[IRCA] Indian DX Club International Posts Updated Cook Island DXpedition Report

2018-07-09 Thread Gary DeBock
Thanks to Sudipta Ghose of Kolkata, India for his work in coordinating the publishing of the entire April 2018 Cook Island DXpedition report (all 20 pages) in the IDXI blog, including all the photos and MP3 links http://idxcidxpedition.blogspot.com/2018/06/cook-island-ultralight-dxpedition-apri

[IRCA] TP 9 Jul Victoria version.

2018-07-09 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
A shift back to DU...somewhat pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nope Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): no not so reasonable audio

[IRCA] OT: TADX on Band 2 FM this evening!

2018-07-09 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- AMAZING! CBC radio 1 on 88.5 here in NI from CANADA at 2235 local [2135 UT] (Paul Logan, Lisnaskea, Fermanagh, N. Ireland via Steve Whitt, 2246 UT July 8, MWCircle yg via DXLD) The 6m prop maps alerted me, boy there was some amount of traffic going back and forth. My main

Re: [IRCA] phasing units, then and now

2018-07-09 Thread Andrew Ikin
Hello Guy, You have raised an interesting question ref. using dual channel SDR for phasing. These may in future afford an alternative to some expensive commercial phasers. Also the SDR has the option of offering a fixed phase over a very wide bandwidth. This could be useful for phasing two orth

Re: [IRCA] phasing units, then and now

2018-07-09 Thread Chuck Hutton
Guy: I've ben told the AFEDRI native software and HDSDR both support phasing. I have two problems with the AFEDRI: (1) it only records 600 kHz spans, and (2) phasing can only be done live. There's no way I know of to do phasing on recorded files. This is a shortcomimng that no one has solved

Re: [IRCA] phasing units, then and now

2018-07-09 Thread Don Moman VE6JY
The ANAN Sdr series has phasing capability with control built into the graphical interface. Don VE6JY On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:06 PM Les Rayburn wrote: > Guy, > > I own an SDRPlay RSP-1 Pro and an RSP-2 Pro, still waiting to install them > and experiment with SDRUno. My plan was to be set up to

Re: [IRCA] RFC - NCC-1 or NCC-2

2018-07-09 Thread Neil Kazaross
175' is a bit close for a side by side (Broadside) array, but a bit far for an end to end (Endfire array) for BCB, but certainly this should still provide pattern improvements. 73 KAZ On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Brandon Jordan wrote: > I walked the spacing off today, it looks like roughly 1

Re: [IRCA] phasing units, then and now

2018-07-09 Thread Les Rayburn
Guy, I own an SDRPlay RSP-1 Pro and an RSP-2 Pro, still waiting to install them and experiment with SDRUno. My plan was to be set up to record the entire FM band on I/Q output for this season, but that hasn’t happened yet. I’m also eying the SDRDuo for the phasing possibilities. This is intrig

Re: [IRCA] phasing units, then and now

2018-07-09 Thread Guy Atkins
Hi Mark, That was an excellent overview of DX hobbyist use of phasers! You covered the early history which I wasn't aware of, as I was mostly DXing on the tropical bands when Gordon Nelson and others did their pioneering work. There is one more phase (LoL) developing now--software based methods u

Re: [IRCA] RFC - NCC-1 or NCC-2

2018-07-09 Thread Brandon Jordan
I walked the spacing off today, it looks like roughly 175’ from SAL to SAL center. One of these will be a SAL-35, the second a SAL-30. I have more spacing options for a SAL-20 as the second SAL, up to a 400’. > On Jul 7, 2018, at 9:30 PM, Neil Kazaross wrote: > > By all means phase two SAL's

Re: [IRCA] TADX on Band 2 FM this evening!

2018-07-09 Thread R. Colin Newell
Double hop Es I imagine. Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - > On Jul 8, 2018, at 11:12 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > This from Medium Wave Circle list, Canada to Northern Ireland on FM. > > WRTH 2018 is the only listing I have of Canadian FMs...St. John's, NL listed > on 88.5, 3.6kw...