[IRCA] car radios

I DXed for a few years with a 1957 (?? Buick?? Ford?? cannot remember) car radio I bought from Akron NRCer Bill Raczko (sp.?). It was sweet, very nice indeed. In addition to the regular pushbutton tuning it had a "Town & Country Bar", which was a motorized scanning device. "Town" had little se

[IRCA] KBOI 670

Jim Renfrew, Byron NY What kind of programming does KBOI have from midnight on? ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the origin

[IRCA] other Pacific hets

Good carrier on 846, no audio though. Carriers on 1017, 639 and 684...just a hint of the Pacific islandsthey will be keeping Patrick awake though. Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, B.C. Canada

[IRCA] morning Europeans on the west coast

Dennis was asking about hearing Europeans at west coast sunrise, and just today, something came in from an Oregon ham on a 160 meter list aying: >I am holding a vigil on (or around) 1832 kHz around >1500Z for the return of the morning European openings that we enjoyed back >in 1996 during the la

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

Bruce- It is well know that the Jap pilots also used KGMB to find Oahu. In fact the Japs flown by the B-17's but B-17's could nothing about it as all the guns had been removed from the plans so as to carry more fuel to make the hop to Hawaii. Photo's in the navy archives show this. Willis -

[IRCA] Tahiti 738 audio

Big carrier on 738 tonight 0520UT, with talk and music trying to push past the splatter. Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, B.C. Canada _

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

From what I've been told, back before WW2 the US government would pay KGMB to stay on all night whenever military planes were expected to arrive from the mainland. That way, the aircraft crews could use their direction finding equipment to home in on Oahu, and not fly past the island. On th

[IRCA] 7 December 1787

Few people outside the mid atlantic coast area know that today is also "Delaware Day", the aniversary of Delaware ratifying the US constitution making it the first state in the union. Gordon (Don) Bell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@har

[IRCA] KBOI-670 Testing Tonight

I haven't seen it mentioned here, so I'll pass it along from another list: >Tonight, Thursday Night/Friday Morning 12-8-2006 KBOI will have periods of >off air and Non-Direstional 50 KW testing. > >No schedule other than the midnight Mountain starting time. > >Bill Frahm - Boise -- Barry McLarn

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

IEN-GA Ira Elbert New, III, Watkinsville - SONY ICF-2010 1320 KYHN AR Fort Smith - 12/06/06 2253 - Tammy Bruce Show promo and The Savage Nation with Michael Savage. Decent signal mixing with WCOG in Greensboro, NC. "The One You Depend On, 1650, KWHN". (IEN-GA) Bert New Watkinsville, Georgia Pro

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

And they were all 7 volt filaments; had silver tops and if you were not careful you would rub the tube number off the top. My 1954 Chevy had those type of tubes in it. Willis - Original Message - From: "Powell E. Way III W4OPW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing list for the Internation

[IRCA] Wobbler on 930

There is an extreme Wobbler tonight on 930 Radio Surco, presumed Ciego de Avila, Cuba, heard at 0345Z 12/08/06. Curt --- W. Curt Deegan Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida [Ten-Tec RX-320D; LFE H-800; GAP DSP] Wobbler http://ScooterHound.com/WWWR/wobbler

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

I'm gratified, by all the car radio history, that I didn't have to repudiate my memory of hearing Freddy Martin's music on the road on Dec. 7, 1941. And I'm happy to have inadvertantly launched an interesting and entertaining thread! I suppose my most interesting car radio experience came in the

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

--- willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike- > Yes they had cars and the cars had radios. They used > metal covered tubes and > the tubes were black, all had 6 volt filaments. That was until Motorola and Sylvania came out with loktal tubes. Glass tubes with snap in lock in base. Philco loved

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

7 December is famous for two things, Pearl Harbor and it is also the same date I joined the navy. (Not in 1941). As a philatelist I collect U.S. navy ship cancels. I almost have all the ships that were at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. I created an exhibit and displayed them in September 2006, a

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

Mike wrote- > Did they have car radios in 1941? In those pre-transistor days, the radio > must have taken up half the dashboard and the tubes would have kept the > car warm in winter. > > BTW, Canada had been involved in WWII for more than two years before Pearl > Harbor. Hi Mike- Yes they had ca

[IRCA] Galvin / Motorola

--- Eric Floden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > good question -- I thought I recalled a restored 34 > Ford with a radio, so > googled first car radio and got this > > Car Radio In 1929, American Paul Galvin, the head of > Galvin Manufacturing > Corporation, invented the first car radio. The first >

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

--- Mike Brooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did they have car radios in 1941? In those > pre-transistor days, the radio > must have taken up half the dashboard and the tubes > would have kept the car warm in winter. The whole middle part of the dash and under dash. My grandmother's 1947 Stude

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2006 Dec 08 0007 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 December follow. Solar flux 96 and mid-latitude A-index 21. The mid-latitude K-i

[IRCA] first car radio -- was: Just another day?

good question -- I thought I recalled a restored 34 Ford with a radio, so googled first car radio and got this Car Radio In 1929, American Paul Galvin, the head of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, invented the first car radio. The first car radios were not available from carmakers. Consumers had

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

> I always associate this day with Freddy Martin's recording of "Tonight We > Love," because it was on the car radio when my family had driven to the > Oregon Coast. Then we heard the news bulletins. I was 6 years old. > > I suppose this would be on topic if I could remember the station we were > l

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Mystery Signal on 1020khz & 1610khz

--- Neil Kazaross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a decent ways south of DC and definately north of my DF to > the tones from here near Chicago. That being said, I certainly cannot > claim the my DF's are accurate enough to rule this out. > > So I am asking anyone on these lists the followi

Re: [IRCA] Unusual TIS license in AL

No sign of these TIS's yet on either 530khz or 1650khz from Birmingham (about an hour north of Selma) Patrick can you provide a link to the license data? /// Les, thanks for doing the leg work on this. I just searched the FCC database and it appears that all records of the license that I previ

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Mystery Signal on 1020khz & 1610khz

This is a decent ways south of DC and definately north of my DF to the tones from here near Chicago. That being said, I certainly cannot claim the my DF's are accurate enough to rule this out. So I am asking anyone on these lists the following. If you live in the VA/MD vicinity and took some go

[IRCA] 2006 College Basketball (Men's) Networks - Central Florida Golden Knights

2006 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) NETWORKS - CENTRAL FLORIDA GOLDEN KNIGHTS (per graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/ucf/genrel/aut_pdf/06-isp-portfolio.pdf) 740-WQTM-Orlando FL (Flagship) 1240-WMMB-Melbourne FL 1340-WROD-Daytona Beach FL 1350-WMMV-Cocoa FL 1350-WDCF-Dade City FL 1400-WZHR-Zephyrh

[IRCA] 2006 College Basketball (Men's) Sports Networks - Tulsa Golden Hurricane

2006 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) NETWORKS - TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE (per graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/tuls/genrel/auto_pdf_GHSPMediaKit2006.pdf) 740-KRMG-Tulsa OK (Flagship) 1240-KOKL-Okmulgee OK 1390-KCRC-Enid OK 1600-KUSH-Cushing OK 104.9-KRIG-Nowata OK Bob Pietsch (aka The Rocklin Rock

[IRCA] 2006 College Basketball (Men's) Nertworks - Alabama-Birmingham Blazers

2006 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) NETWORKS - ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM BLAZERS (per uabsports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/120406aab.html) 1410-WIQR-Prattville AL 98.3-WTRB-Ashland AL 101.1-WYDE-Cullman AL (Flagship) Bob Pietsch (aka The Rocklin Rocket) Rocklin CA __

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

December 7, 1941. --- Honolulu, Hawaii. Very early Sunday morning. KGU 750 Khz -- operating with 2,500 watts and sharing time with co-channel station WJR. KGU is then owned by the Advertiser Publishing Company, Ltd. and a NBC carrier. The only other broadcast station in Hon

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2006 Dec 07 2107 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 December follow. Solar flux 96 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 22. The mid-la

[IRCA] FEMA TIS in Selma, AL

Spoke with some very nice FEMA folks today in Selma, AL after getting some introductions from the EMA folks that we do ARES work with here locally. They were able to provide a lot of information. FEMA operates a large distribution site in Selma, similar to many across the country. Since Katrina

Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

I always associate this day with Freddy Martin's recording of "Tonight We Love," because it was on the car radio when my family had driven to the Oregon Coast. Then we heard the news bulletins. I was 6 years old. I suppose this would be on topic if I could remember the station we were listening

[IRCA] Just another day?

Today is December 7th.God Bless America! dkk ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contrib

[IRCA] Mystery Signal on 1020khz & 1610khz

Despite the denials from BAE Systems received by Glenn Hauser, I have reasons to doubt that story. In addition to my own sources, it's hard to deny that the STA requests mirrors the activity observed on the air in nearly every detail. It's possible that the engineer listed on the STA request is u

[IRCA] DX Engineering Updates

Spoke with the nice folks at DX Engineering today regarding their upcoming Noise Canceling Controller (DXE-NCC-1). A prototype of this product first appeared at Dayton a few months ago. According to the phone call today, the product should be released for sale in January. There are no design o

Re: [IRCA] TP 7 Dec

> Another dull morning, just before 1500 UT. > > At least on the low band, what few weak carriers there are seem to be > DU612, 639, 684, 792. 738 is surprisingly weak. 1386 is > definitely DU per the loop, but 1566 and 1575, no DF availablebut > these are carriers. Minimalist DXing.

Re: [IRCA] 1320-KYHN

Great idea Les. What's the address? I'll be happy to in the future. Jim - Original Message - From: Les Rayburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 7, 2006 9:56 am Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1320-KYHN To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America > Congratulations to al

Re: [IRCA] Unusual TIS license in AL

No sign of these TIS's yet on either 530khz or 1650khz from Birmingham (about an hour north of Selma) Patrick can you provide a link to the license data? Les Rayburn, director High Noon Film 100 Centerview Drive Suite 111 Birmingham, AL 35216 205.824.8930 205.824.8960 Fax 205.253.4867 Cell http:

Re: [IRCA] 1320-KYHN

Congratulations to all those who logged this new one. It would be great if folks would send news about stations on day power, or other unusual situations to the NRC DX Tip list, which goes to lots of dx'ers cell phones. Les Rayburn, director High Noon Film 100 Centerview Drive Suite 111 Birmingha

[IRCA] TPs for 12-7

For the first time in a long time I heard no Audio or carriers from 1350-1420 UT. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 _ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://www.windowsonecare.com/pu

[IRCA] TP 7 Dec

Another dull morning, just before 1500 UT. At least on the low band, what few weak carriers there are seem to be DU612, 639, 684, 792. 738 is surprisingly weak. 1386 is definitely DU per the loop, but 1566 and 1575, no DF availablebut these are carriers. Minimalist DXing. best wish

Re: [IRCA] 1320-KYHN

Yes, day pattern -- not power -- was what I meant. I guess I was already half asleep when I typed that last night. Indeed, they are a new one for me too. Always happy to nail a newbie. 73s, Jim - Original Message - From: willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 11:17

Re: [IRCA] Thanks to all re 590-1020-1610 episode

Maybe I missed something here, but I don't recall seeing anything that explained the ""why and where" of these tones. If someone knows these "straight facts" I am sure many would appreciate hearing. Chris Black Cape Cod - Original Message - From: "Fred Schroyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

[IRCA] High "A" sleep in

Hello, JOUB 774 in at 1020 UT with weak signal and JJ talk. No other TPs heard on MW or LW. Having a shed built this week, it will be underneath the EWE antenna. Next to the ground termination element. Be interesting how this effects the antenna. With the high A index this morning will no