Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] 1520 KKXA

2014-11-23 Thread Mike Hawkins
KAZA is coming in very poorly in San Mateo right now, so they may very well be on night power. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Dennis Gibson wrote: > Starting Tuesday evening I'll be visiting my Mom near Santa Cruz and will > check out KAZA. From there I've som

Re: [IRCA] IRCA DX Monitor on DVD Wonderful!!!!

2014-11-24 Thread Mike Hawkins
Ah yes! Nothing like hearing South Carolina from California. I'd buy the DVDs if information was made available. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote: > I dearly miss those frequency checks. Ms > > Sent from my iPod > > > On Nov 24, 20

Re: [IRCA] IRCA DX Monitor on DVD Wonderful!!!!

2014-11-24 Thread Mike Hawkins
Phil, Paypal just now sent to you for DVDs. Use shipping address in the Paypal transmittal. Thanks! Mike Hawkins On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Phil Bytheway via IRCA < irca@hard-core-dx.com> wrote: > ___ > IRCA mailing list >

Re: [IRCA] IRCA DX Monitor on DVD Wonderful!!!!

2014-11-24 Thread Mike Hawkins
I STILL have two tube-powered consoles plus a tube-powered R388A. They still work fine! Mike Hawkins On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote: > Those must have been fun days DXing on tube powered consoles or crystal > radios and collecting EKKO stamps. > > Sent

Re: [IRCA] Phone exchanges (was Re: KIDD-630)

2014-12-28 Thread Mike Hawkins
hose letters on our telephone keypads, which seem to be reserved for marketing fools. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Mike Brooker wrote: > I think those phone exchanges disappeared in the 1970s or late 1960s > because they became politically incorrect. Most of them were ver

Re: [IRCA] Saved Perseus Files

2015-01-24 Thread Mike Hawkins
ication is defined by Windows to be associated with that type of file. That doesn't change unless you tell it to either. Mike Hawkins On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Steve wrote: > > When you say that you choose a file on the desktop, do you mean that you >> are in Perseus and tryi

Re: [IRCA] Saved Perseus Files

2015-01-24 Thread Mike Hawkins
aid in the last paragraph resembles what you are getting, create directories for your Perseus use, and put everything there. Mike Hawkins On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Steve wrote: > I am not clear as to whether you mean the desktop directory or its files >> are not displayed, or do you

Re: [IRCA] RadioShack is gearing up to sell or shutter its stores, report says

2015-02-02 Thread Mike Hawkins
Decided to check out a store for possible goodies. All I found was a Grundig S450DLX radio for $29. Works for me! Batteries were on sale too. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: > Locally, since the prior round of shutdowns several years ago, there ar

Re: [IRCA] 1450

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Hawkins
Fort Worth TX on 97.1 Easiest place to look is always here: http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php Mike Hawkins On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote: > I was sitting on 1450 just before 11 pm Pacific Time when both KZNU and > KNOT took a deep down fade together and I hear

Re: [IRCA] KSFN address?

2015-02-04 Thread Mike Hawkins
>From their web site: EDI Media Inc. 1773 W. San Bernardino Road, Bldg C-31 West Covina CA 91790 (626) 856-3889 i...@edimediainc.com Mike Hawkins On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Martin Foltz wrote: > This is an older post but wanted to send an update. > > My report to the NRC log

Re: [IRCA] Radio Shack Store Closures

2015-02-06 Thread Mike Hawkins
Its good to know they have the same level of ethics as managers everywhere. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, james Weber wrote: > as a former Radio Shack Manager I can assure you whether a store will > remain open or be closed will not be told to employees. Corporate will > deny a store closure

Re: [IRCA] IBOC Hash AM vs FM OT question

2015-05-18 Thread Mike Hawkins
do an IBOC on/IBOC off comparison. I have a college station on 91.1 that uses HD 1 mile away from me. I cannot get the Sacramento powerhouse on 90.9 until I am 15-20 miles away, and if I hear anything at all on 91.3, I know its skip. The Stockton station on 91.3 NEVER comes in at all. Mike Hawki

Re: [IRCA] IBOC Hash AM vs FM OT question

2015-05-18 Thread Mike Hawkins
.5 in Merced about 130 miles away. Its effect is as bad on FM as > it > > is on AM. You just don't notice how bad it really is until you can do an > > IBOC on/IBOC off comparison. > > > > I have a college station on 91.1 that uses HD 1 mile away from me. I > >

Re: [IRCA] IBOC Hash AM vs FM OT question

2015-05-19 Thread Mike Hawkins
Patrick, You do realize you're going to need to buy out a stationery store to get enough supplies for your FM QSLs if you get serious about FM. I do poorly with skip here and I still have about 300 Es receptions. If you get real patient, you can also use meteors. Mike Hawkins On Tue, M

Re: [IRCA] GeoClock

2015-05-20 Thread Mike Hawkins
Compatibility mode solves most problems like that. Right click on any file in Explorer and go to the COMPATIBILITY settings. Mike Hawkins On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > I suspect Bruce is right...the actual error message burbled on about your > version of W

Re: [IRCA] GeoClock

2015-05-21 Thread Mike Hawkins
That website now redirects to a different one. Consider it dead. On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Les Rayburn wrote: > I just checked my copy, running on Windows 7 Pro Machine (64bit). It's > Geoclock Version 9. I had a "pro" version customized with my ham call and > coordinates. I purchased th

Re: [IRCA] KCTC 1320 CA logged in IL tonight

2013-09-14 Thread Mike Hawkins
Nice catch! They are weak here, 80 miles away! Mike Hawkins On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:34 PM, neilkaz wrote: > This evening I reversed the feed and termination points on my broadside > Double KAZ Array to aim it west rather than east since there's far more > HSFB to my west.

Re: [IRCA] Broadband Cable Internet

2013-09-23 Thread Mike Hawkins
adius. He replaced the box. I tested it. It worked. Don't let him leave without testing! Mike Hawkins On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Tim Hills wrote: > Patric: > > The box in the yard isn't likely to cause any interference, you could > probably run the cable directly to you

Re: [IRCA] Recordings Test

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
Blank spaces are not allowed in internet addresses. Some browsers may be nice and substitute the equivalent characters that represent the blanks, but not usually. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Dennis Gibson wrote: > It works fine with the Apple Safari browser after I cop

Re: [IRCA] Recordings Test

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
Not a Windows problem. Blanks spaces have never been allowed in internet addresses. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Theo wrote: > I accidentally deleted Michael's original post, but it's the old Windoz > problem with posted links. > > Please enclose them

Re: [IRCA] KDOW 1220 update

2013-11-02 Thread Mike Hawkins
I listened to them intentionally on the way home from work tonight. Twenty miles away, their signal was weaker than KEX. Their high power must have been a one-day glitch, as they were rather weak in San Jose. Mike Hawkins On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > I chec

Re: [IRCA] Fwd: Amazing, Adaptable AM Radio

2013-11-14 Thread Mike Hawkins
weren't the first on the air. Mike Hawkins currently looking out the window at KQW's original 1909 building! On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Dennis Gibson wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCBS_(AM) > > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:09:15 -0800 > From: Patrick Martin >

Re: [IRCA] Fwd: Amazing, Adaptable AM Radio

2013-11-15 Thread Mike Hawkins
t licensed until 09 Dec 1921, but had been using experimental calls since 1909. Mike Hawkins On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote: > XWA in Montreal (later CFCF?) claims that they were the first on the air. > I wonder what their date of first transmission actually was? ms

Re: [IRCA] Need KQQZ-1190 Address

2013-11-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
Try this: 6500 W Main St. Belleville IL 62223 Mike Hawkins On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:16 PM, DX E-Mail wrote: > Anyone have the postal address for KQQZ-1190? > > Report to 513 Rockkhill Road, Columbia MO 65201 retuedn as "Undeliverable" > > 73, > >

Re: [IRCA] KWFM 1330 Tucson back on

2014-04-05 Thread Mike Hawkins
Ditto! Thin may be in, but FAT's where its at. I still have one of KFAT's T-shirts! Mike (the other) Hawkins On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Hawkins wrote: > Bob, > > On 4/5/14, 7:56 PM, Bob Coomler wrote: > >> >> >> "Star 1330" as before with their quasi-1980's hits programming. >> I've bee

Re: [IRCA] IRCs

2014-04-27 Thread Mike Hawkins
Jim, >From a DXers reference page, here is a list: http://www.dxzone.com/dx23258/countries-that-sell-irc.html It appears that you will have to purchase them from a foreign country, Canada being the closest. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:38 AM, wrote: > Does anyone know a

Re: [IRCA] IRCs

2014-04-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
Bill, You should have kept searching... http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3_020.htm They stopped selling them one year later. The internet made them (for the most part) obsolete. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Bill Harms wrote: > Jim, > > It looks like whoever

Re: [IRCA] QRM from lights

2014-05-15 Thread Mike Hawkins
Halogen lamps are very noisy. I stayed with a relative several years ago, and from the opposite end of a huge house, I knew immediately when she turned on her reading light. My radio reception was destroyed immediately. Halogen or AM DX.pick one. Mike Hawkins On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11

Re: [IRCA] Casey Kasem dies at 82

2014-06-15 Thread Mike Hawkins
I listened to Casey Kasem way back on KEWB in Oakland. He was the first DJ I can remember on rock & roll radio. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Rick Dau wrote: > And a huge piece of my formative years is gone. Wasn't a Sunday that went > by from about 1977-8

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] AM: No Static At All

2014-06-17 Thread Mike Hawkins
KSAN immediately became the #1 FM station in San Francisco for younger demographics, and also became the station that was copied in every major market. KSAN lasted from 1967 until it went country somewhere around 1980. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Bob Young wrote: > I remem

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] AM: No Static At All

2014-06-17 Thread Mike Hawkins
r it? Blue Cheer, and Owlsley. Looking back it seems like a > commercial, as Blue Cheer was one of Owlsley's "products". > > Steve "Now of a small farming town in Iowa" Hawkins > > > On 6/17/14, 6:00 PM, Mike Hawkins wrote: > >> Similarly, K

[IRCA] Pat Martin

2014-07-16 Thread Mike Hawkins
I haven't seen Pat (or references to Pat) lately. Maybe I just haven't noticed, but I thought I'd ask if everything's OK. Mike Hawkins ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Re: [IRCA] Pat Martin

2014-07-16 Thread Mike Hawkins
t; Hi Mike, > > I talked with Patrick today here on the Oregon coast, and he is fine. We > plan to try for a meal together this week, if he can find the time for it. > > 73, Gary DeBock (in Cannon Beach, OR) > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Haw

Re: [IRCA] Pat Martin

2014-07-17 Thread Mike Hawkins
be. :-) > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Mike Hawkins > > wrote: > > > I haven't seen Pat (or references to Pat) lately. Maybe I just haven't > > noticed, but I thought I'd ask if everything's OK. > > > > Mike Hawkins > >

Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Rockwork 4) Ultralight DU's for 7-15

2014-07-17 Thread Mike Hawkins
EML attachments are usually coming from Outlook when the user has decided to format their message as HTML. Outlook users will see a message formatted by Outlook senders differently than other people will. Using plain text usually stops this problem. Pat: Glad to see you're alive. I was asking abo

Re: [IRCA] Question to the left coast guys

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Hawkins
Just a guess, but... 610 - 530 = 80 530 - 80 = 450 IF oscillator is at 455. If you have an analog dial, see if it gets any stronger at 610-((610-455)/2)=532.5 Mike Hawkins On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Mike Stonebridge wrote: > Hi All: > > Early this morning I heard a pefect I

Re: [IRCA] Audacity editing problem

2015-12-21 Thread Mike Hawkins
off. They COULD have anti-malware running on a Mac, but there aren't any anti-virus products for Mac. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:03 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote: > If you are running a mac then you have no antivirus running! :-) > > It is a 44.1 Khz sample and t

Re: [IRCA] Audio file recording question--using Audacity

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Hawkins
Along with the size, consider that many email systems will block attachments over a certain size. Never assume that an attachment larger than 10MB will ever even get to the recipient. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: > .wav files tend to be much larger t

Re: [IRCA] first California xband stations

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Hawkins
Just in case you count Vallejo 1640/1630/1640 as one, the second unique one would be KAXW/1660 in Merced. Mike Hawkins On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Jim B wrote: > Does anyone know the first 2 stations that came on the expanded AM band in > California back in the 1990's? I log

Re: [IRCA] first California xband stations

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Hawkins
It came on later, as did 1680/Fresno and 1670/Redding. Mike On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't what was Saul Levine's bander now KFOX 1650 Torrance/Los Angeles? > > Paul > > On Thursday, March 3, 2016, Rick Lewis wrote: > > > Didn'

Re: [IRCA] KYOS 1480 Merced CA

2016-05-11 Thread Mike Hawkins
I spoke with Rick quite a bit sometime in the late 1990's or early 2000's (can't remember exactly when) about a DX test on their expanded band station. It didn't work out at the time, but I found him to be a very nice guy and very friendly. Mike Hawkins On Wed, May 11, 201

Re: [IRCA] Some Nova Scotia logs

2016-09-03 Thread Mike Hawkins
Chuck, Check out this link: https://www.box.com/pricing/personal You can get a free account, upload files and then share them with others. Just don't put private or confidential information up there. Mike Hawkins On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote: > I'd send

Re: [IRCA] Some Nova Scotia logs

2016-09-03 Thread Mike Hawkins
_ > From: IRCA on behalf of Mike Hawkins < > michael.d.hawk...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 3:45 AM > To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America > Subject: Re: [IRCA] Some Nova Scotia logs > > Chuck, > > Check out this link

Re: [IRCA] Testing ease of functionality - long logs and soundbytes

2016-09-06 Thread Mike Hawkins
stopforumspam.com is one of several sites that have a plug-in available, which checks by username and/or IP address. IP is much better. If it finds you, you're blocked. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion - edited out some items - > > Again, I d

Re: [IRCA] Fun Night for sure!

2012-03-10 Thread Mike Hawkins
I think KTWO was 1470. Mike On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > Don, > > Yes, 950 ID was KDSH, but that was before I was DXing. There were a > bunch of freq changes back in the 60s & 70s, when some of the old > stations moved to clear channels and boosted to 50KW. Wasn't KT

Re: [IRCA] Station ID needed

2012-11-22 Thread Mike Hawkins
A Google search (which should be first search for almost anything) shows KCEG in Fountain CO, near Colorado Springs. Mike On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Kenneth Nawalkowski wrote: > Hi, > Who is running classic country & western music and Id’ing KCEG on > 780? I have never heard them bef

Re: [IRCA] Don Kaskey - SK

2013-02-19 Thread Mike Hawkins
o the sadness that his family feels. Listening to him and his stories, he had a good life. He can be grateful for that, and we can be grateful for our memory of him. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:14 PM, kevin redding wrote: > It is with great regret and sadness that I got a phone call

[IRCA] Don Kaskey obit from SF newspaper web site

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Hawkins
I spotted this today. Thought others might want to read it. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=donald-kaskey&pid=163327241#fbLoggedOut Mike Hawkins ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mai

Re: [IRCA] Don Kaskey obit from SF newspaper web site

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Hawkins
That's what sitting in front of a radio all night does to you. Mike On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Walter Salmaniw wrote: > My, Don's picture reminded me a lot of another DX legend, John Bryant! > Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Mike Ha

Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: Hi

2013-04-15 Thread Mike Hawkins
ey're free nowadays. Use them. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Donna Halper wrote: > On 4/15/2013 7:24 PM, Barry Davies wrote: > >> Do we know Donna Halper? How the hell can this destructive crap get on a >> legitimate DX group email list? >> >&

Re: [IRCA] When did KYAA-1200 switch to Imaculate Heart radio?

2013-04-28 Thread Mike Hawkins
Here's the whole story on that one from a discussion board... http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=230185.0 Mike Hawkins On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Douglas Martin wrote: > Hi. KYAA-1200 was an oldies station a week ago. I was just listening to > them around su

Re: [IRCA] AM LOGBOOK TO CLOSE

2013-07-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
Lee, You have provided a great service for many years and all of us folks who sit and listen for hours owe you a major debt of gratitude. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:54 AM, LEE FRESHWATER wrote: > > > > It > is with deep regret that I announce the closing of the AML

[IRCA] KTRB/860

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Hawkins
Does anyone know when KTRB went away? They aren't there tonight and I thought I had been paying attention..... Mike Hawkins ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in mes

Re: [IRCA] KTRB/860

2011-02-11 Thread Mike Hawkins
n around the band by 5:15 but gave > it up by 5:30. I have to update my logs with all the call changes in the > last couple years (probably 3-4) as most likely all I'll be able to hear is > call changes.. > Thanks for waking me up (dxwise) > > Don K. > > > > > M

Re: [IRCA] Call letter meanings - 75 years ago

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
My grandfather was a card-carrying member of the Keep Growing Wiser Order of the Hootowls in the 1920s. That was a listener club that KGW ran back then. Mike Hawkins On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote: > > Wasn't KGW Golden West??? 'Miss them on 620ms

Re: [IRCA] Call letter meanings - 75 years ago

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
KWG - 1230 - Stockton CA On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Stephen Airy wrote: > How many of those 3-letter calls do you know of currently exist on local > channels, or smaller stations? (Smaller meaning less daytime power, also > could include ones with nighttime flea power or daytime only statio

Re: [IRCA] Three letter calls

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
If you listen to KTTO, just cough when they do an ID...it will sound just like KWG. Same goes for the old KYA. It also is Sacred Heart radio. Original programming is a thing of the past unless you're a college station. Mike Hawkins On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Stan Weisbeck wrote:

Re: [IRCA] (Off topic) Help with FCC data base please.

2011-04-03 Thread Mike Hawkins
Just for reference, 404 is the internet code for "what you are looking for does not exist." If you need something before FCC is available again, try: http://www.fccinfo.com http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php I rarely use FCC because it is so cumbersome. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Apr 3,

Re: [IRCA] KMZT 1260

2011-04-04 Thread Mike Hawkins
I guess recycling is popular in LA Radio. How many times has that station been down that path? 540/San Diego, 1260/LA, 1510/San Rafael and 1050/Frazier Park take turns being K-Mozart. Maybe he thinks it will get popular sooner or later? Mike Hawkins On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Mike

Re: [IRCA] KMZT 1260

2011-04-04 Thread Mike Hawkins
I think they should also remember the lesson learned from the first four times that the experiment has been done, rather than keep trying it periodically. Then, remember (1) Its an AM station, and (2) its Los Angeles. He's gotta do something really different in that market to get anyone's attenti

Re: [IRCA] KMZT 1260

2011-04-04 Thread Mike Hawkins
Everything EXCEPT get the ratings he wants. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > He's rich.. he's old.. he's earned the right to do whatever the heck he > pleases with his radio stations ;) > > Paul > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Ric

Re: [IRCA] New Station / SF 680 ,810

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Hawkins
And there is one special place in Livermore (20 miles from their xmtr) where you can null them out completely. Great place to DX from if you're looking for 800 and 820. Mike Hawkins On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:55 PM, kevin redding wrote: > They have a rock solid signal in Arizona &

Re: [IRCA] Wolfman Jack -(one more and last time)

2011-05-19 Thread Mike Hawkins
If you trust Wikipedia, look at the fourth paragraph... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack Mike Hawkins On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM, John Sampson wrote: > One other note; I think Wolfman was somehow involved with KUXL (1570) in > Golden Valley, Minnesota, during its early year

Re: [IRCA] KLOV FM network

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Hawkins
change the station as soon as you hear that song starting again. And they wonder why people are turning off the radio... I'll not make any comments about K-Love, as I tend to infuriate some people on this subject. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rick Dau wrote: > The same

Re: [IRCA] noise issue (What about the FCC?)

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Hawkins
owner didn't care at all, because he hoped it would burn and he could use insurance money to put up a custom home on the huge lot. If the noise is coming from the house, you might be stuck, If its wiring going to the house, the utility may have responsibility to repair it. Mike Hawkins On S

Re: [IRCA] KLOV FM network

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Hawkins
.mostly DXing. Mike Hawkins On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Scott Fybush wrote: > Mike Hawkins wrote: > > I wish you could mass email that second paragraph to every radio station >> in >> this country that plays music. Playlists are becoming so restrictive that >> yo

Re: [IRCA] noise issue update

2011-06-28 Thread Mike Hawkins
You can sell off what you don't need to the collectors on eBay and fund your retirement! Mike Hawkins On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > I just checked and with the 40w/60w/75w blubs, I have somewhere between > 350-400. I am 62, so plenty to last me the rest of

Re: [IRCA] noise issue update

2011-06-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
I have changed one lightbulb in the past three years. If you don't need it on, don't turn it on. If you turn it on and off a lot, you are killing it one flick at a time so leave it on for the day. Mike Hawkins On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Patrick Martin wrote: > I doubt I u

Re: [IRCA] Back Home Again

2011-07-11 Thread Mike Hawkins
You sure do know how to have fun, Don. Hope you recover quick! Mike On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Donald K. Kaskey wrote: > Greetings All! > > Back home friday after 8 days in the hospital. Elective surgery this time. > Total knee replacement in my left leg.. > Surgery went well, seem to be

Re: [IRCA] What's the fastest way to get a station to sign on?

2011-07-27 Thread Mike Hawkins
Rick, Could you please make that work in the opposite direction as well? Every once in a while, I have a yearning for a Monday morning silent period. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Rick Lewis wrote: > Post that it's off. KBLE has returned, just two minutes after I

Re: [IRCA] Need list of Penn State football radio affiliates

2011-08-26 Thread Mike Hawkins
-Stations-a37523/ Mike Hawkins On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Doug Martin wrote: > Hi. I am looking for a list of radio affiliates for Penn State football. > I've searched, including what is supposed to be the official site, without > much luck. > Than

Re: [IRCA] Nearest locals

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Hawkins
Within 15 miles, I have: 2.8 miles, KZDG/1550 10 KW 5.2 miles, KNBR/680 50 KW 11.0 miles, KDOW/1220 5 KW 12.4 miles, KGO/810 50 KW 12.6 miles, KTCT/1050 50 KW 12.7 miles, KFAX/1100 50 KW 12.8 miles, KTRB/860 50 KW 13.2 miles, KSFB/1260 5 KW 15.0 miles, KSFO/560 5 KW RF is everywhere! Mike

Re: [IRCA] Nearest locals

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Hawkins
ith > RF. I don't even Bother DXing from home anymore. > > 2 locals KDIA and KDYA on the old KNBA tower ( first radio gig ) about a > mile away. > > 2 FM KUIC and KZCT (7watts) wow. > > > > > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Mike Hawkins > wrote: > >

Re: [IRCA] Off Topic - Obsolete Semiconductors

2011-09-14 Thread Mike Hawkins
. Diagnostic codes, diagnostic lights tell you what to remove & replace. There's probably one above the tech's head right about now. Mike Hawkins On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, wrote: > > > > This is slightly off topic and > regards semiconductors suitable for RF wor

Re: [IRCA] Thank God for Radio

2012-01-02 Thread Mike Hawkins
that my New Years prediction for 2014. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Phil Bytheway wrote: > Although this is borderline DX related, I just need to vent. > > While growing up, New Year's day was always spent getting a football > overdose watching many bowl games

Re: [IRCA] KNEW-960?

2012-01-05 Thread Mike Hawkins
According to an FCC query, 910 is now KKSF and 960 is KNEW. Mike Hawkins On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Pete Taylor wrote: > Re the article on. p.3 of the 12/31 DXM, if the KNEW calls are now on > 960, what are the new calls for 910? > > Pete Taylor > Tacoma, WA > 12

Re: [IRCA] KKOH 780 Reno NV

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Hawkins
BUMMER! I can get a better signal from KKOH than I can from any other station that carries C2C. Mike Hawkins On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:32 AM, bill kral wrote: > K KOH 780 in Reno has traded in their 10 PM PST timeslot show Coast to > Coast AM for Red Eye Radio. I don't know i

Re: [IRCA] ULR DX........New TIS Station Logged on 1710 Khz WQFG689 Hudson County, NJ........

2012-02-16 Thread Mike Hawkins
FCC lists this station as 10 watts. Ultra-light transmitter to go along with your ultra-light receiver. Mike Hawkins On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Robert Ross wrote: > Hi Guys: > > Thanks to a Tip from Saul Chernos in Burnt River, ONT earlier in the > evening, I have Logg

Re: [IRCA] SS on 990

2012-02-25 Thread Mike Hawkins
Check kiqi1010am.com to see if the stream matches what you hear on the air. KATD-990 is // with KIQI-1010. Mike Hawkins On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Todd wrote: > In. well at times with mexican music, in. CBW' s null. Monterey? Pittsburg > on day pattern? > > Todd Skai

Re: [IRCA] KGO going off air

2010-01-07 Thread Mike Hawkins
Ooh! Ooh! Mike (out of a job STILL!) Hawkins On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Derek Vincent wrote: > More transmitter problems.. Shutting down for a bit after midnight ( local > ) > > Thank you. > > Derek Vincent > > Vmedia360...everywhere > _

Re: [IRCA] KGO going off air

2010-01-07 Thread Mike Hawkins
ESPN on 810, but I'll have to wait for TOH to find out if its a KNBR spur or Kansas City. Mike On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Mike Hawkins wrote: > Ooh! Ooh! > > Mike (out of a job STILL!) Hawkins > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Derek Vincent wrote: > &g

Re: [IRCA] KGO going off air

2010-01-07 Thread Mike Hawkins
t; > Thank you. > > Derek Vincent > > Vmedia360...everywhere > > On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Mike Hawkins > wrote: > > ESPN on 810, but I'll have to wait for TOH to find out if its a KNBR spur >> or >> Kansas City. >> >> Mike >

Re: [IRCA] KFQD 750 Alaska

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Hawkins
en on the fence about QSLs before that, and they pushed me over the edge. I know what I've heard and what I haven't, and documentary evidence isn't necessary for me (amongst the piles of other documentation). Mike Hawkins On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Patrick Martin wrote

Re: [IRCA] KFQD 750 Alaska

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Hawkins
19 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > KBBI is an interesting/neat little station. > > Sorry to hear KCBF never got abck to you. > > Paul > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Mike Hawkins >wrote: > > > This reminded me of two par

Re: [IRCA] One great advantage of aging....you can only remember 2 or 3 things at a time!

2010-01-08 Thread Mike Hawkins
Thats okay, Don. You forget to call too. Mike On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Donald K. Kaskey wrote: > In my last msg inre KFAT.That (of course) should be 'Free' Mexican Air > Force..touche! > > don > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-

Re: [IRCA] Haiti relief challenge

2010-01-14 Thread Mike Hawkins
I just made a posting on the internet forum which I moderate towards that same goal. They need all the help they can get right now and for the near future. Mike On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:21 PM, wrote: > > Tonight I pledged $200 to the Haiti relief fund on the Red Cross Canada > website and w

Re: [IRCA] RIP Air America Radio

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Hawkins
row. Its interesting that with their huge signal up and down the Pacific Coast, there are places on I-580 in the East Bay where you cannot receive them at all. The magic of directional patterns and finding the perfect null point! Mike Hawkins On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Patrick Martin wrote:

Re: [IRCA] RIP Air America Radio

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Hawkins
I'll listen to C2C sometimes, but I am finding radio pretty boring these days. My pet peeve with C2C is when they put on shows about the worldwide calamities that you can do nothing about. I once sent an email to George Noory, basically telling him that the doom and gloom shows could be enough fo

Re: [IRCA] KKEE 1230 Astoria FSR ex Air America

2010-01-26 Thread Mike Hawkins
Geez...what a novel idea for a radio format. Maybe you should tell them about K-Love. There's probably a shortage of affiliates in some square mile of Oregon. Mike (sarcastic as ever) Hawkins On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > 1230KKEEOR, Astoria is now Fox Sport

Re: [IRCA] MORE BAD NEWS FOR FM DXERS

2010-01-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
I think the problem is as bad on FM than it is on AM. The only real difference is that you clearly know IBOC when you hear it on AM and it is disguised on FM. Mike Hawkins On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Patrick Martin wrote: > It looks, at least for now FM only, but knowing the NAB and

Re: [IRCA] Montreal 690 & 940 to go SILENT?

2010-01-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
WAHG in Richmond Hill NY, to WABC in 12/1916, to New York in 11/1928, and to WCBS in 11/1946. Mike Hawkins On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Deane McIntyre wrote: > > On 29-Jan-10, at 5:10 PM, Eric Floden wrote: > > do you mean KCBS? I was surprised that they had a recent

Re: [IRCA] Montreal 690 & 940 to go SILENT?

2010-01-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
KCBS started as an experimental station in San Jose CA in 1909. Licensed as KQW in 1920-1921, moved to San Francisco and then became KCBS. They were #1 on the air in US, but not the first licensed by the FRC. Mike Hawkins On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Eric Floden wrote: > do you mean K

Re: [IRCA] MORE BAD NEWS FOR FM DXERS

2010-01-29 Thread Mike Hawkins
Patrick, It is overpowering AND is very subtle. There is a station down south of Fresno on 97.1 that came in well enough to get instant RDS hits. When KLLC/97.3 turned on IBOC, 97.1 was gone completely. When their IBOC has cut in and out or been turned off for any kind of maintenance, the 97.1

Re: [IRCA] IRCA 69-98-#3

2010-01-30 Thread Mike Hawkins
Some history here too... http://www.oldradio.com/archives/international/canada2.htm Mike Hawkins On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Deane McIntyre wrote: > > On 30-Jan-10, at 12:12 PM, bill kral wrote: > > This entry mentions that CINF( Prevoiously CBF) started out as the oldest &

Re: [IRCA] MORE BAD NEWS FOR FM DXERS

2010-02-01 Thread Mike Hawkins
en to your locals. Mike Hawkins Bay Area On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Kevin S wrote: > I am in the middle of Seattle, but until today haven't had a chance to > really hear what the FM IBOC hash sounds like. By chance, I picked up a > Yamaha T-80 tuner today at a thrift sh

Re: [IRCA] MORE BAD NEWS FOR FM DXERS

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Hawkins
I have heard hash from KEX in the past at 800 miles distance. Mike On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Patrick Martin wrote: > >>It obliterates the adjacents, as if the purpose isn't to improve a > signal so much as it is to force you to listen to your locals.<< > > I think this is a plus that sta

Re: [IRCA] MORE BAD NEWS FOR FM DXERS

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Hawkins
When I was commuting north from San Jose in the pre-dawn hours, KEX IBOC was obliterating a Hindi station on 1200 in Soquel CA. The station's primary audience was in San Jose, so their nighttime audience was zilch due to KEX. During daytime hours, there was no problem. The Soquel station should n

Re: [IRCA] 1220 WDXR

2010-02-06 Thread Mike Hawkins
Its a clear sign that I need a life when I can remember off the top of my head that I heard them...WDXR Paducah KY, originally on 1560 (where I heard them), then moved to 1450. Mike Hawkins On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > WDXR stand for Western DX Roundup, a column

Re: [IRCA] 1220 WDXR

2010-02-06 Thread Mike Hawkins
You mean there's actually something you haven't heard? I'm shocked! On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Patrick Martin wrote: > I am trying to remember which calls I have, WDXR or WPAD on 1560 QSL'd > years ago, but I have at least one. I never heard them on 1450. > > 73, > > Patrick > > Patrick M

Re: [IRCA] 1520 EE

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Hawkins
>From this location, I can also get Port Hueneme CA and Oklahoma City. Port Hueneme is much the stronger (and frequent) of the two. Mike Hawkins On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:44 PM, wrote: > > > Bill, > > Only two stations have been heard here on 1520 kHz. Local KGDD Portland &g

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