[IRCA] TP 15 Jan Victoria version

2018-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
No sunrise enhancement this morning to speak ofand generally conditions were not very exciting. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not this morning Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a

[IRCA] weak TA carriers

2018-01-15 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
This wouldn't be newsworthy except that there's recently been some geomagnetic activity which one would expect would shut down paths from northern Europe to western Canada. Not entirely so, as carriers have been heard this evening on 909 1089 and 1215kHz from about 0400UTerratic and weak

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 15 January 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Nigel Pimblett
This morning was pretty similar to yesterday morning, with a single Japanese station providing consistent audio. Today it was 774 rather than 693.It was actually up to a good level at times, though generally fair. Snippets of audio now and again on 693, 747, and 828 rounded out the

[IRCA] Oklahoma TP DX 1/15/18

2018-01-15 Thread Richard N. Allen
774 JOUB poor man & woman talking in English at 1254-1257. Other than weak hets on 828 and 972 kHz no other TP signals heard. Good DX. Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, Skywave SSB + 8-inch FSL Sent from my iPad ___ IRCA mailing list

[IRCA] S. AZ TPs, January 15--poor

2018-01-15 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
A tiny bit better this morning with 774 Japan and 972 S Korea several times giving bits of audio between 1410-1455 utc, though not quite reaching "very poor" level. And a decent het on 846 lasting the whole session where I usually don't hear a het at all. Sunrise 1424 utc. Steve AA7U near

Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Scotland 810 (Saturday afternoon)

2018-01-15 Thread Mark Connelly via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- What little bit of WGY groundwave gets here on 810 can easily be covered by any number of skip stations at or before sunset. Over the years these have included Scotland, Spain, Macedonia, Brazil, and Colombia. WGY on 810 and WCBS on 880 are both 50 kW non-directional