Wow! 15 years ago. I remember logging them just after they signed on. I
think KDIA CA was second, if I remember correctly.
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager
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Happy birthday X-Band!! I never got a real logging of 1660 in New Jersey here
but their tell-tale carrier was very audible with it's odd fading pattern. I
remember the No Cal station was originally KXBT on 1630 before it became KDIA
on 1640.Miami Springs FL on 1700 was an easy catch here
Here in my apartment with horrible electrical noise, dx has been almost
nonexistent this season. How I have several questions regarding the x-band
stations.What are the most recent u.s. stations to come on the air?
Whatever happened to the proposed stations in Farmington NM, and
I logged KUSA/1660 on March 28, 1995. They were doing some form of
experimental broadcasting with/for/at a NAB show in Las Vegas, and were on
the air for some period of time. They're long gone now.
Mike Hawkins
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Steve Francis amdxm...@aol.com wrote:
15 years
Hello To All,
An interesting Saturday evening to say the least, with the likes of certain
stations audible throughout the early evening which are normally early morning
visitors, one could feel “something in or rather on the air” was about to
occur.
First sign of this was WYLL in Chicago
No audio made it this far from across the Pacific this morning. A carrier was
heard on 774 at 1200-1204 UTC, but not afterward. The strongest signal was the
het on 828 at 1258-1315.
I hope everything was better further west.
Richard Allen
36°22'51N / 97°26'35W
(near Perry OK USA)
Noted last night ... putting the crunch once again on 690. WLW's IBOC was
off for at least 2-3 weeks, and I was wondering if this was permanent.
Obviously not. I wonder what happened.
Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON
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Listened from 1325-1405 utc and conditions was down a little from yesterday.
All audio and carriers were on the bottom part of the band. JOUB-774 was at
the best level this year with a S-9 signal at times and 100% copy and Russia on
279 was also very good.
279 Russia very good at 1337 utc
Hi Richard,
Asians were a little better here, but not by much. The big guns on 594,
648, 657, 747, 828, 972 and 1134 had fair-to-good audio, but most of the
second-tier TP's were missing in action.
657-Pyongyang again had its high-frequency audio missing (maybe that's
not such a bad
Others seem to have fared better than me this morning. Here in
Alberta it was one of those are my antennas connected type of
mornings. The only Asian audio was of the barely perceptible type from
Japan on 774. That, along with weak audio from Australia on 891 summed
up today's TP action.
I remember the No Cal station was originally KXBT on 1630 before it
became KDIA on 1640
I had forgotten that, even though I do have both freqs QSL'd. A lot of
years have passed.
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
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My expanded band story points out how capable the MW band can be, if
only there wasn't any interference between us and the target station...
1620 was a clear channel prior to expanded band assignments, and
there was a period where a station from Argentina was creeping
through, even in
Great opportunities for this side of the pond for difficult states such as AL
MS. Sadly nothing from DE which is still a gap on my USA map after 40 odd years
hi!
Barry :-)
--- On Sun, 14/11/10, Patrick Martin mwd...@webtv.net wrote:
From: Patrick Martin mwd...@webtv.net
Subject: Re:
KXBT started on 1640 (logged here on 3/11/1995), switched to 1630 (logged
here on 4/1/1996), then back to 1640 again. Miami Springs was never easy
here, but in 1997, they were my first new Florida station since 1971.
Mike Hawkins
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Mike Sanburn
Well It looks like it's official now, the 2011 IRCA convention will be held in
Colorado Springs CO Thursday June 23 through Sunday 26 checkout. Our hotel
location is Airport Value Inn Suites, 6875 Space Village Avenue, Colorado
Springs CO 80915. (View online at www.airportvalueinn.com )
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:Issued: 2010 Nov 14 2105 UTC
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 14 November follow.
Solar flux 86 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 6.
The
Hello All,
Asian TP signals dropped off significantly here this morning
(compared to yesterday), in agreement with the lackluster results reported by
Richard and Nigel. Here on the west coast a few big gun TP's managed fair to
good audio, however, as it was survival of the fittest
Hello Everyone,
Due to the windy and colder conditions today I was unable to complete all 3 DX
sessions over the weekend as planned up at Ladie's Lookout near Signal Hill,
Newfoundland. However, Friday and Saturday evening offered better weather
conditions and 2 sessions were completed with
Another interesting factoid about the xband is a short-lived
station called k-truck. This was a station that was operated by the US
military somewhere in Maryland. K-truck was a test of a transmitter that
was built by the government to conduct psychological warfare in Bosnia.
Before
WGR-550 has been quite dominant in the Providence area recently. There have
also been reports of it being heard in other places where it is not common.
Can anyone in the upstate NY area or to the west check to see if there is
actually a pattern change? I've noticed no signal drop any time at
Craig Healy wrote:
WGR-550 has been quite dominant in the Providence area recently. There
have also been reports of it being heard in other places where it is not
common. Can anyone in the upstate NY area or to the west check to see if
there is actually a pattern change? I've noticed no
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 14 November follow.
Solar flux 86 and mid-latitude A-index 8.
The
Cleaning out the shack before winter, and I've culled out some duplicate
books for sale:
I have a couple of copies of the latest edition (2010-2011) Radio
Book. This is the descendant of the old M Street Radio Directory, a
fat 800-page volume listing all the radio stations in the US and (most
All in all, though, the dreams many of us had for the X-band failed to
materialize. Based on what I'd read about band conditions in past
decades, I was halfway anticipating that if there were, say, three
stations on a frequency, each with 1kw, they'd be constantly fading in
and out with each
At Burnt River ON, I've been able to get the usual nulls for WKRC Cinci and
the Vermont station, for the past four or five evenings/overnights.
Saul
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Yes indeed, time marches on. It is hard to believe I have been at the
dials nearly 49 years either. Gee that is 85% of my life as a DXer
Patrick
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Gee, so many memories I forgotten about. I remember K-Truck. That was
another great catch.
Patrick
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Mike... et al,
I'm already looking forward to the IRCA Convention next year.
Hope to see a lot of folks there.
The Springs is once of my favorite cities... glad that Bob is there now to
host a convention!!!
Phil Bytheway
IRCA Bookstore
Seattle WA
Drake R-7 / KIWA Loop
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A mediocre showing this morning of big guns only, with even the venerable 594
JOAK showing uncharacteristic weakness (bested by JOBB 828). LWBC poor as it's
been in a couple weeks. No Alaska noted.
The following times sampled this morning: 1259Z, 1359Z, 1445Z, 1459Z for
1-2 minutes each
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