Re: [IRCA] South Pacific DXing Demonstration Video-- 531-PI in Auckland, NZ

2014-07-22 Thread Mark Durenberger
I probably would have wanted to swing out a D-Kaz...and then you might have had Oregon’s Highway Patrol suddenly interested :-)) Regards, Mark Durenberger From: d1028g...@aol.com Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 9:40 PM To: ma...@durenberger.com ; irca@hard-core-dx.com Subject: Re: [IRCA]

Re: [IRCA] South Pacific DXing Demonstration Video-- 531-PI in Auckland, NZ

2014-07-22 Thread Bill Whitacre
That IS a great demo video Gary. And great loggings too, as usual. If it’s July on the northwest coast radio guys are out doing crazy things to hear DU DX! I went by Rockworks 4 yesterday and once you saw it, Mark, you would NOT want to attempt a DKAZ! Even those who do not suffer from

Re: [IRCA] South Pacific DXing Demonstration Video-- 531-PI in Auckland, NZ

2014-07-22 Thread Guy Atkins
Hi Gary, That's a wonderful demo video you made from the Rockworks cliff! I didn't realize you were now using one of your stock ICF-2010 receivers for DX spotting, rather than the hotrodded one with multiple 7.5 Amidon ferrite rods linked together. With any luck I'll have a few sunrise sessions

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2014-07-22 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2014 Jul 22 1805 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 21 July follow. Solar flux 90 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The

Re: [IRCA] South Pacific DXing Demonstration Video-- 531-PI in Auckland, NZ

2014-07-22 Thread Gary DeBock via IRCA
---BeginMessage--- Hi Nick, Thanks very much for your comments on the 531-PI demonstration video. Of course , I had a fairly good idea that the 5 kW Kiwi station would cooperate for the video-- since it had just thundered onto the Cliff with the strongest DU signal that I had ever heard

Re: [IRCA] South Pacific DXing Demonstration Video-- 531-PI in Auckland, NZ

2014-07-22 Thread Gary DeBock via IRCA
---BeginMessage--- Hi Guy, Thanks for your comments on the 531-PI demo video! I didn't realize you were now using one of your stock ICF-2010 receivers for DX spotting, rather than the hotrodded one with multiple 7.5 Amidon ferrite rods linked together. Actually my original

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2014-07-22 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2014 Jul 23 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 22 July follow. Solar flux 93 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The

[IRCA] TP 22 July Victoria version

2014-07-22 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
I don't think it was much of a morning, but given that I usually record with the west Flag, and inadvertently left the radio on the north Flag, I couldn't say for sure. At least I heard the best signal so far this season on 1566, with a woman and a man in CC at 1135UT, fairly readable if one