Re: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands*

[Theo]

Amen, or Gawd Forbid... or...

Facebook...  Be Gone!

On 11/03/2019 6:18 PM, Les Rayburn wrote:

Yes, but membership in Facebook is.

Frankly, I prefer the idea of a stand-alone server and URL that was originally 
proposed. Nothing to sign up for, no ads, no people from high school, etc.




73,

Les Rayburn, N1LF



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Re: [IRCA] Yet another!!

[Theo]

On 16/01/2019 7:06 PM, Phil Bytheway via IRCA wrote:


Subject:
Yet another!!
From:
Phil Bytheway 
Date:
16/01/2019, 7:06 PM
To:
"irca@hard-core-dx.com" 

To:
"irca@hard-core-dx.com" 


I'm being haunted.
So, for the 3rd time, I'm listening to what sounds like Russian on 1520 with 
Everett nulled for like 20 minutes (1750-1810 PLT). Music and a woman 
talking just after the hour.

No break, no ID is it me or what??

Phil Bytheway



  



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Re: [IRCA] DX Tip: KUAZ 1550 Tucson, AZ

[Theo]

Stu Forsyth, Chief Editor of the NZ DX Times, logged and verified this 
back on 7 Apr 2018 at 0834 UT using one of the club's SDR's at Russell 
in the Far North, while carrying a relay of the Beeb. excuse was an 
equipment failure when they were supposed to be on FM only.


Theo
Burnaby, BC

On 5/01/2019 5:41 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

It appears this 50KW Non directional Daytimer is still on. Heard with NPR
89.1 ID's during a local break between segments of "American Roots Radio"
with some discussion and playing of rockabilly, rock n roll and country
music. Sign off should be 545pm mountain.

Paul Walker
Laramie, Wyoming
Icom IC746 Pro and 25 ft long by 1-0 foot tall Wellbrook ALA100LN
Volleyball net magnetic loop antenna
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Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

[Theo]

Well, Radio One/88.1 pretty much disappears while driving once Hwy 99 
turns the Big Bend and heads north from Horseshoe Bay, only about 20km 
west of the Mt Seymour tx, and reception from the Squamish FM relay is 
spotty till you're well up Howe Sound.  Residents in parts of HB and 
especially Lions Bay likely would agree with that assessment too.


Even driving along parts of Marine Drive on the southern edges of the 
cities of Burnaby and Vancouver, the steep rise up to the Kingsway ridge 
can block the FM'ers from Mt Seymour.


Mother Corp applied to the CRTC to turn off 690 but the request was 
denied because of the difficulties with FM in our, um, mountain-goat 
environment...


Once upon a time, while driving across the southern part of of BC on Hwy 
3, there was constant AM coverage from LPRT's and lower-powered 
commercial/private stns in towns along the way. Nowadays, daytime travel 
is a blank band, AM or FM, for considerable distances.


Theo

On 23/11/2018 7:53 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

And with nearly 100kw on FM, that 50kw on AM isnt really needed.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:51 AM R. Colin Newell 
wrote:


And you can certainly tell!

They are easier to null and the nulls are deeper - and my N Flag that
points right at them no longer "pins the S meter..."

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 8:49 AM Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote:


 From Canadian Radio News on Facebook:
Northwest Broadcasters is reporting that CBC Radio One in Vancouver CBU
690
has now decreased power from 50,000 to 25,000 watts fulltime. The
reduction
in power was necessitated after a fire destroyed part of the stations
transmitting facilities last year which would have been too costly to
repair. Radio One programming is also available in Vancouver on repeater
CBU-2 at 88.1 which operates with 97,600 watts.



--
Colin Newell


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Re: [IRCA] Poipu, Kauai (Hawaii) DXing

[Theo]

801 is in Portuguese, and to my ears of the Brazilian kind.

Are you sure you weren't on 800, though the direction would be totally 
wacky?    The woman says "Transmundial" within the opening seconds of 
your clip but there's no context I can grab before that.


Theo

On 3/11/2018 9:15 AM, Bruce Portzer wrote:

Hi Gary

It sounds like you're off to a good start.

783 lacked the key words I need, such as "Guangbo", to ID Chinese 
stations.  No ideas on that one.


801 sounds like Italian, which suggests the Rete Italia station in 
Gosford NSW.  The gang at RealDX should  be able to nail it down for 
sure.


Enjoy you trip

Bruce


On 11/3/2018 04:47, Gary DeBock wrote:
  After two trips to Kona, Hawaii (on the Big Island) my wife and 
I decided to try a vacation on the "Garden Island" of Kauai. Craig 
Barnes has already been here with his 5" Frequent Flyer FSL in April 
of 2017 ,and made out like a bandit with lots of Asian DX in 
Princeville, on the north side of the island.


  Whereas Kona on the Big Island has a high mountain ridge which 
greatly reduces the strength of North and South American stations, 
Poipu in Kauai has a straight ocean shot to both areas, along with 
similar paths to both Asia and the South Pacific. In DXing tonight it 
seemed like all four areas were coming in at good strength, with 621 
kHz having two S9 stations from two different areas (621-Tuvalu and 
VoK's Japanese service) and 1440 kHz having the same (Kiribati and 
JOWF). Fortunately the "Frequent Flyer" FSL can completely null out 
one area or the other.


  To investigate some questions that were discussed recently 
among the Northwest TP-DXing gang, I made a recording of 621-VoK's 
Japanese service at 0943, complete with a buzzing hum on the audio 
(which is more noticeable during signal fades) 
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7d6eggmr9ntnfjej3zf22dh1s5p32wyd


There was also a question of the identity of the 783 "Chinese Opera" 
station. At the 1000 TOH I was able to record the full Chinese ID, 
which hopefully someone can decipher 
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/rcliqm4q1b9amlvmw11ofgfje6en66a2


Finally, I promised Chris Kadlec that I would investigate whether 801 
kHz really has a Seoul metro area jammer on the Pyongyang BS signal . 
Unfortunately 801 kHz had this monster UnID covering the frequency 
from 0910-0930 tonight, which I think may be from the Philippines. 
Can anyone provide language or station identification? 
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/mpi5eam5d93beb5hd0kne8y0x50h9zua


Anyway, Chris, I'll keep trying on the 801 jammer investigation. One 
thing seems to be for sure here in Kauai-- the 819-KCBS and 981-CNR1 
stations don't seem to have the overwhelming strength that they did 
in Kona (at least not tonight). But 783-China was at S9+ strength for 
much of the evening, when it was pretty weak in Kona 
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dsw1h8s4ilxq5mxpnd0bd67fte4wfifw Go 
figure!


73 and Good DX,

Gary DeBock (DXing at Poipu Kai, Kauai, Hawaii for 6 days)

7.5" loopstick CC Skywave Ultralight + 5" Frequent Flyer FSL antenna





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Re: [IRCA] phasing story

[Theo]

Kia ora:
Whitby is "NW" of Tranna?
Gee, you must still be thinking you're clinging to the Junior Land Down Under.
Remind me never to ask you for directions.  I'd end up on a train to 
Oakville... or better still Hamilton. 
Theo

 Original message 
From: TONY WARD  
Date: 2018-10-29  19:46  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 
 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] phasing story 

May I please join the party! With a bow to Sylvain, who started me on the hunt 
— I spent weeks phasing WGN to oblivion trying for KNR Greenland on 720 after 
he logged it several years ago — and of course Tim and Kaz with their recent 
superb achievements, I lit up the under-utilised DXE NCC-1 phaser. It has been 
side-lined here because recording on the Perseus encourages the broadband 
approach. Hooked my 400 ft Greenland nDB BOG (c. 40 degrees; love BOG’s, they 
cannot fall down when cometh the ice!) to antenna post A, and the trusty PA0RDT 
mini whip to B, and experimented with reducing WGN to dust on 720. With some 
success. At 0218Z, as others have noted, KNR stuck a few distinctive pop tunes 
into the man talking/woman talking routine that was rumbling along and it was 
obvious that success was at last at hand.

 Now WGN is 400 miles from here, and pretty well 180 degrees from Greenland, 
but still, it felt pretty good….right up there with logging the 75m signal a 
few scant weeks before they pulled the plug, back in the day. There is about 
2500 ft of creatively draped wire these days in my suburban ravine; in Whitby, 
25 miles NW of Toronto downtown, and it feels really good I can tell you. I 
have bionic knees and don’t get around too well right now. I can see future 
antenna maintenance could be quite a problem. But I am seeing the Aussie and 
Pacific carriers at dawn (currently 1250Z or so here), and perhaps a few from 
Asia over the pole will make it this winter with the Solar low. Iceland booms 
in here on LW (both channels), as do many of the Europeans lately, when 
conditions are good. What was that wonderful station on 1134 that I heard 
earlier than 2pm local time a few years ago? And if all that fails, there are 
those amazing remote listening SDRs from which you can hear the World, as weak, 
or as strong, as you wish.

 — Tony Ward (ZL1AZV, VE3NO etc)


> On Oct 29, 2018, at 13:10, Neil Kazaross  wrote:
> 
> Yep, the S meter is a must for getting the best nulls. You can do it
> audibly, but the S meter sure helps.  73 KAZ
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:06 PM Jim B  wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> I put larger knobs on my quantum phaser for finer adjustment, but now
>> that
>>> I use SDR Console for MW dxing, I also use the gain db scale like a
>> digital
>>> readout to help find the best nulls.   Jim
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Neil Kazaross 
>>> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com ; Nrc-am <
>>> nrc...@googlegroups.com>; a...@yahoogroups.com 
>>> Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2018 10:27 pm
>>> Subject: [nrc-am] A phasing story. Greenland 720 logged in IL.
>>> 
>>> A phasing story from last night. I live 12 miles NNW from WGN's xmtr. I
>>> put down a 288 ft BOG at about 35 deg // a 177 ft one. Phase null of WGN
>>> peaked at about 50 dB and it was down close to S6 on Perseus.? Sure
>> enough
>>> there's audio seeming // KNR webstream which was mostly talk. Then from
>>> 0104-8 a couple of bouncy tunes sung by females clinched it leaving me no
>>> doubt. This using the Quantum Phaser which I think I'd like 2:1 or even
>> 3:1
>>> Vernier knobs for.
>>> When I got Greenland at my WI DX paradise a decade ago, WGN and KNR were
>>> about S7-8 using longer terminated BOGs. At 12 miles distance I have no
>>> skywave to worry about.
>>> I couldn't get Greenland on 650 where even though WSCR and WSM are close
>>> together on the dial and in similar directions, WSCR IBOC crept up during
>>> best null on WSM and visa-versa.
>>> IBOC sucks but phasing ROCKS. Short BOGs aren't impressive 'til you phase
>>> them to create good back nulls. ? 73 KAZ?--

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Re: [IRCA] DXing and cruising - part two

[Theo]

Hi Mark:

Well, as I remarked, it wasn't a serious attempt at DXing but just time 
to make a few observations.  Cruising is a very social activity and as 
my dining was at the late (8.30 pm) sitting, the table was seldom 
finished much before 10.30 pm.


Looking back at my rough notes for the first night while listening just 
after 2100 UT/11 pm Central African I do have 1530 scribbled as 'vy 
good'!.  I just got sidetracked with the surprise of the 380 reaching so 
far so easily up into the Middle East and beyond.


I'd been watching out for 783 and made a note of what was likely it on 
the second major night's sweep as fair at 2200 UT by which time the ship 
was on UT + 1 so again 11 pm .


As for 621, dunno... I never wrote anything down even though the two 
presumed RNE's on 738 and 855 made it south.  The Tecsun definitely did 
not like the listed 300 kW being pumped out at a few km's range once 
tied up in Santa Cruz de Tenerife... it was swamped.


And if you take into account the times I was listening... mostly around 
2100/2200 UT for MW... that would've been too early for eastern seaboard 
stuff from the US... 4pm/5 pm EST.


On the last stretch, two days/three nights from Cape Verde to the 
Canaries, we were under a storm watch with predicted 6m/20-foot swells 
(which in the end never got to more than 4.5m head on) but the wind was 
just too strong to be comfortable out on deck in the dark.


73

Theo

On 29/04/2018 9:19 PM, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:


Subject:
Re: [IRCA] DXing and cruising -\ part two
From:
Mark Connelly 
Date:
29/04/2018 9:19 PM
To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com

To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com


Do any US stations make it to any of the western Africa locales where you 
sailed?

Mauritania 783 and Canaries 621 are sometimes "blowtorch" level here on Cape 
Cod around sunset (as were now-gone Senegal 764/765 and Guinea 1386/1403/1404 in the old 
days).

The guitar strumming on Mauritania at top-of-hour makes it stand out from 
several other Arabic language stations on 783:
https://app.box.com/s/ns3aud9mair8kdh9japhnlmkbhv4zr3z

NE US to West Africa coast seems like a low-loss path, less land and less 
auroral activity in the way than from here to northern Europe.

I'd think that there would be a pretty good chance of the big NYC stations 
getting across as well as some out of FL as well.

Brazilians, as you mention, should be fairly numerous.  R. Itatiaia 610 has 
been particularly good here lately:
https://app.box.com/s/mas9yjqvd1ldf5qfckwdvbfv6yhi4gh2

You should also get the 1030 Argie (R. Noticias del Plata) which sometimes 
pesters WBZ only about 55 miles away from here:
https://app.box.com/s/oyrrwtxgcsbve9tbs5gh2tw6txg6i9o1

VOA Botswana 909 does indeed go off at 2100 UTC as heard on this recording here 
last November:
https://app.box.com/s/724khhz6khcx72b0if8x1n39iztwc5ji

VOA Sao Tome 1530 should have been smokin' loud most of where you went.

It's not half-bad here in MA:
https://app.box.com/s/tv29mbjl81wqwjgia7gplbjoyfd77vaf

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA




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[IRCA] DXing and cruising -\ part two

[Theo]

the day.  I thumped back down the 699 steps (worse than going up -- 
thighs were ruined for days) and after some wandering, decided on a 
Windhoek Draught at a tavern. Unbeknownst to me, the bartender had also 
noticed the T-shirt and just as I was about to go exploring some more, 
in tore this local guy, looking around expectantly. I sort of jumped to 
a conclusion, and sure enough it was Tony.  As all the shore tours 
arranged by the ship had been sold out, I hadn't managed to get out of 
Jamestown but Tony drove me up to Longwood House, built for Napoleon's 
exile on the island, and afterwards decided he wanted a short interview 
for possible use by SAMS.  And he then delivered me back to the quayside.


Three days later, the call at Ascension produced a bonus. Landing is by 
tender but the swell was too dangerous at the quayside steps.  As a 
consolation, the Captain decided on a clockwise circuit of the island 
which allowed for a fair viewing of BaBCock's antenna facilities out on 
the northern tip away from Georgetown.  Once back at anchorage in the 
early afternoon, the swell had calmed enough for passengers to land, 
though I was on the last tender at 4.30 and got the last back from shore 
around 6.30 pm. Landing permits severely restrict access beyond the 
settlement so even if we'd had the whole day on shore, I wouldn't have 
even seen as much as the circuit provided.


A shore tour of Dakar was interesting -- one stop turned out to be 
across the street from the main RTS compound behind a high concrete wall 
but with several billboards showing why.  And later, the tour bus got 
caught in traffic outside a second building which appeared to be the 
RTS-FM location.  And talking of FM, sorry Douglas, I didn't do much 
tuning around though did notice at Praia on Cape Verde that RFI Afrique 
is indeed on 99.3 MHz."



73

Theo

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[IRCA] DXing and cruising - part one

[Theo]

Today, I finally read through Walt Salmaniw's post a week ago describing 
his efforts of listening at sea.  Nick Hall-Patch had suggested that I 
post a rundown after seeing my description while cruising back around 
the western Indian Ocean in December.


First, I'll agree with Walt about how quiet ships can be once you're 
outside their superstructure.  The major problem is to find a spot on 
deck out of the wind, and with enough light at night for scribbling 
notes.  Then there's the curiosity factor.  One on my latest trip -- see 
below --was especially hilarious.  Early last year while travelling from 
Sydney to Valparaíso, I was on an upper aft deck on the 'Sea Princess' 
in the late evening north of New Zealand, trying to determine whether R. 
Fiji had managed to activate 990 kHz. An officer suddenly appeared and 
watched me pace (in and out of the only lights) with the PL-380 for a 
minute or so before deciding I wasn't about to jump. I guess I was 
picked up by a surveillance cam somewhere.


I tried to post all this as one piece but it failed to appear.  So to 
two brief reports I sent off to the 'New Zealand DX Times': the first 
about a circle cruise out of Mauritius in December... and the second, an 
unforgettable segment from Cape Town to the Canary Islands in February.  
The receiver was a stock Tecsun 380:


"I spent 14 nights on a circle cruise of the western Indian Ocean out of 
Port Louis, Mauritius during the second half of the month.I should have 
had Douglas Johns on hand to figure out what was going on in Mauritius 
as my 2016 WRTH listings for FM didn’t seem to match up with 
reality!Three AM’ers are active: 684 (in mostly brief daytime checks) 
had a good but not overpowering signal where I spent a couple of days 
pre-cruise on the SE coast, and was carrying Kool FM in French (the 
other French service on FM only was Radio One, pronounced as in EE) – 
819 had a thumping signal at Blue Bay near the airport and appeared to 
be carrying Best FM in Hindi, plus short bursts of Chinese – and 1575 
was poor with BBC World in English.I’m guessing 684 and 819 still share 
a site near Curepipe so why there’d be a noticeable difference in 
reception is a good question.My taxi driver to the ship was an 
entertaining elderly gent who was intrigued when I asked about the 
station on his radio (Best FM).He pointed out the former MBC building as 
we passed through Curepipe but they now have a massive building closer 
to Port Louis, and just as importantly he pointed out the nearby Phoenix 
brewery after asking whether I’d tried the local beer!Do you need any 
answer to that?On board, my dinner sitting was late so any evening 
checks were in the region of 10.30 pm and later – either 1830 or 1930 
UT, depending how far west we were.Very casual observations basically 
boiled down to lots of Iranians and Arabic stuff on MW; VoA 909 from 
northern Botswana was a powerhouse along with the parallel on 4930 – the 
Beeb on 3255 and Sonder Grense 3320 were easy pickings any night – and 
once we were on East African Time/UT+3, my check turned up presumed 
Madagascar at very poor strength/modulation on 5010.Also surprising was 
how weak RN Angola was on 4950 – ditto for ZBC/11735.Thurs 21 Dec, the 
evening before the ship’s call at Zanzibar, it was covered by a 
religious outfit in Portuguese till 2000 UT; is there really a 50 kW 
Brazilian called R. Transmundial as listed in the WRTH and Aoki? A 
hugely dominant African on 6090 was presumably Kaduna.One evening only, 
999 had a Slavic language (I can’t tell the difference between 
Russian/Ukrainian) and since returning home, I think that must have been 
TWR/Kishinev-Grigoriopol which is listed as having a weird schedule. 
Another evening, 4965 had Voice of Hope from Zambia thundering in with 
its American-style presentation, never to be heard again, till I 
realised after looking at Aoki that they use the frequency Mon-Fri only 
and my re-checks had been on weekends. Gee!The Friday morning in 
Zanzibar, I was on deck about 8 am and 585 and 6015 were definitely on 
air.During a shore tour, I asked the local guide during a stop north of 
Zanzibar Town about how far we were from Dole?Eyes glaze over – tourists 
ask strange questions -- till I mentioned ZBC… ah, we’re ‘in’ Dole… the 
tx site was maybe ten mins drive away, but banana palms and other trees 
kept any sighting, um, out of sight. The first two calls had been in the 
Seychelles; I’d recalled there should’ve been a MW tx still on-air, but 
never heard it, so maybe it isn’t?The other major highlight (for me) was 
the call at Mamoudzou on Mayotte’s Grande Terre, in the Comoros. I took 
a ferry across to the old French colonial capital at Dzaoudzi and 
wandered to look for the now ‘Mayotte Premiere’ location but never found 
it.Anyone with an old ORTF QSL card for 3331 will have a view of the 
causeway.The last call was La Réunion: no MW as the two tx’s (and the 
one on Mayotte) closed during 2017."

Re: [IRCA] 918 kHz DU English Puzzle

[Theo]

I'll agree with Chuck.

The presence of a commercial rules out RNZ National from New Plym or 
Timaru.  My ears can't grab more than  but the tel. number 
prefix 4654- matches the landline exchange assignment for a bunch of 
businesses in Charleville, QLD.  Oz uses eight-digit numbers and they're 
pretty constant/fixed as they put cell/mobile use on a separate area 
code, unlike our muddled groupings.


There's a CG Thompson, Building Design at 4654 1215 -- and a Wyatt KC & 
C Contractors at 4654 1355


All that would point to 4VL as one of the battlers.  At least you caught 
a commercial breakout as both 4VL and 2XL/Cooma, NSW are listed as 
carrying overnight programming from 2GB.


In hunting for this stuff, Aussie's Yellow Pages decided my IP address 
was a bot, and I had to prove otherwise!  


73

Theo

On 23/04/2018 6:04 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:

Gary -


At 2:44 I hear a phone number and a  mention of "Kingdom Builds.com". The 
number is difficult but sounds like 4654 5805.


And I caught the same mention of Merv Starr at 4:37.


It was a difficult file to study. The level was way too high: Audacity tells me 
it had to be lowered by 7 dB just to prevent clipping. After adjusting the 
level I then had to adjist the equalization as it was very muffled/


Chuck





From: IRCA  on behalf of Gary DeBock 

Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 4:53 PM
To: America, Mailing
Subject: [IRCA] 918 kHz DU English Puzzle

In the same Cook Island 918 kHz MP3 as Cambodia and Shandong (recorded at 1658 UTC on 
April 12th) there are two DU English stations mixing at a strong level from 2:40 until 
6:00 into the recording, one of which builds up strength until 4:36 with a strong 
"Midnight, with Merv (?) Starr" mention. Can anyone (Theo?) decipher the DU 
English to provide any identity clues? Thanks in advance!  
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/takoyz5d3l19wockuky8x1e0d8m8fiv0


Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA

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Re: [IRCA] Norfolk Island in the 1566 Maze?

[Theo]

Gary:

As Tony Ward from Toronto mentioned last week, Norfolk runs RNZ National 
overnight (supposedly till 1930 UT so way after your reception period).


And no, World TV has never activated 1566 in Wellington which they 
picked up at auction a couple of years back.  The planned power has 
always been listed at a strange 15.3/15.8 kW depending on the source of 
the information.


I checked with the Kiwi SDR near Nelson at ~1520 UT and what appeared to 
be 3NE was dominant, with talk about the Commonwealth and NZ... not sure 
why... but it wasn't // with RNZ Nat/567. Someone else was really weak 
and scratchy underneath; I didn't attempt to figure whether it could be 
Norfolk or ABC Gympie in Queensland.


Theo

On 20/04/2018 1:58 AM, Gary DeBock wrote:

In the Cook Islands there never was a problem with transoceanic DX being too 
weak-- the problem was that it was too strong, and from too many areas at the 
same time. In this 1566 kHz MP3 recorded at 1641 UTC on April 12th the Oz 
mega-pest 3NE is apparently in a fade, but that only seems to bring in a couple 
of other DU English stations in an S9 mix (along with a third station, 
apparently in Chinese). Does anyone know what Norfolk Island's current format 
is, and does anyone know if the new 3 kW (Chinese?) station is now broadcasting 
in Wellington? This MP3 apparently features two government-type programs (RNZ 
and/or ABC) mixing together, with the third station in apparent Chinese in the 
background (don't know if this would be HLAZ, or the new Wellington?). Can 
anybody sort out this zoo?  
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/hysvrh4f7i8u16f3740ch5azam0iervx


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Re: [IRCA] UnID Oz Pest on 693 kHz

[Theo]

Agree with Bruce and Chuck and there's also a commercial starting at 
6:05 for a law firm (Morris and Associates?) with "four locations around 
Melbin" at 6:31 plus indistinct dub-dub-dub address just before the jingle.


Theo

On 19/04/2018 2:52 AM, Gary DeBock wrote:

This prolific Australian pest station was the dominant performer on 693 KHz 
during the sunrise sessions in the Cook Islands, frequently pounding in at S9 
levels but never seeming to provide any identity clues. It had a real talent 
for snarling Bangladesh at critical moments, although the latter did also break 
through at S9 levels occasionally. In this 7-minute MP3 recorded at 1653 UTC on 
April 10th Bangladesh starts off in an S9 snarl with the Yankee-accented Radio 
Sport in Dunedin (relaying Fox Sport Network from the USA), but the Oz pest 
station takes over at an S9 level around the 4 minute point. It carries 
numerous ads and public service announcements (all apparently useless for 
identity clues) until an ID at 7:12 into the recording at the 1700 TOH.  
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ltl5f8aeo5w2qm3bf2n02x06xsu9fb9r

Unfortunately my ability to decipher Oz English is limited-- any ideas or 
suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!


Gary DeBock (DXing in Aitutaki, Cook Islands with a Hot-rodded CC Skywave SSB Ultralight 
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Re: [IRCA] Cook Islands (Aitutaki) Ultralight DU's for 4-9

[Theo]

Tony:

You're showing your vintage by referring to "The National Programme". 
That's so "1964", when it wuz launched.  Are you the letter-writer to 
the newspaper in Wellington who listens still to 2YA?!


It's long since morphed to the current "R-N-Z National"... not even 
Radio New Zealand National... let alone National Radio, either.  


Kia ora.. . or kia orana as a nod to Gary on Aitutaki.

Theo

On 10/04/2018 3:34 PM, TONY WARD wrote:

Norfolk Island on 1566 carries the National Programme overnight. I managed it 
from my brother’s cottage on Waiheke Is. (Auckland harbour) while there 2 
years ago


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Re: [IRCA] Why can't I read some IRCA posts?

[Theo]

Probably because Craig Barnes appears to be using Microsoft Outlook as
his mail client.. and is sending messages as .eml attachments rather
than plain text.

Your iPad's mail software likely doesn't open this natively... but your
PC does.  My Android tablet's stock mail client doesn't, but I know to
hit the attachment to view.

Having said that, Craig did send one msg (I think it was Tuesday) that
had nothing... no body nor attachment.

Theo

On 14/03/2018 9:13 AM, Volodya S wrote:

I've mentioned this in the past, but your posts, Craig, as well as several
other IRCA contributors are invisible to me when I try to read them on my
iPad.  No body is present.  I can only see them on a PC, which is a shame,
as I often travel only taking my iPad with me. Notice how it comes as a,
"forwarded message".   I don't have the computer smarts to understand why
this occurs, or why you post in the format you do.  I use Chrome only, with
Gmail.  Wonder whether others have the same issue?   Walt

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:03 PM, C B via IRCA  wrote:


-- Forwarded message --
From: C B 
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Cc:
Bcc:
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:03:52 + (UTC)
Subject: Fw: CO TP DX 3-14-18


--- On Wed, 3/14/18, C B  wrote:


From: C B 
Subject: CO TP DX 3-14-18
To:
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 9:02 AM
I listened from 1131 to 1315. LSR at 1311. A
decent variety of hets were present, though not quite as
many as yesterday. 1044 seemed on the brink of audio, but
didn't quite get there.

594 JOAK, pres. w/faint, mumbly audio

747 JOIB w/weak to fair audio w/male in
JJ

774 JOUB w/male in JJ, male and female
w/EE lesson @1225

828 JOBB w/weak audio, male

972 HLCA w/fair audio, male and female
in Asian lang.

Best of DX,

Craig Barnes
Wheat Ridge, CO

Drake R8A, NW and NE Superloops, SW
KAZ, ALA 1530ln, Quantum Phaser. FLG100




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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] 1530 VOA Sao Tome at sign-on and sign-off

[Theo]

I was wondering the same thing about listenership back in December while 
cruising in the western Injun Ocean.  909 (and 4930) from Botswana 
thumped in at night on a stock PL380 while on a circuit 
Mauritius/Seychelles/Zanzibar/Comoros/Reunion/Mauritius.


Then '60 Minutes' on CBS a week or so back were tut-tutting about 
'RT/Russia Today' complete with 'Larry King Live' being available on 
cable...


Theo
Burnaby, BC

On 16/01/2018 9:56 AM, Bill Whitacre wrote:

I get a kick out of those anmts.  The guy who recorded them LONG ago is no 
longer with us - Frank Oliver.  The U. S. Information Service is long gone as 
are 'cultural centers.'  And the zip on the address given - 20547 - hasn't been 
used in decades.

Oh well, it's not like anybody's actually listening ... except us DXers.  ;-)

Bill Whitacre
IBB Monitoring
Washington, DC

---

On Jan 16, 2018, at 12:32 PM, Mark Connelly markwa1...@aol.com [CapeDX] wrote:


Recent recording (UTC 0259 / 15 JAN) of 1530 VOA Sao Tome at sign-on.  Man with 
announcement "This is the Voice of America, Washington, DC, signing on." then 
Yankee Doodle music; mostly over WCKY.
https://app.box.com/s/3h5ykp9zxyqd9ta3xkdou8385yemqqvi

A couple of days earlier I had the other end of VOA 1530's broadcast day.  WJDM 
(NJ) sign-off announcement in English, mention of Cantico Nuevo program.  VOA 
Sao Tome then is audible with its sign-off announcement right after.  13 JAN at 
2200 UTC / 5 p.m. EST.
https://app.box.com/s/x4orxy5sh633244vn0otgnmdz35ggjky

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA
(GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq)

Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

Antenna: Cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 9m vert. by 20m horiz. (peak 90 deg., null 
270 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.




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Re: [IRCA] Missing 846

[Theo]

The NZ Radio DX League's Bryan Clark located ~100km north of Auckland 
asks the same question?


He had been registering Kiribati's tx slightly offset to the low side of 
846, along with someone exactly on 846.00 -- which he presumed to be 
Newstalk ZB from Masterton/Waingawa down near Wellington.


His evening/NZ date 9 Dec or early hours of UT/9 Dec, only the exact 
846.00 was showing, leading him to surmise Kiribati was not on air.


Theo

On 9/12/2017 5:41 PM, Nigel Pimblett wrote:
   Since I've been trying to hear Kiribati on 846 over the past couple 
of weeks I've always had a good carrier from 0530ish until when it 
goes off at variable times around 1000 UT. Last night I didn't 
hear a trace of it all night.   Conditions wouldn't seemed to have 
changed enough to account for that, so was it perhaps off the air?   
I'm curious if anyone heard them on last night.


73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB


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Re: [IRCA] 846

[Theo]

Yairs.. sometime in March 2011.

TD

On 30/11/2017 12:41 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:

I thought that they moved from 846 to 1440 several years ago?


At 19:20 2017-11-30, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

How long has Kiribati been off 846? I never knew they left it.

Kiribati does 1 hour a day in English playing country music, and then 
the rest of their day is their mother younger... it sounds a bit 
Asian to my ears


I have some locally made englis language airchecks of Radio KiribatiÂ

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Re: [IRCA] PNG X-band beacons

[Theo]

On 15/10/2017 9:20 PM, Volodya S wrote:

Further to studying the excellent resource you mention, Bruce (
worldaerodata.com), it's clear to me that the airport at Ust-Bolsheretsk is
closed.  The NDB is probably used for helicopter traffic now.  All this
discussion re NDBs got me wondering about PNG beacons in the X-band.


There is (or used to be) one such NDB in New Zealand's North 
Island...'TM' on 1630 kHz at Taumarunui... about 175 miles/280km south 
of Auckland... on the Main Trunk Line (an "in joke" amongst Kiwis).


I think Gary DeB. has heard KT/Kaitaia on 238 kHz, but that's coastal in 
the Far North..


TD
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[IRCA] Troubles at Tonga 1017

[Theo]

Forwarded from Radio Heritage Foundation's David Ricquish:


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Re: [IRCA] Fiji Radio info

[Theo]

Ah... the mention of Gold suggests 990 in addition to 558 for RF1. That 
appeared elsewhere in an earlier FBC release, but contradicts the tests 
a year or three back when 990 was used by RF2.


But this is a recent report (11 Aug) so...

Time for someone else to go on a cruise to check!

Theo

On 8/12/2017 3:58 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:

An item on the MW Circle website led to the following:

https://fijisun.com.fj/2017/08/12/15-million-am-radio-facility-better-covers-maritime-islands/ 



Two AM transmitters are mentioned, though whether there are two 
stations on the air seems unclear


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Re: [IRCA] Rockwork 4 Ultralight DU's for 8-1 (Conclusion)

[Theo]

See below

On 8/2/2017 5:26 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

I too, hear the Shoes Unlimited mentions and the same shoesunlimited dot co
dot enn zed

I hear the Cromwell mention.. "visit their out... cromwell"  it is
mentioned on the websitE:

http://www.shoesunlimited.co.nz/index.php?route=information/location


But not the initial Google search!

<https://www.google.ca/search?q=shoes+unlimted+new+zealand&oq=shoes+unlimted+new+zealand&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30k1.8934.11088.0.11274.12.12.0.0.0.0.194.1499.3j9.12.00...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.12.1492...0i13k1j0i8i13i30k1.cTQ5yLohVGI>





On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Theo  wrote:


As zapped to the  group, 99.9% probability as More FM from
Alexandra.  The sheila (oops, female) is peddling winter boots from Shoes
Unlimited, a chain trading on both sides of The Ditch.

She provides a web address towards the end as
 though there's a puzzling apparent
mention of a store location in Cromwell before that, which the chain
doesn't admit to on-line.

TD

On 8/1/2017 11:14 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:


Well, Theo mentioned that he was looking forward to some more recordings
from the "Kiwi Cliff," so I thought I would oblige him. Not to mention the
DU-English in some of these ads is way beyond the deciphering capability of
any sleep-deprived Yankee DXer.

531 UnID-DU (either 4KZ or More FM) OK Theo, this lady's DU English
speech is potent indeed, but her accent is so strong that she might as well
be speaking Chinese (which would be easier for me to understand). Heard at
1255 in a mix with a weaker PI
https://app.box.com/s/lbmcayqyvvivedjx1j1ru5ihdcdydsem



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Re: [IRCA] Rockwork 4 Ultralight DU's for 8-1 (Conclusion)

[Theo]

As zapped to the  group, 99.9% probability as More FM from 
Alexandra.  The sheila (oops, female) is peddling winter boots from 
Shoes Unlimited, a chain trading on both sides of The Ditch.


She provides a web address towards the end as 
 though there's a puzzling apparent 
mention of a store location in Cromwell before that, which the chain 
doesn't admit to on-line.


TD

On 8/1/2017 11:14 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

Well, Theo mentioned that he was looking forward to some more recordings from the 
"Kiwi Cliff," so I thought I would oblige him. Not to mention the DU-English in 
some of these ads is way beyond the deciphering capability of any sleep-deprived Yankee 
DXer.

531 UnID-DU (either 4KZ or More FM) OK Theo, this lady's DU English speech is 
potent indeed, but her accent is so strong that she might as well be speaking 
Chinese (which would be easier for me to understand). Heard at 1255 in a mix 
with a weaker PI
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Re: [IRCA] Looking for Iceland cliff recomendations

[Theo]

May 2016?

I'm surprised you didn't notice RUV testing on 666 with 1kW from the 
outskirts of Reykjavik... pretty sure Nigel Pimblett from Alberta had 
them that month... and had both he and myself (in late August) mystified 
at the non-stop music.


Theo
Burnaby, BC

On 7/11/2017 1:19 PM, Pete Taylor wrote:

I was in Reykjavik in May of last year and with a bare Radio Shack 398 from a 
hotel room, all I heard on AM was Scotland-810. I am sure, while driving around 
at midnight, you will get some interesting stuff.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380



On Jul 10, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Bob Coomler via IRCA  wrote:

From: Bob Coomler 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Looking for Iceland cliff recomendations
Date: July 10, 2017 at 8:37:05 PM PDT
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 

Reply-To: Bob Coomler 


I was in Iceland several years ago (dead of winter for the Northern Lights) and did some 
"DXing Lite".  If this will be your first trip, don't worry about optimizing a 
single location.  It will all be new and wonderfully different. Enjoy!
Bob Coomler W7SWLTucson, AZ

  From: Aaron Kreider 
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 2:39 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Looking for Iceland cliff recomendations

So this might be a longshot, but I'm going to Iceland for a week long
trip - driving around the entire country.  And I'm wondering if there
are any good DX cliffs with decent road access (as I won't have that
much time for setup).

I know there is only 3-4 hours of "night", but I'd love to log Greenland
for the first time or other MW stations.  I'm bringing a Tecsun 880.

Any suggestions?

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Re: [IRCA] RadioShack Has Essentially Shut All Its Stores

[Theo]

Gidday:

RP Electronics still exist: they've moved from the West 4th Ave location 
in Kitsilano to a mini-mall store-front on Rupert, just south of the 
BNSF/CN railway tracks and across from Real Canadian Superstore.


It's been a while since I visited, but they had become a 
computer-geekish bits n' pieces store.  I was after covered wire with a 
specific colour for use as a simple antenna that matched my building's 
decor!  And found nuffink.


The other amateur/SW-friendly places... one down deep on Victoria Drive 
(used to be the major ICOM dealer) and Dubberley's on Davie have long gone.


Theo

PS Is it just me, or has the IRCA list system changed, whereby if you 
hit 'reply' you no longer respond to the 'list' address but to the 
poster's personal address?


On 6/7/2017 4:57 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Doesn't the Vancouver area still have a real storefront parts supplier 
Theo?R P Electronics if I remember correctly?We still have 
Queale in Victoria, better than the Canadian Radio Shack ever was for 
parts, though can't compete with the selection of Digi-Key etc.


Do any other such individual suppliers exist in other parts of Canada 
or the U.S.?


best wishes,

Nick



At 22:44 07-06-17, Theo wrote:

Years ago Tandy got rid of its Radio Shack stores in Canada... and later
removed the local right to use the brand name... so they became The
Source at Circuit City.. but when the US portion of that was liquidated,
they morphed to just The Source.

The stores seem to be surviving, though don't look for much in the way
of radio stuff.  The local mall close to home used to have two outlets
-- and there are still another three that I'm aware of within 10 km.

Theo
Burnaby, BC

On 6/7/2017 11:09 AM, billy brooks wrote:

Maybe the shack will reorganize and call itself "olsen electronics".
Stranger things have happened.

Bill brooks
Waynesburg,pa
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Re: [IRCA] RadioShack Has Essentially Shut All Its Stores

[Theo]

Years ago Tandy got rid of its Radio Shack stores in Canada... and later

removed the local right to use the brand name... so they became The
Source at Circuit City.. but when the US portion of that was liquidated,
they morphed to just The Source.

The stores seem to be surviving, though don't look for much in the way
of radio stuff.  The local mall close to home used to have two outlets
-- and there are still another three that I'm aware of within 10 km.

Theo
Burnaby, BC

On 6/7/2017 11:09 AM, billy brooks wrote:

Maybe the shack will reorganize and call itself "olsen electronics".
Stranger things have happened.

Bill brooks
Waynesburg,pa
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Re: [IRCA] KHJ Tribute Station

[Theo]

And not to forget KKHJ in American Samoa, for apparently the same 
reason!  It was kinda weird to hear casual "K-H-J" mentions while 
wandering around Pago Pago a few months back during a cruise call.  The 
main frequency of 93.1 almost makes it too...


Theo

On 5/16/2017 2:13 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote:

By now some of you have heard about the new planned LPFM station in Albany OR (Also 
to be found streaming on TuneIn by typing in KHJJ) This is of course to honor the 
Boss Radio days of KHJ 930 AM in Los Angeles. Thankfully those calls are still with 
us today.  Many of the original personalities will actually be on the air on this 
station (not to mentioned many taped segments featuring the late Wolfman Jack as well 
as the late Real Don Steele). This is pretty interesting news to oldies fans as well 
as those of us who regularly listened to RKO radio as kids. Take a look at the 
website:   www.khjfm.com<http://www.khjfm.com>


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Re: [IRCA] domestic dx

[Theo]

I have 1YC/880 from Auckland, 1YZ/860 from the Paengaroa site, and 
2YC/660 outside Wellington verified while living on the top floor of an 
old house in East Vancouver in early '68.  4QD/Emerald on 1550 was also 
heard but for some reason I never bothered to send a report... rx was 
(and still is tho' haven't tried to turn it on in decades) an 
Aussie-made boombox-style with just the internal ferrite rod... 
physically about the same size as the Zenith Trans-Oceanic.


Theo

On 4/30/2017 10:17 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Back in the '60s, the Asian and Australian DX was still on the 10 kHz 
channels, but there were also still clear channels, so domestic 
interference was not a big issue on a number of frequencies.


I think the only one I heard then was China on 1040, but at least in 
IRCA, DXers in California, and I think Seattle, heard others, using 
just air core loop antennas, and big iron communication receivers.


best wishes,

Nick


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Re: [IRCA] Slightly OT - Icom product announcement

[Theo]

I wanna strapless model.

Oh, darn... it's past 12 noon.

Theo

On 4/1/2017 4:29 PM, Bruce Portzer wrote:


News about an Icom ham transceiver announced earlier today (4/1).

http://www.icom.co.jp/fb/170401/

OK, it's in Japanese but Google's English translation is entertaining.

It's probably the ultimate ultralight :)

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Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 23 March 2017

[Theo]

ACMA gives two set of coordinates: -38 11  16, 147  5  33... and -38  
11  23, 147  5  38.


Presumably two towers for the few secs difference?

Theo


On 3/24/2017 8:11 AM, Neil Kazaross wrote:

I remain amazed at how well 3GI gets out for 10 kW and while near the coast
isn't directly on the coast. Anyone know where in relation to Sale and the
coast their xmtr is? I tried googling but wasn't quite sure.

These guys made it to IL during a couple of the stunning mornings for DU's
from mid Sept to early Oct last year.  73 KAZ

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Nigel Pimblett  wrote:


 Almost a shutout in terms of audio here today, but not quite:

774 3LO Melbourne, AUSTRALIAPoor, with time pips at 1300,
followed by the ABC news fanfare.

828 3GI Sale, AUSTRALIA Could make out the ABC news
fanfare at 1300, but that was about it.


   Nothing from Asia today.  Several DU carriers on the X-band, but none
that reached audio this morning.



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Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

[Theo]

Duh!  I need new glasses... right now there's a shortage of 
glass-bottomed Coke bottles for re-purposing!


Yeah, 4QN would make more sense.

TD

On 3/23/2017 4:54 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:o

Agreed, and at :10 and :14 don't I hear "seven to nothing"?

The woman that rises on top by :18 is the Aussie accent I referred to, but I 
supposed it was Townsville not NewsRadio.

Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of Theo 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 4:35 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape 
Taitosaki DXpedition

Sorry for a delayed response... but I hear two EE speakers there.  The
first is a male with repeated use of "getting to..." (four times
beginning at :10, then a woman rises to dominate at ~:18 with words that
include "former (something)... making his debut..."

And I'll agree with Chuck that the pronunciation of 'debut' suggests DU.

Hang on... the National Rugby League line-up for Sat 18 Mar had a game
involving the Sydney Roosters which would've kicked off at 0900 UT.
That 'something word' sounds suspiciously like "Rooster".

<http://www.podbet.com/nrl-round-3-saturday-18th-march-games/>

So possibly ABC NewsRadio for the woman?

Theo

On 3/23/2017 3:25 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

Chuck and Colin,

Thanks for listening to the 630 kHz DXpedition clip, and for your detailed 
assessments. I will pass these on to Hiroo.

I think that for their next major DXpedition this Japanese group will have a 
major advantage for MP3 file review-- with a Canadian named Nick Hall-Patch as 
one of the participants.

Gary


- Original Message -

From: "R. Colin Newell" 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 

Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:33:14 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape 
Taitosaki DXpedition

On additional listening, yes - English there...
at at syllable level...

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC


On Mar 23, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Chuck Hutton  wrote:

To my ears, there is English at :03 and :20. The talk at :20 is news, and seems 
to have an Australian accent.


Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of R. Colin Newell 

Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:30 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape 
Taitosaki DXpedition

Yea - I swear I could hear an entirely Asian language in there with no
evidence of anything remotely English.


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:35 AM,  wrote:

  From the Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition on March 18th, this mix of
North American signals was received on 630 KHz at 1000 UTC by Hiroo
Nakagawa, one of the DXpedition partners that Nick, Tom and I welcomed to
Rockwork 4 last July (in a horrible, rainy windstorm).

http://my-bcl-life.sakura.ne.jp/DXSounds/1703181000UTC630kHz.mp3

Any assistance in listening and digging out any clues for station identity
would be greatly appreciated! The Cape Taitosaki DXpedition was extremely
successful for the Japanese Ultralight DXers, with several of them
receiving astonishing DX like 1620-Radio Rebelde (Cuba) on 7.5" loopstick
Tecsun PL-380 and CC Skywave models around local sunset.

Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)


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Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

[Theo]

Sorry for a delayed response... but I hear two EE speakers there.  The 
first is a male with repeated use of "getting to..." (four times 
beginning at :10, then a woman rises to dominate at ~:18 with words that 
include "former (something)... making his debut..."


And I'll agree with Chuck that the pronunciation of 'debut' suggests DU.

Hang on... the National Rugby League line-up for Sat 18 Mar had a game 
involving the Sydney Roosters which would've kicked off at 0900 UT.  
That 'something word' sounds suspiciously like "Rooster".


<http://www.podbet.com/nrl-round-3-saturday-18th-march-games/>

So possibly ABC NewsRadio for the woman?

Theo

On 3/23/2017 3:25 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

Chuck and Colin,

Thanks for listening to the 630 kHz DXpedition clip, and for your detailed 
assessments. I will pass these on to Hiroo.

I think that for their next major DXpedition this Japanese group will have a 
major advantage for MP3 file review-- with a Canadian named Nick Hall-Patch as 
one of the participants.

Gary


- Original Message -

From: "R. Colin Newell" 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 

Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:33:14 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape 
Taitosaki DXpedition

On additional listening, yes - English there...
at at syllable level...

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC


On Mar 23, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Chuck Hutton  wrote:

To my ears, there is English at :03 and :20. The talk at :20 is news, and seems 
to have an Australian accent.


Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of R. Colin Newell 

Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:30 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape 
Taitosaki DXpedition

Yea - I swear I could hear an entirely Asian language in there with no
evidence of anything remotely English.


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:35 AM,  wrote:

 From the Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition on March 18th, this mix of
North American signals was received on 630 KHz at 1000 UTC by Hiroo
Nakagawa, one of the DXpedition partners that Nick, Tom and I welcomed to
Rockwork 4 last July (in a horrible, rainy windstorm).

http://my-bcl-life.sakura.ne.jp/DXSounds/1703181000UTC630kHz.mp3

Any assistance in listening and digging out any clues for station identity
would be greatly appreciated! The Cape Taitosaki DXpedition was extremely
successful for the Japanese Ultralight DXers, with several of them
receiving astonishing DX like 1620-Radio Rebelde (Cuba) on 7.5" loopstick
Tecsun PL-380 and CC Skywave models around local sunset.

Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)


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Re: [IRCA] dx dead spots

[Theo]

I recall while heading to the 2011 convention in Colorado Springs being 
more than mildly astounded at the signal put out by KOAL/750 in Price, 
UT.  I'd stayed overnight in Green River, and while driving the 
following day through the extended badlands around Moab and on to Grand 
Junction, CO, it just kept on thumping in on a stock Toyota rx.


I still have to thank Richard for being my chauffeur around The 
Springs!  I wasn't much of a navigator.


Theo

On 3/15/2017 4:29 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote:

I have visited cities like St. George UT and Sedona AZ and it is brick red 
wherever you look.  For DXing maybe redder means better???


ms



From: IRCA  on behalf of Richard Allen 

Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 2:44 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] dx dead spots

I’m fortunate enough to live in an area of excellent ground conductivity.  
Ground wave DX into surrounding states is very good at mid-day.  My guess is it 
has something to do with the Port Silt Loam (Red Dirt) that cover much of 
Oklahoma.  It’s a significant enough feature of the region to have been named 
the official state soil.

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Re: [IRCA] Father of radio

[Theo]

I know I'm biased, but wasn't there an NZ recluse who came up with the 
concept of radio broadcasting?


I can't turn up any web search responses but memory suggests the claim 
pre-dated 1900.


Theo

On 12/23/2016 5:04 PM, Richard N Allen wrote:

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/12/23/history-dec-23-1900-the-real-father-of-radio/

Sent from my iPad


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Re: [IRCA] ABC 6NM 1215khz Northam, Western Australia

[Theo]

Well, I took another listen, and agree with Chuck on the weather bit 
being reference to general conditions across South Australia and NSW for 
the four-day cricket test match between Australia and South Africa in 
Adelaide.


As a Kiwi-Canadian, I'd be hard-pressed to pin that accent down 
definitively as Aussie, although his pronunciation of "cricket" just 
following the weather reference does tend to be towards "creeket" rather 
than the average NZ flat vowel "crucket"... but it really isn't all 
that, erm, pronounced.  And there are so many variations in speech in 
both countries...


Time-wise, it's still nigh-on impossible to have been Newstalk ZB from 
Kaikohe.  Now that I've gotten my Alaskan zone figured out (could've 
sworn it was UT minus 10 -- oh well), 9.37 am/1837 UT Friday would've 
been 7.37 am NZDT Sat 26 Nov, and sunrise was ~6.04 am/1704 UT.  The Far 
North is far enough west (~173 degrees) to be a bit later than Auckland 
or the strict meridian, and the sun angle at that latitude (~35.4 S) 
just over three weeks before the summer solstice wouldn't help.


As for 4HI, it appears in a lot of the Macquarie Network lists (such as 
local 7-11 pm "Nights With Steve Price" originating at 2GB and also 
carried by 4BC). The Macquarie list contradicts what 4BC's site sez it 
carries until 4.30 am:  Macquarie claims "Luke Bona Australia Overnight" 
which comes out of 2UE -- 4BC has a whole bunch of shows that seem to 
run overnight, though one podcast dated 26 Nov sticks out:


<http://www.2gb.com/4bc/article/221466>

He says "till 5 am" but that would've been Sydney time, 4 am in Brissie  
I know, unnecessary details, but I mention it to show the websites 
aren't reliable!


However, your reception was at 4.37 am QT so we're no further ahead.  
It's a pity they (Macquarie/2GB/4BC/4HI) don't have program grids.


There's an email address though for Geoff Speed at 4HI:

<http://www.4hi.com.au/contact-us.php>

Theo

On 11/28/2016 2:40 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

I sent NewsTalk ZB a clip and I am going to assume they listened to because
of the wording of their reply to me.

I never assumed necessary this was a weather forecast per se but part of a
sports report of some kind... I am really beginning to think this is 4HI..

Multiple people have said this isnt an NZ Accent
I will find an answer to this, by golly!!

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Chuck Hutton  wrote:


Gary / Paul -


I don't think this is a true weather forecast with highs / lows/ etc.
Rather, I think it is a reference to the weather expected for a sporting
match. I believe they are talking about the expected conditions for the
international cricket matches in Adelaide.


These cricket matches are important to the cricket loving nations. It
seems possible that this is not a station from SA but rather a report being
carried on a station elsewhere. Paul says ZB says it is not them. On what
basis? Did they listen to a recording? If not, what were they asked? If the
question was "did you have an Australian weather forecast?" perhaps the
responder wouldn't know of the reference to weather in a cricket report.


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Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] TP Report 11/25 & Video of my DX Spot

[Theo]

It's hellishly unlikely for Newstalk ZB (from Kaikohe) to be carrying an 
Australian weather round-up.


Also, the time?  9.37 am presumably refers to your AK time -- UT minus 
10 -- which would be 1937 UT or 8.37 am NZDT.  Sunrise in NZ's Far North 
would've been shortly after 6 am NZDT/1700 UT.


Theo

On 11/25/2016 7:10 PM, Walter Salmaniw wrote:

Paul, I listened to the 1215 clip.  Now I'm no language expert, but that
accent sounds more Aussie than Kiwi.  But, I'm sure we have experts better
versed in such matters than me.   Great reception, by the way!   Have you
tried putting a wire on the ice?  Might be an interesting comparison.   I'm
sure the ice is safe enough to walk on?   73,   Walt

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote:


Now, someones pulled a rabbit out of their hat and suggested that the 1215
I heard was not ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt's 6NM Northam, but possibly
NewsTalk ZB from New Zealand on 1215khz.

Paul

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote:


It looks like, based upon the consensus of some folks on an Australian
transmitter site group on Facebook my 1215khz is the 500 watter, 6NM

Northam

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote:


Dunno why I thought 1134 was an Aussie, it's not marked as such in my
notes.

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:59 AM, James Niven 
wrote:


Paul,

1134 khz is Japanese so maybe JOQR - Nice big signal...wow!!
1215 khz is aussie, he is mentioning weather conditions in different
Australian states


-Original Message-
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Behalf
Of Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 2:14 PM
To: Hard-Core-DX; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
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NRC
Subject: Re: [HCDX] TP Report 11/25 & Video of my DX Spot

The one I am most puzzled about is 1215.. looking in the ACMA

database, I

get two listings...4HI Moranbah with 250 Watts and 6NM Northam with
500W..
that would seem near impossible to be heard up here.

I guess 1152 is 6PB.  Not sure who 1134 is though.


On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote:


Here's a video of the spot where I DX and how I have things set up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ny4Rzt2h3g

I had nothing from HLAZ 1566 or JOLF 1244 in Tokyo.. Pyongyang was
missing on 657 and 873.

I did hear Aussies talkers on 1134, 1152 and 1215.

1134khz audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtRK5nZ3ysY

1152 audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHSCKUlv9A

1215 audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIBPaqhXQso

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Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 10/5/16

[Theo]

Buried on 2GB's website is this link (don't be fooled by the sport tease):



Then under "Network Program List", the first link is a .pdf of a full 
list of stations taking stuff from 2GB.


I'm pretty sure that's the info Chuck is referring to.

TD

On 10/5/2016 6:29 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:

Hi Chuck,

Is the list substantially different from what already appears in the 
Pacific Asian Log?



Macquarie National News: is the news service operated by the Macquarie
Radio Network. Main stations include 2UE-954 2GB-873, 2CH-1170, 4BH-
882, 6PR-882, 4BC-1116, 3GV-1242, 2CC-1206, 3EE-1278, 4BU-1332 and
SEN-1116. It may also be heard weekday mornings on 2KY-1017 and the
Sky Racing Network. It provides half-hourly radio news bulletins, 
weather

and traffic reports. Website http://www.mrn.com.au/
I


The weblink is not very useful (so far) admittedly, but a list is a 
start.


Thanks for you assistance.

best wishes,

Nick



At 23:31 05-10-16, you wrote:
Actually, 4BC has a LOT of parallels. During the times when we hear 
them, dozens of stations (including 4BC) are on the Macquarie net.



I'd attach the Macquarie net list, but it's too big and IRCA will 
always and forever be stuck with the silly size limit.



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Re: [IRCA] 729 KHz DU mystery

[Theo]

Seeing that I'm being blamed for something , it's my understanding 
from what has been monitored/discussed before, that Radio National's 
programming is just that: national.  But it is time-shifted across three 
(and in summer/daylight more) time zones in the same way as the CBC does 
with non-local segments on Radio One. That must bug people in the Centre 
of the Universe, Toronto, not to hear 'live' programming that went out 
an hour earlier to Atlantic Time tx's!


ABC Local Radio is, well, just that.  The only network on AM/MW that is 
apparently same time/all places is ABC NewsRadio... the stns with the 
xPB calls.  Last time I looked, that was stated on its website.  Must be 
confusing for the news junkies in Purth to have the brekkie show start 
at 4 am... but hey, Radio-Canada does the same with  in 
Colombie-brittanique... or did the last time I checked.


TD

On 10/4/2016 12:37 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Per the August 2016 PAL concerning Radio National:  "The same 
programming is carried throughout the country simultaneously on all 
stations." Theo Donnelly and I hashed this out last April, and 
concluded that RN broadcast in local time, but guess it hasn't found 
its way through to PAL yet.


The Grayland files from last February had no sign of 5RN, so I 
couldn't verify it then (but I suspect I should have asked you 
Chuck?).   But, this morning, yes, at 1330UT, there is an ABC fanfare 
on 729, not as good as Colin's recording, but quite good enough for me.


I haven't heard this one at home since the 80s.   Then, it was on a 
tuned box loop and a homebrew receiver, so CKLG (as it was then) was 
full bore, no nulling possible without mostly nulling 5RN. Happy to 
repeat the exercise using the NetSDR and  the Flag, even without a 
full null on CHMJ (if that's what it is now).


So, nicely played Colin.   Tiddling up the null does wonders.

best wishes,

Nick




At 17:52 04-10-16, you wrote:

Colin:


In your clip, you mention waiting for an ID on the hour. This being 
South Australia, you have to listen on the half hour.



Chuck


From: IRCA  on behalf of R. Colin 
Newell 

Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 10:39 AM
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [IRCA] 729 KHz DU mystery

https://youtu.be/hP5z1mYg7Jc
[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hP5z1mYg7Jc/hqdefault.jpg]<https://youtu.be/hP5z1mYg7Jc> 



729 KHz Mystery<https://youtu.be/hP5z1mYg7Jc>
youtu.be
Aussie perhaps




Likely ABC. Was a good morning for learning our ABC's.

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
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Re: [IRCA] October 2, 2016 West Coast DU Times - Victoria B.C. Canada

[Theo]

Colin's audio of 603 was pretty defy-nightly Maori (to this Pakeha's 
ears).  The only NZ'er on 855 is Rhema in Hamilton which is (a) highly 
unlikely to be relaying an Iwi station... or (b) playing 
C&W-style/folksy mx as a Christian soft-sell programmer.


Doesn't ABC Local Radio have a C&W Show on weekends?  There are two 
10kW'ers in Queensland on 855...


TD

On 10/2/2016 3:20 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:

At 17:31 02-10-16, you wrote:

ummm parallel??   (though not at 1315UT)   There wasn't a useful 
parallel on 765 at 1315 either, but the consensus about NZ may be 
correctit has been heard here a few times.






Listened from 1315 through 1410 UTC


*603 KHZ* Unknown 1315 UTC - bouncy Island folk and country-western 
music -

unlike anything "Korean" I have ever heard here. Fr. Gd. at times.
 Sounds oddly "Native Island" to be  - music is quite clear - opinions
appreciated. https://youtu.be/2iwH0IGsf_M


*855 KHZ* Unknown DU - mix of bouncy folk and country music in/out 
during

various passes - with an "English" sounding commentary



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Re: [IRCA] October 2, 2016 West Coast DU Times - Victoria B.C. Canada

[Theo]

603 would've been R. Waatea in Auckland... one of Gary's favourites... 
and would've likely had // on 765.


TD

On 10/2/2016 10:31 AM, R. Colin Newell wrote:

Listened from 1315 through 1410 UTC

Definitely favouring the DU zone today with somewhat repressed signals from
Japan and the Korean peninsula --

*576 KHZ* Australia 2RN - 1323 Jazz track program with actual audible
station ID "2RN Radio..." at 1349 also // to the Tune-In Webstream

*603 KHZ* Unknown 1315 UTC - bouncy Island folk and country-western music -
unlike anything "Korean" I have ever heard here. Fr. Gd. at times.
  Sounds oddly "Native Island" to be  - music is quite clear - opinions
appreciated. https://youtu.be/2iwH0IGsf_M

*594 KHZ* Australia 1400 UTC 3WV Horsham signature fanfare // with 612
Brisbane - fair to good levels beating out NHK for the channel.

*612 KHZ* Australia 4QR Brisbane - easily one of he clearest and cleanest
signals of the morning - with signature fanfare over the hour // 3WV on 594
  You tube video - https://youtu.be/OigKl7GEaas

*702 KHZ* Australia 2BL Sydney (T) assuming the English interview // 774
(under NHK at the time) - good levels in CBC splash - 1320 and various times

*774 KHZ* Japan / Australia taking turns ruling the channel or sharing
equally - with NHK language lessons and ABC news commentary - 1335 -> 1400

*855 KHZ* Unknown DU - mix of bouncy folk and country music in/out during
various passes - with an "English" sounding commentary

*1116 Khz* Australia - Brisbane - 4BC Talk-radio with, you guessed it, talk
at really, really good levels at times. - https://youtu.be/X88728cFHnQ

All in all -- about equal to yesterday -- maybe with Japan and Korea
somewhat diminished.

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Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 28 September 2016

[Theo]

Cheez whiz!  3HA/981... Newstalk ZB/1026... and 2QN/1521... in 
Alberduh...  some 2kW'ers working overtimewow.


Theo

On 9/28/2016 10:25 PM, Nigel Pimblett wrote:
Wow!  What else could I say.  Yes, the Asians were missing for day 3, 
but I really didn't mind, as this morning was my best DU morning not 
only of this season, but for several seasons. Seemed like virtually 
every frequency had a DU carrier, some unusual ones produced audio, 
and the regulars had huge signals at times.


5492CROrange, AUSTRALIAABC news fanfare at 1000

5762RNSydney, AUSTRALIAMan talking at 1018, //792.

5943WVHorsham, AUSTRALIAMusic at 1018, //828.

6124QRBrisbane, AUSTRALIAFirst noted with man talking at 
0916.  ABC news fanfare quite good at 1100.


639unIDTraces of man talking at 1008.

657uNIDWeak, with music at 1316.

675unIDTraces of woman talking at 1029

7022BLSydney, AUSTRALIAWoman talking at 0949. Fair-good 
for the next 3.5 hours.


7382NRGrafton, AUSTRALIAABC news fanfare at 1100. Solid 
for the next hour, burying any possible trace of Tahiti.


7474QSToowoomba, AUSTRALIATalk by woman at 1019

756unIDMan talking at 1028

7743LOMelbourne, AUSTRALIATime pips, ABC news at 1000, and 
fair-good for next 3 hours.


7924RNBrisbane, AUSTRALIAFirst noted with woman talking at 
0918, up to fair by 1000 ABC news.


8283GISale, AUSTRALIATime pips, fanfare and news by 
man at 1000.


837unIDTraces of man and woman conversing at 1103.

8462RNCanberra, AUSTRALIAWeak, with man talking at 1010, 
//792


8915ANAdelaide, AUSTRALIAMan and woman in interview at 
1009, ABC news at 1030.


936unIDTraces of man talking at 0946

9813HAHamilton, AUSTRALIAMan talking at 1020, //4BC 1116.  
Popped up again briefly fair-good at 1112.


999unIDTraces of talk by a woman at 1116.

1017unIDTraces of man talking at 1011

1026Newstalk ZBNEW ZEALANDTalk program, //1035 at 1310

1035 Newstalk ZBWellington, NEW ZEALAND"Newstalk ZB" ID by 
man at 1306, who then gave a phone number


1098V7ABMARSHALL ISLANDSChoral music at 1119 - the only 
time I noticed any audio from them today.


1107unIDWoman talking at 1104.  Didn't seem English, so 
likely SBS from Sydney.


11164BCBrisbane, AUSTRALIAWoman talking on phone-in at 
0929. Good level at 0948 with ad string.


1188unIDWoman talking at 1101.

1233unIDTraces of man talking at 1119

1269unIDPopped up for a couple of minutes with talk by a 
woman at 1103.  2SM?


1314unIDMan talking at 1103.  Sounded like a sports 
commentary of some type.


1386unIDVery weak, with talk by woman at 1116.

1413unIDMan talking at 1054.  Didn't seem English, so SBS 
seems likely


15122RNNewcastle, AUSTRALIATough in strong KGA splatter, 
but 95% certain woman speaking was // 792.


15212QNDeniliquin, AUSTRALIANews by man at 1103, with item 
about Australian poll about politicians.


15484QDEmerald, AUSTRALIAWoman spoke, then pip and ABC 
news fanfare at 1100.


1557unIDWoman speaking, just detectable through IBOC noise 
at 1114.


1611unID, AUSTRALIA  Talk by woman at 1139.




73,


Nigel Pimblett
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Re: [IRCA] Sept 16 - super-opening - 1st video - Victoria B.C.

[Theo]

Ouch!
Theo

 Original message 
From: Richard N Allen  
Date: 2016-09-16  20:40  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 
 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Sept 16 - super-opening - 1st video - Victoria B.C. 

I agree with Colin, unattended listening isn't real DX.  I guess it's my old 
age but I have a disdain for recording multiple frequencies simultaneously, 
then trying to figure out what was received later.  

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Re: [IRCA] Rockwork 4 Ultralight DU's for 8-7-- Never a Dull Moment

[Theo]

Don't forget the Olympics are on... and their sked shows 'live' coverage 
from 'midnight'... i.e. 1200 UT:


<http://www.radiosport.co.nz/whats-on/radio-sport-live-commentary-schedule/>

TD

On 8/8/2016 10:40 AM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

Thanks Theo,

<<< If there'd been a sports' slant, then
R. Sport from Invercargill would've been possible, especially as Gary
was speculating that More FM just up the road in Alexandra was giving
531 PI a tough time. >>>

After local midnight in NZ the Radio Sport network typically relays the 
Yankee-English Fox Sports network, making it fairly easy to rule them out on 
various frequencies if DU English is heard (558, 774, 792, etc.).

73, Gary



At 05:00 08-08-16, Gary wrote:

.
558 UnID-Australian Male DU English speech with ABC-like format in
and out of 560 splatter at 1250; 6WA a strong possibility (heard here
last year) but no definite // available at the time
https://app.box.com/s/7eaj76zn4vhie4d39fdw7720w79iia29

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Re: [IRCA] Rockwork 4 Ultralight DU's for 8-7-- Never a Dull Moment

[Theo]

Sorry, I can't make anything out.  If there'd been a sports' slant, then 
R. Sport from Invercargill would've been possible, especially as Gary 
was speculating that More FM just up the road in Alexandra was giving 
531 PI a tough time.


TD

On 8/7/2016 11:12 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Well, Gary, what you heard may be archived somewhere on the ABC 
website, but the actual time of the broadcast can be a little hard to 
pin down. http://www.abc.net.au/southwestwa/programs/?day=Sunday


I think you might have been listening to Sunday Nights if it was 
6WA...should have been 8:50 PM there.   And the Sunday Nights site 
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/sundaynights/ has programs 
archivedbut what exact time were they broadcast, when all are 
supposedly at 10pm?


Very confusing.  Maybe Theo can make more sense of it...

best wishes,

Nick


At 05:00 08-08-16, Gary wrote:

.
558 UnID-Australian Male DU English speech with ABC-like format in 
and out of 560 splatter at 1250; 6WA a strong possibility (heard here 
last year) but no definite // available at the time 
https://app.box.com/s/7eaj76zn4vhie4d39fdw7720w79iia29


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Re: [IRCA] CHMJ update

[Theo]

Noted here in Burnaby with a decent strength at 8.45 pm PDT 25 July...

Theo

On 7/26/2016 7:35 AM, Eric Floden wrote:

According to Northwest Broadcasters (even though based here in SW BC...)
CHMJ is now broadcasting from Delta again with 10kW after the fire
effective 3:45pm 25/7.

http://nwbroadcasters.com/index.html

Yesterday morning we were driving back from the US approaching Blaine, and
CHMJ was unlistenable as we searched for border crossing traffic tips.

ef
Happy to be back home after 3200km in 3 days
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Re: [IRCA] Sony SRF-M37L

[Theo]

Here's a link to Gary's 2015 reviews, after the C. Crane Skywave came 
out last year:




TD

On 7/19/2016 8:45 AM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:

Did you check the Ultralight Yahoo group Karl?

I must admit a quick search there yielded very little in the way of 
user reviews, but asking that group might turn up some expertise.


best wishes,

Nick

At 01:49 19-07-16, you wrote:


I discovered that Sony has actually marketed three versions of this 
ultra-light. The V version that included analog TV audio, the common 
W version that offers North American 162 MHz weather broadcasts and 
the L version providing long wave as the third band.


Has anyone tried the L version? Is it a reasonable long wave receiver 
similar to what we enjoy from it on medium wave? What is it like 
overall?


Thanks!  Karl Zuk



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Re: [IRCA] Realistic 12-675 TRF

[Theo]

The 12-655?

Have one still, and carted a couple in luggage Way Back When to NZ in 
(mebbe 1977?) for locals.


But I think the DSP's along the lines of Tecsun's 310/380 have proved 
their edge.


Theo

On 7/11/2016 12:22 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote:

There was a successor to this model produced in the late 70s and 1980s. Many of 
us wish these were still manufactured!   ms



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Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [WTFDA] Re: DX test on 1431 AM this week

[Theo]

It must be a pretty wide directional beam, as Stu Forsyth (Chief Editor 
of the New Zealand DX Times) reports hearing the test at 1426 UT 25 May 
at his location in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Dunno what 
his rx is presently, but he has major noise problems so the signal must 
have been reasonable as he caught part of an announcement in English as 
well as high and low tones.  Stu also says the email address bounced!


Theo

On 5/25/2016 1:46 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

Additional info on Mongolia DX opportunity

Posted from WTFDA's list

Russ Edmunds
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wb2...@gmail.com

-- Forwarded message --
From: Chris Kadlec 
Date: Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:25 PM
Subject: [WTFDA] Re: DX test on 1431 AM this week
To: wt...@googlegroups.com


New country logged from Seoul:

1431 Choibalsan, Mongolia / 959 miles (1544 km.) from 323° (NW).
Transmitter is 500kw directional at 150° toward Korea, good at 35-40dBu
with peaks between 45-50dBu (a Nogizaka 46 song is giving the signal some
trouble).

This is a very good signal for such a low power at that distance,
successful for the fact it's one of the rare open frequencies in East Asia.
1440 Daegu (50 dBu) was throwing bleed-over interference onto 1431 for some
time with Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, and others. This also marks the
first time I was harassed at my AM DX site in the 8 months I've frequented
it at night.

"This is a test transmission broadcasting on 1431 kHz. [low tone] You're
listening to a test transmission on 1431 kHz on the medium wave band. [high
tone] This is a test transmission broadcasting on 1431 kHz. [low tone] On
1431 kHz medium wave, this is a test transmission [high tone]"

http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/external/Choibalsan_1431_Test_Transmission.MP3

Please note that this is a test specifically targeting listeners here in
Korea and not a test for DXers, so don't bother with any QSL requests for
hearing this station.

-Chris Kadlec
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Re: [IRCA] TP 21 May Victoria version

[Theo]

Wll, highly unlikely to be the Junior Land Down Under even though 
both 1332 and 1584 are owned by the same outfit -- 1332 is R. Sport -- 
and 1584 is Coast, and it would be upsetting for the Rest Home Radio 
folks to be carrying rock rhythms even after midnight local.


Over on the West Island in the 10 pm hour, the network info .pdf from 
2GB's site shows only what goes out their Mon-Thurs evenings 4BU (and 
3SH for that matter) plus 4CC/827/1584 are listed... so Big Maybe they 
also carry what goes out on Saturday evenings as well?


Sorry, this Knight's shining armour is obviously burnished and not 
reflecting what you need to know.


Theo

On 5/21/2016 10:38 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Was going to send another tentative Tahiti report, copying yesterday's 
yet again, but then a couple of really odd ones popped up, and I sure 
hope that Theo D. has his DU overknight knetworks knowledge tuned 
up...these would be good stuff at home, anything on these channels 
would be new (knew?)




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


1332 came close


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)


738 pop music 1203UT

1332 unID (Australia? 4BU??) singing first noted 1206UT, and seemed to 
be pretty much continuous music until 1220UT or so, erratic 
fadingand the next logging provides a clue


1584 unID rock rhythm 1208UTsure seemed parallel to 1332 at this 
time.   Anything on this channel is serious DX even at the 
coast.suggestions??









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


1548



best wishes,

Nick

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Re: [IRCA] NAB Presses FCC on Three Key AM Issues

[Theo]

But really, isn't all this insistence about protection of contours for 
AM'ers irrelevant?


The 50 K's can't even penetrate the hi-rise cores of major cities 
anyway, and haven't been able to do so for decades.


I back up that opinion from experience in Vancouver, BC in the 80's and 
90's.


Theo

On 4/19/2016 5:32 PM, Dennis Gibson wrote:

http://www.radioworld.com/article/nab-presses-fcc-on-three-key-am-issues/278648

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Re: [IRCA] Anybody want to go to Cuba?

[Theo]

Back in '92, I asked the Intourist guide about a visit to the radio & TV 
centre in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East.  At first she was OK with 
it, but on the group's return from Irkutsk didn't seem so enthusiastic.. 
and it never took place!  The route in from the airport passed a whole 
bunch of HF antennas but what exactly they were was a mystery. The 
touring around Irkutsk never went to the west so nowhere close to the 
Angara site.


Theo

On 4/9/2016 12:14 AM, Walter Salmaniw wrote:

Knowing how communist countries work, I doubt access to transmitter
facilities.  Studios, yes, howeverWalt

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Patrick Martin  wrote:


One question, would the Cuban officials  allow tours of stations,
especially transmitter sites?

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager


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From: sc...@fybush.com
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 00:07:27 -0400
Subject: [IRCA] Anybody want to go to Cuba?

Yes, this is DX related - let me explain!

I had lunch today with Rick Lucas, who's just back from a two-week tour
of Cuba. At least for now, US regulations require that US citizens
visiting Cuba have an educational purpose for their trip, which
typically means a lot of "person-to-person" activities like meeting
farmers and watching dance troupes and such. (Canadians and others can
go to Cuban resorts and lounge on the beach if they so desire...)

But it occurred to us that if we could get enough DXers and other radio
folk together, it might be possible to organize a trip that would focus
on Cuban radio - visiting studios and transmitter sites, interacting
with Cuban radio people and DXers, meeting with Arnie Coro, and so on..

I'm not going quite so far (yet!) as to bid for a Havana convention in
2017 or 2018...but I'm curious to find out whether anyone else would be
interested in a hypothetical week-long trip next winter. If there's
interest, I'd be willing to reach out to the tour companies that have
licenses to organize Cuba trips to see what the next steps might be.

So...any interest?



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Re: [IRCA] Grayland, WA Ultralight DU's for 4-3

[Theo]

On 4/3/2016 2:58 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

Auroral propagation provided another thrilling session on the cold ocean beach 
at Grayland this morning, with powerful Australian signals booming in during a 
sharp sunrise enhancement from 1300-1400. 531 kHz especially was a real circus, 
with 4KZ hitting S9 peaks after temporarily dispatching PI around 1305, only to 
have the Samoan Kiwi station come back with yet another co-channel to make the 
frequency a total zoo by 1345. In comparison to a typical Rockwork 4 
Kiwi-slanted opening this Grayland session was heavily dominated by Australia, 
and the lack of any solid rock cliff to provide domestic signal attenuation was 
noticeable in the increased splatter.
   
An initial carrier check in my motel room at 1030 confirmed that Asian propagation was on the skids, but DU signals hadn't yet hit their stride, either. My ocean beach session started at 1255, by which time Australian signals were already potent in the clear and cold conditions. 531 kHz already featured a wild snarl between 4KZ and New Zealand's PI, a competition which continued for a full hour. 4KZ went on a monster run with its Cassowary Coast weather report and pop music around 1310, hitting an awesome S9 level before falling back down into a 3-station DU mix. One of the 855 LR network stations had a huge peak at 1317 before falling back into the splatter, while the RN network big gun parallels on 576 and 792 boomed in with jazz music at 1327. 585 had a strong rock music station not // 576 (probably 2WEB) around 1333, while 603-Waatea was one of the few Kiwis to dominate temporarily over an Aussie with its Maori music at 1337. A return check to 531 kHz at 1345 revealed 3

 DU stations in a graveyard mix-- obviously with 4KZ and PI, but the third one 
was a mystery (Theo, are you there?).
Yeah, whaddaya want!

Um, well you've heard 531 More FM from Alexandra in the past but you say 
this wasn't an outstanding NZ morning.  Was it music or talk?


Then didn't someone last year finally crack the talker on 531 by tracing 
a telephone number to the NSW North Coast, and a business near Kempsey?  
So that was 2PM in Port Macquarie.  I was thinking about that yesterday 
when you uploaded the clip of a talk show with a label of 4KZ because 
that marine weather (which was all I could make out) could've been from 
2PM. 4KZ seems to be music, at least till midnight local (i.e. 1400 UT).


Oh, don't ferget SE Oz and NZ went back to standard time their Sunday 
morning, 3 Apr.


Interesting that 531 PI is already performing for you, Mister Doubting 
Thomas who blamed the co-siting of two more Aucklanders last year... 


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Re: [IRCA] Coast To Coast AM, George Noory, and Criticalhealthnews.com

[Theo]

Cue the tale of 'Doctor' John Brinkley...

TD

On 3/22/2016 12:50 PM, Rick Dau wrote:

To be quite honest, Les, this is nothing new.  Back when Art Bell hosted the 
program, he used to do reads for a product called Dr. Duplisky's Super Prostate 
Formula.  I would listen to one of these and think that it all sounded like a 
lot of hooey.

Now, I'm too young to remember this (I'm 51 and didn't start DXing until 1981), 
but I've heard stories about how, back in the 1950s and 1960s, the border 
blasters like XERF would run ads for doctors that were only slightly less shady 
than snake oil salesmen.  Supposedly they would hawk things like goat gland 
operations that were designed to spice up your sex life, or some such.   Makes 
me think that maybe all-night radio hasn't changed much through the years, 
after all.

73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska EN21af
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Re: [IRCA] Canada station question

[Theo]

True.  Mother Corp does NOT run any non-originating "newscasts".  They 
used to carry BBC World Service news (radio) decades ago once a day.  
CBC Overnight stuff is simply shared feature programming, what used to 
be called transcriptions in days before satellite feeds.


Anything mentioning The Canadian Press would be from a non-CBC 
broadcaster... the service is what used to be known as Broadcast News 
which was the radio-TV wire-service division of The CP, originally a 
cooperative of member newspapers, and radio & TV stations.   CBC likely 
would have access to the wire, but I've never heard them even carry 
voicers from BN/CP.  It's always surprised me that a station of the 
stature of CFRB even makes use of the network 'casts.


Just because the two lead stories are from Calgary doesn't give a clue 
to the station's location; that would be like hearing ABC/CBS/NBC/AP/CNN 
with the two tops from, say, Southern California points to a station 
around LA.


Theo
(eons ago a user of BN at CJVB/1470!)

On 3/17/2016 8:43 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:

On 3/17/2016 11:42 AM, R. Colin Newell wrote:

Not really true -- CBC Overnight features the BBC, Radio Australia,
formerly DW and others.



OK, point taken. But in terms of domestic news product, CBC doesn't 
run anything with any brand other than CBC News. True?


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Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition

[Theo]

Small stations... night power... local programming?  That's an oxymoron 
times two! 


Heck, even major-market stations at night are simply tx's of packaged 
feeds with advertising inserted by a computer.


How many 'small' stations even have a local news department?  The old 
idea of full-service programming went out the window years ago.


Theo
Burnaby, BC

On 2/26/2016 9:34 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Here's my response:

I’m all for the changes… And I’m a DXer and broadcaster!!

Who cares about WGY in Boston or Pittsburgh? Who cares about KDKA in
Cincinatti or NYC?

Reduce Class A Statiobs protection down from 750 miles to 300 miles and be
done with it. Most people, if they really wanna listen to WGY or KDKA from
far away listen online.

The only people this 750 mile rule really help are DXers and the few
distant distant listeners who don’t have Internet.

Why service a few at the sacrifice and cost of many? Allow small stations
night power or more night power to provide local programming


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Re: [IRCA] kiwa loop

[Theo]

Yeah, we had a great chat during one of the sessions at the Pavek Museum 
during the 2013 Minneapolis convention.


Does he get residuals on re-sales?!

Theo

On 2016-02-01 11:40 AM, Forrester S wrote:

Highly coveted loop. Craig once in a blue moon shows up to a MDXC(Minnesota
DX Club) meeting. Maybe when he chooses to retire will he make more.

Todd Skaine
Bloomington MN
On Jan 31, 2016 8:53 PM, "Terry Baugh"  wrote:


WOW, So it went for USD$ 790.00 plus $64.50 shipping, a record perhaps?

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Re: [IRCA] Telephone reverse lookup

[Theo]

Agreed, but I wasn't sure whether it's standard... Argentina and Chile 
use eight in Buenos Aires and Santiago but six-digits were apparent in 
smaller cities a year or so back.


TD

On 26/11/2015 10:40 AM, Chuck Hutton wrote:

Theo -
I think all Brazilian numbers are 8 digits now, and the number below is a 
subscriber number (no city code) but is missing a digit.
Chuck


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From: th...@telus.net
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:22:59 -0800
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Telephone reverse lookup

But isn't that just predicating on accepting '33' as a trunk access/area
code?

A seven-digit number could be in a major urban area, and the station was
just giving a local number without the appropriate area code.

TD

On 25/11/2015 11:16 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:

Google is your friend.One of the first hits returned for "Brazil reverse phone 
lookup" is http://www.searchyellowdirectory.com/reverse-phone/
Plugging in 3341499 gives the location as Minas Gerais.
The bad news is that there are no stations in MG on 1330.
Chuck

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:09:47 -0500
Subject: Telephone reverse lookup
From: jim.renf...@gmail.com
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Working on stations from Brazil recorded earlier this from Newfoundland.  Can 
any of you cyber sleuths held me locate telephone number 33-41-499?  Heard on 
1330.  Radio Terra usually dominates here but I think this is something 
different.  Thanks.  Jim Renfrew
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Re: [IRCA] Telephone reverse lookup

[Theo]

But isn't that just predicating on accepting '33' as a trunk access/area 
code?


A seven-digit number could be in a major urban area, and the station was 
just giving a local number without the appropriate area code.


TD

On 25/11/2015 11:16 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:

Google is your friend.One of the first hits returned for "Brazil reverse phone 
lookup" is http://www.searchyellowdirectory.com/reverse-phone/
Plugging in 3341499 gives the location as Minas Gerais.
The bad news is that there are no stations in MG on 1330.
Chuck

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:09:47 -0500
Subject: Telephone reverse lookup
From: jim.renf...@gmail.com
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@nrcdxas.org

Working on stations from Brazil recorded earlier this from Newfoundland.  Can 
any of you cyber sleuths held me locate telephone number 33-41-499?  Heard on 
1330.  Radio Terra usually dominates here but I think this is something 
different.  Thanks.  Jim Renfrew
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Re: [IRCA] American TP Stations Received in Western Japan

[Theo]

Yeah.

As I said to Eric Floden when he reminded me directly that I need to 
stop drinking de-caff: duh!


I wuz looking at just 'VB in the list.. and seeing the yellow peeking 
from under all the Pac NW blues.


Time to crawl back into retired space, and snooze.

Theo

On 19/11/2015 12:03 PM, Brian Rachford wrote:

Theo,

It looks like the colors just represent the different countries; yellow for
Canada, etc.

Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Theo  wrote:


Have you any idea of the significance of the blue/yellow/red colours for
the markers?

I notice my ol' stomping ground CJVB/1470 (and CBW/990) are yellow while
the majority are blue.

I recall verifying at least one report from Japan... so if yellow means
'unanswered' or such and as the list starts just after I left, it reflects
the station becoming sporadic verifiers!

Theo


On 18/11/2015 11:35 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:


For those interested in how many of our local pests can cross the "big
pond," a group of Japanese DXers in Kyoto has posted a Google map of all
their TP receptions of North, Central and South American stations (103
total) received from 1994 to 2015. This was first posted on a Japanese
Facebook group.
   https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zqDBFLWFWDm0.kmFqjf_0NTaA
   73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)


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Re: [IRCA] American TP Stations Received in Western Japan

[Theo]

Have you any idea of the significance of the blue/yellow/red colours for 
the markers?


I notice my ol' stomping ground CJVB/1470 (and CBW/990) are yellow while 
the majority are blue.


I recall verifying at least one report from Japan... so if yellow means 
'unanswered' or such and as the list starts just after I left, it 
reflects the station becoming sporadic verifiers!


Theo

On 18/11/2015 11:35 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

For those interested in how many of our local pests can cross the "big pond," a 
group of Japanese DXers in Kyoto has posted a Google map of all their TP receptions of 
North, Central and South American stations (103 total) received from 1994 to 2015. This 
was first posted on a Japanese Facebook group.
   
   https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zqDBFLWFWDm0.kmFqjf_0NTaA
   
   
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
   
   
   
   
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Re: [IRCA] CBU 690 to be off air 3 hours next weekend

[Theo]

So what would've changed in the Tofino case (has FM even started yet in 
Ucluelet?)?


How has Mother Corp 'serviced' outlier tx's in the past, say on 
Vancouver Island before there was even a local originating studio in 
Victoria?


As for 6160, both CKZU and CKZN danced around the frequency for a couple 
of years, though the Newfoundland tx was the worse of the two.  When I 
phoned CBC Vancouver a number of years ago on the subject, I had a 
tussle to get beyond switchboard, and eventually gave up when having to 
deal with a PR person who insisted that all shortwave activities were 
the responsibility of RCI in Montreal. 


A late-morning off-air has to be a first?  No overtime.. but, hang on, 
it's Saturday.


Theo

On 08/11/2015 4:59 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote:

This is an important event! Not sure on what level, but it would allow
us crystal clear reception of whatever else is on 690khz.

And now for a slight exaggeration: When there is a technical failure of
virtually any AM or FM transmitter in B.C. (and likely in any other
Province...)
resources for our stately CBC are so stripped down and cut to the quick
that there are few technicians to respond to any issue.

Recently there were some hardware issues in Ucluelet / Tofino with
the FM transmitters - they had to send someone from Vancouver B.C. -
as one of the few techs that still work for Canada's mother network radio.
Issues like the current flakey behaviour of CBC 6160 Khz on the West Coast
will likely continue for some time as there are simply no staff resources to
look after the trouble.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Eric Floden  wrote:


I just caught part of the announcement -- it seems that next Sunday 15th
(or Saturday 14th), CBU-690 will be off the air from 0910 to 1210 PST.  I
was distracted and could not focus on the whole of it, but think I have it
right.  Their other signal (88.1) will remain on

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Re: [IRCA] Masset DXpedition 15 - 23 October, 2015: MW perspective Part 1

[Theo]

re: 531

Any locations heard for those marine forecasts? Or was it a round-up of 
multiple coastal and inland Queensland locations with conditions and 
temps being carried by a state-wide network?


Wasn't it Gary who uploaded a clip of 4KZ doing something similar after 
extended news (mebbe at 1300 UT) back in our summer?


TD

On 23/10/2015 6:50 PM, Walter Salmaniw wrote:

I'm back from another visit to my cottage on Haida Gwaii.  Fourth visit
this year, but the first that I was able to devote a lot of time to DX.  I
had fun erecting various antennas and testing them, and in some cases,
taking back down.  Conditions were OK for SW generally, and at times, very
interesting for MW DX.  I'll have a separate email for SW DX.  Receivers
used were 2 Perseus SDRs (one live, and the other using Mestor for timed
recordings), and an AOR 7030+ receiver.  Antennas used with most important
first, as follows, along with comments:

1.  NW BOG (Beverage on ground).  700' or so in length.  Unterminated.
This is always my go-to antenna with excellent results.  It's the first
antenna up, and the last to be removed.  DX RPA1 amp added at the antenna
lead in, as well as chokes on both ends of the coax.

2.  DKAZ aimed 220 deg.  This was an impressive antenna after a few
hiccups.  Before local dawn, it was often as effective as the BOG.  And
only requiring 140' of real estate.  Fed to a FLG 100 LN head, and via coax
to the Wellbrook interface.  Often the only antenna that would hear Hawaii
well.  This one's a keeper from now on.  Not good for LW, however.  The
DKAZ performed very nicely on SW, in addition to MW.

3.  ALA 100 LN antenna:  double loop, separated by about 30 cm, as
suggested by Andy Ilkin (Mr. Wellbrook).  Aimed NE/SW.  Normally an
excellent all band antenna.  This time around, it somehow did not perform
as well as in previous DXpeditions.  The only change was that I purposely
separated the 2 loops to 30 cm, from around 10 cm (as recommended by
Andy).  The other possibility was of a coax fault, although the lead in is
milspec RG 58 cable.  Almost in no case, this time, was the ALA better than
the others, even on SW.  More investigation needs to be done as it's a very
quick antenna to get up and running.

4.  Mini Beverage aimed due north, terminated into the sand on the beach,
and under water at high tide.  About 500' long, so I call it a
mini-Beverage.  It is elevated about 12' or so.  At times a great antenna.
I was hoping for some European MW DX, but nothing ever came about.  Often
picked up Alaskans very well, and at times equal to the NW BOG for TP DX
(like this morning).  This is a permanent antenna, except for the beach
portion.

4.  Parallel BOG to the NW BOG.  Fiddling with it, and feeding it into a
Misek Phaser, for instance, did nothing at all.  Didn't seem to enhance
anything, so I moved it towards the SW.

5.  SW BOG:  about 600' and aimed about 230 deg.  This path takes it
directly across the land mass of Haida Gwaii (whereas the NW BOG aims to
the direct open ocean).  Overall, not a great performer, even with a
DX-RPA1 amp.  Once again, it could be due to a lossy coax, as it was quite
a way to the shack, or the direction.  I do recall in the past erected a
similar BOG with much effort (with Bruce Portzer) and also being
disappointed.  Makes me attribute this to the land mass phenomenon.  Not
ideal for BOGs.

Here's the report for MW.  As always, excuse the typos, or mistakes.
Please let me know, and I'll correct them.

Part 1 (in order to get under the limit for IRCA):

531 AUSTRALIA unid, Oct 23 1429 - For the first time this week, English is
dominating this channel.  Before 14:00, I was hearing a lot of American
music.  An extended newscast at 14:00, including weather and marine
forecast.  Little sign of any NHK1 stations which dominate, and only a hint
of Avtoradio.  Unfortunately, this is the noisiest morning with lots of
static crashes.  Mentioned a phone number ending in '4139'.  I know it's
very difficult to ID stations on this frequency.  Funny that the usual DU
frequencies are absent when checked earlier. At 14:35, there seems to be 2
English speakers.  One I suspect may be DYDW as it sounds like a sermon.
Didn't last long, as the dominant Australian came back. (Salmaniw, Masset,
BC)



531 JAPAN Morioka 10 kW NHK1 JOQG, Oct 20 1510 - Very strong Japanese
opening this morning with many 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tier stations heard.
What's more interesting to me is the co-channel with pop music, which I'm
quite certain is Avtoradio Sakhalin.  One of the few MW channels still on
the air in Russia.  Reception of the latter would be pretty decent, if not
for the powerful JJ station!. (Salmaniw, Masset, BC)



531 JAPAN NHK 1 Morioka 10 kW JOQG, Oct 16 1513 - The lower half of the
band is interesting at this time, as it's solid NHK 1 on each frequency.
Good signal on 531 (with a weak cochannel), 540 at good/very good level
with 6 NHK 1 stations listed, 549 at fair/good level.  Oh, I notice this is
Ok

Re: [IRCA] Beverage versus DKAZ

[Theo]

Yeah, right on.  Blame me... 

It's bee-kaws some email software (M$...) creates messages as .eml 
files, rather than transmitting as simple text -- and some receiving 
email software doesn't know how to natively handle that file type.


(Right, Guy?)

TD

On 21/10/2015 2:56 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:

Walt,
   
The body of mark's message is pasted below. I used to have the same problem posting with AOL during DXpeditions, until Theo D. told me to try something else :-)
   
73, Gary
   
Pasted:
   
Could the anomalous results be from the fact that sometimes at the sunrise or

sunset transition you actually have higher angle pick-up for long haul because
of a tilted ionospheric layer above the receiving site (enabling chordal /
ducted mode propagation reducing the number of ground
reflections)?


http://www.radtelnetwork.com.au/propagation/HFpropagation_files/img013.gif


An
antenna that is efficient for high angles may briefly outperform otherwise
superior long haul DX (i.e. low angle pick-up) antennas.


There used to be a
station near Madrid, Spain on 1359 kHz that ran big power into a Near Vertical
Incidence Skywave antenna (horizontal dipole?) to push out high angle skip to
penetrate isolated valley areas between mountains.  Here in Massachusetts during
mid-evening the station was no stronger than other high band Spain stations in
the 5 to 10 kW class.  But as dawn reached Madrid, the signal came up and got
crazy-loud, often the strongest station from across the "pond" at the
time.


160-m hams have reported that they have brief periods when a low
dipole or horizontal loop below quarter-wave height ("cloud burner") contacts DX
that their big verticals or high-altitude beams or dipoles miss.  95% of the
time it's the other way around of course.


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South
Yarmouth, MA
- Original Message -

From: "Walter Salmaniw" 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 

Cc: "Mark Connelly" 
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:23:16 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Beverage versus DKAZ (was: TP for 20 October from Masset)

Mark, I'll have to wait a few days since the body of your email doesn't
show on my iPhone. Walt

On Wednesday, 21 October 2015, Mark Connelly via IRCA 
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Re: [IRCA] 531 UnID Australians-- Oz English Translator Needed

[Theo]

The only clip I can understand anything substantive is #2, opening with 
standings for some sort of sports league, then comes the time check for 
"four and-a-harf parst ten" and a "Macquarie (what?) news" extro..


After the commercial; there a lengthy weather round-up for a bunch of 
north Queensland locations, including Cairns (sounds like "Kens" to a 
Nth American ear) and Townsville with temps in the mid-20's Celsius.


So that clip at least would point to 4KZ.

Theo

On 03/07/2015 1:45 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:

Gary:
4KZ is the only 531 Aussie with pips as best I know.In clip #2, at 1:05 I think I 
hear 'Innisfail".In #4, there are some clear phone numbers, an ad for a solar 
power product, and then an ad for someone that delivers from ?? to ?? What I hear 
for the locations doesn't match up with towns around Innisfail or Kempsey.The 
programming aligns with 4KZ but I can't hear a real ID.
Chuck


Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 06:46:44 +
From: d1028g...@comcast.net
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [IRCA] 531 UnID Australians-- Oz English Translator Needed

Hello All,
   
During the recent Rockwork 4 DXpedition a single 15" FSL antenna was constantly tuned to 531 kHz during sunrise DU openings-- and it certainly came up with a lot of Australian signals. Can anybody provide assistance or ID clues from the following 531 recordings?
   
!) 531 Australian station with six identical time pips at the 1200 TOH, with no delay or difference in tone with the last pip. Does anyone know which 531 Oz station uses this time pip system?

https://app.box.com/s/bx90qtkyv6o8b82rga7czcd09owp05m0
   
2) 531 Australian with quite a bit of speech at 1204 on 6-25, none of which seems easy to decipher by someone accustomed to American English

https://app.box.com/s/ak8gqmkwrgnckw8sjc53zx92bsxa4k06
   
3) Strong 531 Australian music station with almost no ID's, except for this undecipherable short one in between songs at 1217 on 6-25

https://app.box.com/s/70x3zmwm7no0vfultylf8gds7jml76bi
   
4) Fairly strong 531 Australian male talks on and on at 1219 on 6-27, unfortunately in an accent undecipherable by the sleep-deprived Yankee DXpeditioner

https://app.box.com/s/0hjc086a3q8gxht4bdjlq6k554xxmv6t
   
Any assistance or advice on the above 531 recordings will be greatly appreciated-- thanks!
   
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)

DXing at the Rockwork 4 Ocean Cliff near Manzanita, OR.
7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight +
15" DXpedition FSL antenna
   
   
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Re: [IRCA] KRPA-1110 on the air

[Theo]

On the ridge in South Burnaby/Metro Vancouver, BC KRPA/1110 good on both 
a Degen 1103 and Tec PL380 which is/was/has been normal for me... seems 
to be //1340 though very poor on the 1103 ("Take It Easy' by The Eagles) 
at 1.30 pm PDT, but nothing heard on the PL380 except slop from local 
CHMB/1320.


Theo

On 13/05/2015 12:23 PM, Dennis Vroom wrote:

No sign of KRPA-1110 Â (158 miles). KBND 10 kw Bend, OR (153 miles) in with a 
solid signal at noon.
Best regards,
 Dennis Vroom,
Kalama, WAJRC NRD 545Â Ewe & K-9 antennas  From: Forrest Skaine 

  To: Phil Bytheway ; IRCA Mailing list for the International 
Radio Club of America 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 8:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [IRCA] KRPA-1110 on the air

According to radio locator  they are a daytime station.
It seems odd that a daytimer is granted a licence.

Sincerely
Todd Skaine
Woodbury, MN
Sony ICF 2010
Toyota car radio
On May 12, 2015 9:52 PM, "Phil Bytheway via IRCA" 
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Phil Bytheway 
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Cc:



Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 02:51:54 + (UTC)
Subject: KRPA-1110 on the air
Logged today at 1901 (PLT) in my Prius:
1110 kHz - "You're listening to the Whale, KWLE 1340 in Anacortes and KRPA
1110 in Oak Harbor" (wording may be slightly off as I didn't record it,
hi). So, both are on the air now. Interesting, I checked 1340 for //
programming and didn't hear it, some sort of talk station there instead.
  Phil Bytheway
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Re: [IRCA] TWR Bonaire "Power Up Project"

[Theo]

I don't recall the exact time line, but I seem to remember their appearance on 
800 in '64 was somehow connected with the then NZBC moving 1YZ to 860 (now RNZ 
National on 819).

PJB at its initial power was easy pickings in New Zealand, though I notice 
their QSL folder is dated for reception on 12 Apr '66 so I took my time getting 
around to a report.  A DX buddy and myself were invited to a fundraising/pep 
rally in Hamilton which featured one of the bigwigs from Bonaire.

Yikes...  ~50 years ago...

Theo

"Stewart, Joseph R"  wrote:

>I honestly can't recall seeing this anywhere but on TWR's own website 
>(http://www.twr.org/powerup)... they're trying to raise $3.8 million to boost 
>power on PJB Bonaire-800 kHz from the current 100kW up to 450kW (just short of 
>the 500kW they used from sign-on in 1964 into, what, sometime in the 1990s?). 
>No idea why they aren't going for the last 50,000 watts that would get it back 
>up to the original 500kW level.  There's a video on the site that shows 
>proposed directional patterns for the new tx--the "north" beam will be farther 
>west than currently, basically beamed right at Cuba, the Yucatan peninsula, 
>northern Mexico and up into the western U.S. The south pattern would blanket 
>all of Venezuela and Guyana, the eastern half of Colombia, the western half of 
>Surinam, and the extreme north of Brazil.  There will also be a ND "Caribbean" 
>pattern at some time during their broadcast day (or rather, night).  Despite 
>the tweaking of the DA pattern--and the large amount of competitio
 n
>  on the frequency--presumably the power increase will make it an easier 
> target for North American DXers once again.  I don't think I've conclusively 
> logged PJB here in Missouri since they cut power. Before that of course it 
> was a nightly regular for many years. 
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Re: [IRCA] unID on 1520

[Theo]

Isn't the ID KEBC Del City, thus KOKC/1520 still simulcasting after 
their towers came down?


TD

On 01/04/2015 5:34 AM, Nigel Pimblett wrote:
I'd appreciate any help it IDing this one, heard at 7:00 am local 
(MDT).   KSIB is the dominant station, but right after their ID, there 
is a much weaker ID.  The calls I hear don't line up with anything on 
1520, so I'm wondering if this is a for a station not on 1520, as part 
of a dual or multi station ID, with the first part buried under KSIB.  
I don't think it can be anything new, but would still like to solve it.


Thanks in advance for any help,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta



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Re: [IRCA] aurora starting?

[Theo]

The K-index of 8 around 0900 UT 17 Mar produced some pretty spectacular Aurora 
Australis displays in New Zealand as far north as 40 degrees south their 
Tuesday night.

TD

Mark Connelly via IRCA  wrote:

>There has been a lot of solar flare / visible aurora talk on local TV weather 
>broadcasts.
>
>Starting tonight just before 8 p.m. EDT /  UTC, I note that the Algerians 
>(especially 531 & 549), Canaries 621, and Mauritania 783 are doing well but 
>there isn't much from the UK, Germany, or Netherlands.
>
>Some of the usual Latin Americans are in.  Cubans are dominant on many 
>channels.  Maybe something rarer will show up.
>
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Re: [IRCA] I need a seat of ears......

[Theo]

Isn't there what could be a telephone number in English by the guy 
starting at :05 of the unfiltered clip?  And it gets repeated at the end 
of the filtered version. The woman though sounds to be in Mandarin.


My ears (Hi, Bruce!) hear the last four digits as 7-1-7-8... and a 
prefix of possibly 9-6-1 or 5-6-1, or maybe even '2' as the middle digit.


The Solomons seem to use just five-digit numbers for fixed line, but I 
dunno about mobile service.


The last logging for 9545 showing up amongst DU DXers is the ARDXC's 
John Adams for 0400 UT on 2 Oct (in the Nov '14 Aussie DX News) with a 
'huge' signal... but he was listening in Port Douglas in Qld's Far 
North... 


I tried looking back in the NZ DX Times but couldn't spot anything recent.

Back in Sept '14, Dave Valko in PA logged them at 0845 UT but that 
wasn't too long after the new tx had been commissioned so the sked might 
not have settled down.  A You Tube posting in the same month has a 
recording of reception at 0747.


<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFXXG0iQLEM>

73

Theo

On 25/02/2015 5:18 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Ok, thanks to a DXing friend I have a filtered version of the clip of my
supposed 9545khz. reception... I will include them here.

On Sunday 2/22/15  I picked up what I think is Solomon Islands Broadcasting
Corporation on 9545khz. They are about 19 hours ahead of me and reception
was made at 4:42 pacific time in Redding, California.

Here's the original, unfiltered:
http://www.onairdj.com/SIBC_9545_2_22_2015_442pacific.mp3


Here's the filtered version:
http://www.onairdj.com/SIBC_9545_2_22_2015_442pacific_filtered.mp3

There were two things on air at the time, VOA Mandarin via Thailand with
250kw and SIBC Solomon Islands with 10kw.

This doesn't appear to be an image/spur, etc of any AM, Shortwave or other
frequency.

The clips are pretty pretty piss poor in quality, but you can hear some
speaking... it's just not very clear at all. What little I can make out it
doesn't sound like Mandarin/Asian, but my ears could be playing tricks on
me.

Any help here?

Paul
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Re: [IRCA] KELA 1470

[Theo]

Yeah, decades ago, before CJVB in Vancouver went to 50kW, the off-air monitor 
in main control would be mixed with KELA at night.



And KAPS in Mt Vernon would grumble about us being lax with pattern change, as 
well.


Patrick Martin  wrote:

>Great catch Bill. One of the regulars here of course. They are ND at night, if 
>I remember correctly, being an old station.
>
>Patrick
>
>Patrick Martin
>Seaside OR
>KGED QSL Manager
>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:19:40 -0700
>> From: billbl...@cableone.net
>> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
>> Subject: [IRCA] KELA 1470
>> 
>> Tonight at 1959 EST hrd a very good ID from KELA-1470 in
>> Centralia-Chehalis, Washington.  First time hrd here in Arizona and I am
>> happy with this one.
>> 
>> Bill Block
>> Prescott Valley, AZ
>> Drake R8
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Re: [IRCA] Radio shack to file for bankruptcy

[Theo]

Um, I defer to the likes of Nick Hall-Patch and Colin Newell as to the 
hobby usefulness of Radio Shack in Canada of years gone by... but RS 
went belly up in the True North ages ago.


It re-appeared as 'The Source at Circuit City' (I think I have the 
correct preposition), then later re-organised simply as 'The Source'.


I dunno how the stock/availability from The Source in Canada compares to 
current American RS outlets, but given the changes in 'our' technical 
needs, and our individual knowledge bases, the chain seems to be doing 
pretty well.  There are two outlets for example in my local mega-mall, 
Metrotown, in Burnaby, BC.


Does that suggest RS in the US needs to consolidate or re-invent its 
focus to satisfy present-day demand, and that our DX requirements are 
simply too minimal to support a retailer?


Theo

(Sent a day after the fiasco of Target in Canada imploded; now there's a 
story of retail incompetence in a foreign market.)


On 16/01/2015 7:08 PM, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:


Subject:
Re: Radio shack to file for bankruptcy
From:
Mark Connelly 
Date:
16/01/2015 7:08 PM
To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com

To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com


The Shack provided some of my best portable DX machines from 1961 
right into the Eighties.


Most were in the popular "TRF" series.

In August 1966, at a summer cottage rental at West Dennis Beach, MA, I 
had one of my first big hauls of transatlantic MW stations. This was 
with a 12R614K Realistic TRF model, a predecessor to the more famous 
12-655 of the Seventies.


Some TRF's I was able to modify with regeneration to boost selectivity 
and sensitivity.


My TRF tribute page, with links to the Radio Shack catalogues site:
http://chowdanet.com/markc/doc/trf.htm

Radio Shack catalogue site:
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com

With Radio Shack stores likely to close, experimenters and hobbyists 
will be looking for "fire sale" clearance offers.


When the stores are gone, we will be mostly shopping in an online 
world with C. Crane, Universal Radio, Fry's, HRO, AES, and Amazon 
covering much of the equipment end.


Parts can be bought from the likes of Mouser, Digi-Key, 
Newark/Farnell, Jameco, and Allied.  Here in MA we still have the "You 
Do It" electronics store in Needham.


Much of the rest or Radio Shack's stuff (e.g. cables, small hand 
tools) may be found at Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, auto parts stores, 
etc.


More than once, the Radio Shack store here in South Yarmouth bailed 
out beach DXpeditions and antenna raising sessions with emergency 
parts and gear - even if just a humble bag of clip leads.  The value 
of that store goes back to 1974 when my parents had moved to the town 
from Arlington, MA.  This quick access to needed items won't be as 
easy in the future I suppose.


Short story is that this chain lost its focus and could not compete 
with big box stores in electronic commodity items (phones, TV's, PC's, 
stereo, etc.) or with the hard-core parts stores such as Mouser for 
hams, makers, d-i-y folks, computer / robotics geeks, and other 
hobbyists.  They retained way too many brick-and-mortar outlets 20 or 
more years after online shopping had become a regular activity for 
most potential customers.


No matter how you look at this, it's THE END OF AN ERA.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

-Original Message-
From: Rick Dau 
To: irca ; am ; abdx 


Sent: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 8:56 pm
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Radio shack to file for bankruptcy

Anyone with at least half a grasp of what their situation has been 
like in recent years (i.e., dire) could see this was coming, so it's 
not too surprising at all. Â Fortunately, there are still places like 
Universal Radio in Ohio and Ken's Electronics in Kalamazoo, Mich. that 
sell the receivers and parts that we in the DXing hobby need and seek 
out the most.Â

Â
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska  EN21afÂ
Kenwood R-5000, Quantum QX Pro loop, Sangean ATS-909X, Select-A-Tenna, 
Quantum Stick+, and Midland WR-300

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[IRCA] KEWE/1240 in Kahului, HI

[Theo]

Well, it's time to move your tombstones for graveyarders to New Zealand.

Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, north of Auckland, reports ID'ing KEWE/1240 
after several weeks of monitoring the frequency.  We'll have to wait for 
his 'Broadcast News' column in the January issue of the 'NZ DX Times' 
for details, but unless any Scandinavians have already grabbed the 
prize, that must be the first out-of-state logging?

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Re: [IRCA] KIDD-630

[Theo]

Kia orana:

"Later on ZK1KC Cook Islands took over 630 kHz."  Probably ZK1ZC but 
still...  yeah... that has to be The Complaint to end all interference 
complaints! 


Theo

On 26/12/2014 8:20 PM, Patrick Martin wrote:

KIDD 630 has been a very rare visitor through the years with so much activity on 630 kHz. I 
first heard and QSL'd them back in Seward AK in 1966, Dave Allen PD signed the verie letter. 
The letterhead has a kid dressed as Captain Kidd. Then in 1982, I finally heard them from the 
Oregon Coast during a very heavy AU conditions knocking everything else on 630 early in the 
evening. Later on ZK1KC Cook Islands took over 630 kHz. But for a time, KIDD was alone on the 
frequency with Adult Standard, if I remember correctly. I mentioned to a DXer that I was going 
to send a report and his reply was   "Good Luck", as they had a track record of 
rarely answering QSL requests through the years. But I got a reply on the first try. Not a 
verie letter, but Ray Kilman in the News Dept typed a reply on the back of the Astoria Bridge 
post card I included. He knew what a QSL was I guess, as he stated "This is to verify 
reception of KIDD Monterrey California on December 3, 1982. We appreciate you

r

  report." He signed and typed his name.  I am sorry to see them leave the air, 
being such an old station and they had those call letters for decades, from at least when 
I first heard them in the mid 60s. By the way in 1966 their phone number was 
"FRontier 2-8154, to give you an idea how long ago that was.

73,

Patrick

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager


From: martinfo...@cox.net
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:01:35 -0800
Subject: [IRCA] KIDD-630

I read in the latest IRCA newsletter that KIDD will go silent at the end of
the year. They used to make it here before KFI turned on IBOC at night. Back
in 2009 I sent them a reception report without a response (follow ups too)
so I gave it a try again today with an email to the PD and Traffic Dir Kevin
Kahl. He was there back in 2009. I also asked for an update on what's going
on and I will forward that if he responds.

Martin Foltz
Mission Viejo CA

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Re: [IRCA] Another Alaskan

[Theo]

I visited Ric Heald in Sitka, AK over Christmas/New Year 67/68 and 
CFYK/1340 (possibly only 250w at the time?) was heard... as was the then 
NZBC's 1ZD/1000 in Tauranga/now RNZ National on 1008... both verified.  



Ric's apt was in a converted house in the middle of Downtown... can't 
recall his receiver or antenna set-up, but they can't have been too fancy.


73

Theo

On 03/12/2014 07:11, Walter Salmaniw wrote:

1340 was always a welcome guest at my  DX cottage in Haida Gwaii, but
certainly not a regular.  Usually heard in deep winter only.  73,  Walt
Salmaniw, Victoria, BC

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Patrick Martin  wrote:


Mike Stonebridge used to get Yellowknife 1340 once in a while and even as
far North has he is, it wasn't that common. He did log both Yellowknife's
though. I got YK in Seward AK in the 60s as well as CHAK 860. I forgot
about them. CHAK is still on 860 with 1 KW. Common in Seward AK, but never
logged here, not with CFPR running 10 KW fulltime.

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager


From: ve6j...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 05:42:18 +
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Another Alaskan

Even on the JA beverage, Alaska MW stations are not at all common here.
Altho 529 Level Island is very routine but no so the BCB stations.

  Yukon

and NT are even less common as in "never".  Something "could" be lurking

on

an SDR recording so maybe I shouldn't say never

73 Don
VE6JY

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:


Noted KINY this morning in spite of lousy TP conditions Chris.

  Didn't ID

until 1402UT, I thought it must have been a Canadian!

KTKN-930 is probably the most likely Alaskan here, but I suspect the
Edmonton listener might find that a bit rare.

As Patrick mentioned, CFWH-570 was our best bet for YT, unfortunately

long

gone.

I wonder what Don Moman hears up your way?

best wishes,

Nick







At 16:48 02-12-14, you wrote:


I don't listen much in the mornings, but noted 800 KINY, Juneau here

at

1550 UTC before heading out. I imagine this is a regularly heard

station on

the West Coast, and probably a pest for the TP hunters, but it is

only the

second Alaskan station for me after 1110 KAGV. I wonder if there are

any

regularly heard stations from NWT and/or YT?

Chris VE6IY (near Edmonton, AB)
K9AY loop and Lowe HF-150
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Re: [IRCA] from the PO Box

[Theo]

As a choo-choo person, as far as railroad frequencies go, a little bit 
of homework using Mister Google and the 'Net gets you a long way.  This 
would be a start:


<http://www.trainweb.org/dispatchoffice/>

Have fun exploring

Theo

On 10/11/2014 17:48, Geralyn Hollerman via IRCA wrote:


Subject:
from the PO Box
From:
Geralyn Hollerman 
Date:
10/11/2014 17:48
To:
irca 

To:
irca 


All-
I received this request for help at the IRCA PO Box:

---
Hello,
Just a short note to inquire if you can supply a source from whom I can obtain 
nationwide railway, maritime, police, and fire freqs in order to listen to on 
the two scanners I've just obtained at a yard sale?
Sincerely,
Michael Hunter
---
This person has a return address in Bethlehem, PA.

I haven't followed scanners much, if at all, since we moved here back in 1998.  
Can anybody give me some advice I can send to him? He didn't give an email 
address, so I don't know if has an Internet access, but I'd think it would be a 
trivial thing for him to do a Google search for the stuff he wants, no?

Well, I guess what he's looking for is some kind of printed book - any 
suggestions as to what is recommended?

Thanks!

  
Lynn.

Lafayette, LA


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Re: [IRCA] Grayland expedition

[Theo]

I think Gary is referring to Walt's earlier travels while lounging in the South 
Pacific 'tween Godzone and Tonga... soft touch stuff... 819 and 1008 are locals.

TD

Chuck Hutton  wrote:

>Did I miss something? I didn't see Walt's report.
> 
>Chuck
> 
>> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:11:10 +
>> From: d1028g...@comcast.net
>> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
>> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Grayland expedition
>> 
>> Thanks for your generous comment, Nick, but I really think that Walt would 
>> be much more deserving of such an award than me. 
>>   
>> Anyone who can stand on the deck of a cruise ship in the South Pacific and 
>> construct a detailed report of New Zealand MW station formats by repeatedly 
>> sliding and peaking a Slider loopstick coil on a hot-rodded Eton E100 pocket 
>> radio deserves the ultimate honor (honour). 
>>   
>> 73, Gary (in windy and rainy Grayland, with the DX going south) 
>>   
>> 
>> 
>> - Original Message -
>> 
>> From: "Nick Hall-Patch"  
>> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
>>  
>> Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:44:06 AM 
>> Subject: [IRCA] Grayland expedition 
>> 
>> For those of us sitting in the warm listening to not very much, your 
>> exploits in the pursuit of ultimate DX must qualify you for some sort 
>> of award Gary. 
>> 
>> I did stuff like that about 30 years ago, hi. 
>> 
>> best wishes, 
>> 
>> Nick 
>> 
>> 
>> >  Grayland, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-8 (Conclusion) 
>> > 
>> > 
>> >Hello All, 
>> > 
>> >An impromptu weekend run to Grayland kicked off with a bang this 
>> >morning with Japanese, Korean and Chinese stations all pounding in 
>> >for a wild 4 hour session. A new 17" FSL antenna was set up near the 
>> >picnic table at the end of Grayland Beach road, and it managed to 
>> >track down at least 15 Asians which pegged the PL-380's S/N readout. 
>> > 
>> >The deserted beach was clear and cold at my 1115 UTC (0315 local) 
>> >start time, but the big gun Japanese and Koreans on 594, 747, 972, 
>> >1134 and 1566 had already reached S9 levels an hour before inside my 
>> >Grayland Motel Room 11 ($65 a night, with absolutely no frills). 
>> >Hurrying to the cold beach I brought along the 30" loopstick 
>> >ICF-2010 spotting receiver, 12" Longwave FSL and the new 17" 
>> >DXpedition FSL-. 
>> 
>> >  and four hours in the 41 degree cold and wind had taken its toll. 
>> 
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Re: [IRCA] PEI DXpedition

[Theo]

Didn't the gang on Yahoo's  group conclude that the 700 offset 
was likely Red Radio Integridad in San Miguel/Lima in Peru?


Theo

On 08/11/2014 02:09, Walter Salmaniw wrote:

Sorry fellas, but being on the around South America cruise didn't allow my
presence this year.  I'm  Looking forward to attending in future years.
What I've done on the ship was to collect a number of SDR IQ wav files,
which might be of some interest later.  I Did have a look at your off
channel 700 kHz station.  Nothing off channel in the deep south of the
continent.  73,  Walt

On Friday, November 7, 2014, Niel Wolfish  wrote:


Bruce Conti and Geoff Rivett have now left leaving myself and Brent Taylor
to hold down the fort for one last evening.   Bruce's beverage antennas
left when Bruce did, so we'll be throwing up a Wellbrook loop later and
also giving Brent's new Pixel AM-2 loop antenna a workout.
No TPs this year.  Maybe if we had a Vancouver Island resident DXing with
us we would have had better luck?
73
Niel Wolfish, Toronto






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Re: [IRCA] U.S. Punjabi stations broadcasting into Canada

[Theo]

Here's the actual notice from the CRTC:

<http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-426.htm>

The situation does appear to be covered by Canada's Broadcasting Act 
so..  Personally, I don't know what all the fuss is about, although 
rumour is that Shushma Datt's CJRJ/1200 has not exactly been the money 
tree she expected.


As for non-compliance by Canadian stations of technical issues such as 
day/night patterns, I'd suspect that would come under Industry Canada 
not the Commish.


Someone mentioned CKST/1040: it would be strange for a major outfit like 
Bell Media not to be following The Rules; only a few years ago, they 
spent a bundle of money to re-locate (and combine) the facilities for 
both CKST/1040 and CFTE/1410 to a new site with seven towers.


Theo
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Re: [IRCA] Coast on 1584

[Theo]

Well, I couldn't have said it more long-windedly than that myself, even 
without asking.  I'm still not convinced it was Stephen Bishop's version.


And all three of you are getting an honourable mention in the 'Mailbag' 
column of September's NZ DX Times, unless the Chief Editor's big fat 
pencil deletes it.  Incidentally, the Chief Ed Stu Forsyth has a great 1 
kW QSL himself in the same issue: R. Creativa/1230 from Buenos Aires 
while DXing with several others in June at a favoured location in the 
South Island pretty close to 45 degrees south.


Theo

On 06/09/2014 13:51, Chuck Hutton wrote:

And how did this happen, you ask
  
It began when Nigel reported a slightly off frequency station on 1584.020 kHz, and mentioned that he heard a little pop mx. The hrequency set off alarms, as the only known off frequency station on the channel is Coast Radio, New Zealand which was measured on 1584.019 in July 2014. So I was 99% sure of the identification, but how to prove it? I had heard Coast's 1359 outlet in July and was able to recognize 2 songs. The Donnelly had found a complete list of email addresses for the Coast network, so I picked out the address for New Plymouth 1359 and asked if they had played the songs at the given time. Quickly came an email response saying they had checked their music logs and the titled I provided matched the log.  So if we could get the titles of a song or two, I thought we could nail down Nigel's reception. Theo and I tried and tried but could not place the tune. We did get convinced it was by Anne Murray, so off I went on a tangent to listen to Anne Murray songs on Amazon

.

  After listening to 3 or 4 decades of Anne Murray tunes, I found no match and was becoming 
somewhat ill. Theo and I then tried to pick out as many words as we could. This lead to dozens of 
Bing searches, each with zillions of hits. Don't tell Nigel, but I didn't look at all of them. 
After 100 hits per search, I gave up. So Nigel, Theo and myself had not produced an answer. Nigel 
then went to Plan B, which was to have his wife listen. Quickly she said "that's Steven 
Bishop". Lo and behold, she was right. Out came the list of Coast email contacts from Theo and 
Nigel asked the 1584 Napier - Hastings contact if they had played Steven Bishop's "It Might Be 
You". You know the rest of the story. Things we know as a result:- Listening to hours of 
Anne Murray will numb the mind enough to make you be considered an impaired driver.- Canadians 
(at least Theo) think everything is Anne Murray.- Nigel's wife has a better track record than 
Nigel, Theo and I. Maybe another 10 -

 20

   years will sharpen us up.- The Coast people are very friendly and 
helpful. If I ever see a broken down Coast vehicle on the side of the road, I 
will stop and help them.- Persistence pays off.
  And now Nigel in Alberta has verification of reception of a 1 kW station from 
far away New Zealand. Chuck
  > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 19:10:39 -0600

From: nige2...@telus.net
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [IRCA] Coast on 1584


  Was delighted today to get an e-mail back from Raylene Ramsay at
"Coast" in New Zealand confirming that it was indeed their station
serving Hawkes Bay on 1584 that I heard last week.   A most welcome
addition to the log.Thanks to Chuck and Theo (along with my wife)
for helping make this happen.

73,

NIgel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta

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Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Cape Perpetua) Ultralight TP's for 8-24

[Theo]

Yeah, but 2HC ain't ABC... and is easy listening, though connected with 
2SM's Super Network which can be talk.


Theo

On 24/08/2014 17:41, Gary DeBock via IRCA wrote:


Subject:
Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Cape Perpetua) Ultralight TP's for 8-24
From:
d1028g...@aol.com
Date:
24/08/2014 17:41
To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com

To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com


Chuck, Theo and Guy,
  
Thanks very much for patiently listening to the 639 recording, and for your DU English assessments (which certainly make sense, since there was DU propagation around that time during the session).
  
639-2HC was heard at a strong level here at Cape Perpetua last August, so that's probably the most likely suspect. If not for the wild wind howls (and limited sleep), I might even have deciphered the DU English myself :-)


Thanks, Gary  (in Yachats, OR)


  
  
-Original Message-

From: Theo 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 

Sent: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 4:36 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Cape Perpetua) Ultralight TP's for 8-24


Definitely DU EE.  I hear Chuck's A-B-C at :08 tho' I can't grab Guy's Australia
at :12.  There's a "the media" at 1:56... not that that helps except to prove
English.

Now to decide which tx?  Any of the three likelies would be great catches,
considering it didn't seem to be a huge DU morning: 5CK?

Theo

Guy Atkins  wrote:


I would agree with you, Chuck, it does sound like Aussie English. "ABC"
does sound possible at :08, and in fact I think I'm hearing "Australia"
mentioned at :12.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA




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From: Chuck Hutton 
To: "irca@hard-core-dx.com" 
Cc:
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:16:58 +
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Cape Perpetua) Ultralight TP's for 8-24
Gary -

It's a poor signal so I can't be sure. I think it's Aussie English and
think he says "ABC" at :08.

Chuck



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Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Cape Perpetua) Ultralight TP's for 8-24

[Theo]

Definitely DU EE.  I hear Chuck's A-B-C at :08 tho' I can't grab Guy's 
Australia at :12.  There's a "the media" at 1:56... not that that helps except 
to prove English.

Now to decide which tx?  Any of the three likelies would be great catches, 
considering it didn't seem to be a huge DU morning: 5CK?

Theo

Guy Atkins  wrote:

>I would agree with you, Chuck, it does sound like Aussie English. "ABC"
>does sound possible at :08, and in fact I think I'm hearing "Australia"
>mentioned at :12.
>
>Guy Atkins
>Puyallup, WA
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> From: Chuck Hutton 
>> To: "irca@hard-core-dx.com" 
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:16:58 +
>> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Cape Perpetua) Ultralight TP's for 8-24
>> Gary -
>>
>> It's a poor signal so I can't be sure. I think it's Aussie English and
>> think he says "ABC" at :08.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
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Re: [IRCA] Abbreviations

[Theo]

A few of the Canadian postal abbreviations need updating, Phil!

NL for The Rock and Labrador
QC for la belle province
PE for Anne of Green Gables' fan mail

And add one NU for Nunavut

Also the NZBC hasn't existed since the mid-70's... the crowd across the 
Tassie/Ditch are the Australian Broadcasting Corporation... if it still exists 
by the time you read this... 

Theo

Phil Bytheway via IRCA  wrote:

>Here's a list of abbreviations from the IRCA New Member Packet.
>These are used in DXM as well as often in this eGroup.
>This looks much better in a non-proportional font like Courier (which is what 
>it was in when I copied it!!!)
>
>
>ABBREVIATIONS
>
>The following is a list of abbreviations used in 'DX Monitor'. Feel free to 
>use them when reporting to the various columns. Do not, however, use them in 
>reception reports as most radio personnel will not understand them.
>
>GENERAL
>
>ancr    Announcer
>AN  All Night
>AN-6    All night 6 nights per week
>AN-7    All night 7 nights per week
>BCB Broadcast Band
>CE  Chief Engineer
>cl  classical music
>CPC Courtesy Programs Committee
>cw  Morse Code
>C&W country and western music
>CX  Conditions
>DJ  Disc Jockey
>DXF DX Forum
>DXM DX Monitor
>DXR DX Roundup
>DXWW    DX Worldwide
>ET  Equipment test
>f/c Frequency check
>freq    Frequency
>GM  General Manager
>GY  Graveyard frequency
>hi  Ham language for a laugh
>ID  Station identification
>inst    Instrumental music
>jx  jingle
>ment    mention
>MOR middle-of-the-road programming
>m&w man and woman
>mx  music
>NA  National anthem
>NSP No silent period
>nx  news
>o/  over
>o/u over - under
>OC  Open carrier
>OM  Man, old man
>PD  Program Director
>pgm Program
>pop Popular music
>Pres    President
>PSA Pre-sunrise Service Authority, also Public Service Announcement
>QRM Interference from another station
>QRN Noise, static
>r&b Rhythm and blues music
>rpt report
>s/on    sign-on
>s/off   sigh-off
>SID Singing identification
>sig signal
>SP  Silent period
>SRS Sunrise skip
>SSB "Star Spangled Banner," also single sideband 
>SSS Sunset skip
>stn station
>TC  Time check
>TT  Test tone
>u/  Under
>unID    unidentified
>w/  with
>WRTH    World Radio Television Handbook
>wx  weather
>xlnt    excellent
>YL  Young lady, woman
>//  parallel (same program)
>!"#$%&'()@  undesirable, not nice; profanity
>73  Best regards
>
>GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
>
>DU  Down under
>EC  East coast
>LA  Latin America
>NA  North America
>SA  South America
>TA  Trans-Atlantic
>TP  Trans-Pacific
>WC  West Coast
>
>LANGUAGES
>
>AA Arabic   II Italian  CC Chinese  JJ Japanese
>DD Dutch    KK Korean   EE English  PP Portuguese
>FF French   RR Russian  GG German   SS Spanish
>
>TECHNICAL
>
>ant  antenna
>het  hetrodyne
>rx   Receiver
>SAH  Sub-audible heterodyne
>SM-1,2   "Space Magnet" antenna
>TVI  Interference from a TV set or cable system
>tx, xmtr Transmitter
>W    Watts
>xmsn transmission
>xtal crystal
>Hz   Hertz (cycles per second)
>kHz  kilohertz 
>MHz  megahertz
>
>Used in BROADCASTING INFORMATION
>
>CH   Critical hours
>CP   Construction Permit
>D    Day only
>DA   Directional antenna
>DA-D Directional Antenna - Days
>DA-N Directional Antenna - Nights
>DA-1 Directional antenna, same pattern day and night
>DA-2 Directional antenna, different patterns day and night
>L    Limited time operation
>N    Night
>ND   Non-directional antenna
>SH   Specified hours of operation
>U    Unlimited hours of operation
>
>TIME
>
>DST  Daylight Savings Time
>EDT  Eastern Daylight Time
>ELT  Eastern Local Time
>EST  Eastern Standard Time
>GMT  Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
>LSR  Local sunrise
>LSS  Local sunset
>MM   Monday Morning
>SM   Sunday Morning
>UTC  Coordinated Universal Time (same as GMT)
>
>ABBREVIATIONS USED EXCLUSIVELY IN DXR AND DXWW
>
>t    tentative
>
>VERIFICATION (club use only - don't use in reports!)
>
>f/up  follow-up report
>IRC   International Reply Coupon
>PC    Post card
>pp    card prepared by DXer
>SASE  Self addressed stamped envelope
>v/    verification
>v/c   postcard verification
>v/l   letter verification
>v/q   QSL card
>v/r   verie scrawled on the report
>v/s   verification signer
>
>NE

Re: [IRCA] Grayland 10 DXpedition

[Theo]

No longer on air... went to the Other Band as Free FM/89 several years 
back (late 2011?).


TD

On 01/08/2014 15:02, Chuck Hutton wrote:

Theo -
  
As best I know, no one has heard Community Access Radio on 1206.
  
Chuck
  

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 14:50:07 -0700
From: th...@telus.net
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Grayland 10 DXpedition

That has to be a first: all seven Hamilton AM'ers logged on the same
list and at the same location, Grayland...

Theo

On 01/08/2014 03:06, Bill Whitacre wrote:

Between July 20 - 25 I was fortunate to DX from Grayland, WA and Sans Souci -
between Yachats and Florence, OR - using 160' DKAZ antennas with fixed Rt 
pointing
around 250 degrees.

Results can be found on this web page:

<http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland10.php>

The highlight was an amazing opening to New Zealand on July 25th -- similar to
one Gary DeBock and Chuck Hutton experienced a week earlier at Rockworks 4.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA
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Re: [IRCA] Grayland 10 DXpedition

[Theo]

That has to be a first: all seven Hamilton AM'ers logged on the same 
list and at the same location, Grayland...


Theo

On 01/08/2014 03:06, Bill Whitacre wrote:

Between July 20 - 25 I was fortunate to DX from Grayland, WA and Sans Souci -
between Yachats and Florence, OR - using 160' DKAZ antennas with fixed Rt 
pointing
around 250 degrees.

Results can be found on this web page:

<http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland10.php>

The highlight was an amazing opening to New Zealand on July 25th -- similar to
one Gary DeBock and Chuck Hutton experienced a week earlier at Rockworks 4.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA
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Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [ultralightdx] Rockwork 4 DU-DXpedition-- South Pacific UnID's and Mysteries

[Theo]

Oz uses eight-digit telephone numbers within its area codes.

Fixed-line exchange prefixes around Frederickton are 6566-, Kempsey 
6562-, 6563-. and Gladstone 6567-. plus 9846-. Turner's Flat 6561-.


Oz (as in NZ) isolates its mobile/cell services to a specific area code, 
generally (04) so that cuts down on number usage.


As in a year or so back, 2KP/531 is possibly the talking interference to 
531 PI in Auckland at ~2300 AET/1300 UT, though with music 4KZ in 
Innisfail, Qld could come into play. I cannot recall any mention 
anywhere ever of 3GG making it over the Pacific. All three are listed as 
directional.


TD


On 23/07/2014 17:06, Bill Whitacre wrote:

Hi Gary.  Now that we’ve established 531 as the ‘benchmark’ of our DXpeditions 
this year I’ve been listening to it a bit.  This morning, 7/23, at Sans Souci 
was pretty much an Aussie event.  Good time to check 531 for something other 
than PI!

Sure enough on my 1200utc TOH recording I’ve got an Aussie dominant with a 
program called ‘Help Line’ and a commercial for something with a ‘clubhouse’ 
near Frederickton with a phone # announced as 65-87-3020.  Nothing came up on 
Google for that, unfortunately.

Later in the 8 minute cut I’ve got a commercial for Litz’s [?] News Agency & 
Takewawy somewhere in NSW.

PAL shows only one station in NSW on 531, in Dempsey.  I’ll bet that’s what 
we’ve got.

---

On Jul 23, 2014, at 4:47 PM, d1028g...@aol.com [ultralightdx] 
 wrote:


Hello All,
  
As usual, the recent visit to the Oregon ocean cliff site resulted in a mix of definite and not-so-definite DU loggings. Most of the mysteries were related to Australian stations trying to break through the strong NZ-slanted propagation.
  
Posted below are several MP3's of these mysteries, along with descriptions of what I can make out by myself. The 702 kHz recording is pretty strong, so anyone in NZ or Oz could probably tell me the accent of the female presenter. Any assistance would be appreciated!
  
531  UnID  Australian   In general the Oz stations on this frequency had a very rough time breaking through the heavy 531-

 PI signal, but in this recording at 1233z on 7-17 there is an 
Australian pop music station mixing with PI at a fair level,
 with a female presenter giving some speech from :08 until :17 into 
the recording. Not too much to go with, but does
 anyone in Oz recognize her voice? (headphones recommended)
  
 http://www.mediafire.com/listen/6226aomeihz2ek9/531-UnIDAussie-1233z071714PL380.MP3
  
531  UnID  Australian   Another Oz station trying to break through PI's hammerlock on the frequency. At 1258z on 7-16

 a male-voiced presenter on an Australian station is speaking under 
531-PI's Samoan male presenter. Being close
 to the 1300 TOH, this may have been some type of news. Does anyone 
in Oz recognize his voice? (headphones
 recommended)
  
 http://www.mediafire.com/listen/bbx02dq4d9aq55s/531-UnIDAussie-1258z071614PL380.MP3
  
585  UnID  Australian   At 1238 on 7-17 a fairly weak station was received on 585, but it was clearly not // with 603-Waatea

 (i.e., it was not the 2 kW Kiwi station 585-Radio Ngati Porou). 
This leaves only two Oz stations as real possibilities--
 585-2WEB "Outback Radio" (received three times previously on the 
Cliffs) or the 10 kW ABC station 7RN in Hobart,
 Tasmania (never before received). Both male and female presenters 
are giving either an interview, or news. Any
 suggestions from Oz? (headphones recommended)
  
 http://www.mediafire.com/listen/sx699ey6dnss8qv/585-UnID-DU-1238z071714PL380.MP3
  
702  UnID  DU   This fairly strong station at 1211 on 7-19 is obviously either the Kiwi 10 kw station Radio Live or the Aussie

 50 kW big gun 2BL, but since an LR network // wasn't available at 
the time I couldn't confirm the ABC identity. My
 guess is that this is 2BL because of the complete lack of 
commercial advertising from the female presenter, but
 could someone in either NZ or Oz confirm her Aussie accent?
  
 http://www.mediafire.com/listen/d6781cbulgix8ha/702-UnID-DU-1211z071914PL380.MP3
  
Thanks for any assistance!
  
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
  
   
   
  
 
  


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Re: [IRCA] TP 12 July Victoria version

[Theo]

Noted.

Gary DeBock via IRCA  wrote:

>
><<<  How long will you be on the coast Gary?   >>>
>
>  Well, Nick, the current plan is to stick around until the 19th (one week, 
> total).
> 
>Theo would really love this place... DXing here, he could completely restore 
>his Kiwi accent within a couple of days.
> 
>73, Gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>-Original Message-
> From: Nick Hall-Patch 
> To: d1028gary ; Mailing list for the International Radio 
> Club of America 
> Sent: Sun, Jul 13, 2014 4:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP 12 July Victoria version
>
>
>How long will you be on the coast Gary?
>
>
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Re: [IRCA] CBU-690 off

[Theo]

That's the first time I've ever heard of that, Eric.

Wonkypedia's wording about a Nanaimo tx is missing the all-important 
"FM".  That was turned down by the CRTC, resulting in 690 being maintained.


And the mention in the  entry reflects the status of 
programming from 690 as being from Vancouver, not local programming from 
the Hub City itself.  It's interesting that as the second-largest 
population centre on the Island, Nanaimo doesn't get CBC service from 
Victoria as do other communities with relays.  But, hey, a 50kW blow 
torch from salt marshes across a water path of ~50km, should do the trick!


I don't see any mention of media in the Gibsons' Wonky link, but CBC's 
frequency advice for both locations lists CBU/690 for Radio One service.


Theo

On 10/06/2014 9:13 AM, Eric Floden wrote:

greetings

I had to run an errand early today and noted that around 0450 PDT CBU-690
was silent (their FM 88.1 was on); by the time I was done and home, around
0510, they came back on, mid-song.

Now, a question.  I read somewhere that there is a CBU repeater in Nanaimo
that uses 690.  Is this true?  Wikipedia hints at it:

CBU's signal on 690 AM also directly broadcasts to Nanaimo
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo> and Gibsons
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsons,_British_Columbia>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU_(AM)

Anyone know?  It makes me think of the KKOB-770 situation with 50kW in
Albequerque, NM, and a smaller (250w.?) repeater, also on 770 in Santa Fe .
. .

thanks

ef
who can see the CBU studio from his office window in
Vancouver BC
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Re: [IRCA] QRM or QRN or

[Theo]

Hmmm...  QRI not taken?



TD

Saul Chernos  wrote:

>QRI is newly taken ... it means "I can't take it anymore" - as in "There's a 
>big opening to Peru, interference is killing the band, I can't take it 
>anymore!"
>
>Sort of a DXer's Q-code for going postal...
>
>Saul 
>
>
>Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 00:03:51 +
>To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
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>Subject: [IRCA] QRM or QRN or
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>Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:03:33 -0700
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>Subject: QRM or QRN or
>To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
>CC: d...@yahoogroups.com
>
>In the QRZ.com thread, one link to a list of Q-codes shows that QRI is not 
>assigned, so I suggest we start using that to mean Interference from another 
>station; then the distinxion between noises, QRManmade and QRNatural can be 
>useful. 73, Glenn Hauser
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Re: [IRCA] KXOL 1660 Utah

[Theo]

T-shirts at Billings?  Yes please!

Theo

On 20/12/2013 10:27 AM, Mike Sanburn wrote:

I didn't notice that it was the earlier KXOL in TexasCafe Press has a slew 
of classic shirts available, unfortunately the only way they are affordable is 
if you're on their email list and they send you a 50% discount codeI'll 
have to look and see if zazzle.com offers any pre-printed station shirts. Maybe 
we'll see some at the IRCA Convention auction in Billings next summer!  ms


From: p...@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:04:32 -0800
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXOL 1660 Utah

True, Cafe Press does still sell KXOL T-shirts but they are for when it was on 
1360 in Fort Worth. They are for $24-26 + shipping.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380
=
Mike Sanburn wrote:


I guess one can always askI notice that cafepress.com still sells oldies 
KXOL t-shirts..

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Re: [IRCA] ] Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)

[Theo]

Yikes.  I'd hate to have to walk from Brampton to Fort Erie: they're 
roughly 100km/60 miles apart even as a crow would fly.   Ft Erie's just 
across the Niagara from Buffalo.


Theo

On 12/11/2013 8:36 AM, Steve Francis wrote:

Didn't CJFT in Fort Erie co-exist with a station on 530 at the Toronto airport?  That 
would seem to indicate that greater Toronto and Fort Erie are far enough apart that CIAO 
could be counted as an entirely different allocation, despite the relative closeness of 
Brampton and Fort Erie.  That was my rationale for counting CIAO in 1991, something I'd 
ordinarily never do with cities that near to each other.  In other words, if, by 
licensing that airport station and CJFT simultaneously, the CRTC was saying "Fort 
Erie and Toronto are two entirely different places!", who am I to differ?

Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee


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From: Rick Dau 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America ; am 
; amfmtvdx ; amdx 
Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 6:41 am
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)



   
Saul, I don't count call changes as new stations, either.  And, in fact, I only count frequency changes as new stations IF a new station comes on the old station's previous frequency and I manage to hear both (example: me hearing KIDZ-1510 Independence, MO and KCCV-760 Overland Park, KS in 1991, after having previously logged KCCV on 1510 three years prior -- in my logbook I make this notation under KCCV-760: "Originally heard on 1510 on 4/9/1988").
  
What you have here is a situation much like WNWI-1080's in 1998.  WPOK-1080 in Pontiac, IL went silent, and WNWI-1080 in Valparaiso, IN moved its CoL to Oak Lawn, IL, about 75 miles to north of Pontiac (the difference being, of course, that there wasn't a frequency chance involved, like WKPR moving from 1420 to 1440).  In my Iowa City logbook, I have WPOK and WNWI listed as two separate loggings since they were separate entities to begin with.
  
One could also face a dilemma with wondering how to count CJFT-530 Fort Erie, ON and CIAO-530 Brampton, ON, since CIAO took over CJFT's spot on the dial, even though their transmitter sites weren't all that far apart.  Fortunately, I didn't have to deal with that, since I was lucky enough to get CIAO on its previous 790 frequency in early 1991, just months before it moved to 530.
  
73,

Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska (872 stations logged here, each CL only listed once)
  



   
  
  
  
From: Chernos Saul 

  To: "irca@hard-core-dx.com" ; "a...@nrcdxas.org" ; 
"amfmt...@mailman.qth.net" ; "a...@wtfda.info" 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:02 AM
  Subject: [IRCA] Michigan radio question (WDOW-WKPR 1440)
   
  


I heard WKPR Kalamazoo on 1440 this morning. I've previously logged WDOW in 
nearby Dowagiac but had never yet logged WKPR till now.

I don't count call changes. But I'm not sure what this situation represents. 
This info from Wikipedia is the best summary I've found thus far to describe 
the situation. Curious for any opinions...with thanks.

WDOW (1440 AM) was a radio station licensed to Dowagiac, Michigan, broadcasting 
a sports radio format. According to Michguide.com, Kalamazoo Broadcasting (aka 
Kuiper Broadcasting), owner of WKPR AM 1420 Kalamazoo, is paying $80,000 to 
Langford Broadcasting as part of an agreement that would take WDOW off the air 
permanently and have WKPR move to AM 1440 and increase power in November 2010. 
On March 24, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission cancelled WDOW's 
license and deleted the call sign from its database.


Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON





  
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Re: [IRCA] Northern Bay Medium Wave Dxpedition Domestic Logs

[Theo]

But that Tadjikistan log pushes the envelope for ULR reception of West 
Coast NA from Newfoundland by long path!


On 03/11/2013 5:37 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Much appreciated posting, Allen.   The PEI expedition might want to 
reference it.Me, I just like the idea that Newfoundland has 
beaches.  I tend to think of rocks...   Your ocean water may well be 
more swimmable than the Pacific upwelling that we get in western 
Canada.anywhere near the Pacific.


best wishes,

Nick


At 18:34 03-11-13, you wrote:

Hello To All,

Here is the link to the Northern Bay Medium Wave Dxpedition web page.

http://nldxers.000a.biz/northernbay.htm

The page is almost completed now with the Trans-Atlantic and Domestic 
logs added . I will be adding the Central and South American logs as 
soon as possible. That list is quite lengthy. Please enjoy the photos 
on site as well.

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Re: [IRCA] Recordings Test

[Theo]

I accidentally deleted Michael's original post, but it's the old Windoz problem 
with posted links.

Please enclose them in <> and they'll launch in my experience.

TD

Chuck  wrote:

>Michael -
>
>It works fine for me in Chrome after I manually select the entire link. 
>Note that your hyperlink stopped before the end of the complete path.
>
>No joy in Internet Explorer - I get a blank window with the little 
>symbol in the upper left that is a circle with a line through it. I 
>suspect that is an IE problem at my end.
>
>Chuck
>
>On 10/1/2013 4:54 PM, Michael Yule wrote:
>> Hi everyone - I think that I've set up public access to any recordings I 
>> make using Dropbox.
>>
>> If so, this is this mornings R Kitaja TOH ID. Perhaps someone could test it 
>> out and see if it's working like I want it to.
>>
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16881917/Radio Recordings/Radio - 2013 
>> Oct 1 1359 1401 963kHz R Kitaja ID.mp3
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>>
>> Michael
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Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [mwcircle] Do you know your languages?

[Theo]

Mebbe 20+ years at CJVB/1470 in Vancouver sharpened my ears, but the 
only one that really threw me was the answer requiring Maltese.


Um, I also notice two questions (I think) have choices which include 
both Bosnian and Serbian... gimme a break... I know the 
Serbs/Croats/Bosnians/Montenegrins will start throwing rocks at you if 
you link them, but their spoken language is as close as Brit/North 
American English.


Ah, the international broadcasters of Cold War Days after all 
transmitted in .


At 'VB in the 70's, we had to separate the programming block of the 
Croats and Serbs with a Slovenian segment to keep them satisfied.


73

Theo

On 05/09/2013 8:52 AM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
This has taken the Medium Wave Circle by storm, suggested by Herman 
Boel.I suspect the Europeans would do better than we colonials 
would, but it's great fun, especially if you're missing your fix of 
exotic DX:





This is an excellent game (and practise) for DX'ers:
http://greatlanguagegame.com/

Have fun!

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Re: [IRCA] Mauritania not on SW

[Theo]

Do you have access to  as an Android app?  It should also work 
with the PC link.


<http://tunein.com/radio/Mauritania-r101269/>

Just as a curiosity, I tried both Android listings for Radio Mauritanie 
98.0 (supposedly Islamic Talk) and 93.3 (supposedly Arabic Music) and 
both feeds worked perfectly ~2225 UT Mon 2 Sept.


The 93.3 feed actually sounds like the programming we used to hear on 
7245 kHz around that time... the telephone talk show moderated by a woman.


Last time GH noted SW on air was slightly more recent than his memory 
recalls: 0515 UT on 24 Sept 2012.


73

Theo
...
On 02/09/2013 3:08 PM, Glenn Hauser wrote:

Tim,

Perhaps another tactic is called for, such as DFing. Nouakchott is about as far 
west as you can go in Africa, and Damascus is beyond east, in fact about 45 
degrees apart by the Great Circles, 90 vs 45 degrees or so from K`zoo.

73, Glenn







If anyone knows of a working live audio stream for 783 Mauritania, or

another way to confirm what I think might be Mauritania on 783, it would
be much appreciated.  I've tried accessing their live audio stream via
their website but it doesn't work for me:

http://www.radiomauritanie.mr/rm/

I heard weak audio again last night that sounded like Middle Eastern
chanting or similar (Quran?)  What I keep hearing on 783 doesn't really
sound musical.

Thanks,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 12:03 -0700, Glenn Hauser wrote:

KAZ wrote:

``Their SW // goes off overnight. They play continuous mx overnight
which is basically Arabic with African flavoring.``

The SW // of Mauritania 783 has been totally off the air for years now
(was 4845, and before that 7245). If anyone does hear it again, let us
know! 4840 WWCR is a bit of a problem here all night too.

73, Glenn Hauser, OK

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Re: [IRCA] Rumors of CKZU demise...

[Theo]

Always interesting to see my wording quoted without attribution, but 
hey, at least the message is getting out. 


Thanks, Coffee Canuck.

Theo

On 28/08/2013 3:53 PM, coffee_canuck wrote:

08/28/13 - An email from Martin Marcotte, Director of Transmission for CBC, 
states the inclusion of shortwave CKZU 6160 kHz Vancouver in the application of 
July 12 and subsequent CRTC deletion approval released August 15 was incorrect 
and steps are being taken to re-instate the CRTC's authority for CKZU.  The 
1000-watt shortwave station, in operation since the 1940s, rebroadcasts the 
programming of CBU AM 690/FM 88.1 Vancouver.  Aug. 15 CRTC notice

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Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Rockwork 4) Ultralight DU's for 7-27

[Theo]

Gary:

re 531: switching on my DX ears (hi, Bruce!), at :07 I hear something 
like "93-point-five... 31... PM".  2PM also uses 93.5 for Kempsey, 
according to the website:


<http://www.superradio.net.au/index.html>

Theo

On 27/07/2013 9:27 PM, d1028g...@aol.com wrote:







Hello All,
  
  The last day at the Rockwork 4 cliff turned out to be the best DU-DXing day of all, with both Australian and New Zealand stations pegging the PL-380 S/N on certain frequencies. Several Aussies which had been weak or MIA all week suddenly became vibrant, and three of them (702, 729 and 747) were able to break through serious domestic splatter for the first time at Rockwork. 747-4QS audio was heard only 75 miles from 50 kW 750-Portland, no doubt due to the solid rock cliff helping to silence the pest on the back side.

  As such, vibrant DU's were heard on 7 out of 7 days at Rockwork 4 this 
week, confirming a strange pattern of summertime immunity from any DU 
propagation collapse. Although the Cliff definitely favors New Zealand signals 
(with 531, 567, 603, 657, 675 and 765 very strong on 7 out of 7 days), it will 
greatly enhance Aussie signals as well on certain days, like today. Discovery 
and confirmation of this freakish cliff-side DU propagation has made this 
DXpedition very exciting, and the compact FSL antenna has proven to be the 
perfect tool for taking advantage of these concentrated South Pacific signal 
boosts.
  
531  UnID  (Australian)  Elusive "talker" station on top of frequency at 1300 UTC, but overtaken by the usually dominant 531-PI at end of recording. Any ideas

  from Down Under?  (heterodyne removed :-)
  
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/47g864guj93lby6/531-UnIDAussie-1300z072713PL380.MP3




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Re: [IRCA] 531 Australian ID

[Theo]

Well, yeah, it's like some people here in Vancouver regard CJVB and CHMB 
as "Chinese" stations: they're actually multi-lingual but with a 
programming focus in Cantonese and Mandarin.


531 PI serves the wider Pacific Island community which is pretty large 
in Auckland (I forget which wins as the largest Polynesian city, 
Honolulu or Orkland), and only some of their programming is specifically 
in Samoan.  If their website is up-to-date, at the time you're going to 
be hearing them, our Monday mornings is in Cook Island Maori, Tuesday in 
Niuean, Wednesday in Tongan, and Thursday in Samoan.


Friday our time as in this morning (i.e. into Saturday NZT), their 
community programming in Kiribati apparently ceases at 12 a.m. (1200 
UT), and their sked isn't clear as to what hits the airwaves between 
then and 7 p.m. NZT Saturday when it's Fijian, apart from an English 
sports show during brekkie.   That was wrapping up in the live stream I 
monitored at 2.25 p.m. PDT -- there was a promo for a fishing show 
"coming up in seven minutes".  There were a couple of sports promos at 
2.30 p.m. (9.30 a.m. Sat NZT), a commercial for a private arts/training 
college, and detailed weather for Auckland, Whangarei to the north, 
Hamilton to the south (1 degree Celsius and foggy... ouch!) and marine 
areas. Then into a long monologue from a fishie guy!  I gave up at 2.40 p.m.


<http://www.radio531pi.com/on-air/community-language-shows>

Weekdays it seems to be DJ format, presumably with a mix of music and 
focus of news/information from the Pacific and locally:


<http://www.radio531pi.com/on-air/your-radio-531pi-hosts>

Theo

On 26/07/2013 1:20 PM, d1028g...@aol.com wrote:

Theo and Bruce,

Thanks very much for your suggestions concerning the 531 DU station identity.

<<<  The music that follows is pretty much sounds as if it's setting up for

an "Island-type" instrumental.  Does your recording continue like
that, Gary?   >>>

Actually the light pop music continued for about 15 minutes after that ID, 
Theo, right up until the time that sunrise enhancement collapsed around 1350 
UTC. I didn't know that 531-PI ever had English programming with Western pop 
music, so that was a surprise to me. The station has had a hammerlock on the 
frequency here all week here, with only an occasional Aussie talker sneaking in 
at times. Since 531-PI wasn't around as a co-channel during this mystery 
recording, your suggestion does make sense. What kind of puzzles me, though, is 
why 531-PI would have this YL announcer with absolutely no Samoan accent 
playing this western pop music for an extended time, especially when their 
focus seems to be on promoting the Samoan language, culture and music. Weird!

73, Gary
  



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Sent: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 11:59 am
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I agree, 5-31 PI

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Re: [IRCA] 531 Australian ID

[Theo]

Um, I can't make out the first part of the (canned?) break as the soft 
pop fades, but the last part to me sounds more like "... Radio Five 
Thirty-One, Pee Eye."


The music that follows is pretty much sounds as if it's setting up for 
an "Island-type" instrumental.  Does your recording continue like that, 
Gary?


The station isn't entirely Island-language -- e.g. news in the daytime 
on the hour can be in English.


73

Theo

On 26/07/2013 8:00 AM, d1028g...@aol.com wrote:


Hello All,
  
Here on the "Rockwork 4" ocean side cliff in Oregon I was finally able to get a decent ID from a mystery Australian pop music station (at 1323 UTC this morning). The ID was at good strength and clarity-- the only problem is that the female announcer didn't seem to give the station name, or location :-)
  
The ID is 38 seconds into this MP3 recording, and as near as I can make out, it sounds like "Your listening to sun wind, 98-531, the Lie."  Any identification help from Down Under on the Ultralight list (or from anyone on the IRCA list) would be greatly appreciated.


http://www.mediafire.com/listen/vtbjabiwfoafgbz/531-UnIDAussie-1323z072613PL380.MP3

73, Gary DeBock (temporarily in Cannon Beach, OR)


  
  
  
   


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[IRCA] More on 531 for Gary

[Theo]

Should've done more homework... so does 2PM.  Till midnight, or 1400... 
and even after it would seem.




And just to make sure, I checked 4KZ.  They're "Late Night Love Songs" 
from 10 p.m. to midnight/1200-1400 UT.

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Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Rockwork 4) Ultralight DU's for 7-22

[Theo]

Gary: 531 talker could be 3GG.. website says they have yap from 10 p.m. 
Oz Eastern Time/1200 UT... seems to be a networked thing: "Talking Back 
The Night":


<http://www.3gg.com.au/programmes/talking-back-the-night/>

Theo

On 22/07/2013 1:56 PM, d1028g...@aol.com wrote:







Hello All,
  
Huge DU signals were back in force at the soggy cliff this morning as several "Big Gun" Aussies did their best to compete with the usual Kiwi regulars on several frequencies. 531-PI, 567-RNZ, 594-3WV and 603-Radio Waatea all managed to peg the PL-380 S/N display at various times this morning, with 531-PI (a 5 kW Samoan language station in Auckland, NZ) accomplishing this for the first time on any cliff trip. Some marginal Chinese was received on 936 around 1225 (indicating probable reception of the 1 kW New Supremo station in NZ) and 585-2WEB (Bourke, Australia, 10 kW) was apparently back for the first time in 2 years with weak classic rock at 1250.

  Despite the unusually vibrant signals the DU propagation didn't stick around 
much past 1320, so the period of peak sunrise enhancement was relatively short (from 
1230-1300). The 8-man Yachats DXpedition group was planning to start its Perseus-SDR 
recording sessions this morning, so I'll be interested to hear how their 
multi-elevation antenna results come out. At least for the Standard 
(single-optimized frequency) version of the 12" FSL antenna used here, the 
DU-DXing results have been all that I could have hoped for during the past couple of 
days.
  
531  PI  Auckland, New Zealand  Pegging the PL-380 S/N display with Samoan language speech at 1232; best signal ever

received during any of my DXpeditions

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/n6kdtuy5lk4q6f1/531-PI-1232z072213PL380.MP3
531  UnID Aussie  Talkback station with news and interview format dominating 
over 531-PI at times. Not heard during any
previous trip (the other Aussies usually have a rock format on 
this frequency)-- any ideas from Down Under?

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/w0cxa6rsr0mijhy/531-UnID-Aussie-1230z072213PL380.MP3
558  Unid-DU  Some weak audio here around 1225, but no match for the 560 
domestic splatter



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Re: [IRCA] AM Stereo Survivors

[Theo]

According to Gord Lansdell's "Northwest Broadcasters", three 50kW'ers 
and a 25kW in Vancouver (interestingly the three 'ethnics' plus CKNW) 
are still running stereo, and he lists two Seattle-area X-banders as well.


73,  Theo

On 22/07/2013 9:43 AM, Mark Durenberger wrote:
On my journeys collecting Bandscans for the DX Audio Service I've 
encountered a few smaller AM stereo operations, mostly in the Western 
states.




Regards,

Mark Durenberger


-Original Message- From: Larry Stoler
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:05 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] AM Stereo Survivors

What is CFCO doing?  Do they play music or are they talk like WLS is?

Larry

- Original Message - From: "Karl Zuk" 
To: "Dennis Vroom" ; "Mailing list for the 
International

Radio Club of America" 
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: [IRCA] AM Stereo Survivors


I recently had access to a AM Stereo radio and found WLS 890 Chicago 
and CFCO 630 Chatham, Ontario still using AM Stereo (not HD Radio.)


CFCO sounds wonderful with great separation and full fidelity.

Karl Zuk
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