[IRCA] Pacific Asian Log Updater

2019-01-15 Thread Bruce Portzer
Hello everyone: I recently completed  the January 2019 edition of the Pacific Asian Log.   This edition has many changes and updates for stations throughout Asia and the Pacific. The PAL has been posted on the Radioheritage website: http://www.radioheritage.net/ The link for the PDF version

Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

2019-01-15 Thread Chuck Hutton
A bittersweet choice is the RSD Duo from SDRPlay. At around $270 the price is good. But. -it's not a good receiver as I and Guy Atkins commented a few months ago. -SDR Uno is the SDR Play house software and it needs work to support phasing. It's not there yet. So the market is still w

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 15 January 2019

2019-01-15 Thread Nigel Pimblett
   Slim pickings once more, but I guess that's better than no pickings at all. 594        JOAK    Tokyo, JAPAN    Weak traces of talk, then pips at 1500 693        JOAB    Tokyo, JAPAN    Woman talking during language lesson at 1415 828       JOBB    Osaka, JAPAN    Was the only one of

Re: [IRCA] LWBC in Michigan

2019-01-15 Thread Richard N. Allen via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- I’ve been hearing several signals this evening on my ULR setup of a PL-360 with 7.5-inch loop-stick. 171 Medi 1 MRC, poor. 183 Europe 1 D, barely audible, FF language. 198 unID, most likely BBC R4 UK, barely audible trace. 252 Chaine 3 ALG, poor, talking in FF. Richard Alle

Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

2019-01-15 Thread Don Moman VE6JY
I haven't seen them mentioned, and they are not inexpensive but some models of the ANAN line of SDR transceivers https://apache-labs.com/ have phase coherent dual receivers with the ability to do phasing in the software. I have the Flex 6700 which also has the dual receive aspect but no phasing

Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

2019-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Thanks for addressing this Mark, and saving me fine tuning my own comments, which were essentially: Is SDR phasing live any better than hardware phasing? If it's not, then all you're doing is replacing a piece of hardware with perhaps a heavier duty computer, are you not? Phasing files as

Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

2019-01-15 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- I would be willing to have a receiver that just saved half the MW bandwidth, e.g. 700 kHz, in capture files if it had the I/Q streams from the two receivers.  But with receivers doing 3, 6, and more MHz of capture these days, why can't we get the whole 510-1710 stretch? Ba

Re: [IRCA] LWBC in Michigan

2019-01-15 Thread Tim Tromp
Scott, I also have Poland here right now on 225 with music and talk - any luck up there? 252 is always strong here but so is the beacon interference! 73, Tim Tromp West Michigan On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:41 PM Transistor wrote: > Greetings all, > > 171 and 189 are both strong and listenable

[IRCA] LWBC in Michigan

2019-01-15 Thread Transistor
Greetings all, 171 and 189 are both strong and listenable here in Michigan this evening 252 is down from previous evenings. 198 has an even match going with NDB DIW. Good DX to all, Scott ⁣Sent from Blue ​ ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.co

[IRCA] TP 15 Jan Victoria version.

2019-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
another return, to a small semblance of TPs, not quite like the 13th. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 828 JOBB 1503UT 972 HLCA 1610UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, thou

[IRCA] PROPAGATION

2019-01-15 Thread Pete Taylor
Absolutely true, Walt. Other than while under decimating power lines, on three of the last ten days while I was driving around Tacoma, KFBK-1530 Sacramento was good all day long at great levels. It was first noted at noon at the Tacoma Yacht Club and lasted all the way home in Northeast Tacoma.

Re: [IRCA] Ultralight Radio Group Moves to Groups.io

2019-01-15 Thread Gary DeBock
<<< Well done! The writing has been on the wall for a long time - I managed to migrate 5 groups - it was pretty seamless at the time - but the Yahoo rulebook was constantly changing. >>> Thanks Colin, Because of some new Yahoo shenanigans we had a somewhat interesting time trying shift over ou

[IRCA] LWBC and MW correlation

2019-01-15 Thread Transistor
Hi Steve, Many evenings so far this month have yielded decent LWBC conditions here in Michigan. I've made some decent recordings with the SDR for the archives.  Usually 171 and 183 are the dominant stations here, but so far this year it's been the BBC on 198 and then Algeria on 252. I've actua

Re: [IRCA] Monday night LWBC, S. AZ

2019-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
I'll need to talk to my neighbours about any equivalent here, hi. Are these Beverage antenna height, or higher? Thanks. Nick At 19:38 2019-01-15, STEVE wrote: I have a 700' N/S longwire and a 900' E/W longwire that are my primary antennas. I get more local AC noise on the E/W wire and eve

Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

2019-01-15 Thread Chuck Hutton
A couple of drawbacks for the Afedri: (1) As of a year ago (I have not checked since), the phasing only worked on the live signals. No phasing was possible on a recorded file. (2) It has only a 12 bit converter so is not top of the line. And something that needs verification: the Afedri was on

Re: [IRCA] Monday night LWBC, S. AZ

2019-01-15 Thread STEVE
I have a 700' N/S longwire and a 900' E/W longwire that are my primary antennas. I get more local AC noise on the E/W wire and even though most LWBC is stronger on the E/W, the N/S wire has less noise and better overall S/N. When I lived in northeast Oregon I also had longwire antennas and woul

Re: [IRCA] Monday night LWBC, S. AZ

2019-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
In Victoria, rarely any LWBC action in comparison, I think I've only every heard 189 with audio, some years ago. How large is your longwire Steve? Last few evenings have seen MW carriers seeming to be from the UK and Lithuania, a contrast to poor TP conditions. best wishes, Nick At 06:12

[IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

2019-01-15 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- The subject of SDRs containing two phase-locked receivers came up recently on the Topband (160m ham) list ( http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/topband/2019-01/threads.html ). The discussion dealt primarily with diversity reception: audio from antenna A's RF goes to

Re: [IRCA] Ultralight Radio Group Moves to Groups.io

2019-01-15 Thread R. Colin Newell
Well done! The writing has been on the wall for a long time - I managed to migrate 5 groups - it was pretty seamless at the time - but the Yahoo rulebook was constantly changing. On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:53 PM Gary DeBock wrote: > Following the general trend among radio hobby groups, the 1,5

Re: [IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (late DEC wrap-up, audio for all)

2019-01-15 Thread Sylvain Naud
Your unID Mark on 243 is Denmark. If my memory serves me well, between 4:45 and 5:00, they have maritime weather and at 5:00, the news. Although they have very limited air time, they have been very consistent up here this season. Sylvain Le lun. 14 janv. 2019 22 h 50, Mark Connelly via IRCA a éc