670 WSCR was IBOC free this morning, which opened up the adjacent channels to DX. 670 KLTT was also heard clearly under Chicago and a new one for the log book with religious programming. During this, I'm "watching" a carrier come up on the Perseus on 657, which would otherwise be occupied by strong IBOC hash from WSCR, but the hash is absent this morning. As time passes and sunrise approaches, 657 builds in strength, but with it comes weak IBOC hash from another unknown source, but likely far off in the distance. Per Barry M's search page, KLTT is also HD, so I assume they are the long distance culprit spewing out this hash. My excitement of logging KLTT was short lived as it's IBOC is now beginning to ruin any chance of hearing the threshold audio coming up on 657. Sticking it out, and carefully listening against Star's streaming audio, start/stop times of talking vs. music matched what I'm hearing, and high notes in some of the spiritual songs also boosted my confidence when they matched the very weak audio I was hearing, which was just enough to maintain SAM lock on the Perseus. Hard to log New Zealand at this point, but I hope WSCR's IBOC stays off for a few days to try again. 657's carrier was also the last one to hang on this morning before finally disappearing around 1128 UTC - that's 24 minutes past my local sunrise.
73, Tim Tromp West Michigan Perseus SDR + Southwest phased BOGs _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
