[IRCA] more NE Oregon TA

MW has improved a little; audio on 1089 in EE; 1323 non-EE talk; 1377 female talk non-EE, all poor to weak on brief fadeups. 171 Morocco came up again to weak level on peaks. All 0500-0530 utc. Steve NE Oregon ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx

Re: [IRCA] Good audio on 1215

At 08:53 PM 10/8/2008, you wrote: >My strongest carrier/threshold audio is on 864. Also I was getting what >sounded like pop music on 909. Carriers on 1017, 999, 1134, 1215. If it >wasn't for the loud pop music on CFPR 860, I may get something out on >864. But CFPR is S9+30 DB! I will keep trying.

[IRCA] NE Oregon TA's, Wednesday night

Tuning in late after checking email, am getting good LWBC on 171 Morocco with Arabic music and some talk. Relatively decent reception, normally only 189 Iceland is heard so well and sometimes 162 France. 6.5-7 level on peaks, was better at 0412 when I first tuned in; much weaker now, 0430 utc. A

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-6

> Now that's being an optimist, Guy! I like that. Then again, I never feel > bad about going to deliver a baby, even when the DX is hot! ..Walt. What Walt is not telling us is that he often encourages the new mothers to name their baby: -Hiram or -Maxim or -Percy or -Guglielmo... fair

[IRCA] Oct 6-7 TP DX on the Floden car radio

> my Sony SW car radio has a switch underneath (I have not tried to find it > yet) that the documentation simply says, "select 9 or 10kHz spacing before > installation". If the switch is easy to reach, is there a general rule > about when to throw it? Should power be disconnected, or the radio si

Re: [IRCA] Good audio on 1215

> Good audio on 1215 Absolute Radio at 03:21 UTC here in Victoria. Haven't > checked anywhere else yet...Walt. > PS: Well it was goodnow faded down at 03:21! > Eek. I have been in our building helping a neighbor with a Windows XP re-build. It went well. Very well. Get this. This fel

[IRCA] 828 kHz decent carrier

-- Good Evening, A real nice carrier on 828, close to threshold audio at times. KPAM 860 knocks out 864 with their S-9+50 db signal, and thats with the NE ewe off it's side. Maybe a few mumbling words from 1017, no audio from the others. Dennis, Salmon Creek, WA __

Re: [IRCA] Oct 6-7 TP DX on the car radio

my Sony SW car radio has a switch underneath (I have not tried to find it yet) that the documentation simply says, "select 9 or 10kHz spacing before installation". If the switch is easy to reach, is there a general rule about when to throw it? Should power be disconnected, or the radio simply tur

Re: [IRCA] Good audio on 1215

My strongest carrier/threshold audio is on 864. Also I was getting what sounded like pop music on 909. Carriers on 1017, 999, 1134, 1215. If it wasn't for the loud pop music on CFPR 860, I may get something out on 864. But CFPR is S9+30 DB! I will keep trying. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QS

Re: [IRCA] KNAK-540

Er, side note.. I can't type very well.. Sorry folks. Paul On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've dropped a note to KNAK's Owner and he assures me their engineer will > be out at the transmitter site ASAP to investigate what happened! > > Paul Wa

Re: [IRCA] Oct 6-7 TP DX on the car radio

You might check the car's owner's manual to see what it says about the radio. That's how I discovered I could reprogram the radio in my 2002 Saab 9-5 - the owner's manual explains how to switch between European and North American channel spacing (I guess they don't sell cars in the rest of th

Re: [IRCA] Good audio on 1215

I noted some decent carriers before I had to go out earlier this evening, but when I got back things hadn't developed very much. Croatia on 1134 has been easily the best here, with decent audio at times, but none of the others have done much. 1215 has bits of audio now and again, but only f

[IRCA] TPs on the car radio - Day 3

Once Again, I tried some TP DX while driving to work this morning at about 1340-1405. As was the case yesterday, I had the car radio programmed for 9 kHz spacing. This time I heard English lessons on JOIB-747 easily poking through the KXL-750 splatter. Hets were noted on 594 603 648 657 693

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-6

At 10:42 AM 10/7/2008, you wrote: >Walt, don't think of another baby delivery as an interruption... think of it >as possibly bringing a future DXer into the world! > >73, > >Guy Now that's being an optimist, Guy! I like that. Then again, I never feel bad about going to deliver a baby, even when

Re: [IRCA] KNAK-540

I've dropped a note to KNAK's Owner and he assures me their engineer will be out at the transmitter site ASAP to investigate what happened! Paul Walker P.S. As a aide note, I've known the current owner of KNAK since i was 12, back when he worked for a now defunct talk network. He also is General

Re: [IRCA] Good audio on 1215

You guys are doing as least as well as I am in Barrington IL tonite for TA's which honestly aren't impressive here. CX toward the NW were strong post sunset here. I had things in SK blasting in prior to KOA coming in decently. KOMO 1000 was noted in passing u/local WMVP so I phased them and had

[IRCA] Good audio on 1215

Good audio on 1215 Absolute Radio at 03:21 UTC here in Victoria. Haven't checked anywhere else yet...Walt. PS: Well it was goodnow faded down at 03:21! ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/

[IRCA] Threshold TA audio on 1017 kHz

-- Good Evening, Started listening for TA's at 0305 utc. Have some threshold audio on 1017. Noticed that Bruce Portzer heard the same station at 0305 on 9/30. Level 5 carrier on 1107-1134 4 carrier on 1215-1377 Dennis, Salmon Creek, WA JRC NRD 545 Ewe NE & U shape 150' fence antenn

Re: [IRCA] Eton E100 IF Filter Modification Service Available

As the person who will be doing the filter and external antenna mods on the E100, it may save a lot of emails to me if I state the costs in advance. The filter mod is $53 for the filter, $50 for labor, plus shipping costs back to you. The external antenna mod for the stock loopstick is $15 total

[IRCA] Beacons

Dunno if this is any predictor for conditions later, but the LW beacon band is really hot this evening. I'm hearing some beacons I normally don't. Oddly, no European LW broadcasters. Just some very weak traces on the SDR display. Craig Healy Providence, RI _

[IRCA] Eton E100 IF Filter Modification Service Available

Hello Guys, Several requests have been received by DXers eager to have their Eton E100 Ultralight radios modified with the outstanding Murata CFJ455K5 IF filter (the same narrow filter used in the Eton E1 portable). The replacement of the stock 455 kHz filter with this premium cerami

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2008 Oct 09 0001 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 October follow. Solar flux 68 and mid-latitude A-index 1. The mid-latitud

Re: [IRCA] KYES TV Anchorage AK OT

Thanks for NOT reading my original post Your answer doesn't have any logic in regards to what I wrote. Thanks again Willis It is competition. People will tune out if the station is not on the air. The same reason 99% of stations are 24/7 today. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL M

Re: [IRCA] Oct 6-7 TP DX on the car radio

Interesting. Just today we had a Cape DX lunch, 4 of us, and we were talking about how Saudi Arabia-1521 audio frequently overrides strong WWKB-1520 Buffalo on our car radios. Of couse the het is outrageous! I've had the same thing happen with Denmark-1062 and a few others while driving home

[IRCA] Grayland: Day Two: Wednesday Oct. 8

This morning seemed almost as good as yesterday morning, with audio on most every channel for the last two hours before dawn. Some of the channels were at murmur-level, or one notch up at language recognition level, only. However, even a number of these latter yielded to slight up-ticks which a

Re: [IRCA] KNAK-540

And for anyone wondering, KNAK runs Conservative Christian talk programming from Accent Radio which can be found at www.accentradio.com KNAK's website is http://www.knakradio.com/ Both ARN and KNAK stream. (KNAK is owned by the network) Paul On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Pete Taylor <[EMAIL

Re: [IRCA] Reporting QTH

--- On Wed, 10/8/08, John Cereghin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This has always been a problem with me. When I moved from > Elkton, Maryland to Smyrna, DE in 1998 (about 30 miles as > the crow flies), I carried my logbook from living in > Maryland for 30 years with me to Delaware, thinking that

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2008 Oct 08 1806 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 October follow. Solar flux 67 and mid-latitude A-index 2. The mid-latitud

Re: [IRCA] TP's for 10-08-08

Colin, Being 200 km North of me, you should do better thn I do. The real improvement was when I installed the WNW EWE. Now I have pointed more to the NW, it is better. The signals are there. A person needs an antena to pick them up, that's all. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager

[IRCA] KNAK-540

This was tearing up CBK on the way home last night around 9:30PDT. Good ID at home at 10PM using the Kiwa & HQ-180 since it is about 90 degrees off of CBK. They do go through occasional kilowatt kapers so if you need them, look for them again tonight. Pete Taylor Tacoma, WA 12225w 4719n HQ

Re: [IRCA] TP's for 10-08-08

> KBBI-890 was very good as well as KFQD-750, KDLG-670, KYUK-640. > Looked for Juneau on 1330, but too much loud rock much from KGRG. Patrick was good enough to send me a list of Top Alaskan and Hawaiian stations and I am determined to hear something from there this season - I figure if I can hea

[IRCA] Cuba on 530 - soundbyte

> Nada on 530 from Puyallup, Colin, other than a couple TIS stations. I have > the rotating ALA100 oriented NW-SE, but have no hint of Spanish on the > frequency. Listening with the Eton E1 right now at 0525 UTC. Here it is - http://tinyurl.com/Cuba-on-530Khz Includes what I think is a station ID

[IRCA] TPs for 8Oct08 from Victoria: long-wave sample

Radio Rossi on 279khz at 1400 UTC - http://tinyurl.com/russia-on-279khz -- Colin Newell - Editor - coffeecrew.com | coffee.bc.ca | DXer.ca Web-Design / E-Commerce / Writing Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.co

Re: [IRCA] Reporting QTH

This has always been a problem with me. When I moved from Elkton, Maryland to Smyrna, DE in 1998 (about 30 miles as the crow flies), I carried my logbook from living in Maryland for 30 years with me to Delaware, thinking that 30 miles isn't that far to have to start a fresh logbook. My "DX Zon

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 8Oct08 from Victoria: Average Asian

> A lackluster morningpurely Asian. Nothing DU heard today. Nothing super > strong. Mostly a JJ morning from top to bottom. Hope John's doing better on > the coast! ...Walt. > Agreed -- that said, I had one of the best signals from Russia on 279khz and I will upload the mp3 shortly

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 8 Oct 2008

Given the good solar indices this morning was certainly a disappointment. Lackluster, the word Walt used, was certainly a good description. Virtually all signals were down on yesterday. Unlike Walt's experience, it was about an even split here between TPs and DUs. On the TP side only the big J

Re: [IRCA] Reporting QTH

Bill, Yes, it is up to the person on what aspect's of the hobby you enjoy. For a time I DXed the Tropical Bands often when MW was poor. I still do on rare occasions. Then back in the 70s, I was heavily into FM & TV DX. I still DX that, but rarely. I knew of one DXer that would travel around and he

Re: [IRCA] KYES TV Anchorage AK OT

Willis, It is competition. People will tune out if the station is not on the air. The same reason 99% of stations are 24/7 today. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/

[IRCA] NE Oregon TPs, Wednesday

Some nice JJ reception this morning though seemed a little down from past couple of days. 594, 774, 828, 891 with presumed-JJ reception, weak to medium, 1400-1405 utc; 1575 VOA Thailand weak 1405 utc, lasting until fadeout around 1415 utc. LWBC Radio Rossii better today at the early check, 1225

[IRCA] TP's for 10-08-08

Greetings, I woke up early enough this morning to catch the opening. From 1230-1430. An "OK" morning. The usual JJ big guns were strong with JOUB-774 at S9+30 DB off the NW EWE. JOIB-747 & JOAK-594 were also strong. The highlight's this morning included Thailand-891 fair and 864 // at 1405 UTC,

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-8

Hello Guys, Another excellent morning, but perhaps a shade off of yesterday's outstanding level. JOQC-531 barely came up to an audio level enough to be received through booming 530- Tacoma TIS QRM, and was ID'ed on the modified E100 only through the 594 NHK1 parallel. Other frequenc

[IRCA] TPs for 8Oct08 from Victoria: Average Asian

A lackluster morningpurely Asian. Nothing DU heard today. Nothing super strong. Mostly a JJ morning from top to bottom. Hope John's doing better on the coast! ...Walt. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.c

[IRCA] New TP for E100

-- Good Morning: One new TP this morning for the modified E100. 558Japan, JOCR 1258 utc fair with woman in Japanese. Dennis, Salmon Creek, WA E100 NW Ewe Palstar Tuner ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mail

[IRCA] TP's for 10-08-08

-- Good Morning: Listened from 1201-1355 utc. Good for a while, conditions dropped around 1350 utc. 153 Russia, 1201 very weak for a few minutes then vanished. Nice steady S-6 signal at 1253. 180 Russia, 1210 weak-fair with woman in Russian. 189 Russia, 1211 same packag

Re: [IRCA] Reporting QTH

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not being that familiar with Washington State geography, I > would say to > consider the ARRL awards policy in that locations can be a > maximum of 50 > miles apart from each other. If Orcas Island and Grayland > are 50 air

Re: [IRCA] KYES TV Anchorage AK OT

I just heard watching the Anchorage news that TV station KYES Anchorage has filed for Chapter 11. The reason, is they only get 12 hours a day of Network programming and they have to buy the othe 12 hours and cannot afford it. They will stay on the air, but are looking at a bailout. So our econom

Re: [IRCA] Reporting QTH

Pat, I suppose it depends on how you look at it. I have rediscovered the hobby of taping air-checks. Recording clear reception of a weak local station including a local ID is quite fun. I enjoy going back to the recordings and listening to what they broadcast. I enjoy traveling to different p

Re: [IRCA] Cuba on 530

Huge signal on 530 right now - 0520 UTC on the Drake R8 -- Colin- You would be correct. Cuba is always booming in here on 530Kc. At 0430 they 25db over S-9. Willis Old Fort, TN ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.