Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-7

2010-09-08 Thread nhp
Heh, Gary, the neighbors already have to put up with a 30' wooden mast at the back of the lot, and they haven't turned me in yet. In fact, one even commented that with the various antennas and supports draped around it, that it looked like the rigging of a sailboat. This is a good fantasy to

Re: [IRCA] The SRF-59's First Kill

2007-12-13 Thread nhp
Quoting Neil Kazaross [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this the radio you all are raving about ? http://www.amazon.com/Sony-SRF-59-Radio-Walkman-Headphones/dp/B6JQ06 I have also found that little Sony's can null really nice, but does this have enough oomph and selectivity to be domestic DX

Re: [IRCA] Sony SRF-59 Review

2007-11-21 Thread nhp
Quoting Gil Stacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Circuit City has both the digital readout SRF-M35V GilI can't find any reference to the SRF-M35V...is it the SRF-M37V perchance? best wishes, Nick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 09-19-07 From Masset : Sri Lanka heard!

2007-09-19 Thread nhp
Quoting WALTER SALMANIW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: VOA 1170 remains a regular with great reception all the way through the morning. Interesting you're hearing this rather than the South Korean we hear at Grayland. Maybe you're closer to VOA's main lobe up there. TAs last night started very

Re: [IRCA] 1215 SAH

2007-09-17 Thread nhp
Quoting Michael Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What was the question. Perhaps there's a good reason I don't go south of the border (besides most of south of the border coming north). If its sub-audible, I would assume that they're picking it up on a spectrum analyzer or some form of test

Re: [IRCA] 1053 Pyongyang Branch of the Anti-imperialist National Democratic Front

2007-09-02 Thread nhp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is information out of the 2007 edition of WRTH. Broadcasts on these frequencys 1053-3480-4450-4557, I know others have more experience with these broadcasts than I do -- maybe they could post too? This one hasn't ever been heard at home by me, Dennis,

Re: [IRCA] Measuring D-C resistance of ground rods to earth

2007-07-18 Thread nhp
Quoting Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mentioning CBK, I find I hear them generally 24/7 here off the Eastern beverage, Summer and Winter. A big surprise many years ago was hearing CBK at 2 PM local on a July afternoon here in Victoria. I was testing out a Sanserino loop I'd built for

Re: [IRCA] Measuring AC resistance of ground rods to earth

2007-07-17 Thread nhp
At 21:04 17/07/2007, you wrote: -- Original message -- From: Nick Hall-Patch [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Most of the traditional methods use power line frequencies; however, I've used the three point method using an AC generator at various frequencies up to 5 MHz,

Re: [IRCA] 612

2007-07-16 Thread nhp
At 19:30 16/07/2007, you wrote: I forgot to mention the 4 DU (well I guess I can't really call Marshall's a DU) hets that were in. 738 (Tahiti logged before) was in as soon as I checked for it, and was the strongest but at least 10 dB too weak for audio, IMHO. 828 had some het, but as always,

[IRCA] DXID-1566

2007-07-09 Thread nhp
As a change from summertime list topics, I wonder if I can get some information about DXID (great call letters!) located in Pagadian, in the southern Philippines, on 1566 kHz? (hey, Charleswhere does the Philippine side of your family live?) I had been getting a carrier fading in about

Re: [IRCA] CW on 520 kHz

2007-06-21 Thread nhp
Quoting Wozniak, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I live within the city limits of St. Louis and few weeks ago while scanning the lower frequencies I came across a CW signal which repeated itself and lasted an hour or so before it faded away. I am assuming that it is a transmitter beacon somewhere

[IRCA] WNJC-1360 test: no / New Zealand: a distant maybe

2007-06-15 Thread nhp
sent this over a day ago, with no sign yet, soanother attempt... At 18:25 13/06/2007, you wrote: Nick, Could it be a DU or a TP with a weak carrier on 1359? Just a thought Bill An excellent possibility, Bill, which had escaped me.I've never logged anything on 1359 at home, and I

Re: [IRCA] Long ago KNBA Vallejo.

2007-04-04 Thread nhp
Quoting Marc DeLorenzo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very interesting, Dennis.I heard the same type of thing on 1030 kHz in Georgia in the late 80's. I was sitting in my car listening to the sign-off announcement of WNOW-1030 in Mint Hill (Charlotte), NC.At the end of the announcement, the guy

Re: [IRCA] Fwd: re:alaskans

2007-03-21 Thread nhp
--- bill kral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heard between 2330 and 2400 last night 0n 780 under KKOH Reno: music and talk from 2 scources.The music could have been from KNOM Nome AK but no ID heard.Talk on KOH too continuous to make out others.Or was it Talk on KNOM and music from CFDR

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 21 March

2007-03-21 Thread nhp
Quoting Walter Salmaniw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reasonable audios: 594, 747, 774, 828, 1566 of courseonly oddballs were 639 (CC) and 1593 (JJ). not so reasonable audio: 558, 675, 738, 873, 1287, 1475, 1575 probably a number of barely theres, but didn't take the time to dig. Not so

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 03-12-07

2007-03-12 Thread nhp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Listened from 1247-1430 ut You seem to do better w/NHK1 on 666 than I do, Dennis. But China turned up here on 639 also, though not strong. This morning was another odd one here, with the usual NHK2 big guns rather subdued, and suffering from SAHs and

[IRCA] Fwd: [mwc] Radio Nederland on MW : now

2007-03-07 Thread nhp
from MW Circle List : Now on 1314 khz Norway: Radio Nederland in Dutch with provincial elections program. Also some sports news. Also via 702 khz Monte Carlo. The program will last till 2300UTC. Max van Arnhem - End forwarded message - not much help for us in the west, but

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 03-02-07

2007-03-02 Thread nhp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 648 Japan? weak. sounded like Japanese, but not sure. 1342 ut Wonder if you were hearing the big Russian there, Dennis? Both VoR and VoA broadcast in Korean on that frequency, and with the conditions this morning, could have been possible. best wishes,

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 02-20-07

2007-02-20 Thread nhp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Like Bill, it was a very good day for carriers, but not audio here. Only two TPs with audio. 153 Russia, Radio Rossii fair at 1440 ut. 774 Japan, JOUB with English lessons fair at 1438 ut. Below is from 1438-1511 ut Quite an difference between our

[IRCA] Kvitsoy 1314 on again

2007-02-08 Thread nhp
don't know how long this will last. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:24:12 - Subject: Re: [mwc] 1314kHz activated - Dutch on air now From Radio Netherlands website The heavy snow that has affected the Netherlands today is

Re: [IRCA] TP 02-07-07

2007-02-07 Thread nhp
Quoting Bill Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Only a very carrier on 774 at 1415 no other carriers or audio were heard. had weak to very weak audio at times on 747,774, 828 and 1287; not on 1566 though. Various carriers also. Dennis...NHK2 signs off at 1500UT on Sunday and Monday mornings our

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 1-30

2007-01-30 Thread nhp
Quoting Bill Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Only one weak carrier today at 1425 UT on 1566. Still a fair number of weak carriers here between 1500 and 1530UT, but no audio. Seemed to be a mix of down under (e.g. 612, 756, 1548) and Asia (774, 1566). Would have expected 1134 to be Japan, but

Re: [IRCA] Upper MW TPs

2007-01-24 Thread nhp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1166 kHz China? weak, woman in CC at 1540 UT. . 1116, Dennis? Pretty much any China is a good catch this month! Nick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] NE ORegon TPs

2007-01-08 Thread nhp
Quoting Steve Ratzlaff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Poor for TPs this morning. 594 was the best with weak to medium audio--apparently China, if all the JJ NHK's are signed off at 1500 utc. 567, 666, 1593 with poor audio, in the 1500-1550 utc period. Only NHK2 stations sign off at 1500UT on Sunday

Re: [IRCA] TP for 12-14

2006-12-14 Thread nhp
At 14:59 14/12/2006, you wrote: Only one TP was heard today and that was 594 at 1420 UT. Not able to dig anything out on 594, but barest of audio on 747 and 828 at 1528UT; 774 was just a carrier, but came back with fair audio for about 30 seconds at 1531UT, then back into the mud. Otherwise,

[IRCA] 1314 rises again

2006-11-15 Thread nhp
This just posted to the Medium Wave Circle list..if we're very lucky, we'll get the tail end on the west coast. I did hear them once before local sunset Hello, In case you're planning a DX session next Wednesday (22 Nov), please be advised that Radio Netherlands will be on the air

Re: [IRCA] Nov 3 TPs: Poor but Interesting

2006-11-03 Thread nhp
Quoting John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are we going through a bad patch or is the fall season turning to winter??? Hopefully just a bad patch, John. I've been messing some with the data that is derived from the NOAA POES satellite (what nerds do on their lunch hour), and the last

Re: [IRCA] TPs Oct 31: Really Good AM

2006-10-31 Thread nhp
Quoting John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Had lots of audio... that lasted well after dawn, with no area really favored over the others. The JJ powerhouses were especially good Here it was a very Japanese morning. 594 may have been the best level I've ever heard them, and channels like

[IRCA] Fwd: [mwc] 1269 Deutschlandfunk off

2006-10-26 Thread nhp
This no doubt explains why 1269 wasn't coming in last night during the TA opening (hi). Run a Google translation on it, and a cathedral seems to be involvedthe mind boggles, or is that boogles? Nick - Forwarded message via MW Circle list from Günter Lorenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -