[IRCA] Fwd: TP 5 Apr Victoria version

Make that previous message...5 Aprilearly to bed tonight methinks. Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 04:50:31 + To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America From: Nick Hall-Patch Subject: [IRCA] TP 4 Apr Victoria version A considerably

[IRCA] TP 4 Apr Victoria version

A considerably better than expected morning, though with lots of splash, and the bulk of the lift was just before 1300UT rather than later pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 828 JOBB 1244UT, English lessons. 1566 HLAZ woman in Japanese

Re: [IRCA] 1152 at 15:00 this morning

Nick: 1269 appears in our Nick-Chuck-Bruce 2014 Grayland DXpedition report. Yes, a coastal report would be nice. I've collected all the logs from Gary, Bill W and myself with the intent of adding a sheet to the Grayland Master Log and making it into a NW Coastal Log. When will it happen? Not

Re: [IRCA] 1152 at 15:00 this morning

Thanks for pointing that out Chuck. Your contributions are always helpful. It is difficult to keep track of all these, as the Grayland Master Log references only two loggings of 558 in 20 years, the last in 2013.I wasn't aware it had been logged so frequently since then, hence my use of

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Apr 06 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 05 April follow. Solar flux 83 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The

[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on April 5

Today's conditions weren't bad for April but they weren't good either. Reception was limited to some of the regulars, mostly in the lower reaches of the band. GOOD 594JOAK, Japanese woman, then man 1310 693JOAB, 1312 Korean lesson 972HLCA, 1238 man in Korean FAIR 747JOIB,

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2016 Apr 05 1805 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 04 April follow. Solar flux 83 and estimated planetary A-index 7. The

[IRCA] Laptop for Elad FDM-S2 Use

I could use some advice on computers from those more experienced. I have a Sony Viao laptop that I’d like to use as the primary computer with my Elad FDM-S2. My primary interest is in recording as much of the FM band as possible in I/Q mode during openings. My plan is to install an external

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

Thanks Charles, your direct and to the point observations always appreciated. Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC > On Apr 5, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote: > > Come on, Colin. If streaming was really that bad, no one would do it. > Perhaps you

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

Colin, We stream mainly oldies, but a few other specialized shows, 24/7, and usually it's trouble-free. And as good as a local FM station would sound. Been doing Internet radio for more than 12 years, and running my own station for nearly eight of them. Yes, problems can occur, (we had a

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

Come on, Colin. If streaming was really that bad, no one would do it. Perhaps you have a local problem. While you fix it, I'll continue listening to my streaming all day. Chuck > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 08:37:38 -0700 > From: coffeecan...@gmail.com > To:

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

Colin, Streaming works great here. Maybe it is the rural area or my speed (60+), but I rarely have trouble with it. The house is wifi'd and both Jeremy & I use it all of the time. Live radio is fine for DXing, but not to my taste in listening any longer. Few choices here and distant reception

Re: [IRCA] 1152 at 15:00 this morning

Chuck, it's a valuable resource (the Master List), as it allows for a quick verification of likely targets, and would decrease the number of unids and tentative logs. In Masset, I have it open, along with PAL as the go-to resource, since I don't have live internet available to me. 73,Walt

Re: [IRCA] 1152 at 15:00 this morning

Nick must have missed my post about logs of Western Australia on 558, 1152, 1269, 1188 etc in the last few years. Walt: Sorry about the sad state of the Grayland Master Log. I've done little updating of it since we stopped having group DXpeditions to Grayland about 6 years ago. Chuck

Re: [IRCA] 1152 at 15:00 this morning

Yes, Bill did hear them. I guess I wish there was some sort of "central list" of what TPs have been heard anywhere along the west coast. The Grayland Master List is a marvelous resource. I did check it, and there was no mention of the W Australian on 1152. I guess it would be a huge job to

Re: [IRCA] 1152 at 15:00 this morning

I know that the ABC W. Australia stations on 531 and 558 have been heard in Victoria using an unamplified tuned box loop antenna (indoors; predates computers obviously, but within living memory), but neither are heard now, and even on the coast are rare. But Bill Whitacre has heard 1152 in

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

I have a Wifi radio as well - never use it. I can find an interesting stream and listen to it for 10 or 15 minutes then it either vanishes or the radio needs to be re-booted. One of the reason why I never got on the SDR bandwagon - recording the entire spectrum while you are sleeping and then

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

--- Begin Message --- Country music is surprisingly popular with young people too and radio still factors in there as well. Today's country scene has a lot of performers in the 18-34 age group and many fans that age too. Even in Boston, in former years a weak country market, there are two

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

Les, It is interesting you mentioned how young people get new music. You are right. I just asked Jeremy who lives with me (kind of like an adopted son), who is nearly 21. His answer was he gets new music from Pandora and other sites. As soon as a new song or album comes out, it streams and he

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

I think it’s difficult for those of us who are a certain age (I’m 54) to understand that young people don’t learn about new music the same way that we did. Their main exposure to new artists now is via social media. A friend discovers the artist by seeing them live, catching them on YouTube, a

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

Maybe "Never" was too strong of a word. But all of the teens and twenty-somethings I know around here never do listen to a radio. They stream everything and I mean everything. They listen to their music on Ipod's, cel phones, or their computers. Most of the ones I know closely do not even own a