[IRCA] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized

2015-07-01 Thread Scott Fybush
Hard to believe it's barely more than a week before the IRCA/NRC/WTFDA/DecalcoMania joint DX Convention kicks off in Fort Wayne, Indiana! Thanks for your patience as we've worked to finalize a schedule of events. Your all-volunteer convention planners are at the mercy of many factors,

Re: [IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2015-07-01 Thread Craig Healy
The update of the WWV Solar Report may take a few days. The internet has to be changed and isn't ready until Friday or next week. It'll be back... ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Re: [IRCA] DXing from a new location

2015-07-01 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Southeast Texas Telecom, Inc bought KSET 1300 Lumberton TX. 2kw/3 tower days, 270W/3 y\tower nights all due south basically. Paul On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:40 PM, neilkaz neil...@earthlink.net wrote: Congrats Paul! This sounds like fun. What station is this? I will try to hear it when I turn

Re: [IRCA] DXing from a new location

2015-07-01 Thread neilkaz
Congrats Paul! This sounds like fun. What station is this? I will try to hear it when I turn my array back around to aim towards TX. 73 KAZ -Original Message- From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com Sent: Jul 1, 2015 10:29 PM To: NRC a...@nrcdxas.org, Mailing list for

Re: [IRCA] [dxld] DXing from a new location

2015-07-01 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Congratulations , Paul! 73, Walt On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I ended up in Beaumont Texas. A friend bought a dark AM that we're going to revive with live, local programming and full service small town values adapted to a big

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 1 July 2015

2015-07-01 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Not worthy of mentioning if I was on the coast, but since I'm not, I will! 738 - Presumed Tahiti at 1108 with vocal by a woman. 1035 - Traces of woman talking at 1103. Likely New Zealand. Also a couple of didn't quite make audio carriers on 702 and 828. Not terribly exciting, but then

Re: [IRCA] DXing from a new location

2015-07-01 Thread Mike Sanburn
Good luck at the new station. Be sure to let them know all the benefits of running a DX test. Hi. Ms Sent from my iPod On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I ended up in Beaumont Texas. A friend bought a dark AM that we're going to

[IRCA] Western Superloop--Initial Trials

2015-07-01 Thread Les Rayburn
Finally found time to erect a Western facing Superloop. It's 24 X 7'. I'm using a fixed 900 ohm termination, and feeding it with quad-shield RG-6 coax. I installed three snap-on ferrite cores near on the feedline near the antenna, and then again at about 40 feet down the coax, three more just

Re: [IRCA] DXing from a new location

2015-07-01 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Well, I ended up in Beaumont Texas. A friend bought a dark AM that we're going to revive with live, local programming and full service small town values adapted to a big city. Local DJs, high school sports, tradio, lost dog reports, etc. I have a Tecsun PL880 and Sangean ATS909X with an H800

Re: [IRCA] DXing from a new location

2015-07-01 Thread neilkaz
I need this one and ouch there's only about 700 or maybe 800 watts ERP coming my way on day pattern. Texas sunset skip cx were insanely good on the Phased DKAZ Array during late Dec and into early Jan with at least semi or totally AU cx. I was getting east TX at least an hour before sunset

Re: [IRCA] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized

2015-07-01 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Thanks for that, Mark. For example, I absolutely enjoyed listening to Patrick Martin's past presentation at one convention in the past. Well worth the listen, and of timeless interest. 73, Walt On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Mark Durenberger Mobile ma...@durenberger.com wrote: I will record

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized

2015-07-01 Thread Scott Fybush
On 7/1/2015 6:11 PM, Duane Whittingham wrote: For those of us who can not attend will there be any streaming or recordings? or at least maybe copies of presentations? Good question! I don't think we'll have the ability to do live streaming (though Mark might have some better ideas than I

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost)finalized

2015-07-01 Thread Mark Durenberger Mobile
I will record the audio and post it on my website www,durenberger.com Slides will be there as well. Mark Durenberger, CPBE On The Road Again Original Message- From: Scott Fybush Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 5:44 PM To: Duane Whittingham ; a...@nrcdxas.org ; Mailing list for the

[IRCA] Top Ten Signals from the South Pacific (Rockwork 4 DXpedition)

2015-07-01 Thread d1028gary
Hello All,   From June 25-29 a group of three transoceanic DXers set up antennas and radio equipment at Rockwork 4, a plunging ocean side cliff along Highway 101 just north of Manzanita, Oregon. Each morning around local sunrise an all-out search was made for South Pacific MW stations, with