Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Building a "state of the art" MW DX station

2012-01-03 Thread Mauno Ritola
Hi Les, Re: SDR-IQ vs. Perseus: you can compare them online, I have both connected here in easternmost Finland always to same antenna, usually 400 m Bev beamed to East Asia. See: http://sdrspace.com and http://microtelecom.it/map/PerseusServers.html . You need to install the respective softwar

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Building a "state of the art" MW DX station

2012-01-03 Thread Russ Edmunds
And this is why I have resisted SDR's. I can manage a couple of frequencies on overnight TOH recordings - although I run :58 - :07 as I find enough ID's coming out of news between "04 and "07 to be worth the effort. During FM Es season last summer I was running six radios/tuners simultaneously f

Re: [IRCA] Thank God for Radio

2012-01-03 Thread texas4421
Don- You would be correct! It was less than 30 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was January 1942. Only ole folks would have gotten that one correct. :) Willis Willis, Inre your Rose Bowl question. Without resorting to Google I recall somewhere back at the start of WW II, 41

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Building a "state of the art" MW DX station

2012-01-03 Thread Craig Healy
Understood. I'm thinking of investing in some DX Engineering "Receive Feedline Current Chokes" DXE-RFCC-1 which retail for $64.95 each. I'm hoping this will eliminate any common-mode noise along the feedline. Plan is to place one near the antenna, and another near the receiver. There have been

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 940 mystery

2012-01-03 Thread Earl Higgins
Wouldn't that be The Box Tops' "The Letter" (1967)? Or did Joe Cocker cover it? Around here that format would fit (roughly) KVSH-NE and not much else, though that seems unlikely in your case (but still a possibility maybe?) Another possibility is that the Montréal transmitter is on and testing,

Re: [IRCA] 940 mystery

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Swearingen
From: Niel Wolfish To: IRCAIRCAList ; AM Sent: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 4:23 pm Subject: [IRCA] 940 mystery Had somebody this afternoon playing oldies "Land of 1000 Dances", The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and Joe Cocker's "The Letter" around 4:25 p.m. fighting it out with WKGM Smithfield VA.

Re: [IRCA] 940 mystery

2012-01-03 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
KVSH is mainly country during the week and Sunday They carry a Nebraska statewide talk show till 9pm, then do music till 10 and sign off at 10pm. KVSH does do "Saturday Night At The Oldies" from 6 to 10pm sign-off when there are no sports conflicts. Their Saturday Night At The Oldies can span 40 y

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 3 Jan 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Things were improved today over what they have been, at least on the lower frequencies. Heard Japan with audio on 594 (today's best), 693, 774, and 828. None were overly strong, but certainly JOAK on 594 was 100% understandable, had I known Japanese. Nothing but a few carriers on the top e

[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, December 27, 2011-January 3, 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Glenn Hauser
All times and dates strictly UT. MW log editors are welcome to excerpt items, reformat and change to favorite timezone if necessary. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; some caradio as specified; above 2 MHz on FRG-7 with 110-foot east-west longwire. These logs are excerpts from my da

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 940 mystery

2012-01-03 Thread Niel Wolfish
T'was definitely Joe Cocker and not Alex Chilton singing.     KVSH would be nice, as that is one that I'd like to finally hear before Montreal returns to ruin the frequency.   But I think it would have been too early for Nebraska anyway.   Sounds like it was indeed WGRP as they have changed form

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 940 mystery

2012-01-03 Thread Rick Dau
As Paul W. mentioned, KVSH signs off nightly at 2300 ELT, and they still include the SSB (as they did last night, when they were coming in well under KPSZ).  Outside of KFAB and KRVN, that's probably the best bet for Nebraska for eastern DXers these days.   73, Rick Dau South Omaha, Nebraska

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2012-01-03 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 Jan 03 2105 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 03 January follow. Solar flux 135 and estimated planetary A-index 6. The est

[IRCA] 1490 KLZN on the air?

2012-01-03 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
I've been asked by someone not on IRCA to ask if anyone (probably in California) knows if 1490 KLZN in Susanville, CA is currently on the air. Thanks. Steve NE Oregon ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2012-01-03 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 Jan 04 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 03 January follow. Solar flux 135 and estimated planetary A-index 6. The est

[IRCA] WEMM-1200

2012-01-03 Thread David Faulkner
Hi All: This morning I noted the former (apparently) WNBL, 1200, Huntington, WV, running a continuous loop identifying the station as WEMM and saying they would begin carrying gospel music on Friday at noon.  So no more "Better life radio," and oldies/MOYL-type format.  I suspect they'll sound

Re: [IRCA] WEMM-1200

2012-01-03 Thread Todd
Hi David, Will they be the same owners as well? Thanks, Todd Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone David Faulkner wrote: >Hi All: > >This morning I noted the former (apparently) WNBL, 1200, Huntington, WV, >running a continuous loop identifying the station as WEMM and saying they >would begin

[IRCA] WTCR 1420 WV

2012-01-03 Thread DXERak
WTCR 1420 Kenova WV is doing quite well into Madison WI tonight. I suspect someone left the daytime switch (5kW ND) on in place of their 500w directional night facilities. I can never remember hearing this station at a time other than SSS. Format is FSR sports talk (currently "Fox Sports

[IRCA] Signing on from Kona, Hawaii - Day 1

2012-01-03 Thread cafe
In my possession, a Debock modified Tecsun PL-380 and a stock Grundig G3 (and an FT-60r 2M for the ham radio stuff) A bright light! It is actually electrically quiet this visit. There has obviously been a lot of work done at the condo since the last time I was here - new pool deck, perhaps new

Re: [IRCA] Signing on from Kona, Hawaii - Day 1

2012-01-03 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Happy New Year to you, Colin! I'll be looking forward to those reports. I remember how bad the noise was for you last year. Something I have found depending on which hotel/condo you happen to be in. You can have terrible noise, while the place down the street can be super quiet. I found a lot

[IRCA] TP's for Tuesday Evening 01/03/12

2012-01-03 Thread Dennis Vroom
5 Russia long-waves heard this evening.  A few weak carriers on MW, but nowhere near audio. 153     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 607-0613 fair with woman in Russian. 180     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 0615 weak signal with woman in Russian. 189     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 0619 poor signal. 234     RUSSIA, Radio