[IRCA] TP 5 Feb Victoria version

2016-02-05 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
What a frustrating mess is the best I can say. Conditions were reasonable from about 1430UT onwards, mostly the big guns though not terribly strong. A little after 1500UT, things really opened up, sort of. Lots of carriers, extremely erratic fading meant that you were never sure from one

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 1500 unID (mixing with seemingly noise-less WPSO)

2016-02-05 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- Probably not, but just in case, note that the other FL on 1500, WKIZ in Cayo Hueso is Spanish religion per NRC AM Log, and is 24 hours with 250 watts. Should they lapse into anything anti-Castro, or even relay some Radio Marti, that could get them a bit o` jamming from down

Re: [IRCA] 1500 unID (mixing with seemingly noise-less WPSO)

2016-02-05 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
No ones mentioned in all of this WPSO is a day timer ;) Paul On Friday, February 5, 2016, Les Rayburn wrote: > Saul, > > I can’t help to identify your basketball game station, but I did want to > remark at how well WPSO is coming in up North. I’ve never been able to log > them here—can’t even h

Re: [IRCA] 1500 unID (mixing with seemingly noise-less WPSO)

2016-02-05 Thread Les Rayburn
Saul, I can’t help to identify your basketball game station, but I did want to remark at how well WPSO is coming in up North. I’ve never been able to log them here—can’t even hear a trace of them tonight. As of about 10:30 PM the “warbler” station was so low, it was impossible to DF reliably.

[IRCA] 1500 unID (mixing with seemingly noise-less WPSO)

2016-02-05 Thread Saul Chernos
On 1500 on Jan 20 at 7:45 pm EST, at Burnt River ON, I had WPSO pretty strong with Greek music (and while I have had lots of the QRM that has plagued the channel there was none apparent in this recording). Mixing in is a live basketball game. One team is the Eagles. They're referred to at least

Re: [IRCA] band is mighty lively 1515UT

2016-02-05 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Quite amazing. I was called to the hospital at 03:20, and returned at 04:45 local. Unfortunately, I headed straight to bed instead of checking the bands, but was very impressed when I rechecked around 15:00 UTC, and even more impressed by the sudden departure of signals 30 min later! 73,...Walt

Re: [IRCA] band is mighty lively 1515UT

2016-02-05 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Then you'll see that what you hear at 06 to 07 often is no reflection of how conditions in the morning will be! Yes, very coy!!!Walt On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:43 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote: > Funny - I check the band every night between 0600 and 0700 UTC - > > Last night: Auroral. No indicati

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-02-05 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Feb 06 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 05 February follow. Solar flux 120 and estimated planetary A-index 12. The e

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- I was mainly listening to SW this evening, but made a quick check of 1500 at 0106 UT Feb 6 and did hear the warbling het, as not much signal from KSTP at the moment, but not in a position to get a DF on it, other than generally E/W from here. 73, Glenn Hauser, OK -

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Kraig
I tried at my QTH, Manassas, VA on the evening of February 5, 2016. Only heard WFED. 73, Kraig, KG4LAC On 2/5/2016 11:55 AM, Rob Keeney wrote: If everyone posts their location and loop bearing of the noisy xmtr, I'll try and plot the data. Rob Keeney Goose Creek SC EM92xx On Fri, Feb 5, 201

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Neil Kazaross
To each his own and not to criticize in any way, but if I can't hear at least trace audio that I am sure is from the station, I can't count it as logged. 73 KAZ On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Neil, > > Thanks for passing along that information. > > This is also possibly an

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2016-02-05 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Feb 05 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 04 February follow. Solar flux 123 and estimated planetary A-index 6. The es

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Les Rayburn
Neil, Thanks for passing along that information. This is also possibly an opportunity to log a new station, depending on how you chose to interpret an ID. If we’re able to narrow the problem now to a single station, report it to their ownership or CE and the problem gets corrected, then anyon

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Neil Kazaross
I'll stress two things, 1) This doesn't sound like a typical Cuban warbler but is simply badly noise on the sidebands from some tx issue. 2) This has been going on since mid fall. 73 KAZ On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:02 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote: > > > > Not wanting to miss out on the 1500 kHz acti

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread R. Colin Newell
> > Not wanting to miss out on the 1500 kHz action, I checked it out last > night after 0600 UTC -- There are certainly one or two odd things there - I might be getting traces of IBOC from someone but I did hear what sounded like a 500 hz warble that was pretty steady. Drake R8 Receiver - FLG1

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Russ Edmunds
Fred is in SW PA. Russ Edmunds 15 mi NW Phila Grid FN20id AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder; Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2); modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15'; Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip On Fri, Feb 5,

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Les Rayburn
Rob, Thank you for volunteering. I’ll go outside tonight and try to make the best possible loop bearing towards the noise from my location. I hope that others will contribute as well. So far, I’ve seen the following reports. Fred Schroder (No Location given) Amigos, I took my CCrane Skywave

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Rob Keeney
If everyone posts their location and loop bearing of the noisy xmtr, I'll try and plot the data. Rob Keeney Goose Creek SC EM92xx On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Les Rayburn wrote: > Most of us are using bi-directional (simple) loops, but we’re spread out > geographically. If we plot these on

Re: [IRCA] band is mighty lively 1515UT

2016-02-05 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Yes, wasn't that amazing? Haven't heard of any EMP or anything like that, hi. Fortunately it's recorded, but I suspect my evening will be spoken for by going through the recording. best wishes, Nick At 15:35 05-02-16, you wrote: I agree, Nick, but just as suddenly, somewhere around 15:30

Re: [IRCA] band is mighty lively 1515UT

2016-02-05 Thread R. Colin Newell
Funny - I check the band every night between 0600 and 0700 UTC - Last night: Auroral. No indication that the morning would be interesting. I seem to rise on off mornings. Medium wave is a coy and flirtatious gal at times... which is why we are still interested decades later... On Fri, Feb 5, 20

Re: [IRCA] 1500 KHz "Mystery Station"

2016-02-05 Thread Les Rayburn
Most of us are using bi-directional (simple) loops, but we’re spread out geographically. If we plot these on a map, we should be able to determine the location pretty quickly. Assuming that the culprit is a licensed broadcaster with transmitter problem, there are a limited number of suspects.

Re: [IRCA] band is mighty lively 1515UT

2016-02-05 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I agree, Nick, but just as suddenly, somewhere around 15:30, it was like someone throwing a switch, and gone! 73,...Walt On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > need I say more? Report later > > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-c

[IRCA] band is mighty lively 1515UT

2016-02-05 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
need I say more? Report later ___ 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 original contributors and do not necessarily reflect t

Re: [IRCA] Wellbrook Large Aperture Loop Antenna ALA100LN

2016-02-05 Thread Mark Durenberger Mobile
That was my conclusion as well Nick, after reading all these great comments! Thanks, y'all. His suggestions for 18 meter (rectangle) and 21 meter (triangle) max circumference do make it easier to build. And for ONCE I can stifle the internal impetus to 'build it BIGGER 'cause it'll work BETT

Re: [IRCA] Noise on 1500

2016-02-05 Thread Stephen Hawkins
Gang, It sounds like wind whistling through my porch from just outside Moorland, Ia. Steve On 2/4/16 10:37 PM, Stewart, Joseph R wrote: It's fairly strong tonight, though with skywave fading... I hear no "wobbling" or warbling, but rather a fairly steady tone of about 500 Hz, equally strong