Re: [IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread Jim Renfrew
There's an intersection about a quarter mile from my house where the car radio gets overwhelmed by a strong noise. Sounds like a fluorescent light next to the radio, both immersed in water, and it appears to be on all the time day and night. I don't notice it at home. I don't know if it's the

Re: [IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread Gerald Wolczanski
Jim, this noise has been plaguing me as well. I scrolled through the lower HF spectrum this morning and found strong, fairly wideband (10 +kHz) burbly QRN/QRM signals throughout the band from 2 - 7 MHz (didn't look higher, but I've seen signals on 20 and 15 meters as well). I find it loud on 4065

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2012-04-28 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 Apr 29 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 28 April follow. Solar flux 121 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The estim

Re: [IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread Jim Renfrew
Sounds exactly like the problem I used to have when I lived in Rochester, about one driveway's width from the neighbor on each side (2 apartments each), and also near a another house behind the first with two apartments. I could only DX sometime after eleven PM after the perpetrator went to bed.

Re: [IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread Alex P
Might be a heater or AC unit.  Maybe an alarm system.  Another member suggested a power supply for a pc, mac.  Also check out printers and scanners.  I can confirm that my HP deskjet and mac books and pc laptop PS's generate broadband hash in the HF range.   Your neighbor(s) may also have these.

Re: [IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread Craig Healy
I am having a terrible time here with interference that is ruining my listening/hamming experience and am hoping someone can offer some practical suggestions. Could the neighbors have a TV or new type of coffee maker running? My wife has a Mac laptop that makes an electrical racket when the

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2012-04-28 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 Apr 28 1805 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 April follow. Solar flux 118 and estimated planetary A-index 8. The estim

Re: [IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread Larry Fravel
Given the time frame involved and if you haven't added anything to your own environment that could generate noise I would almost bet that your upstairs neighbor has something that is generating the interference. What it could be I have no idea, but I do have an 8 port router I no longer use becaus

[IRCA] QRN problem - any ideas?

2012-04-28 Thread James Pogue
Dear friends and list members, I am having a terrible time here with interference that is ruining my listening/hamming experience and am hoping someone can offer some practical suggestions. Here's the situation. The interference - basically a continuous raspy sound - seems to come up at abo

[IRCA] DPR Korea buys transmitters from Chinese company

2012-04-28 Thread Dennis Vroom
  >From North Korea Tech news that DPR of Korea has purchased 4 shortwave >transmitters  20, 50,100, 150 kw, 1 TV 20 kw and 1 600 kw MW transmitter from a company in China.     The Koreans would not let the Chinese engineers into  the country to install the transmitters.   They sent their own e

[IRCA] DXPEDITION

2012-04-28 Thread Mark Durenberger
Today we leave for the Utah desert where we plan to gather specific information on signal performance, comparing a BOG of varying lengths to an elevated 1800-foot Beverage. We're using a pair of SDRs; looking both ways during the measurements. We'll also gather information on ground/counter-p

[IRCA] TP's for Saturday 04/28/2012

2012-04-28 Thread Dennis Vroom
Stations faded out shortly before local sunrise (1303 utc). 153     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1130-1139 fair signal with music and woman/man in Russian.  180     RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1140 better sounding signal than above station with same programming.  279      RUSSIA, Radio Rossii 1142 good sign

[IRCA] Newfoundland Logs April 28

2012-04-28 Thread Allen Willie
Hello To All, After much anticipation heading into spring and waiting for the weather to clear up , experimentation has finally begun with plans to eventually put up a more permanent 300 foot longwire configuration for my Kenwood R-5000 Last evening I strung out the antenna temporarily to see

Re: [IRCA] FW: 1000th station heard on ULR

2012-04-28 Thread John Cereghin
Hey, Richard, How's the air up there?  Great work!  Rob finally has some company! At the rate I'm going, I may join you in about 10 years!   From: "richa...@perryisp.net" To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:30 AM Subject: [IRCA] FW: 100

Re: [IRCA] FW: 1000th station heard on ULR

2012-04-28 Thread Tony Ward
A great achievement Richard. Hearty congratulations!!   Tony (VE3NO) NYAA Starfest tonyw...@rogers.com http://www.nyaa.ca Sent digitally from my Western Electric rotary Oh hang on, I got a new iPad didn't I! From: "richa...@perryisp.net" To: irca@hard-

Re: [IRCA] FW: 1000th station heard on ULR

2012-04-28 Thread Stephen Airy
Congratulations on #1000, Richard!  How many of those were barefoot? :) On a good day, I might be able to hear about 100 stations or so around midday from here on ultralights with a good enough antenna, but I have a LLLNG way to go to #1,000!  (Rob, there isn

Re: [IRCA] FW: 1000th station heard on ULR

2012-04-28 Thread Robert Ross
RichardCongratulations on Logging Station # 1000 on an ULR !! You worked very hard to accomplish this feat, and I'm sure everyone on the list joins in the celebrations!!! Keep up the good work.and we'll follow your journey to # 2000 as well!! Thanks for helping to Promote Ultrali