.> > > > > A PSA ( or PSSA ) 
is independent of a station being daytime-only. A PSA> (or PSSA) will also not 
necessarily be shown in the FCC records. Many> were never converted over when 
the current database was created. many> others were lost. At one time, these 
were entirely handled via fax, and> the records are skimpy.> > IIRC, since when 
I lived in NJ and this station came on the air> initially while I lived there ( 
granted this is 35+ years ago, so my> recollection may not be completely 
accurate ) they did at that time> have a PSA - at which time there weren't 
PSSA's yet.> > Bottom line, we don't really know for certain that they don't 
have one,> and there's no easy way to find out.> > > > Ru!
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Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] WTWK 1070 Plattsburgh, NY

[Karl J. Zuk]

If I recall correctly, the post sunrise authority came first called a PSA. A 
while later, stations petitioned wondering why they couldn't run mini power at 
night too. These were called PSSAs. I can't say I've ever heard of a PSRA, but  
OK sure. Some of the grants were silly. I have a local station nearby that is 
5,000 watts day and 34 watts at night.  Karl Zuk  N2KZ




> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:50:47 -0700
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> 
> 
> --- "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I think you mean PSRA, Pre Sunrise Authority, not PSA.
> > 
> > Right?
> > 
> 
> Yes. "PSA" is the old original 1970's name for PSRA. PSRA came about
> when PSSA was created as a more specific term. I tend to think of it in
> the sense of the old terminology when I'm thinking in historical terms.
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[IRCA] CBA Final Tour

[Karl J. Zuk]

CBC Radio has posted a four minute last tour of the CBA transmitter site.
 
Very interesting content and downloadable for posterity.
 
Follow the link seen at:
 
http://www.cbc.ca/informationmorningmoncton/index.html
 
Karl Zuk  N2KZ
 
 
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[IRCA] WTWK 1070 Reply

[Karl J. Zuk]

I received the following reply from the chief engineer of "Eve 1070."
 
I was listening between 5:20 to 6 am on the way to work in my car.
 
They sign on at 6:30 am. 
 
Keep in mind midnight to 6 am is legal testing time. 
 
Maybe this was what I heard.
 
P.S. I think he meant to say 'turn on time.'  
 
Karl Zuk  N2KZ
 
Karl,
 
Good to hear from DX'ers like you.  WTWK has daytime authority only.  WTWK 
transmits 5kW daytime and goes off the air during nighttime hours.  The time 
schedule varies month to month and daylight savings shifts the hours of 
operation too.  If you heard WTWK during the month of April, our turn off time 
would be 0730 hrs EST (DST corrected).
 
 
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WTWK AM 1070
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[IRCA] WTWK 1070 Plattsburgh, NY

[Karl J. Zuk]

This morning, from 520 to 600 am, I heard WTWK "Eve 1070" talk from 
Plattsburgh, NY blending in with country CHOK from Sarnia, ON.
 
I don't see a PSA for WTWK on the FCC's AM Query. How much power do they run 
before sunrise?
 
They had a pretty good signal down here mentioning Plattsburgh and St. Albans, 
VT.
 
Thanks, Karl Zuk N2KZ about 50 miles north of NYC
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[IRCA] CBA-1070 sign off

[Karl J. Zuk]

I heard the actual sign off. It came at about 1137 UTC.
One of their old announcers was at the transmitter site with a current lady 
announcer.
They spoke about two engineers who were on site that were also involved in 
installing the current Nautel solid state transmitter.
Of course, they talked about how wonderful FM was.
Earlier in the morning, they played Steely Dan's movie theme "FM" during a 
teaser. 
They played a brief clip of a balladeer singing about going off the air. 
They took a long pause and went to a show out of Toronto. 
I presume this was when the medium wave transmitter went off.
There was a mention that the Nautel was going to be disassembled.
I guess this means that there will not be a commericial broadcaster on 1070 at 
least in the near future from New Brunswick.
Has anyone heard anything about that possibility?
 
Karl Zuk  N2KZ> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 7 
Apr 2008 13:21:51 +> CC: irca@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [IRCA] CBA-1070> > 
I listened to CBA-1070 from 0500 to 0530 EDT this morning. Around 0515 EDT, 
after CBC news, they ran local New Brunswick news and weather. Following that 
they had a live announcement that the "AM-1070 transmitter in Moncton would be 
switched off." I did not hear the exact time that this would occur. I belive 
they announced that (NRC/IRCA member) Brent Taylor would throw the switch to 
turn off 1070. By 0530 EDT they were still on but suffering interference from 
the Plattsburgh, NY station, WTIC-1080 IBOC, and the New Brunswick sunrise.> > 
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[IRCA] CBA Comments and Info.

[Karl J. Zuk]

I was listening to both medium wave and Internet from 11:45pm through about 
1:15am.
 
No test aired. CBA was broadcasting parallel with the Eastern Time zone 
stations like CBE 1550 Windsor.
I don't remember this happening before. Why were they out of sync, or is this a 
Sunday evening thing I haven't noticed?
CBA is usually an hour ahead of CBE Windsor, Ontario due to the time 
difference. They are on Atlantic Standard Time. 
 
Conditions at my QTH were somewhat auroral. I had deep fades every 15 minutes 
or so like clockwork. 
CHOK was in pretty well to the west of me. My Superadio and SRF-59 had to be 
nulled to hear CBA fairly clearly.
 
I feel bad that the test did not run. Saul put a lot of time and effort into 
trying to arrange this for us and we should offer him applause.
Why CBA didn't run the test is irrelevant. It was rude to say they would run 
the test and then not run it. We don't understand.
 
The CBC is a big nationwide bureaucracy and lumbers along often not gracefully. 
Their programming is very good. Their local staffs are workhorses that are only 
on the air part-time. I got to know the crew at a similar station in Sydney, 
Nova Scotia. The recent CBC strike really demoralized them. The excellent pair 
of people handling their version of Information Morning eventually retired. I 
presume the strike had something to do with their early retreat. Outside of 
local content for 2 1/2 hours every morning and little bursts afternoons and 
weekends, these stations are on auto-pilot repeating the feeds coming out of 
Toronto. 
 
CBA used to be open and clear on 1070. After CHOK was established, it became 
much harder to hear around my QTH north of New York City. Losing CBL 740 
Toronto was a blow, as well. When WTIC 1080 Hartford put on its IBOC 
embarrassment, it really became difficult to hear especially with any sort of 
pleasure. The complete resolution? Internet access in our cars. Wait a few 
decades and get back to me. 
 
Good luck to CBA and their 106.1 operation. Hopefully, the local content will 
hold on for awhile. 
By the way, check out CBC's show with former Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist 
Randy Bachman called Vinyl Tap.
What a great show if you love rock and guitars! Look for it from 7 to 9 pm 
Saturday nights.
Web site: http://www.randysvinyltap.com/.
 
One final thought: Why were the English MW outlets turned off in Moncton and 
Toronto while the French outlet in Toronto continues?
Do lots of people actually listen to French medium wave broadcasts? CBF 540 
Windsor is the same way. 50 kW of French going where? Am I ignorant? Are these 
transmissions heard by larger audiences than the English broadcasts? This must 
be bilingual politics at work. 
 
Sincere thanks to Saul Chernos and good luck to everyone at CBA.
 
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[IRCA] CBA and CBE in sync

[Karl J. Zuk]

This was odd and not to precedent.
 
CBA usually has programming one hour ahead of CBE Windsor because of the time 
difference.
 
Confusing or what?
 
Karl Zuk   N2KZ> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com; [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:36:12 -0500> Subject: [IRCA] CBA heard in 
Michigan 1/2 hr before test> > The latest ...> > > Just tuned 1 radio to "1070" 
the other to local "1550" - CBE Windsor and am > getting an exact parallel, a 
half hour before the test.> > I hope Saul and Jim get a tone reports from 
Michigan and Ontario, hi hi hi.> > Rob, you got your SRF-59 fired up???> > > 
JM> > > -- 73 de Joe Miller, KJ8O, Troy, MI -- Grid EN82 --> -- WOW! 
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Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] [NRC-AM] CBA heard in Michigan 1/2 hr before test

[Karl J. Zuk]

Reception is just OK on the outskirts of NYC.

At points, it has faded almost out completely. 

On-line it sounds pretty good...hi.

Any details on how to apply for a QSL?

I have already sent a CD aircheck and a report from Wednesday night for a QSL.

The address I used was:


  P.O. Box 950

  Moncton, New Brunswick

  E1C 8N8

Karl Zuk   N2KZ




> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:27:19 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: Re: [Amdx] [NRC-AM] CBA heard in Michigan 1/2 hr before test
> 
> I didn't hear anything on 1070 at  and CBC jazz
> music there went well thru the hour and was //99.1 in
> Toronto. So Atlantic time in Moncton might very well
> be //EDT in Toronto as one of you suggested to me
> offlist. I can only suggest trying at 0100 EDT.
> 
> Anyhow, it's doing well into Toronto.
> 
> Saul 
> 
> 
> --- Neil Kazaross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > CX are decent tonite and best of luck everyone. I
> > had a good SSS session to 
> > the West tonite. Switched antennas and tried to here
> > CBA about 25 min ago 
> > and maybe just a trace of CBC stuff. I don't need
> > them as heard quite a few 
> > times the past few years. I'll miss this fine
> > indicator of Maritime cx.  73 
> > KAZ Barrington IL
> > 
> > - Original Message - 
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "IRCA" ; "NRC"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:36 PM
> > Subject: [NRC-AM] CBA heard in Michigan 1/2 hr
> > before test
> > 
> > 
> > > The latest ...
> > >
> > >
> > > Just tuned 1 radio to "1070" the other to local
> > "1550" - CBE Windsor and 
> > > am
> > > getting an exact parallel, a half hour before the
> > test.
> > >
> > > I hope Saul and Jim get a tone reports from
> > Michigan and Ontario, hi hi 
> > > hi.
> > >
> > > Rob, you got your SRF-59 fired up???
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[IRCA] CBA DX Test ??

[Karl J. Zuk]

The DX Test never aired at midnight... 

Well, the jazz show "Tonic" is on the air and I can't see them breaking until 
about 1 am Eastern. 
This is contrary to their schedule (at least one of them) on-line that says 
they are now into the CBC Overnight show. Maybe it will come at 1 am Eastern ?? 

YAWN.  Karl Zuk  N2KZ

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[IRCA] CBA No Test !

[Karl J. Zuk]

Boo! No test. 

Thank you, sincerely, for your efforts, Saul.

Karl Zuk  N2KZ

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[IRCA] UNID 1710 kHz

[Karl J. Zuk]

Early Sunday Morning, March 30
 
UNID station on 1710 kHz playing lots of Mexican ballads in Spanish. 
No announcers or IDs. Nice bottom end on audio.
Strong signals, way over the Brooklyn pirate in Hebrew and English.
Heard even over power line buzz. 
I was listening on a car radio traveling from Northern Westchester to Fairfield 
County, Connecticut.
Time: 0915 - 1000 UTC  515am to 6am local time.
Is this the pirate from Boston?
 
1070 CBA also quite strong during this ride. 
 
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[IRCA] Hey Jim: Last chance for CBA

[Karl J. Zuk]

Hi Jim:

Listen during sunrise and sunset skip periods. 

I see wonderful reception nearly daily that blocks out very strong signals 
almost like clockwork up and down the eastern seaboard and into middle America.

I am about 50 miles north of NYC
. 
Case in point: WBZ Boston is pretty strong here, even in the daytime. Twice a 
day, the ethnic station in the Washington, DC area blottos (technical term) 
WBZ's signal for at least 20 minutes or so. This is not unusual.
I hear all sorts of things as the SSS/SRS spotlight runs across the world 
daily. You are at a really nice distance from that part of Canada. I'd say 
you'll probably get lucky. A really good ID might me difficult to get since, 
except for limited content mornings and evenings, its all from CBS network 
(like As It Happens, etc.) Good luck!

Karl Zuk N2KZ



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> > I will be heading to North Carolina this weekend to visit family, and
> > wonder what the possibility of hearing CBA from the Raleigh/Durham area is
> > before they bite the dust. Any thoughts or suggestions from anyone?
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Re: [IRCA] Radio Reloj 570

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It can be heard easy-as-pie in the Palm Beach area of Florida during the day on 
miserable rental car radios.
I can often hear it under my local WMCA (NYC) at night. dit dah dit  dit dah 
ditKarl Zuk N2KZ> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:11:22 -0700> From: [EMAIL 
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> > > > By Arnie Coro > > > > Radio amateur CO2KK > > > > > > > > ... > > > > 
So following the request, I will tell you today> > about one of the most > > 
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Reloj station relay operating on 570 kilohertz> > running now a nice new 25 > > 
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Re: [IRCA] That pesky bluegrass on 980

[Karl J. Zuk]

Is that Johnny Pesky bluegrass?

Go WORLD CHAMPION Red Sox!

Karl Zuk  N2KZ




> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:54:25 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] That pesky bluegrass on 980
> 
> Guys...
> 
> WHAW moved their toewr a few miles south of it's currently location and is
> going from 1000 Watts Day Non Directional and 50 Watts night Non directional
> to 25,000 Watts Day Non Directional and 49 Watts Night Non Directional.
> 
> And since they are non direcitonal, they aren't beaming it in one specific
> direction.
> 
> Also, from WFHG's site in Bristol, VA to WHAW's site in Weston, WV is 250
> miles.. not 120 miles.
> 
> So, yes, it was a BIG power increase.. and a SMALL tower move.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Group:
> >
> >
> >
> > 980   WHAW WV   Weston blasting in w/bluegrass & bluegrass talk
> > shows all morning; has become daytime regular & dominates WONE with WATH
> > splatter nulled.  Very few IDs & commercials, but does do TOH IDs
> > w/mention
> > of calls & frequency & "Weston, in the heart of West Virginia."  They are
> > not new here, but the only time I ever heard them I had to dig an ID out
> > of
> > the mess about three years ago.  So this has to be a day and possibly even
> > a
> > night power increase.  My best guess would be that they beam it north to
> > protect WFHG, whose towers can't be much more than 120 miles from Weston.
> > So this almost has to be Saul's unID on 980.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73's
> >
> > David Faulkner  Athens, Ohio
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[IRCA] Beacon ZLS

[Karl J. Zuk]

I was listening to the Cuban on 530 during a recent visit to the Palm Beach, 
Florida area using a car radio in motion. I heard slow Morse behind it sending 
Z-L-S.  It is a nice strong beacon from the nearby Bahamas. Fun to hear. Is it 
heard beyond the southeast? Also dominant was Radio Reloj on 570 and ZNS on 
810. There is nothing like being near the ocean. I wish I was there during the 
evening to DX SSS. This was a quick day trip! The daytime DX was great fun. Is 
there anything else I should try to catch down there? Thanks, Karl N2KZ

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Re: [IRCA] 1st PIRATE Station on SONYULTRALITE..1710 LUBAVITCHER RADIO Brooklyn, NY

[Karl J. Zuk]

They don't have enough punch to be a full kilowatt. Take a drive around 
Brooklyn and Queens. You'll see what I mean. They get out just a little bit 
better than your basic TIS station. Their biggest advantage is skywave. If they 
are 1 KW, they are wasting a lot of power in their antenna system. Their 
biggest challenge is creating a ground plane on the roof of a house in East New 
York Brooklyn. This is not great terrain for AM broadcast. Case in point: 
WQXR-AM's lossy site using 1560 AM in Maspeth, Queens. This station could go on 
for decades. No one will formally report them. They don't interfere. Still, Pat 
Martin will eventually log them. There isn't a medium wave station on earth 
that can hide from Pat's amazing antenna farm and DXing skill! Karl Zuk N2KZ




> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:47:44 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1st PIRATE Station on SONYULTRALITE..1710 LUBAVITCHER 
> RADIO Brooklyn, NY
> 
> Unless a complaint is made by a member of the media and that member or their
> station(s) are being directly affected by the pirate.. in most cases, the
> FCC won't touch it.
> 
> They (the FCC) doesnt like to touch ethnic pirates either,. for fear of
> claims of racial/ethnic discrimination.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 1:41 PM, Bob Foxworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > Thx. 100 watts. No wonder all I have gotten is a carrier at this
> > > distance. What amazes me if the FCC allows these NE pirates to
> > continue
> > > to operate.
> >
> >
> > It's been discussed here, I believe more than once,
> > and by those more knowledgeable than I.
> >
> > Unfortunately the collective memory of mail lists
> > remains surprisingly short.
> >
> > The FCC doesn't carry "muscle" with them when they
> > move to shut down one of these operations. In Fla.
> > there is a  *state*  law against pirate activity, and the
> > FCC FO gets the FDLE to ride along and do the
> > takedown, and they seem to be happy to help.
> >
> > In New York the Lubavitchers have a great deal of
> > influence, and the local police agencies are reluctant to
> > get involved and look bad. It's probably a jurisdictional
> > issue as well.
> >
> > Someone has to make a complaint and the use of 1710
> > seems to assure that no legitimate broadcaster will
> > be around to complain. I would not be surprised to learn
> > *IF*  it happened that they were quietly told to park
> > themselves up there, and they would then be left alone.
> >
> > You would think more pirate operators would pick up
> > upon this. Not to mention it is a "clear channel" in the
> > true sense of the word.
> >
> > But it remains IMHO that few, if any, pirate operators are
> > MENSA members.
> >
> > I know this has been talked about before now.
> >
> > - Bob
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Re: [IRCA] 1st PIRATE Station on SONY ULTRALITE.....1710 LUBAVITCHER RADIO Brooklyn, NY

[Karl J. Zuk]

I'd guess this station is about 100 watts. It is known for very compressed and 
usually distorted audio of preachers kvetching loudly in Hebrew and English.
I think they are probably a computer playing back pre-loaded long audio clips. 
There is no recognition of starting on the hour. Attribute their coverage to 
skywave and being near water. I'd be surprised if they were over 100 watts. 
Karl Zuk N2KZ




> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:34:41 -0500
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
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> Subject: [IRCA] 1st PIRATE Station on SONY ULTRALITE.1710 LUBAVITCHER 
> RADIO Brooklyn, NY
> 
> Hi Guys:
> 
>  Just got finished logging my First PIRATE station on the Sony 
> SRF-T615.well at least we'll call it an "UNOFFICIAL" Station...but 
> I guess if you're Unofficial..you're a Pirate!!
> 
> The Station is located in Brooklyn, NY, and is a the Jewish Voice of the 
> Lubavitcher movement.
> 
> 
> 
> 1710Radio Lubavitcher  Brooklyn, NY  PIRATE  Feb/01/08   0010-0015 
> EST  HEBREWFR
> Long talk by a male in what sounded like the Hebrew LanguageMaybe 
> Yiddish??? No
> English noted during this reception. Religious references and Talk. Nice 
> signal Peaks...but
> up and down with QSB. This station is also sometimes known as Radio Mosiach.
> 
> RELOG.New to ULTALITE   1st PIRATE LOGGED!!!
> ROSS, ONT.
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> 
> 73ROB.
> 
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Re: [IRCA] SRF-59 problem

[Karl J. Zuk]

I had this problem with the first SRF-59 I had years ago.

The variable tuning capacitor has very thin sheets of plastic insulating the 
plates from each other.
If the pieces of plastic either break loose or wear out you start getting 
scratchies.
My first one got to the point where I couldn't tune below about 900 kcs because 
it would short out.

The only other problem could be oxidation at the point where the rotors pivot.

Karl Zuk N2KZ




> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:50:06 -0800
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> Subject: [IRCA] SRF-59 problem
> 
> 
> Anyone else having this one?
> 
> On AM, as I tune across the band - it's like something in the tuning 
> mechanism interferes with the radio.  It's like a crackling, scratching sound 
> .  It stops shortly after you stop tuning and settle on a station.  Very 
> annoying. 
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Re: [IRCA] Drinking the Kool-Aid, Jumping on the Couch

[Karl J. Zuk]

Ultralights are fine, but they don't have great taste or a good head.
 
I like Labatts the best. Canadian. 
 
Pass the peanuts, huh?
 
Karl > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:31:55 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 
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Kool-Aid, Jumping on the Couch> > Am I to understand that another "Ultralight" 
has now proven to be superior> even to> the SRF-59? Please tell me now, as I 
must own it!> > Les,> >From what Gary's comparision disclosed, the Sony T615 is 
more convenient> because of it's digital readout, but nothing combines 
sensitivity and> selectivity better than the 59. TheT615 delivered from Japan 
via Audio> Cubes is about $100, or the cost of 6.5 SRF59s delivered before 
Amazon> pulled the plug on free shipping. The T615 is very selective, but in 
the> head to head comparision, the 59 nudged ahead very slightly during his> 
daytime station comparisions.> 73, Gil> 
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Re: [IRCA] Mexican (?) 1040 UNID on SRF-59

[Karl J. Zuk]

I got an ID:

WSGH Lewisville, NC

I'll bet they didn't lower their power all night. Huge signal.

Karl Zuk  N2KZ




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> Subject: [IRCA] Mexican (?) 1040 UNID on SRF-59
> 
> 
> All night I have had a powerful station on 1040. Format is very lively 
> traditional Mexican music (vocals, brass and accordion) with the same male 
> announcer saying in Spanish 'We are number one in Mexican music' and such. 
> Not one commercial. I'm singing 'I am the Frito bandito' by now. My 
> understanding of Spanish is minimal. Not even a trace of WHO all night. I 
> very rarely hear stations like this in the New York City area. Any ideas?  
> Thanks, Karl Zuk  N2KZ
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[IRCA] Mexican (?) 1040 UNID on SRF-59

[Karl J. Zuk]

All night I have had a powerful station on 1040. Format is very lively 
traditional Mexican music (vocals, brass and accordion) with the same male 
announcer saying in Spanish 'We are number one in Mexican music' and such. Not 
one commercial. I'm singing 'I am the Frito bandito' by now. My understanding 
of Spanish is minimal. Not even a trace of WHO all night. I very rarely hear 
stations like this in the New York City area. Any ideas?  Thanks, Karl Zuk  N2KZ

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[IRCA] SRF-59 frequency control

[Karl J. Zuk]

It would be great if we could modify the design of a SRF-59 to listen to other 
bands. 160 meters comes to mind. With so few external parts besides the two 
basic chips, is there any way to shift its frequency to receive other bands? 
Your comments would be appreciated and interesting to read. Happy New Year and 
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[IRCA] Send more boring technical stuff!

[Karl J. Zuk]

Steve:

Send us your work! Thank you very much for working on it!
I'd love to see what Sony is up to.

I wonder who will be the first to reverse engineer this into a super DX design.

Karl Zuk  N2KZ




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> Subject: [IRCA] TECH: More SRF-59 Ultralight boring technical stuff
> 
> I have traced out the SRF-59 printed circuit board and made a rough
> handdrawn schematic of it. It's more or less straightforward as to inputs
> and outputs.
> As Gary DeBock has already mentioned, there are only two integrated
> circuits--a 30-pin main IC1 and a 10-pin audio amplifier headphone driver
> IC2.
> A trifilar transformer isolates the dual headphone audio channels from the
> FM antenna signal on the same lines (the headphone cable outer shield acts
> as the FM antenna). The FM signal is passed through a series resistor which
> is shorted in the DX/Local switch, through a monolithic thinfilm FM bandpass
> filter, then into IC1.
> The 1.75 inch long small AM ferrite rod antenna has two windings; one goes
> directly to IC1, the other to one section of the 4-section variable tuning
> capacitor. It appears both the RF and the local oscillator are tuned, for
> both FM and AM modes. L3, the metal can transformer that Gary has found
> peaks AM for best sensitivity appears to be part of the AM local oscillator
> circuit, not strictly in the input signal path. I'm not sure at this point
> what that transformer is actually doing to peak sensitivity. By touching
> sections of the variable cap, I was able to severely detune stations in both
> AM and FM, thus I believe those two sections are indeed the local
> oscillators for both modes.
> There are various pins that have bypass caps to ground. There is one other
> metal can slug-tuned transformer, which by experimentation I found affects
> the audio only in FM mode. I believe this is the FM stereo multiplex
> transformer.
> Dual audio outputs go to the dual-section volume control, then directly to
> the headphone driver audio amplifier, IC2. Dual outputs from IC2 go to the
> headphone jack, for the stereo headphones.
> There are no other components, and no feedback from IC2 to IC1. There are no
> ceramic IF filters, no AM detector diodes or FM quadrature detector diodes;
> no external agc feedback lines. Everything having to do with processing the
> AM and FM signals and deriving the audio outputs happens inside IC1. And
> everything runs off a single 1.5 volt cell.
> It would be nice to find a data sheet and block diagram for that IC!
> I can send a 350kB .jpg file of my handdrawn diagram to anyone who would
> like to examine it. If I get a number of requests, I will wait and send the
> file at one time to everyone, due to my slow diallup connection.
> Thanks to Gary DeBock for getting me interested in this very unusual little 
> radio--I've certainly had fun using and examining it!
> 
> Best regards,
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[IRCA] Michigan IBOC on SRF-59

[Karl J. Zuk]

Fellow Ircans:

I am vacationing in Michigan listening with a SRF-59.

I like to listen to WBZ Boston on 1030. With KDKA and WHO both blowing IBOC 
smoke, along with WBZ's IBOC, you have one big racket in this part of the 
woods. What a mess. You try to get used to the noise, but it's not easy. It 
sounds like a very under-recorded cassette tape. (Don't I sound old! What's a 
cassette?) But, amazingly, I can hold WBZ until well after 8am phasing out a 
local on 1030 with just the SRF-59. No phasing loops or antennas needed. I had 
another SRF-59 before I received an XM MiFi going back to about 2003. My old 
SRF-59 did not work half this good and the tuning capacitor eventually wore 
out. The plastic sheeting between the rotor blades wore out and created a 
short. I have been a huge XM fan ever since. As much as I love to DX, I listen 
nearly continually to XM - or - to BBC Radio Scotland or Ireland's RTE1 on the 
Internet rebroadcast onto FM to cover my house.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Karl Zuk N2KZ



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Re: [IRCA] Wince-worthy IBOC praise article...

[Karl J. Zuk]

"Freelance" means "I don't have a permanent job" or "I'm being ripped off by 
greedy employers."

The one thing he fails to mention is that AM IBOC does not work.

HD radios are expensive and insensitive. 

The system equates to legalized jamming painfully destructive to smaller 
stations.

The larger stations lose all their skywave coverage.

We have all been over this a thousand times by now.

Just turn it off! It works much better that way.

Karl Zuk N2KZ




> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:07:49 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: [IRCA] Wince-worthy IBOC praise article...
> 
> 
> http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0044/t.356.html
> "Say good-bye to Ancient Modulation!"
> 
> . HD Radio brings three striking performance enhancements to AM radio:
> - ..."Audio bandwidth can approach CD quality..."
> - ..."All noise associated with AM reception is eliminated..."
> - ... "It is time to rethink what the AM broadcast band should be rather than 
> what it has been." 
> - ... "Forget about skywave propagation..."
> - ... " We should not be overly concerned about digital hash from IBOC..."
> - ... " The era of DX'ing has come to an end"
> 
>  Ira Wilner has been a freelance broadcast engineer in New England for 30 
> years. He is employed by Saga Communications...
> 
> A "freelance" broadcast engineer, huh? What does that mean exactly?
> 
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[IRCA] SRF-59 History

[Karl J. Zuk]

I have been reading all your comments regarding the SRF-59 with great interest.
 
I purchased a SRF-59 in 2002 or 2003.
The design I was sold was not really spectacular on AM or FM. 
It was what you would expect from a $15 Walkman.
 
The quality of AM reception was OK. 
I remember being able to hear WWKB Buffalo for the first 20 minutes or so of my 
commuter train trip to NYC in pitch darkness (around 5 am local listening 
inside the train.) WWKB is about 300 miles away from me - clear channel 50 kw 
directional east. 
 
After about a year's use, the tuning capacitor wore through its thin plastic 
insulation sheets and began to short out below about 900 kHz. 
Again, AM reception was just OK to maybe a little better than adequate. No 
razor sharp filtering in any case!
FM was very susceptible to overload, especially when listening while walking 
across Manhattan a mile or so from the Empire State Building and Times Square 
transmission centers.
 
I also found the plastic flexi-tuning gizmo to be just extraordinarily cheap 
and flimsy.
 
Bottom line: Sony must have made some radical changes in this design while 
retaining the model number.
 
It must be an entirely different radio now.
 
Karl Zuk   N2KZ
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:45:18 -0500> To: 
> irca@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [IRCA] All Hail the SRF-59!> > OK Bruce,> 
> > The DT210V sounds good enough to be a worthy contestant in the next > 
> (2008) Pocket Radio Shootout, after this year's competitors slug it out. It > 
> will be ordered ASAP (as if I really needed any persuasion). 9 kHz splits 
> with > memories is a great advantage, although my own experience leads me to 
> doubt > that any digital pocket radio can equal the SRF-59's selectivity. 
> Sony has > packed some mean power in that SRF-59 design, and if you can 
> adjust to the > analog tuning, it's truly a DXer's dream machine.> > > 73, 
> Gary > > > > **Check out AOL's list of 
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Re: [IRCA] Stopping HD Radio

[Karl J. Zuk]

Barry

"the digital sidebands of adjacent channel
do not overlap," 

Where do you live? We would all like to know!
We would love to hear silence!

You should hear what three layers of digital hash sound 
like when they mix and phase together. 
It sounds like a large train coming through your radio!
Visit the east coast of America. You'll see what we mean. 

Digital often pummels digital! And analog! And us!

AM Stereo

NRSC 10 kHz filters

"Expanded" band

Compatible single sideband

"Super" audio processing - Optimod AM and SW

IBOC

The IRCA has survived it all!



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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:24:52 -0400
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Stopping HD Radio
> 
> On Thursday 27 September 2007 10:13, Powell E. Way III W4OPW wrote:
> > Well stations aren't broadcasting FOR your DX'ing
> > pleasure. Skywave was  / is there and won't go away.
> > It can also be an aggravation close in to the station
> > because of groundwave / skywave cancellation.  I don't
> > care for HD as it really is an outdated and data bit
> > starved / reduced mode, and even under perfect
> > condtions it isn't as good as analog. Right now power
> > levels are 1% of analog, but with the modulation cycle
> > even wiith no audio is 100%. That's why it creates
> > such a mess. The laughable thing is on the
> > clears...the adjacents IBOC prevents each others IBOC
> > from decoding at night. I guess THAT is poetic
> > justice.
> 
> That's not quite right - the digital sidebands of adjacent channel
> do not overlap, so it is not IBOC killing IBOC.  IBOC stations will have
> lousy digital coverage at night regardless of whether their adjacent
> channel neighbors are running IBOC at night or not, because it is the adjacent
> channel analog signals that are killing the digital sidebands.  OTOH, it's the
> analog coverage that gets degraded by IBOC on the adjacents.
> 
> So, you get lousy digital coverage (out to the 20 mV/m contour, if you're 
> lucky), and if you have strong IBOC on an adjacent, your analog signal gets
> all hissed up beyond that contour.  Great system!
> A good real world illustration of this came from someone near Chicago.  See
> http://lists.radiolists.net/pipermail/broadcast/2007-September/060480.html
> for more gory details.
> 
> Barry
> 
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[IRCA] Stopping HD Radio

[Karl J. Zuk]

After many days of thought, and nearly zero replies from the e-mails I have 
sent General Managers and Engineering departments of the offending stations, I 
have decided to change my attack. 

Please write to the SALES DEPARTMENT of the stations you can't listen to. Write 
to the station's advertisers. Let them know that HD Radio is misery. The WABC 
web site claims reception in 38 states and Canada. Is this still true? 

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[IRCA] HD Radio Challenge

[Karl J. Zuk]

A gold medal to the first person who can come up with a

"I Love HD Radio So Much" article that wasn't released by a big corporation.

I dare you!

Write to stations. Write to the FCC. The beast can be beaten!

Thanks for listening, Karl Zuk

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[IRCA] Lipstick on a (Roast) Pig

[Karl J. Zuk]

From: http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com  


 

  HD on QVC -- Lipstick on a (Roast) Pig

 
  





  You've
got to hand it to iBiquity, the firm that brought you HD radio over ten
years too late and "shrewd" enough to copyright the term HD while at
the same time saying it doesn't really mean "high definition".

As
the saying goes, you can't put lipstick on a pig, but somehow, iBiquity
has managed to get QVC to sell HD radios to its vast home shopping
network audience.

Hope QVC has better luck than Radio Shack,
Best Buy and Wal-Mart selling these empty radios. Hey, whatever
happened to that hype? You can't easily find an HD radio in those
stores let alone a young salesperson to close the sale.

Maybe
QVC viewers can buy George Foreman's grill along with their HD radios
so that they can cook this pig because there are going to be a lot of
unhappy customers out there once they plug it in.

In case you haven't heard "HD Radio broadcasting is sweeping the country" 
according to iBiquity's web site.
Did you know that HD is "available to over 80 percent of the
population. More than 1,500 AM/FM stations are currently offering
subscription free digital content, including more than 600 HD2
multicast stations offering unique formats and content".

Wow, such a deal.  Let me guess.  You need to buy a new expensive radio, right?

Here's
what iBiquity says, "All a consumer needs is a new HD Radio receiver;
the content is free. The radios are priced for everyone from under $100
from major mass-market retailers across the U.S. Virtually everyone can
experience the crystal-clear digital sound on AM and FM as well as the
broadcast-exclusive new FM channels".

Those under $100 models
must really sound good. iBiquity seems to have left out the expensive
$400 models. Just an oversight, I guess.

This roast pig is getting me sick to my stomach.

While
some radio broadcasters are holding out hope that HD will energize the
declining radio industry, others are apparently thinking about their
options -- including unplugging their HD hardware and moving on to a
solution that actually holds promise -- say, the Internet.

Let's imagine how QVC's customers are going to feel when they unpack their HD 
radios and plug them in for the first time:

1.
Where's the beef? (Sorry, this is a pig -- where's the pork?). Where's
all that exciting programming I was told would make the purchase price
all worthwhile? Do they file a class action suit, return the radios for
a refund or use their new less than $100 HD radios as antiques?

2.
Where's the fidelity? K-Fed had more fidelity when he was married to
Britney than HD radio has now. Yes, it's better, but no -- not that much 
better.  A Bose it's not.  Satellite radio it's not.   It's just not.

3.  When do these consumers figure out that you get what you pay for -- HD 
radio content is free.  Radio companies are waiting for them to buy millions of 
new radios before they spend their
precious money on new programming. Maybe this HD-QVC marketing marriage
will backfire and help sell satellite radios. At least satellite sounds
better, comes in cars and has hundreds of millions of dollars of
programming built into it.

4. Oh, and where's the "unique
formats and content". I'm telling you, maybe I've been hanging around
the record industry too long but lawsuits would be flying for
misrepresenting the product. Yes, I have been blinded by the Big Four
labels. (It appears the RIAA is going to take a class action suit that
could paralyze its efforts to sue the pants off music pirates -- if successful. 
 I've got to stop thinking like a lawyer and start thinking like the lowly 
program director that I have been proud to be).

HD
subchannels are really nothing that radio PDs can't program. They have
lots of ideas. Unfortunately, few companies are listening to their
ideas for the main terrestrial channels.

That's why radio programming sucks.  It's that simple.

Selling
HD radios to consumers at this point is like selling a potion from
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show as a cure for disease.

HD is a disease.

At best, it's an engineering work around for analog radio.

At
worst, HD gives false hope that listeners will actually float radio
owners by buying the expensive equipment to receive a digital signal
with precious little content attached.

This is nuts.

Steve
Jobs wouldn't expect his customers to buy an iPod without offering a
vast music library to make the device a worthy investment.

By
the way, a competitor of Apple, Spiral Frog, just launched its run at
iTunes that must be directly out of the pages of the HD playbook:
Spiral Frog's music is free, but you can't share it. You have to wait
90 seconds for the first download. Have to sign-up and re-sign up
monthly. It only works on Windows. Can't be heard on an iPod and, oh,
did I mention that only one of the big four labels is contributing
music to that pig -- I mean frog.

Another pig you c

[IRCA] HD Radio - WGN response

[Karl J. Zuk]

"You will never be able to hear WGN again...!"
 
On September 14, HD radio on the AM band became available at night. HD radio is 
a digital transmission that is transmitted adjacent to a station's normal 
frequency. In the case of WGN, the conventional anlalog radio that you have 
always listened to is on 720 Kilohertz. Since the morning of September 14, WOR 
radio, which operates on 710 Kilohertz, has also been transmitting a digital 
signal on 720 Kilohertz and 700 Kilohertz. The digital transmission on 720 
Kilohertz will cover up WGN's analog transmission because you are closer to WOR 
than to WGN. I don't think you will ever be able to hear WGN again on your 
radio. We are available 24 hours a day on the internet at:  www.wgnradio.com. 
The broadcast industry and the FCC have decided that it is more important to 
enhance AM and FM radio listening with digital technology than it is to 
maintain skywave service to areas that are far away from a station's core 
listening area. It does not mean that you can never hear WGN Radio again but 
you would have to listen on the internet from now on. I hope you are able to do 
that and that you will occasionally listen in to WGN Radio. 
James J. Carollo
Director of Engineering
 
WGN Radio
 
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Re: [IRCA] IRCA List Subscribers' URL listings

[Karl J. Zuk]

My site: http://karlzuk.blogspot.com. Thanks, Karl Zuk



From: Charles A Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [IRCA] IRCA List Subscribers' URL listings
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:36:22 -0400

Folks,

I was building up a nice list of URLs and accidentally deleted it. I was
furious.

All you who have sent me your URL, please send it again.

Here's what I have right now:


 http:/

DEEGAN, W Curt   Boca Raton, FL  ScooterHound.com/WWWR/wobbler
 
ScooterHound.com/WWWR/radio/sefliboc.html
 
ScooterHound.com/WWWR/radio/BandScan2.html

 ScooterHound.com/WWWR/ships/


WALKER, Paul W  Abbeville, SC   www.walkerbroadcasting.com
 www.wabv1590.com
 
www.myspace.com/walkerbroadcasting


So Paul and Curt need not resend (obviously), but the rest of you PLEASE
resend your URLs.

Thanks and very sorry,

Cholly


   Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
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Re: [IRCA] IRCA Reflector Subscribers' E-Mail and URL List

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Re: [IRCA] 760 WJR

[Karl J. Zuk]

Hi Pat and fellow IRCAns:

Actually, I am in Mid-Michigan at our family home in Port Austin at the tip 
of "The Thumb".
I was in Detroit on Saturday and Sunday and heard WJR spitting wildly with 
their IBOC.

Karl Zuk N2KZ

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>Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:14:55 -0700
>
>Karl,
>
>You are still in the NYC area, aren't you? And yet WJR's IBOC is that
>bad? I wonder what it is like in Detroit? SWL anyone?
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
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Re: [IRCA] 760 WJR

[Karl J. Zuk]

I am currently in Michigan and noticed that not only is WJR 24/7 with IBOC, 
their injection is nasty. They are running a lot of power into IBOC compared 
to the other locals who have it. It wipes out 3 adjacents each way. You'll 
never hear 740 Toronto here ever again. Karl Zuk N2KZ




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Subject: [IRCA] 760  WJR
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:25:25 -0400

Did anyone else notice that WJR ran IBOC well into the night. I first 
noticed it just after midnight..sure made a mess out of WABC and WSB at 
this QTH.they were readable, but it sounded like there was a waterfall 
type hiss on top of them...Nasty!!   73, Chris   K4NHL   S.C.

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Re: [IRCA] Radio Pinoy USA...in NYC?

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I believe Radio Pinoy is on the 92 kHz SCA subcarrier of WBGO-FM 88.3 
Newark, NJ. Karl Zuk


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>Subject: [IRCA] Radio Pinoy USA...in NYC?
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:40:06 -0400
>
>I saw a link to this radio station while checking out the website for a
>radio network in the Phillipines.
>
>http://www.radiopinoyusa.com/program_sked.php
>The site implies it is a broadcast station in NY/NJ, but the website only
>gives an indication you can listen live online.
>
>Plus, their "call letters" belong to 1410 in Elgin, IL.
>
>Any ideas?
>
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Re: [IRCA] Radio Pinoy USA...in NYC?

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Radio Pinoy is (was?) on the 92 kHz SCA subcarrier of WBGO-FM Newark, NJ. 
Karl Zuk




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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:54:19 -0400

Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
> I saw a link to this radio station while checking out the website for a
> radio network in the Phillipines.
>
> http://www.radiopinoyusa.com/program_sked.php
> The site implies it is a broadcast station in NY/NJ, but the website 
only

> gives an indication you can listen live online.
>
> Plus, their "call letters" belong to 1410 in Elgin, IL.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Probably one of the jillions of ethnic broadcasters leasing FM
subcarrier space in New York.

I'd bet the corner stores in Filipino neighborhoods around the city sell
fixed-tuned SCA receivers that can hear the signal.

s
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Re: [IRCA] Boston Acoustics Receptor HD

[Karl J. Zuk]

One of these units is on display at my local Radio Shack. It is fairly tiny 
and quite plastic. Obviously defective, there was no reception at all. Not 
even the tiniest analog peep AM or FM. I was really disappointed and will 
try to get the manager to open up another one this weekend. Karl Zuk N2KZ


>From: "Stewart, Joseph R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>Subject: [IRCA] Boston Acoustics Receptor HD
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:14:00 -0500
>
>We got in a shipment of these little guys at KSMU yesterday, and I took
>one home to try it out a bit last night... I actually spent most of the
>evening sitting around Springfield-Branson National Airport waiting for
>my wife to get back from a conference in D.C., but I did do an AM
>bandscan between 6 and 6:30pm Central time.
>
>As it only has a pair of little spring-clip terminals for an external
>mediumwave antenna, and my Quantum QX Pro is strictly SO-239/PL-259, I
>ended up just hanging the Boston's little plastic AM loop over the end
>of the Quantum's loopstick housing like a Christmas-tree ornament and
>going the inductive-coupling route.  Managed to get pretty decent signal
>strength that way, but this little radio suffers from beaucoups
>internally-generated birdies, not to mention local images (KLFJ-1550
>shows up on 650, KGMY-1400 shows up on 1700 etc.).   Of course, without
>being able to arrange for a proper external-antenna hookup it's hard to
>tell for sure, but I get the feeling no one could ever mistake it for a
>sensitive DX machine.  (Also, its tuning is channelized in 10 kHz
>steps.)
>
>Tuning around after local sunset, of course, automatically limited my
>choices for seeking out IBOC signals--none of my locals AMs are running
>IBOC yet--but I did note the "HD" icon on the digital display flashing
>on and off on a few frequencies like 890... and KFAB-1110 Omaha was
>still running their day pattern and HD signal, and as they're very
>strong here I thought it would be a good test to see how well the HD
>signal gets out.  Based on everything I've read so far, I didn't expect
>much... and the radio didn't deliver much.
>
> >From what I observed, it would take about an S9+60 city-grade signal to
>consistently (and continually) activate the digital-audio circuitry!
>KFAB was strong enough for the "HD" icon to stay lit pretty much all the
>time... and to display the KFAB call letters. But it was never strong
>enough for the standard analog to switch over to digital, except for
>about 2 seconds' worth.  And it was quite obvious when it did, as the
>sound definitely became more "FM-like".  (Actually the analog-AM sound
>isn't bad, albeit limited to about 5kHz on the top end.  But the unit's
>little port-loaded speakers produce an amazing amount of real bass.)
>
>So--the ID feature is one cool thing that might attract a DXer, but I'm
>afraid you need a pretty strong signal for that to activate.  And you
>need a stronger signal than THAT to get the digital audio to trigger.
>
>The adjacent-channel hash produced by IBOC is a totally separate issue,
>of course--I was merely trying to determine how well the radio worked
>receiving skywave signals.  And the answer is: not particularly well.
>
>FM sensitivity seemed better, at least with the 7-foot-long wire dipole
>supplied with the radio.
>
>Randy Stewart
>Battlefield MO
>
>
>
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