[IRCA] UNID 1710

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick Martin
1710UNID station fading up and down with a male speaker in what sounds like accented French. Another station was under it playing old Spanish ballads at 0435 EST 1/15. Any ideas? Off the Eastern beverage. Not too bad on peaks. (PM-OR) Drake R8 1500' Eastern beverage Patrick Martin KGED QSL

[IRCA] UNID 1710

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick Martin
No doubt about it is French, sounds like French you might hear from an African nation or maybe Haiti. Much like the Haitian TV station I get off satellite. Is this one of the NE pirates? If so, can a QSL be obtained? Except I am not sure if there is more than one on 1710. There is that old SS

[IRCA] French 1710

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick Martin
It is 0517 EST and the French station is still coming in. In checking on a list Bruce Conti back in Nov 08, cites R Soleil International moving from 1620 to 1710. This might be what I am hearing. It seems to be very professional broadcaster for a pirate. Taking telephone calls. Some music program

Re: [IRCA] French 1710

2009-01-15 Thread Craig Healy
It is 0517 EST and the French station is still coming in. In checking on a list Bruce Conti back in Nov 08, cites R Soleil International moving from 1620 to 1710. This might be what I am hearing. It seems to be very professional broadcaster for a pirate. Taking telephone calls. Some music

[IRCA] 1080 mystery solved

2009-01-15 Thread kj8o
Mystery solved!!! I got good copy on them this morning for about 10 minutes (7:40 - 7:50 am EST), and the minister that I thought was Billy Graham turned out to be John Hagee. I then went to the John Hagee Ministries website and sure enough, WWNL 1080 is listed for Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. 73

Re: [IRCA] ULR DX...My 2nd SONY SRF-T615 Arrived Today

2009-01-15 Thread HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS
Congrats on your new toy, Rob. Rob makes a good point - Bedside DX'ing can be fun and a good way to spend time on a sleepless night. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I grab a ULR. I know the various radios by touch and can DX without waking the wife or our son, Gizzie, the Dog. Gizzrad

[IRCA] ULR loggings 1/15

2009-01-15 Thread Brandon Jordan
Latest batch of ULR using barefoot Sony SRF-T615. Highlight is ULR Canadian Province #2 logged. Totals: 193 Stations, 27 States, 2 Prov, 3 countries - 660 WFAN, New York City, NY, 15 JAN 0228 - Sports Radio 66 WFAN ID, spots into Celtics vs. Nets NBA Basketball 740 CFZM, Toronto, ON,

[IRCA] Arizona TP's for 1-15-09

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Block
Listened from 1345-1425 utc and conditions were way down from yesterday with only a very weak carrier on 774. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 l

[IRCA] TP's for 01-15-09

2009-01-15 Thread vroomski
-- Good Morning: Listened from 1356 to 1457. MW TP's had to have 1 million watts to be heard in Salmon Creek, WA this morning. The Japanese stations were just weak carriers. 1566 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLAZ 1424 very weak audio. 1575 THAILAND, VOA 1422 faint audio at times. Weak

[IRCA] correction HLAZ 250 kw TP's for 01-15-09

2009-01-15 Thread vroomski
Forgot I heard HLAZ 1566, at 250 kw. -- Good Morning: Listened from 1356 to 1457. MW TP's had to have 1 million watts to be heard in Salmon Creek, WA this morning. The Japanese stations were just weak carriers. 1566 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLAZ 1424 very weak audio. 1575 THAILAND,

Re: [IRCA] correction HLAZ 250 kw TP's for 01-15-09

2009-01-15 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
Both VOA and HLAZ heard this morning, occasional very brief appearances. VOA playing popular vocal music 1520-1530 utc; man talking after that. HLAZ with man talking, poorer than VOA. Steve NE Oregon - Original Message - From: vroom...@comcast.net To: IRCA irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent:

Re: [IRCA] correction HLAZ 250 kw TP's for 01-15-09

2009-01-15 Thread Guy Atkins
Hi Dennis, The same lackluster results here. I listened on both sides of max dawn, and only found a weak 1566 HLAZ, and a trace of carrier from 1575 VOA Thailand. No sign of any life on the mid or low-band. Let's hurry that spring equinox along! Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA

Re: [IRCA] French 1710

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick Martin
Craig, I was wondering, but East Coast conditions were excellent last night. I should have jumped around a bit more. I have had 10 watt TIS stations from the East Coast like JFK on 1700 and VA on 1620 in the past. With no stations being on 1710, there is no QRM, so that Haitian lp job is

Re: [IRCA] TP's for 01-15-09

2009-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
At 15:01 1/15/2009, you wrote: -- Good Morning: Listened from 1356 to 1457. MW TP's had to have 1 million watts to be heard in Salmon Creek, WA this morning. The Japanese stations were just weak carriers. Again, thanks for writing much of my report for me, Dennis, though I couldn't

[IRCA] Station Heard on 1350 Khz.....WAS NOT WRWH Cleveland, TENN!!!

2009-01-15 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: Well...the Station I heard on 1350 khz. the other morning playing the Jeff Foxworthy CountdownWAS NOT WRWH as suspected. SoNow I have absolutely no idea who it was??? Below is an Email I got from the Gen. Mgr. of the station 73ROB. From the

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2009-01-15 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2009 Jan 16 0006 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 15 January follow. Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 7. The

[IRCA] WTOR-770 open carrier

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Brooker
If you have been noticing a weakened signal from WABC-770 in the greater Toronto area, southern Ontario, or western New York, it's because that little brokered-ethnic daytimer WTOR have been leaving their carrier on all night after their sign-off. It's been left on for the past week at least.

[IRCA] U.S. Marine Corps Field Antenna Hanbook

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Elbert New III
Posted on QRZ.COM and http://vu2sgw.blogspot.com/2009/01/free-antenna-handbook.htmlhttp://www.armymars.net/ArmyMARS/Antennas/Resources/usmc-antenna-hb.pdfBert New Watkinsville, Georgia Proudly Serving You Since 1964! _ Windows

[IRCA] XE-1700

2009-01-15 Thread Pete Taylor
I am curious as to the actual location of the XE on 1700 (XEPE? XEKTT?) serving San Diego. It is seemingly licensed to Tecate, but the map does not exactly show Tecate as a suburb of Tijuana. Southern Californians, can you enlighten me? Thanks. (This is sort of moot since the station is

Re: [IRCA] XE-1700

2009-01-15 Thread Dennis Gibson
Pete - XEPE is on 1700. Their towers are visible here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=enq=32.53778,+-116.98972+(XEPE-AM)om=1 73 - Original Message - Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:21:16 -0800 From: Pete Taylor p...@comcast.net Subject: [IRCA] XE-1700 To: NRC a...@nrcdxas.org, IRCA of

Re: [IRCA] XE-1700

2009-01-15 Thread Pete Taylor
Dennis, So they are directional, presumably northward? Do they ID as Tecate or Tijuana? Pete Taylor Tacoma, WA 12225w 4719n HQ180 + Kiwa air core loop ICF2010 + DX398; Palomar loop SRF-59 -M37V Eton E100 ___ IRCA mailing list

Re: [IRCA] XE-1700

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick Martin
Pete, According to Bill Lipis, their CE, 1700 is 10 KW ND 24/7. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this

Re: [IRCA] XE-1700

2009-01-15 Thread Dennis Gibson
The Google map shows two towers but I'm sure Bill is right. Maybe they built a second as a backup or perhaps they were once directional. There is a graveyarder not far from here (KVEN-1450) that was once directional. See: http://www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site-041119.html XEPE is very strong

[IRCA] Total Recorder - new upgrade to ver 7.1 - enhancements

2009-01-15 Thread Tom Jasinski
Just received notice from High Criteria that a new version (V7.1) of Standard Edition of Total Recorder has been released and is available for download. The announcment also mentions about a new feature of the PROFESSIONAL EDITION which is the abaility to do the following. An auto-stop