Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Chuck Hutton
Walt - How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007. Chuck From: IRCA on behalf of Walter Salmaniw Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 4:14 AM To: Mailing list for the

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan t o night!

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
It seems to be a British Columbia thing Chuck (I know, the nerve...the Columbia River hasn't been British for many generations) . Before I started to be annoying, I'd never really realized that we often refer to the coasts here as "north" and "south". It's as if the rest of North and

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan to night!

2016-01-26 Thread Chuck Hutton
Are you saying Walt's cabin is not on the west coast When writing to the IRCA list, I don't see how it can't be called the west coast. Chuck From: IRCA on behalf of Nick Hall-Patch Sent: Wednesday,

[IRCA] TP 26 Jan Victoria version

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
I'm sure I missed a number of things, with the erratic fading and all, but easily the most interesting morning in a couple of months. All Asian, big guns mostly on the low band from 1300 to 1515UT, then the high band starting popping in and out. HLAZ didn't completely throw in the towel

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Great catch, Tim! I think it would be an impossible catch to the west coast...73, Walt On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp wrote: > After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off. > I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Oops! I guess I was thinking more of the south coast and lower 48! Walt On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Chuck Hutton wrote: > Walt - > > How quickly they forget. We all heard it from your cabin in 2007. > > Chuck > > > From: IRCA

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan to night!

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Ah, but Haida Gwaii is off what is known as the "north" coast in these parts Chuck. It apparently makes a difference to the type of DX that is heard, to be north rather than west. And congratulations Tim. 73, Nick At 04:17 27-01-16, you wrote: Walt - How quickly they forget. We

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan to night!

2016-01-26 Thread Chuck Hutton
Oops... Make that "can be called any other than the west coast". Chuck From: IRCA on behalf of Chuck Hutton Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:26 AM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of

[IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread Tim Tromp
After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off. I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been just one notch above imaginary. If I didn't know what to listen for then

Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!

2016-01-26 Thread James Renfrew
I got Sao Tome here on a beautiful night March 29, 2005 when Cincinnati was off the air for some reason. I got Vatican Radio and VOA Sao Tome, both QSLed, too. There was also a Spanish station, but I couldn't ID that one. Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Tim Tromp

Re: [IRCA] opening?

2016-01-26 Thread coffee_canuck
Watching this... >From my shower... :-/ Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC > On Jan 26, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > Things a little nuts on the band right now, mostly low level audios1323 > 1557 1395 1422, sounds like 2 stations on 1566,

[IRCA] opening?

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Things a little nuts on the band right now, mostly low level audios1323 1557 1395 1422, sounds like 2 stations on 1566, mostly higher band, low band regulars earlier. N. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] opening?

2016-01-26 Thread R. Colin Newell
Classic carpet pull - Looked at the NHP fish barrel 1 minute before jumping into my shower Pulled on my clothes and went down to the shack... within 1 minute everything was wiped away - not a peep... the fish barrel displayed a fraction of what it displayed 2 minutes earlier... Sometimes I

[IRCA] CJRU-1280 on the air

2016-01-26 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
CJRU-1280 aka "the Scope @ Ryerson" now on the air with regular programming from Toronto's Ryerson University. Successor to CKLN-88.1, whose license was pulled by the CRTC. Power is a whopping 99 watts non-directional, putting in a fair signal at my midtown Toronto home. Same as the last user of

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-01-26 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Jan 27 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 January follow. Solar flux 115 and estimated planetary A-index 4. The