Re: [IRCA] KOFI 1180 possibly heard in Maryland

Bill, Great going on KOFI. They get out well. Infact yesterday afternoon they were well on top of the KEX IBOC hash all afternoon. Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

Greetings, Is there a site where I can find a map of where the Seattle AM TX sites are? I am especially wondering where the transmitter sites are on Vashon Island. Thanks. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

Patrick, If you know which ones are on Vashon Island, you can look up each station on www.recnet.com. Along with more data than you could ever want, there is a map showing the transmitter location. Mike Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Is there a site where I

[IRCA] Fwd: NZ AM Changes

For those interested: - New Zealand AM News Expansion of the Radio New Zealand AM Network is expected to result in the following changes: 576 Hamilton NZ's Rhema to move here ex 855 657 Tauranga New, expected on air shortly. Will carry AM Network and Southern Star Network //

Re: [IRCA] FINALLY! KTNN 660 heard in Maryland

Hrd here this morning at 0730 EDT // web stream with country music and talk by a man in language. Thanks for the tip, Bill - never would have thought it possible! Brett Saylor Central PA Icom R75/Drake R8 w/100' sloper YAHOO! I finally heard an ID from KTNN 660. 10/25/ 0700 Heard a male

Re: [IRCA] Boston Acoustics Receptor HD

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

Re: [IRCA] Noisy Cable TV - Part III

Craig - Thank you for sharing magnificent tip fo proactive noise suppression. Sounds like great way to use BigKorpseorate 'that's the way works' philosophy against them. Call it Electro-Judo? Forward-Power Karma? Given 'make it other guy's fault' training, cable techs probably attributed

[IRCA] heard ktrb testing yesterday

Hi all, yesterday, I heard ktrb in San Francisco at 860 testing yesterday with an open carrier, with an announcement by a female announcer stating, ktrb San Francisco, on the air for testing at low power. This must have apparently been a tape, because there was another one of those that they ran,

[IRCA] TP 27 Oct

Seemed to be a lighter weight morning here today, 1300 to 1330 UT. Lots of carriers, not much audio; at one point only 873 had NHK2 audio. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, B.C. Canada

Re: [IRCA] A little bit of AM trivia

I think WLW was the first 50 K also. I have some of my fathers stuff from the mid 30's when he was in collage one of these days I will scan the artical abt WLW's BIG xmiter post it. Also has stuff on syncos, WOR's new site, the 1st death ray other electronics things 73 Tom Jones Mason

[IRCA] NE Oregon TPs

Conditions have been very poor for TPs the past week or so here. But this morning was better. Early the Far East Russians were strong on LWBC--153, 180, 189, 234, 279, and 209 Mongolia was halfway decent, all at 1210 utc. MW hets were strong all over the band, but no audio. Soon after that the

[IRCA] 4-K-ZED 531

Greetings, After sitting on 531 from 1415 to 1505 UTC 10/27, trying to make out the CW station (presume 2PM) and a talk station, the talk program surfaced just before 1500, and several IDs for The news program.on 4-K-ZED...The mostIndependant owned and operated news and information

Re: [IRCA] heard ktrb testing yesterday

That's good to have confirmation-- I've been catching OC on 860 on my car radio the past few days. No IDs heard... Rich Toebe Vacaville CA - Original Message - From: Marty Rimpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IRCA D X LIST irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 6:23 AM Subject:

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

Patrick, go to http://members.shaw.ca/nwbroadcasters/ampage.htm and click on the figures in the PWR column, you'll get a map . . . not sure if it will have the precison you want ef On 27/10/06, Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Is there a site where I can find a map of

Re: [IRCA] TP 27 Oct

Greetings, This morning started out poor poor poor at 1330, but by 1400, it had picked up a bit. Still nothing much. Anhui 936 was making a showing. By 1415 or so I was on 531 trying to make out the two Australians. I fiqured one was 2 PM (CW). The second was a interview/talk program. But first

[IRCA] NOAA WX ON 1610

Randy Davis (NRC) called about hearing a new one on his car radio. Ive listened to it for an hour and the only ID has been the local WX station. The Anchorage KY station not heard on 1620 so i sispect a move rather than a new station. we shall see. RCW

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

You can also use radio-locator.com - enter the calls of the station you're looking for, and then click on the coordinates to get a Google Map of the location. Or use fccinfo.com, which will give you a topo map. s Eric Floden wrote: Patrick, go to

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

Thanks! They show all the tx sites on Vashon in the middle of the island near the Eastern shore. Is this correct? I always thought the sites were all over the island. Does anyone know? 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA

[IRCA] TP for 10/27

Today I got audio on 747, 774, 819 and 828 at 1320-1342. The best audio was Japan on 828 with good signals at times which is a little on the strange side as most of the time there audio is just above the noise level. At 1334 I had two stations on 819 one talking and the other with music.

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

As I recall, three of them are pretty tightly packed. You can tell by the coordinates listed in Radio Locator. Pete Taylor Tacoma, WA ICF2010 + Kiwa air core loop DX398; Palomar loop Patrick Martin wrote: Thanks! They show all the tx sites on Vashon in the middle of the island near the

[IRCA] Fw: ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA

- Original Message - From: W1AW Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: W1AW List: Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 6:59 AM Subject: ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de K7RA ZCZC AP44 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast

[IRCA] TPs 27 October: Like Another Girl I Dated: Fairly Disturbed

Friends, I was back on my regular schedule this morning... at the dials about 90 minutes before dawn. As things played out, all I can say is unpredictable and fairly disturbed, but interesting. I really did date her in high school, too! During the pre-dawn run, the JJ Big Guns were

Re: [IRCA] Noisy Cable TV - Part III

Thanks, Craig, When it comes to dealing with the cable TV company, all suggestions are worth consideration. Now, do you suppose a ham license would be required for that application of a transmitter? Since I've already written the FCC, maybe that would cover it. :-\ Curt --- W. Curt

[IRCA] TP 27 Oct

Well somewhat less spectacular for me than for Mr. Bryant, but fun nonetheless. It's odd to hear the NHK2 big guns sounding wispy, but I rarely get anything to replace them I believe there was a lift just after 1400UT... 936 jumped from weak carrier to fair audio in a matter of minutes

Re: [IRCA] KZIZ-1560 OMENS

Hi, Pete, At least as of 11:45 a.m., I hear no significant change in KZIZ's signal strength from north Seattle in the north side of the U district. If they _were_ using their new facility earlier this morning, either they're not now, or there won't be much signal difference here. They're

Re: [IRCA] KZIZ-1560 OMENS

Pete, KZIZ is only S9 here at best and I detect no IBOC. Is there word they are going IBOC? KZIZ is not strong here. Their 5 KW never has done much here. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] 4-K-ZED 531

Hi John, The 4KZ letter is already typed! I need to put it in the emvelope along with the CD. It has three call IDs on the CD with slogans. I had heard that a storm tore up their tx site and they were operating ND with a KW or two. I had no idea if that has changed. According to my old

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites

Pete, Yes, it looks like KPTK/KTTH are co located and KIRO is next door. Then KJR/KGNW are co located and KVI is not far away either. Then KOMO is off my themselves. It looks like KTTH/KPTK are the closest to me. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager

[IRCA] CJRJ 1200 BC

sadly, progress in the new station on 1200 from Northwest Broadcasters site http://members.shaw.ca/nwbroadcasters/recentnews.htm this item: - *10/27/06 - CJRJ AM 1200 Vancouver has begun transmitter testing. The station operates with 25 kW with slightly different directional patterns

Re: [IRCA] CJRJ 1200 BC

CJRJ 1200 is on this afternoon with a female with IDs in Hindi. Poor at best with terrible KEX IBOC hash. The skip is in this afternoon and it is hard to get a solid null on KEX. If it wasn't for the KEX IBOC hash, it would not be too bad. Vancouver has its 11th AM station it looks like. 73,

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2006 Oct 27 1809 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 October follow. Solar flux 72 and mid-latitude A-index 1. The mid-latitude

[IRCA] TA from Europe

There were decent conditions this morning towards North America from here in Scotland. At 0705 UTC, 760 WJR Detroit MI was booming in here. Recording: http://paulc.mwcircle.org/WJR2.mp3 Paul Troon, Scotland ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] CJRJ 1200 BC

Walt, Here it is rather poor mainly because of KEX's IBOC hash. Probably not much signal my way though. Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

[IRCA] Very, Very OT: Native American or Los(t) Angeles?

All in jest: I'm not a Native American. I was born in Los Angeles. Does that mean that Los Angeles is not part of the US? Seriously, I've heard KTNN (The Navajo Nation) while passing through. A strange-sounding language, but I understand the reasons why because of the grammatical structure.

Re: [IRCA] A little bit of AM trivia

Tom- WLW did run 50kw or more, by 1937. BUT, WLW did not start off as 50kw station. The question stated from the original license from the FCC. WLW original ticket was issued by FRC, not the FCC. In fact WLW was the first radio station in the U.S. to run 100,000 (or more) watts as granted by

Re: [IRCA] TA from Europe

Nice recording , Paul. Interesting to hear a domestic from afar. Chris Johnson K4CME South Carolina - Original Message - From: Paul Crankshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 5:33

Re: [IRCA] Very, Very OT: Native American or Los(t) Angeles?

Aha! That's it! DXing is a shared genetic defect. Bob Coomler (also from Los Angeles) Cloverdale, CA --- Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in jest: I'm not a Native American. I was born in Los Angeles. Does that mean that Los Angeles is not part of the US? Seriously,

Re: [IRCA] A little bit of AM trivia

I could be wrong, but if I remember from my ancient radio books, WLW was NOT 500 KW (by technicality). There was an experimental license issued for the 500 KW transmitter that was at the same facility (I think). The 500 KW and 50 KW transmitters both operated, but not concurrently. I believe

[IRCA] 1450 kc DX for 27/10/06

All times are eastern daylight time. 1450 WGNC NC GASTONIA 1850 27/10/06 NEWS HEADLINES/ WEATHER FOR CHAROLETT, NC. THIS IS WGNC, YOUR HOME FOR GOOD TIMES OLDES. [WM-TN] 1450 WGNS TN MURFREESBORO 1848 27/10/06 MIXING WITH WGNC. YOUR GOOD NEIGHBOR STATION, WGNS (NOTE THE SIMULARITY OF THE

Re: [IRCA] A little bit of AM trivia

Michael- I am not that sure about which story is correct or not correct. I have heard a bunch of them over the years. Including the one about the cows. It reminds me of the stories about the navy putting in VLF equipment in the Michigan upper peninsula. The station used buried antenna and runs a

Re: [IRCA] A little bit of AM trivia

Hi Chris- Yes, the 2 dollar bill is still in circulation. In the early 60's when I was in the navy, we got paid in Kennedy $2.00 dollar bills. Remember them? Willis - Original Message - From: chris and anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites + Trivia

Mike, Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Some of it I knew about KJR KOMO switching. The old KXA 770 I QSL'd years ago with 1 KW. KQIN the same on 800 with 250w. Also KDFL 1560, today is KZIZ. Alot of history in Seattle radio. That is the main thing I really like about QSLing. So much

Re: [IRCA] A little bit of AM trivia

Still in circulation...yes. When's the last time you saw one? When's the last time that any were printed?. I have a few put away somewhere...they were all uncirculated $2 star notes. Definitely worth keeping. I used to have friend who carried a $500 and a $1000 bill in his wallet, and

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites + Trivia

Mike McKenna wrote: Could 1360 be the NEXT to relocate to Vashon ??? Mike, thanks for the trivia. KKMO-1360 is right on the water at the end of Brown's Point in NE Tacoma with a single stick. I have never heard any discussion about their moving (although I would be delighted if they

Re: [IRCA] TP 27 Oct

Nigel, Glad you nabbed KICY. That is a great catch too. Yes, I am happy with 4 K Z. I think they are probably still operating ND with a kw or 2. They were too strong to have their directional pattern in tow. But I did get a report out to them today. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception

[IRCA] Radio (Part Three-Hundred and Twenty)

IEN-GA Ira Elbert New, III, Watkinsville - DRAKE R8B 135' N/S Wire, QUANTUM QX LOOP v2.0 and QUANTUM PHASER 970 WVOP GA Vidalia - 10/27/06 2134 - High School Football (Robert Toombs Christian Academy Crusaders versus Terrell Academy Eagles). Good signal at times fading in and out of the mix.

[IRCA] WJOX-690 cheating?

Getting WJOX-690 Birmingham AL, booming in with ESPN Radio and local ads for Birmingham. Listed 50kw day, 500 watts at night, so probably cheating. Great sig, dominating the Montreal station that is usually here. John Cereghin Smyrna DE ___ IRCA

[IRCA] Vashon TX sites

The opening web page for Hatfield Dawson Consulting Engineers (www.hatdaw.com) has a very cool photo of what appears to be a 3-tower in-line array right next to a 4-tower parrallelogram. Both are located on the end of a narrow jetty of land surrounded by water. Since Hatfield Dawson is located

[IRCA] Fwd: Pacific Radio News #14

For those interested: - ___ October 2006 News from the folks at the Radio Heritage Foundation [www.radioheritage.net] a non-profit organization sharing the stories of Pacific radio. In this issue _ Art of Radio(c)Celebrating over 75 Years of Popular

[IRCA] More phaser musings

900 is a local station just a km or so across the water from my place. I never expected to be able to do anything with this signal which is normally S9+60. Well, with the phaser very carefully adjusted, I knocked the primary Village 900 signal down to less than S9, and underneath can hear a

[IRCA] KTNN heard in Memphis

KTNN 660 Window Rock, AZ putting a huge signal into Memphis tonight. Glad to add this one to the logbook. Jim Pogue Memphis, Tennessee USA NRD-535, ICF-2010 Wellbrook LA5030 loop ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] 1200 happenings

With the new super powerful CJRJ, I thought I'd try my hand at phasing. I could hear something in the background. On went my Misek phaser (thanks again to Steve Ratzlaff for putting one together for me), and after a little bit of fiddling, I was able to completely null out CJRJ (virtually

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

Walt, Great going. Very likely it is Wenatchee. They run lots of Sports. Dave Williams is about a km from KAST across the water and KAST is S9+60 DB also. He can null KAST down to a jumble carefully. Gordon Nelson used to null WBZ Boston a couple miles away from his QTH and hear other stuff. It

Re: [IRCA] 1200 happenings

Great going once again Walt. 1200 here is a mix of Soquel CA and Vancouver. The strange thing is, both are Hindi. It is hard to tell the difference. hi. WOAI is off the Eastern beverage. It will be interesting to see what happens in the morning with the splash. I am a bit concerned about the JJ

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

Walt, The best investment I made for DXing since I bought my FRG7 many many years ago was to buy a phaser. I waited until a couple years ago and I wish I would have done it sooner. With it, I have been able to log stations under my locals many of which are less than 10 miles away.

[IRCA] 1360/570 diplex

I guess I should never say never--especially given the craziness of the radio biz, but I doubt that this will happen. If Salem and the owners of KVI could have struck a deal, wouldn't KKMO be diplexed with KVI? Would have been a lot less expensive and a lot quicker than three years on the boat.

Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX sites

Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW wrote: The opening web page for Hatfield Dawson Consulting Engineers (www.hatdaw.com) has a very cool photo of what appears to be a 3-tower in-line array right next to a 4-tower parrallelogram. Both are located on the end of a narrow jetty of land

[IRCA] Oldies-660

Tried for KTNN-660 but no luck here. In partial WFAN phase null had someone with rock oldies including Beatles Please Please Me at 0011 EDT and 1969 hit Good Morning Starshine by Oliver at 0025 EDT. Any help appreciated. Been up for 21 hours now - time to crash. -- Marc DeLorenzo South

Re: [IRCA] Noisy Cable TV - Part III

Don Curtino - You notice any ix to V/UHF aviation freqs? Cable systems at one time used/still use these to transmit TV channels. When cable installed in RI years ago - after two decades court squabbling by rival Mob factions - this was big issue. If so, maybe nice letter to FAA will get

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

At 08:40 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: Walt, Great going. Very likely it is Wenatchee. They run lots of Sports. Dave Williams is about a km from KAST across the water and KAST is S9+60 DB also. He can null KAST down to a jumble carefully. Gordon Nelson used to null WBZ Boston a couple miles away

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

I have a Quantum Phaser and it seems to null as well as the NRC loop which is what Gordon Nelson used, in fact I think he perfected the loop. It is also the best thing I have done for my DXing in a long time also as it allows me to use LW's which have much more gain the a loop. I have a few

[IRCA] CJRJ-1200 VANCOUVER

CJRJ is good here and cuts through the 1210 slop handily but it does have deep fades (10pm PDT 10/27). It will be interesting to see what it does during the daytime. Pete Taylor Tacoma, WA ICF2010 + Kiwa air core loop DX398; Palomar loop ___ IRCA

[IRCA] two-dollar bills ( was Re: A little bit of AM trivia)

Yes, the 2 dollar bill is still in circulation. In the early 60's when I was in the navy, we got paid in Kennedy $2.00 dollar bills. Remember them? Thomas Jefferson is portrayed on the U.S. $2 bill, no? Not that I've ever gotten one in my change during my many visits stateside. Two-dollar

Re: [IRCA] 1200 happenings

At 08:45 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: Great going once again Walt. 1200 here is a mix of Soquel CA and Vancouver. The strange thing is, both are Hindi. It is hard to tell the difference. hi. WOAI is off the Eastern beverage. It will be interesting to see what happens in the morning with the splash.

Re: [IRCA] 1200 happenings

At 03:15 28/10/2006, you wrote: With the new super powerful CJRJ, I thought I'd try my hand at phasing. I could hear something in the background. On went my Misek phaser (thanks again to Steve Ratzlaff for putting one together for me), and after a little bit of fiddling, I was able to