[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2011 Mar 18 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 17 March follow. Solar flux 90 and mid-latitude A-index 2. The mid-latitude K-index at UTC on 18 March was 1 (8 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 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 UTC 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 SFlx 102 102 102 102 105 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 90 90 A-in 11111111111122 K-in 00011111001121 Current Solar information available at http://www.am-dx.com/wwv.htm ___ 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] "The Vulcan"
Mike Brooker wrote: Someone at that station is a football historian. The Vulcans were Birmingham's World Football League team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Vulcans The "Vulcan" nickname goes far beyond football. Both the station and the team drew their name from the same source - the monumental statue of Vulcan that stands at the foot of Birmingham's Red Mountain. It's a civic landmark, and one of the tallest statues in the country, and it was placed there to honor Birmingham's importance as a steelmaking center. s ___ 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] "The Vulcan"
> > Well another good station bit the dust. WERC-960 is gone replaced by the > worse rock stuff. Has anyone reported this? I must have missed any reports. I miss WERC. > 960 WVVB AL BIRMINGHAM 0005 15/03/11 > ID - "Rock 103.1 THE VULCAN" [WM-TN] > > I have logged WERC-960 in Toronto. They occasionally get through usual pest WFIR. Someone at that station is a football historian. The Vulcans were Birmingham's World Football League team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Vulcans In 1974 I was so hoping to see Jim Kiick, Paul Warfield and Larry Csonka play for the Toronto Northmen. 73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON ___ 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] Noise Cancelling Headphones
Hi,If money is no problem, you can get noise cancelling headphones from aircraft operations accessory supply shops or maybe at your local airport flying club pilot shop. I can't remember any brand but I do remember that they cost about a grand,but work very well to cancel out the drone of an aircraft engine for easy two way com.Bill in BC ___ 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] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
Well, I'd like a variety of signal strengths, if possible (even if it still somewhat requires varying the physical separation between radio & oscillator) - preferably from very weak & barely "readable" (I'd probably have it a few feet away - would be used to beat with potential threshold TPs, as well as generating a target to tune the Select-A-Tenna), to extremely strong & overloading the radio (would be right next to it). I do have a couple radios I had been using with their local oscillators. However, my 1990s Panasonic RQ-SW20 (450 kHz IF) only tunes down to 522 kHz in 9 kHz step (520 kHz in 10 kHz step), making it really only usable for finding TPs down to 972 kHz, and my 1960s Zenith Royal 705, whose local oscillator did generate a somewhat stronger signal than the Panasonic and could be "dialed" a few hundred Hz off frequency, currently has a broken local oscillator lead. Also, I was wanting to use this down to at least 153 kHz, and would like to be able to fine tune it, so I was preferring analog tuning (drift free would be nice). (If I used something digital, I would like to be able to tune it in very fine increments, like a piano tuner touching up a piano during the intermission in a concert.) --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: From: Nick Hall-Patch Subject: Re: [IRCA] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID? To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 9:47 AM > > 17.3.2011 13:37, Stephen Airy wrote: >> I don't know how weak a signal you want Stephen, but many of the inexpensive radios (pretty much all made before the advent of the DSP ultralights) broadcast a good local oscillator signal at 450 or 455kHz above the frequency indicated on the radio dial. If you have such a radio with an accurate digital display, then you can use that as your oscillator, simply adding 450 or 455 kHz to the indicated display. Nick >> As for generating a weak signal on/near target frequencies to aid in finding >> TPs, does anyone know of an inexpensive (the lower the better even if I have >> to buy used - prefer that it be considerably cheaper than the PL-606), >> portable (battery-powered& small but doesn't have to be pocket size) device >> I could use that would be better suited for uses like that (coverage from at >> least 150kHz to 1.8 MHz, up to 22 MHz is a bonus, also strong enough to hit >> a solid 98/25 on the PL-606's RSSI/SNR display when within about a foot of >> it, and an RF gain control for when I need less power)? Ability to plug in >> an audio source and transmit that over short range (maybe a hundred feet - >> for other testing purposes) would be a nice bonus, or even modulating the >> carrier with a tone whose frequency could be set by the user (when chasing >> TPs, though, it would only transmit an unmodulated carrier). >> >> (There's a few other things I wanted to ask about, but this post is getting >> longer than I would like (even though it only takes a small portion of the >> screen when running full screen at 1920x1440 and browser zoom at about 70%), >> so I'll save those for another post sometime.) >> >> 73, >> Stephen >> El Cajon, CA - Grid DM12MS, SE quadrant ; within 1 mi of 32°45'40"N >> 116°56'50"W >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> 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 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
[IRCA] WWV Solar Report
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2011 Mar 17 1805 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 March follow. Solar flux 95 and mid-latitude A-index 1. The mid-latitude K-index at 1800 UTC on 17 March was 1 (07 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 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 UTC 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 SFlx 102 102 102 102 102 102 105 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 A-in 11111111111111 K-in 00000111110011 Current Solar information available at http://www.am-dx.com/wwv.htm ___ 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] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
Stephen Airy wrote, "FEBC? I was guessing it may have been Korea ... but I thought their callsign was HLAZ." It IS the legal Korean callsign--FEBC is the station name (initials for "Far East Broadcasting Company"). Think "Trans World Radio Bonaire" (station name) vs. PJB (callsign) on 800. Randy Stewart Springfield MO ___ 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] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
17.3.2011 13:37, Stephen Airy wrote: I don't know how weak a signal you want Stephen, but many of the inexpensive radios (pretty much all made before the advent of the DSP ultralights) broadcast a good local oscillator signal at 450 or 455kHz above the frequency indicated on the radio dial. If you have such a radio with an accurate digital display, then you can use that as your oscillator, simply adding 450 or 455 kHz to the indicated display. Nick As for generating a weak signal on/near target frequencies to aid in finding TPs, does anyone know of an inexpensive (the lower the better even if I have to buy used - prefer that it be considerably cheaper than the PL-606), portable (battery-powered& small but doesn't have to be pocket size) device I could use that would be better suited for uses like that (coverage from at least 150kHz to 1.8 MHz, up to 22 MHz is a bonus, also strong enough to hit a solid 98/25 on the PL-606's RSSI/SNR display when within about a foot of it, and an RF gain control for when I need less power)? Ability to plug in an audio source and transmit that over short range (maybe a hundred feet - for other testing purposes) would be a nice bonus, or even modulating the carrier with a tone whose frequency could be set by the user (when chasing TPs, though, it would only transmit an unmodulated carrier). (There's a few other things I wanted to ask about, but this post is getting longer than I would like (even though it only takes a small portion of the screen when running full screen at 1920x1440 and browser zoom at about 70%), so I'll save those for another post sometime.) 73, Stephen El Cajon, CA - Grid DM12MS, SE quadrant ; within 1 mi of 32°45'40"N 116°56'50"W ___ 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 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] MoYL on 1350
Thanks. Have some serious tape-listening to do on this one, as there might be an ID. - Original Message - From: "HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" To: ; Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:38 AM Subject: RE: MoYL on 1350 Saul, Could be Peoria. BUT could be Celina Ohio. I googled MoYL and 1350 and found this Facebook post from musicofyourlife.com: --- Every so often one of you goes to break playing this beautiful song, and I still haven't heard the title. It's an instrumental and is so beautiful. Al, you played it this AM when you went to break at 11 AM. I listen to you on 1350 AM from Celina, OH. Thank you SO much. You're my favorite DJ!! Do they still call you people that?? Mary Ann Bell --- Celina does not show up under Barry's Oldies list or Standards list. It is truly a full service (talk, sports, music) station. Barry's list shows them as ABC "We do it for you" net. Who knows? Chilicothe, OH is oldies and not probably MoYL. Here is Barry's Standards list. What about IA or MN? 1350 WDCF DADE CITY FL 1000 500 DA-N TALK/ADLT STNDS CNN TAN TALK NETWORK //WTAN-1340, WZHR-1400 1350 WOAM PEORIA IL 1000 1000 DA-2 ADLT STNDS CNN AMERICAS BEST MX EX-WXCL/WOAM/WTAZ 1350 KRNT DES MOINES IA 5000 5000 DA-N ADLT STNDS/SPORTS CBS WHERE LEGENDS LIVE 1350 WCMP PINE CITY MN 1000 52 NDA ADLT STNDS ABC AMERICAS BEST MX 73, Dave in Indy -- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:20:46 -0400 From: Saul DX To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" , , , Subject: [IRCA] MoYL on 1350 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm thinking either IL or OH. "Music of Your life, AM 1350..." veryt very faint, caught on tape but signmal a notch above audible. Anyone know where there's a list of MoYL stations? Saul Burnt River ON ___ 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] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
17.3.2011 16:04, Stephen Airy kirjoitti: FEBC? Yes, Far East Broadcasting Company's branch in Korea, see: http://english.febc.net/html/home.html I was guessing it may have been Korea (although I know virtually nothing in any asian languages, The language was Japanese, but they also carry Chinese, Korean, Russian and English. but I thought their callsign was HLAZ. Yes, but only for this frequency, for 1188 kHz it is HLKX, but the station on both frequencies is FEBC Korea. Please note that call signs are used also as station names only in North America, partly in AUS & NZL etc , elsewhere they are considered more or less technical information connected to particular frequency. Hth, Mauno On Thu Mar 17th, 2011 6:19 AM PDT Mauno Ritola wrote: Hi Stephen, the language sounds Japanese, so most probably FEBC Korea. Would have switched to Chinese at 1345. 73, Mauno 17.3.2011 13:37, Stephen Airy kirjoitti: Hi all, For the first time in probably a long time, I checked several frequencies for TPs yesterday morning for about an hour (sunrise was about 45 min into the session). One of the frequencies I checked was 1566 kHz, and while the signal was often quickly fading up and down, I definitely heard audio on that frequency. There is a recording, as well as a few pictures of my PL-606 showing signal readings (and a small piece of the Select-A-Tenna may be visible) at the link below. http://cid-6bdd1917662288cb.office.live.com/browse.aspx/AM%20radio%20files/2011-03/TP%20-%202011-03-16 Would it be possible for someone to identify that station upon hearing it? It's a 2.5 minute recording at about 1342 UTC. There is some noise in the recording, though, besides what I would expect from natural atmospheric noise, and I'm not sure if it's powerline noise (they're probably less than 90 feet or so from where I was), or IBOC hash from 1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ, which runs 50kW DA-N, the night pattern's main lobe being pointed almost right at me. KMIK was fairly well audible at the time, but mixing with 50kW co-channel KBLA Santa Monica, and was not nearly as strong as it usually gets in the evenings. (I've seen it hit 70/25 barefoot sitting on top of my piano, 80/25 with the SAT, and 91/25 when adding the utility pole ground wire, making it the strongest station that's usually only received at night here - only a few locals are stronger.) Also, I tried for 1575kHz, but couldn't get enough audio for a recording to post. I did hear the soft-mute on the PL-606 temporarily disengage for a fraction of a second several times, but never was able to hear enough to be sure that I was, in fact, hearing a possible TP. Frequencies I heard hets (but not enough audio to tell if something actually was there) on include: 657 kHz - sounded like it may have been slightly off frequency 747 kHz - checked this one twice, once before sunrise when KCBS was coming in on 740, and 760-KFMB was on their 50kW night DA pattern, and once again after sunrise, when 740 had KBRT (their IBOC was making it very difficult) and 760 KFMB was down to 5kW ND for the day. 774 kHz - also checked twice, before sunset and again after sunset. Unforutunately, I was getting domestic splatter from adjacents both times. Of note was the second session - 770-KKOB was pretty much gone by this time (although I suspect I may have faintly been able to hear them if I tuned the SAT and pointed it the right direction), so it would have either been coming from local 760-KFMB (7.3 mi NW) or 780-KKOH, which was audible at the time. Last October when I got a good signal on 774-JOUB, none of the domestics were much of a pest (and with the help of the SAT I was able to keep the blocking/desense from 760-KFMB, on 5kW day pattern, to a manageable level). I was not able to detect anything on 828 kHz (830-KLAA, which has a fair signal all day on the barefoot PL-606, was too much of a pest), and I don't remember if I tried 693 kHz (local 690 XEWW probably would have made that difficult) or 567 kHz (570-KLAC, audible with a fair signal in the daytime, would have made it difficult). I did not try for 594-JOAK this morning, either. However, I did log them last November (Thanks again, Gary DeBock, for confirming it on the yahoo group), even though I have a local 5kW IBOC station on 600 kHz, KOGO, just 7.7 miles west of me. :) About those hets... turns out my dad has a grid dip meter with an oscillator function on it that can generate low power RF from about 400 kHz to 250 MHz. He got it used at least 40 years ago, it uses a vaccum tube, and is analog tuned, so isn't exactly stable, but I was able to use it to aid my chase. Basically, first I'd tune it to the desired frequency, using the PL-606's SNR display to know when I was there, then move it farther away (if it's close enough I can get 98/25 readings, and have actually briefly seen 99/25 and 06/00 (normal dBu display range is 15-98) once each upon newly tun
Re: [IRCA] MoYL on 1350
Saul, Could be Peoria. BUT could be Celina Ohio. I googled MoYL and 1350 and found this Facebook post from musicofyourlife.com: --- Every so often one of you goes to break playing this beautiful song, and I still haven't heard the title. It's an instrumental and is so beautiful. Al, you played it this AM when you went to break at 11 AM. I listen to you on 1350 AM from Celina, OH. Thank you SO much. You're my favorite DJ!! Do they still call you people that?? Mary Ann Bell --- Celina does not show up under Barry's Oldies list or Standards list. It is truly a full service (talk, sports, music) station. Barry's list shows them as ABC "We do it for you" net. Who knows? Chilicothe, OH is oldies and not probably MoYL. Here is Barry's Standards list. What about IA or MN? 1350 WDCF DADE CITY FL 1000 500 DA-N TALK/ADLT STNDS CNN TAN TALK NETWORK //WTAN-1340, WZHR-1400 1350 WOAM PEORIA IL 1000 1000 DA-2 ADLT STNDS CNN AMERICAS BEST MX EX-WXCL/WOAM/WTAZ 1350 KRNT DES MOINES IA 5000 5000 DA-N ADLT STNDS/SPORTS CBS WHERE LEGENDS LIVE 1350 WCMP PINE CITY MN 1000 52 NDA ADLT STNDS ABC AMERICAS BEST MX 73, Dave in Indy -- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:20:46 -0400 From: Saul DX To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" ,, , Subject: [IRCA] MoYL on 1350 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm thinking either IL or OH. "Music of Your life, AM 1350..." veryt very faint, caught on tape but signmal a notch above audible. Anyone know where there's a list of MoYL stations? Saul Burnt River ON ___ 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] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
FEBC? I was guessing it may have been Korea (although I know virtually nothing in any asian languages, except someone in a first-person shooter multiplayer computer game typed me the english spelling of the "s" word in Japanese), but I thought their callsign was HLAZ. On Thu Mar 17th, 2011 6:19 AM PDT Mauno Ritola wrote: >Hi Stephen, >the language sounds Japanese, so most probably FEBC Korea. Would have >switched to Chinese at 1345. > >73, Mauno > >17.3.2011 13:37, Stephen Airy kirjoitti: >> Hi all, >> >> >> For the first time in probably a long time, I checked several frequencies >> for TPs yesterday morning for about an hour (sunrise was about 45 min into >> the session). >> One of the frequencies I checked was 1566 kHz, and while the signal was >> often quickly fading up and down, I definitely heard audio on that >> frequency. There is a recording, as well as a few pictures of my PL-606 >> showing signal readings (and a small piece of the Select-A-Tenna may be >> visible) at the link below. >> >> http://cid-6bdd1917662288cb.office.live.com/browse.aspx/AM%20radio%20files/2011-03/TP%20-%202011-03-16 >> >> Would it be possible for someone to identify that station upon hearing it? >> It's a 2.5 minute recording at about 1342 UTC. >> There is some noise in the recording, though, besides what I would expect >> from natural atmospheric noise, and I'm not sure if it's powerline noise >> (they're probably less than 90 feet or so from where I was), or IBOC hash >> from 1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ, which runs 50kW DA-N, the night pattern's main >> lobe being pointed almost right at me. KMIK was fairly well audible at the >> time, but mixing with 50kW co-channel KBLA Santa Monica, and was not nearly >> as strong as it usually gets in the evenings. (I've seen it hit 70/25 >> barefoot sitting on top of my piano, 80/25 with the SAT, and 91/25 when >> adding the utility pole ground wire, making it the strongest station that's >> usually only received at night here - only a few locals are stronger.) >> >> >> Also, I tried for 1575kHz, but couldn't get enough audio for a recording to >> post. I did hear the soft-mute on the PL-606 temporarily disengage for a >> fraction of a second several times, but never was able to hear enough to be >> sure that I was, in fact, hearing a possible TP. >> >> >> Frequencies I heard hets (but not enough audio to tell if something actually >> was there) on include: >> 657 kHz - sounded like it may have been slightly off frequency >> 747 kHz - checked this one twice, once before sunrise when KCBS was coming >> in on 740, and 760-KFMB was on their 50kW night DA pattern, and once again >> after sunrise, when 740 had KBRT (their IBOC was making it very difficult) >> and 760 KFMB was down to 5kW ND for the day. >> 774 kHz - also checked twice, before sunset and again after sunset. >> Unforutunately, I was getting domestic splatter from adjacents both times. >> Of note was the second session - 770-KKOB was pretty much gone by this time >> (although I suspect I may have faintly been able to hear them if I tuned the >> SAT and pointed it the right direction), so it would have either been coming >> from local 760-KFMB (7.3 mi NW) or 780-KKOH, which was audible at the time. >> Last October when I got a good signal on 774-JOUB, none of the domestics >> were much of a pest (and with the help of the SAT I was able to keep the >> blocking/desense from 760-KFMB, on 5kW day pattern, to a manageable level). >> >> >> I was not able to detect anything on 828 kHz (830-KLAA, which has a fair >> signal all day on the barefoot PL-606, was too much of a pest), and I don't >> remember if I tried 693 kHz (local 690 XEWW probably would have made that >> difficult) or 567 kHz (570-KLAC, audible with a fair signal in the daytime, >> would have made it difficult). >> I did not try for 594-JOAK this morning, either. However, I did log them >> last November (Thanks again, Gary DeBock, for confirming it on the yahoo >> group), even though I have a local 5kW IBOC station on 600 kHz, KOGO, just >> 7.7 miles west of me. :) >> >> >> About those hets... turns out my dad has a grid dip meter with an >> oscillator function on it that can generate low power RF from about 400 kHz >> to 250 MHz. He got it used at least 40 years ago, it uses a vaccum tube, >> and is analog tuned, so isn't exactly stable, but I was able to use it to >> aid my chase. Basically, first I'd tune it to the desired frequency, using >> the PL-606's SNR display to know when I was there, then move it farther away >> (if it's close enough I can get 98/25 readings, and have actually briefly >> seen 99/25 and 06/00 (normal dBu display range is 15-98) once each upon >> newly tuning a frequency before refreshing a second later and showing a more >> "normal" reading) and tune the SAT, then move it even farther away to >> further reduce the signal, and detune the gdm to look for a het. If there >> was a h
Re: [IRCA] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
Hi Stephen, the language sounds Japanese, so most probably FEBC Korea. Would have switched to Chinese at 1345. 73, Mauno 17.3.2011 13:37, Stephen Airy kirjoitti: Hi all, For the first time in probably a long time, I checked several frequencies for TPs yesterday morning for about an hour (sunrise was about 45 min into the session). One of the frequencies I checked was 1566 kHz, and while the signal was often quickly fading up and down, I definitely heard audio on that frequency. There is a recording, as well as a few pictures of my PL-606 showing signal readings (and a small piece of the Select-A-Tenna may be visible) at the link below. http://cid-6bdd1917662288cb.office.live.com/browse.aspx/AM%20radio%20files/2011-03/TP%20-%202011-03-16 Would it be possible for someone to identify that station upon hearing it? It's a 2.5 minute recording at about 1342 UTC. There is some noise in the recording, though, besides what I would expect from natural atmospheric noise, and I'm not sure if it's powerline noise (they're probably less than 90 feet or so from where I was), or IBOC hash from 1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ, which runs 50kW DA-N, the night pattern's main lobe being pointed almost right at me. KMIK was fairly well audible at the time, but mixing with 50kW co-channel KBLA Santa Monica, and was not nearly as strong as it usually gets in the evenings. (I've seen it hit 70/25 barefoot sitting on top of my piano, 80/25 with the SAT, and 91/25 when adding the utility pole ground wire, making it the strongest station that's usually only received at night here - only a few locals are stronger.) Also, I tried for 1575kHz, but couldn't get enough audio for a recording to post. I did hear the soft-mute on the PL-606 temporarily disengage for a fraction of a second several times, but never was able to hear enough to be sure that I was, in fact, hearing a possible TP. Frequencies I heard hets (but not enough audio to tell if something actually was there) on include: 657 kHz - sounded like it may have been slightly off frequency 747 kHz - checked this one twice, once before sunrise when KCBS was coming in on 740, and 760-KFMB was on their 50kW night DA pattern, and once again after sunrise, when 740 had KBRT (their IBOC was making it very difficult) and 760 KFMB was down to 5kW ND for the day. 774 kHz - also checked twice, before sunset and again after sunset. Unforutunately, I was getting domestic splatter from adjacents both times. Of note was the second session - 770-KKOB was pretty much gone by this time (although I suspect I may have faintly been able to hear them if I tuned the SAT and pointed it the right direction), so it would have either been coming from local 760-KFMB (7.3 mi NW) or 780-KKOH, which was audible at the time. Last October when I got a good signal on 774-JOUB, none of the domestics were much of a pest (and with the help of the SAT I was able to keep the blocking/desense from 760-KFMB, on 5kW day pattern, to a manageable level). I was not able to detect anything on 828 kHz (830-KLAA, which has a fair signal all day on the barefoot PL-606, was too much of a pest), and I don't remember if I tried 693 kHz (local 690 XEWW probably would have made that difficult) or 567 kHz (570-KLAC, audible with a fair signal in the daytime, would have made it difficult). I did not try for 594-JOAK this morning, either. However, I did log them last November (Thanks again, Gary DeBock, for confirming it on the yahoo group), even though I have a local 5kW IBOC station on 600 kHz, KOGO, just 7.7 miles west of me. :) About those hets... turns out my dad has a grid dip meter with an oscillator function on it that can generate low power RF from about 400 kHz to 250 MHz. He got it used at least 40 years ago, it uses a vaccum tube, and is analog tuned, so isn't exactly stable, but I was able to use it to aid my chase. Basically, first I'd tune it to the desired frequency, using the PL-606's SNR display to know when I was there, then move it farther away (if it's close enough I can get 98/25 readings, and have actually briefly seen 99/25 and 06/00 (normal dBu display range is 15-98) once each upon newly tuning a frequency before refreshing a second later and showing a more "normal" reading) and tune the SAT, then move it even farther away to further reduce the signal, and detune the gdm to look for a het. If there was a het, I would turn the gdm's oscillator off and check that frequency for a TP, occasionally briefly tuning the PL-606 to domestic signals to aid in positioning the SAT to reduce their strength. If there was not a het, I would move on to a different frequency. As for generating a weak signal on/near target frequencies to aid in finding TPs, does anyone know of an inexpensive (the lower the better even if I have to buy used - prefer that it be considerably cheaper than the PL-606), portable (battery-powered& small but doesn't have to be
[IRCA] El Cajon, CA ULR TP 2011-03-16 - audio on 1566, help w/ID?
Hi all, For the first time in probably a long time, I checked several frequencies for TPs yesterday morning for about an hour (sunrise was about 45 min into the session). One of the frequencies I checked was 1566 kHz, and while the signal was often quickly fading up and down, I definitely heard audio on that frequency. There is a recording, as well as a few pictures of my PL-606 showing signal readings (and a small piece of the Select-A-Tenna may be visible) at the link below. http://cid-6bdd1917662288cb.office.live.com/browse.aspx/AM%20radio%20files/2011-03/TP%20-%202011-03-16 Would it be possible for someone to identify that station upon hearing it? It's a 2.5 minute recording at about 1342 UTC. There is some noise in the recording, though, besides what I would expect from natural atmospheric noise, and I'm not sure if it's powerline noise (they're probably less than 90 feet or so from where I was), or IBOC hash from 1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ, which runs 50kW DA-N, the night pattern's main lobe being pointed almost right at me. KMIK was fairly well audible at the time, but mixing with 50kW co-channel KBLA Santa Monica, and was not nearly as strong as it usually gets in the evenings. (I've seen it hit 70/25 barefoot sitting on top of my piano, 80/25 with the SAT, and 91/25 when adding the utility pole ground wire, making it the strongest station that's usually only received at night here - only a few locals are stronger.) Also, I tried for 1575kHz, but couldn't get enough audio for a recording to post. I did hear the soft-mute on the PL-606 temporarily disengage for a fraction of a second several times, but never was able to hear enough to be sure that I was, in fact, hearing a possible TP. Frequencies I heard hets (but not enough audio to tell if something actually was there) on include: 657 kHz - sounded like it may have been slightly off frequency 747 kHz - checked this one twice, once before sunrise when KCBS was coming in on 740, and 760-KFMB was on their 50kW night DA pattern, and once again after sunrise, when 740 had KBRT (their IBOC was making it very difficult) and 760 KFMB was down to 5kW ND for the day. 774 kHz - also checked twice, before sunset and again after sunset. Unforutunately, I was getting domestic splatter from adjacents both times. Of note was the second session - 770-KKOB was pretty much gone by this time (although I suspect I may have faintly been able to hear them if I tuned the SAT and pointed it the right direction), so it would have either been coming from local 760-KFMB (7.3 mi NW) or 780-KKOH, which was audible at the time. Last October when I got a good signal on 774-JOUB, none of the domestics were much of a pest (and with the help of the SAT I was able to keep the blocking/desense from 760-KFMB, on 5kW day pattern, to a manageable level). I was not able to detect anything on 828 kHz (830-KLAA, which has a fair signal all day on the barefoot PL-606, was too much of a pest), and I don't remember if I tried 693 kHz (local 690 XEWW probably would have made that difficult) or 567 kHz (570-KLAC, audible with a fair signal in the daytime, would have made it difficult). I did not try for 594-JOAK this morning, either. However, I did log them last November (Thanks again, Gary DeBock, for confirming it on the yahoo group), even though I have a local 5kW IBOC station on 600 kHz, KOGO, just 7.7 miles west of me. :) About those hets... turns out my dad has a grid dip meter with an oscillator function on it that can generate low power RF from about 400 kHz to 250 MHz. He got it used at least 40 years ago, it uses a vaccum tube, and is analog tuned, so isn't exactly stable, but I was able to use it to aid my chase. Basically, first I'd tune it to the desired frequency, using the PL-606's SNR display to know when I was there, then move it farther away (if it's close enough I can get 98/25 readings, and have actually briefly seen 99/25 and 06/00 (normal dBu display range is 15-98) once each upon newly tuning a frequency before refreshing a second later and showing a more "normal" reading) and tune the SAT, then move it even farther away to further reduce the signal, and detune the gdm to look for a het. If there was a het, I would turn the gdm's oscillator off and check that frequency for a TP, occasionally briefly tuning the PL-606 to domestic signals to aid in positioning the SAT to reduce their strength. If there was not a het, I would move on to a different frequency. As for generating a weak signal on/near target frequencies to aid in finding TPs, does anyone know of an inexpensive (the lower the better even if I have to buy used - prefer that it be considerably cheaper than the PL-606), portable (battery-powered & small but doesn't have to be pocket size) device I could use that would be better suited for uses like that (coverage from at least 150kHz to 1.8 MHz, up to 22 MHz is a bonus, also strong enoug
