[IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2014-07-10 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Not much really, but 1548 faded up for a couple of minutes just after 1200UT this morning, man talking, and occasionally a woman, DU EE inflection, but way too much 1550 splash to be certain. best wishes, Nick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-

[IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2017-07-10 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
That was a bit of a bust, courtesy of yesterday's geomagnetic upset I guess. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/sp

[IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2017-07-11 Thread DXer
Hi Nick, Unrelated, I know. I'm running a WSPR beacon 24/7 on the 20M band - unless I'm on the air - and there were times in the last 24 hours that I thought the beacon had died. There were no reception reports for hours sometimes. The average reception in the last 24 hours is from 800 km. Last we

Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2014-07-10 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Welcome back, Nick! 73, Walt On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > Not much really, but 1548 faded up for a couple of minutes just after > 1200UT this morning, man talking, and occasionally a woman, DU EE > inflection, but way too much 1550 splash to be certain. > > > best wishe

Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2014-07-10 Thread Gary DeBock via IRCA
14 10:07 pm Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version Welcome back, Nick! 73, Walt On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > Not much really, but 1548 faded up for a couple of minutes just after > 1200UT this morning, man talking, and occasionally a woman, DU EE > i

Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2014-07-11 Thread R. Colin Newell
re-dx.com > Cc: > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:49:10 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version > > Thanks for the report of the 1548 signal this morning, Nick. > > In 3 more days you should have some extensive DU-DXing information for > comparison purposes, as we

Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2017-07-11 Thread DXer
Should have mentioned that the beacon nominal output power is 100 mW. The effective power is surely less, as the signal currently has to go through 4 adaptors (sma/bnc/pl), then an antenna tuner, to a multi-band vertical. On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM, DXer wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Unrelated, I

Re: [IRCA] TP 10 July Victoria version

2017-07-11 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Every little bit counts when trying to understand propagation Vince.Thanks for pointing that out. Long-distance MW certainly seemed dead at that time. This morning (11 July) looked a little better at first glance, but will have to see what the SDR files actually sound like. best wish