Re: [IRCA] KPDQ mp3

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Jernakoff
Here is Dennis Vroomski's KPDQ recording that was referenced in his recent IBOC interference post: http://www.21centimeter.com/21centimeter/Recordings/KPDQ-800-Noise-Hash_Received-From-Dennis-Vroomski_9-30-07.mp3 Said recording was obtained at 2132 PDT on 29-Sep-07 and reveals KPDQ (800 khz.; Po

[IRCA] Early this AM 9/31/07

2007-09-30 Thread chris and anne
At 1:40 AM EDST, I heard CKOC, fading o/u others with male voice ID and oldies while lying in bed with insomnia (too much caffeine)on the Sony Walkman!! Hamilton, Ontario # 3 from this QTH...73, Chris K2FO Taylors, S.C. ___ IRCA mailing

Re: [IRCA] KPDQ mp3 sent

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Dennis, Good for you! Let us know if you get a reply! Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list ar

Re: [IRCA] WWWT 1500 was Re: KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Bill, I wish Bonneville would turn off the IBOC on 1160! 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing

Re: [IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Kevin, Most of the real issues are with the 50 KWer as far as the IBOC hash goes. I still get the hash with the 5 KWers, but not as much. I hear the IBOC hash on 1240 & 1260 from KWSU 1250 also. KKPZ-1330 is not much of an issue, as well as KDZR-1640. I can notice it, but not a biggie. KGO, KSL,

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-09-30 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Oct 01 0003 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 30 September follow. Solar flux 65 and mid-latitude A-index 13. The mid-latitude K-

Re: [IRCA] KPDQ mp3 sent

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Jernakoff
>>Dennis, you have my curiosity up. Is it possible >>to send along the clip to the list if it is not >>too big? Or send it to me and I'll post it on my website. -Pete Jernakoff- DuPont Titanium Technologies Wilmington, Delaware 302.999.3845 302.999.2474 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] This communicati

[IRCA] New Edition of the IRCA Mexican Log

2007-09-30 Thread Phil Bytheway
IRCA Mexican Log, 12th Edition (Winter 2007) The IRCA MEXICAN LOG lists all AM stations in Mexico by frequency, including call letters, state, city, day/night power, slogans, schedule in UTC/GMT, formats, networks and notes. The call letter index gives call, frequency, city and state. The city ind

Re: [IRCA] New MW QSLs

2007-09-30 Thread Brett Saylor
The original owner of those QSLs was Edward Urban of Cleveland Heights, Ohio @1937-1938. Ring a bell to anyone? Brett Saylor Central PA On 9/30/07, Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good job on the new QSLs Patrick! > > BTW someone has a large number of AM QSLs fro

Re: [IRCA] KPDQ mp3 sent

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Harms
Dennis, you have my curiosity up. Is it possible to send along the clip to the list if it is not too big? Good Job! Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Good Evening, > > Sent off a Mp3 clip to Dennis Hayes General manager and Don Perkins > Chief Engineer of KPDQ 800 Portland, OR. Being only 18

[IRCA] KPDQ mp3 sent

2007-09-30 Thread vroomski
Good Evening, Sent off a Mp3 clip to Dennis Hayes General manager and Don Perkins Chief Engineer of KPDQ 800 Portland, OR. Being only 18 miles from their antenna and KPDQ's signal was S-9+20db the reception was fine except for the hash. Dennis, Vancouver, WA __

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Powell E. Way III W4OPW
--- Patrick Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis, > > Yes, Salem needs to be contacted on that. They may > or may not know. Their engineer is a PROFESSIONAL. I am sure they DO know, no matter what they tell you. Powell POP email is powell at backroads DOT net

[IRCA] WWWT 1500 was Re: KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Harms
WTOP/WTWP now WWWT 1500 had terrible audio while it was running IBOC in the daytime. My kid's said it sounded like cicadas, it was a combination hiss and whine, and was very annoying. Anyway, they turned it off and they sound much better. I have to wonder why a station would turn IBOC on if

Re: [IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread satya
Hi Patrick: KKPZ on 1330 out of Portland was as bad as it's ever been last night, clouding 1320/1340 and itself having very poor analog audio. Are they toying around with their transmitter I wonder?? It must have been even worse down in your area. KPDQ was also quite hashed out up here due to K

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-09-30 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Sep 30 1808 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 29 September follow. Solar flux 68 and mid-latitude A-index 26. The mid-latitude K-

Re: [IRCA] New MW QSLs

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW
Good job on the new QSLs Patrick! BTW someone has a large number of AM QSLs from the 1930s for sale on e-Bay right now. I believe the seller is in FL. The listings on several of them say they were discovered in an estate. They aren't listed as AM QSLs. Most are listed by the station call letters.

Re: [IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Colin, KGO was IBOC last night. At least when I tuned by a few times. But I don't remember what time it was for sure. I did not notice any from KFBK though. KSL had theirs on as usual as well as KEX. Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA maili

Re: [IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread cafe
> Bill, > > That is right K P D Q (Pretty Darn Quick). Been those calls as long > as I have been DXing. Was a 1 KW daytimer for many years. Then got 500 > watts at night some years back. Been rel as long as I can remember too. > I wonder how KGO will respond now that "jamming" is legal accord

Re: [IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Bill, That is right K P D Q (Pretty Darn Quick). Been those calls as long as I have been DXing. Was a 1 KW daytimer for many years. Then got 500 watts at night some years back. Been rel as long as I can remember too. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager

[IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread vroomski
-- Bill, Thanks for the correction on the KPDQ call letters. I'm very bad at call letters. Will change the call letters to KPDQ in my log book. Will send off the recording today. Dennis, Vancouver, WA ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com h

[IRCA] KDPQ or KPDQ

2007-09-30 Thread bill kral
Which is the correct call for 800 in Portland? Is it KDPQ or KPDQ? Some of the posts from Oregon seem to be undecided on what is the correct call for this station.The Frequency Page says it is KPDQ so to cancel the confusion lets try to be a bit more accurate and Pretty Darn Quick(PDQ),Sorry guys,-

Re: [IRCA] a listen link for XEDM

2007-09-30 Thread Glenn Hauser
Well, Hermosillo (note spelling) is there in alphabetical order with all the other cities under Sonora: http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/listsono.htm Says XEDM is now ``Radio Inteligente``, that audio is available 8 am to 2 pm only; but if you go to the audio page http://www.radiointeligente.info/ it n

[IRCA] Sept 30 AM: Recovery Underway

2007-09-30 Thread John H. Bryant
Big change from yesterday AM when the few audios were DU and low band only. This morning, things were about 2/3 normal, with JJs dominating the scene. The pre-dawn (before 1400) was poor, but the dawn boost seemed especially strong. I had 42 channels with at least some audio. The best reception

Re: [IRCA] a listen link for x e d m?

2007-09-30 Thread John Callarman
Fred Cantú does very well on his updates for most of the states in México, but for Sonora, Coahuila, Baja California Sur particularly, he is weaker. There is, unfortunately, no single authoritative source that I have found that doesn't have areas where it is weak. I've tried to encourage more we

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Dennis, Yes, Salem needs to be contacted on that. They may or may not know. Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages o

Re: [IRCA] TP's for 9-30 nice recovery

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
A very southern morning with the A&K elevated, except for some JJs, everything else here was Aussie, and a couple frequencies of interest were 639 at 1340, with traces of a Filipino dialect (not Tagalog), but a dialect of some kind. I did not hear an EE words, but it was so weak it was hard to tell

[IRCA] TP's for 9-30 nice recovery

2007-09-30 Thread cafe
Tuned in at about 1340 and things started to hop. Significantly improved reception on the TP with some bonus DU: Fair good audio on 567(JJ), 585(RR), 594(JJ), 612(EE), 747(JJ),774(JJ), 828(JJ), 972(KK), 1287(JJ) Poor - fair audio in splash - 639, 702(sounded EE), 756, 765, 963 Threshold audio b

[IRCA] TP's for 09-30-07

2007-09-30 Thread vroomski
Good Morning: Listened from 1230-1407 ut Was not expecting much with conditions unsettled. Japanese and Asian stations in near dawn. No Du's heard. 279 Russia, 1231 fair with piano music. 594Japan, JOAK 1344 fair with woman in Japanese. 648 Russia, 1347

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Harms
Hi Paul, I have known for a long time that radio locator is not the best source. That being the case, then what is a better source? What would you or someone else suggest people use? Bill Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: > Radio-locator maps arent necessarily true and correct when it comes > to

[IRCA] TP's for 9-30

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Block
Good morning Listened from 1240-1325 UT and it was very poor for TP's with carriers on 594, 693, 747 and 774. The only audio was from Japan on 747 and 774 at 1313 UT. The audio was very poor and did not last very long. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 EWE (20x50x20)

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread vroomski
Hi Bill, I plan on sending a note or e-mail with the 60 second clip attached. The coverage map on radio locator shows my location (Salmon Creek) to be in the red circle for local coverage. KDPQ's signal was S-9+20 db, but hash can be heard with the signal. A regular listener would probably

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Radio-locator maps arent necessarily true and correct when it comes to NIF Contour. What radio-locator.com shows and whatI've had done by Peter Monecure show something slightly different, so don't take radio-locator for gospel. Radio locator says my station should put a listenable signal over the

Re: [IRCA] DX loggings; WRCY-1590, WDAB-1580

2007-09-30 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
About what time of day did you hear WDAB? And are you SURE you heard "WDAB Greenville Spartanburg" and not WDAB Travelers Rest? Just asking, I know the Engineer. Paul On 9/29/07, David Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1590WRCYIN Mt. Vernon poor-fair in much QRM w/cw & TOH I

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Harms
Dennis, it looks like you are well within KPDQ's NIF contour. http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KPDQ&service=AM&status=L&hours=N that being the case, KPDQ would have a legitimate complaint against KGO. Have you sent a note to KPDQ? Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Good Evening: > >

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Gary, I wonder if the CE at Salem in Seattle knows about the 820 hash? I mentioned it to him in the report. It will be interesting to hear what happens, if anything. Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Dennis, I sent a reception report to KDOW 1680 Seattle and mentioned to the CE that the KGO hash does cover KPDQ 800 & KGNW 820 at night here. With KPDQ's 500w, they probably don't cover much of the Portland area at night at all. Salem should make a complaint. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT R

Re: [IRCA] Hash covers local KDPQ 800

2007-09-30 Thread D1028Gary
Dennis and Others, KGO hash on 820 makes semi-local KGNW difficult to hear even in Puyallup, about 25 miles away. At night, KDPQ-800 is hopelessly buried under KGO's hash, but KDPQ does put in a weak carrier on daytime ground wave, before sunset brings in the hash from California.

[IRCA] a listen link for x e d m?

2007-09-30 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I was just up on the Fred Cantu site, and despite the fact that the Sonora page is a hodge podge, I couldn't readily find any references to the city of hermocillo, but I did find x e d m, and they are calling themselves noticias dm, and I wonder if they are 24 hours, and if there is a liste