Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] DX Test: 600 WBOB Jacksonville, FL [Corrected]

2016-01-05 Thread Brian Rachford
You may have already seen this, but according to their FCC correspondence file, WBOB applied for a Construction Permit for a 50kW daytime two-tower array in 2012 (9.7kW with 5 towers at night), and had a Program Test Authority issued last September for that CP. Definitely looking forward to this

Re: [IRCA] Unid 930 in Honolulu

2016-01-05 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Thanks, Nick. It was perhaps my best DX catch, especially since it was immediately adjacent to the powerful all-Hawaiian 940 station. One thing I did notice was the bad splatter on many of the locals, spilling more than 10 kHz on each side of the nominal frequency. Reminded me of our own CFAX

[IRCA] AM BCB DX…ELAD Captures - 4 NEW STATIONS……..

2016-01-05 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: Here are the results of the last few days ELAD Captures. 4 NEW Stations heard during this time. RECEIVER.ELAD FDM-S2 SDR ANTENNAWELLBROOK ALA-1530LNP Loop AM LOG TOTALS are now……1751 Stations Heard 73……….ROB VA3SW Robert S. Ross London, Ontario CANADA

[IRCA] AM BCB DX…ELAD Captures - 4 NEW STATIONS……..

2016-01-05 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: Here are the results of the last few days ELAD Captures. 4 NEW Stations heard during this time. RECEIVER.ELAD FDM-S2 SDR ANTENNAWELLBROOK ALA-1530LNP Loop AM LOG TOTALS are now……1751 Stations Heard 73……….ROB VA3SW Robert S. Ross London, Ontario CANADA

[IRCA] January 5 TP-DX With the New 3" Bar FSL Tecsun PL-380

2016-01-05 Thread d1028gary
One of my experimental projects over the holiday period was to design a breakthrough "travel portable," with unsurpassed sensitivity, selectivity and portability in the hand-held class. This was the new 3" Bar FSL Tecsun PL-380 model, using a lightweight, hard-wired 3" diameter FSL antenna in

[IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version

2016-01-05 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Not as lively a sunrise enhancement as yesterday, but it did go on for a bit longer. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 1566 HLAZ with woman in Chinese 1545UT, peaking at 1557UT with slow female vocal. Reasonable audio at times

[IRCA] Tahiti 738 big signal

2016-01-05 Thread coffee_canuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXFuN4JiN4 Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are

Re: [IRCA] Who is SS on 1620?

2016-01-05 Thread James Renfrew
Most likely Cuba - Either Radio Rebelde (3 outlets) or Radio Bayamo (1 outlet). Check for parallels on your strongest Cuba channels, like 710, to compare. There's also shortwave on 5025. Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Fred Schroyer wrote: >

[IRCA] Who is SS on 1620?

2016-01-05 Thread Fred Schroyer
Driving home tonight (in northern WV / southwestern PA), I listened for 45 minutes (1700-1745 EST) as 3 stations traded on 1620: Pensacola, South Bend, and a Spanish speaker that played some Tejano music. I couldn't find any likely candidate for the SS on Radio-Locator or online in general. Any

Re: [IRCA] Who is SS on 1620?

2016-01-05 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
It could be Cuba? On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, Fred Schroyer wrote: > Driving home tonight (in northern WV / southwestern PA), I listened for 45 > minutes (1700-1745 EST) as 3 stations traded on 1620: Pensacola, South > Bend, > and a Spanish speaker that played some Tejano

[IRCA] 738 Tahiti - massive

2016-01-05 Thread coffee_canuck
0623 UTC -- armchair. Video coming. Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC ___ 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

[IRCA] Who is SS on 1620?

2016-01-05 Thread Fred Schroyer
Ah, Cuba. Makes perfect sense: the SS and Pensacola were about equal, trading; South Bend came to dominate later. Thanks! ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on

[IRCA] eastern DX from Asia?

2016-01-05 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Several contributors to the Topband (160 meter amateur) list are reporting contacts with Japan from the eastern USAis it time for MW DXers to get in on the act as well? The 1230UT program beamed from HLAZ-1566 to Japan and beyond is just after eastern seaboard local sunrise right now...

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-01-05 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Jan 05 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 04 January follow. Solar flux 95 and estimated planetary A-index 4. The

[IRCA] December 2015 Michigan D-KAZ logs

2016-01-05 Thread Tim Tromp
These are all new logs except the Honduras log as noted. Times / dates UTC. All heard on the South D-KAZ during the auroral conditions we had here around Christmas. 540 Radio Rebelde, Cuba - 0504 UTC 12/24/2015 - Presumed with the Cuban National Anthem beginning at 05:04:32 and exactly in sync

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-01-05 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Jan 05 2110 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 05 January follow. Solar flux 95 and estimated planetary A-index 7. The