Re: [IRCA] OT Hal Fishman long time news anchor at KTLA 5 Los Angeles dies.

2007-08-07 Thread Doug Pifer
Sad news. A good fellow and also quite popular in the aviation world. I watched him while growing up, primarily on KTLA. Of the seven channels available from LA in the 60's and 70's, channel five was one of my favorites. 73- Doug On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > I wa

[IRCA] OT Hal Fishman long time news anchor at KTLA 5 Los Angeles dies.

2007-08-07 Thread Patrick Martin
I was saddened to hear today that long time KTLA 5 Los Angeles News anchor, Hal Fishman, passed away this morning of colon cancer. He was 75. He was doing the news until last Tuiesday. He was admitted to the hospital and the cancer was discovered on Friday and he passed today. I have been watchin

[IRCA] 738 Tahiti

2007-08-07 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
738 has a pretty big carrier right now in Victoria, with just hints of island music making itself heard in the splatter. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, B.C. Canada *

[IRCA] WTCR-1420

2007-08-07 Thread k4ape
1420WTCR WV KENOVA 2130 07/08/07 ".WTCR, AM 1420, KENOVA" THEN QSBed. HEARD COUNTRY MUSIC SONG BUT NOT SURE IF IT WAS FROM WTCR. [WM-TN] This is a new station for me. I was just montioring 1420 and they rose up out of the mud. DXer: Willis QTH: Old Fort, TN ANTENNA: 149'

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-08-07 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Aug 08 0012 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 August follow. Solar flux 69 and mid-latitude A-index 26. The mid-latitude K-ind

Re: [IRCA] OT Early Airborne TV experiments

2007-08-07 Thread Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW
Scott, I was wondering if anyone would remember and mention MPATI. I was going to mention it, and the airborne TV transmissions conducted by the U.S. Navy over Viet Nam, in my original message. But I cut it out at the last minute for brevity. I recall that MPATI was somehow connected to Purdue Univ

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] OT Early Airborne TV experiments

2007-08-07 Thread Scott Fybush
Stewart, Joseph R wrote: > Matter of fact, the article is up on their website for all to see, > including the photo of the plane: > > http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/august/oldies_and_oddities.php Let's see if they publish my letter to the editor pointing out that Stratovision didn't die

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-08-07 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Aug 07 1806 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 06 August follow. Solar flux 70 and mid-latitude A-index 14. The mid-latitude K-ind

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] OT Early Airborne TV experiments

2007-08-07 Thread Stewart, Joseph R
Matter of fact, the article is up on their website for all to see, including the photo of the plane: http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/august/oldies_and_oddities.php Randy Stewart Springfield MO -Original Message- From: Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] CKKW 1090 Kitchener,Ont.

2007-08-07 Thread Bill Harms
Chris, I have heard them here in the Baltimore area with WBAL phase nulled. WBAL is about 15 miles from here and packs huge signal in this direction at night, but they are nullable. In fact, I have identified six different stations on 1090 with WBAL on the air. Bill chris and anne wrote: > *I'

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] CKKW 1090 Kitchener,Ont.

2007-08-07 Thread Joe Miller, AB8YP
Chris, Nice catch! We have a local station on 1090, and occasionally I can null them and hear CKKW. 73 de Joe Miller, AB8YP, Troy, MI --- chris and anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been hearing an oldies station in and out of > the noise every nightnever could catch any ID > but sus

[IRCA] CKKW 1090 Kitchener,Ont.

2007-08-07 Thread chris and anne
I've been hearing an oldies station in and out of the noise every nightnever could catch any ID but suspected that it was CKKW.two nights ago , I heard them with the "Oldies 1090" ID followed by a PSA mentioning that it would be helpful to keep your dogs in the house, or tied up so tha

Re: [IRCA] Tps for 08/07/07

2007-08-07 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Listened between 1210 and 1245UT here, and a very mixed bag. There were many carriers, but most of them were at "hardly there" level. With the somewhat disturbed geomagnetic conditions, I expected mostly down under stations, but there a number of Asiatics, at least by bearing, including the

[IRCA] Tps for 08/07/07

2007-08-07 Thread vroomski
Good Morning, Listened from 1140-1306 ut. Conditions very poor until about 1220 ut. The few carriers that were heard earlier jump up about 2 levels at this time. Threshold audio on 1593 kHz China? A surprise was a carrier on 1602 at level 5, no splatter from KOHI. hi Upper MW band much better

[IRCA] 1500AM..mystery tone??

2007-08-07 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
My friend in the Greenville, SC area said he heard something very strong on 1500Khz Monday night. He said it was a constant, very loud tone.. and when tuned to 1500 it lit up the "tune" light on his radio. It, however, didn't interfered with his reception of 1490 WPCI also in Greenville. Any idea

Re: [IRCA] OT Early Airborne TV experiments

2007-08-07 Thread k4ape
Thanks Pat for that interesting walk down memory lane. I remember reading of that event back when I was kid in the early 50's. Can you remember the first international, live TV telecast? Can you give the 1. program 2. network 3. year 4. host of program 5. What two countries were involved? (No it

Re: [IRCA] 720 KFIR Sweet Home

2007-08-07 Thread Doug Pifer
On late tonight/this morning. ___ 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 necessarily reflect the o