[IRCA] XHDATA D-808

2019-03-10 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
I don't normally buy stuff from Ebay. But when I do, it's a XHDATA D-808 that isn't legally sold in North America. Cost $AUD 118 including shipping from Australia via Singapore. It arrived by Canada Post on Friday, less than 2 weeks after I ordered it. It's a little bigger than the C Crane

Re: [IRCA] WION test

2019-02-24 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
I didn't even find out about the WION-1430 test until too late. No chance I would have heard them anyway with a local pest on the frequency (CHKT). 73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:32 PM Rick Dau wrote: > I tried for it on the KiwiSDR out of Muscatine, Iowa, but didn't

[IRCA] Loggings in Detroit

2018-12-05 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
A few loggings from a recent visit to Detroit MI WINA-1070 Charlottesville, VA 11/30 0708 – way over CHOK and WFNI with “News radio 1070 WINA” ID into local weather. WGNZ-110 Fairborn, OH 11/30 0722 – creaming WBT and in-state rival WJML with “Good news radio WGNZ...playing music with a

Re: [IRCA] KRVN 880 heard in Southern California

2018-11-12 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
DX-friendly station perhaps. But my QSL from KRVN-880 took more than two years to arrive! No follow-up reports sent for that logging in 1978, but I have heard KRVN a number of times under WCBS since then. 73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 11:43 PM Mike Sanburn wrote: >

Re: [IRCA] 530 CIAO TORONTO

2018-11-04 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
Your awesome DX catch. My local pest  73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:25 AM R. Colin Newell wrote: > > 0624 UTC // on the live stream with Punjabi S. Asian folk music. > > Drake R8 - N Flag. > > > Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - >

Re: [IRCA] LINK FOR XHDATA D-808 PURCHASE

2018-07-31 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
Is there any reason why this radio is not available in North America, except through sketchy fly-by-night re-sellers? I would be tempted to buy one if it was offered by, say, Universal Radio. Slightly better than the C Crane Skywave, yes. But I don't think it would beat my 40 year old Panasonic

[IRCA] CKNT-960 Mississauga, ON testing

2018-06-21 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
This much-anticipated (NOT!) near-local noted testing with classical music, announcements mentioning test transmissions and giving phone 647-501-1700 or email cknt...@gmail.com to report interference. It's certainly taken long enough for this station (format will be news-talk) to get on the air

[IRCA] Detroit loggings

2016-11-26 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
Not a great location for DX, nonetheless the following items were logged in downtown Detroit (Marriott at the Renaissance Center), with C Crane Skywave 610 WTVN OH Columbus – 11/20 0820 – potent groundwave in downtown Detroit with Ohio Basement Authority ad, “News radio

[IRCA] CJRU-1280 sign on March 31

2016-03-01 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
http://www.thescopeatryerson.ca/en/thescope/blog/827/Countdown-to-1280AM-Begins.htm CJRU Radio volunteers at Ryerson begins preparations to turn on 1280AM on March 31, 2016 when the diverse voices of Ryerson and the local community will be shared across downtown Toronto and beyond. Heard

[IRCA] CJRU-1280 on the air

2016-01-26 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
CJRU-1280 aka "the Scope @ Ryerson" now on the air with regular programming from Toronto's Ryerson University. Successor to CKLN-88.1, whose license was pulled by the CRTC. Power is a whopping 99 watts non-directional, putting in a fair signal at my midtown Toronto home. Same as the last user of

[IRCA] WBOB-600

2016-01-09 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
WBOB-600 DX test with Sweep tone (sounding like a landline phone off the hook) and code IDs noted at 0015 ET. Poor, fighting off CJCL-590 slop, UNID Fox news talker (possibly WMT) and C station, possibly CKAT North Bay, ON 73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] CKOC 1150 Hamilton, Ontario to change formats

2015-05-28 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
No great loss for oldies fans. CKOC had a pretty dreadful 1970s Canadiana playlist, hamstrung by CRTC's CanCon rules. CHML-900 had been the TiCats flagship since the leather helmet era. 73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:09 PM, neilkaz neil...@earthlink.net wrote: Another

Re: [IRCA] R.I.P. WAGL-1560

2015-05-14 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
I have a QSL from WAGL for sunset skip reception in 1978. I am 99% sure the v/s was the late B. Len Phillips. They also sent a coverage map with the counties in different colors so they would look like states. If I can find the verie in one of my albums, I will scan it and upload it on my Facebook