Re: [IRCA] 4BC Brisbane uploaded to DXer.ca

2009-11-15 Thread cafe
Some photos of the Hawaii set-up http://www.dxer.ca/photo-gallery?func=viewcategory&catid=6 -- .. Colin Newell - Editor - CoffeeCrew DOT Com --- Victoria, British Columbia - Blog - Coffee DOT BC DOT CA DXer

[IRCA] Drift net DX (SDR-IQ) update from northern Delaware

2009-11-15 Thread Peter Jernakoff
Drift net DX (SDR-IQ) update from northern Delaware: 08-Nov-09 // 1802 local // 540 khz. // WGTH // 1 kw day, 0.097 kw night // Richlands, Virginia // Male with weather report: "Right now it's 54 degrees at WGTH." Into female with "WGTH, AM and FM..." // New. A 378 mile catch. MP3 clip available

[IRCA] 4BC Brisbane uploaded to DXer.ca

2009-11-15 Thread cafe
Station ID from this very common Aussie in Hawaii - http://www.dxer.ca/file-area/doc_details/273-111bris -- .. Colin Newell - Editor - CoffeeCrew DOT Com --- Victoria, British Columbia - Blog - Coffee DOT BC D

[IRCA] TA ho hum

2009-11-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
> Given the K's and the solar wind velocity, it's not surprising that TA's are down. The surprise is how many carriers there are (including a pair bookending my local on 900kHz), and that there's poor but definite audio on 855 fairly consistently around 0330UT. Have also heard traces of aud

[IRCA] Kona TA/TP/DU for 16th November - Skype anyone

2009-11-15 Thread cafe
Yes I did have an actual carrier on 1575khz 20 minutes prior to sunset. Long gone now -- will look for others. If anyone wants to show up after 0850UTC via Skype (userid - coffee_experts) I can treat anyone to TP/DU audio via the computer connection live. Just a thought. Meantime - must ferret

[IRCA] A new one

2009-11-15 Thread Jim Renfrew
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY NOV 15 2200 EST1450WATZMIAlpenaID at top of hour "WATZ Alpena", in the mess, NEW. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in mes

[IRCA] Alberta TAs

2009-11-15 Thread Nigel Pimblett
After a slow start this evening conditions seem to have picked up with TA audio noted on 531, 855, 675, 864, 981, 1134, 1575.   864 is Armenia rather than France, and 855 appears to be Romania.  981 sounded Arabic, but is Algeria not gone from there?   Good to the east also as Montreal was comin

[IRCA] TAs on the West Coast tonight

2009-11-15 Thread satya
Hi all: Not bad TA conditions once again. 675 (Radio Maria) , 693 (BBC 5) and 1134 (Croatia) are all in with recognizable audio, and there are a few other channels that seem to have promise, including 747 and 1017. Kevin S Bainbridge Island, WA 9x10 Slinky Super Loop, R75 ___

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2009-11-15 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2009 Nov 16 0001 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 15 November follow. Solar flux 75 and mid-latitude A-index 5. The mid-latitu

Re: [IRCA] Re AOR 7030+

2009-11-15 Thread Chuck Hutton
Hi Saul - You're making me wish I was there for the fun. Visons of Newfoundland are dancing in my head. As for the Afghan, best of luck. I'm hoping you guys will also try Pakistan on 1152. I had someone signing on at 0200 last year and hoped it was Pakistan but couldn't pull enough aud

[IRCA] Re AOR 7030+

2009-11-15 Thread Chernos Saul
Thank you to all who helped re AOR 7030+ query. I have inputted UTC and memoried the 9-Khz band as needed here. I won't be able to download the manual, which one of you kindly sent, at least while I am stuck with dial-up here. But it is still appreciated because I'd be really stupid to forget t

[IRCA] Nfld Digest

2009-11-15 Thread Chernos Saul
In Nfld, Jean Burnell and Saul Chernos have Afghanistan 1296 best ever for either of us ... really solid. Lots of Libyans, but also good north into UK, also Sankt Petersburg on 1188, 612 Maroc. Didn't clue in till tonight that Algeria 891 is off, perhaps for good (story there???) - Portugal

[IRCA] Kona TP/DU November 15 - details

2009-11-15 Thread cafe
UTC - FREQ -- STATION -- Details = 0926 - 1116 - AUS-Brisbane - EE Talk and several great IDs recorded - will post later on dxer.ca 0933 - 1008 - NHK Osaka - Bg signal with JJ chatter 0938 - 1179 - MBS Osaka - " " " " " huge 0939 - 1197 - CC Unid 0940 - 1242 - N

Re: [IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

2009-11-15 Thread cafe
> But the big one was, around 1515, who the heck was on 594 I had > no other channel with presumed NHK1 on it in audio and what I had on > 594 was NOT Japanese. It was also not standard Chinese and it was not > Korean. further, it had a distinct ECHO. My best guess would be > Taiwan, ther

[IRCA] Early TA

2009-11-15 Thread Jim Renfrew
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY - NOV 15 1616 EST1053UKTalkSportunusual to get this so early, and with IBOC in the way, too. 1618 EST1394+ALBANIATWR - with audio 1624 EST909UK 1625 EST819Het 1627 EST1215UK presumed with music on channel 1628 EST157

[IRCA] Kona TP/DU November 15

2009-11-15 Thread cafe
Full report coming -- I listening from 0930 to about 1015 UTC before I went to bed... and it was chock-a-block up and down the dial with JJ, Russian, Aussie, KK, CC and some Island stuff. Doing things a little differently -- not really referring to any guides directly (WRTH, PAL, etc) just liste

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2009-11-15 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2009 Nov 15 1806 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 14 November follow. Solar flux 75 and mid-latitude A-index 6. The mid-latitu

Re: [IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

2009-11-15 Thread D1028Gary
Hi John, It's nice to see somebody else interested in the late-season shenanigans on 594 kHz, and I'd be very interested to hear your MP3 from this morning (around 1515). Because of the Korean-language station mystery recently I spent a lot of time on the 594 frequency, making multiple MP

Re: [IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Portzer
John You did better than I this morning. See below. Bruce John H. Bryant wrote: In truth, by body count standards, it was a poor morning... About half the "normal" number in audio, high and low and generally, the audio was poor. On the other hand, there were some real interesting things.

[IRCA] TP DX this morning

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce Portzer
This morning was a bit better than yesterday, though not by much. It's pretty clear that the season is past its peak, and we can now move on to things like Christmas shopping. Most of the action was in the 700s and 800s. The bottom of the band was stangely dead today, and the stuff above 900

Re: [IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

2009-11-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
At 16:43 11/15/2009, you wrote: >In truth, by body count standards, it was a poor morning... About half the >"normal" number in audio, high and low and generally, the audio was poor. On >the other hand, there were some real interesting things. > This was my morning to sleep in, which sounds wise

Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 15 Nov 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Patrick Martin
Nigel, Congrats on DZRV 846. Good catch. Used to be fairly common back in the 90s on the coast, but I have not heard it in sometime. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.c

Re: [IRCA] "TP" stands for Totally Pathetic in NW Washington - 15 Nov 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Patrick Martin
Even though I did not get up this morning, I was up until about 0900 last night and even JOUB 774 was rather poor here on the coast. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.co

[IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

2009-11-15 Thread John H. Bryant
In truth, by body count standards, it was a poor morning... About half the "normal" number in audio, high and low and generally, the audio was poor. On the other hand, there were some real interesting things. 639 CNR1 was walking tall most of my 1440-1525 morning 828: a bit after 1500, it was

[IRCA] "TP" stands for Totally Pathetic in NW Washington - 15 Nov 2009

2009-11-15 Thread satya
I'm glad it wasn't just me - conditions this morning were almost spooky they were so poor. I thought I heard a little audio on 594 from Japan, but that was from a very weak het. I lucked out yesterday and slept in on a below-average morning, but I should have stayed in bed this morning as well. K

[IRCA] Arizona TPs for 11-15-09

2009-11-15 Thread Bill Block
Listened from 1330-1410 ut and conditions was very poor with no audio and only very weak carriers on 594 and 774. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com htt

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 15 Nov 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Nigel Pimblett
TPs??  What TPs??   Is the antenna connected?? This rated as likely the worst morning in a couple of months, with zero audio from TPs.  (Well, maybe a word or two on 1575, but that was it)   Even the big Japanese were merely rather feeble carriers. The good news is that my unID on 846 from yest