[IRCA] KTRB 860 SF

2007-01-31 Thread bill kral
What's going to happen in the Portland area when the new 50 grander in San Fran fires up their trans with KPAM down to only 5KW? The old Modesto station was already stiff competition with KPAM up here in Victoria.Late PM reception on Wednesday was only letting KFBK 1530 in after 16:00 PST until cl

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread The Kaskey Family
As Johnny Nash (and someone else that I forget just now) said, "I can see clearly now" dkk Charles A Taylor wrote: > At 05:18 PM 1/31/2007 -0500, you wrote: > >Chollie- > >Sounds like you are making fun of the Book Of Mormon > > > > > > Willis, > > Nah, I wouldn't do that. That's just

Re: [IRCA] ktrb San Francisco signs on tonight at midnight

2007-01-31 Thread The Kaskey Family
Yeah Marty, anymore GOOD NEWS ?? Don K. Marty Rimpau wrote: > > The long-awaited move-in of K T R B-A M, MODESTO to the SAN > > FRANCISCO market will take place at midnight tomorrow > > (2/1), with the beginning of the final phase of testing of > > the station's new 50,000-watt signal. > >

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread The Kaskey Family
Cholly, No I don't want your eternal infernal little gold box but because I'm a great believer in mercy I am going to send you a case of prune juice so that hopefully Leonor will let you back in the house again and the neighbors will once again store their lynching tree back in the garage. You

Re: [IRCA] ... was Bought an iRiver,

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Hawkins
Why not? DRM? What is the model number of what you have? Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As Russ Johnson recommended earlier, you might want to also look into a > mini disc recorder; they aren't much bigger than an MP3 player and are > capable of very high quality recording, > > Bre

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread Charles A Taylor
At 06:05 PM 1/31/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Chuck, > >At least in the earliest firmware, the files created by the IFP-xxx devices >are actually MP3 files, but with a changed file extension. You don't have >to "convert" the files at all; simply rename them to .MP3 and they will >play fine. I guess t

Re: [IRCA] Sound clips on Iriver FPT 795

2007-01-31 Thread Charles A Taylor
At 02:23 PM 1/31/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Charlie, >Here's a clip from the 795 before it broke. I'm at 780 kc, real time >toggling between two ewes. One aimed at the Virgin Islands with its back >to Chicago, the other at right angles aiming north more or less. The >first station is ZBVI in the

Re: [IRCA] ... was Bought an iRiver,

2007-01-31 Thread cafe
> > As Russ Johnson recommended earlier, you might want to also look into a > mini disc recorder; they aren't much bigger than an MP3 player and are > capable of very high quality recording, > > Brett Saylor I have a Sony MD system which I use for Line-in stuff from my receivers... No Mic impu

[IRCA] XM's RATS

2007-01-31 Thread Pete Taylor
Regarding: 'The Beltway, rat-wise, appears to be on the second floor of the XM building, a beautifully restored former printing factory on New York Avenue NE, reports our colleague Paul Farhi. The crawl space under the raised floors "represents an eight-lane superhighway to anywhere the rat

Re: [IRCA] ... was Bought an iRiver, is Olympus Digital voice recorders...

2007-01-31 Thread Brett Saylor
> I want to get one to do high quality location > recordings for inclusion in PODCASTS and > on CDs. > > The key is "High quality".. > > Are they good enough for Podcasts or for > inclusion on a CD with other "broadcast quality" materials? > -- > Colin Newell - in Victoria B.C. Canada I would thin

Re: [IRCA] ... was Bought an iRiver, is Olympus Digital voice recorders...

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Hawkins
I have a US$40 one, handheld variety. I have not used external microphones or headphones with it, and can't say that I would call it high quality. It is worth its weight in gold though. Mike Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in our local electronics emporium eye-balling a broad se

[IRCA] ... was Bought an iRiver, is Olympus Digital voice recorders...

2007-01-31 Thread cafe
I was in our local electronics emporium eye-balling a broad selection of Olympus Digital Voice recorders. They all price out at around 100$ (CAN) My question is this: I want to get one to do high quality location recordings for inclusion in PODCASTS and on CDs. The key is "High quality".. Are th

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-01-31 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Feb 01 0007 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 31 January follow. Solar flux 89 and mid-latitude A-index 18. The mid-latitude K-in

Re: [IRCA] Just had to do this.

2007-01-31 Thread willis
> Bob > KB1OKL Congrats on you call!! Willis ___ 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 contributors and do not necessa

Re: [IRCA] rats

2007-01-31 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Marty Rimpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I got this from another list, and thought you broadcasters on > the list would find it interesting if you hadn't seen it already. *** Seems to me as if XM needs to sart up a "Rats In My Room" channel - Joey Reynolds and Danny Nevearth can

[IRCA] WKTP-1590

2007-01-31 Thread willis
1590 WKTP TN JONESBORO 1900 31/01/07 "TENNESSEE VOLS RADIO NETWORK ON WKTP, AM 15-90, JONESBORO." THEN INTO BASKETBALL WITH TENNESSEE BEATING THE GEORGIA BULLDOGS. [WM-TN] This is a new station for me. Tennessee is winning over Georgia, as it should be. There is GREAT conditions since 1400 EST.

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Chuck, At least in the earliest firmware, the files created by the IFP-xxx devices are actually MP3 files, but with a changed file extension. You don't have to "convert" the files at all; simply rename them to .MP3 and they will play fine. I guess this is how they got around any fees or licensi

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread Charles A Taylor
At 05:18 PM 1/31/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Chollie- >Sounds like you are making fun of the Book Of Mormon > > Willis, Nah, I wouldn't do that. That's just how angels talk. Don't have no better trainin.' Seriously, I think that the Bible will have to be retranslated in about two generations.

Re: [IRCA] rats

2007-01-31 Thread Tom L Jones
Box 'em up & drop them off at stations using IBOC. Where I used to live when I caught mice I would bring them to the yuppie neighborhood & drop them off. They really liked the 1.5 million houses better than my ranch. 73 Tom Jones Mason N.H. ___ IRCA ma

Re: [IRCA] WMRO 1560khz and KRSN 1490khz DX Test Results

2007-01-31 Thread Jim Pogue
Thanks for another entertaining report and most of all thanks for your great DX test work Les. Sadly, my hoped-for reception of KRSN didn't pan out. The "snippets" didn't match up with the tone pitch the guys on the west coast were hearing. Still, it was lots of fun trying. Now I'm curious about wh

Re: [IRCA] rats

2007-01-31 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 03:27 PM 1/31/2007, you wrote: >I bought into Sirius Satellite Radio and I am very happy with it... > >The only sounds I can hear in the background is the sound of >money being made. > >Sirius and XM have been successful beyond the stakeholders >original expectations. > >And the upside for DXer

Re: [IRCA] rats

2007-01-31 Thread cafe
> Hi all, I got this from another list, and thought you broadcasters on > the list would find it interesting if you hadn't seen it already. I bought into Sirius Satellite Radio and I am very happy with it... The only sounds I can hear in the background is the sound of money being made. Sirius an

[IRCA] rats

2007-01-31 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I got this from another list, and thought you broadcasters on the list would find it interesting if you hadn't seen it already. >From Tuesday's Washington Post (1-30-07): If you hear some scratching noises on XM radio, it's probably not static --but it might be rats. The satellite radio'

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread Charles A Taylor
At 12:02 PM 1/31/2007 -0800, you wrote: >Not a very nice angel, I'd say. Our man Kev has to endure the 110 degree >heat for 6-8 months a year, he needs a hug not castigation. > >der kashketfeller

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread willis
Chollie- Sounds like you are making fun of the Book Of Mormon - Original Message - From: "Charles A Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

[IRCA] ktrb San Francisco signs on tonight at midnight

2007-01-31 Thread Marty Rimpau
> The long-awaited move-in of K T R B-A M, MODESTO to the SAN > FRANCISCO market will take place at midnight tomorrow > (2/1), with the beginning of the final phase of testing of > the station's new 50,000-watt signal. > > The PAPPAS-owned facility will be playing music from the > heyday of SAN FRA

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread CHARLES HUTTON
I'd check this out at Iriver. Their initial versions of the I-7xx and I-8xx didn't appear as normal flash drives to Windows and didn't directly use mp3 & wma files - they had a proprietary format. That has all been changed in the newer versions of their firmware which are downloadable from iRive

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-01-31 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Jan 31 2107 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 31 January follow. Solar flux 89 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 18. The mid-lat

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread Duane Whittingham
No, this was deff a third party firmware not made by them. Duane At 15:20 1/31/2007, you wrote: Duane, That's probably the upgrade which is at the Iriver US website. 73 Gil On 1/31/07, Duane Whittingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend told me theres a third party Universal mass storage

[IRCA] 40 years of Shortwave broadcasting DX-Podcast (Western Edition)

2007-01-31 Thread cafe
A special surprise and for a limited (very limited ) time only - an original recording of "The 40th Anniversary of Shortwave Broadcasting in Canada" - produced by Ian McFarland, originally aired on RCI way back in 1985 I believe. This recording will be up for a few days, so enjoy it while you c

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread Gil Stacy
Duane, That's probably the upgrade which is at the Iriver US website. 73 Gil On 1/31/07, Duane Whittingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend told me theres a third party Universal mass storage (UMS) > device firmware for irivers > that make it look like a drive and you dont need the 'specia

[IRCA] WMRO 1560khz and KRSN 1490khz DX Test Results

2007-01-31 Thread Les Rayburn
RESULTS OF WMRO 1560 & KRSN 1490 DX Tests WMRO 1560khz, Gallatin, TN General Manager Scott Bailey has done a lot for DX'ers this season. Despite having to deal with a major medical crisis in his own family, Bailey found time to run "inventory insert" DX tests overnight on WMRO's low power, and

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Hawkins
Cistern? The womenfolk of the clan are gonna come gunnin' fer ya! Charles A Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brethern/Cistern, Concerning the man Kevin Redding, I went to the Lord in prayer. No sooner than I had finished my prayer, than an angel appeared before me. Thus saith the angel

Re: [IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread The Kaskey Family
Not a very nice angel, I'd say. Our man Kev has to endure the 110 degree heat for 6-8 months a year, he needs a hug not castigation. der kashketfeller Charles A Taylor wrote: > Brethern/Cistern, > > Concerning the man Kevin Redding, I went to the Lord in prayer. > > No sooner than I had fini

[IRCA] Kevin's Double Ganger (ZAP!)

2007-01-31 Thread Charles A Taylor
Brethern/Cistern, Concerning the man Kevin Redding, I went to the Lord in prayer. No sooner than I had finished my prayer, than an angel appeared before me. Thus saith the angel: "Howdy, howdy, howdy Chollie. Because of thy great faith, I have come to provide thee with the answer to thy prayer

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread Duane Whittingham
A friend told me theres a third party Universal mass storage (UMS) device firmware for irivers that make it look like a drive and you dont need the 'special' software. I dont have detail but might search around. Duane WTND-LP 106.3 FM At 13:13 1/31/2007, you wrote: >Charlie, >The 795 comes wi

Re: [IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread Gil Stacy
Charlie, The 795 comes with proprietary software which I got used to. You can rename files, convert to WAV, MP3, etc. It gives you the option to update firmware, but that update converts to Windoz Media Play which is not as versatile as the Iriver. The T30 does not have the propietary software;

Re: [IRCA] Just had to do this.

2007-01-31 Thread Bob Young
Thank You Doug, I'm registering right now, Bob KB1OKL >From: "Doug Pifer-desert4wd.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of >America >To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of >America" >Subject: Re: [IRCA] Just had to do this. >Date: We

Re: [IRCA] Just had to do this.

2007-01-31 Thread Doug Pifer-desert4wd.com
Well Bob, I'm proud to say I'm the first one to look up your call letters on QRZ.com. 73- Doug KE6GMM - Original Message - From: "Bob Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:01 AM Subject: [IRCA] Just had to do this.

[IRCA] Bought an iRiver IFP-795T

2007-01-31 Thread Charles A Taylor
At 01:35 PM 1/30/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Charlie, >The IFP-795 is available refurbished for $63. You can typically find it >cheaper on Ebay, though. > >I have this model as a backup recorder, and I think it's one of the best >for DX recordings due to the line-in, flexible encoding rates, and t

[IRCA] Just had to do this.

2007-01-31 Thread Bob Young
Bob Young Millbury, Ma Various Boatanchors/2 400' LW's/Misek Phaser/ and new ham license, haha! KB1OKL ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list a

Re: [IRCA] Total Recorder Upgrade

2007-01-31 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Brett Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In TR, go to "Mixer" then Options -> Properties; on my setup for > Playback and Recording the Mixer Device is "Mixer through Total > Recorder" and it plays fine. > > My Master Volume and Wave mute boxes are not checked, but my Line In > mute is

[IRCA] NE Oregon TPs, Jan 31

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
With the high solar activity noted last night I was surprised to find strong hets on almost every channel from low MW to about 1400 kHz this morning, with several strong hets above that. I turned the radio on at 1443 utc, and had poor audio immediately, suggesting I should have waked up a little

[IRCA] TP reception 1-31-07

2007-01-31 Thread vroomski
TPs heard from 1029-1117 ut & 1503-1534 UT 1-31-07 657 Level 4 carrier 1525 ut 774 JOUB Japan in with weak signal at 1029 ut, fair signal by 1117 ut. 1053 Level 4 carrier at 1524 ut 1062 Level 5 carrier at 1523 ut 1134 China, weak

[IRCA] TP 31 Jan

2007-01-31 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
>\\ 1475 off at 1534UT, monster carrier cut a couple of minutes later. 1566 had a big carrier, but little audio; audio traces on 1593 and 1503. Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, B.C. Canada **

[IRCA] TP 31 Jan

2007-01-31 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
>\\ An interesting mix. 594 with woman in JJ, fair to poor, stronger than 774 at 1515UT. 1134, 1314, 1386 also with audio traces. Best audio by 1530UT was probably 1475; biggest signal I've heard from them. Woman talking with vocal mx. Will continue later, as this tip may make it before it

[IRCA] TPs for 1-31

2007-01-31 Thread Bill Block
It was a better morning than its been for TPs with carriers on 774, 828, 1548, 1557, 1566, 1575 and 1593. The carrier on 1566 was fair but the others were all weak no audio was heard.Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 _ Get co

Re: [IRCA] Total Recorder Upgrade

2007-01-31 Thread Brett Saylor
Russ Edmunds wrote: > --- Mike Hardester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I had Total Recorder installed, but aside from never working >> properly (or at all), it zapped all sound from the speakers. >> Uninstalled it, >> and the speakers work fine. Guess it was just too technical for this

Re: [IRCA] Total Recorder Upgrade

2007-01-31 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Mike Hardester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had Total Recorder installed, but aside from never working > properly (or at all), it zapped all sound from the speakers. > Uninstalled it, > and the speakers work fine. Guess it was just too technical for this > old > swabby. > > ***

[IRCA] WKSK 580 West Jefferson, NC DX ALERT

2007-01-31 Thread Radiofldude
They have powered up from their Night Power of 34 Watts to their Daytimer Power of 5000 Watts Earlier then usual/allowed. I'm assuming their sunrise time is about the same here in Abbeville, so they are at least an hour early. I called them up and the DJ admtited they "powered up" early due to

Re: [IRCA] IFP-795 too much 'tronix for just recording

2007-01-31 Thread Russ Johnson
Have you considered mini-disc? -- Original Message -- From: "Chuck Hutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:14:11 -0800 >Charlie: > >The problem is that any MP3 recorder with