Re: [IRCA] WOYK 1350 and KQLO 1590 contact info

2009-11-13 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Apparently, I was slightly wrong. The station is operating at 500 W and isn't signing off at sunset or dropping to 67 Watts of power at dark. Paul Walker On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Mika Makelainen m...@makelainen.comwrote: Scott, many thanks! This is exactly what I needed. Paul, thanks

[IRCA] Arizona TPs for 11-13-09

2009-11-13 Thread Bill Block
Listened from 1320-1405 ut and conditions was down from yesterday. All audio and carriers were on the bottom part of the band and all of it was weak. 279 Russia very poor at 1345 ut with talk. 594 JOAK very poor at 1350 ut. 774 JOUB poor at 1355 ut. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 13 Nov 2009

2009-11-13 Thread Nigel Pimblett
TPs here were slightly better than yesterday. All the big Japanese were in, with 567 doing unusually well, second only to 774. Also Korea on 972 //1134, and a few minutes of CRI on 1521 and the Japanese on 1413. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta

[IRCA] NW Washington TPs for 13 Nov 2009

2009-11-13 Thread satya
Hi all: Conditions seemed decent here on the Slinky Super Loop, with numerous hets throughout the morning. Audios noted: 279 1449, not bad RR Radio Rossii; local noise precluded finding // freqs 549 1437, Echoing male newscaster, presumed RR Radio Mayak 594 Various, NHK1 Tokyo (JOAK): came

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 11-13... Improving

2009-11-13 Thread D1028Gary
Hello All, The sunrise TP propagation was definitely improved from yesterday, and there was audio on several frequencies that are usually not productive. The UnID Chinese (male) was back on 684 kHz with his talk monolog at 1441, and he seemed to be quite animated until 1445, when 670-KBOI

[IRCA] TP for 13 Nov from Victoria, BC

2009-11-13 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Listened again for about an hour from 1405 UT, today, and although there were lots of signals, there was lots of domestic splatter as well, so DXing wasn't particularly productive. Any sunrise enhancement seemed mostly due to a minor drop off in that splatter, followed by fairly quick decay

[IRCA] Another Good TP Morning: Orcas Island

2009-11-13 Thread John H. Bryant
It was another quite good TP morning, with 85 to 90% of the lower band in audio at some point and close to half of the upper band. For a change, there was a REAL dawn boost from 1440 until LSR at 1530. In truth, it was pretty poor from 1420 tune-in until the boost started, then things were

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2009-11-13 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2009 Nov 13 1806 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 12 November follow. Solar flux 73 and mid-latitude A-index 0. The

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 1394.86

2009-11-13 Thread Bill Whitacre
Check out 1179 Jim. I just had a good signal on Sweden about 15 minutes ago. 'Normal' winter conditions are going to be hard to get used to ... if they ever come. --- On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Jim Renfrew wrote: Jim Renfrew, Holley NY 1630 EST2139z1394.86ALBANIATWR -

[IRCA] 1394.86

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Renfrew
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY 1630 EST2139z1394.86ALBANIATWR - nice TWR Interval Signal heard at this time in that jumbo het. Audio on 1134, 909, 837 and maybe 702 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] Tecsun PL-380 AM Heterodynes (or lack thereof)

2009-11-13 Thread D1028Gary
Hello All, There have been several questions regarding the new Tecsun PL-380's susceptibility to internally-generated AM-band heterodynes, a quirk affecting of all the S/L 4734 DSP chip radios (PL-300WT/G8, D92L, D96L and PL-310) manufactured so far. Although a full review

Re: [IRCA] Another Good TP Morning: Orcas Island

2009-11-13 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
At 18:04 11/13/2009, you wrote: It was another quite good TP morning, .ouchwish it had made it over herenot much enhancement (though my notes DO say 1440 start of boost?, just didn't feel it went anywhere much; lots of audio but lots of splatter as well.). BIG NOTE: FOR ABOUT A

[IRCA] Farda Big Sig on Orcas @0042

2009-11-13 Thread John H. Bryant
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2009-11-13 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2009 Nov 14 0001 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 13 November follow. Solar flux 74 and mid-latitude A-index 1. The

[IRCA] Another day at the TP dials

2009-11-13 Thread Bruce Portzer
This morning was different from yesterday, but not necessarily better or worse. Just different. There was more domestic splash than normal, which masked audio from some otherwise good signals. Here's what I captured in the SDR files today: Really good audio, easily understood by a native

[IRCA] West Coast TAs

2009-11-13 Thread satya
Hi all: Croatia-1134 and Radio Farda-1575 are in with verifiable audio so far, 1215 is close, and a few other decent hets are showing promise. Kevin S Bainbridge Island, WA ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] Kona TP for 13 Nov 09

2009-11-13 Thread cafe
Just did a quickie scan at 1600UTC this morning - Talking 5 minutes. Slightly down conditions from yesterday -- Mostly China, some Korean and a bit of Aussie Had to be up early for a day trip to Waimea (which was fabulous...) Will put in a good evening tonight - TP dxing comes in 2 flavors

[IRCA] TA to LW TP

2009-11-13 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
0548UT, R. Rossii is already making an appearance on 234, maybe a bit of audio also on 279. Haven't had much time to TA DX tonight; although there seemed to be plenty of carriers, I've noted infrequent audio only on 855, 1134, and 1215 so far. Then 963 came up just before 0600, to dive into

[IRCA] Absolute R. 1215 into MN 0600 UTC

2009-11-13 Thread George Sherman
So good I could understand 3 words in a row! This one has to come thru WOAI IBOC. I think several others from W Europe now in. 73, George S., MN ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

[IRCA] Daytimer KAGY-1501 Port Sulphur, LA on Now

2009-11-13 Thread J.D. Stephens
For the 2nd night in a row, I'm getting daytimer KAGY-1510 from Port Sulphur, Louisiana. On now w/ classic Country music at 0320 UTC (9:20 PM CST), easily heard underneath WLAC 73, J.D. Stephens Hampton Cove, AL j...@bellsouth.net (Primary) jdstephens...@yahoo.com (Alternate)

Re: [IRCA] TA to LW TP

2009-11-13 Thread cafe
Back in the 'day' as in 1976, TA's on the West Coast were treated like nectar... It was a big deal - Nick and I both heard our first TA's ever from Victoria on the same night... Breathless phone calls were exchanged... notes were compared the next day... It was revolutionary. Now it is routine.

[IRCA] Earky morning TAs

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Renfrew
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY Just woke up at 0130 EST and thought I'd scan for TAs Audio being heard on 972 NDR, 909 UK, 558 Spain, and 531 Faroes ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions

[IRCA] Report from Tauranga, New Zealand

2009-11-13 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Haven't checked in for a few days, mostly because we've been doing a lot of touring and there hasn't been a lot of time for DXing. In Wellington, I had a wonderful day with David Ricquish who kindly spent half of his day taking me around this wonderful city and showing me all of the radio

[IRCA] Decent TA night in NW Washington 13 Nov 2009

2009-11-13 Thread satya
Hi all: Pretty good propagation into the house here tonight, competing with the washing machine, computers and other noise makers. At one point or another most channels had some sort of het. Identified stations tonight: 693 - UK: good signal from BBC 5 talking about UK matters at 0354 UTC 855