[IRCA] a listen link for x e d m?

2007-09-30 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I was just up on the Fred Cantu site, and despite the fact that the Sonora page is a hodge podge, I couldn't readily find any references to the city of hermocillo, but I did find x e d m, and they are calling themselves noticias dm, and I wonder if they are 24 hours, and if there is a

[IRCA] 960's first night of iboc in Oakland

2007-09-22 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, just want to report that tonight is the first night of 960, k k g n in Oakland being iboc after sunset, and you can kiss kfwb good-bye, and definitely, x e k a m in tijuana. I also hear some hash on the right edge of k l o k, so I'm not sure if it is them, or if green acres is using iboc

Re: [IRCA] KGO Analog only

2007-09-22 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, k g o turned off their iboc this morning at 5 A M, and if the pattern continues through the week-end, they probably won't turn the iboc on until tomorrow evening at 7 but this is just a guess based upon what happened last week-end. On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:02:49 -0400, Bill Harms wrote:

Re: [IRCA] [!! SPAM] IBOC Revisited

2007-09-17 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I've noticed, in the case of k g o, that they turn off their iboc at various times, for example, the iboc wasn't on during Lin Tillum's show, but they turned it on, and apparently, left it on until the morning news at 5, and then turned the iboc back on at 9, where Ronn Owens only did one

Re: [IRCA] HD Hash a problem ?

2007-09-17 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi, k g o doesn't turn on their iboc until 7 pm, so that is probably why you didn't hear their hiss right away. I just heard them turn off the iboc after the gill groce program ended, so if the pattern follows last night, they should turn it on again at 7 pm, and leave it on till the morning news

[IRCA] 940 in Mexicali over modulating

2007-09-10 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, just want you to know that this morning, I was getting 940 oldies in Mexicali unusually well, but the reason why this is, is because they are severely over modulating. Earlier, in the five o'clock hour, I heard mammy blue by los poptops from 1971, and when I heard the base part of that

Re: [IRCA] could somebody help me?

2007-08-31 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Mike, I have no literature for the super radio 2, but I do have a blind friend who did re-aline the radio in 1992 when I got it, so it is probably the best it can be. On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:21:54 -0600, Mike Stonebridge wrote: If nobody else jumps up, ship it to me and I'll see what I can

Re: [IRCA] could somebody help me?

2007-08-31 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Charles, I've had a couple people ask me to ship the radio to them, but no, I haven't found anybody in the San Francisco bay area, particularly from Richmond to San Francisco, with in the confines of the bart system that can help me, and I'm hesitant to ship the radio, as I'm afraid it might be

[IRCA] could somebody help me?

2007-08-30 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I realyze many of the people on the list are hard core d x ers, with expensive equipment, and technical knowledge to fix their receivers and things, but I d x on my g e super radio 2, but it is so dirty as far as the tuner is concerned, that I can't go up and down the A M and fm bands, and

Re: [IRCA] could somebody help me?

2007-08-30 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Tom, it is a super 2, and I know something is dirty in there because when I tune the dial, it started off on fm, then spread to A M, and now, when I tune especially around where k g o is, it makes an awful noise when I'm trying to tune. I've never taken a radio apart, that's why I want

[IRCA] Gene Burn's fortieth anniversary show

2007-08-14 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, this afternoon from 2 to 4 pm pacific time, k g o paid tribute to Gene Burns on his fortieth anniversary in talk radio, being today, August fourteenth, and if you want to hear the archive, until tomorrow afternoon, the links are http://rope.kgoam810.com/archive/kgo14.asx for the first

Re: [IRCA] Seattle Area DXers!

2007-08-03 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Don, I could be wrong, but I think the warriors are on knbr 1050. On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:29:01 -0700, The Kaskey Family wrote: My daughter has a request. She is moving to Seattle next month. She wants to know how well KNBR-680 can be heard in Seattle in the eveningsundown to midnight?

Re: [IRCA] is the 1260 frequency in San Francisco slated for anincrease in power?

2007-07-27 Thread Marty Rimpau
Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 5:46 AM Subject: Re: [IRCA] is the 1260 frequency in San Francisco slated for anincrease in power? 1260 was bought by Immaculate Heart Radio, www.ihradio.org and will be going catholic soon. On 7/27/07, Marty Rimpau [EMAIL

[IRCA] the passing of Pete Wilson

2007-07-23 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, in case you had not heard, Pete Wilson passed away unexpectedly on Friday evening due to a heart attack while he was in hip surgery, and k g o will have a memorial to him this afternoon from 1 to 4 pm, and you can go to the k g o web site, and post your comments at http://www.kgo.com but

Re: [IRCA] Patterns

2007-07-22 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Patrick, in 1987, k r l a moved their transmitter from El Monte to Irwindale, and it seemed that for a while, they were coming in a lot better in orange county at night then they did from their old site, but then again, they had a seven tower array, and I even heard one day where their

Re: [IRCA] 760 WJR

2007-07-08 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, quite often now, I've noticed that k t c t at 1050 forgets to shut their iboc down, this, plus they've re-equalized their sound to a booming annoying base, and this creates water fall hash as far down as 1080. On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:25:25 -0400, chris and anne wrote: Did anyone else

Re: [IRCA] Coast 2 Coast 0n 1070

2007-07-07 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Tim, first off, do you know the call sign of the 620 in tijuana? When I was in the imperial valley, I could barely get them in the day, but I did get stations from rio colorado San Luis in the day time, at 1080, x e y d, at 1460, which if you weren't careful, would throw you for a local, but

[IRCA] Young listeners switching radios off

2007-07-01 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I got this from another list, and thought you guys would be interested, so I'm posting this, but I'm not surprised at the research found below. Young listeners switching radios off; But CFNY programer questions StatsCan's methods to get figures on who is listening Bruce DeMara The

[IRCA] 940 k w r u testing iboc

2007-06-26 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I have some sad news, and that is, I just turned on my super radio, and was on 940, and heard what sounded like processor, or compresser noise, so I turned to 930, and there was the iboc hash, as loud and distinctive as ever, so the second iboc station for the san joaquin valley has come

[IRCA] last day of disney for k g o

2007-06-11 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I was listening to the morning news on k g o with Jennifer Jones, and the fill in guy for Edd Baxter, and Jennifer Jones quickly mentioned a good-bye, and said that today was the last day of the mouse for k g o, and that tomorrow, they would be owned by citadel, but Edd Baxter and Stan

Re: [IRCA] AM station causes fire on Catalina Island

2007-05-12 Thread Marty Rimpau
PLEASE read the [IRCA] mailing list guidelines at http://www.ircaonline.org/guidelines.htm Hi, I wonder if k b r t will be punished in any way for causing that fire on Catalina island? The thing I remember about the 740 frequency when I lived in southern California, was that its' call sign was

Re: [IRCA] KDJQ 890 SS??

2007-05-08 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Patrick, that change must have happened on May first, because it is now la x, but I'm not sure what the actual call sign is, since the iboc hash starts at 6 in the morning, which prevents me from hearing an i d from them. On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:33:43 -0700, Patrick Martin wrote: In checking

Re: [IRCA] Sony 2010 Prices

2007-05-08 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, how does an eton 1 e compare with one of the grundegs like a satellite 700 or 800? On Tue, 8 May 2007 00:27:59 -0400, David Hochfelder wrote: Tim, The 2010 is an excellent rig for AM and SW DXing. It was my primary radio for several years, and it did a great job for me. I used it at

Re: [IRCA] XEEP-1060

2007-04-19 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi, how do we listen on line? I tried to find the programacion link, and it could not be found with window-eyes, so can we listen on line, or, is this site just displaying what people can currently hear on 1060? I got an mp3, because I thought when it said escuchala, that it meant listen on

Re: [IRCA] Testing my webstream

2007-04-14 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, if you want to hear the stream with winamp, just open your winamp, and press control l for the open location dialog, and paste this stream in mms://70.85.123.3/wabv8671?SWMEXt=.wma and winamp will come up playing the stream. Also, in there, you can see the title, which you can't see with

[IRCA] k m i k possibly testing iboc

2007-04-09 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I was listening on 1580, and heard a 1000 hertz tone behind dominant k b l a, in Santa Monica, and about ten minutes after 1 this morning, California time, the tone stopped, and radio disney came on, but I noticed the fidelity wasn't as good, but couldn't hear any side iboc hash on either

[IRCA] open carrier with iboc hash

2007-04-09 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, it looks like it's definite, just moments ago, I turned off my g e radio super 2 on 1580, and there was an open carrier, and on the 1570 side, I did hear iboc hash, so it looks as though k m i k has gone, or is testing their iboc. Marty ___

Re: [IRCA] Tempe, AZ to Oakland, CA IBOC spectrum wrecker

2007-04-09 Thread Marty Rimpau
, as well as the station whos' call I can't remember at the moment from Ventura, and the k m i k hash exhibited itself toward the upper side of k l i v's carrier, or the mess on 1590. On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:26:09 -0400, Scott Fybush wrote: kevin redding wrote: On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Marty

[IRCA] is 1510 still 24 hours?

2007-04-05 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, does anybody know if our 1510 in Piedmont is still 24 hours a day, because I've noticed that since sometime last week, they've been going off at sunset, and wonder what is going on. Marty, that was then, this is the Chinese smtp server

Re: [IRCA] Long ago KNBA Vallejo.

2007-04-04 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I remember a friend of mine telling me about that sign off of k n b a, but I never actually heard it, possibly because it happened in the early seventies when I was living in orange county, and later, in 1972, in the San Joaquin valley. When did they go 1000 watts? I liked them in 1976

[IRCA] CIMS00000342758 - FCC Consumer Center response from representative TSR36

2007-03-27 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, thought I'd share this with you regarding the email I wrote last week to the fcc to comment on iboc, in case anybody wants to go to any of the links to comment on docket 99-325. You are receiving this email in response to your inquiry to the FCC. Thank you for contacting the Federal

Re: [IRCA] TP DX continued

2007-03-14 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, earlier this morning, about 3 30, maybe it was earlier, because there were some dimmer switches on, but I have never seen j o u b in akita at 774 come in so well. They were playing what sounded like a Japanese country and western song, and I don't think I've ever seen them come in so well

[IRCA] 940 in Fresno possibly testing iboc

2007-03-13 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, last night, I was listening to a blank carrier on 940, and could hear Mexicali quite nicely, when I heard, what sounded like processor noise, and noticed that the 940 carrier was quite wide, so I tuned to either side, and heard splatter, but earlier this morning, they were back to normal,

Re: [IRCA] KOA Denver in SF

2007-02-28 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Patrick and all, in Oakland, with my super radio 3, I can hear k o a, but it helps if the reception is good on a given night, and here in Oakland, there's no splatter from even 840 or 880 where kkmc is. Ktrb does fade at night here, but the fading is not a complete fade, it's as if the volume

Re: [IRCA] XESS-620 / XESDD-920 / XESDD-1030

2007-02-24 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi, Tim, do you get x e d x at 1010 from Chula vVista? On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:23:29 -0800, Tim Hall wrote: Update on the legitimate Ensenada/Tecate stations and their not-so-legitimate Tijuana doubles: The legitimate station XESDD-920 appears to be off. I can't tell about the other two

[IRCA] radio repair

2007-02-21 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I have a g e super radio 2, with a dirty tuner, and I don't know how to get into the radio to get some cleaner in there to stop the tuner from crackling when it goes accross the stations. It started out on fm, but now, it does it on A M, and that is the reason why I didn't use it to make

Re: [IRCA] KGO is running IBOC

2007-02-18 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Patrick, I have noticed that ever since Friday, or possibly yesterday, that the iboc side lobes of k g o are more noisy, as if there is data being transferred on a second channel, but remember, they have been iboc for some time now, and the way it works right now is, that on the week days, they

Re: [IRCA] KGO

2007-02-18 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Dennis and all, at present, my g e super radio 3 is on k g o's side channel in the other room, and the time is now sixteen after five o'clock, and linn Tillum is on, so their iboc is still on, and I wonder if they switch transmitters when they turn off their iboc? I understand they were going

[IRCA] recorded the iboc

2007-02-18 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I have recorded k g o's iboc, with my sony A100, and total recorder, at first, it didn't work, but when I selected on board sound, and my sound card, it worked, so I don't know how people actually wanted to have the demonstration done, so I left it on and went back and forth over the

Re: [IRCA] 580 Help

2007-02-18 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Jerry, could the boise station at 580 be Mexican, because it was the last time I had heard it, and at one time, it was top 40, but I'm not sure what it is now, and I haven't heard it in a long time. On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:33:52 -0600, Gerry Bishop wrote: I've been playing back my recordings

[IRCA] what happened to ktrb?

2007-02-15 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I noticed that earlier this evening, I went by ktrb, and they were off, and still are, so I wonder what happened to the 860 frequency? Marty ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Re: [IRCA] IBOC status in Washington DC area

2007-02-11 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Bill, kcbs is the only station in the San Francisco bay area to have stopped using iboc, though, knbr was using it for a brief time, so I guess that makes 2 stations that have stopped using it, but if ktrb goes talk, they might start using it, as I heard them testing it on Monday morning last

Re: [IRCA] Mexican List

2007-02-11 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, does anybody have a list of stations from Mexico that feature an hour of English, or top 40 music, if not the whole format devoted to this? In Mexicali, there is zona 98, at 98.3, and also, 940 oldies, but those are the only two stations totally devoted to English music, with Spanish

Re: [IRCA] 540 unid

2007-02-07 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi, this is the 540 from Tijuana, whos' call sign escapes me at the moment, but they're simel-casting with 1260 from Beverly hills, and 105.1 from Los Angeles. On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 06:44:08 -0800, Doug Pifer-desert4wd.com wrote: Hi All, Anything in the west broadcasting CW music on 540? Earlier,

Re: [IRCA] KVIP 540 kHz Coverage map

2007-02-07 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, on 540 in the day time, I get what appears to be a harmonic of knbr, but a friend of mine theorizes this as being a translator, and wonder if this is a translator, or a harmonic of 680? 660 has a harmonic of ksfo, in the day time, and I wonder if this too is a translator, or a harmonic of

Re: [IRCA] KNBR-940

2007-02-07 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Glen, k g o's transmitter site is by the Dumbarton bridge, and I believe that is in Newark California, and the knbr transmitter site is in Bellmont, I do believe, but I had heard it was by the San Francisco international airport, but maybe I'm confusing them with k g e i on short wave. On

[IRCA] ktrb testing iboc

2007-02-05 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all this morning, I was going by ktrb, and they were testing iboc, and then they turned it off, but turned it on sometime later, so I wonder if this means they'll go talk on March first? Marty ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] KTRB to Begin Regular Broadcasts from the San Francisco Bay Area

2007-02-02 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, also, if they would do something about getting both channels of music on, we wouldn't have to hear the music out of one of the stereo channels, as exhibited by songs like do you know what I mean by Lee Michaels, or, bye bye baby by big brother and the holding company. On Thu, 1 Feb 2007

Re: [IRCA] 860 SF

2007-02-01 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Bill, after the continuous loop they ran since midnight, the first song a little before six this morning, was piece of my heart, and if you heard Mersades Bens by Janis Jopplan, you were hearing the correct station, but the thing I'm not sure of is, if they were running on low power or not. I

Re: [IRCA] KTRB 860khz Testing?

2007-02-01 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi, you might try calling area 209-526-8600 but that was the old number for ktrb, and not sure if they have a number in San Francisco. On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:22:41 -0600, Les Rayburn wrote: Since KTRB is activelly testing, wouldn't it be nice if they could include some Morse Code ID's

Re: [IRCA] pre sunset on 860

2007-02-01 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi Bob, they say they're making technical adjustments from their Livermore transmitter site. At 1700 PST, KTRB and KPAM are mixing it up with equal strength here about 80-90 miles (I think) north of the KTRB transmitter. Anyone know where the site actually is? Bob Coomler Cloverdale, CA ---

[IRCA] ktrb San Francisco signs on tonight at midnight

2007-01-31 Thread Marty Rimpau
The long-awaited move-in of K T R B-A M, MODESTO to the SAN FRANCISCO market will take place at midnight tomorrow (2/1), with the beginning of the final phase of testing of the station's new 50,000-watt signal. The PAPPAS-owned facility will be playing music from the heyday of SAN FRANCISCO

[IRCA] rats

2007-01-31 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I got this from another list, and thought you broadcasters on the list would find it interesting if you hadn't seen it already. From Tuesday's Washington Post (1-30-07): If you hear some scratching noises on XM radio, it's probably not static --but it might be rats. The satellite

Re: [IRCA] What happened to x e q i n?

2007-01-25 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi John, I went to the x e q i n web site, and there were no links, in fact the only text I saw said Falló la consulta so I wonder what's going on. On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:38:34 -0600, John Callarman wrote: XEQIN's website http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=1022http://www.cdi.gob.mx/in

[IRCA] What happened to x e q i n?

2007-01-24 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, just wondering, what happened to x e q i n? I'm not hearing them anymore in the morning, and I thought, one night, while listening to Lora Ingrum, that I heard their open carrier on 1160, but just wondering if they're still on the air or not. Marty

Re: [IRCA] What happened to x e q i n?

2007-01-24 Thread Marty Rimpau
should check lower frequencies on the dial in case they moved again... 73, Tim On 1/24/07, Marty Rimpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, just wondering, what happened to x e q i n? I'm not hearing them anymore in the morning, and I thought, one night, while listening to Lora Ingrum, that I heard

Re: [IRCA] OT computer

2007-01-15 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi, I'm using 98 se, but have never used dos, but it seems like the older versions prior to xp would have access to dos. On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:07:51 +, Tom L Jones wrote: Can someone tell me the latest windows that has a complete DOS in it ? I have lots of games other old programs that

[IRCA] k g o has iboc

2007-01-10 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi list, I turned on k g o, and thought I was hearing things, but I guess not, for they have turned on their iboc again. I think it was the last day of June last year when they were testing it out on the Ray Taliaferro show, and through out that week-end, but at least, they don't sound like a

[IRCA] 940 Fresno with blank carrier

2006-12-17 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I noticed this morning from about 4 to after six, when I stopped listening, that 940 in Fresno was running dead carrier, and wonder what their problem is, and if they're still running a blank carrier. This made it possible to hear the 940 in Mexicali, though the reception tonight was not

[IRCA] the 940 in Mexicali

2006-12-15 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, a friend of mine recorded the 940 in Mexicali, and if you would like to download the 44 meg mp3, good for 100 downloads, the link is http://www.yousendit.com/download/QyjWow2moxN5TA%3D%3D Marty ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] 940 in Mexicali

2006-11-10 Thread Marty Rimpau
for. Wanna try again? Mike Hawkins Marty Rimpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I had dismissed this station, thinking it was probably bend Oregon, or something like that, but apparently, the 940 in Fresno is off tonight, and I found out that x e m m m at 940 in Mexicali is oldies

[IRCA] 940 in Mexicali

2006-11-08 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, I had dismissed this station, thinking it was probably bend Oregon, or something like that, but apparently, the 940 in Fresno is off tonight, and I found out that x e m m m at 940 in Mexicali is oldies, but there doesn't seem to be any internet stream, though before the song on a carousel

Re: [IRCA] 1160 with awful hum

2006-11-03 Thread Marty Rimpau
, Marty Rimpau wrote: Hi all, this morning, I wanted to hear x e q i n sign on, and right after the A B C news started at 5 o'clock, I thought another appliance had come on in the building, but it was the carrier of x e q i n in San Quintin with an awful hum, and wonder if anybody else has

[IRCA] heard ktrb testing yesterday

2006-10-27 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, yesterday, I heard ktrb in San Francisco at 860 testing yesterday with an open carrier, with an announcement by a female announcer stating, ktrb San Francisco, on the air for testing at low power. This must have apparently been a tape, because there was another one of those that they ran,

[IRCA] k m t i

2006-10-16 Thread Marty Rimpau
Hi all, sometime last week, I was listening to 650, and heard what sounded like country music, with agriculture based news, and the call letters of the station were k m t i, and it was from somewhere in Utah, and the signal was so strong that I originally thought that k s t e in Sacramento was at