Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 4-2

2014-04-03 Thread d1028gary
<<< It's interesting that just at about the time your signals in Puyallup were tanking Gary, some of mine in Victoria were just getting wound up. >>> Well, the "southern planet" seems to have once again gotten the short end of the stick, Nick. If someone ever kept track of the daily TP re

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 4-2

2014-04-03 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Heh Gary, keeping track of the ionospheric gods is simply a new age religion. Utterly legitimate, and not to be questioned by those less enlightened. And, lest it be thought that this is more than usually off the deep end, I was told recently of a lady much into new age things who monitors

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] KMXA 1090 CO on day power again

2014-04-03 Thread Earl Higgins
Some evenings the signal performs even better than KOA down here in St. Louis Missouri, even moreso given KAAY's pitiful signal. Definitely not night power (500w) or pattern (west). Those out East needing Colorado, take note.   Earl Higgins - “Resentment is like drinking poison

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 4-3

2014-04-03 Thread d1028gary
Hello All, <<< Heh Gary, keeping track of the ionospheric gods is simply a new age religion. Utterly legitimate, and not to be questioned by those less enlightened. >>> Well, Nick, apparently the "new age religion" is wearing a little thin in April-- and may need to wait until arou

[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 28-April 3, 2014

2014-04-03 Thread Glenn Hauser
These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individua

[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 28-April 3, 2014

2014-04-03 Thread Glenn Hauser
All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT`]. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; or Sony SRF-59 as specified; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E/W longwire as specified These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UH

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2014-04-03 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2014 Apr 03 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 02 April follow. Solar flux 155 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The estim

[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on April 3

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Portzer
Asians were down noticeably today, but a few of the Alaskans did quite well. GOOD 670KDLG, tentative, BBC news good atop KBOI 1310 780 KNOM, guitar music, "KNOM in Nome, it's 5 o'clock" at 1300, into ABC news o/KKOH 850KICY, 1151 man in Russian way atop KHHO/KOA, gradually weakened, b

[IRCA] 22-year-old recaptures the spirit of radio, circa 1960

2014-04-03 Thread Rick Dau
Wanna take a trip back in time to what radio sounded like 54 years ago? One 22-year-old student at the Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha is doing just that... http://www.omaha.com/article/20140402/NEWS/140409742/1101 Hope you will find this article as fascinating a read as I did.73,Rick DauSo

[IRCA] TP 3 Apr. Victoria version

2014-04-03 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
This morning was definitely a further step downward into the April doldrums. It was odd to have 1323 as one of the few audios however. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 1566 HLAZ. Man in JJ 1331UT Reasonable audio at times durin