[IRCA] in the "I don't believe it" category

2017-03-23 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
1215 actually had an audible carrier for a few minutes around 0330UT this evening...not strong, but to be there at all tonight seems quite strange. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] TP 23 Mar Victoria version

2017-03-23 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Conditions again were not quite as good as yesterday, but with second tier stations still doing well, and nothing like the deterioration expected from the recent geomagnetic upset. Quite a reasonable sunrise enhancement, mostly dying down about 10 minutes before local sunrise at 1408UT.

Re: [IRCA] WFLI Chattanooga To Go Dark

2017-03-23 Thread Todd S
The owner is retiring. Thats the main reason. Todd Skaine On Mar 23, 2017 10:15 PM, "Dennis Gibson" wrote: The reason is usually given in the application to the FCC to cease operation, which isn't filed until after it's off the air. The 50 kW day power is expensive. It has four towers so if it

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2017-03-23 Thread Chris Kadlec
This would be a rather accurate assumption I believe. The North overhauled a lot of its radio networks in December, so it would almost be a given that if a change was noted in the signal, some work was done on it. 657 has always been a good signal both day and night (though listening from 100

Re: [IRCA] WFLI Chattanooga To Go Dark

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Gibson
The reason is usually given in the application to the FCC to cease operation, which isn't filed until after it's off the air. The 50 kW day power is expensive. It has four towers so if it doesn't own the site rent can be expensive. My guess is it's financial. The inability to get parts rarely r

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2017-03-23 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2017 Mar 24 0015 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 March follow. Solar flux 72 and estimated planetary A-index 11. The estim

Re: [IRCA] WFLI Chattanooga To Go Dark

2017-03-23 Thread David Faulkner via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- Hi All: I first heardWFLI in the late '60s running a full-power test on a Monday morning when my local (in Port Huron) CHOK was off. Anybody know the reason for this? High operating and maintenance costs, a la CKSL, or can't get parts, a la WDOD? A look at Radio Locator sho

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 23 March 2017

2017-03-23 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Almost a shutout in terms of audio here today, but not quite: 774 3LO Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Poor, with time pips at 1300, followed by the ABC news fanfare. 828 3GI Sale, AUSTRALIA Could make out the ABC news fanfare at 1300, but that was about it. Nothing from Asia today. Several DU

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread Chuck Hutton
Agreed, and at :10 and :14 don't I hear "seven to nothing"? The woman that rises on top by :18 is the Aussie accent I referred to, but I supposed it was Townsville not NewsRadio. Chuck From: IRCA on behalf of Theo Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 4:35 PM To: Mai

[IRCA] WFLI Chattanooga To Go Dark

2017-03-23 Thread Dennis Gibson
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/117086/wfli-chattanooga-go-dark/ Sent from my iPad ___ 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

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread Theo
Sorry for a delayed response... but I hear two EE speakers there. The first is a male with repeated use of "getting to..." (four times beginning at :10, then a woman rises to dominate at ~:18 with words that include "former (something)... making his debut..." And I'll agree with Chuck that th

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2017-03-23 Thread d1028gary
Thanks to Richard, Nick and Colin for their comments on the skewed TP-DX propagation this morning. Thanks to Bill also for his report from Arizona. <<< One gets the sense that some North Korean techs have been deployed to tighten up the antenna hardware because 657 has not been this good AND r

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
Comes down to: Not a lot there. Burps of syllables that might be EE or AUS ENGLISH as Chuck has suggested. Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC > On Mar 23, 2017, at 3:25 PM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote: > > Chuck and Colin, > > Thanks for listening to the 630 kHz DXpediti

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread d1028gary
Chuck and Colin, Thanks for listening to the 630 kHz DXpedition clip, and for your detailed assessments. I will pass these on to Hiroo. I think that for their next major DXpedition this Japanese group will have a major advantage for MP3 file review-- with a Canadian named Nick Hall-Patch as

[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2017

2017-03-23 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] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2017

2017-03-23 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; 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 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside E-W o

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2017-03-23 Thread NOAA WWV
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2017 Mar 23 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 22 March follow. Solar flux 73 and estimated planetary A-index 27. The estim

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
On additional listening, yes - English there... at at syllable level... Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC > On Mar 23, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Chuck Hutton wrote: > > To my ears, there is English at :03 and :20. The talk at :20 is news, and > seems to have an Australian accen

Re: [IRCA] AM BCB DX......

2017-03-23 Thread billy brooks
Robyo da man. No hissing around sdr "blips",etc. you hear real stuff. I applaud you. naturally the dc publicans here in u.s. don't agree. They say anything goes As long as it's viewable. I don't support that. I diligently listened for "kfi" back in the '60's. for 2yrs., until one easte

[IRCA] Arizona TP's

2017-03-23 Thread Bill Block
Listened from 1315-1335 UT and conditions was way down from yesterday and it was hard to get audio but I did get 3 with audio.  Carriers on 594, 693, 774, 972 and 1566.   594  JOAK hrd at 1321 UT with a few words and just above the noise level. 774  JOUB hrd at 1323 UT very poor. 1566 HLAZ

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread Chuck Hutton
To my ears, there is English at :03 and :20. The talk at :20 is news, and seems to have an Australian accent. Chuck From: IRCA on behalf of R. Colin Newell Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:30 AM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Sub

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2017-03-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
One gets the sense that some North Korean techs have been deployed to tighten up the antenna hardware because 657 has not been this good AND regular in years. On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:24 AM, wrote: > > > 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Japanese male and female speech and interval music > at good level at

Re: [IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
Yea - I swear I could hear an entirely Asian language in there with no evidence of anything remotely English. On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:35 AM, wrote: > From the Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition on March 18th, this mix of > North American signals was received on 630 KHz at 1000 UTC by Hiroo > N

[IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 3/23/17

2017-03-23 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, March 23, UT: At 1140: 684-WSW, 702-WSW, 774-WSW, 828-WSW At 1213: 1098-W At 1222: 1548-WSW, 774-NW At 1224: 1098-W That`s an interesting group: WSW ones would be Australia or NZ, where there are no stations greater than 10

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2017-03-23 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
The Asians definitely didn't understand ionospheric absorption this morning in Victoria either, Gary. Full report later, but the big guns in the low band remained big, and there was quite a good mix of second tier stations as well as you report; also, the collapse at 1400UT was similar. I wa

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2017-03-23 Thread Richard N Allen
Gary: Very good. It was a quiet morning on the southern Great Plains. The only thing heard was a weak carrier on 1548 kHz in KQNM slop before sunrise. I like to think it was from Queensland. A check of 1611 found only Spanish, probably CHHA, or possibly XEUACH. I can't find an audio fee

Re: [IRCA] Off topic. Help with getting a verie from Vncouver Oops! Vancouver. Sorry

2017-03-23 Thread Barry Davies
  From: Barry Davies To: Mailing List for the International Radio Club of America Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2017, 15:44 Subject: [IRCA] Off topic. Help with getting a verie from Vncouver    Hello I was lucky over the Equinox lift to hear TSN 1040 Vancouver(CKST). This was a first for me.

[IRCA] Off topic. Help with getting a verie from Vncouver

2017-03-23 Thread Barry Davies
 Hello I was lucky over the Equinox lift to hear TSN 1040 Vancouver(CKST). This was a first for me. The email address on their website does not work for me. Does any member have a name and email address for the station which I could try?  If appropriate please reply off list. Thank you in antici

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2017-03-23 Thread d1028gary
I haven't seen any other TP-DX reports this morning, so maybe it was another session limited to Puyallup and Victoria? In any case the Asians weren't slowed down at all here by any solar activity, managing another good sunrise enhancement session all across the band (on a 5" FSL antenna). The

[IRCA] AM BCB DX…………..

2017-03-23 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: Nothing NEW to report this time around…...but here are a few AM BCB Logs of note this past week or so……... RECEIVERELAD FDM-S2 SDR ANTENNA………..WELLBROOK ALA-1530 LNP Imperium Loop AM LOG TOTALS are now…..2,019 Stations Heard 73..ROB VA3SW Robert S. Ross London, Ont

[IRCA] Help Needed-- North American UnID from Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition

2017-03-23 Thread d1028gary
>From the Japanese Cape Taitosaki DXpedition on March 18th, this mix of North >American signals was received on 630 KHz at 1000 UTC by Hiroo Nakagawa, one of >the DXpedition partners that Nick, Tom and I welcomed to Rockwork 4 last July >(in a horrible, rainy windstorm). http://my-bcl-life.sak