[IRCA] KONA - Hawaii - TPs for early 25 Nov 2010

2011-01-25 Thread Colin Newell
0815 UTC - UNID 1593Khz - Island music - very Marshall Islands sounding... faded out some within 5 minutes seemed to be in an island lang - patter between a DJ and a caller. Receiver - Tecsun DeBock modified DSP portable. Colin Newell is the editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com, DXer.ca and

Re: [IRCA] KONA - Hawaii - TPs for early 25 Nov 2010

2011-01-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Colin, that would be interesting. According to the October PAL, V6AK may be possibly silent. They've been heard often in the past, but not sure more recently. Another alternative would also be Radio Samoa from Auckland, but don't know whether they're in darkness yet...Walt On Tue, Jan 25,

Re: [IRCA] Nice logging of KGA

2011-01-25 Thread Mike Sanburn
Nice catch on KGA !!! 'Looks like you're at about midway point between them and WLAC I'd love to log the latter here in So Cal.) ms Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:01:28 -0800 From: drummer1965...@yahoo.com To: a...@nrcdxas.org; irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [IRCA] Nice

[IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
additional stuff...but it's fading fast now...603 w/talk, poor; only other low band was 774 w/ s/off chimes. 1332 had fair to good JJ talk, 1467 murky talk, 1494 murky mx, 1503 poor to fair w/JJ talk, 1521 caught the final few notes of NHK2 chimes mixing with mx from who knows where, 1575 of

Re: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
1566 only TP with audio here, 1522 utc. 1725 GA PNG beacon and 1737 KUT PNG beacon, both 1519 utc. Steve NE Oregon - Original Message - From: Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:52 AM Subject: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band

Re: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Darn, missed the peak, I'm sure (got a bit of a cold). At 16:05 1566 and 1593 are in at good level, and plenty more carriers. On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org wrote: additional stuff...but it's fading fast now...603 w/talk, poor; only other low band was 774 w/

Re: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
For some reason, my first post of 10 minutes before didn't make itAt that point: 1314 perfectly listenable with some some oriental singing...1566 fine CC talk. 1593 knocking down the walls, over NHK2 signing off at 1542UTyikes. (I'm sure that the post will turn up eventually, long

[IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
1314 perfectly listenable with some some oriental singing...1566 fine CC talk. 1593 knocking down the walls, over NHK2 signing off at 1542UTyikes. best wishes,\ Nick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2011-01-25 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2011 Jan 25 2105 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 January follow. Solar flux 81 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 5. The

[IRCA] ULR DX.........Nothing New @ SUNSET.....But a UNID on 1520 ...Any Ideas?????

2011-01-25 Thread Robert S.Ross VA3SW
Hi Guys: The band was pretty useless tonight at SUNSET and I was almost ready to give up and go for supper when I found something interesting on 1520 Khz. In WWKB, Buffalo's , Null, I was hearing a Station oriented south playing Urban Contemporary/RB Music. Then it appeared to be playing

Re: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Colin Newell
I was up at 5:45AM Kona time. Simply not the case here -- Lots of hets and weak audio -- nothing standing out as in earlier sessions this month. Fascinating. On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:42:52 + Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org wrote: 1314 perfectly listenable with some some oriental

[IRCA] Radio Netherlands Worldwide Bonaire Shortwave Relay To Close

2011-01-25 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
From The Media Network Blog: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/rnw-bonaire-relay-station-will-close-in-october-2012 An excerpt from the blog: Radio Netherlands Worldwide has made the decision to close its Bonaire shortwave station in October 2012. and We anticipate that by the end of 2012, the

Re: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Hmmm, wasn't the case here in southern Alberta either. The lower band Japanese were better than they've been for several days, but nothing exciting on the upper part of the dial. Must have been a Victoria phenomenon! 73, Nigel Colin Newell wrote: I was up at 5:45AM Kona time. Simply

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2011-01-25 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2011 Jan 26 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 January follow. Solar flux 81 and mid-latitude A-index 5. The

Re: [IRCA] hot times on the upper band right now

2011-01-25 Thread Colin Newell
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:08:57 + Walter Salmaniw can...@gmail.com wrote: Darn, missed the peak, I'm sure (got a bit of a cold). At 16:05 1566 and 1593 are in at good level, and plenty more carriers. 22 days into my Hawaii vacation I have a mild sun burn -- seriously, I have not had an sun