[IRCA] 640
640 kHz is a mumble jumble off the Eastern beverage tonight. 0158 EDT CBC station talking about programming. Many mentions of CBC CBN 0200 EDT Sounded like an ID, jingle, then oldies format, mostly late 50s (Doo Wop), and Dave Clark Five, early RB. Ideas? Sounded EE ancr, but uncertain. Ideas? Drake SPR4 1500' eastern beverage Patrick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 1040 Vancouver
1040 is weak tonight again. Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 640
Unfortunately CA/MT took over the channel again. I'll keep checking. Too bad I could not pull enough signal out of he CBC. Presumed CBN? Don't see any LPRTs, other than NWT. Interesting for a while. Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] unID on 820 . . . Maybe Radio Paradise? Maybe Not.
After reading Rob Ross's post on the IRCA reflector, I decided to check to see if I could duplicate what he heard (820 R. Paradise (St. Kitts and Nevis) and Venezuela strong on 750). Nothing on 750 but a weaker than normal WSB and WBAP on 820. However, staying on 820, I rotated the Eton 90 degrees, I heard very light instrumental music interspersed with some woman and a man talking in an unknown language (sounded FF). I could not catch an ID at 0100. It did NOT match R. Paradise's stream at all which had a yelling preacher but what I heard at 0100 seemed to exactly match Rob's description of his 2145 reception. Oddly it seemed gone after 0100 EDT. Maybe they signed off? I'll try again. 820 unID 10-23 0100 Weak in WBAP null with light instrumental music interspersed with bits of talking by a man and woman in an unknown language (FF?). No apparent ID at 0100. Seemed completely gone after 0100 (signed off???). Did not match R. Paradise's stream but these aren't always //. (DH-IN) Dave Hascall Indianapolis Eton E-100 Time EDT ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP's for 10-23-09
Listened from 1312-1402 utc. With the A at 17 and K at 4 heard a lot more stations than I thought I would. VOA 1575 was the only station heard on the upper channels. What has happen to the Russian station on 648? Have not heard it this season yet. Past seasons was a regular vistor here. Have a nice weekend. 153 RUSSIA, 1318 weak with man in Russian. // 189. Fair 1321. 189 RUSSIA, 1319 weak with man singing. // 153. 279 RUSSIA, 1320 good with man singing and // 153. 558 JAPAN, JOCR 1323 weak with Japanese. 567 JAPAN, JOIK NHK1 1401 Fair at times and // 594. 594 JAPAN, JOAK 1323 good signal, best this season with Japanese. fair at 1331 and // 666. 603 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HLSA 1425 fair with man singing. 639 CHINA, CRN1 1326 Fair at times with man in Chinese and // 5030. Splatter from KFI, but -0.50 kHz helped. 657 DPR Korea, 1328 weak and // 3320 with Korean. 666 JAPAN, JOBK NHK1 1330 weak with woman in Japanese and // 594. 693 JAPAN, JOAB NHK2 1332 weak to fair // 774 with Radio Conversation English. 738 TAIWAN? 1335 assuming fishery with weak signal, // 1143 not heard. 774 JAPAN, JOUB NHK2 1312-1316 good with man in Japanese and // 828 828 JAPAN, JOBB NHK2 1316 good with man in Japanese and // 774. 873 JAPAN, JOGB NHK2 very weak and // 774. 1134 CHINA, CRN1 1339 assuming CRN1 with faint audio at times. 1575 THAILAND, VOA 1354-156 in and out with weak signal. Dennis, Salmon Creek, WA JRC NRD 545 R8B ewe NW 13.1 C or 55.6 F Humidity 83% Overcast Solar Indices SF 72 A 17 K 4 1200 utc ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Arizona TP's for 10-23-09
Listened from 1305-1350 ut and conditions was not very good with all audio just above the noise level. I did get carriers up to 981 today and yesterday I did not get any carriers above 774. 279 Russia 594 JOAK 657 N. Korea 603 S. Korea 693 JOAB 774 JOUB Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP's for 10-23-09
vroom...@comcast.net wrote: What has happen to the Russian station on 648? Have not heard it this season yet. Past seasons was a regular vistor here. Have a nice weekend. Dennis I haven't noticed it this season either. The VOA stopped using this freq for its Korean service earlier this year. It now uses a transmitter on 1350 on Mongolia, and the FEBC transmitter in Seoul on 1188 for its broadcasts to North Korea. That transmitter was also used for Voice of Russia broadcasts, and I'm not sure what happened to them. There's one more thing for me to investigate for the PAL log. At Grayland earlier this month, we heard a lot of weak stuff, but I spent less time there than I should have. I do recall Chuck thinking he heard something with weak central Asian sounding music around sunrise, but I don't think it ever came to more than that. It might be worthwhile for a few peopleto check that freq on their SDR or Perseus files from recent DXpeditions (hint hint). Bruce ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP's still coming in
I slept through the DX this morning while the SDR did all the work and didn't get to the radio until 1506 UT. 747 is still putting in decent audio at 1530. 693 had good audio until a few minutes ago, but the carrier is still there. 594 was OK, but now there are just weak traces. I haven't found much else except for a het on 891. Once I have some breakfast I'll check the SDR files. Bruce ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP's still coming in
Conditions weren't all that great today as it turned out. The upper part of the band was completely devoid of TPs, and the lower part had the usual stations mostlya bit weaker than normal. 747 was sometimes stronger than the domestics on 750 740 730. 729 and 774 were also good, but they were the exceptions. Bruce Bruce Portzer wrote: I slept through the DX this morning while the SDR did all the work and didn't get to the radio until 1506 UT. 747 is still putting in decent audio at 1530. 693 had good audio until a few minutes ago, but the carrier is still there. 594 was OK, but now there are just weak traces. I haven't found much else except for a het on 891. Once I have some breakfast I'll check the SDR files. Bruce ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP for 23 Oct from Victoria, BC
This morning was a little easier to handle from an intensity standpoint, but, well, the DX wasn't as good. Started at 1400 and quit about 1440UT, when things were starting to fade, though not radically. I'm not surprised Bruce was hearing things later. Though mostly Japanese and Korean, a couple of Chinese showed up later. pretty darn good audio (at least briefly, though mostly pretty steady): 567 JOIK not //594 at 1413, but mentions of Hokkaido, and was JJ. Back //594 at 1425. 594 JOAK 747 JOIB 774 JOUB reasonable audio at times during the period (though often battling w/splash or noise): 279 R. Rossii 558 HLQH clear but not really strong 828 JOBB; might have been stronger at some point, but not when I was listening 603 HLSA clear and //558, but not strong 972 HLCA 1575 VoA not so reasonable audio, occasional words in splash or noise: 531 JOQG //594 567 SAH and man talking just after 1400, u/JOIK; no KBS // at the time 612 JOLK //594 at 1437; mostly a jumble at other times 621 woman in CC? at 1427, too much splatter to say for sure. Hum and murky talk earlier 666 JOBK //594 711 likely HLKA, man in KK sounding talk at various times 765 mx; no clue 864 woman talking, sounded JJ 1134 likely JOQR w/mx, not //972 1242 mx at 1420; the middle and upper band didn't have much oomph this morning Burbles in the splatter and noise: 639 CNR-1 //5030 at 1435UT 657 N. Korea, hum and singing seemed //2850 675 738 woman talking, good carrier 783 talk in murk at 1432 801 hum and woman talking, didn't seem // N. Korea 936 945 CNR-1 //5030 at 1435UT 1143 1287 1566 at 1434, but mostly just strong carrier Strongish het, no audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter): none best wishes, Nick * Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island
We were all listening to the same band this morning! Pretty useless above 972. However, the bottom 25% of the band had some interesting things: 558: Like Gary, HLQH, KBS 2 in Daegu was a new station for me. I could hear Kobe beneath the KK, but it was way beneath. 585: There was a second Asian over NHK1, but I could not ID the language 603: KBS2 Seoul tends to be poor here until post-dawn... its just a habitual late bloomer, as is 954 JOKR, that is poor to non-existent until post-dawn, year after year. I don't understand this at all. 675 had something almost as strong as Vietnam. I think that it was NHK1 Synchros 720 CNR2 again. 729: Had Chinese this AM at moderate level instead of the usual JOCK. No pips at 1400, too weak to hear the ID, of course. Jiangxi, the province just inboard from Fujia has about 300KW here and there is only one other mainland CC in central China. There is a Taiwanese, but it is only 500 watts, so this was almost certainly Jiuangxi. Would be a new station for me 792: Had European classical music here briefly. There are two R. Rossii stations, including one on Sakhalin Island. Maybe. 810 had CC for a while just after 1400. Not CNR1 or 2. Likely Zhejiang RGD news from Hangzhou on the coast near Shanghai. It was KK later, I think the KCBS station. So, for a lousy morning, it was quite interesting. After a couple of runs up the entire dial, I concentrated on the lower 25%... was sort of fun! Yeah, I know buy a Perseus! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 21 Oct 2009
I'd been meaning to comment on Nigel's GREAT morning on Oct. 21... That was a real peak here, too... but MAN I've have rather heard Nigel's stations! Urumqi, as the capitol of Xinjiang province is a nasty industrial city from what I hear, but it is surrounded by some of the most exotic cultures imaginable, both modern and very ancient... A few others in the NW have heard Urumqi, but not me. and then there is Sri Lanka. Wow! Great going, Nigel... those would be worth celebrating on SWBC, much less MW! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops At 10:15 PM 10/21/2009 -0600, you wrote: With the lack of TAs, I actually have time to post my observations of this morning. A rather unusual one here, as it seemed the over the pole signals were favoured. Highlights: 1548 - DW Sri Lanka with bits and pieces of German from 1300 past 1345. 1521 - CRI Russian in nicely. Far better than //1323 1134 - CNR1 in quite nicely, with virtually no Korean QRM. My main problem was an unusual one, trying to find a CNR1 parallel on MW 1107 - Urumqi in unID language with good signal 873 - Another station was fading in and out with the Japanese, playing EZL music with some talk by a woman. Not a lot of signals, but the ones that were in were interesting. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] 1107 from Asia
Gary DeBock and I have both been watching this frequency lately, in fact I've been watching it all season. Using my detailed spectrum display on the 313e (4 kHz = about 4 in a oscilloscope-type display) I can see that usually there is an on-frequency carrier there that is ragged and muddy... and the graphic spike, clean, crisp and nearly vertical with a good transmitter is all rough and it is more spread out at the base than normal. There is usually at least one well-tuned transmitter there, too. Often, that is HLAV from South Korea, but it has been one of the two or three smaller JJ commercial stations, too. Usually the two (or three?) signals combine to just produce garbage audio. However sometimes, usually near band-fade, the nasty transmitter will fade out first, or the clean signal will dominate. This same situation was going on all last Fall season, too. Does anyone have any idea who the nasty transmitter is??? Surely not Urumqi??? John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-23... Late Korean Surge
Hello All, With the terrible propagation forecast and drizzling rain in the back yard, it required some motivation to set up the 9' and 6' (nasty weather model) PVC loops at 1400 UTC. For the most part, the poor propagation forecast was fulfilled, with the high-band and mid-band TP's seriously down in strength (as reported by John, Nick, and Dennis). Whereas 1134 kHz usually has a mix of JOQR, KBS and CNR1 during good conditions, this morning it was a lone, weak KBS. 1170 kHz had no TP's to interfere with KPUG's sports talk, and 1053 had almost no carrier at all. The low-band NHK stations (594, 747 and 828) had some strength, but that was about it until after dawn, when it seemed like things should be over. Suddenly a decent carrier appeared on 558, which I assumed would be JOCR-- but the music certainly didn't sound Japanese. On the new barefoot PL-310 DSP Ultralight, I was able to quickly check the 603-HLSA parallel to confirm that the 558 station was HLQA, a new Ultralight TP for me (#111). It was a shocker to receive this new station on such a poor morning (and even more of a shocker to read that John logged it for the first time this morning also... I had assumed that John would have received it multiple times by now, and have several QSL's :-) So it turns out that the morning wasn't so bad after all. 73, Gary Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30 loopstick) Ultralight of the Morning: Stock Tecsun PL-310 DSP wonder 6' Nasty Weather PVC-framed tuned passive loop (designed for western Washington wind storms) ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 21 Oct 2009
Nigel, Great DX. Got Urumqi 1521 back in the 80s and had a good QSLer at CNR, then CPBS and got a QSL. Sri Lanka 1548 I got last year, but both are rare. Fantastic to get inland that far, and I keep saying that. Records have been set all season. DX that never used to be heard is being reported pretty regularly. I hope these low AK conditions stay. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 640
Pat, I used to hear CBN often Pat. Course I was in Iceland at the time :-) . Don Patrick Martin wrote: 640 kHz is a mumble jumble off the Eastern beverage tonight. 0158 EDT CBC station talking about programming. Many mentions of CBC CBN 0200 EDT Sounded like an ID, jingle, then oldies format, mostly late 50s (Doo Wop), and Dave Clark Five, early RB. Ideas? Sounded EE ancr, but uncertain. Ideas? Drake SPR4 1500' eastern beverage Patrick ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2009 Oct 23 1806 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 22 October follow. Solar flux 72 and mid-latitude A-index 17. The mid-latitude K-index at 1800 UTC on 23 October was 1 (09 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Date 00 00 00 00 00 22 22 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 UTC 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 SFlx 0000071 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 A-in 000002817 17 17 17 17 17 17 K-in 00000233431421 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 640
Don, CBN has been heard on the WC, but back in the 60s/70s I believe. They are ND 10 KW. I do have CBA and CBY is recent years (10 years ago, that is). Both heard and QSL'd on R/S, using the beverage. This came out of nowhere on 640 and left just as quickly. It popped in just before the TOH and then by a minute after or so, it was lost just leaving CA/MT on the channel. Wish I could have recorded it. But it took me by surprise. The in like the night I caught a Canadian on 590 last Winter. I am sure it must have been CFAR MB, but soon gone. I thought they may have forgot to drop power and then discovered it. One of many unids I have heard through the years. We all have them and the longer we are at the dials, they really add up. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 21 Oct 2009
I second the congratulations on Urumqi. That's a tough one to receive around here, thanks to the 1520 Oregon station. Bruce John H. Bryant wrote: I'd been meaning to comment on Nigel's GREAT morning on Oct. 21... That was a real peak here, too... but MAN I've have rather heard Nigel's stations! Urumqi, as the capitol of Xinjiang province is a nasty industrial city from what I hear, but it is surrounded by some of the most exotic cultures imaginable, both modern and very ancient... A few others in the NW have heard Urumqi, but not me. and then there is Sri Lanka. Wow! Great going, Nigel... those would be worth celebrating on SWBC, much less MW! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops At 10:15 PM 10/21/2009 -0600, you wrote: With the lack of TAs, I actually have time to post my observations of this morning. A rather unusual one here, as it seemed the over the pole signals were favoured. Highlights: 1548 - DW Sri Lanka with bits and pieces of German from 1300 past 1345. 1521 - CRI Russian in nicely. Far better than //1323 1134 - CNR1 in quite nicely, with virtually no Korean QRM. My main problem was an unusual one, trying to find a CNR1 parallel on MW 1107 - Urumqi in unID language with good signal 873 - Another station was fading in and out with the Japanese, playing EZL music with some talk by a woman. Not a lot of signals, but the ones that were in were interesting. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta _ ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 640
Well..since the only other CBC on 640 is a LPRT in NU (perhaps was that but I doubt it) and your Bev to the east really is 60 deg isn't it..ie real good for NL direction, I suspect you had CBN. Too bad you couldn't copy them at about 5 min after the hour when the weather rpt would clinch it. I don't have CBN here as Toronto is too strong in that direction, although I expect that if I recorded 640 consisantly in good cx I'd luck out eventually. 73 KAZ WI/IL - Original Message - From: Patrick Martin mwd...@webtv.net To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club ofAmerica irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] 640 Don, CBN has been heard on the WC, but back in the 60s/70s I believe. They are ND 10 KW. I do have CBA and CBY is recent years (10 years ago, that is). Both heard and QSL'd on R/S, using the beverage. This came out of nowhere on 640 and left just as quickly. It popped in just before the TOH and then by a minute after or so, it was lost just leaving CA/MT on the channel. Wish I could have recorded it. But it took me by surprise. The in like the night I caught a Canadian on 590 last Winter. I am sure it must have been CFAR MB, but soon gone. I thought they may have forgot to drop power and then discovered it. One of many unids I have heard through the years. We all have them and the longer we are at the dials, they really add up. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KGED QSL Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.28/2454 - Release Date: 10/23/09 14:09:00 ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Last Nights ULR DX..2 NEW Stations......ONE NEW COUNTRY for ULR!!
Hi Guys: As reported last night I had some very nice Conditions to the SOUTH and WEST. The highlight was a NEW COUNTRY for the ULR LOG in St. Kitts Nevis!! I have logged these guys on the Big Rigsbut it was really neat to hear them on the ULR. I have several QSL's from Radio Paradise from years ago..but maybe I should try for one for the ULR Reception. Also had Venezuela on 750...but that is actually a RELOG for ULR...so I didn't get too excited about that. The stuff from Western CANADA was nice to hear as well. Radio used for all of this DX was a SONY SRF-T615 ULRBAREFOOT! ULR LOG TOTALS are now..728 Stations Heard. ^ 73ROB Robert S. Ross VA3SW London, Ontario CANADA * 620 CKRM Regina, SASK Oct/22/09 2058 EDT EE FAIR Country Music 2058-2100 EDT. Into CANADIAN NEWS segment read by male DJ. Item on Canada's ex - Military head...Rick Hillier. Sports 2104-05. Local Ads. RELOG for both ULR and Overall Logs But not heard often! 10 KW ROSS, ONT. ** 730 CKDM Dauphin, MANITOBA Oct/22/09 2124 EDTEEFAIR Country Music and Canadian Crossovers. Song by Anne Murray You Needed Me. Male spoke @ 2129 EDT and said Now some Hot New Country on AM 730. Into more C/W Music. Heavy on Canadian Artists!! Lots of Western Stuff tonight including CKRM, CBK and this. NEW STN ULR # 72710/5 KW ROSS, ONT. *** 820 Radio Paradise Basseterre, ST KITTS Oct/22/09 2140 EDTEE FR-GD Male Preacher with ENGLISH Gospel ReadingsBible ReadingsIn the Name of Jesus after each reading. Preacher had a Caribe Accent. Radio RELOJ from Cuba heard UNDER this. Was able to completely NULL Hamilton Ontario!! Preacher spoke til 2156..then a Female with a Caribe Accent thanked the Preacher. Into Gospel Music and Vocals 2156-2200 EDT. ID as Radio Paradise and into a Similar Preacher with Gospel Talk. I was able to match this all up to the LIVE WEBCAST for Radio Paradise...and there was No Doubt this was them! I've heard them several times on the Big Rigs thru the Yearsbut especially nice to hear them on a BAREFOOT ULR!! RELOG.But NEW to ULR # 728 ULR COUNTRY # 17 ULR LATIN # 39 50 KW ROSS, ONT. *** ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 1107 from Asia
John, The 1107 kHz ragged-carrier mystery was noticed here last year also, and the threshold-level TP audio was almost always weak music, never with ID clues. Even after a Grayland trip last November, the 1107 mystery was unresolved. After setting up the 9' loop this month I made a serious effort to investigate who this weak 1107 music station was, and thanks to a tip from Chuck, I was able to check the KBS parallel during a music peak, to confirm the HLAV identity. Shortly thereafter, I could detect Korean-language speech on the frequency. According to Chuck, the station is never very strong, even at Grayland. Oddly, whenever HLAV has fair audio on 1107, the carrier sounds relatively clean. It seems that the ragged tone is coming from some other source, although I've never heard any co-channel TP with HLAV here (like the Japanese commercial stations you have heard). 73, Gary In a message dated 10/23/2009 11:44:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bjohnor...@rockisland.com writes: Gary DeBock and I have both been watching this frequency lately, in fact I've been watching it all season. Using my detailed spectrum display on the 313e (4 kHz = about 4 in a oscilloscope-type display) I can see that usually there is an on-frequency carrier there that is ragged and muddy... and the graphic spike, clean, crisp and nearly vertical with a good transmitter is all rough and it is more spread out at the base than normal. There is usually at least one well-tuned transmitter there, too. Often, that is HLAV from South Korea, but it has been one of the two or three smaller JJ commercial stations, too. Usually the two (or three?) signals combine to just produce garbage audio. However sometimes, usually near band-fade, the nasty transmitter will fade out first, or the clean signal will dominate. This same situation was going on all last Fall season, too. Does anyone have any idea who the nasty transmitter is??? Surely not Urumqi??? John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP's for 10-23-09
Bruce, Thanks for the information on Russia 648 kHz. Did not know that VOA stopped using this transmitter. I will continue to check this channel and when I'm at Grayland 12th 13th of November. When VOA used this channel the signal was a regular here. Dennis, Salmon Creek, WA - Original Message - From: Bruce Portzer bport...@comcast.net To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:26:34 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP's for 10-23-09 vroom...@comcast.net wrote: What has happen to the Russian station on 648? Have not heard it this season yet. Past seasons was a regular vistor here. Have a nice weekend. Dennis I haven't noticed it this season either. The VOA stopped using this freq for its Korean service earlier this year. It now uses a transmitter on 1350 on Mongolia, and the FEBC transmitter in Seoul on 1188 for its broadcasts to North Korea. That transmitter was also used for Voice of Russia broadcasts, and I'm not sure what happened to them. There's one more thing for me to investigate for the PAL log. At Grayland earlier this month, we heard a lot of weak stuff, but I spent less time there than I should have. I do recall Chuck thinking he heard something with weak central Asian sounding music around sunrise, but I don't think it ever came to more than that. It might be worthwhile for a few peopleto check that freq on their SDR or Perseus files from recent DXpeditions (hint hint). Bruce ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
