[IRCA] TP 6 Sep Victoria version

2015-09-07 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
As Gary observed again, an Asian morning, but not quite yesterday, with weaker signals overall. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 JOUB man in Japanese 11148UT, and at other later times Reasonable audio at times during the period

Re: [IRCA] Michigan DUs this morning 9/6/2015

2015-09-07 Thread Tim Tromp
Thanks Nick. Despite "thinking" I may have heard muddled audio during live listening on a few of these, I couldn't dredge up any traces of audio when I went back and analyzed my recordings in more detail. 73, -Tim On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > Most

[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Sept 7

2015-09-07 Thread Bruce Portzer
As is often the case, Gary and I were DXing on different planets today. TP reception here dropped off quite a bit from yesterday, with only a few stations struggling to produce anemic audio. There was a bit of a sunrise enhancement yesterday, but not today. Most of the Asian action was

[IRCA] TP 7 Sep Victoria version

2015-09-07 Thread coffee_canuck
Trying out N/NW Flag for first time - 1215 - 13XX Preliminary Audio on 531, 558, 567, 576, 594, 603, 612, 621, 657, 675, 738, 747, 756, 765, 774, and on and on... Full report at session end. Receivers: AOR-7030+ Drake R8 Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC >

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-7

2015-09-07 Thread d1028gary
Hello All,   Thanks to Colin for the initial report on the outstanding performance of his new N/NW flag antenna (and I look forward to the full report). Asian signals were seriously improved this morning, with the Japanese big guns especially vibrant. 594-JOAK was the star performer here,

[IRCA] September 7 TP DX on new Wellbrook N/NW Flag part - 1

2015-09-07 Thread R. Colin Newell
This morning is kind of a significant one for me - this is the first time since around 1977 that I have had a purpose built outdoor antenna for serious medium-wave DXing. In this case, under the watchful eye and technical guidance of Nick Hall-Patch and Walter Salmaniw, I have purchased a

[IRCA] September 7 TP DX report on the new flag - Part 2

2015-09-07 Thread R. Colin Newell
Listened between 1215 and 1325 UTC Receivers - AOR-7030+ with a Wellbrook ALA100M / Drake R8 on a N/NW Flag with FLG100(LN) KAZ Loop Amp + 900 ohm termination 529 SQM Alaska - on most of the morning crushing whatever was on 530khz -- also getting boxed in by a jumble of signals on 531 through

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2015-09-07 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2015 Sep 08 0010 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 September follow. Solar flux 84 and estimated planetary A-index 46. The

[IRCA] September 7 TP DX on new Wellbrook N/NW Flag part -1

2015-09-07 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- Quick demonstrations of how different the reception can be with a terminated loop pointing one direction versus the opposite direction are in the following audio clips. These are in stereo with one channel being from a Drake R8A connected (via transformer and coaxial

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2015-09-07 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2015 Sep 07 1805 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 06 September follow. Solar flux 86 and estimated planetary A-index 14. The

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 7 September 2015

2015-09-07 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Very similar conditions to yesterday noted here in southern Alberta, with once again DU signals being the only TPs noted. The quantity of audio was about the same, but more strong carriers were pbserved today, with 792 & 855 being especially notable. 684 unID Talk by a man at