Re: [IRCA] Palstar MW550P

2015-10-29 Thread Dennis Vroom
Stephen, I have owned the Palstar MW550P for about ten years. I always ran it with the preamp on and used the tuner for pulling out weak signals. It was damage at Grayland about 6 years ago when a large lighting strike struck near by. Saved my JRC 545 NRD by blowing out the diode in the tuner. P

Re: [IRCA] Palstar MW550P

2015-10-29 Thread Patrick Martin
Yes, I have one. It really works well on older communications receivers. The unit is pretty quiet and it is very sharp. Some receivers do better with it than others. The R8 is really doesn't do as much because the L/C selectivity in the R8 is sharp enough. It does well with the SPR4 and well a

Re: [IRCA] Palstar MW550P

2015-10-29 Thread james Weber
Steve, I have a MW 550P along with my Palstar R30A.I have fount it to be a excellent tuner.W well worth the money James Weber,Colton Calif. Palstar R30A Receiver,Qantum Loop and Phaser, Apha Delta 66' Sloper On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Stephen Hanes wrote: > Has anyone here used the Pals

Re: [IRCA] Palstar MW550P

2015-10-29 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I'm pretty sure that Patrick Martin had one of these. Pat? Walt On Thursday, October 29, 2015, Stephen Hanes wrote: > Has anyone here used the Palstar MW550P 530-2000 kHz > preselector/preamp/antenna-matcher for AM-BCB DXing? If so, what have been > your experiences with it? Good or bad? Than

[IRCA] Palstar MW550P

2015-10-29 Thread Stephen Hanes
Has anyone here used the Palstar MW550P 530-2000 kHz preselector/preamp/antenna-matcher for AM-BCB DXing? If so, what have been your experiences with it? Good or bad? Thanks in advance…. 73, Steve Hanes (K4VWS) TN Sent from Windows Mail ___ IRC

[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on October 29

2015-10-29 Thread Bruce Portzer
Conditions were kind of weird today. Unlike everyone else, I had audio from several stations but the vast majority of it was heard between 1255 and 1305 UT. Otherwise, the TPs were missing in action, aside from VOA-1575's sunrise appearance. GOOD 774JOUB, Korean lesson 1301 quite good f

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2015-10-29 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2015 Oct 30 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 29 October follow. Solar flux 113 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The est

Re: [IRCA] WSM 650 AM Celebrates 90 Years

2015-10-29 Thread Barry Davies
This item from the IRCA.  Best wishesBarry  :-)  Carlisle UK.  Lat. 54.9808N   Lon. 02.8755WPERSEUS, 3.7m x 10m Flag + FLG100 amp+Mains Filter From: Dennis Gibson To: Mailing List for the International Radio Club of America Sent: Thursday, 29 October 2015, 21:24 Subject: [IRCA] WSM

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 29 October 2015

2015-10-29 Thread Nigel Pimblett
The Asians returned today, but once more vanished in mid-session. All the big guns from Japan were doing well, but then took a dramatic dive between 1340 and 1345. Interestingly , VOA Thailand was going the other way at the same time. 594JAPAN, TokyoJOAK First noted in audio

Re: [IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 23-29, 2015

2015-10-29 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- One more: ** JAPAN. 774, Oct 24 at 1216 UT, JBA carrier from NW, so NHK pre-sunrise here. Haven`t seen any such logs from my neighbor Richard Allen near Perry OK this fall, but have seen one log from him in Garden City KS; moved? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---

[IRCA] Kansas TP DX 10-29-15

2015-10-29 Thread Richard N. Allen
JOIB and JOUB were heard in Garden City KS on a barefoot Skywave receiver this morning, 10-29-15. JOIB heard with barely audible to poor signal //774 at 1145-1147 UTC. JOUB with a poor to fair signal at 1143-1145 and again at 1211-1213. Household QRM ended the session at 1214. Good DX. Ric

Re: [IRCA] Truck smashes into Ridgway radio station Monday

2015-10-29 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
The stopped vehicle was stopped because the stations PD, JJ Michaels was pulling into work. As the article said, the office manager was in the office that was damaged when the vehicle hit the building.. and she was injured but could've been.. ive seen more pics.. it was kinda close. Paul On Thu,

[IRCA] Truck smashes into Ridgway radio station Monday

2015-10-29 Thread Dennis Gibson
Oops. http://www.bradfordera.com/news/article_79dc4754-7c0a-11e5-b59c-4fd5c768a196.html?mode=image Sent from my iPhone ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on thi

[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, October 23-29, 2015

2015-10-29 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during DST; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 UT period to the previous date by ELT]. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside or N-

[IRCA] WSM 650 AM Celebrates 90 Years

2015-10-29 Thread Dennis Gibson
http://www.radioworld.com/article/am-wsm-celebrates--years/277422 Sent from my iPhone ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the or

[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 23-29, 2015

2015-10-29 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- 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 fro

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2015-10-29 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2015 Oct 29 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 28 October follow. Solar flux 112 and estimated planetary A-index 3. The est

[IRCA] AM BCB DX…..ELAD Captures …….3 NEW Stations

2015-10-29 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: I continued to record through the night and early morning with the Loop oriented EAST/WEST once again. I have had some real good luck with this direction the past 3 nights so why change something that is apparently working!! I'm still Logging New Stuff every night, so it's encour

Re: [IRCA] TP from Victoria for 29Oct2015

2015-10-29 Thread R. Colin Newell
Diagnosis: Bulimia... Gorging of DX in the early hours and then a pre-dawn purge... Makes for dull DX that leaves the listener feeling empty. Oh well. At least we will do better than the Toronto Maple Leafs no matter what happens from here on. On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:06 AM, wrote: > Actuall

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-29

2015-10-29 Thread d1028gary
As Walt and Colin have reported most of the Asians had already bailed by around 1400 this morning, although there were quite a collection of them about 50 minutes earlier. Similar to a Halloween movie, they behaved like ghostly  creatures scared off by the daylight, with the exception of 1575-VOA

Re: [IRCA] TP from Victoria for 29Oct2015

2015-10-29 Thread d1028gary
Actually the band didn't sound bad at all around 1310, with multiple stations in fair audio (594, 747, 1053, 1566 and 1575) plus some with promising carriers (603, 738, 1017, 1035 and 1044). Unfortunately most of these took a major swoon at 1330, leaving only 1575-VOA as the sole survivor here w

Re: [IRCA] TP from Victoria for 29Oct2015

2015-10-29 Thread coffee_canuck
Agreed -- looked at 1350 UTC and Little more than road kill... A few carriers... Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC > On Oct 29, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Walter Salmaniw wrote: > > A bit of a stinker again. I started at 14:00 and the best was VOA Thailand > on 1575 at fair level.

[IRCA] TP from Victoria for 29Oct2015

2015-10-29 Thread Walter Salmaniw
A bit of a stinker again. I started at 14:00 and the best was VOA Thailand on 1575 at fair level. Same for 1566. The bottom of the band was not so good. 73,Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kot