Re: [IRCA] PEI DXpedition

2014-11-08 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Sorry fellas, but being on the around South America cruise didn't allow my presence this year. I'm Looking forward to attending in future years. What I've done on the ship was to collect a number of SDR IQ wav files, which might be of some interest later. I Did have a look at your off channel

Re: [IRCA] 930 KHJ off

2014-11-08 Thread Mike Sanburn
Wow that's kind of rare. I'm wondering if the sports is WKY Oklahoma City since they are no longer SS? They were country when I logged way back in 1990. I heard Granby CO that night as well. KSEI is not uncommon here in SoCal. I have yet to log KAFF at this location. Hope KHJ has silent periods

[IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX Report 11/8/14

2014-11-08 Thread richa...@perryisp.net
A barely audible to poor signal from 774 JOUB between 1143 and 1248. No other signals heard although there was a trace of one 693 kHz at 1253-1258. At least it beat the silence of the past several days. Receivers: Tecsun PL-310 7.5-inch loop-stick couple with 8-inch FSL. Good DX. Richard

Re: [IRCA] 930 KHJ off

2014-11-08 Thread Forrest Skaine
WKY is still SS when I tuned by it last night. Sincerely, Todd Skaine Woodbury, MN Sony ICF 2010 Superradio 2 Grundig S350 M400 Toyota car radio On Nov 8, 2014 5:28 AM, Mike Sanburn mikesanb...@hotmail.com wrote: Wow that's kind of rare. I'm wondering if the sports is WKY Oklahoma City since

Re: [IRCA] Impromptu Grayland Visit

2014-11-08 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Perseus has a 50 ohm input Mark, while a long wire, especially for NDB frequencies is high impedance.Some sort of matching transformer and likely a separate ground rod for the antenna side would probably help. I can post a diagram later today if that doesn't already tell you everything

Re: [IRCA] PEI DXpedition

2014-11-08 Thread Theo
Didn't the gang on Yahoo's Real DX group conclude that the 700 offset was likely Red Radio Integridad in San Miguel/Lima in Peru? Theo On 08/11/2014 02:09, Walter Salmaniw wrote: Sorry fellas, but being on the around South America cruise didn't allow my presence this year. I'm Looking

[IRCA] Grayland, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-8 (Preliminary)

2014-11-08 Thread d1028gary
Hello All,   It's now 1640 UTC in my motel room here in Grayland and 972-HLCA still had strong audio until about 5 minutes ago-- pretty wild. Nick was right-- Grayland exceeded my expectations this morning, with powerful TP audio all across the band, Japanese, Korean and Chinese stations were

Re: [IRCA] 930 KHJ off

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Foltz
Heard several IDs, was KSEI Pocatello ID. Martin Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 08:55:32 -0600 From: Forrest Skaine todftscytj7...@gmail.com To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Subject: Re: [IRCA] 930 KHJ off Message-ID:

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2014-11-08 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2014 Nov 08 2105 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 November follow. Solar flux 132 and estimated planetary A-index 7. The

[IRCA] DX Tip: 1720 pirate station on now @ 2247 UTC

2014-11-08 Thread Tim Tromp
Passing a tip along that I just received: Presumed Undercover Radio (pirate) on 1720 khz AM mode right now at 2247 UTC. Decent copy here, 100% readable. 73, Tim Tromp West Michigan ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] DX Tip: 1720 pirate station on now @ 2247 UTC

2014-11-08 Thread Russ Edmunds
Pirate activity noted on 1720 quite strong, apparently S of LBI where we're in the final night of the DXpedition. Featuring mysterious music, a reverbed deep-voiced male talking over - sounds like it should have been ( and may have been ) broadcast on Halloween. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 5:50 PM,

Re: [IRCA] DX Tip: 1720 pirate station on now @ 2247 UTC

2014-11-08 Thread Tim Tromp
IDing now as Pirate Radio Boston with an anniversary show and reading many listener's letters from DXers. -Tim On 11/08/2014 05:59 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: Pirate activity noted on 1720 quite strong, apparently S of LBI where we're in the final night of the DXpedition. Featuring mysterious

Re: [IRCA] WKY-930

2014-11-08 Thread Rick Dau
I can confirm that. WKY is my nightly pest on 930 here, and they are running Spanish, with banda music right now. Webstream is about 2 minutes behind. 73,Rick DauSouth Omaha, Nebraska Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 08:55:32 -0600 From: todftscytj7...@gmail.com To: irca@hard-core-dx.com Subject:

Re: [IRCA] DX Tip: 1720 pirate station on now @ 2247 UTC

2014-11-08 Thread James Renfrew
I am hearing a signal that fades in strong and then fades out to nothing. The only IDs heard have been Undercover Radio at 1857 EST and Radio Whatever sometime after that. Some talk about this being a Halloween show, but in November. Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Tim

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2014-11-08 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2014 Nov 09 0010 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 November follow. Solar flux 132 and estimated planetary A-index 8. The

[IRCA] OFF TOPIC. Still battling with PSU noise on my HP Pavilion Laptop

2014-11-08 Thread Barry Davies
A number of DXers have come back with the Dell brand reporting it as quiet with PERSEUS recordings. Has anyone had experience with this model and would care to commnt off list?

[IRCA] TP 8 Nov Victoria version

2014-11-08 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
This morning was actually pretty near good. Lots of carriers and weak audio on second tier stations, if I listened long and hard. Might have been a good morning to have been listening on the coastoh, wait... pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at

[IRCA] Grayland, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-8 (Conclusion)

2014-11-08 Thread d1028gary
Hello All,   An impromptu weekend run to Grayland kicked off with a bang this morning with Japanese, Korean and Chinese stations all pounding in for a wild 4 hour  session. A new 17 FSL antenna was set up near the picnic table at the end of Grayland Beach road, and it managed to track down at

[IRCA] KHJ format change

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Foltz
I just tuned in to KHJ-930 and heard an announcement that they are changing format on November 17th to Immaculate Heart Radio. They are currently playing religious music from Immaculate Heart. http://ihradio.com/khj-invite/ Martin Foltz Mission Viejo CA

Re: [IRCA] KHJ format change

2014-11-08 Thread Patrick Martin
Hi Martin, Wow! I never thought I would hear of 93-KHJ going religious. How things have changed in the broadcasting World. But KFRC did the same thing, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Patrick Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager From: martinfo...@cox.net To:

Re: [IRCA] KHJ format change

2014-11-08 Thread Dennis Gibson
To my surprise the Wikipedia listing of KHJ said nothing about the sale to IHR. It does now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHJ_(AM) Sent from my iPad On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Patrick Martin mwd...@webtv.net wrote: Hi Martin, Wow! I never thought I would hear of 93-KHJ going