Re: [IRCA] Solar Storm

2012-03-08 Thread bill kral
If there was a Solar storm tonight then any effect on skip has mostly worn off anything abnormal except for two notecable differences: 1. 540 is fairly quiet with one SS language station on top and no sign of the usual occupant CBK Sask. 2. 750 is not so quiet and has a rather low night powered

[IRCA] Newfoundland Ultralight Radio Trans-Atlantics Domestics Report Mar 6 - 7

2012-03-08 Thread Allen Willie
Hello To All, Here are a few logs from the past couple of evenings 621 - CANARY ISLANDS - R. Nacional Tenerife 23:23 UTC Mar 6 woman in Spanish 666 - PORTUGAL - Antena 1 , various 22:24 UTC Mar 6 talk music in Portugeuse // 720 675 - NETHERLANDS - R. Maria, Lopik 23:22 UTC Mar 6 Orchestral

Re: [IRCA] 1610 touchtone phone beeps?

2012-03-08 Thread Karl Zuk
Did you learn to play in Brasil? Karl Zuk N2KZ From: ibfredi...@gmail.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:03:19 -0500 Subject: [IRCA] 1610 touchtone phone beeps? The tone beeps I reported on 1610 a cpl of days ago turned out to be our local TIS, at the PA Welcome

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WSCR silent period confirmed

2012-03-08 Thread KH2AR
As Les, J.D. and others have requensted - will someone please pull all this Chicago-off-the-air-possible-DX-Test info together in one compreh ensive email? This is a great opportunity and it would be extremely beneficial to have something akin to a roadmap available. Thanks, Jim Pogue

[IRCA] NE Oregon Thursday DU

2012-03-08 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
Not as good this morning, though I didn't check as early as yesterday. Only DU heard and not as well as yesterday. 891 DU poor 1427 utc 1116 DU very poor/poor 1433 Steve NE Oregon R75 E/W longwire ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] IRCA Digest, Vol 95, Issue 20

2012-03-08 Thread Robbie j.
Hey all, was reading the march Mont. times mag and learned of a writer that was doing some HD AM DXing. He got 3 stations and wrote to them. Only got one reply. Wonder if anyone else has had this happen with HD DX?(WBZ was the replyer) Good dx to all, Robbie in south Wyoming

[IRCA] 1610 tones

2012-03-08 Thread Robbie j.
I hear the tones here on my local TIS as well. Just not with the beat that yours has. Wonder if its just that the tones were recorded in the loop as well and are being replayed with the audio.(but are a little hotter audio wise?) Just a thought, Robbie in Wyoming

Re: [IRCA] IRCA # 95--27 / 900

2012-03-08 Thread bill kral
 My email brought in IRCA list # 95 --27 as a split list with two lists of post titles: The first bunch of 5 titles is in the usual place at the top but below the 5th post there's another list of 9 titles of new posts. Is this visible in everyones' post list or only in mine. Please can anyone 

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2012-03-08 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 Mar 08 2105 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 March follow. Solar flux 140 and estimated planetary A-index 24. The

[IRCA] ULR DX..AURORA!!!! 3 NEW Stations to the SOUTH tonight!!..........

2012-03-08 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: I'm not sure what everyone else is hearing tonight..but conditions here seem to still be very Auroral!! 3 NEW Stations heard tonight at Sunset and just after Dark!! Lots of Strong Signals from the SOUTH including RELOGS of 1600 WAOS Austell, GA, 1550 WIGN Bristol. TENN, and 1370 WTAB

[IRCA] WWAM-820 on late killing WVSG

2012-03-08 Thread David Faulkner
Hi All: WWAM, 820, Jasper, TN must be on late w/gospel day power as they are killing WVSG here.  Nice ID by YL 2038 EST, mtn. hearing them 24 hours on the internet.  Apparently you can hear 'em 24 hours on the air, whether they're licensed for it or not. 73 David Faulkner, Albany, Ohio (near

[IRCA] Question for Chicago Area DXers

2012-03-08 Thread David Faulkner
Hi All: I've been trying to log WNVR, 1030 since I read they are staying on late.  Nothing for the last two nights, of course, but on Saturday, 3/3, had somebody under WBZ w/MOR-type mx in a foreign language.  The station was getting stronger as 8 p.m. approached, then, at 8:00:30, poof, they

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2012-03-08 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 Mar 09 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 March follow. Solar flux 140 and estimated planetary A-index 24. The

Re: [IRCA] WWAM-820 on late killing WVSG

2012-03-08 Thread DXERak
Thank you so much, David, for this posting! Following up on your message, I was able to log WWAM thanks to hearing an ad for a pizza place in Whitwell TN (Marion County, same as Jasper) whose address and phone number matched internet info. QRM was from WBAP but WWAM was in its null and

[IRCA] 1610 tones

2012-03-08 Thread Fred Schroyer
I don't know . . . the touchtones sound more like they are running unintentionally from some device, than recorded. They totally swamp the audio loop, to where it is barely intelligible. When I get a chance, I'll stop by the welcome center and ask . . . but the people there likely won't have a

Re: [IRCA] Solar Storm

2012-03-08 Thread Sylvain Naud
Le 2012-03-07 23:16, neilkaz a écrit : This must have disappated somewhat by now as is common except for very severe AU. Honestly last night on the south Double KAZ Antenna was better than this for LA's. Fun to have my almost alone dominant on 910 by R. Metropolitana from Havana, but it was

[IRCA] CKMO OC on 900 still there

2012-03-08 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Well it's Thursday night, and the whopping big OC on 900 from CKMO is still there (9:25 PM local/05:24 UTC 9 March). I had thought that the switch was to have been pulled today at the transmitter. The weather was gorgeous today, so shouldn't have posed any difficulty to get out to the island

Re: [IRCA] CKMO OC on 900 still there

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Martin
Walt, I would have thought so too. With rain coming in, it may be sometime until they throw the switch now. Hope they turn it off soon. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] www.auroasentry.com

2012-03-08 Thread Les Rayburn
The recent solar flares made me realize that I had forgotten to pass along a resource to my AM DX friends. There is a site frequently used by weak-signal VHF DX hounds, that may also prove useful for MW DX'ers. Please share this link, it's the site of Paul, N1BUG http://www.aurorasentry.com