Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [Amdx] black gospel 1550 is WPFC-Baton Rouge

I just got to this e-mail string, too. WPFC-1550, black gospel and some IDs + more mentions of "Baton Rouge" has been dominant in the evenings here Running full power, most certainly. Also, on 1180, WJNT, listed Pearl, MS, but many mentions of "Jackson" is a news-talker also running full

Re: [IRCA] Here's an interesting sidebar to the Haiti Disaster

Some of us should be able to hear this, even with ultralights... Commando Solo is an AM band signal, likely on the lower band and, unlike the local Haitian stations, the equipment should be operating at 100% efficiency. One of the best opportunities ever to hear Haiti. WHAT FREQUENCY??? This

Re: [IRCA] What a night!

Patrick, I, too, figgered from your message title that you were, once again, hearing India Geez, that sounds like quite a storm! I'm really glad that you paid a fairly light penalty, after all. I'll bet that you have some neighbors in considerably worse shape. Hang in there, buddy

Re: [IRCA] Amazing dx from Haida Gwaii

Absolutely fabulous stuff just like you said, Walter I wasn't paying much attention to the frequencies and missed the fact - momentarily - that Ethiopia was in your log as SHORTWAVE. I thought that you had heard that, too on MW. I about had a heart attack What fabulous stuff on MW and v

[IRCA] QSL from 675 - Radio Voice of Vietnam

Heh, Heh, Heh! Yesterday I got a GREAT early Christmas present from Vietnam! I had reported 675 kHz - VOV1 at least three times from our Orcas Island, Washington home over the years and received no reply at all. Last winter, I finally did what I should have done MUCH sooner: Ask Patrick Mar

Re: [IRCA] The New Wellbrook K9AY Phased Array

Patrick, On the new Wellbrook K9AY Phased Array, the separation between the two antennas is still 40 meters or about 133 feet. Add to that the half triangle sticking outside beyond the poles on each end and you've got about 165 to 175' in the directions that you want to look. It is nowhere a

[IRCA] The New Wellbrook K9AY Phased Array

This is just a brief first impression of the new Wellbrook K9AY antenna trhat I am in the process of evaluating. I LOVE IT! Since we have returned to Oklahoma 10 days ago, I've managed to erect both the older first generation ALA100-based Phased Array and the all-new K9AY version. Both arrays

Re: [IRCA] KHOW-630

Bill, I was doing my first antenna testing of the K9AY Array (wonderful) this AM and had Khow well about 1200 or a bit before. Good going on KIDD! John B. in Oklahoma At 10:34 AM 12/19/2009 -0700, you wrote: Hi Bill, I wasn't awake this morning to check the dials. KHOW is on the air ri

[IRCA] Radio Trackside New Zealand QSL + Info

I sent about four or five follow-ups in November for the summer DU Season and got my first reply today from Graham Stevens, Trackside Media Consultant. He QSLed their outlet on 1071 kHz. in Asburton (coastal South Island, just south of Christchurch.) I was DXing from Grayland, using the first

[IRCA] QSL: China Radio Int'l 963 via Poro Finland

Well, I now have Europe QSLed from the Pacific NW. Yesterday, I received a very nice QSL (without location) for 963 Poro for a recent report sent to the CRI address, as opposed to the general Audience Response address for CNR. It came from Ying Lian of the English language section and had a CRI

[IRCA] Finally Back on the South Prairie

Just a warning that we finally made it back to the South Prairie portion known as Stillwater, OK. When we left Orcas Island, Washington a week ago minus about three hours, we thought that we might actually make the shortest run to Oklahoma down thru Salt Lake and Cheyenne. Our first overnight

Re: [IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

Thanks Patrick, I'll be at the Seaside Convention for sure. The last one there was just fabulous. See you then, if not before!!! JOhn B. At 02:16 PM 11/30/2009 -0800, you wrote: John, I am sorry Dave and I missed seeing you this year too. Between my busy schedule and the weather, we neve

Re: [IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

Thanks, Walt... Mutual admiration society... that is what we've got! I guess that you will fly over our heads as you wing your way north. We'll be on I-5 for Tuesday, Wednesday and most of Thursday, overnighting in Salem, Oregon, Sacremento and preobably Needles, CA or jusrt across the line

[IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

I had my worst TP morning of this trip mainly because I packed my radios yesterday. Today is final packing and then tomorrow we head down I-5 to Bakersfield/Barstow and hang a left. We are going to try to break the trip up some this year, with a day here and half a day there, so it will lik

[IRCA] Orcas OIsland TPs for Saturday

I suppose that I heard about what Nick did this ,morning, minus the DUs, but my experience was probably more negative. I heard the 603 Korean especially well this morning and also noted either two or most probably three stations on 675. One was Vietnam, surely, but the others??? Otherwise, th

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island: Nov. 27

Well, if this isn't the beginning of the dreaded Mid-Winter Anomaly, it is certainly a great imitation of it! Conditions were down, even from yesterday's poor showing. The only non-murmur above 972 was VOA 1575 and it wasn't all that wonderful. Below 972, there were a few of the biggest JJ g

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas

If you discount the murmurs and JUST above murmurs, I had the JJ big guns, 711 and 972 Korea and VOA-1575. I had maybe 30 murmurs, mostly low band. Turkeys and football, that's the ticket! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superlo

[IRCA] Orcas Is. TPs on Nov 25th

I was up quite early this AM and started DXing 2 hours before LSR (LSR = about 1530). Bill, you and Nigel might give the 1200-1330 time frame a try. My TPs were best, if that is the word, when I started at 1330. The lower half of the band out 2/3 coverage and most of the levels were above lang

[IRCA] TPs Oceas Island

Bill and Nigel may well have gotten nothing in audio. I had next to nothing, especially if you eliminate the murmur level stations Less than half a dozen of the historically strongest made it into fair level audio this AM. I hoipe everyone else slept in! John B. Four more Mornings __

[IRCA] TPs Orcas Island: Nov 23

It was a fairly poor morning, with levels of audio quitew low in most cases and the few that were coming in well were only on short-lived peaks, for the most part. I DXed from 1500 until 1540 with LSR at 1530 or so. In ampongst the mediocrity, though, were a few jewels. The more interestin

[IRCA] Morning TPs: Orcas Island

If this had been August, it would have been a very good JJ morning, at least the part that I enjoyed from 1500-1530, LSR=1527. The bottom half of the band was well over half full and all of the usual suspects, JJ variety, were doing quite well, at least part of the time many were in strong

[IRCA] Modest TPs Here, Too: Orcas Island

I had about 50% of the TPs of yesterday AM and none were particularly strong or of special interest. Still, I've only a little more than a week of ANY TPs left, so John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops _

[IRCA] Excellent TP Morning on Orcas Island

Got up early this morning (1300 with LSR at about 1530) and decided to check in with our late season phenomenon of having good Japanese reception in the 1200 and 1300 range. Well, it turned out to be Japanese (which died down some by 1500) and Chinese (which came up even more late) and it was p

[IRCA] Dull AM of TPs on Orcas

Less than a third the normal low banders and very few above in audio. (1251, 1377, 1575) The only real interest was 720, where there were CC, JJ and KK stations, and maybe more. I swear that somebody left the air (not willingly???) at 1507 and I think it was an UNID language, but it was pret

Re: [IRCA] DXing from the South Pacific 16 Nov2009

Absolutely wonderful to read that log, Walter!!! I've heard a number of outlets of all of those networks. It was really a thrilling read. I'll keep this one for sure. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! I've sure been looking for FF on 666 for New Caledonia for the past several years. I've h

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Isla: 17 Nov

This is the first year since we have been spending "6 months" out here that we have not left for Oklahoma on Monday, almost two weeks before Thanksgiving (yesterday). This year, we are leaving on Tuesday, December 2, so I've two more weeks to appreciate the late season conditions. Speaking of

[IRCA] TPs Orcas Island: Nov 16

It was a fair to poor late season morning here, with the only thing seriously in audio above 1100 kHz. being 1575 (more later). Below that, about half the channels having at least some audio, a few times at decent level. The JJs Guns were all there, most at poor levels, strong audio at least b

[IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

In truth, by body count standards, it was a poor morning... About half the "normal" number in audio, high and low and generally, the audio was poor. On the other hand, there were some real interesting things. 639 CNR1 was walking tall most of my 1440-1525 morning 828: a bit after 1500, it was

[IRCA] No TAs for Me

Out for da evening... social life interfering with radio. Must rethink priorities. John B. ___ 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 o

[IRCA] Fair AM TPs from Orcas Island

It was a fair morning with TPs... not quite a good as yesterday, but a decent late season morning. The only REALLY listenable audio was the big gun JJs, some of whom had a co-channel. Plenty of other audio around, it was just somewhat lower and the usual suspects. Soon, this will be "the good

Re: [IRCA] TP DC DX - Nov. 14, 2009

Bill, Could 738 have been Tahiti??? Nice logging/musing! John Bryant At 07:18 AM 11/14/2009 -0500, you wrote: I don't keep a blog or diary, but if I did, this would be my 'DX' entry for today: Nov. 14, 2009 TPs were not as good this morning as they'd been for the past few days. LatAms w

[IRCA] Farda Big Sig on Orcas @0042

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[IRCA] Another Good TP Morning: Orcas Island

It was another quite good TP morning, with 85 to 90% of the lower band in audio at some point and close to half of the upper band. For a change, there was a REAL dawn boost from 1440 until LSR at 1530. In truth, it was pretty poor from 1420 tune-in until the boost started, then things were rea

[IRCA] 963 Pori is In Audio: Orcas Island

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[IRCA] TA Orcas

Low audio on Farda 1575 at 0105. Nothing, I mean NOTHING else. John B. ___ 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 contr

[IRCA] TPs on Orcas Isl: Nov 12

Pretty poor.. The biggest guns in with a small boost on the upper band after LSR. About the only thing of interest was an unknown Chinese, not JJ, on 1332. Well, listening to Arman, suburban Magadan on 234 last night and finding the transmitter site on Google Earth was fun. Good program o

[IRCA] TA + TP at 0500

Nigelk, Its interesting that we were both listening to 702 at almost the same time. I came in at 0303 and it was news, primarily by woman, mentioning Iran, but any newscast in the world might fit that description. I'll listen to the recording tomorrow morning. Right now, I'm listening to a

[IRCA] TAs Orcas Island

Had Farda well and some audio on 1539. Het only on 1503 all around 0025 1278 France Bleu at 254 918 Almost audio Slovenia? 702 Ment on Iran but could be any lang. at 0306, gone by 0315 VOIRI with half a meg at sunrise at the transmitter on south shore of Caspian??? 963 probable Pori in

Re: [IRCA] TPs: Orcas Island Nov. 11th

With Nigel and Nick both chiming in, it sounds to me like my early bird JJ on 720 was Voice of Russia heard here even on an Ultralight. Well, poo! JOIL is such a nice set of call letters, too! John B. At 05:26 PM 11/11/2009 +, you wrote: At 17:00 11/11/2009, you wrote: >720, briefl

[IRCA] TPs: Orcas Island Nov. 11th

This is another one of those days where its a privilege to TP DX and it was even better than yesterday. I happened to get up two hours before dawn today (1300) and DXed for an hour at thatr time it was like September. GREAT JJ signals in some cases and a number of JJ stations unheard in mo

[IRCA] Who the Heck is on 234 LW

Not too much beside Droitwich was doing at 0500 on MW, so I dropped down to longwave on a lark and caught something on 234 kHz. Initially, it was at a listenable level, but by 0525, it had slid to murmur level I am not at all good on European languages. It sounded sorta like Russian/Germa

[IRCA] TAs so far on Orcas

Got Radio Farda on 1575 big time as mentioned. I also had Iran at 0058 to 0103... some Koranic chanting just before TOH and more modern Persian (?) music at 0102. I did not know of // on internet then... but I'm counting this baby. Had Egypt on 819 with decent copy at around 0112 to 0115 109

Re: [IRCA] west coast TA

Farda doing very well here w/fades at 0042 LSR John B. At 12:24 AM 11/11/2009 +, you wrote: Looking mildly promisingweak audio on 1215, enough to match to Absolute's website. A few other carriers including snippets of 1539, 1575, 1503, 1134, 1377 Nick **

[IRCA] TPs for 10 Nov: Orcas Island

It was one of those mornings where it is not at all difficult to remember that it is a PRIVILEGE to hear any DX at all from over the waves. This morning was one of the very best of the late season mornings. The dial was basically full below 1070 and many of the signals were VERY robust. Above

Re: [IRCA] TPs again

Bill, I'm really glad that you have retaken the DXer banner after all of these years far too large/long a hiatus, IMHO. John B. At 08:08 AM 11/10/2009 -0500, you wrote: This morning [10/10] I had 'traces' of various strengths on the Perseus waterfall graph in 'zoom' setting on; 594,

Re: [IRCA] Beverage - Wellbrook Array Comparisons

ately, High Tide and property ownership hits the Grayland at about the 600 to 700 foot mark, so.. I don't know what else to say, John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops At 04:02 AM 11/10/2009 -0800, you wr

[IRCA] Beverage - Wellbrook Array Comparisons

At 18:22 11/8/2009, Chuck Hutton wrote: Nick Hall-Patch had his ALA-100 array at Grayland with myself and Bruce Portzer Oct. 3 and 4. During that period, we compared it with a 1400' Beverage at 320 degrees that was terminated via 3 six foot ground rods. A different antenna than a 600' Beverage

Re: [IRCA] TA...yawn?

0200 from Orcas... some hets plus audio on 1539 (VOA???) and 1575 Farda both below language recognition. JOhn B. At 12:44 AM 11/10/2009 +, you wrote: Well, it's sunset, and there are lots of TA carriers, and audio traces on 945kHz briefly. Everything else is also very erratic. Ni

[IRCA] Orcas Island TPs: Nov 9

There I was at 10PM local time, concentrating on 774 hoping for Spain, probably... heck, it was 3:00PM in Tokyo... As I concentrated on the murmur, it began to rise and I was "listening in my best Mexican Spanish," while not forgetting a big Hungarian and a Morrocan station co-channel, and the

[IRCA] Definite JJ on 774 at 0600 UTC

I couldn't believe it especially since I was also following carriers on 576 and 666 plus low audio on 747. Geez, I'm going to BED! John B. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions e

Re: [IRCA] Faroe Islands-531

I had a strong het on 531 about the time of my Pori, Finland logging, so I was saying a strong DXers prayer for Faroes, already logged by near-by Nick Hall-Patch. Prayer went unanswered yesterday, but I have hope for tonight! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultra

Re: [IRCA] UNID TP on 945 heard in New Jersey

Try // 5030 which is a boomer CNR1 here on the Left Coast. John B. At 07:33 PM 11/8/2009 +, you wrote: At 19:16 11/8/2009, you wrote: >Bill: > >By far the most likely from Grayland is the CNR1 outlet in Jilin. Any CNR1 parallels available (SW or MW?) Also by far the most likely inl

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas: Nov 8

I'm still living in the glow of Farda and Pori and plotting an assault on Iran tonight... I had a second maybe Iran on 1026... But to the present: It was a good but not great late season morning. Most of the lower band had audio at one time or another. The upper band was less populated, but

[IRCA] TAs Still Going, but I'm not!

Just finished another band scan and things were down, until I got to 963 and there was decent audio. It was almost TOH 0500, so I stuck around and, sure enough, it was Finland Radio China International ending one Baltic language and starting another. And I got a recording of most of the ID

Re: [IRCA] test: Am I getting through?

We'uns be hearing you! John B. At 03:50 AM 11/8/2009 +, you wrote: Not sure whether this email address is connecting with IRCA. Please confirm! ..Walt (bobbing around in the S. Pacific) ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://

[IRCA] TAs Orcas

Quite a few hets all over the band now most low level. Very limited audio from 1089 (Britain?) 1278 (France) and 918 () Will keep watching. John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops

Re: [IRCA] Good Farda at 0200

try as R.Sawa from Kuwait has been my best TA signal here tonight, better than Farda. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta John H. Bryant wrote: Also hearing the weakest audio on 1503. Saudi? John B. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http

[IRCA] Good Farda at 0200

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[IRCA] 1575 Farda first Audio at 0047

My first try for Farda bore fruit... I noted the first carrier at 0017, coming and going, then steady by 0043 and very low audio (clearly WELL modulated) soon after. Could barely distinguish the speaking, but the music wasn't bad and WAS // internet stream. A bit over 7300 miles... the same d

[IRCA] Good TPs: Orcas Island

I was at the dial from 1450 until I quit for breakfast at 1525, with things still going fairly well. LSR=1505 or so. It was a very good late season opening with 50 or 60 in some form of audio, from bottom of the band to the top. Most were the usuial suspects at greater or lesser strength than

[IRCA] 17 x 30 Super Loops + Day THREE

I got up at 3:00 on Monday morning, expecting to antenna test for about an hour and then DX until dawn as per usual. I did that first hour of antenna testing with very interesting results, but at that point, I pulled the plug. Conditions were down considerably from Sunday and down even more fro

[IRCA] Wellbrook Arrays at Grayland (was re: Day ONE @ Grayland)

At 05:17 PM 10/31/2009 -0500,Neil Kazaross wrote: (SEE MY RESPONSE BELOW - Bryant) : This is good news about the arrays. Once again I will stress that I think end fire arrays of two cardioid antennas will be a major step forward for those with the room to use them (home users need a good sized

[IRCA] Day TWO at Grayland

Having had such a productive Japanese opening very early yesterday, on our first morning here, Kevin and I got up at 1115UTC, now the equivalent of 3:15AM LST, a full hour ahead of yesterday's start. Like Day ONE, this morning we found the band already rather full of fairly strong signals from

[IRCA] Day ONE at Grayland

Kevin Schanilec and I were able to get both Wellbrook arrays up on Friday afternoon: a phased array of 2 triangular K9AYs and another massive new array of two 17' x 60' Super Loops. Both arrays were pointed NW and were separated and staggered by about 150 feet. It was quite a job including a t

[IRCA] Down - A Lot: TPs from Orcas

My spectrum chart does not look as bad as it should, though it is pretty bad. Most of the signals that were there put in quite brief peaks of audio and then disappeared in the murk. Even at that, I only had about half the audios of yesterday on the lower band. The upper band was about the same

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island

Sorry that I didn't report yesterday: it was just so depressing! I worked on my attitude overnight and, sure enough, things were improved quite a bit this morning! The lower band was at least at some point between 1400 and 1500... about 80% full of audio... up markedly from yesterday, es

Re: [IRCA] TPs heard in Calgary AB + Alaska TWB on 529 this AM

Deane, I have Level Island here every morning unless the sub-Arctic is totally wiped out. They get out well! John Bryant near Vancouver, BC At 10:39 AM 10/26/2009 -0600, you wrote: Listened this morning on the SR-II barefoot from 1330 to 1400, JOAK-594 and JOIB-747 both had good audio at

[IRCA] TPs Not So Bad: Orcas Island

I guess that my glass was half full, were Walt's was half empty! The band was very much like the last several days pretty useless above1000, but below there, I had wall-to-wall audio at some point during dawn. Although most channels were occupied by the usual suspects, there were several q

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas: Disturbed+Uninspired

I definitely heard the same band as Walt this morning though I quit a little earlier. We had a few small differences: 549: Where Walt had NHK1 late in the morning, I enjoyed Mayak at the same time... Wow! Mayak was by itself and actually stronger than 576, which was also back doing quite well

[IRCA] TPS Recovering on Orcas Island

I'm with the group who heard TPs beginning to come back. As Bruce said, maybe not quite up to the Seasonal Average for this wonderful October, but still pretty fine stuff. Both the lower and upper band were better than yesterday and things seemed kind of disturbed... a few things stronger than

[IRCA] 1107 from Asia

Gary DeBock and I have both been watching this frequency lately, in fact I've been watching it all season. Using my detailed spectrum display on the 313e (4 kHz = about 4" in a oscilloscope-type display) I can see that usually there is an on-frequency carrier there that is ragged and muddy... a

Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 21 Oct 2009

I'd been meaning to comment on Nigel's GREAT morning on Oct. 21... That was a real peak here, too... but MAN I've have rather heard Nigel's stations! Urumqi, as the capitol of Xinjiang province is a nasty industrial city from what I hear, but it is surrounded by some of the most exotic cultur

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island

We were all listening to the same band this morning! Pretty useless above 972. However, the bottom 25% of the band had some interesting things: 558: Like Gary, HLQH, KBS 2 in Daegu was a new station for me. I could hear Kobe beneath the KK, but it was way beneath. 585: There was a second As

[IRCA] Bottom Heavy TPs from Orcas Island

Bill Brock mentioned that it was a strange morning, with only the low stuff working, but that pretty good. Same here. The bottom half of the band was almost 100% audio sometime during dawn enhancement; the top half was about as bad as I've seen it in the last two months. Further, only the lowes

[IRCA] EXCELLENT Morning: Oct 21 on Orcas Isl.

I got my antenna mods completed yesterday before the rains returned and I really don't know whether my excellent results here reflect excellent band conditions or some improvements in the Wellbrook Array or both. I suspect the latter. For me, the band was all about China. The JJ regulars were

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-20... More Fun

Fellas, CNR1 was running an hour long music program this morning starting at about 1403... not classical opera, at least when I was listening. It was more an Asian pops program. I think that it was an hour long. John Bryant At 07:14 PM 10/20/2009 +, you wrote: At 18:43 10/20/2009,

[IRCA] TPs for Oct 20 from Orcas

I'm in the midst of making some minor modifications to the Wellbrook Array here and that may have affected my morning results. In any case, my results were "Uninspiring" this morning they weren't bad, weren't good, just sorta low normal. The upper band seemed down, especially, though there

[IRCA] TPs Oct 18 from Orcas Island

Things continued to be quite good this morning, with the Chinese seeming somewhat better than usual. 540 was the strongest CNR1 that I've heard there at 1430 dawn 765 seemed to be Chinese, but with an echo that I've not heard before... and none listed in my version of PAL 1062 just after 140

Re: [IRCA] NHK2 s/off

Yup, Like I observed yesterday, 747//774//828 all just kept trucking at 1500. I quit at 1512, with 747 still going well, but the other two were there with only poor audio. John B. At 04:03 PM 10/19/2009 +, you wrote: > NHK2's s/off seems to have moved back to 1600 at least. Pr

[IRCA] NHK2 Sign-Off Schedule

At 05:48 PM 10/18/2009 -0700, you wrote: Nick had reported hearing NHK2 s/off at 1500 in late September. I subsequently found the NHK2 schedule on their website, and confirmed that they are now signing off every night at 1500. That's good news as the season progresses, since it will make 693

[IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18

Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500 and maybe hear them sign

[IRCA] Power Outage on Orcas Island

Believe me, Nick, I really thought about the current draw on that receiver when I punched on the 313e and my shack lights went out less than 30 seconds later. I was quite relieved when I looked out the windows and found the entire town also jet black. Had I known in advance, I'd have gotten a 1

Re: [IRCA] Victoria TP's for 10/17/09 First Flush

Well, I'm somewhat glad to hear of the pedestrian conditions. I went out yesterday in the rain to re-install my Wellbrook loop heads here after the trip to Grayland and then set the alarm this morning for well before dawn. Got up, fired up the receiver and ZAP! the lights went out on three of

[IRCA] Belated Day FOUR Report from Grayland: Oct 14

As was reported elsewhere, Thursday morning showed significant improvement from our first three days down in Grayland. With Guy's new QDFA antenna working 100% finally, I'd expect some very nice loggings when he finishes reviewing all of his Perseus recordings. Since I still do things the old f

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-16... Late Boom

Fabulous report, Gary... I'm sorry to say that I've yet to reattach loop heads, etc. for my antennas, so I slept in on a very good Asian morning. I'd love to have both 891 and 792 MP3s... for obvious reaspons, especially as 792 is concerned :>) Be sure and turn in your log to Ol' Rob, Sergea

[IRCA] Day THREE at Grayland

Conditions seem to be "healing" somewhat along with the arrival of the fall rainy season. In general, signals seemed somewhat better and the more northerly routes (the Russians) were at least present, if not at full strength. I managed a long log for a reception report (yet again) for Voice of

[IRCA] Day TWO at Grayland

After I uploaded yesterday, I got to thinking how ungrateful I was for the less than wonderful conditions down here. After all it is quite a bit of expense and two long travel days to come to Grayland from Orcas and return... and to find reception no better than at home is a downer. STILL, the

[IRCA] Grayland Day ONE

I'm looking forward to downloading e-mail today (at the Local Tavern, since the Library is closed on Mondays). In general, I hope the NW DX Reports for this morning are "Pedestrian," because that is darn sure what Guy and I experienced here. Guy didn't quite get his Lankford Array set up at th

[IRCA] TPs on Orcas, Oct 10

I'd taken a couple of mornings off, but was at the dials from 1330 to 1430 this morning... generally, I shoulda taken another morning off. Well below average to poor would be my assessment. Although I did eventually get a modest number of audios, even on the upper band at dawn, things were far

[IRCA] Good Morning Late: Orcas Isl. Oct 7

Things have gotten late enough that I've quit setting the alarm so I did not get to the dials until 1403 this AM. (LSR=1420 UTC). Still, it was a very good morning, North Korea 657 seems to have been working on their transmitter: a nice clean signal this AM. 666 was Chinese this AM at 1410, all

Re: [IRCA] KYUK 640Khz - confirmation letter - spot the irony

Nice QSL, Colin. My sense of irony must be turned off... I just missed it completely. Give me some help, eh? Literal on Orcas John B. At 11:21 AM 10/5/2009 -0700, you wrote: I urge all the readers to download this confirmation letter from KYUK and see if you can spot the irony in it. It

[IRCA] TPs Uninspiring on Orcas: Oct. 5

Generally at or below average here this morning... and just a tiny het on 882 at 1400. The high band was there but noticeably below recent mornings. About all that I found unusual was NHK1 on 837 dominating Taiwan Fisheries (first time this season, I think) and the Russian-810 beating everyo

[IRCA] 1458 Nei Menggu RGD + ?TWR Sri Lanka?

I was able to spend some time this evening working with 20 minutes of audio from 1458 on October 1. I was unaware of the 1440// that Chuck mentioned hearing. Its not listed in PAL... or at least I couldn't find it. While I was hearing 1458, I did check the SW//s that PAL has for that Nei Meng

Re: [IRCA] A Good Asian AM on Orcas, Too.

a language I didn't recognize. We now have lots of files to listen to. Bruce, back from Grayland John H. Bryant wrote: I bet that the guys at Grayland will have really cleaned up this AM. Here on Orcas, I finally got things fired back up and it was a very good mid-season Asian morning he

[IRCA] A Good Asian AM on Orcas, Too.

I bet that the guys at Grayland will have really cleaned up this AM. Here on Orcas, I finally got things fired back up and it was a very good mid-season Asian morning here. Conditions seemed variable. VoV on 675 was almost absent during parts of dawn and at other times, it was romping in near

[IRCA] Belated Day THREE Report from Grayland

Made it home at 6:00PM after starting to pack at Grayland at 8:00AM. Man, what a drag but worth it. This Third morning, October 1, Thursday was one of my more interesting in recent years. The upper band was quite open and a number of things were there that were far from usual... In fact, th

[IRCA] Second Day at Grayland

What a difference a day makes!!! I guess that I should have expected conditions to tank after the extraordinary morning of the 29th - actually I feared that they would and THEY DID! The morning was like a slightly below average morning recently on Orcas, though the conditions continued to rea

[IRCA] First Morning at Grayland

I had been wondering if a trip to Grayland was really worth it for me. I'd be using the same antenna (the Wellbrook Array) as at our home on Orcas Island, and there, I look up the Strait of Georgia at Japan and the Koreas. Just how much better could Grayland be for Asians? That is not an idle q

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas, Sept 27

Like Colin said, hum-drum. Lotsa mid-season Asian signals, but all were the usuals and most were down a bit from recent peaks. 909 presumed Tianjin was doing better than usual (which is poorly) putting in a moderate signal and 918 next door was positively ROCKIN' with the Shangdong echo. Other

Re: [IRCA] KCIS 630

Sorry that I did not respond to this sooner, guys. I think that it is possible that KCIS is down a ways. I've found them much easier to null down this past month than I remember them (with the same equipment here) in past years. I'm not certain could be that I just discovered that I can ge

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